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Assignment Evening Parties

Response to "Evening Parties" by Rose Macaulay

God created Adam and then Eva to show us that human beings cannot survive alone. Can anyone of us imagine his or her life without other people’s company? Even if we don’t want to admit it we cannot live alone. There thousands and thousands of ways meeting new people. Evening parties is one of them. Some people love being at a party, some others hate it being there, and others are there because they have to. For many of us, parties are ridiculous and for every one there is a unique reason. Moreover, good breeding demand to be at the party, even if you like It or not; is not necessary to stay there until the close of the evening especially when you have to go to 3 or 4 at the same evening.
Nevertheless, we finally be at an evening party which begins at about 8 o’clock and ends up about midnight, wearing our best clothes to impress the others especially when celebrities would be there. Showtime has begun for many people who were dying to be at the party counting the days, to show their new expensive clothes. And that’s when many women even men entering at the party showing off, walking and ignoring everyone else.
Also, a group of people standing near the table of foods among entire strangers, without talking to each other just eating and drinking. For them this is paradise, free food and drink even listening to the music they like. They see each other for curiosity, see drunk persons making fool of their self and this is when they feel glad and proud to be there making fun of them. They also might think we are very lucky to be there because there are worse from us.
We finally got to the party and find our self separated by a crowd of guests. People of different ages, color and gender see each other maybe for first time. ‘Hey let’s go, there will be many women’ men saying to each other when they got the invitation. Later, you see a group of men just standing there seeing each woman passes, waiting the right moment to talk to them. But, let’s be fair many women go there for picking men, and maybe for them this is the only reason that they had been there.
Lots of people go at the evening parties for respect of the host as good manners demands. You need to have patient of course if you hate parties, some talent for acting and some readiness of speech when you have been there. The secret is to be quite or better hide in a corner when the most of them are away and just relax by listening to music and hoping that the time would pass. Also many of us should remember that we have to expose our own inability by taking part in these entertainments. On the other hand if there isn’t any chance to go there you must do your best by refusing quietly as possible, avoiding being ridiculous of excuses. Furthermore, most of people who organize evening parties they have a specific reason. They may celebrate their son’s or daughter’s wedding, birth, birthday, even a better job and many of the guests who have been there trying to avoid each other because they are bored of such meetings.
Therefore, another reason for going to an evening party is to have some fun. Of course not all people like it but the truth is when you are with friends or be social, everything is cool. Public or private occasions if you are a fun of parties there is no doubt that you feel bored. You can see people that you may not see before, old friends, some relatives and this is a chance to get away even for a night from your daily life.
All in all our life is a way of having more and more experiences, meeting new people, making different things. We must feel grateful that we have the opportunity being invited in a party because there are other people that would have been killed to be in our place. We must be thankful of what we have in our lives, we must do what we want to do and not thinking others opinion and the most important of all we must be ourselves and not pretend to be a person we aren’t. After all everyone hates loneliness and if we want to be accepted in this society, we must do our best to show what we really are as a person.

Response essay-Evening Parties

Response to "Evening Parties" by Rose Macaulay

Human beings are strangers, no-one can understand them in society but only themselves. They give us fake pleasure than the physical one. Actors in a play,for pretending;or dressing like a bride and groom, for showing off; or even starving for food,like dogs. Sally forth at someone’s else expenses nor because they really feel that they want to be there. I see them conventionalism others and trying to do the same things. Hostess or host are not there for them , she/he disappears from the time that all that come up. They don’t celebrate hostess birthday or the event that are invited to, but these that they think is better for them; wathcing football match; or even playing tampoo.to spend their time.
When the appointed date arrives, we bieleve to be suitable and perfect enough for the party and we dress up depence on the other quests. We running to buy clothes to be vantage of the night even you don’t have money to eat the next day;or you borrow clothes from your neighboors. Therefore we clothe ourselves to pleasure ‘’the others’’ not to be comfortable and feel yourself in a way. According to Macaulay’s essay “ if it gives you no pleasure , and if, further, you derive none from listening to the remarks of others, there is no need to converse’’. I tottaly agree with her, we should do whatever make us feel happy and not pretending, just to be there like a chair, an object with no soul. Wear anything you like, a jean with a white t-shirt; or even wear a dress that costs fifteen euro because you like it but not something expensive that makes you look frick and doesn’t match you. Be yourself anywhere you go.
Evening parties are prepared to give pleasure to quests and have fun. Hostess preparation for a party is too difficult and expensive indeed. I am convinced that the majority of human beings do not go to the party because he/she respects the hostess but to have a nice diner, or spent his/her time; or even showing off themselves to find a lover. It’s not that the point. We should go to parties, I agree you can meet other people and have a brief discussion with them but not to get a room after that. Oh, my goodness! Realation-ships are not like that. Good realation-ships it depends on you from the first time you gonna start to create it., if something goes wrong you lost the game.
This is, when you get your posteboard card inscribed with the details of the party, make questions to your self, “Shall I have fun to this?’’ “ I will dance and feel the music?” “It’s better if I stay at home and cook pasta?”. Seat down to your relaxing chair and think if you prefare to spend your money to go somewhere that you may feel unuseless or organize to go out with your friends at a club with a music of your choice. On the other hand go to the party that you are invited to, and if you realize that you feel like been in a theatre with actors to pretend, attiring rediculous dressers and costums and that you want to shrick, find the exit door and run away.

