Short English Essays For Students

My English 101 Experience
As I look back on my English 101 experience, I have come to the conclusion that I have learned
many new things that have improved my abilities as a writer. I have learned some new techniques
that have improved my ways of approaching an essay. I learned all about the rhetorical appeals and
how to apply them in my writing and how to look for them in a essay written by a author. I have also
learned how to argue both sides of a argument, and how to look for reliable sources and to properly
quote and site the author of the essay. I feel as if I have become a better writer and my improved
writing skills are shown within each essay. When I first signed up for English 101 at soar, I thought
it was more of a reading and comprehension class...show more content...
I now see myself as a writer who has learned new techniques to help improve my writing including
style, word choice and the revision process. Even though I see myself as a improved writer, I still
believe I have plenty of room for improvement. When I first started English 101, I saw myself as
having a few good strengths and a lot of weaknesses as a writer. Some of my strengths included
being able to write a good introduction minus the thesis part. I also saw myself as knowing how
to write a good conclusion that summarized what I talked about in my essay and being able to
understand a article or essay by knowing what the author was talking about. Some of the
improvements I saw in my writing thorough out the semester is learning how to write an essay
where I can communicate with the audience with my own personal voice. I also feel I improved
on knowing how to properly include quotes and how to find good creditable sources to include in
my essay and on how to include both sides of a argument in my paper. Another improvement I
found in my papers is learning how to revise them and approach each essay. However, there are
some items of writing that I believe I improved on but still needs some work. For example, even
though I have learned all about the rhetorical appeals and how to determine them in a essay, I still
feel as if I do not know how to properly included them in my essay. I also see myself as improving
on knowing how to write a thesis but still need work on
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Essay about My Life
My Life
I was born in San Jose, Costa Rica, and moved to California when I was very young. Before I moved
to California my dad traveled back and forth for 2 or 3 yrs from California and back to Costa Rica.
He spent most of his time working in the Fresno area, in the cities of Tulare, and Visalia. He says
he spent his time working in any available job including some farm labor jobs and went back to Costa
Rica to spend time with us. After the second time he left Costa Rica to come and work he did not
go back. At that time, amnesty was given to immigrants in California, and he moved up north to the
Bay area to find a steady job. That is when he saved enough money for my mother, my two siblings,
and I to join him in California.
My first...show more content...
I was in ESL programs until I entered junior high school. Learning the language, and trying to keep
up with the class work was a challenge for me. Having friends who spoke my language, and the
English language as well was an advantage I had. Having that extra help and support really made my
school experience challenging, but exciting as well.
Remembering the support I received from those friends creates a need in me to do the same for other
people. I don't only believe that the support that I can give to migrant students as a Mini–Corps
student will help them in succeeding in school, but I believe that an appreciation for school can
be gained as well, and hopefully bring insight for continuing their studies beyond high school. As
I improved in my English I also grew an interest in writing. I enjoyed my English classes, along
with my math classes too. My interest grew and grew, and I joined summer girl programs. After
participating two year, I became a mentor to those new peers coming into the program. I worked
with teachers in Science, and in Math classes. I also participated in the volleyball activities, and
group activities. This is when I realized I wanted to work with youth my whole life. My interest in
English, and my interest in being a role model to youth made me decide to become an English
teacher, especially working with students whose first language is not English.
Now, I am a college student. I first went to UC Santa Barbara, where I dealt with more

Standard English Essay
The question to ask is: 'Why not use Standard English all the time?'
Language is a powerful communication tool the user holds to express their individual identity and
ingroup solidarity. The use of Standard English helps to direct this, as it acts as the structure of
communication, ingroup and between speech communities to effectively present a standard for
mutual understanding. Outside of Standard English comes the use of slang, netspeak and textspeak,
which helps to develop and enrich the language, as well as evolve with contemporary Australia and
its fast paced lifestyle. Using the Standard all the time would be exclusive of the linguistic freedom
formed by the world beyond Standard English with varying ethnolects, but is also a...show more
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Other forms of the English language are developed from speech communities with an intention, for
efficiency and to show inclusion, and to exclude others. It also helps to convey a specific identity of
the speaker, with the use of syntactic and phonological differences from Standard English. These
modifications form non–standard dialects, transferring the speaker's cultural background and
language to provide a better perception and reflection of identity. The falling intonation accompanied
with interrogatives in the Asian ethnolect, such as 'Gravy?', is the opposite of the rising intonation
used for the same purpose by Australians, and can quickly cause conflict between the two
communities due to the missing benchmark in language. Pronoun deletion in 'No like' ('I don't like
it') is a feature of many ethnolects (Greek, Aboriginal English), and is differing from the Standard,
yet still helps to get the message across. Ethnolects develop from Standard English, and helps to
express a user's identity through their language use and in–group solidarity within the speech
community.
There are a range of English varieties which are different from the Standard, developed from
communities of speakers all sharing the same use of language. Aboriginal English, a dialect of
Australian English, remains a lingua franca for their speakers, used as a common language to
communicate between tribes for mutual

