1. Response journal 1
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK

2. Let’s look at your writing…
Corrine Hinton’s essay entitled “So you’ve got a writing assignment, now what?” argues that there are many writing errors  that first year students may make when they get their first writing assignment. She supports her argument by using multiple examples of guidelines given to past students for their assignment and demonstrates how it can be approached in revised illustrations . She writes in order to guide young writers on how they should interpret their assignment and enhance their style of writing. Hinton writes for an audience of college students or anyone who is struggling to write because she states it, and the examples she provides indicates that particular audience . Like Hinton, I have experienced challenges in completing assignments particularly one that I recently worked on for an English class  

3. Corrine Hinton’s in her essay “So You’ve Got a Writing Assignment Now What?” argues that undergraduate’s student become nervous when given writing assignments. She supports her argument by saying don’t panic, don’t procrastinate, know your purpose and your audience, locate and understand directive verbs, ask if yourself if argument needed, and consider evidence, best approach, the formatting (APA) and identify your available resources and ask questions. The purpose is to employ practical guidelines for writing assignments to students who panic and become frustrated. Hinton writes in a formal tone for undergraduate writers who become nervous to unexpected assignments. Two point of Hinton’s essay “So You’ve Got a writing assignment Now What?” encourage students to is don’t procrastinate and find available resources.  

4. Corrine Hinton’s essay entitled “So you’ve got a writing assignment, now what?” argues that many first-year college students make many errors when writing. She supports her argument by using multiple examples that helps demonstrate the errors that students make along with a revised example that demonstrates what should be done. She writes in order to inspire young writers to not be afraid when asked to write because many of the skills to write is already possess in us, but because of the anxiety and anger that builds up the writing then tend to be crop. She writes for an audience of college students but can also be for any student that is struggling, because of her use of examples of errors students make and I find it relatable. Like Hinton, I have experienced challenges in completing assignments particularly one that I recently worked on for my College English one class.

5. Corine E. Hinton believes that, there are several guidelines to interpreting a writing assignment. She uses scientific facts, student experiences and even her own experiences to prove that the guidelines have been tested and works. Corine Hinton guideline purpose is to make it easier for students to complete their writing assignments by helping them better understand what their instructor expects from their writing assignment and by helping them to formulate a plan on how to provide the instructor with the proper assignment without panicking. The Target group of Corine Hinton’s guidelines are mainly inexperienced writers, mostly first year students, who may have negative reactions when given writing assignments. Her guidelines teach students not to panic, but instead to listen to the instructor and take down important notes and avoid procrastination. Her guidelines also involve reading the assignment more than once to determine the assignment goals. The audience of the assignment must be identified. when in doubt lecturer should be consulted as well as fellow students.

6. Corine Hinton’s essay entitled “so you’re got a writing assignment, now what?” article essay argues that first year students tend to have a negative emotional reaction when they get their first writing assignment. She also states that understanding a writing assignment is a rational activity and skill. However, it will take a lot of learning and writing practices for this to happen. Furthermore, Hinton elaborate on why it is important to learn to write well and controlling our negative emotional reaction.

7. Corrine Hinton’s article argues about the steps students should take in order to complete any writing assignment. She supports her argument by clearly defining and explaining what should be done at each step. She writes in order to help students develop their writing and even their research skills. Hinton writes for an audience of mainly undergraduate university students who have trouble in facing or completing writing assignments. Like Hinton, I have encountered many challenges in completing writing assignments particularly one that I worked on last semester for my Psychology class.

8. Corrine Hinton’s essay argues that she gave assignment without the student get to know each other at the beginning of class with out even tell them what to do or when to do it. She supports her argument by the sound of shuffling feet interrupts your thoughts; you look up and realize she’s dismissed the class. You shove the assignment into your bag, convinced you’re doomed before you’ve even started. She writes in order to get cross to the student why essay writing is important. Young writers to impress younger people to write like them .She writes for an audience because of her use of she write for all type of people but she base her writing on younger people in this essay. Like Hinton, I have experienced challenges in completing assignments particularly one that I recently worked on for my class was my english I didn’t no where to start.

9. My English classes have always been boring towards the way I see them
My English classes have always been boring towards the way I see them. English courses I’ve taken in my student life time has always being like a common sense thing to me, and I stood with that practice or thought of mines and so it went until started pay more attention to it and realized that it all makes senses in English. English is not a difficult subject but if attention is not paid it is going to be difficult to overcome it. There are many ways in having a good writing skills some examples can be; come out of the path that we are used to be in and to lower our panic in writing and free up our minds. I had a time where I started to like the subject and other than see it as just a subject I took it as fun too.

10. Corrine Hinton’s article argues that we all face challenges when we have a writing assignment to be completed but it is how we take on the challenge that affects the outcome of the assignment. She supports her arguments by stating that negative attitudes can cause the writing not to be at its best so therefore she outlines different approach that can be taken when we are facing these writing challenges. The purpose of Hinton’s article is to help students facing these challenges by giving them advice on how to react when they encounter this situation. Hinton’s audience is basically referring to the first year writing students. Like Hinton, I have experienced challenges in completing assignments particularly one that I recently worked on for my psychology class research paper.

