PEDS 250 Writing

Prompt: Book Review Elizabeth Gilbert’s career rose with the popularity with her non-fiction work “Eat Pray Love. A book depicting her recovery journey post a messy divorce. Where she went on a trip to be able to come to terms with herself. In this book the story of Liz and Love continues. The couple who have vowed not to get married, both traumatize by their last are forced to get married if they were to stay together. This book is filled with Liz’ rationalization on what to expect and what to be cautious of stepping into the bonds of legal matrimony. She had emerged herself in extensive researched about the institution of marriage, to try to convince herself that this time around it would be fine. The research that she had done for herself are very well presented in this book, citing social scientists and exact publication, but it is also accompanied by the personal opinion of a modern woman. It spans from the concept of marriage in an isolated village in the mountai...

Topic :: Nice things You have recieved It’s a tradition in this materialistic world of ours to give gift to people. But this pessimistic head of mine, find it hard to accept gift from people. Because the word had taught me that people do not give things just for the sake of it, they must want something back. One cannot deny, though, the pleasure of receiving gifts. Because a gift represent that someone cared and someone knows what you want, to be able to pick the gift for you. The little time spared to pick it out somewhat matters. So what do I do in this dilemma my stupid head is face? A GIFT FOR MYSELF. Maybe it sounds pathetic, that I do not have people to get gifts for me. But the alternative is that I do not feel indebted to others, and it’s exactly what I want. Moreover I do not have to wait for others to decide whether I was worth the time of day and material expense to feel that joy. A move to take control of my own happiness. This is an attempt to see mys...

PROMPTS :: Your writing journey. Since I started high school I stopped writing, I got too busy preparing for the 6 rounds of exams I ended up taking. And when I started Uni, things just got busier. Such a big difference from my junior high days, I wrote 4-7 journal entries for English class, much like this one. And I found that I miss writing, though I couldn’t say that my pieces are anything life changing to the readers, but to me it means something. Because with writing I get to say things I don’t usually get to say out loud. Be it because I was too shy, I was insecure about my position, I might hurt the person I was speaking to, or I haven’t got the words at the time. Writing gave me so much freedom in terms of access to my own brain. Because when I write I’m usually not doing anything else, and I get to focus on my own thought. Like having a conversation with yourself. And this opens up so many sides of yourself you don’t normally get to know. It’s liberating in a w...

So, essentially you can write whatever you want for this exercise, for as long as it is a comprehensive composition. The tone can be narrative, persuasive, exposition or descriptive. And you can write about anything, like, any topic, it can be a letter to your old sefl, the new US foreign policy, the core of Indonesian vernacular architecture, a date gone wrong, reason why you should stand X girl/boy group, the reason why Jhonny Depp need to star in more movies. ANYTHING. FOR AS LONG AS YOU WRITE, training division is more than happy.  SO TO GET YOUR STARTED IF YOU ARE STUCK ON WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT  mind you, these prompts are the result of a 5 min google search. and most of them are very easy and middle school level.  ·          Write a letter to your older self. ·          Write about your childhood. ·          Write about lost frien...

So, after some thoughts we believe that one thing that is missing from our training system is emphasizing on using effective language. And since none of us are that good at it to point it out during regular training time, we thing it would be best that if everyone can independently train it. We believe that the use of effective language is not something that can be taught, but something that needs to be habituated, thus you can catch yourself when you are using too many words that means the same thing. Too long a sentence to explain a simple argument thus wasting seconds off of your precious speech. -Exhibit A of using too many words.- So we decide to adopt a writing exercise. In college we are demanded to write a lot. Thousands of words and pages upon pages.  WE WANT TO BREAK THAT HABIT.  So the exercise will force you to explain yourself in a limited amount of words. With structure. GAME PLAY:: Let’s call it Journal Entry Word limits :: 230 – 2...