Importance of Grammar Essay
A.Introduction
It is not uncommon to say that grammar instruction plays an important role in language teaching.
Regarding the status and importance of grammar teaching, a variety of opinions have been made.
Batstone (1994) states that "language without grammar would be chaotic: countless words without
the indispensable guidelines for how they can be ordered and modified" (p. 4). More vividly, Wang
(2010) makes two similes. She compares grammar to the frame of a house, which is a decisive factor
to ensure the solidness of it. Additionally, she regards grammar as a walking stick, whose function is
to help and support students to learn English. Thus, the nature of grammar instruction manifests its
own significance as it helps students...show more content...
In the third part, three pedagogical implications will be presented. In addition, a grammar activity
and its theoretical rationale will be respectively reported in the fourth and fifth part before the final
conclusion is displayed.
B.Evaluation of Miss Wong's Teaching Approach
B(1). Teaching philosophy
It is teachers' beliefs rather than their knowledge that have a greater influence on their instruction
(William & Burden, 2000). Meighan suggests seven kinks of teachers' beliefs about learners:
resisters, receptacles, raw materials, clients, partners, individual explorers and democratic explorers.
Unlike the first three concepts which focus on teachers, the last four require learners' active
involvement (as cited in William & Burden, 2000). In Miss Wong's teaching approach, a PPP model
(i.e., Presentation, Practice and Production) is generally adopted. She firstly presents target
grammatical structure of passive voice. Then students do some exercises along with teacher's answer
checking. However, it seems the final production step is omitted, resulting in students' lacking
opportunities to apply the knowledge into other contexts. From her instruction, we can see Miss
Wong tends to regard her students as receptacles that are required to absorb the items she transmits.
What the instruction concerns is whether students can transform sentences from active to passive or
vice verse from a structural level, which is a typical example of a

Essay on English Language Learner
Schools in the United States of America (USA) are facing many challenges, because of the
increasing numbers of the English Language Learner (ELL) students. School administrators are
trying hard to provide an equal opportunity education to their students. Furthermore, educators are
looking forward in providing several methods and technique to help their students to succeed in their
academic learning skills. There are many factors that need to focus on and it can be the fundamental
when trying to build powerful resolutions, such as parents and community resources, social
influences, native language, etc.
ELL Families and Schools
Teaching is a call, where teachers need to have an understanding about each individual student's
cultural...show more content...
By allowing the ELL students to use their native and their second language in reading, and writing it
will make them move along this new process. Reading and writing experience should be context
related and meaningful in order for them to be effective in their learning, even though, they can
transfer the literacy skills that they have obtained in their native language towards their second
language while they are exposed to more learning experiences.
Many challenges are faced by the ELL students and their families by being in a new environment,
such as a new language, school, food, beliefs, life style, etc., where they feel that they need to deviate
from their home language and their culture, absolutely not, they need to be conceited, revered,
treasured. In this matter, our role as educators is to be prepared to work effectively with families
(Katz & Bauch, n.d., p. 189), in providing the effective support, and assistant with the full
understanding of the new changes in their new environments. On the other hand, social cultural
pressure could be increased if students do not have another native individual to relate to; students
need to have a teacher who will assist and guide them in learning new a language; without allowing
them to lose their cultural identity.
Fund of Knowledge for Teaching (FKT) created for teachers, anthropologists, and teacher educators
to gain more knowledge about their students' community experiences, and curricula

