Rules for writers chapter 3

In this chapter we discuss the proper organization of our paragraphs and essays. That sometimes a thesis will bring everything together before you even realize it. If you analyze your essay you might see that you have more answers for the questions you have presented in your essay. When you start to write your essay will go in direction you would have never expected you just have to start writing and ideas will come. You want to try to stay on topic. When you read over your questions try to think of yourself as the audience and what you would want to know from it is another good point.

You can always make a checklist for yourself for global revision. Make sure you have a purpose for your audience. Focus on if your thesis is clear and placed properly, and make sure everything is on topic. Make sure everything in your essay is organized and neat. Have Content maybe have some non important material deleted and some ideas might need to go into depth a little bit more. Also what is your point of view make sure you only have just one and is it appropriate for your audience? In addition you need to be comfortable with deleting and rearranging sentences every writer does this differently rearranging, crossing out, or doing in online. Last step is to proofread make sure everything is how it is supposed to be and have someone else read it as well.

Taking these notes into consideration I have to work on taking time with my essay not stressing our about the organization of everything and the spelling from the start because I can come back to it. I am comfortable with deleting sentences when I get off topic or if they just don’t fit. I need to brain storm more with my ideas and only write on things I know I can go into depth about.

"Coming home again"

Question c:
What is the importance of food in this essay?

In this essay we read about a family being brought back together by cancer being brought on to his mother. He has been away from home for 10 years and he is now back taking take care of his ill mother. He has left home at 15 when his mother had sent him away at a boarding school. As a kid the biggest memories of him and his mother are her cooking dinner for him. They never really shared feelings are talked. She was always cook up something special for her family encouraging him to go outside and play and when he refused and wanted to watch he would learn little secrets about her recipes and would be his most treasured memories to hold on to.

When he had written this essay you can tell how much he had learned from his mother making authentic Korean recipes that she had perfected and speaking very well with all the cooking terms like “mincing” “julienne” and “roux” all are important words in knowing how to be a chef. Mincing is a very defined cut in maybe cutting garlic. Julienne is a specific cut for maybe a bell pepper or a carrot a long thin cut. A roux is a mixture of easy materials that you can whip up like a spaghetti sauce. The only reason I had learned these and more is because I took culinary arts throughout high school. To me this shows how much love he had for his mother that he wanted to take her most prized position and keep it close for him to hold on to because that’s all he had between them.

Chapter 2 rules for writers

Rules for Writers chapter 2




When reading this chapter you learn about how to construct a proper essay and some nice key facts on how to keep your essay strong and detailed so the reader will continue reading it. Firstly you should make sure you are using the guidelines.
1. Thesis at top
2. Make items of the same level parallel
3. Use sentences
4. Be flexible to change.
These were the most important to me. Also you need to focus on the ideas and where you are going to place them. You can deal with your sentence structure later. Also you want to remember to not to stress yourself out, and not to be too hard on yourself, or your writing will not always be at your best. Another way to look at your essay structure is to just develop ideas don’t make it final or even the rough draft. Keep in making that your introduction paragraph is going to be 50 to 150 words so you can have some idea of the proper length. Also you can never assume your reader is interested in your story so you always have to drag in their attention, make sure you can always back up your evidence if they choose to ask you a question. Some ideas to keep in mind to hook your readers on your thesis.
1. Always use a vivid examples
2. Make sure you have a good description
3. Make it a question
4. You can make it a statistic or unusual fact.
When starting your essay you need to make it strong from start to finish so when writing your body make sure you already have a strong thesis to support them. Also your conclusion should remind the readers of a main idea without vividly repeating it.
In this chapter I learned about structuring my essay and to me that seems like the most important fact to do while writing. I am going to always write before and brainstorm ideas so I don’t get off track and loose my thoughts. Also to me if you make your thesis very supportive and strong everything in your essay should just fall together.

Picture for Essay 1

Essay 1: A Moment in Time

“A Moment in Time”

Me and Ty

When you look back and think about all the pictures throughout your life each captured image of you and the people around you bringing back happy memories. Sometimes they are not good things you want to remember but you feel grateful to have each one. They are like treasured memories.  They bring back happy thoughts, good feeling, and maybe even will change your mood. When I look though my photos I see so many I could choose to write about but one will always stand out. It brings back so many good feeling and so many happy thoughts. It’s got some of my favorite things. Water, a beautiful shining sun above me, and a boy I see spending the rest of my life with. It was a photo taken about 2 years ago at a beautiful lake up north where our family camps every year. It is me and my boyfriend Tyler sitting in the clear water as the sun sets.

Looking at this photo brings back a lot of emotions for me. It brings comfort into my life and lets me know that I am loved. When I look at this photo I can remember our facial expressions. I am looking out at the mountains and Tyler is looking down at me smiling. For others they might see a boy and a girl not knowing the significance of us. We could be sad, mad, or happy. They won’t know. It is almost like it is our little secret.