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Assignment-response essay: A walk to the zoo

Response to "What There is to See at the Zoo" by Marianne Moore

Zoo usually supports two theories. One theory is that zoo is a perfect home for animals to be in it, in order to be safe and be taken care of, and the other theory is that this “perfect home” can also be associated with prison because many people believe that animals should learn how to survive alone in the nature. That's why when you get to visit a zoo, you feel a lot of mix feelings. This is what I felt when I visited a zoo last Sunday. The zoo I visited was a huge park divided into different parts and each part was reflecting a different place of the jungle. The animals that consisted the specific zoo were being matched to the right place, according to their needs. Something that I like in zoo is that gives us the opportunity to see animals that usually we would never have seen because of their origin. For example I had the chance to see penguins that we all know that only survive in cold countries. Some other animals that I had the chance to meet are gorillas, dolphins and pandas.
As long as I remember my self at school, our teachers keep telling us that studies showed that human beings are relatives with monkeys and gorillas. Now that I've seen a gorilla from a close distance I strongly support this idea, because despite the gigantic size of the gorilla and the hurry body, the facial characteristics and expressions were a lot similar with humans. Moreover gorillas have a lot more similarities with humans except from some facial expressions. An excellent example of what other similarities humans can have with a gorilla is the sweet; tender scene that a gorilla shared with us while being near his cage. A father gorilla was holding his baby in his arms kissing him in its own way now and then, until the baby fall into sleep. The particular scene reminded me a lot of a scene were a mother holds her infant in her arms. This father gorilla showed the same love as a human being would have shown to his child. I can say that a gorilla for many reasons deserve our respect but only for this scene deserves everything that someone can offer him.
Being next to the gorilla's cage means being somewhere in the middle of the zoo, at the part were the zoo reflected the jungle in its “wild form”. This wild part is formed with tall trees all over the place so the animals can satisfy their need to climb from one tree to another. Except from gorillas and monkeys, another animal has the same need of climbing and by that I mean the panda. I have always think panda as the favorite animal of children. It has a sweet face and looks like our teddy bears; small ;black and white fur and big eyes. No wonder why all children wanted to give him a hug while one girl even asked her mum if she could take him home with her. A Panda can easily make your day.
When you finish your visit to the “wild part” , a small bus comes to take you to the other side of the zoo which is a 15 minutes ride. This other part welcomes you with a huge plastic dolphin dressed with a costume, in front of a gate. Above this gate some letters draw the attention of the visitors. The letter were forming the word aquarium. From the moment I saw those letters I couldn't wait to get in, because I have always been attracted to the sea world, but nothing would have prepared me for the amazing things that I saw from the moment I passed the gate. Dolphins were everywhere in the swimming pool, sometimes swimming under the water and some other times jumping so high above the water. All of them were having a gray colour almost silver and all of them smooth and shining. The most incredible thing that I've experienced though is that they allowed us to swim among them and even take photos. My favourite photo is the photo were a dolphin put his mouth on my cheek. Dolphins were so friendly among humans, in contrast with other animals and that makes me wonder if they realize their difference from us.
My visit to the zoo came to the end and along with a great joy, I have also dirived a whole new theory as far as concern the animals. Animals give so many to humanity and to the whole planet in general and for this they deserve the same attention that us people deserve, because after all, animals look like humans a lot more that we thought. A strong argument for this is the incident that I described above with the father gorilla. Finishing I would like to add that while I was visiting the animals in the zoo, I sometimes felt bad for being free instead of a cage like them; but trying to think this fact, as a positive thing and that this is a way to protect the animals from nature I asked my self: “people, live in a dangerous world but no one came to put us in a cage why we do this to animals? Do they really deserve this kind of security?”

