WRA-130 Ellie Jensen

the personal details make it easier for a reader to find something relatable with. I've never experienced being an international student but this piece gives a first hand look which is nice as a different perspective. Especially when students walk away from reading this piece they now have a better or more sympathetic understanding of what international students experience. Also because the details where very honest this helps to evoke emotion from the reader. Personally I understand the impo...

emphasis- unemphatic, emphatic: sentence order is important

coordination: choppy sentences, idea's coordinate expresses equality of ideas or details

subordination, use a phrase, use a short modifier

parallelism, and but yet: using parallelism in comparisons, using parallelism with lists, headings and outlines

variety and details, varying sentence length: break some of the long sentences into shorter, simpler ones

subordination: make the main ideas stand out by ex...

listening and taking notes, use your own words, leave space in your notes if you miss something, review shortly your notes after class, writing while reading, previewing, reading twice

summarizing: understand the meaning, distill each section, central idea, support for the central idea, use your own words

becoming an academic writer: know the writing situation in each assignment, develop and organize your writing, synthesize your own and others' ...

This article does a good job of displaying all the faults in the cost of getting an education as high of a credential as a PH.D. the cost is plummiting student debt and discouraging young adults from pursuing a career futher. It places pressure on the parents of the student and dependency on student loans making the future of a students career financially a gamble against the sucess of a job possibly from gaining these credientials.

I thought this speech was well done because Nelson Mandela was such an iconic figure in history, its inevitable to be saddened by his loss but Obama did well to attempt to immortalize him. So that the audience is left with a feeling that he is still with us. Somewhat satisfying the wishes of his audience. By noting all the historical and monumental changes this man has brought to the world he is not only respecting the man of honor but he is reminding the...

This article discusses Marx's construction of economic class separation that stem from a divide between the proletarian, the working class and the bourgeoisie, people in a position of definitve power. There are huge discrepencies throughout this article that hault this ideology from evolving into the mdoern world. That power should only pertain to those in high social class becuase it is assumed that they are inept with the ability of leadership, however,...

They begin by addressing the location at Washington D.C. under the Lincoln monument, where, when he was in office, slavery became illegal in the United States. The speech's introduction begins with a powerful reminder that the black community has overcome throughout generations in this nation, however, MLK addresses that they are still, in his words, crippled. He emphasizes that both black and white men have the right to the life liberty and the pursuit o...

First the author keeps refering to a personification of America. She introduces us to an America that she grew up with, that she remembers it seems fondly of. An America of simplicity and traditions. She discusses all the success during the time periods she refers to noting all the great achievements that are marked in history. I believe that the author does this because its almost in place as a cushion for criticism. She is stating all the good quailites of America almost as a reminder of wh...

revision is re-seeing

have a relationship with drafts- work on problems and not fearing making changes

what is yor draft trying to do?

-readerbased prose

-writer based prose

is the question I'm asking clear and sufficently limited?

Have I answered "so what"

is there one most important thing I'm trying to say

purpose is clear and how well the information is organized arou...

first we're introduced to a situation with the frustrations of abreviations, how grammatical structure in America's english language by no means is what it originally intailed.  How "slag" or "sayings" have become missleading to the original message they're trying to convey. Mrs. Klass finds it interesting when people place sports terms into different situations, his exam medical situations. That a hit is considered a win or a success but rarely call...