My English is so poor; I want to improve my English. First time, I avoided classes that involved a lot of writing, as I was still intimidated by past failures. But when poor writing began to affect my grades in other courses, I decided to take a composition class. Now, I use my On Course textbook in my English class, this journal will help me about self-awareness. I began to see how negative scripts could cause problems.
Bad Books are good? There are several lessons that the new readers always get from reading some kinds of books. In his essay, “On Writing,” author Stephen King illustrates his different opinion from reading the books: “Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (367). The author believes that reading bad books can take some positive points for the growing writer after he reads a lot of kinds of different books. That issue is the result why he thought like that kind of strange.
Furthermore, when Malcolm would read, he skipped over the words he didn't understand. This made it very hard to understand most of the materials that he read. Bimbi, another inmate, who seemed to captivate his audience with the spoken word, impressed him. Malcolm needed to learn what words meant and how to write and, then, he was waking up to a new world. Malcolm X had few choices but a significant desire to command the written word.
So he decided that he needed to learn how to read and write properly. He decided that the best way to go about it would be to get a copy of a dictionary and study it. He requested a dictionary. When he first got the dictionary he spent a while just looking through it wondering where to start. He decided that the best place to start would be with the A’s.
Luckily, he gave me a second chance to re-write the paper, and obviously the only thing I could do was replaced all the repeated word with its synonyms. As a result, my grade is being pushed onto a whole new level. Secondly, my fear toward writing academic essays is grammar. It is obviously my weakness in English skill. I know that grammar is one of the tools to connect all the meaningless words together in order to make
Alfie Rees-Glinos ‘To His Coy Mistress’ ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is a heritage poem from a male’s perspective of loving a woman. The narrator is male and he is trying to persuade the women that he loves her with a deep and utter passion and to prove this he ‘advises her’ to sleep with him. Throughout the poem, strong feelings of the delicacy of virginity and how the male character will continue to love her, no matter what she decides upon. A significant aspect of the poem where strong feelings are presented is when Marvell writes, ‘till the conversion of the Jews’. By this he means that he loves his lover and will always do so, until the days when the Jews convert to Christianity which even today seems extremely unlikely, so therefore his love for her will never die out.
He was willing to do whatever he can to marry her putting all of his political reasons aside from him. Even when Jane had left him he became miserable and his life went in a terrible direction. As for Jane, she also became depressed and continued thinking about him. When she returned to see him he was joyous and they both lived together happily. In my opinion, Mr. Rochester has become the big hero once again showing that he’s the only man who can make Jane Eyre happy.
One goal that I would like to accomplish this year is learning how to write better. This is one of my biggest weaknesses because since I first spoke Spanish, I believe that my writing makes sense but to others, I have a lot of mistakes. Therefore, I would like to learn a better way to write. My second goal is to use proper grammar. I talk to my friends in a different way than I should, so when I begin to write, I write what I’m use to speaking.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Sonnet 29 by Edna St. Vincent Millay Pity me not because the light of day At close of day no longer walks the sky; Pity me not for beauties passed away From field and thicket as the the year goes by; Pity me not the waning of the moon, Nor that the ebbing tide goes out to sea, Nor that a man's desire is hushed so soon, And you no longer look with love on me. This have I known always: Love is no more Than the wide blossom which the wind assails, Than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, Strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales: Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at ever
For instance, when I have already found out the ideas for my topic, I still have difficulty in choosing the right words to express my ideas. The reason is simply because I came from a different country where English is even not the second language. Once again, to solve this problem, I need to get accustomed with the language, with the culture here. I have to read as possible as I can because it is the fastest and only way for me to obtain enough vocabulary for public speaking. The final problem that I meet when I do public speaking is lack