Evening Parties

Dear Evi,
How are you? Unfortunately you missed the class on Wednesday, but don’t worry about it because this summary will clarify what we've studied. I hope that you're feeling better and it would be great to see you soon.
This week, we focused on an essay written by Rose Macaulay, the title of which is “Evening Parties”.
Firstly, the subject of the essay is parties. She successfully managed to introduce the topic through a couple of questions. Then, she provided us with the reasons, as to why we consider it important to attend parties, by using semicolons - which make her essay more interesting.
Moreover, the whole main body consists of a variety of sentences, which in effect mock people who like going to parties. The language that the author used, is complex and the tone is rather caustic. This is purposely done as a means of emphasizing dominant images and metaphors ; in a sarcastic way. For instance, in the 1st paragraph, Macaulay implies that we visit parties simply to fill our stomach with free food (that somebody else paid for). She is thoroughly ironic when stating the phrases "at someone else’s expense" and "elegant food about the palate." I believe that the author employs this technique so as to convince us that people go to parties since alike animals they have gregarious instincts and in addition to this their weak character means that they are influenced by social conventions. The author feels that some people enjoy the food more than the actual party, since they don't other to talk to anyone and just spend time alone by standing in a 'solitary' position and greedily scoffing down bits and pieces - if they were lucky enough to be offered any that is. Macaulay used the method of juxtaposition when describing humans beings who belong to the civilized world, as animals.
It seems as though the author takes the mickey out of her own essay, since she mentions that “not I do not enjoy the parties” in her closing sentence. In some way or another, she is probably playing with our feelings or fooling us. She presents the reader with an elaborate discussion about the notion of party-going, which obviously amuses him/her. However, Macaulay's composition is brought to an abrupt end, due to the fact that it does not have any conclusion whatsoever.
During Wednesday's lesson, James showed us a useful way of planning our essay, so as to make it more specific. He advised us to write down the word smell and then draw a circle, which we were suppose to divide into several parts. Next, each of had to write down as many elements as we could, which were directly related to the main word or category. Eventually, we took the idea or element thatch interested us most and once again drew another circle - inside which we wrote a number of points. We can do this particular procedure until we narrow down the subject of our essay and determine the ideal one ; which in due turn will hopefully become the recourse of our thesis statement and its supporting (body) paragraphs.

THE RESPONSE ESSAY An earth without animals

Response to "What There is to See at the Zoo" by Marianne Moore

Imagine a word without animals. It’s impossible! Is like a house without windows, a forest without tress, a human without lives. They are many people whose lives depend on animals such as farmers, vegetarians or even vets. Our word is surrounded by these species; respecting them must be our achievement not only for those who are independent but for all of us.
Moore had chosen certain animals in her essay and I believe she had a reason for mentioning these particular animals. Why she didn’t mention the dog, the fish, the cow and other animals that are in the zoo? Because she might wanted us to open our eyes and see these animals from a different point of view. Giving emphasis on not how they look like but how details are represented and how unique they are. This uniqueness is what she wanted us to realize and to draw our attention. What uniqueness these animals had?
Peacock is the first animal that Moore had mentioned. This bird is the biggest beautiful and colorful bird that now lives in the animal kingdom. Comparing this animal with a sparrow you will be able to see the uniqueness. A sparrow has just few colors mostly brown but a peacock has all the colors that you can imagine. Tiger is the second animal in the essay which is the largest for big cat and is the most popular animal in ancient methodology. In our days tiger is a mascot in many sport teams because of it’s strengthens. Moreover, zebra is the next animal that is the most recognizable animal because of its unique black and white stripes. Giraffe is the fourth animal that comes to show us the uniqueness of its neck. Is the only animal that has this long neck and is the only animal that when it feels threaten puts its neck into the ground having the sense that is hidden from the enemy. Elephant, however is a symbol of the largest mammal, such a huge animal with a weighted of thousands of kilograms comes to put its uniqueness not only for its weight but also for its history. Elephants are so close to mammoths which had lived thousands years before Christ which comes to show us that this kind of animal still exist in our days but with different details. Finally monkeys come to show us that are the most intelligent animals that have so many similes to human characteristics.
Mentioning all these uniqueness that these animals had there is no doubt that these animals are important in humanity and generally in earth. They created with so many details that we probably never realized before. These species can offer lot to the humanity, things that we might didn’t think. You will probably wonder what these animals can offer to you, might not offer lot to you but they offer to history and to other people. Peacock had offer a new line in fashion shows since it becomes an inspiration for many designers in designing their clothe collection. Tiger in some countries is the animal that supports their pray demands and is a symbol of a respectful animal. Zebra can be used as a way of transportation since it's a cousin to the horse. Giraffe can offer its eggs for a delicious food; elephants in Asian are a part of their culture and finally monkeys can offer an entertainment because of their intelligent especially in small kids.
For all the above reasons that these animals are giving either to us or to other people we are responsible for their existence. What is the point of killing these animals, either for their meat, for their skin or for their teeth? I think is pointless. Giving an end to these species we are destroying our earth. An earth without animals is meaningless. Our food, our milk, our surviving, comes from many species, that’s why respect is very important. Many writers had their inspiration from many animals as Moore had; painters had drawn the most buzzard painting by just seeing a bird or a peacock; songs have been written from the inspiration of a sound that comes out from the tiny mouth of a bird. I am sure that many of us we had a seen a monkey eating with a spoon, a tiger closing it’s one eye by their feet, a see lion shaking it’s hand and I am sure that we all have said ‘’ this is miracle’’.
Animals are miracles! It’s in our nature to protect what is important and unique to us and these miracles are important. We must respect them otherwise destroying the nature it will be a revenge for the nature to destroy us. Respecting not only the peacock, the tiger, the zebra, the giraffe, the elephant and the monkey but all the species starting from the tiny one to the biggest one because an earth without animals IT’S IMPOSSIBLE!

