I chose to read chapter 9 because it talked about having your own voice when it comes to writing. I think that this was something that I was lacking in my essay. The chapter talked about including your simple phrases with more complex phrases. It said that not everything has to be complex and have big words to have a good essay. The chapter said that using phrases from everyday life can bring an essay to life and make it…
Overall, I think this essay as some challenges because of the shorter word count and the fact that we have to include pictures, videos, etc. My goal for this essay is to explain that we don’t have a life story until the end of our lives. I believe this because there are so many things that can change in our lives that we don’t really understand until the end. I think that once we look back at our life and…
I don’t feel that I have a life story just yet. I have experienced some things in my life that have given me a new perspective, but I wouldn’t consider those my life stories. A quote from his essay says, “We story ourselves and we are stories,”. I thought that this was a very interesting concept. I feel like we can become our stories sometimes and live our lives based on our stories. This could be positive or negative because…
I thought that Julie Beck’s essay was very insightful and had a lot of interesting ideas in it. The first page of her essay really caught my attention because there were a lot of things that I agreed with on that page. The first thing was when she talked about how stories becomes a part of you. I really agreed with this because a story that a person has is very personally and has shaped them in a certain way….
After rereading and looking over my essay I’ve come to realize that I use many addition words in my writing. I think that the one I use most often is “and” because I still have more to say in a sentence, but I think that I shouldn’t use it as often. I also use “these” and “that” too often, which can actually complicate my essay. I think that it creates some confuse because I’m not being specific with…
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When comes to writing a draft, I just jump right into it and start writing to see where my ideas are going to go. I would say that my favorite strategy would have to be free writing. I enjoy just being able to write and allowing my thoughts just come out even if they don’t make sense. I think that it allows for more creativity because you are just trying to get your thoughts down and there is really no…
After reading Science Is Not Your Enemy by Steven Pinker, I can tell that he is very passionate about the advancement of science. Pinker and Lehrer both talk about science in their texts, but Lehrer thinks that science could use some help from the arts. Both of them can agree on the fact that reductionism has not helped science progress in any way. Reductionism was mentioned in both of their essays and it seems that neither of them are for…
Jonah Lehrer’s main argument is that science needs the arts to be able to answer to questions that science can’t answer. I think that this is interesting but I don’t totally agree. The world is constantly changing and when science does make a discovery it is no longer relevant because there is something new happening. Art is important in science when it comes to making models or structures of certain concepts, but I don’t know if art can help when…
I think that I am doing much better when it comes to annotation. I expressed my thoughts, but I was also critical of the essay. Yo-Yo Ma wrote the essay Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education and it was published in World Post in 2014. The bio about Yo-Yo Ma is very interesting because it tells about all the awards he has received for his performances. It says that he began performing at the age of five and graduate from Juilliard…
