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A Simple Syllable, Zach A. Snyder
A Simple Syllable, Zach A. Snyder
Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing
This assignment was a simple literacy narrative about some point in my life that helped develop my love for reading. I choose a point early in my life where I had a speech impediment and had trouble speaking words clearly. I got over this difficult time by reading. The only research I had to do for this paper was figure or some smaller details from my parents that I could not remember since I was so young. Other than that all the information came from the deep depths on my mind. There were 3 drafts to this paper, a rough …
The Struggle For Meaningful Education, Maura Cullen
The Struggle For Meaningful Education, Maura Cullen
Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing
This assignment was to create an informational synthesis essay that compared two different sources that were discussed in class, and give an example on how the topic has affected my own life. I read Walker Percy's text, "The Loss of the Creature," and carefully analyzed the meanings behind the "preformed complexes" that society pushes on people. Then I looked into Paulo Freire and Donald Macedo's excerpt, Literacy: Reading the Word and the World. This reading emphasizes the implications of literacy, and I spent most of my time trying to figure out the complex ideas that these authors are portraying. …
And The Oscar Goes To, Jennifer M. Rondinelli
And The Oscar Goes To, Jennifer M. Rondinelli
Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing
For my English 100 class, my professor required us to write a comparative rhetoric paper. We were given complete control over what kind of media we wanted to be the focus of our paper and what we topic we wanted to write about. I chose to write about the movie Spotlight, the recent Academy Award winning film that followed the investigative team that uncovered the priest pedophilia scandal in Boston in 2002. I had recently viewed the film and it had an enormous impact on me as a young Catholic attending a Catholic Marianist university. I chose for media …
Fake Characters: Real Suffering, Brian P. Callahan
Fake Characters: Real Suffering, Brian P. Callahan
Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing
In this paper, I was asked to describe positive or negative literacy sponsors I have encountered in my life.