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To: DU Writing Program Faculty From: Jacob Weiss Date: March 11, 2020 RE: Writt 1122 Learning Accomplishments In Writing 1122 I learned how to write like I had not learned before from my previous classes in high school. I learned many various concepts that were displayed through my work for my past three papers. OneContinue reading “Final Portfolio”

My revision process has been looking over my piece, like the Murray article that writes, by looking for major errors with the paper and then going in deeper to look at what other people said about my work. When Murray writes, “When students complete a first draft, they consider the job of writing done” (ParagraphContinue reading “Response to “The Maker’s Eye””

Dear Governor Jared Polis,             In the United States, today we have the highest percentage of our population in jails and prisons across the country. According to a statistic from 2018 reported by CNN, “nearly 2.2 million adults were held in America’s prisons and jails at the end of 2016” (Kann, Paragraph 2). We haveContinue reading “Changing Cash Bail”

The argument of this piece is that in the 2020 NBA all star game people feel that Aaron Gordon got robbed twice from winning. The differences of this are discussed by the different posts that ESPN put out that day by showing dunks of both of the players. They kind of do in the commentsContinue reading “Rogerian Argument in class exercise”

Have you ever been in a car on the roads of Denver drifting and fishtailing all over the streets? Because, if you have, you’re not alone. Although it has been a two days since it snowed last, the side streets of Denver are packed down with snow from weeks ago making it dangerous to driveContinue reading “Roughing the Snowy Streets of Denver”

The first paragraph of Fritz op ed can be revised to make the article have more snap and sizzle. For example she could say, Imagine instead of having six weeks during a time when most people are not back from college yet, you could get out of school at a time when most other peopleContinue reading “Fritz’s op ed revised”

What makes her hook effective? She uses experiences that a lot of people have in colorado to illustrate the point and draw people in.  “All we have to do to ruin the buzz from a sunny day on the slopes or lunch with a friend is to tune into the impeachment trial on the TV”.Continue reading “Carmen op-ed”

As climate change has become an increasing threat to the world that we live on, one of the things that needs to happen is for people talk about the issues that threaten our plant. Although, the ways climate change is spoken about now has created a bigger divide in the way people speak on theContinue reading “Changing the Way People Talk About Climate Change”

In O’Brien’s piece “Exploring Youth Activism on Climate Change: Dutiful, Disruptive, and Dangerous dissent” one of the ways he says that youth can be active in the discussion on climate change is through dutiful dissent. O’Brien defines this as something, “…often expressed through ‘joining’ activities that support existing and emerging institutions…”(O’Brien 4). This type ofContinue reading “Youth Climate Change Activism”

A) One way Cronon builds his ethos is though his many years at different elite universities. At the start of the paper his introduction states the places that he previously studied and his past and present jobs. All of this together builds an ethos that is well educated.  By doing so much research at eliteContinue reading “Discussion Post #2”