Christian writers

Throughout the semester I’ve noticed that the authors Baron, Swales, Bazerman, Alexie, Sommers and Newkirk had brilliant ideas in their text about ideas of writing. All these texts we read this semester had their own importance, but the most significant texts to me were Swales, “The Concept Of a Discourse Community” and Alexie’s text, “Joy of Reading and Writing: The Superman and Me”. Swales describes a discourse community as a group of people who come together and share a common set of…

Performing rhetorical analysis allows a reader to understand how a writer conveys their idea. Like shown as an example at the end of Chapter 6, there are many parts to rhetorical analysis. In dissecting writing, the purpose of each piece is clearly understood, like connecting “article to personal experience to create an ethical appeal”(page 109). Parts like briefly overviewing the writing, the criticizing use of evidence and identifying the intended audience are all important pieces of…

My main goal with writing in college is to look back on freshman year and put side by side the papers to how I am writing senior year and to be able to see how far I have come, and how much I have developed as a writer. I want to leave Alvin College going into the world as a confident writer, one that has accomplished the goals on my to-do list. This has been a very significant semester for me as I have attained a lot more assurance in my writing. I feel strongly that I will continue to improve…

Portfolio Assignment Throughout the Rhetorical Analysis paper that I completed for this English 101 class, I called back to many of my past experiences in high school that allowed me to interpret the meaning of the song that I decided to choose. The main skills from my past that I referenced were: my ability to comprehend text, my ability to convey a message through an essay, and my ability to view a text with an open mind. Opening my mind to the text was one of the more challenging abilities…

for the door knob to enter the presence of my beloved teacher; a kind soul that changed my style of writing. It was at that moment that I recalled all the memories of the hardships and difficulties of the class that influenced me to become a better writer.…

My introduction paragraph was not up to the senior level writing. My writing simply didn’t make a clear path that allowed me to carry my ideas throughout the whole paper. The flow of each sentence was choppy and that made it difficult for anyone reading this paper get into the essay; therefore, I need to start including transitional words, phrase, or sentence so the reader and I can easily read my essay faster and with ease. Another thing that I would change is the thesis that I made. It was…

MY WRITING PROCESS Have you ever thought of any human activity that is intertwined? Thinking and Writing is intertwined and goes hand in hand. Have you wondered how great writers start their writing journey? Every writing start with thinking. Anyone who has written an Article, Book, Poem, Song, Film etc. has already had a thought or is thinking about something. This makes translating your thought into a master piece goes through a process and I will walk you through the typical journey of my…

The Drive Reflection The Drive was surprisingly easy to write. It was easy because I was simply jotting down my emotions. I already had the whole essay in my head before I knew we were writing an essay. Though, I did not want to write a school essay on it. I finally had to after I spent hours trying to think of a different idea, but this one always came to mind. I finally said, “Screw it” and started it. When I was writing The Drive, I had a lot on my mind always thinking of ways I can tell my…

Writing has changed my perspective on various aspects of my life. Some of the essays that I have written in the past have opened doors to new ideas. These essays have helped me make connections I feel I never would have made without writing. I believe this is because I enter my deepest level of concentration when I write. This heightened level of concentration I reach when writing has allowed me to reflect on important areas in my life such as self-awareness and motivation. Self-awareness is a…

One very obvious difference between these narratives is their different racial ethnicity. Although all three writers, Douglass, Rodriguez, and Graff shared similar struggles they did so in very different cultures. Fredrick Douglass tell his story as an African American slave and the obstacles he had to overcome as he learned to read and write. Douglass tell, “I…