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An Introduction to Expository Writing
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Course
Description:
 In
this
course, students focus on the process of writing clear, correct and
effective expository essays in response to materials drawn from
culturally diverse sources. Emphasis is placed on using various methods
of organization appropriate to the writer's purpose and audience.
Students are introduced to argumentation, fundamental research methods
and documentation procedures. Students write frequently both in and out
of class. Admission to this course is based on college placement test
scores.
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| Assignments: 1) A Feeling of Being Home "In
your first essay, I
would like you to write an essay that connects personal events in your
life
with public events in your lifetime.
Your essay
will be based on a photograph or photographs from your personal
collection that
place you, family, or and/or friends in an environment that has
particular
significance for you.
The essay will include a description of the photograph and a narrative
that conveys the meaning of that place
for you."
"Your
research paper will focus on one New York City environmental problem
that you
will identify and take steps to solve.
Your completed Modern Language Association style paper will be
approximately 1000 words. The ingredients of a passing research
essay: A paper that is
at least 800 words. (Your final version
should be about 1000 words.) Please include a Word Count on your
paper;
A clear response
to the assignment. You need to identify
a New York City
environmental problem and suggest solution(s); Documentation—you
should include at least five direct quotations from five different
sources; Complete Works
Cited List. The assignment calls for 6
sources: 1) Your interview essay; 2) At least three articles that
you located through the LaGuardia Library Website (look for sources in
Lexis
Nexis and Ebsco Host); 3) two additional sources. These may include
films and web sites."
 I picked the topic
about NYC drinking
water because, for me,
it seems strange and suspicious that one of the most populated cities
in the
world being exposed to enormous congestion, has “champagne” drinking
water. During
the research process it turned to be that my suspects were not
unreasonable and
NYC has serious issues going on with its drinking water supply. I found
out
that, despite of frequent and continuous incidents of water
contamination, the
city officials keep on persuading the residents of safety of the water
they are
drinking risking the health of thousand of New Yorkers. The facts that
I came
across while conducting this projects show that the weak government
enforcement
of rules and regulations, businesses’ indifference to environmental
issues, and
the crisis of global warming are the main factor that put NYC drinking
water
under threat. I think that the idea of selecting an environmental
problem for
the research project is great. After I completed this assignment I
rethought
the way I use drinking water and became more attentive to environment
in whole.
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I
chose the photograph with my parents
in our apartment in
my hometown. This assignment was very tough for me in terms of
emotions. I had
to write about a significant place and two the most important people in
my life
whom I have not seen for a while. After the first draft of the essay
was
completed, we had to read it to each other in groups in the class. I
remember
my voice trembling and my hands shaking when it was my turn to read my
version.
As I was going through the story, the memories became so bright and
overwhelming
that I could hardly hold the tears. When the professor gave me back the
first graded
version of this essay, she asked me to revise the conclusion. As I was
working
on it, I had a chance to look back at my childhood and early adulthood
and to
rethink my values. I have realized that no matter where I am located,
my heart
and my sole were, are and always will be with my parents in our small
cozy apartment
in Lipetsk, Russia, the only place in the
entire world that I can call home.31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101