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What There is to See at the Zoo (James Response Essay)

This essay by Marianne Moore describes some of the things that you can see at the zoo when you go to it. She is trying to make the point that the zoo is full of interesting things that should be respected and that we should be interested in them. Fine. But who didn’t know that already? Who hasn’t been to a zoo? Who doesn’t already know that animals are different from people and that it is good to be interested in animals? It seems to me that the writer Marianne Moore is trying to make a deeper point, but using simple ideas like a child’s trip to the zoo to make them.

So what are the points Marianne Moore is making? Firstly, she wants to tell her readers about some of the animals that she sees in the zoo. She tells us that zebras are symmetrical and that peacocks have beautiful tails, that tigers have stripes and that giraffes are examples of “marking.” It is the next paragraph, however, which shows us the method she intends to use all the way through. Having given these examples, she then draws something like a moral from them when she says that “Such colors and contrasts educate the eye and stir the imagination.” In my view this is the first point that she is making.

There are more points like this in the essay. She uses many examples to show that animals are interesting, that they are examples of being adapted to their environment, and that humans have to change their behaviour when dealing with animals. This all leads up to the final paragraph, which works as a conclusion. Here, Moore states her belief that we have both privileges in a zoo (because we are allowed to see these fantastic creatures) and also obligations (not to feed them, not to disturb them). It seems to me that Moore is also implying that she has a wider idea of how humans should interact with non-humans. If a zoo imposes these obligations, then don’t these obligations also exist anywhere that humans come into contact with the natural world? Here Moore delicately expresses an environmentalist idea that would not be generally accepted until much later in history. Now we know how badly the world is affected by destruction of animals’ habitats, Moore’s idea is more important than ever.

But it still seems to me that her way of saying this is quite boring and stupid. She could have done something more interesting and still made the same points.

Statement of Goals

Writing is a way of expressing yourself freely. Although writing an essay can sometimes have some difficulties. For example, an essay to consider good must have rich vocabulary, syntax, cohearence and also it must be well organized. By taking this course I expect to improve my writing skills and even learn some more, for better results.

An essay must be interesting for the reader or else the reader will be bored before it reaches to the end of it. In order to be interesting it has to have good vocabulary and no repetition of the same words or phrases. The writer of the essay must also avoid the meaningless details that might make the essay boring. This things I take firstly in mind when I'm writing an essay.

Secondly I continue with the stucturewich is a very important part of the essay. I start with the inroduction, wich has to be good to draw the readers attention. Then I continue with the main body wich contains 3-4 paragrafs and then with the conclusion.

The problems I believe I have with writing an essay are the vocabulary -because some times i might use the same word or phrase more than one time- and the syntax. I think that this is the most common mistake that almost everybody does. In generally my writing is good but certainly not perfect.

In conclusion I know that my writing needs improvements and by taking this course I will manage to enrich my vocabulary, correct my problems with thee syntax and in general become better in writing an essay.

Statement of Goals

Writing an essay is an art through which one expresses feelings, ideas and other abstract meanings. Composing an essay is a form of communication but it takes special skills to achieve a successful one. Attending Advanced Expository Writing course I will improve certain skills so as to be able to compose essays in a creative and successful way.

So far, there are some areas in writing which I cover well. For example, I always draw a planning skeleton before I start writing my essay. Also, I can explain myself very well by providing lots of information in bullet points as well as examples to support an issuing point. As for the resources that are an essential part in composing a research essay I know where to do my research, in order to provide myself with as much information as possible. For example, last time I did a research on divorce and I searched information in the library looking for magazines, books concerning the psychological, sociological aspect of the issue. I even expand my research by looking for issues that are similar to the issue such as searching for books regarding marriage life and families. Another positive thing about my writing is that i use grammar and syntax very well but not perfectly. After all who is perfect?

Now, as far as the negative part of my writing skills are concerned, there are times when I omit the revising part. Sometimes I do it because I am in a hurry and it is not a project or a research essay that takes days or weeks to be done. However, I still have to revise all types of writings I compose. Furthermore, my vocabulary may be good enough for this course but I still need to improve it. It can be done by reading English Literary books and magazines not only to enrich my vocabulary but also learn about things I have never known before and strengthen my creative skills. Another important point to make is the fact that I have trouble with referencing. There are some standard steps to follow regarding referencing, which is called the APA system. Personally, I find it quite confusing which is why I always mostly forget how to do the referencing part of a research.

Stating the positive and negative writing skills I own, what I would like to achieve from this course is to plan, organize effectively as well as to write in an interesting and exciting way. The important thing for me is not to make the reader yawn but to want to read more and more. In addition, I would like to improve my critical skills so that I can use fair feedback for my fellow-students and in return receive fair feedback. By receiving feedback for my work I will also realize how a reader fees while reading my work.

Finally, throughout the course, I hope to improve my creativity skills and revise every time I compose a piece of writing. In this way, my essays will not look boring and dull and not with a lot of inexcusable mistakes as well.

