Sunday, April 17, 2011

          Introduction:
Now sit down and write the essay. The introduction should grab the reader's attention, set up the issue, and lead in to your thesis. Your intro is merely a buildup of the issue, a stage of bringing your reader into the essay's argument.
(Note: The title and first paragraph are probably the most important elements in your essay. This is an essay-writing point that doesn't always sink in within the context of the classroom. In the first paragraph you either hook the reader's interest or lose it. Of course your teacher, who's getting paid to teach you how to write an essay, will read the essay you've written regardless, but in the real world, readers make up their minds about whether or not to read your essay by glancing at the title alone.)
           Paragraphs:
 Each individual paragraph should be focused on a single idea that supports your thesis. Begin paragraphs with topic sentences, support assertions with evidence, and expound your ideas in the clearest, most sensible way you can. Speak to your reader as if he or she were sitting in front of you. In other words, instead of writing the essay, try talking the essay.
           Conclusion: 
Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action. Is there something you want the reader to walk away and do? Let him or her know exactly what.


           Language:
You're not done writing your essay until you've polished your language by correcting the grammar, making sentences flow, incoporating rhythm, emphasis, adjusting the formality, giving it a level-headed tone, and making other intuitive edits. Proofread until it reads just how you want it to sound. Writing an essay can be tedious, but you don't want to bungle the hours of conceptual work you've put into writing your essay by leaving a few slippy misppallings and pourly wordedd phrazies..
You're done. Great job. Tanx Mizz Zu,, hahah
(Of course Hemingway was a fiction writer, not an essay writer, but he probably knew how to write an essay just as well.)

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Common Errors



We've heard professors complain that students seem to make the same grammar mistakes over and over again. Indeed, a study by Andrea Lunsford and Robert Connors show that this impression is correct: twenty different grammatical mistakes comprise 91.5 percent of all errors in student writing. If professors can teach students to control these common errors, they will alleviate most of the grammar errors that they find so distracting.
Twenty Most Commonly Occurring Errors

1. No comma after introductory phrases
2. Vague pronoun reference
3. No comma in compound sentence
4. Wrong word
5. No comma in non-restrictives
6. Wrong/missing inflected ends
7. Wrong/missing preposition
8. Comma splice
9. Possessive apostrophe error
10. Tense shift
11. Unnecessary shift in person
12. Sentence fragment
13. Wrong tense or verb form
14. Subject-verb agreement
15. Lack of comma in a series
16. Pronoun agreement error
17. Unnecessary commas with restrictives
18. Run-on, fused sentence
19. Dangling, misplaced modifier
20. Its/it's error

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

                                       Hai Seniman !!
Alhamdulillah, this is our 7th time in class with Miss Zu, at BK16,  among our class in here. But everything were just fine just now. With full of suprise, we've been told to pick some scene from Allahyarham P.Ramlee for us to re-act and to translate the script to English. Though yesterday Miss Zu asked us to prepare for the noung thing, but, unfortunately, because there's a lack of a very important equipment,But i think i is very ockward doing such a play.

We've been devided into 5 groups, and my group members are, Alif, Daddy, Farah and Ida. We have picked the scence from Seniman Bujang Lapok and some scene from Ibu Mertuaku. I've translated the "Malam Dipagar Bintang" song to English, and it sounds a bit horrible since the pitch and the tune is everywhere. Urghh.

Seriously today class was very fascinating and funny,, many joy was ( past tense) created today as joke made from the other group is very hilarious, thou i didn't quite understand our objectif (maybe i didnt pay attention fully to her lesson) but it is still memorable . :0