Essays on Writing Skills

1. I started working on this portfolio with the aim to improve my writing skills, to evaluate my talents as a writer and a journalist. First and foremost, it was interesting for me to reveal my hidden skills of collecting and analyzing information, structuring it, and expressing it in a written form. Moreover, I wanted to try myself at studying the life and achievements of some celebrity who has made a large contribution to the development of some sphere of science. 2. During the work on this project, I opened some new interesting objectives for myself, which go along ...

My literacy history and current identity as a writer are life journeys that have been defined by various forces and events since my childhood. Just like any other journey in real life, the development process to the current writer that I am was characterized by ups and downs. The foundation of my writing skills can be substantially traced to my family status, curiosity and a book, Think Big, I read in grade school. Born and brought up by a literature teacher and a prominent article writer, I was gradually induced into the reading and writing culture by my father. ...

01.09.2016

A. I was glad to learn from that text that the author had found the research and writing assignment very beneficial. It is really true that while preparing the assignments for our classes we ask ourselves many important questions and reflect on our career and life. It is excellent that the author managed to improve his/her writing skills during that course, although I cannot say that his/her writing proficiency is very high and I should admit that there is much to develop still. I hope this course has helped him/her a lot and stimulated for further self-development and ...

29.08.2016

During thirteen weeks I have gone through a long way of researching career and peculiarities of work from different perspectives, which have revealed many new and unusual features of my personality and let me study my character from different perspectives. During the first five weeks I had an interesting experience of estimating my own career choices and work preferences; I have analyzed my own life in this aspect. Luckily, I stayed satisfied with my life choice even after profound examination and speculations and got affirmed that I do what I like. I had a wonderful chance to analyze ...

Dear _______,

I am writing you to give my explanation regarding my failure to successfully complete all of the requirements for re-admission to the School of Social Work’s undergraduate program by the deadline of May 1, 2016. After my suspension from the School of Social Work, I felt that I needed to spend the summer of 2015 taking care of both myself, and my family. During my last semester at the University, my nephew was a victim in a homicide. I was responsible for the planning, and final expenses of his funeral. During this time, my husband and I adopted ...

Reflective Essay

Reflective Essay

Introduction

There comes a time when you need to take action and start working on basic skills that will alleviate your writing standards. After being pointed out by my teacher for basic grammar, sentence development, spelling and punctuation mistakes, I knew that I needed to make some changes. In addition, in some of my previous work, my teacher also asked me to work on my creative and descriptive writing skills and make them sharp with regular writing practice. I chose to enrol in the WRTG 101 course after finding out several gaps in my ability to write essays ...

Lessons learned from the review and discussion

The team members understood how Netflix works from the discussion. We learned about the monthly charges, services that the company offers, and the source of its competitive advantage in the market. It gave an insight into the values, goals, mission, vision and other guiding principles of the organization. Additionally, the team identified aspects that define the positive and negative aspects of a group. The availability of resources, strengths, sufficient assets and opportunities define positive aspects while challenges, threats, limitations, and weaknesses define negative aspects (Benos et. al, 2007).

How the paper could be improved

The paper could be more appealing and understood easily if the ...

<Institution> I must admit that before, I was not paying much attention to the importance of reading and writing. As a result, I was not good at both of these, and I often struggle with activities relating to these two tasks. However, the course made me appreciate reading and writing more. I believe that together with this appreciation, I was also able to improve my reading and writing skills by learning more about thesis construction, identification, and the formation of outline. First of all, I learned more about thesis in terms of reading. For instance, in my chosen ...

Term Paper

Term Paper

Introduction

The primary strategic objective of the University of Idaho is to make growth in enrollment at the Institute. The primary strategic objective is set by the current President Chuck Staben. The University of Idaho is not the only institute that has developed this strategy, but several colleges and universities across America are also focused towards the growth of enrollment. It is observed that there is intense competition among different institutes for the growth of enrollment. The reason that all the universities want to increase enrollment at the college is that it is a source of the stream ...

Reflection

Reflection Paper Section One

The survey questioned students’ motivation for studying management. In almost all cases the students thought it would lead to good employment prospects. The survey analyzed the students’ enthusiasm and motivation towards the management studies. It was concluded from a survey that most of the students considered the management good for their career. They believe that it will enhance their job opportunities in the future.

Customers were interviewed about whether or not they liked the new product.

The results showed that about 60% preferred the old product. The customers were asked about the new product that whether they liked or disliked the new product. However, the results of ...

CONTENTS 1. Introduction 3 2. Task A – Description of the Evidences 3

A. Evidence 1 – Essay on Sir Kenneth Robinson Educational Views 4

B. Evidence 2 – Internal Memo about applicants for the position of Assistant Marketing Manager 5 C. Evidence 3 – Making a brief presentation about employment law 5 3. Task B - Reflections about the Process of Self-Assessment 6

Introduction

Merely having professional capabilities is not enough for getting employment, securing a promotion or otherwise rising through the ranks in the company. The critical aspect of being properly rewarded for one’s professional skills and capacities is making persuasive and impressive presentations of such skills to the company managers. This ...