Statement of Goals for the Course

Writing is an eruption of your thought. Writing is ability to show, who you are. It can also reveal how do you think and how do you feel. Words are arrayed in the sentences to make a text. It shows your desire every body should get this ability. Many things are that help us to have a perfect writing. Knowing audience, increasing vocabulary and grammatical notes are important. I think grammatical notes is more important thing that others. That is why:
· Using grammar can help to show when the text happen.
· Can show your feel and your though
· Help you to arrange words to affect them better.

I know t some believe, increasing vocabulary is a reason to write. Knowing words and using them without employing grammar cannot be enough to write a perfect text.

At first, in a text tenses show when event happened. It shows the plot is related to past, happening now or will be happen in the future. It is done by a known person or unknown Also it can be used in mysteries texts for example in criminal novels to increase the excitement of text.

Second, you can show your though and your feel as well. Words in suitable and different situation have found different meaning. For example using some of them like power, light, braveness, fighting, peaceful show to reader your thought.

Third, grammatical note cause an essay become powerful and having more effect. Text which arrange by grammar is in order and the effect ion is more than essay that writ like this .So you should use them carefully.

In conclusion, when you writ you want to communicate and effect on reader .So you must choose the best way to transfer them. Everything to build needs many tools. I believe an important tool to write is to know grammatical notes.

Statement of Goals

Is anyone perfect? I don’t think so, because all people must always be processing. Everyone has difficulties on writing skill and as much as we practice, the better result we will have. Even the most popular writers and poets have mistakes in their writing process.
Firstly, there are some critics we should focus on which is formalized writing. Writing is a skill which you can improve your personality, you can express feelings and also to show in what mood you are. Each time we want to write, we create something knew and we are practicing. It is obvious that the writing has some categories which are included on it, the syntax, vocabulary, grammar and word order. Although, an important aspect of writing is the organization, on how well we organize our thoughts and how they are processed. We all have to focus on these categories for our own better result on writing skill.
Secondly, I know for myself that my writing is not a perfect one, but I can say that am doing well with the organization and paragraph order. Also, am good enough to explain myself and to build up an argument, but it needs harder work. My vocabulary and deeply my syntax are not as good as I want to be, but am trying for my best. To be honest, I can manage to make a good research, but I don’t explain my sources clearly enough, even though am not so expert to revise my essay also.
Thirdly, as I mentioned before, writing skill is a skill which can be processed all the time. Personally, I think that all categories of writing need to be more practice from me. My trouble is to write original phrases and to have an absolute correct syntax.
Finally, this course is an important one, because it will give me the chance to find and to recognize where I need more practice. Also, I think that this course is here to explain that all of us need work for better essay writing and that each of us will understand the material of writing better. I need more work on my writing skill and am sure that throughout this course I will improve my effort.

Statement of Goals

Writing an essay is a big deal and requires a lot of effort, skills and practice. Taking a course such as Advanced Expository Writing I am expecting to improve some of my writing skills and learn some others. Elements and skills that can contribute in writing a good essay can be organizing skills, vocabulary, syntax, coherence in what you write, grammar, revision, creative skills and also research skills.
In my experience in writing, up until now, I find my self good in creating strong arguments to support my thesis statements and to develop my subject in a coherence way. I believe that I am able to describe or explain my self clearly while writing an essay, even though I sometimes struggle to find the exact or the “perfect” word to use in order to have my description on the paper as I have it in my mind. Generally even though my vocabulary is not as rich as I would like to be, I try to search different words in the dictionary in order to make my essay more interesting and less flat to the reader.
On the other hand there are some things that I don't do well as a writer. First of all I have trouble in organizing my essay. Why is this? This is because I rarely plan my essays and this has as a result to spent a lot more time in writing my essay. Another thing that I have to improve is my research skills. In my opinion a research in order to be a “proper” research you have to search more than one resource. The thing that I do and I think that needs to be improved is that when I do my research I emphasize on the one resource that I will find satisfying things to write.
Overall through this course I would like and I hope to improve and even adopt some skills that later on will help me write better or more “proper” essays. Each skill can be useful, but personally I believe that organizing skills will be the most useful to me. In order to achieve these skills I will have to work with the course material by practicing on writing essays using the skills that I have trouble the most and also by revising and take into consideration the comments that the readers of my essay will make.

statement of goals

This semester at the university we have the chance to take the course of Advance Expository Writing and the opprtunity to improve our writing skills. Nobody is perfect in writing even a famous writter like James Joyce. Joyce reputation recedes him more than most writers. Without even reading a line of his work. As I studied for him before at the preface of the book they give us suggestions how to read him, exactly “Ulysses. I took his work as example to emphasize the point that no-one of us is perfect even Joyce. Each of us has a different way of writing or reading a text, poetry , fiction or drama stories. As I want to be better in writing essays I would like in that course to improve my vocabulary and syntax. I not plan my essays at all because I prefare to just thinking what I shall write and write in more physical or life way.
I have to learn how to memmorize words and start using them at my essays to make my writing more attractive and comprehensive to all the readers and not let them boring with my repeatiation of words and make the text meaningless. I must to start write down every word that I hear and has no meaning to me and try to find it out. Also I think of stop using subtitles at the movies, maybe is way to learn some words and phrases.
Then I will try to improve my syntax. If I don’t have good syntax my essays will not have meaning and the readers will not understand the aim. I have to be in situation at least to give them understand the main theme of what I’m writing.
At the end of this course I hope to improve my vocabulary and syntax. I strongly want to achieve in the future without and writing problems. Personally, I thanks university of giving us that great course because I’m sure that it will help me a lot.



