World War I, or the Great War, was a major international conflict that began in 1914, that was fought between the Central and Allied Powers—the main countries in the Central Powers being Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Austria-Hungary, while the main countries in the Allied Powers were France, Great Britain, and Russia. However, the United States, which didn’t take part in the war for a few years, decided not to get involved in the war and its alliance system since the war posed no danger to the U.S. It remained that way until the U.S. began to realize the effects of the war after attacks from Germany, where lives were threatened and property was destroyed. When the U.S. joined the war, its contribution to the Allies made a major impact, both militarily and economically, during and even
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I’m a certain way where I like to write facts down for papers, even if it’s required or not, I still have to write it down. I recently wrote a three page research paper about the Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting, for Criminal Justice, and I scored a relatively high grade on it than the usual fifty’s and sixty’s that is made by other people. However, for regular papers, I tend to repeat myself or I feel unable to put my thoughts in a sentence that makes sense.
As my final essay I am choosing to write about how this course as helped me evolve as a writer. Having worked in a business environment for 30 plus years, I was confident I would handle this class with ease. As I worked through each assignment I soon became aware of how much I did have to learn. Feeling somewhat embarrassed by the mistakes that I have made throughout my career left me feeling somewhat inadequate in my position as office manager. I would say to myself “how could I have forgotten all of the rules that apply to writing properly”.
Over the course of the semester, my main goal was to become a more precise writer and develop my identity as a writer. According too, the Portfolio Letter assignment sheet, becoming a better writer consists of precise planning, draft and revising. It also includes understanding a variety of academic genres by examining the basic characteristics that defines each type. In order too efficiently meet my goal of becoming a better writer, it was very important to have my work evaluated by others and myself as well. The use of rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, reading and writing all are the important aspects in this course.
I’m quite scatterbrained, so if I don’t have a freakishly mechanical outline it will be a lot harder for me to formulate my ideas further down the line. What I’ll do is have two documents open at the same time: one a nice outline with some classy bullet points, the other a disorganized hodgepodge of links, quotes, and incomprehensible sentence fragments. Somehow, those synthesize and form a workable piece of writing. I much prefer making my notes digitally opposed to taking them on paper. The finality of writing things down physically means that I end up deliberating for far too long over my choice of words, which really slows me down.
Throughout the term there has been many writing assignments —big or small— that helped reflect my writing process or the process itself. In the beginning of the course I felt like I was an “ok” writer, but lacked some skills such as: organization, sentence variety, and vocabulary. Also, I did not like to write and had a feeling of dislike when forced to write. I felt like I improved on everything I wanted and was seen throughout the semester. I know how to organize my ideas, the worksheets given in class to work on sentence variety really helped, and vocabulary was built on some level.
Over the this past semester in freshman composition I have learned how to write a college level paper. Going into this class, I was a little unsure and scared that I wasn’t going to be able to do the things that were required for me to do. As the semester passed I could definitely see a change in my writing. I learned how to use the appropriate punctuation, how to write and refute an argumentation paper, which I believe is my strongest piece of writing and how to research and gather information to write a strong research paper. I knew coming into this class that I was going to struggle with my punctuations, word choice, and the overall flow of the paper.
Starting off the year, I was and still am, very intimidated of a college level writing course. Since it was an engineering based writing class, my worries eased up a bit. When I attended the first class I didn’t know anything over the technical communication writing style. Slowly I developed an understanding over the writing style by reading the text book and other supplemental readings. When our group (Construction Management and Nursing) was assigned with the first group project, I was able to apply what I’ve learned so far in the class.
Although, I have been away from the university level learning for many years, I have some experience with managing my time. My writing skills is something I had struggled with but I noticed my writing skills have improved as result of this course Applying study methods learned in the textbook and intellipath resources guided me In developing a new set of skills for online training that were challenging. Smarthinking Tutor’s comments related to sentence structure made me feel more confident about my writing skills.
Writing has always been an issue but yet interesting subject of mine. As hard as I try and write essays, and papers I just can’t get the hang of writing. But after taking this class, I did learn different writing technique and improved my writing proficiency, material body of formatting, and how to uncovering and properly use sources. Through class exams, essays, and a research paper, I was able to learn new writing skills. Although I have learned a variety of things, my writing still needs improvement.
ENG-122 Reflective Essay My writing process has changed tremendously over the course of this class. I feel more accomplished, confident and I feel sometimes that my ideas and thoughts just come in to my mind out of nowhere and I start writing about anything now. I pay attention to my punctuation and grammar more as I have polished them more now, not only when I write but then others write as well. I am constantly looking for errors and I highly think this is helping me a lot in my career.
Also not leaving people wondering about what is happening makes a good piece of writing. I know when I have written something well, when I feel very confident in it. As I’m reading through it, I want to keep reading it. Also when I don’t feel the need to go back and add more words or details because I already had. That is how I know when I have written my best.
Writing essays and other types of posts has always been difficult for me. But, throughout this composition class, I have learned many interesting and new things about the different types of writing styles. When starting this class, I considered myself to be an average writer with run-of-the-mill vocabulary, ordinary sentence structure and typical finished products. This class has helped me greatly improve my writing skills in a variety of ways. I have learned multiple things by taking this class, such as new ways to approach writing and that there is much that I still need to learn about composition.
A recent paper from the end of the semester had better improvements Such as main focus, connections, and not overloading my paper with too much ideas. I see this has a good improvement that i 've worked on with multiple papers i’ve
