Writing a paper for a new class can be difficult. You may not know what to expect or how to mesh these new ideas with new authors together. For me, I thought I had a pretty good idea for my paper, which was a social life leads you to a happy life. Although, one writing moves that I can improve on in my paper is that I mention a topic but then I don’t go into much depth. When mentioning…
I’m about to turn in my final draft of my Happiness essay. I personally thought this essay was easy to write because the message of happiness was very clear by all of the authors. The idea of happiness is much more complex than many people believe it to be. Happiness can be found in so many little and big things. To write our papers we had to mesh our ideas with those of the authors and focus on one idea…
I am currently writing my first paper for English 110. This paper is about happiness. We learned about three influencers on happiness; Catherine Sanderson, Daniel Gilbert, and Robert Waldinger. In our papers, we were to write an essay on the ways to live a happy life reflecting our ideas with Sandersons, Gilberts, and Waldingers. I chose being social and having a social life as a key way of improving happiness. A great way to improve your paper is to do…
For my Friday blog post, I’m going to be discussing what I keep in mind regarding quote use as I begin to write my first essay in English 110. Quote use isn’t always used properly in writing. I know that I’ve struggled with it some of my past papers, but I’ve learned it is very important for a strong supportive paper. The past few weeks we’ve been learning about certain skills to use and improve on when it comes to…
Reading is personally not one of my favorite things to do. When I end up reading something, there are a few strategies that I use; I reread passages, I make notes of what I liked, and I talk with my friends about what we read and their input on the passage. In the past, these strategies have helped me. For example, re-reading a passage more than once. Sometimes at a first glance I know that I’m not entirely focused on…
