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Classmate Donn Reid respond to his discussion with a 125 word or more .
Wednesday Dec 13 at 8:48pm
The writing task I believe I did well on was including details and elaborating on my ideas. After I had created my idea list, I still had to decide which topic to follow up on. I started with a place, Germany. I recollected my memories from my first experience starting at the airport and just did free writing from there. Whatever came to mind in the remembrance journey I wrote as quickly as the ideas came. The writing task that I need to work on is the getting started on a writing assignment task. Since, I was unsure of what to write about for each idea; I mulled over where to start. Once I started though, it was relatively easy and found myself in a flow of writing. The top three grammatical errors were pretty easy to identify. These errors were consistent across the questions. Error in parallelism (3) Problem about reading comprehension (3) Apostrophe error (3) To strengthen my writing task for including details and elaborating on my ideas, I can continue to write more. I think as I exercise this area of writing it will get better just by use. Using more adjectives and thinking more in-depth on how to express a particular point is going to make the thoughts clearer and promote more of a visual as the reader takes in what I am writing. To resolve the weakness of getting started, I could jump right in and start. I found the just getting started and free writing the ideas; they came much quicker and frequent. An example sentence out of my essay is “Venturing out into the chilly brisk evening looking for a place to eat on our first night in Hoechst, Germany.” Finding better descriptive words to use, like maybe not just chill and brisk but have some other descriptive words to draw the reader in and form an image in for them. I would like to work on those kinds of things. My question from the weekly reading revolves around developing a thesis. Is it necessary to have a thesis statement in a personal narrative essay?
The writing task I believe I did well on was including details and elaborating on my ideas. After I had created my idea list, I still had to decide which topic to follow up on. I started with a place, Germany. I recollected my memories from my first experience starting at the airport and just did free writing from there. Whatever came to mind in the remembrance journey I wrote as quickly as the ideas came.
The writing task that I need to work on is the getting started on a writing assignment task. Since, I was unsure of what to write about for each idea; I mulled over where to start. Once I started though, it was relatively easy and found myself in a flow of writing.
The top three grammatical errors were pretty easy to identify. These errors were consistent across the questions.
1. Error in parallelism (3)
1. Problem about reading comprehension (3)
1. Apostrophe error (3)
To strengthen my writing task for including details and elaborating on my ideas, I can continue to write more. I think as I exercise this area of writing it will get better just by use. Using more adjectives and thinking more in-depth on how to express a particular point is going to make the thoughts clearer and promote more of a visual as the reader takes in what I am writing.
To resolve the weakness of getting started, I could jump right in and start. I found the just getting started and free writing the ideas; they came much quicker and frequent.
An example sentence out of my essay is “Venturing out into the chilly brisk evening looking for a place to eat on our first night in Hoechst, Germany.” Finding better descriptive words to use, like maybe not just chill and brisk but have some other descriptive words to draw the reader in and form an image in for them. I would like to work on those kinds of things.
My question from the weekly reading revolves around developing a thesis. Is it necessary to have a thesis statement in a personal narrative essay?
Classmate Kristen Edwards respond to her Discussion 125 words or more
Yesterday Dec 14 at 7:33pm
Hello Everyone, I believe my essay structure is something I did well. I struggle when it comes to writing, with that said, I feel the structure I had was the strongest point of the essay. Something I know I need work on is my thesis statement. I have a hard time when it comes to brainstorming and coming up with topics to discuss thus my thesis statement can certainly use some work. Three errors I had in the grammar assessment are; problems with the reading comprehension, the subject/verb agreement and errors with apostrophes. The problems I ran in to with reading comprehension was finding the main point or points to a sentence. With apostrophes I had issues knowing where the apostrophe should be placed. As for the subject/verb agreement within a vague sentence it was hard for me to determine the subject and the verb. My plan to further maximize my strengths is to continue practicing what I already know and what I feel I do best. As for my weaknesses I intend to take more time in developing my thesis, along with sharing my ideas with other to try and generate new ideas. I also would like to take more time in the brainstorming process and again, share these ideas with others in order to generate more ideas. My question/questions: Which method of writing is best to use with a personal essay? Should a personal essay be more informal or formal? References: Connell, C.M., & Sole, K. (2013) Essentials of college writing (2ed) Retrieved from: https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUENG121.13.2/sections/sec5.4 Thank you, Kristen
Hello Everyone,
I believe my essay structure is something I did well. I struggle when it comes to writing, with that said, I feel the structure I had was the strongest point of the essay. Something I know I need work on is my thesis statement. I have a hard time when it comes to brainstorming and coming up with topics to discuss thus my thesis statement can certainly use some work.
Three errors I had in the grammar assessment are; problems with the reading comprehension, the subject/verb agreement and errors with apostrophes. The problems I ran in to with reading comprehension was finding the main point or points to a sentence. With apostrophes I had issues knowing where the apostrophe should be placed. As for the subject/verb agreement within a vague sentence it was hard for me to determine the subject and the verb.
My plan to further maximize my strengths is to continue practicing what I already know and what I feel I do best. As for my weaknesses I intend to take more time in developing my thesis, along with sharing my ideas with other to try and generate new ideas. I also would like to take more time in the brainstorming process and again, share these ideas with others in order to generate more ideas.
My question/questions: Which method of writing is best to use with a personal essay? Should a personal essay be more informal or formal?
References:
Connell, C.M., & Sole, K. (2013) Essentials of college writing (2ed)
Retrieved from:
https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUENG121.13.2/sections/sec5.4Links to an external site.
Thank you,
Kristen
