Beyond any question, the beginning. At one time I would force myself to write the rest of the essay and then go back and write the intro paragraph. Then that became a practice that has made writing essay MUCH easier for me! It feels more natural to me and since your intro and conclusion paragraphs are really paraphrases of the body of your paragraph, it really helps. For me, if I get a subject in mind I will explore that topic and just run with it. Churn out paragraph after paragraph about the topic at hand with no organization. Often the paragraphs flow from one aspect of the topic to the next and thus coherient paragraphs come about, but not always. But after I get 3 pages of body paragraphs the hard part is done. I then go through the paragraphs I created and take one line from each that appear to be the "topic" of the paragraph and lay those sentances out. After I do that it is merely a matter shifting them around and editing them so that they tie in togheter so that they look like an opening paragraph. Then I just try to find some sort of way to tie everything together with an ending tone to get the concluding paragraph and then the essay is complete (draft 1 anyway).
But since I dont really start an essay out with the introduction anymore, i'd say that the hardest part of writing an essay for me now is to narrow down my thoughts on the topic to some concise articulation rather than the jumble they tend to be.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Monday, June 12, 2006
Some truisms and sayings of mine:
I am a Christian in that I follow the way, Jesus Christ. I am a Catholic in that I believe that Jesus Christ's teachings of Peace, Love and tolerance apply without exception to all.
Life is a continual struggle against doing nothing
Gannas; it is all you really need.
A Government collapses when there are vastly more answers than questions.
I wonder, in the dictionary for the definition of dictionary, do they just have "this".
I do not wish to get my point across simply, I wish to get it across completely.
The brianless want a strong leader; I want a smart leader who can and will do what he says he will do.
That which is hard to come by will be cherished more than that which is given in passing.
No one listens to the quiet, but no likes the loud...
All I have to do is think and I create chaos... what a burden is that!
The most important thing is not life, but the good life.
I am wiser than a man who thinks he knows more than I. I am such because I know that I know nothing, where as he does not quite get it yet that he knows nothing as well.
It's not an insult to a dead man to say that he is dead...
Propaganda everywhere,
but not a thought to think
the religious right isn't;
the moral majority aren't either
Life is a continual struggle against doing nothing
Gannas; it is all you really need.
A Government collapses when there are vastly more answers than questions.
I wonder, in the dictionary for the definition of dictionary, do they just have "this".
I do not wish to get my point across simply, I wish to get it across completely.
The brianless want a strong leader; I want a smart leader who can and will do what he says he will do.
That which is hard to come by will be cherished more than that which is given in passing.
No one listens to the quiet, but no likes the loud...
All I have to do is think and I create chaos... what a burden is that!
The most important thing is not life, but the good life.
I am wiser than a man who thinks he knows more than I. I am such because I know that I know nothing, where as he does not quite get it yet that he knows nothing as well.
It's not an insult to a dead man to say that he is dead...
Propaganda everywhere,
but not a thought to think
the religious right isn't;
the moral majority aren't either
Sunday, June 11, 2006
a Day in the Life of life
a Day in the Life of life
the gears, they crank and turn
beginning the processes; run.
For when is the life the life to be lived,
And when is the life a Life of the Prived?
i do not go
you do not go
we do not go; should we?
these gears have cranked
churned out something grand,
processes of the neurological
i can tell by the urealogical
when do we cancel
the rating and score
when are we fanciful
with this our score
listen carefully, you cannot miss a beat
if you do you will fly and cry, “come with us”
they and you will say, in the market of the street.
A wall is there, does no one care?
Can they not see the wall? They named it and all!
yet on and on we go, they go
i’d rather not be of “they”
yet how shall i stay?
No food to grind, no wheat to bake
Hither hence i shall wince
and move along to the market of the street
no one
to
go no
one to know
smile,
my friend it is not tooo- bad.
join Us and see our market, its pretty clean,
Upstanding and lean.
the gears, they crank and turn
beginning the processes; run.
For when is the life the life to be lived,
And when is the life a Life of the Prived?
i do not go
you do not go
we do not go; should we?
these gears have cranked
churned out something grand,
processes of the neurological
i can tell by the urealogical
when do we cancel
the rating and score
when are we fanciful
with this our score
listen carefully, you cannot miss a beat
if you do you will fly and cry, “come with us”
they and you will say, in the market of the street.
A wall is there, does no one care?
Can they not see the wall? They named it and all!
yet on and on we go, they go
i’d rather not be of “they”
yet how shall i stay?
No food to grind, no wheat to bake
Hither hence i shall wince
and move along to the market of the street
no one
to
go no
one to know
smile,
my friend it is not tooo- bad.
join Us and see our market, its pretty clean,
Upstanding and lean.
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