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experience things you wouldn’t be able to experience anywhere else and writing expands your knowledge not only on a specific topic but you learn more about yourself, you’ll be surprised how far your imagination can take you as soon as your pen hits the paper. Growing up reading for me had to be the most draining and boring activity I was forced to do. Literally, it surrounded me everywhere I went. Church Home and School, it was something I just couldn’t seem to escape and when I

English teacher. The first major paper that was assigned was a research paper that had to discuss a historical event and how that event impacted the world. Since this was my first major paper and I was used to this kind of writing, I ended up writing specifically about Alexander the Great and the wars that he fought in. I specifically detailed the battles and what was going on, but I did not talk about how it impacted the world. My teacher offered to proof read the papers two days before the deadline

used to struggle with forming my thoughts into writing, let alone a paper. I was never confident with what I wrote. My writing had no greater purpose other than the assignment. My writing process included: writing my paper, proofreading it, and turning it in. Once the paper left my hands, it also left my mind. Throughout this course we worked with others, visited the writing lab, wrote critiques, and we were able to revise our papers. I believe that all of this is has caused me to grow greatly as a

The first historical mention of paper is 104 A.D. in China. The Empress of China at that time loved books and wanted to have a lot of them made. At the time everything was written on silk scrolls which were extremely expensive and time consuming to make. She wanted something cheaper and easier to use and so she asked one of her servants, a gentleman by the name of Tsi Lun to come up with an alternative. He worked for over nine years experimenting with different things and finally came up with hemp

When writing my papers in English I was never sure what topic, I wanted to write about. I rotated between two, one being “The Mistreatment of Animals in Zoos” and the second and my main topic being “Is College Worth the Cost.” When writing these papers, I noticed something about myself. I had grown as a writer compared to when I first walked into English 1100, I had some writing experience but not much my grammar lacked and I was the queen of sentence fragments. Throughout the semester during English

introduced me to many different types of papers that I did not know even existed. From summary, response, critique, rhetorical analysis, and informative synthesis, I have learned how to properly and effectively write each different kind of paper, and my writing has improved in many ways. One way my writing has improved this semester is that I have learned how to accurately organize information, and decide how to clearly present the material. Looking back at the first paper, it is easy to see that I did not

For centuries, people have read and learned on paper. It has loyally served man as the ideal vehicle for conveying our thoughts, feelings, and ideas. In recent years, an opponent has risen: computers. The computer brought the world to our fingertips, to the palm of our hands, but is this competitor superior? Should we drop the written and printed empire that had dominated and quenched our thirst for knowledge for so long? Paper has served an ever-changing world well, constantly adapting and morphing

to complete research papers, but now, I am expected to complete research papers in much shorter amounts of time, sometimes just one week. Even though this process has been quite grueling at certain times, my introductions, content, and sentence variation have massively improved, making it easier to put my ideas on paper. Introduction paragraphs have always been my Achilles’ heel. Straining my brain for long periods of time, I just could not come up with ways to start my papers. An introduction is

took more than a night to write a paper. English classes seemed really easy to me. Coming into this class I did not know how it would really be. I was told there was only four writing assignments the whole year so I was thinking, this is going to be easy. This class was different than what I expected. I had to really take the time to think about what I was typing. Rough drafts had a major impact on keeping me on track. The more effort put into them, the less the paper was to write on that sunday night

1 class, I learned several different things. I learned how to self revise my work, the importance of having an audience to write to, using better word choice, how to write in different styles and genres, how to incorporate research sources into a paper, and an understanding as why writing is important. Through articles, class discussions, class exercises, and lessons I was able to obtain these skills. I know these writing techniques set the expectations that would be essential for me to follow the