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Striving for the Perfect "A"

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When it comes to writing, I am no Martin Luther King. Recently in my English class, I read Dr. Kings “Letter to Birmingham” and noticed his perfect sentence structure, extensive use of vocabulary, and massive amount of feeling in his words. All of which I have never been able to convey in my writing. During my junior and senior year of high school, I would never receive an A on any essay. Why? Because my body paragraphs would not stick to my thesis statement, my use of vocabulary was mediocre, I never actually tried aiming for an A, and, most of the time, my spelling was wrong. I have come to a conclusion that up to this point, I have more weaknesses than strengths when it comes to writing. Do not get confused though; there is a strength I would like to talk about. During my junior and senior year of high school, both of my English professors told me that my titles are the best. Towards the end of my junior year of high school, I had to write a research paper about any topic I believed strongly in. I decided to write about reincarnation. After many hours of speculating on a title, it finally came to me. “Y.O.R.O; You Only Reincarnate Once.” It was clever and humorous. And because of this eye-catching title, I received extra points on my research paper. Hopefully you will consider this strength professor Brown. “Sahiba, does this website look familiar to you? It should, because you have copied your essay from someone else using this website. This is called plagiarizing.” According to a statistical research I did on high school plagiarism, 58% of high school students admitted to plagiarizing off the Internet. Regretfully, I was also a part of that 58%. I never took my time to speculate on a topic given for an essay. To finish the essay, I would plagiarize. In my whole high school career, I have gotten detention twice for copying someone else’s work. If you are wondering why I plagiarized in the first place, let me

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