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Diagnostic Essay
Write a brief essay (300-500 words or so) about a current news story that interests you in some way. In your essay, describe the situation–the facts of the story–and any images that relate to the story, especially if the images are striking (unusual) in some way. Be sure to include the people or groups who are involved in the story. Questions to consider as you write your essay: What is the…
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Very often students are required to write a diagnostic essay in class before the term starts in order to demonstrate what their skills and talents are. By means of a diagnostic essay, tutors have an opportunity to assess what a student is capable of. Check out some tips on how to get prepared for the test
ENG 121 Week 1 Diagnostic Essay
ENG 121 Week 1 Diagnostic Essay
ENG 121 Week 1 Diagnostic Essay
Diagnostic Essay. The diagnostic writing exercise will help your instructor discover who you are as a writer. The essay will be used to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and it will allow the instructor the opportunity to identify grammatical, mechanical, and stylistic problems specific to each student. You will earn full credit for…
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A Writing Diagnostic
Whenever I teach an ESL writing class I find it useful to start with a writing diagnostic so I can get an idea of how my students write and what they will need to practice. It is also good for the students to have a piece of writing they can use as a comparison for their final project. It is nice to be able to see your own improvement.
Diagnostic Essay
For our first day I need to get an idea of what writing skills you already have. Please, watch the video on how to format your word document (search for it in the search bar under the tag "Word Format" or "Day Two Work"). After you learn how to format your Word Document, please read the prompt below and take two hours to write a quick, well thought out, essay and email it to my class email address.
What is the biggest energy related issue that concerns you today? Should countries and corporations focus on using the planet's remaining oil and/or on searching for sources of natural gas? Or should governments invest more in green energy, such as wind and solar power? What is the safest way to make sure the next generations have a safe and abundant supply of energy?
Using examples from your own country/region and your own experience, you will write your essay for an American university student who has never been to your country or region of the world. Let your reader know about the concerns people from your country have about energy.
Is Equality Possible...
As Americans, we grew up learning that everyone was created equally. We were told that our nation was “...Conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the thought that all men are created equal.”, yet everyday we see things that prove that statement to be otherwise faulty (Lincoln). We see our inequality and inadequacy shine through the most, whenever we pick up things as simple as a magazine, or turn on the television to watch a sports game. On another thought, we have seen discrimination and inequality against things such as race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and much more. We claim to be a country where all are equal, but we fail to actually practice equality. And therein lies a question, is it possible for our sense of equality to actually be a reality?
Competition is anything but equal, if it were everyone would tie. When we turn on the television, and watch something as common as a football game, we see these giant men tackling each other to the ground, and if you were to put that athlete up to someone average, the player would most likely be larger in height and physically stronger due to his athletic ability compared to the average man. In the Olympics, we see people compete against each other, running, jumping, swimming; all trying to be the best in what they do, and there is always a winner. And again, if competition were really equal, everyone would tie, giving the spectator nothing to watch due to lack of entertainment in the competition.
When a female picks up a tabloid or fashion magazine, and flips through the pages, they come across several models and celebrities all wearing clothes that a person on the average payroll (or no payroll) could never afford. Magazines such as this make most average teenage girls, and young women, feel as if they are inadequate and unequal compared to those they see in the literature. Just as a sports team has players that are in different standings of ability, there are these magazines giving people this idea of what beauty allegedly looks like; making people who don’t fit up to their perception of beauty unequal to those who do.
Throughout history we have fought many battles against discrimination and inequality. We saw it when African Americans marched, fought, and spoke for their rights to be able to do something as little as walk through the same hallways as a white person. We saw it when women spoke out for their rights to be able to vote, and not be labeled as unequal to men. We still see it now as women still continue to fight against discrimination and rape culture. We see it now as people who are homosexual fight for common rights such as marriage equality, or just being able to go out in public without being harassed and judged because people think what they are is wrong in someway, and somehow that makes them inferior and unequal to them.
Our country claims to stand on the pillars of liberty, justice, freedom, and equality; our history, and our present, shows otherwise. Can equality be a reality? In the case of competition, and an unattainable idea of beauty, no. If it were in a world where the government has taken into their hands the task of making everyone ‘equal’, by doing things such as putting weights on them to slow them down or weaken them, and make them wear masks to hide their beauty; maybe then, it would be possible. But no one wants to live like that, even if it does mean that we are unequal to people in positions where they are seen as athletic or hold this unattainable beauty (or attainable beauty, so they say, yet it comes at such a high cost). Society can’t be fair to everyone, without making someone unhappy. But it should be possible for equality in some sense. We should be able to get past the gender, race, sexual orientation, and religious barriers that suffer inequality. However, that isn’t something that can just happen overnight. It isn’t something our government can just force upon us. It is however, something that can be taught. Equality has to be shown to future generations that it is what is right so that it doesn’t make anyone unhappy, but they just accept that equality is the new social norm.