Essay on Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension In any interaction with a text, the text is pretty much useless unless the
reader can comprehend the meaning of that text. Since narrative, expository, and poetic texts all have
different reasons for being written, and different forms of presenting the text, different strategies are
needed to comprehend these texts. There are also many reading strategies that can be used for all of
these types of text. In order to describe strategies to help develop activities that facilitate
comprehension of narrative, expository, and poetic texts one must first have an understanding of
what comprehension means, they then need a better understanding of how the human brain works.
"Comprehension is a creative, multifaceted...show more content...
If there are no changes in long–term memory, nothing has been understood or learned." (Sweller,
2005) The competent comprehender is a skilled reader. "Skilled readers are those who actively and
automatically construct meaning as they read; they are self–motivated and self–directed; they
monitor their own comprehension by questioning, reviewing, revising, and rereading to enhance
their overall comprehension." (Douglas Fisher, 2011) One other skill that is crucial to being a
skilled reader and comprehending text is the fluency with which a student reads. Teaching fluency
skills is a very important aspect of helping a student comprehend what they are reading. If a student
is using all of the short term memory decoding words and sentence stucture, there is very little left to
work on the process for gaining meaning from the text. The most common strategies used to improve
fluency are; adding vocabulary to the students long–term memory, activating background knowledge
(schema), modeling, and having the student read.
So what are other strategies that can be used to help the non–skilled student comprehend what they
are reading? "The most important comprehension strategies for struggling readers are activating
background knowledge, determing importance, summarizing, questioning, visualizing and
monitoring." (Tompkins, 2010, p. 267)
Background knowledge helps the student with both fluency and the understanding

Essay on Education and the Internet
Education and the Internet Due to the expansion of the Internet in recent years, schools and
universities around the world have been incorporating more technology into their classrooms.
Computers are ever present on college campuses, and many teachers are including them for class
activities on a daily basis. With email, a teacher or can be in contact with his or her students outside
of the classroom to discuss class work. Computers in the classroom are extremely beneficial for
students, more importantly; the use of the Internet allows students easy access to an abundance of
information.
Writing an essay in a Moo room is useful for both students and teachers. The structure of a Moo
room allows the reader to skip from one room...show more content...
Receiving help is as easy as communicating with the other people online. This saves the hassle of
arranging a meeting with a teacher or classmates. This is beneficial because an instant response can
be obtained in a matter of seconds. Also, this is the most appropriate place for a correct response to
any Moo related questions.
When an essay is completed in a Moo, it is out there for the world to see. In other words, anyone
and everyone in the world who has access to the Internet can view it. This leaves an essay open
for criticism, which can be used constructively to help the student develop his or her work. It also
beneficial for the teachers. It allows the teacher to view the student's work with the click of a
mouse. No longer does class have to be in session for work to be accomplished. Teachers can view
an essay over the Internet, then email the student back his or her grade at any time they desire.
Essays written on the Internet also free the teacher from carrying around stacks of papers.
Although Moos have many advantages, there are also certain drawbacks to creating an essay in this
fashion. When writing an essay in the Moo, the Moo editor may be needed.
The editor contains certain commands that are needed to get around throughout the rooms, and it
may be hard to memorize them all. This can be a stressful task to learn the commands, but once they
are familiar, travel throughout the Moo rooms is much easier.
Computers in the

Why I Want to Study English Essay
Why should anyone want to study English? Why not French or Spanish or even Mandarin Chinese?
Is English so much more interesting than any other language? Why spend time studying a language
and not mathematics or science? Well, there are some very good reasons for that.
Never before, has a sound knowledge of languages been so important for finding a decent job. It
is probably the first question they ask you if you apply for one. Someone who knows different
languages will be preferred to someone with a more limited command of languages. If a person
applies for a job in which it is very important to operate or programme a computer, he may have
acquired that knowledge and those skills, but still someone else who knows more languages will be
...show more content...
At present, the world tries to take care of that problem by massively learning English as a second
language, a choice that has its roots in the history of this language. "It's too late to be studying
Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today." Since the end of World War II,
English has been taught at most West–European schools, even at most schools in the world. English
is predestined to be the international language par excellence.
Communication has never been more important to the world than it is now. Just think of the
Internet. When you surf the Internet you immediately notice that the main language is English.
Again we can see the influence of English in the world. Today, already half of the Europeans use
English as their first or second language. "English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes
everywhere." English may not be the language with the highest number of speakers in the world,
but it is definitely the most important. You can reach a lot of people when you are able to
communicate in English. If you like to go working abroad, learning English is a very good
preparation. There are so many large countries where English is the official language, just think of
Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada... Even in our daily routine, English is all around. It already
starts when you switch on your PC and meet with English `commands, prompts, errors and messages'
– the new type of computer slang.
English is

