They Say I Say Reflection

This is where I learned the most about myself as both a writer and a reader. Initially, when writing my first draft, I focused on just the most prominent aspects of the article such as how Schulz framed her argument through a story and kept things factually and historically based rather than outwardly asserting her bias. Both subjects became the crux of my analysis, but my original draft lacked the analysis aspect a bit in that I had to dig deeper and provide better examples to support my stance. For example, in my original draft I focused a bit too much on bias and went to the extreme of saying that Schulz kept all bias out of her narrative and kept it completely objective. After further digging into Schulz’s background, and for what publication this article was established under, I had to rephrase this subject to acknowledge the bias but counter-argue why her credentials does not devalue the points she makes in “Citizen Khan.”

Likewise, creating a cover letter taught me many useful strategies that I will definitely put to use when it comes time for me to submit an official cover letter to a company. One of the biggest things that I have learned from taking this course is that good content is more important than sophistication. Both are very important in essay writing, but it is more important to have clear content and material so that the audience can understand your position. Last year, I always seemed to lose points on essays for not having sophisticated enough prose, so I came into this class under the impression that the most important things in a

However, the frequent use of summary instead of breaking down the text takes away from Wright 's point of racial oppression and alienation each character faces in the story. This article is recommended to those who are unfamiliar to with these stories in particular from Uncle Tom 's Children. Nonetheless, the author spending an excessive amount of time summarizing the text takes away the value of the article. If a scholar was seeking an article that contains a decent amount of literary analyze this text wouldn 't be beneficial.

However, as Carter saw, most do not perceive it that way. In this prose, Stephen Carter uses rhetorical devices such as: allusion, anecdote, and humor, to delineate how the amount of reading has decreased. In this work, Stephen L. Carter alludes to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This is shown by the quote, “The more of us who reduce reading to no more than an unpleasant obligation, the faster we descend toward the world of Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451.”

People may not see it and do not want to believe it, but they all do it. Kirkus reviews is another book review article this shows more of the pathos side of Roth. “He incorporates thought-provoking questions into his analysis that allow readers to discover for themselves the answers to such queries as, ‘Who am I? What do I want? What is my purpose?’”

I learned more about repeating parts of lines, and how I can get that to work in my poems, before this I really only thought about repeating a single word or a whole line, not something in between that. I also leader that depending on the persona I choose to tell my story through, it can affect repetition. I can see a know it all executive who wants his way to repeat himself a lot but I can't necessarily see a professor teaching a high level science class to repeat

Like many other writers, I often find myself guilty of including the occasional redundancies in my writing; however, Bauby’s writing has taught me that power exists in brevity. Often the most crucial ideas are the simplest, and as writers, we must learn to slow the stream of our thoughts to achieve such impactful

When I decided to read Body-Without-Soul by Kathryn Davis, I was in a place where I couldn't read the original to get some context. To be honest, I enjoyed this interpretation so I didn't need context as mush as I would have liked to have it. At first as I read, I underlined, the two "I think"s on the first page. The reason — seeing two "I think"s near each other distracted me, making not want to listen to the narrator because that are uncertain of the story that are writing about. However, continuing I pondered, "Who is this narrator?

Besides, many people believe that is depends on if a person was brought into the world as a racist or not. Plus, I think if many people do not look at the person from the outside looks, then there is no need to be racism. Like a quote that I personally loved it, “Don’t judge the book by its cover.” I think everyone has a different point a view toward to any situations, and it is depends on the person

the Bedford handbook. I also planned to read a lot and spending more time in composing my essays by going through multiple drafts. Unfortunately, I didn 't followed out my initial plan as much I wanted to. I believe my plan is realistic, however the real problem is that I 'm lack of motivation. I know why I should work hard for my classes

One of the main weaknesses was the fact that the authors continued to begin sentences and ideas with “in my opinion” and “personally, I …” Although this paper is focusing on how the authors believe DNA analysis needs some guidelines, the paper seems very unprofessional when they speak like this. Another weakness was that almost the entire article was spent talking about Lifecode and the Castro case. The cases that were discussed at the end were far more interesting and they should have been discussed a little more in detail. Picking examples to discuss in detail from multiple cases would have emphasized the point better because it would have shown that these mistakes happened in many cases, not just one particular one.

Although I could not relate because of my lack of note-taking skills, the article did teach me a few things. The article helped me see that reading a book is more of a conversation with the author and myself. I believe Alder delivers an unyielding response and has a large number of the answers for the disagreement against marking in books. Alder does not say in his article that his view is the correct tactic but is rather only presenting a proposition of one way that he has attempted and experimented with and has discovered it to be an effective way. I believe this article could be read by anybody interested in increasing their learning experience and what they take out of their readings.

I am trying to read more difficult novels, but I think I chose one a little too far outside my comfort zone. The plot is understandable but the language the author uses rather difficult for me to read. To sum it up, these books are all good choices and I would recommend them, but sometimes I just have to deal with what I can

I tend to look for what I need when reading, which means I skip a lot of important information that later on I have to go back and look for. This also impacts my vocabulary and when writing I tend to get stuck when writing because I can find the words to express myself. For writing I need to take notes and brainstorm. I tend to just write straight the point and when I’m done I would always be short from the minimum word count. By having a plan, which involves taking notes and having a sequence of events on what I will be writing, it help me emphasize on the sections for a longer period and be able to write deeper

In the informative book “They Say/I Say,” authors, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, encourage novice writers to put their writing into a larger conversation, using the claims of other writers on a topic to help their own claims. Graff and Birkenstein share that by starting with what others are saying about your topic, and continuing to return to it, you help your readers follow your writing. Return sentences will remind readers what claim you are responding to, making it easier for them to breeze through your paper without questioning your reason for bringing something up. Because you are responding to claims of other writers, ensuring that you restate a claim before you respond to it keeps readers well on track. When summarizing, it is