Hello
everybody,
Today’s post will be related to one of the
recent formal writing assignments that I did for my English 201 course.
Actually, it was an argumentative essay. Of course, I have used to write the
same type of essays, but in Russian only and I did not fully understand the
explicit structure. However, we spend a lot of our time in class discussing all
the structure and model of development for argumentative essay, so I was quite confident
when writing it. We were given 3 different topics, but none of them suited me,
so I decided to write to David, asking whether I can take a different topic or
not. David submitted my topic choice, so I have written an essay, answering the
following question: “Should piracy on the Internet be banned or not?” That
might sound strange, but I was protecting the piracy legalization for the
several reasons. Actually, I am not going to talk about these reasons right
now, but about the pluses and minuses that I have encountered in my paper.
Firstly, I would like to talk about my essay’s
minuses. Of course, I managed to fix some of them in my second draft; however,
some remained. What I am talking about:
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I
don’t really like the sources I have used. Of course, before integrating each
source I used CRAAP test methodic to identify the accuracy of the source, but
it seems confusing to me, that I have not used any books, only some articles.
However, I think it is because the topic I covered is not really shown in contemporary
literature.
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The
conclusion of my assignment is quite simple. I think it definitely can be
improved, but it is my usual problem – by the end of the essay I become tired
and empty of new ideas to implement, for instance, in my memorable statement.
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Also,
I am not sure that I have good grammar and mechanics, although I double-checked
everything and fixed some places, which seemed wrong to me.
Nevertheless, I can’t say that my essay is
completely bad – it also has some features, which seem pluses to me:
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Firstly,
the topic I have chosen is very actual for everybody today. Moreover, the
position I have chosen, is quite unusual, so I decide that for readers it will
be quite interesting to read my essay.
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My
attention getter in the beginning is a story based on my personal experience. I
have noticed previously that story types of attention getter are often quite
interesting for the readers and I do not think this essay is going to be an
exception.
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Apart
from that, I decide that I have made quite a good research on MLA standard and designed
the Works Cited page and parenthetical references correctly.
In
conclusion, I would like to say that my essay is quite good from my point of
view and I hope it will receive an adequate markJ
I think about each of my essays that they are not bad, but I cry when I see my marks^ lol.
ОтветитьУдалитьYour topic is surely more interesting then any of the obligatory ones, but i can't imagine how you supported tour opinion. Personally, I do not want to eliminate Internet piracy; I like the actual situation in Russia: we can download nearly everything for free. For example, During the last year I've watched about 100 films in good quality of image, which were downloaded from the web. If it wasn't possible, I would have to wait them to be shown on TV for years, or spend more then 600 dollars on buying disks.