My Life As A Student
My life as a student has been a fairly good one. I've received good grades throughout all my years
of high school and pride myself as an intelligent individual. But my individual ability to grow and
learn has been always changing and shifting as I have grown. I think that currently, I am at a low
point in my mindset and learning ability, but there is hope on the horizon. This essay will explore
the growth and mindset of Will Roser, and how I can grow as a learner, friend, and individual. As
a student, I have some habits that I rely on, both good and bad. I am usually a good student,
receiving above average grades and I am moderately happy with them. My strength is that I
always get everything done on time. I never have an excuse because my work is always done. I
pride myself on that fact. And although that may seem like a good quality, the fact that I
procrastinate so much does affect how good that work may be. So yes, I always finish my work
which is always a good thing, but it may be at the expense of my sleep schedule. I tend to do most of
my work the day before, despite telling myself over and over again that it needs to be done earlier.
Luckily I have hope for my habits as I am still young. I still have to work on my procrastination but I
think that I can improve as long as I start to see the benefits of starting work early. As William
James says in his essay Habit, "The period between twenty and thirty is the critical one in the
formation of intellectual and

Short Story
English coursework
The End of the Road
It all started to go downhill when my boyfriend started speaking to another girl behind my back,
sending text messages and meeting up with her for a 'chat' as he used to say. I never believed
anything he said. Neither did my friends or family. Why should we have? Before we got together
he was known as a player and someone who continuously flirted with girls even if he had a
girlfriend, but after we got together he toned it down and I thought he had changed. I'm fed up with
the way he is treating me, I know I deserve better. How did I know that the day I decided to confront
him was the day I would never see him again?
I decided to go to Daniel's the morning after I had found out about the text...show more content...
And that's when she told me. ''It's Daniel'' she said. ''He's been in an accident'' I fell to the floor, I
hadn't spoken to him, I've been ignoring him, what have I done?!
''Is he hurt? What kind of accident?'' I asked her. She looked up at me through the tears in her eyes
and I knew just from the look she gave me that it was more than a broken bone.
He was dead.
After Daniel's death I didn't leave my room for about a week, I didn't want to face the world, I
didn't want to talk to anyone, I just wanted to be alone with my thoughts. But all I could think about
was 'what if?' What if I hadn't ignored him? What if we weren't arguing, would he have been at mine
that night?
I went on my laptop about a week after, I didn't look at my phone or my laptop because I didn't
want any sympathy comments as I knew it would only make me feel worse, but that night I just
wanted to see what people had put on his Facebook wall, the moment I logged onto my account, I
had thousands of notifications. I switched my laptop straight off; I knew I shouldn't have gone on in
the first place.
The next day was his funeral, I didn't think I would be able to cope, but I knew I would have lots of
people there to support me, but I knew it would be harder for his family than it would be for

How to Be A Good Student Essay
How to Be A Good Student
To become a success in life, we all need to learn to become a good student in every aspect of life.
Becoming a good student takes much work and self–discipline. There are many ways that a student
can stand out from the rest of the class. These good students are distinguished by their attitude,
intellectual skills, consciousness, and achievement.
Attitude is primarily a genuine desire to learn and the will to do hard academic work to achieve
understanding. It is also shown by how well you apply yourself even to subjects in which you have
little interest and how much you can achieve even when a teacher's style is not what you are used to.
Also attitude can change the way you percieveperceive things...show more content...
No one else can help you to attain a good attitude, you must decide and make it a goal to have a
good attitude in your student life. (CS)
Intellectual skills is (S–V Agr) another important aspect of becoming a good student. This skill
includes the ability to read and understand, intelligent use of resources, mathematical and logical
skills, efficient study habits, and the ability to communicate clearly and fluently. Intellectual skills
include time management, exam strategies, study strategies, and goal setting.
Consciousness, or awareness, is another helpful aspect of becoming a good student. The good
student must be aware of their (agr) surroundings and know what is going on in the world around
them. We must strive to relate what is happening around us to what we are learning. This should be
important to us because we should care about what is going on politically, academically, socially,
and spiritually. Being aware and paying attention is a good trait to continually learn and apply.
Achievement is demonstrated by successful application of understanding. This aspect includes using
correct and confident knowledge, effective communication, and continuanceing of education through
out your life. Achievement gives you a sense of accomplishment and meaning. To become a good
student, this must be a goal that you wish to accomplish.
Becoming a good student can be time consuming but well worth

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