This first quarter for writing, we wrote an argumentative essay on social media. For the essay we had to decide whether social media is bad or good and prove whether our argument was true. Also for reading we did a class novel on “The Hobbit” by J.R.R Tolkien. For this novel we did PRL’s, organizers and packets. During the first quarter I wrote an argumentative essay on social media. While starting the process of writing the essay I found that it was more effective to begin writing on the body paragraphs
In his essay “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts”, Murray describes the very detailed process of revision; explaining how a writer should use their own reading ability and voice to revise their own work, and how that writer should be able to step away from their writing and read it though another’s eye. Murray (945) goes on to explain how this process can differ from a student to a professional writer. This allows us to understand the detail a writer must take into consideration when
In Judith Lorber’s essay The Social Construction of Gender she claims that gender is both a process and a system of stratification and structure. The following essay will illustrate what Lorber means when she makes theses claims. Examples of gender as a process and system of stratification will be drawn from the movie “Orchids: my intersex adventure” as well as previously assigned readings to further explain Lorber’s points. Lorber explains, “gender is a process of creating distinguishable social
I like this essay because the author help me to define what is dyslexia mean. Eileen Simpson provided a standard definition of an existing term by using some example then developmental or specific dyslexia as it technically called. Dyslexia is a learning disability characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence. Simpson summarize controversies in the field of research as he pointed out what is definition of dyslexia and what dyslexia is not . He also give some example to proof
The essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is about the effects that the internet has on a persons' mental thought process. How we can now learn information in a matter a seconds that use to take months to acquire. Reading a novel use to be near effortless; Now it's strenuous on ones' mind to finish a four paragraph article. I've also noticed a change in the way I think. Just like Nicolas Carr, 'Deep Reading' has become difficult. When I was young I thought reading was enjoyable. To tell you
me a lot. It is because one of the major assignments in the course is the argumentative essay. Through introducing different essay structures and reminder of the steps to brainstorm the essay,
into the whole process. I think the framework will be beneficial for me because I have constantly been writing for the past 3 quarters at UCSC, and I have improved using the similar model of learning or writing process. Whenever I write, I take what did successfully in the past and review it to see if the style of writing will fit for the current project requirement. For the in class reading, I found a lot of terms that I have seen in the past; for example: audience, genre and process. These terms
The essay “Dogs and Monsters,” by Stanley Coren discusses the relativity of dogs and technology. “Originally, [this essay was] published in Saturday Night magazine in May 2000” (pg.190.) Coren currently works at the University of British Columbia where his main focus is on prolific writing and research in psychology. Coren summarizes how dogs have been bred over time to adapt to the current technology available to people and it leaves the readers questioning how the process of a once important piece
component to your overall success, has to be taken apart, put back together, twisted, turned, and thoroughly examined each day so that the outcome of this tedious process reflects the shadow of how diligently you work on the subject. It is a formative assessment mainly because you constantly work on it each day during the learning process as well as receive feedback on it from your instructor if you have questions on its organizational structure throughout the duration of the semesters. This assessment
This essay will discuss and define Stuart Hall’s encoding and decoding model, as well as the reception studies in relation to an advertisement by First National Bank entitled “you can help”. The advertisement was removed from First National Bank’s website as it was accused of being treason. The essay will display the various ways in which audiences interpret and make meaning through media, by using the advertisement as an example. Hudson (2014) states that “Stuart Hall claimed that media texts