Genethliou Froso

Statement of Goals

It's believed that writing an essay is something easy but is the exactly opposite is very difficult. An essay must be organized very well, to have rich vocabulary, good syntax, the grammar to be as much correct as possible and the most important a good revision to help you better.
To start with as a writer when I am going to write an essay according always what the topic is first of all I start to organizing my topic before to write. Later when I start writing I make my introduction intresting in order to make to the reader a good impresion and start reading it. I know that my syntaxe and my vocabulary need work also I repeating the same phrases but with a revision I can change them and make some changes in my essay that will be better and I must use linking words more often because it make the vocabulary more rich. As far I as I know I analyze an essay well about what to do and in which order and something else is that I will do a reseach according with the right steps and to mension the reference of my sources so the teacher to know what I used that helped me to do my research.
Another thing is that I am trying in every essay to get my point across whatever is it and always after an essay I make a revision and then I will give it to my teacher but I know that as much as revision as I do may there are things that I can't see but my teacher can.
To conclude from this course I want to be better as student and to get know more things about how to write well and every time to be better and better and I will can explaining my self better according what my teacher will tell me and something else is that not only for my teacher I will get help but also for my students because I believe that we are all like a team and if someone is better for me I might need he/she help Iwill ask to help me and may the opposite.

Statement of Goals

While I am studying English language and Literature to the university, my truly goals are to be good enough to explain all the areas that belonged to my studies. The most important area to me is the writing skills that I wanted to be improved over and over. Especially, this period while I ’m doing the course of advanced expository writing.
First of all, I really want to find out if I’m good at explaining myself when I have a source of writing in front of me. All these years, I have already learned as a writer to look at the theme and think for a strategic sequence in order to put my thoughts right in my writing. I have learned to organized with a plan the subject so that I could explain it with a lot of arguments. It’s nice and helpful to have a type of word order and an excellent vocabulary, that I always use to my writing. Then, I look for my grammar and I always do a revision for any grammatical or syntactic errors or maybe for an idea that I like to make a referent or not. Also, I used to make a good research in order to reference my sources well, by coming up with original phrases and try to explain them in my writing.
Moreover, doing this helpful course, I hope to improve more about my writing. This maybe good for myself to correct my writing, to really see what I’m doing wrong and try to fix it. To learn more about the convincing part of the writing, to persuade enough the reader that what I’m writing looks nice to him. The most important skill for my writing is not hand it in without revision. I think is the best activity now for myself. It makes you always a good writer. It will also be helpful to understand how to use sources to do my references or how to transfer an original idea and explain it in my own.
However, doing the course advanced expository writing, I would like to achieve more about my writing. It would be useful to me to deliver more the writing skills, learn how to organized my essay so that it could be a creative writing. It would also be good to me to know that I have done a good research for my subject in order to have a preparation at explaining myself. My goal in this course material is to improve my expository writing skills by revising my ideas. This will help me feel more confident while I’m writing, to convince more the reader about my arguments.
All in all, this course would be helpful to state my goals on writing. A good but also a hard activity for myself to broaden my writing skills. During this course, it is good to me to understand what is my whole work before I started writing my essay and finally what should be my expectations from the reader.

Assignment 1 - STATEMENT OF GOALS

I think that the best way in which I can polish my (essay) writing skills, is by making shorter and more concise sentences. That way it will be easier to get my point across to the reader. Maybe, when I write a draft I should get rid of superfluous words, which tend to give the sentence(s) a vague meaning. So by the time it comes to my final draft, the language will start to flow and the ideas I pose in the essay, will lead to an increased sense of awareness and clarity. Once I manage to write proper (supporting) sentences within each paragraph, my next step will be to give emphasis to proofreading my essay. This is something that I often fall back on. I invest too much time on creativity and developing the concepts central to each paragraph’s topic sentence, but not enough on revising or proofreading the essay as a whole. Furthermore, it might be better, were I to write an essay consisting of five paragraphs when not being pressed for time, so that each body paragraph will be able to represent an argument of its own in a distinct manner.