The coherency of my diagnostic essay for English
Me: Um, yeah, society can't be fair to everyone because... Because unicorns hate pineapples!
Teacher: *facepalm*
Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites are websites that allows you to connect with other people from different parts of the world. It’s a website where you can meet new friends and find old friends. There are also other parts of this website where you can play stress relieving games like Farmville and tetris. Overall it’s a good site. But again, it will depend on your discipline as a person. Some people prefer to use facebook rather than go out with friends. That is called addiction. This also makes the user pay for virtual items in exchange for real money. It’s really useless in the eyes of other people, but in the eyes of addicted people, it’s really important. I’m not saying you shouldn’t spent money on games or visual items, but only buy these with your excess money. Purchasing virtual items with real money is bad when you use your allowance for food in order to buy these useless stuff.
There are also people who uses their facebook as diaries. They always post emotional and heart breaking status messages in order to gain attention. Some even message you just to ask you to ‘like’ their status message. These people are called ‘attention whores’. They forcefully call your attention just for the sake of being famous.
Overall, social networking sites are good, but if you spend more time in facebook thank in your real life, it’s going to be a big problem. Just use it when you have idle time to avoid addiction and retain your social life and continue living normally.
Social Networking Sites
Everyone nowadays has an account in at least one social network. Social networking has become a very important part of everyone’s lives to the extent that it’s common for a person to be a part of one. With the continuing improvements and updates in social networking, people around the world will most likely resort to social networking as a mainstream mode of communication. Even children, regardless of their age, have profiles of their own. This just shows how much impact social networking has had on the lives of many people. People usually join social networks mainly for communication purposes or just because it’s a current trend and they feel left out when they aren’t a part of one. There are many kinds of social networking sites; blogging, micro blogging, art community, sharing, etc. I personally prefer blogging over other social networks since blogging is one of the oldest types of social networking. Compared to micro blogs, you can share as much as you want in blogs. Some micro blogging sites have a limit per post and are frequently used by people who prefer “updating their statuses” rather than talk about a certain topic. Personally, I think that micro blogging is more of a community when compared to blogging. A lot of social networks nowadays are under the micro blogging category since not everyone likes to blog that much. Anyway, the type of social network people use is subjective to every person, it’s up to them to decide what social network they want. There are a lot of social networks out there but what people like the most is Facebook. It’s just my opinion but I think that it’s pretty obvious already. You don’t need to do a lot of research to figure that one out; Facebook has about 800,000,000 million users. That fact alone already says that Facebook is the best social network out there, it has even more users than the overall population of our country. Just to describe Facebook briefly; Facebook is a social network that allows users to share their thoughts via text posts, photos, videos or notes. That’s pretty much what Facebook is, what makes it stand out from the other social networks is that it’s so organized and easy to use that even old people don’t have a hard time getting used to it. Another social network is Twitter. Unlike Facebook, Twitter is more of an “on-the-fly” network. It allows users to post “tweets” with a limit of 140 characters each post. In my opinion, people who use this are frequent of sharing things they do in a minute to hourly basis. I also use Twitter and I post quite often especially when I’m just coding. There are a lot of famous social networks but I’ll just go with Facebook and Twitter since they are one of the mainstream networks being used today. These two social networks make it easy for people far away from each other to communicate. Instead of having to subscribe to an international phone service provider, you’ll just have to log in to a social network and you’ll probably be able to do more in a social network than in a phone call or text message. That’s the most important use of social networks. Another use is making flow of information faster in a very large scope. Instead of just relying on radio broadcasts or TV coverage, with the help of social networking, you can view news and other information faster in social networks. Not only that but you can also help in sharing this information; you can either pass it on to another person or just highlight it in your profile, as simple as that. Even if just one small story or source is leaked, it will be only a matter of time before it’s in the home page or trending section of every network. Social networks have had a really big impact in society, be it positive or negative. It’s no surprise that almost everyone is a member of a social networks, it’s either because of pop culture or just for communication. It’s already hard to imagine a world where social networks are absent; it’s almost as if something really big is missing from the whole picture.