11. Corrine Hinton’s essay entitled “So you’ve got a writing assignment, now what?” argues that writing assignment are not as bad as we think. She supports her argument by giving us several guidelines on how to respond and interprate the writing assignment. She writes in order to instruct young writers to apply a concept to a particular situation. She writes for an audience of readers who read this essay because of her use of words and example, also speaking directly to the reader. Like Hinton, I have experienced challenges in completing assignments particularly one that I recently worked on for my English class which is to not procrastinate.

12. Corrine E. Hinton in the article “So you’ve got a Writing Assignment
Corrine E. Hinton in the article “So you’ve got a Writing Assignment. Now what?” suggests that there are many ways to approach a writing assignment that you don’t know much about. Hinton supports her suggestion by listing many different and helpful methods, techniques and sources that can be used when starting the writing assignment. The author’s purpose is to inform you of many different ways to start and review a writing assignment so that the writing assignment can be in its best form. The author writes in an informal tone for freshman students.

13. Corrine Hinton’s essay argues that interpreting writing assignments can be challenging for most freshmen because they sometimes accommodate themselves with unfavorable feedback. She supports her argument by providing significant responses to boost confidence among individuals where first assignments on essay writing could stem various negative emotions. Hinton’s essay serves as an effective source for first time writers who have difficulty to compile an assignment based on their instructor’s expectations and strict guidelines.

14. Corrine Hinton’s article argues that it’s okay to feel a little confuse and lack of knowledge when assignments, especially a paper to write is being assigned to students, ways to how such individuals should attack this task assigned given and what should be avoided when writing. She supports her arguments by using statistic (tables), and using real student’s remarks and their reaction to their writing assignment given to them. Her purpose is informing students and explaining how to become a great writer, formulating their thoughts well and understanding that critical thinking is essential in writing. The audience Hinton is addressing this article to is students from university as she made that clear to interpret in her piece. The tone is very much informative as she explains how to master this writing ability and uses examples. Corine Hinton “So you’ve got a writing assignment. Now what?” is a valuable article for college students because it allows the reader to become familiar with their writing and provides exactly what needs to be done in writing a paper.

15. Corrine Hinton’s essay argues that writing an essay is not as difficult as we first year college students think it is as long as we follow the necessary approaches of how to write an essay. She supported her argument by stating the different ways and strategies students can used to overcome their fears of writing an essay. Her purpose is to motivate students, take away the fear, and instill a sense of critical thinking within students to make it easier for them to write a good essay. Hinton’s essay made it clear that she is targeting the first year college students for they are the ones with the most fear of writing an essay. Writing an essay is easy as long as you use the necessary guidelines for interpreting writing assignment to prevent panicking and procrastination and also know your audience.

16. Corrine Hilton’s article essay argues that it is difficult for students to do writing assignments. She supports her argument by giving steps and examples to better the reader writing skills. Corrine purpose is to make readers more confident and informed in doing writing assignments. She addresses her audience as students. Corrine article would help the student’s writers by building confidence and using steps of writing.

17. Corrine E. Hinton article argue that there are basic step we can take when assign with a writing assignment. She supports her argument by using plenty of examples from her experience and also others. I believe her overall purpose was to let the audience know that it’s not strange to face problem hen face with writing assignment. The audience in this article I believe are students who probably doing their first year of college and have receive their first writing assignment that calls for a lot. One of the most challenging assignments I have got in all my years of school was in my last year of school of high school and this was challenging, because I was lost, it weigh a lot on my final grade and I procrastinated.

18. Corrine Hinton’s article/essay argues that every person in this world even the best of writers sometimes make mistakes in their work and she has come up with her solutions in fixing your writing skills. She supports her argument by giving her own facts and ideas she complied with her experience over the years to help under graduated students. This way student can easily write essays without being nervous. Hinton’s arguments will not only help students but other experience writers to improve on their writing skills further. This journal talks about Hinton’s argument on possessing better writing skills and communication skills

19. Corrine Hinton’s essay entitled “So you’ve got a writing assignment, now what?” argues that no matter how nervous one can get, there is no reason for panicking over a first reading writing assignment. She supports her argument by sharing her own experience and providing useful tips, advice, and an elaborate explanation of how to start a writing assignment. She writes in order to appease and help young writers to develop a further understanding of how to go about meeting all requirements and connecting with the specific audience when writing. She writes for an audience of young learners; students who begin a journey and are in need of assistance for developing better writing and communicating skills, because of her use of examples and guidelines, students in particular would find her essay very useful, much like a life saver. Like Hinton I have experienced challenges in completing assignments, particularly one that I worked on for my English class, in which I had to write a thousand word essay within two days as a final submission.

