Archive for January, 2008

Week Four

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I feel that my revisions done to my final truly helped make it better then my rough! I feel that I defiantly appealed more to my audience, the editors after each main point. I also feel that changing my criterion of one paragraph helped it to not be as vague. Lastly defending My CA and R made my final much better. Over all I feel that my final draft is to my best abilities. My writing process began with me brain storming on the wiki and getting ideas from other classmates. I then started to write my rough and after you  commented I made more revisions on it my self, to make the final draft. Next time I would like to work more on an outline during my brain storming.Therefor when it comes time to write my rough draft im well prepared.

  I see essay 2 building upon essay 1 the critique by taking the process of summarizing as we did before and now adding another step on to it. For instance this other step would now be synthesizing. Essay 1 will help us in Essay 2 when we need to compare the summaries of all the contexts and give the gist on what we feel.

Week 3 / Wiki

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

     I have never used anything like the wiki before. I have found it to be a very fun and helpful tool to use. The wiki is very easy to use for collaboration. All you have to do is simply click edit and  then your set to make changes to the page. All these collaborations help  to make the best possible essay. It is always better to get other peoples incite and  ideas on what they are thinking, to make a good essay. That is why “Group Work” is an important pat of a writing class. I’m sure there are many main objectives to assigning group work but I think the main objective is to get students really thinking critically. Another objective could be to see how and why others think things the way they do. I feel that “group work” is very rewarding and helps me to write a better essay every time.

“Real World” Essay 1

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

      There are several real world circumstances that I have used criteria to make a certain decision. A few circumstances where I used criteria is when I was picking a college, deciding a major to study in, and deciding what sorority to join. However picking a college was where I took a lot of criteria into mind. The first criterion was if the college had what I wanted to study in. The second criterion was if it was a big campus or not. Thirdly was the criterion of if it was a safe and clean environment. Next was the criterion of distance and how close campus was from my home. Lastly was the criterion of social life on campus. For example I wanted a campus that had several clubs and organizations that I could get involved in. I was debating between OSU and BGSU for my college carrier. All of this criteria helped me to break each campus down and see the positives and negatives of both. I decided that BGSU had more criteria that fitted what I wanted with a college experience. With out having this criteria to base my decision off of it would of been a lot harder to pick between the two colleges.

Week 1 reflections

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

   My expectations in this course as a student are to succeed greatly in  my writing and for others to clearly understand the point I’m trying to get across. I expect to learn how to critique and synthesize papers more easily. Last semester I succeed in audience and organization  greatly. I would again like to succeed in those areas and be able to read an article and put it in my own words for my writing. I had a great experience with Amanda last semester and I expect that she will again help me to do the best  I can in English 112 in a very organized way!

Hello world!

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

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