Overview: this career map report describes what my targeted career will be, what requirements are needed for this job position, the skills and gaps I currently have, and how to develop them.

Career Target:

My targeted goal is to become a Marketing Manager within the next five years. My preferred industry is banking, but I am comfortable working in any other industry where I will get a job. The position of a marketing manager requires one to have the right skills that can be beneficial in aligning the company’s mission objectives to realize goals pertaining to marketability and profitability. The ...

Question 1

In A Journal of the Plague Year, the narrative depicts a nonlinear description of the Great Plague that took place around 1665 in London. The novel highlights common experiences during the. The influence of Defoe’s experience as a newspaper editor can be seen through the combination of journalistic and literary writing skills and Defoe’s own understanding of fictional writing. It can be argued that Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year depicts an extraordinary literary work since it portrays a mix of data and statistical representation of reality and a fictional narrative. The graphical details presented ...

The evaluation of you is a challenging process that requires profound preparation for. It is an important stage in the life of every person, whether he or she wants to find a new job or improve the existing career. Self-evaluation is always subjective as it is mostly you who make any commentaries about your personality. However, self-evaluation is not only a necessary step in the improvement of one’s career prospects, it is a vital process for understanding who you are and what are your aspirations in life. Self-evaluation process is rather effective as a part of the studying ...

Final Reflection

First, I had a compilation challenge in the creation of the final content from the drafts. After gathering and compiling my thoughts into writing, I lacked the determination to check if I had the right content and tone to help in information delivery. I revised both drafts to make sure that the writings were appropriate to my target audience. Also, I had a challenge trimming the words and content to the acceptable amount. To help in solving this problem, I acknowledged my primary goal as to inform rather than intimidate the audience. Therefore, I avoided the use of or ...

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr. This statement invokes a feeling that speaks of the fine line between living and dying. Right away a line from a favorite movie, the Shawshank Redemption (1994), comes to mind. The quote, spoken by Andy Dufresne, who is portrayed by Tim Robbins, goes “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” The quote is not too far from being similar to the words spoken by Dr. King, as they also speak to the necessity of staying busy and finding the time to care about life and what really matters. If a person simply sits and waits ...

The main idea in the book “Pray for Sheetrock” by Melissa Fay Greene is the racial and social movement. In her nonfiction work, Green elaborates the issues that faced McIntosh, a small town in Gorgias. For a long time, the town was ruled by a white sheriff who seemed to care very little about the skin color (Greene 3). However, he used his political tactics to rule the town like a monarchy. No black was allowed in any political position. The people of the McIntosh town accepted the status quo of racial discrimination and segregation. The blacks had no ...

Abstract

Educators need to understand the role of language and how it improves self-efficacy of gifted learners. Talented learners exhibit signs that demonstrate high personal competencies and have unique academic excellence which puts them ahead of others within a learning environment. However, educators need to understand the fact that it is important to provide such students with an atmosphere where they develop self-awareness, motivation, risk taking and confidence required to make them appreciate their giftedness. It is strategic for educators to employ advanced communication technologies to improve written skills of gifted learners. Besides having the ability to think critically and ...

We believe the 826 Valencia’s contribution can be analyzed from three aspects: for the students, for the teachers, and for the community.

In her interview, Ms. Brianna Rapp, an Irvine SAT Writing tutor, communicated how one-on-one tutoring helps students develop their own voice. “At its core, writing is communication,” (citation) and in order to develop that skill on paper, students need to be able to do so in person. Human relationships are very helpful for students to understand how their writing impacts other people. The 826 Valencia Writing Center acknowledges the utmost importance of this connection between the ...

Mission Statement

I will ensure all the personnel are comfortable to increase their productivity. The human brain is a complicated piece of creation. If a person has to think then, they utilize the left hemisphere while actions based on emotions and instincts are right hemisphere based. For an idea to be created, it has to be formed in the brain. There is an argument that some people are more right brained, and others are left brained. The left brain is associated with the ability to provide speech while the right is non-lingual (Miller & Miller). The left side of the brain is ...

The ultimate goal of early childhood education is to improve children’s social-emotional skills, acquisition and use of knowledge and skills and use of appropriate behavior to meet their needs. As said by Albert Einstein, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." Therefore, the use of technology is not suitable in early age, as it teaches children to depend on technology rather than believing in themselves. Scientifically proven method states that when a person learns something through the senses of touching, hearing, writing, communication is more prone to remember for a ...

Since ancient times when a man had learned to write some signs and letters, the art of writing became a powerful tool in people’s hands. One can hardly believe that with the help of a pen and a sheet of paper, or, if taking into consideration modern technical progress, with the help of computer and laptop with Office Package installed, very high goals can be attained.

To start with, let us take the period of life when most of us are taught to write and later keep on developing these skills – the period when we attend school. Obviously, writing wonderful papers is ...

The purpose of the study

The purpose of this study as expressed by Muller is to analyze the role and the importance of parents to their children education and how to handle gender disparities. This study is done so as to know how the parents involve themselves in the children education at the early age or when they are young and during their adolescence (Muller, 1998). It is also to find out whether the parents are the only ones who influence the children special education or teachers to play a crucial role. It is also to find out whether the parents meet the education requirement ...