I can remember the waves coming up and splashing my face. They would rock me and Tyler back and forth. I remember seeing the beautiful mountains in front of me and a colorful sail boat heading back to shore. It was our second day camping and the sun was starting to go down. We had taken the boat out to a little island on the lake and behind me my mom captured a picture while packing up all the lunch items and putting it into the boat. We both had dry skin because we were out blistering in the sun all day we were hot and the water was warm it was a perfect spot to sit and relax as the weather got cooler.

After I can remember getting up and we went back to shore on the other side of the lake. We unpacked our stuff from the day and relaxed for a little bit. We would shoot marbles our of a slingshot and try to hit cans 40 feet away. We also have a family game where we through washers into a can about 15 feet apart trying to make it in. I can always remember the sounds of getting a “caner!” and the little “ping” of hitting a can. Later mom and me got our shower stuff and walked down to the shower with our hands full of quarters for a warm shower. I would almost finish washing up as the water would run cold. We walked back to our site and made a huge dinner Mac and cheese, steak, salad, and corn. Eating like kings for vacation. Until the lights go down and the big bugs come out at this time I bungle up and stay away from lanterns and flash lights. I can still smell my skin soaked with the scent of camping cutter mosquito repellent. Then Tyler, my Brother, or my Dad would make a huge fire that we would all sit around and tell stories. As always we have to rotate because someone is getting followed by that huge trail of smoke. It so nice and peaceful to sit there and not worry about anything. Looking up and can remember the swaying of the big redwood trees. Then as the starts were out the best part would happen; making a mushy chocolaty s’more. It’s the all time best part of camping except of getting a great bikini tan line.

This image is a memory I want to remember forever. It brings back so many thoughts and feeling of summer that make me happy and warm. When I see this photo it makes me want to go back camping and plan a trip (which we do every year), or it makes me want to go out on the boat, and if I am not able to do that I will lay in the sun all day. It doesn’t as much motivate me as it does make me smile and makes me feel loved.

"The Ways We Lie"

Question C:  Is it possible to tell lies and still be an honest person?

This Question is viewed differently through every individual. To me this is not asking if someone else would think you are an honest person, but if you yourself believe you are honest. So when you lie to think you are being true to yourself by lieing or do you feel let down. When you lie about someone looking nice, when deep down they look awful. Are you lieing in a spiteful way. No you are giving someone who needs a complement. Not everyone expects the truth behind every question. Another example would be to Tell a good friend that you cant hangout because you have dinner plans, then just saying your tired. Because you just saying that you don't have the energy to hangout with them. Deep down that will hurt their feelings thinking maybe their too much to handle as a friends or maybe just annoying. So your still staying true to your friends you just don't want to hurt them.
We do these little things all the time and i know that every know and then I have to do them, but deep down i know that i am an honest person and that i stay true to myself and in every situation i don't have to lie but in the end its better for you and the other individuals.

Rules for Writers: Chapter one

This chapter reflects on the main idea of writing. We go into depth on not just thinking of a subject, but to try to think about a topic when you’re out and about, driving, or even daydreaming. So this causes you to think of every aspect of this topic. Then you want to choose something that you can get feedback on something where you can find a vast amount of information of so you can write a strong essay. Also throughout your college education the main recourse of finding information will be to read. Otherwise facts will also be made up of personal experience as well.

An important key point in the reading was you cannot assume your readers will me familiar with your recourses. So you must remember to be clear with every fact. Some purposes to remind yourself of why you are writing are to inform, to persuade, to entertain, to change attitudes, and to analyze are just some of the few to keep in mind. You should frequently ask yourself these questions. Make sure you are directing your essay to an audience so you can grasp that reader’s attention and pull them into your story. In addition make sure you clearly read your assignment, it will help you make a variety of necessary decisions.

Furthermore I will use this information in my writing. The most direct keep point to me was to make sure you grab an audience or else your story will have no meaning to that individual and they will choose to find something that doest grab their attention. Also another important fact that most people never think about is how they are going to get good information on their topic to write a strong essay. You got to research before you pick a topic.

Superman and Me: College Reading and Writing

Question F:
Why do you think that Sherman Alexie grew up to better himself without the help of anyone?

When you start to read the story of Alexie, from the start you can tell that he is such a creative individual. He did not have money for all the good things in life and his family lived in poverty. It seemed like he was never pushed to learn in school or at home, but at home he had such a varitey of books he could learn just about anything. It seems that he really looked up to his father and grew up to be like him having love for books and sharing them. His father also went to a Catholic school and thats where he learned to read. Alexie soon relized that if he wanted to learn to read and better himself that the school system wasent going to help him. Thinking mabye because he is middle class and indian that their is no need wasting their time teaching him so he took learning into his hands.
I Think that as a boy he had alot of curiousity of why his father loved books so much and so he wanted to learn why.  Alexie seems like a very determined and couragous person he learned the concept of reading all on his own. I couldent amagin taking the time to do that by myself. He also has so much love for learning that he does not want children that dont have the recorses, or mabye money or family problems to miss out on the joy of being able to read...even a comic book.