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Language is used everyday in people’s lives, it’s the the major tool for communication. We rely on words to show emotion or understand a concept better. Looking back, I’ve used language a lot in the past. I would use it to interpret on things to attempt to make sense of situations. It helped me release …
Original Paragraph: I personally believe that art can help students reduce stress, along with other mental health issues. I read an article that was called, “To excel or not to excel: Strong evidence on the adverse effect of smartphone addiction on academic performance” by Nazir S. Hawi and Maya Samaha. They talked about how students …
The chapter I chose from They Say/I say is “Distinguishing What You Say from What They Say” (Chapter 5). This chapter grabbed my attention because in my essay, I need to add my voice in the conversation with the other authors that we talked about. It talks about where to put your own voice where …
Introduction starting broad, but getting more specific as to what I’m talking about, strong thesis Use quotes and supporting evidence, relating back to thesis Develop a Naysayer, Barclay, or TREAC paragraph in my essay Keep my ideas all together, not scattered around my paper and have smooth transitions Good conclusion wrapping up everything I stated …
YoYoMa, cellist and songwriter, claims that STEM are important subjects to learn in school, but we need to add “empathetic reasoning of the arts” in our education system. People who support his opinion of STEAM believe that art is just as essential as the subjects in STEM, moreover, art allows creative thinking which could be …
Barclay: Although the idea of art has been ignored overtime, art and science have the ability to work together, to discover new possibilities and answers. Throughout his essay, Jonah Lehrer, author of “The Future of science…Is Art?” talks about how science and art influence on another. He states, “My answer is simple: Science needs the …
I feel like I definitely improved on my annotations since the beginning of the year. I never liked annotating in high school, so I felt forced while doing annotations and did it just to get it done. Now, I actually engage with the text and I like the articles we read, it shows different meanings/perspective …
