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Table of Contents Reflection Letter Intro to my MWA piece MWA piece Intro to my writing effectively piece The piece I wrote effectively Intro to my analytical piece Analytical piece Intro to my piece of choice The piece of my choice Conclusion

It has been a Pleasure

Well the English 98 is over and I just want to say it has been a pleasure working with all of you. Thank you all for the wonderfull discussions we had from DB assignments, to MWA, to seminars all of them have grate experiences to share with every one of you. I also want to thank Phebe for all the ways she made this class fun.

I do not know of this poem is makes sense with what I have been talking about, but I wanted to share it anyway.


Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

The Road Not Taken


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,


And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.


I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

I believe that just like Mortenson and many other people we should also take the road less traveled by. Because I believe that it will lead to wonders we cannot even imagine. God Bless all of you on your journey.

Sincerely Aaron Fry

The piece of my choice

I chose this piece because we had to take an average story and spice it up a bit with some creative words. Being creative with words is something I really enjoy doing there is just something about taking a story that is boring and making I come alive that gets me excited. That’s why I believe this was one of my better assignments in this class because this style of writing is one I am so passionate about, and it made this particular piece of writing stronger than others I have done before. Here is a little part of my story to show you what I mean. “ Janet hammered on the door, and moments later, it opened to reveal the vulgar looking scientist, with a face like a chopped up piece of meat. Brad and Janet stole a glance at each other and then Janet woke up from her dream screaming, sweat dripping of her face.” With this assignment I thought I did a good job painting a picture in the readers head, and especially in the part you guys just read I felt that it was the part of the story I was able to describe more vividly than any other part of the story. Anyway this type of creative writing is the kind that I love, and I hope that I will be able to write more of it in the future.

Intro to the piece of my choice

For my last piece I chose one of the DB assignments called Janet and Brads Excellent Adventure. I wrote this assignment on February-11-2009 and titled it Your Worst Nightmare. In this DB assignment we had to take a story and that was in the book Steps to Writing Well, and fill in the blank spots with creative words in order to make the story more lively.

Analytical piece

Since an analysis is the ability to take a concept and break it down into its most elemental parts ,at least that it what I was told, I thought what could be more analytical than analyzing oneself? This assignment was actually kind of hard for me because I had a difficult time trying to analyze myself, but with some work I was able to do it.
“I am Aaron Fry
I am 18 years old
I am a Christian who loves to share the good news of God with people.
As well as martial artist who loves a good workout.7
My height is 5’ 11’’, I have brown eyes and hair, and am a kindhearted man who looks weaker than I really am.
I am a writer
I am a musician who plays flamenco music
I am a actor but sadly have not had enough time to do a lot of acting.
I love the Lord God Almighty with all my heart, mind and soul.”
This is only part of my Inventory of being, but I believe it really shows that I have at least have some analytical skills. After all I had to sit down and really do some analytical thinking about who I am, and pick myself apart piece by piece. Although after a while I thought I came up with some pretty good ideas that not only showed who I am, but also the quality of my analytical skills. Or so I hope.

Intro to my analytical piece

For my analytical piece I chose the first assignment we ever did in English 98 the inventory of being. Which is a piece of writing that we were supposed to described ourselves in, so others could get know us a little better. I did not think of a good title for this assignment though I just titled it Aaron Fry’s Inventory of Being. Since this was the first assignment for the entire class I wrote it very early in the quarter the 7th of January to be precise, and I must say it was certainly a fun piece to write.

The piece I wrote effectively

The DB 15 assignment is both a summary and a paraphrase about the advantages and disadvantages of having all of the US. high school’s morning class schedules changed to start at a later date. Even though I have written several other assignments like this one in this class I felt like I wrote this one more clearly and effectively, because with this one I avoided parallelism as well as using the second person voice. For instance the beginning of my paraphrase starts like this; “ A teenagers brain differs from others, and starts later in the day, as well as stays alert well in to the night. So the problem for most high school students, is all of their classes that start earlier in the morning, but changing the class schedules could be very difficult.” As you can see I stayed clear of parallelism and use the second person, and kept my writing more clear and concise. Making my writing easier for my readers to understand.