How to Analyze an Expository Essay

Currently in Fairfax County, Virginia access to child care, and being able to afford it are often crucial determinants in deciding if both parent will work. Most families have three options for securing child care. First, parent(s) can stay at home and care for their children. Which is an option that my family and I chose because child care is so expensive we could not afford it nor do we qualify for subsidized child care. Second, parents can pay for child care out of pocket.

This chapter of the textbook by E. Shelley Reid’s Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing addresses writing students. Reid uses expository and descriptive types of writing in her text. She describes and explains about the ten different important things when it comes to writing. One example in her chapter is where she explains how to write by the rules, describes the steps on how to be a successful writer and why some people struggle with writing essays or paragraphs sometimes. The writer quoted, “Write about what you know about so that you can show not just tell in order to adapt to your audience’s needs and accomplish your goals. Unless you do a good job showing what you mean, your audience will not understand your message.” (4) She also stated in one of her steps that sometimes the audience or readers of an essay or writing cannot exactly understand what the writer is trying to tell them. She tells her audience to

Everyone can feel, just like you and I, but there's one important question that lingers through the air. Should we really be accepting of other people?

It is a common occurrence for high school students in their senior year to experience declines in motivation and performance; most call it ‘senioritis.’ When students contract seniorits they become lax, neglecting their homework, turning in late papers, and generally losing effort. The majority of seniors continue on to graduate, only to receive a rude awakening once they enter college. While students may be able to graduate from high school without putting in too much hard work, college is indisputably a different story. In the documentary,”The Expos 5,” five college students provided a first hand look into how they learned to navigate the difficulties of expository writing. I related best to Arpan and Yasmeen, but I learned great lessons from all of the students.

Each summary should be 100-150 words in length; making a total word count of 300-450 words in length for this assignment.

Gordon Grice is fascinated, maybe obsessed with the black widow. He begins provocatively “ I hunt black widows. I capture it. I have found them in discarded wheels and tires and under railroads tires. I have found them in house foundations and cellars…I have found them I hospitals and in the den of the rattlesnake…. (176) In this quote Grice start with first person in place and with the repetition of “I” so that the reader can get the attention into it. Grice’s purpose in the “ Black widow” essay is to inform the audience about the widow’s life style. He shows inspiration, fascination, respect and love for widows. He furthers his purpose by using rhetorical strategies throughout his text.

A process writing essay expounds on how things work or gives directions to achieve a task. While writing this essay one should write so that the audience can follow the directions. Also, while writing one must write clearly and precisely so the reader will not get lost. In process writing essays one needs to give a variety of steps and make a comment on them. In this essay, “Stripped for Parts”, Jennifer Kahn intelligently wrote a perfect example of a process writing essay.

The subject, Elaine Rowser is my mother. This piece will actually go towards a more sentimental and softer side of myself due to the fact that she has raised me and loved me ever since the day I was born. There will be

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Going back to reading the first thought piece I wrote during this course made me realize how much I have improved as a writer. I now understand the nature of writing, and my own experiences with writing. Writing the Rhetorical Analysis helped me in improving my writing based on my previous writing experiences. I now also know what questions to ask when entering a new rhetorical situation, in order to deal with the situation in the right way. The List of 10 made this easier for me, the first thing I do now before entering a new rhetorical situation is ask myself the ten questions I wrote for The List of 10. This course also made me more of a reflective writer. I am now a more self-aware, thoughtful, and mindful

In the scholarly article “The Republicans Should Pray for Rain: Weather, Turnout, and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections,” Brad T. Gomez, Thomas G. Hansford and George A. Krause tackle on an idea that many believed to be a true statement for many decades. However, there was no real evidence supporting the claim, this being that rain helps the Republican Party during election seasons. There were many studies previously done that generated the curiosity of this question posed, like DeNardo and his partners claim in their “conventional turnout effect model,” for example. In this study, political scientists present a question of if bad weather, including rain or snow to be exact, affects the overall voting outcome in a negative way in Presidential

I think your rhetorical analysis is very good. I like how detailed you were and how you used something the author would say and then explained your thoughts on it. I especially like how you used the “map it out” quote from the article and explained it by talking about building a house. I think that makes it more understandable than just saying “map it out. The only suggestion I have is why is the author a credible source? Other than that I thought you did a very good job actually analyzing the paper.

The main reason for attending university is to earn a degree and start a career that will create a successful future for the student. Besides taking numerous classes, one of the most important aspects of college is writing a college resume to acquire either an internship or a job to help the student build a foundation and gain experience for their desired occupation. Writing a college resume is like trying out for a football team. You want to be as direct and clear as possible, while also showing off a little here and there to gain recognition and separate yourself from the competition. To be a complete and effective college resume, the author must use concise yet informative and logical words that appeal to the reader, while also using a rigid and structured format that makes it easy for the reader to find the information he or she is looking for. A good college resume can lead a student to a lifelong career of success; a poorly written college resume can hold back a student’s progress into

Now that I have completed the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth course Crafting the Essay, I feel I have tremendously grown as a writer. Even after submitting the first assignment, I looked back at a position paper I wrote for school that I received an A+ on, yet I saw several flaws I wished I had changed.

In the title of the paper the priority references facts and challenges caused by countries. The recurrence of disasters Gunnar Kuepper relates with planet management.