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I have really enjoyed watching everyone’s presentations. I like how you get to learn about what everyone else’s community is about. They are always really interesting and I enjoying hearing about the different communities that everyone in the class have worked so hard on researching and writing their inquiry paper. It is crazy to think about how fast this semester has gone by. It was such a nice feeling when i finished my inquiry paper after being so stressed out about and spending almost all of the semester researching it. My community is modern-day slavery and before I started to research it I did not know much about it. I feel like it’s a good idea to always pick something that you find interesting and that you also do not know that much about because it keeps you interested while you are also learning something new at the same time. It is always a good idea to pick something you do not know about because then you will be constantly learning new things which is something you should always do. With my community I picked I have learned so much new things I did not know before. I was not aware that human trafficking happened within the United States which I think is something most people do not fully understand themselves and that it even is happening here in Chico which is really scary to think about. And now I feel very strongly about my community and feel like I should try to educate more people on the issue because that is one of the main issues with human trafficking that many people are not aware that it is occurring.
Post #6
I have learned so much this past semester in our English 130 class. This class has been very helpful in teaching me how to become a better writer. In high school I did not have very good english teachers they mainly focused on grammar which is important but it dose not teach you how to write a good paper. I feel like I have learned so much more about my writing this year and the importance of a good thesis statement in a paper. I also really liked we had to start working on our research early on in the semester because I am a really bad procrastinator and will usually wait until the last minute to start working on a paper or assignment and this makes me be productive with my research. One other thing I really found helpful in this class was the peer responses because reading other students work and correcting it not on grammar but on how well is its unity and coherence and on whether or not there paragraphs flow well with each other is not just helpful to the writer but also very helpful for the corrector as well. When your are correcting someone else’s work you learn so much more about what needs to be done in your writing. I also really like that we go to tell the students and explain to them about what we said so they can have a better understanding of what they need to fix.
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I also think the e portfolios where a really good idea and I like how you can be as creative as you want. The presentation are a good way to show everyone in the class what you have been working on this semester. I found the presentations everyone has done to be very interesting too and fun to listen too!
The presentations for our projects that we had to do were actually pretty interesting and it was cool to see and learn about all the different topics that people chose to do for their paper. There was a definite variety with what has been shown in class and there are still my more presentations…
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I feel the same way! I always knew how important you thesis statement was but no one ever told me to write my thesis statement first. I always started with my introduction sentence and then wrote my thesis statement but writing your thesis statement first will be very helpful advice when I am writing other papers!
Throughout the writing process of my inquiry essay paper, I learned that the stronger my thesis statement the better my paper will be. Well, that is actually something that everyone knows but I kind of learned how to make my thesis statement stronger than before. Also, I found that a writing…
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I agree with you completely I have never spend this much time working on a paper before either. I really like how we had to turn in rough drafts and doing the peer responses really helped me have a better understanding of what needed to be in our papers. I definitely feel like this class really did help my writing.
This course, English 130, was a pretty fun class. I learned a lot about discourses, communities, and topics around the world. This course also helped me in my writing process. It helped me realize that I need to do a lot of research for the papers I write. I also need to take the time to sit down…
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I forgot to say before about how important and helpful i found reading my peer responses. All of my group members did a really great job giving me good feedback they didn’t just critique my essay but they also gave me good ideas on what else i could do to make my paper better. With that feedback it really gives you a better idea of what you can write about especially when you have writers block or are not sure of what to write about.
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I totally agree with you! I also feel like I have learned so much this year about my writing. Before this class I never realized how important unity and coherence is but now I totally understand. You cannot have a good paper if your information does not cohesive and your paragraphs need to flow well together for you to keep your reader interesting and want to keep reading.
After being in this class almost an entire semester i think my writing has strengthened tremendously. I feel like i have a better understanding of how to start essays, when that used to be my main struggle. In the past, i would write essays without paying attention to how it would be viewed by…
I was also a little nervous about my peer response too. But after i turned my paper in and got my peer response back none of them were rude or anything like that everyone was nice and gave good helpful feed back. You will be surprised by how helpful their feed back will be actually. By getting four different perspective on your paper you receive so many good ideas.
i have to turn in my paper tonight by midnight, and im finding it really difficult to finish up my last paragraph. Ive been working on it so hard that i feel like im running out of ideas, and i definitely dont want that to happen. I have enough pages to turn in, so hopefully tomorrow ill receive the help i need in order to perfect this paper. Im a little bit nervous to hear what my group has to say, but im also excited because i know their input will help me see through the readers eyes.
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I feel the same as you, this semester has gone by so quickly but I have learned so much. I also wish that i would have picked the last date too because I am a terrible procrastinator and now i am halfway done with my paper and have a ton of good ideas but have not started working on it yet. But i do feel like i have learned so much more about my writing in this class then i ever did in high school. It is also so amazing how much more different issues we have been learning about in this class just because of reader other classmates papers its crazy and i have really enjoyed it!
I cannot believe that this semester is almost over already! All of us have spent countless hours reading about communities, reflecting upon articles, researching for our papers and responding to one another’s thoughts and ideas about it all. It is crazy as to how much we have learned about one…
Post #5 Peer Responses
My peer responses have given me a better idea on what needs to be fixed in my paper. Now i feel like I have a way better understanding of what ideas worked in my inquiry paper and which ones did not work. I have not yet started rewriting my inquiry paper but i have been brain storming some new ideas that my group gave me and plan on working on fixing my paper and finishing it up this week and weekend. The peer responses definitely helped me a ton with my paper. Also besides my group helping me with their peer responses but also i have learned a ton by doing peer responses they give you a better understanding of what an essay needs. What i found the most helpful with the peer responses is that they don’t just asked to grammatically edit a paper but to think deeper and look into the unity of a paper and how well their ideas fit together. These small details are what makes a paper amazing and by learning how to edit other student’s paper like this will also teach you a better way to look at your own papers from now on when editing them. Personally I now believe that after this class i have learned so much more about writing. It’s not just about the grammatical part of your writing but also about the unity and coherence without unity and coherence it does not matter how grammatically correct your paper is if it does not have unity and make sense then your readers will not be able to understand what you are writing.
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