On a more positive note, I feel that I am competent in using expressions which grab the reader’s attention and provide an interesting note to the story. I have trained myself to write out a simple plan, which acts as the backbone of my essay. My conclusion usually consists of a memorable message, and I rarely make spelling or grammatical mistakes. Whenever I am assigned with an essay, I research the subject of discussion, in great detail. I hope that this class will teach me how to organize my thoughts on a particular subject matter (of a given text), into the structure of a purposeful essay. There are certain essay writing techniques which I would like to delve deeper into. Most importantly, I think it would be a good idea for me to learn how to identify crucial themes, employ my powers of critique, distinguish between the thesis and its supporting arguments ; and finally, be objective when addressing the question(s) / issue(s) set by a certain author or literary text to its readers.

Statement of Goals

My goals for this course are many since it has to do with improving my writing. There are things that I am good at but there others that I need to improve.

The things that I am good at are the following. When I am writing an essay I can expain myself and I can come up with original phrases. Moreover, I can use a suitable vocabulary based on my theme and at the end of each essay I can reference my sources.

On the other hand there are some things that I want to improve during this course. First of all I would like to learn ways of doing plans before writing my essay. I believe that organizing my essay before writing it, it would be more easy for me to write my essay in a good structure. Secondly, I would like to find ways in making my essay more interested by using more interested words. Thirdly, I hope in this course to help me in revising my essays because so far I didn’t used to revise. Lastly, I would like to know how to connect my paragraphs by using more conjunction words.

To sum up I hope to achieve all the things that I have mentioned before in order to become a better writer.

Statement of goals

Writing an essay requires various skills. As a writer, i believe that i have very good skills at vocabulary, syntax, and grammar. I consider that my texts are cohesive and well organized in paragraphs by having an introduction, several paragraphs in the main body, and a conclusion. I believe that in my essays, i can get my point through and build an argument very satisfactory by keeping the interest of the readers at the same time. I also regard myself as good at coming up with original phrases.
Even though i stated in the previous paragraph that i am very good at several aspects as a writer, i occasionally find myself having problems in putting down the proper word or even finding the word that i need. In comments that i had about my essays from instructors or from friends, they said that i sometimes get out of track or over explain a point. I also consider that my essay planning is not very good. When i am about to write an essay, i think about a few points and then start writing. I do not form a plan beforehand of what to write in each paragraph. I just start writing an essay having some points that i want to write about in mind, and think of other points while writing the essay. I always find my self having difficulties with referencing and in-text citation. I spend a relatively great amount of time to do referencing and in-text citation because i get the information i need from relevant books or look it up in the internet. At the end of the day i am not a hundred per cent sure if i did it correctly. Revising is not something that i always do. Most of the times, when i write an essay, i do not revise it either because i feel that it needs no correction, or because i do not feel like making a revision of it.
Throughout the course, i would like to improve my skills as a writer. I believe that i can achieve that through the feedback that i will get from my classmates and my instructor. If the feedback that i will get from them keeps stating over and over again that i need to improve the same things, then it will mean that i made no effort to improve them. But if their feedback won't focus on the same things all the time, then that will mean that i am getting better.

Statement of Goals

It is generally admitted that one of the most difficult tasks facing a teacher of English as a foreign language is the teaching of composition. This is mainly due to the fact that composition writing is a highly complex skill involving an active knowledge of English structures and vocabulary. Thereby, many students need a considerable amount of help and guidance to improve their skill in composition writing.
To begin with, the most important for the composition is organizing the structure. The ability to produce ideas and arrange them in logical order need a good organizes. First of all, I write the introduction which is the first paragraph of my composition that provides the reader with information about the topic you intend to write. A good introduction makes a good composition. Afterwards, I start with the main body that I elaborate the topic. It is strongly recommended that you use linking words and phrases when moving from one argument to another so that you make your composition understandable. The result of effective composition should include with rich vocabulary which make it lively.
After all, when you write once your composition you should make a revision that you can fix vocabulary and grammatical structures and if your whole text have coherence. Moreover, it will be helpfully if you can research in the internet and use a variety of data but after you should write down the references.
I believe strongly, that while I am writing a composition I follow the most fundamental elements to create a good structure. What is more, its make more interesting your composition if you are a creative writer because you can convince the readers by your own material and ideas. Sometimes, I try to translate sentences in my mother tongue to English language which this is absolutely wrong because each language have their own grammatical and vocabulary range.
In conclusion, I would like to learn how to write more effective essays with confidence and creation and improve my English language in all sections by the end of this course. In order to achieve that I should be train in systematic practice and listen my teacher advice. In my opinion to be good on something you should not stop the efforts because always you could be better.

