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At the beginning of the course English continue writing courser ENG 221RW, I was not really sure what “place” meant. It was a very broad and abstract concept that I did not know how to understand and apply it to formal writing. However, as I read Tuan’s and Price’s pieces of writings on “place”, I developed a better background understanding of “place”. Throughout the process, I started to see the relationship between “place” and “human beings” and how we transform “space” in to “place”.
When the formal persuasive essay was assigned to be written about “place”, I needed to narrow down the concept to a more specific thing that I could thoroughly argue in my essay. Since I am studying abroad in the US and I am far from my hometown, the best idea that I could talk about was “home”. The assignment required me to draw connection between “place” and “self”. So, I developed an argument that “home is very power to define a person’s identity”.
However, before the actual writing process, I wrote a proposal on why I would want argue the above argument, what sources I would use to prove my points, what the structure of the essay would be and so on. In addition, I created an annotated bibliography of all the sources I was going to use and made comments on each of them.
With all the preparation, I started the actual writing process. I mainly wrote in a quiet place in the library and used a dictionary to help me with word choices and grammar usage. However, the writing process was not as smooth as I though. While I was writing, I found that one of the sources was not really appropriate and I needed to look for a new one. When I was looking at my personal bookshelf, I found one of the books that I have read to be suitable and the examples from the book turned out to fit the argument very well.
After submitting the version one of the paper, I received feedbacks on my essay, including some higher-order concerns such as organization and argument level and some lower-order concerns such as sentence structures and verb forms that I should work on. With a thorough examination of my essay, I have finished the second version of the essay which looks much better than the previous one.
Click here to see the final version (version two) of my essay.
When the formal persuasive essay was assigned to be written about “place”, I needed to narrow down the concept to a more specific thing that I could thoroughly argue in my essay. Since I am studying abroad in the US and I am far from my hometown, the best idea that I could talk about was “home”. The assignment required me to draw connection between “place” and “self”. So, I developed an argument that “home is very power to define a person’s identity”.
However, before the actual writing process, I wrote a proposal on why I would want argue the above argument, what sources I would use to prove my points, what the structure of the essay would be and so on. In addition, I created an annotated bibliography of all the sources I was going to use and made comments on each of them.
With all the preparation, I started the actual writing process. I mainly wrote in a quiet place in the library and used a dictionary to help me with word choices and grammar usage. However, the writing process was not as smooth as I though. While I was writing, I found that one of the sources was not really appropriate and I needed to look for a new one. When I was looking at my personal bookshelf, I found one of the books that I have read to be suitable and the examples from the book turned out to fit the argument very well.
After submitting the version one of the paper, I received feedbacks on my essay, including some higher-order concerns such as organization and argument level and some lower-order concerns such as sentence structures and verb forms that I should work on. With a thorough examination of my essay, I have finished the second version of the essay which looks much better than the previous one.
Click here to see the final version (version two) of my essay.