20. Corrine E. Hinton in the article, “So you’ve got a writing assignment now what?”, Shares important advice that teaches young students how to write a good essay/paper for any subject without being frightened by the word limit. She supports her claims by giving examples of students who learnt to overcome their fear of writing long assignment and developing good essays. The purpose of the article is to give readers a broader knowledge on the different types of strategies that can be helpful in developing his/her essay. Corrine writes this article for high school and college students. In this essay, I will explain the problems I face during my writing assignments and how the techniques that Corrine mentions will help me solve them

21. Corrine Hinton’s essay entitled “So you’ve got a writing assignment, now what?” argues that the students writing assignments can be easier to achieve a better quality of writing. She supports her argument by expressing exactly what goes through the mind of a student completing an assignment .She writes in order to advise young writers to take the necessary steps to accomplish the best writing they could produce .She writes for an audience of inexperienced students because of her use of sharing past experience and stating similar thoughts that a student is likely to have when writing an essay .Like Hinton, I have experienced challenges in completing assignments particularly one that I recently worked on for my English class, writing an essay about a difficult time I would like to forget.

22. The assignment of the teacher that gave me it was challenging because it was difficult to understand it was a case study. Reading the case study over and over until I got the questions of the case study. It was so hard that I spent half day thinking how to solve the question of the assignment. The time pass and I started to answer the questions and thinking/hope it can be correct. The most advice of Hinton’s was I have experienced challenges in completing assignments particularly one that I recently worked on for my…class…

23. The essay by Corrine Hinton “So you’ve Got A Writing Assignment, What now?” argues how students can have better understanding in any essay writing. She supports her argument by introducing several facts as how students can better an essay. She writes in order to help young writer develop their assignments. She writes for a audience of undergraduates because they can face the same trouble she had mention and the mistakes she made. I have experienced challenges in assignment particularly one that I recently work on for my literature class.

24. MINIMUM ASSIGNMENT EXPECTATIONS
WORDS (550 MAXIMUM)
INTRODUCTION, BODY, CONCLUSION
THESIS STATEMENT
STANDARD FONT, MARGINS
NO TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; PROOFREAD VIGILANTLY
DRAFT 2 AFTER YOU HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ THROUGH ONCE

25. THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE…

26. THE INTRODUCTION
Sentence 1: Corrine Hinton’s article entitled “So…” argues that learning to interpret assignment expectations will help you to be more successful in completing a writing assignment because it will allow new writers to make effective use of all available resources. Sentence 2: Hinton offers practical guidelines and advice from other students to… Sentence 3: Her purpose is to convince students to work to interpret assignment expectations so that they can produce their best possible work. Sentence 4: She writes for an audience of novice writers because of her conversational tone, her references to you and student’s advice, which are intended to offer guidance and confidence to young writers.

27. THE THESIS STATEMENT This is your argument based on the questions NOT
Hinton’s argument
Sentence 5:Use the questions in the prompt: Like Hinton, or Like the students in Hinton’s essay I too have experienced challenges in completing a recent assignment, particularly one that I had to complete for my Business Ethics class.

28. BODY PARAGRAPH 1
When being notified about this assignment it hit me with an instant shock. I was confused and nervous because it was my first research paper I was responsible for at this University. I hardly knew the format for this paper. The Lecturer barely discussed what she wanted from us and we were told to use the Course outline as a guide but still it left many students puzzled especially me. This paper had me stressed as I was unsure how to even start. I kept on procrastinating just like Hinton said because I didn’t understand or know exactly what to write.

29. Body Paragraph 2
Then last minute I realized that I must get this paper completed so I began to write. In the writing I included all information that was relevant to the topic. I tried my best as possible to pick words to insert into the research paper. After I had finally completed the paper, it felt incomplete like something was missing; actually, it felt like everything was missing. This made my mind scattered but when I looked at the clock it was already minutes before the assignment’s deadline. So I quickly attempt to send in my work to the lecturer. Sitting down thinking about the worked that was sent in I began worrying that I was already doom at the beginning of my first semester.

30. THE CONCLUSION
After reading Hinton’s article I realized that her advice ‘Don’t panic and don’t procrastinate’ would have made my research paper much better. When receiving the writing assignment I began to panic which had blurred my thoughts and so I was unable to think and analyze critically. The bunch of negative attitude that was formed against doing this writing assignment caused me to procrastinate. At that moment I could only rush to put all that information together in less than 24 hours when the lecturer had given us a week to get it done. From the beginning I should have read the instructions over and even take the time to contact the lecturer and asked her to explain what I haven’t understand while I make note of the important information. I should have never result to procrastinating but instead use each day given to work on the writing assignment.

31. Consider Irvin…
Lennie Irvin’s article entitled “What is Academic Writing?” clears up several misconceptions about writing that novice students have and outlines the aspects of writing and the nature of the writing task.

32. HAPPY REVISING