statement of goals

Making an essay requires a format that is structured by writing down my thoughts clearly and present them as good as i can by making sure that i research my subject, havent got any grammatical mistakes, i use correct syntax and vocabulary, i brainstorm, i ask questions, i revise my essay at the end and correct my mistakes. The body of my esssay needs to have my ideas clearly stated and my conclusion needs to be based on my introduction in order to achieve a good essay format.
In my opinion as a writer i do well in researching my subject, organizing details and start writing them down as bullet points in order to have all my thoughts written down so i can start building my arguement. I plan my assignments well before starting to write them down because if i dont plan them i feel that my writing is flat and then the reader wont be able to identify with me and see things from my perspective. I try to collect a big variety of information from different reliable sources so I will be able to make my point clear with more examples.
But as a writer i have problems in referencing my sources well and i hope to improve my referencing system in this semester as well as to learn to revise my essays more than once before handing them in because revision makes perfection. Revison helps the writer see if the point he wanted to set out is clear or not and by reading it over and over again and correcting the mistakes, the essay becomes automatically better. I need to learn how to be more convincing in my essays, to achieve that i need to learn the right vocabulary that will help me and need to take in mind the age of the reader that will be reading my essay and try and make my essay more easy, fun and interesting for them, because after all we are writing for the reader.
I intend to work with the course material so I can learn to be more creative in my writings, learn to site my sources, revize my essays more than once and learn how to critisize correctly my own essays

Statement of Goals

Writing an essay is not as easy as it sounds. It needs rich vocabulary, good organization, ideas, research and be careful with the word order and grammar. It also needs revision which is the most important think to do for an essay, to view your mistakes and make it better.

Me as a a writer, i can say that one of my best points is that i use many often methods that makes the essay more interesting for example asking questions or maybe use a story at the beginning. I also believe, that i can explain myself simple but i need improvement on it. Most of the times i write an essay i like to take a phrase from a book i' ve read and i liked it rather that come up with an original one. I like to plan my assignments, and i think i can do it well when i have time and especially when i'm interested on the topic. My research for an essay comes mostly from the internet while i use diferent sites to get many ideas. A thing that i 'm not good at it's the reference because i need to work on it however i believe i 'm good at revising my essays and most of the times i change many things and i see mistakes that i didnt realise before.

A disadvantage i have is basically with the vocabulary and that i use the same word a couple of times. I feel though that that my writing is creative and i can put many ideas on it and beautiful phrases but again when the topic interests me. I believe that sometimes my essays could be unconvinsing when i don't have the right material to work on and examples to write.

I think that all of us want to get better and personally some things that i would like to achieve from the course are learn how to write better essays with creation and imagination,learn how to do the references, advance my vocabulary, and all the things that i'm not good on. I will know that i have got better at explaining myself because i will write with more confidence. To improve my writing skills i will work hard, and i will try not to do the same mistakes that i was doing until now.

Statement of Goals

Can be anyone be perfect? Even the best writers ever cannot be excellent in their writing. The main goal in my opinion is that the writer must try to convince the reader as much as he can through their emotions, as through their minds and work. I will try to explain myself in writing even though is difficult.
The first thing I have to do before writing is to read carefully the title and try to organize the topic before writing. My vocabulary cannot be perfect, needs a lot of work, as well as my syntax. I start writing an introductory paragraph, then I continue with the paragraphs for the Main Body, trying to use one paragraph for each separate sub-topic, and I close my essay with a good conclusion. In my opinion I know how to analyze the main subject step by step and write things that comes from our daily life depending of course from the subject.
As far as I know, I have to work with my problem which is repeating the same phrases. This can help me by revising, to change any phrases I have written more than once and checking especially for errors in grammar and spelling. Moreover linking words and phrases for time, place, addition, contrast, comparison and result are absolutely necessary to enrich my writing.
Also, when I’ m planning to do an assignment or essay I must do a research first, to see what is difficult for me and what needs improvement. Equally important is the way I write what I really want to make the reader follow me, convince him to the things I talk about, be interest and excite and not be bored.
To conclude what I really want to achieve from this course is to be a better writer in my future employment after I finish the university and also for my personal life as well. Taking advises from other people can help me improve my expository writing skills. In order to get better and better in my essays is to try not to repeat the same mistakes I have made before in the past. Now from this course I will have to work hard using wisely the teacher’s instructions and the material given to me so eventually I will become a better writer.

Statement of Goals ( formed as an essay)

First, and most important of all I would like to state that I love writing. Mostly, I love creative writing which I tend to believe it suits me best. My strongest part as a writer, is when I am
able to write freely.
Some people say that writing is a skill which can be develop over time. Through my experience, a person can become a good writer by developing a skill that has already being given to him, from the day he was born.
A good writer never submits his first draft of any written material. It is very important to go through your writings over and over again, especially when the dateline is not very strict.
By going through your writings you have the chance to correct any grammar and spelling mistakes and to check whether your piece has sequence and structural order. Moreover, to revise if the meaning of the essay is clear and distinct.
Referencing is also very important , especially when you write about a topic that has already being discussed.You can do your reaserch and use a variety of data, but always write down from where that data came from and double check if that source is reliable. It is wise though, to use the information given at hand, by not copy and paste from the source but, to elaborate by applying your own arguments.
From this course I would definitely learn how to write an essay with a topic selected by my lecturer. I would also learn how to narrow down my madly way of writing, hopefully without loosing my own identity.
Furthermore, the use of language will be improved, as practice makes perfection. A good writer, is the one who is never satisfied with his writings, as he always thinks he could do much better next time.