May 2012
5 posts
Post #6 continued
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...
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...
Untitled: The presentations for our projects that... →
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!
clarissewilder:
The presentations for our projects that we had to do were actually pretty...
Creative Journal: Writing Process →
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!
dthao7eng130:
Throughout the writing process of my inquiry essay paper, I learned...
Untitled: This course, English 130, was a pretty... →
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.
gartner3:
This course, English 130, was a pretty fun class. I learned a lot...
April 2012
8 posts
Post #5 continued
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...
Community: writing process →
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.
bbalestra:
After...
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.
elisedoumitt:
i have to turn...
Untitled: Progress →
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...
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...
Post #5
Peer revisions have helped me as a writer to have a have a better understanding of what needs to be done in order to have a well put essay. Plus when you are correcting others essays you better able to understand what needs to be done for your own essay. My consultation was due last Friday the 13th and I have already received my peer revisions. They were helpful and now I feel like I have a better...
My English 130 Journal: Peer responses →
vcasottienglish130:
I think it is great that we are doing peer responses for our papers. Most of the time we do not realize we made a mistake or that a sentence does not make sense in our papers, and so having others read it helps us see our mistakes. I think the more readers you have to edit your paper the better it…
I totally agree with you peer responses are a great way to help with...
Peer responses
Yesterday I finished my first peer response for my group. I hope that it is helpful to my group mate. These can be helpful or they can be useless depending on how the writer looks at them. They could take the groups advice and listen to what changes we give them or they can just ignore it and do whatever they had planned in the beginning. I hope that everyone and I know that I will be taking in...
March 2012
12 posts
Untitled: Florida →
I think that being in Florida might actually help your research. By just being some where you can actually learn a lot of good information. And the fact that 666 different fast food places showed up is truly amazing to me too and kind of sickening at the same time.
elisedoumitt:
Since Florida is a state with one of the highest obesity rates, Im hoping to possibly even get some of my research...
Untitled: My progress →
Those statistics are very helpful and surprised me a little. The one of your stats that scared me the most is that most rapes happen in the victims own home. If you are not safe in your own home then where can you be safe? They are all very good information to help you readers understand how important this issue is.
aferguson7:
So far I have been getting factual supports from the internet and I...
Progress
I finally found a perfect story! It is from the New York Times magazine. A women from north India was kidnapped from her village around the age of 10-11. She was then taken to a brothel with 13 other girls. She wouldn’t cooperate at first so they made her drink until she passed out and then send in a customer. The owners of the brothel also like to make the girls have children so the boys...
Research #3
I have started to research for some personal stories about human trafficking. I have found a few but none of them are what I’m really looking for. I know I will be able to find one I just need to keep looking. I tried going on to some newspaper and magazine sites and hopefully they will have one. I will keep looking over spring break too and once I find the right one I can start writing my...
My English 130 Journal: Post 3 →
I think that would be a good idea. Having a good back ground on steroids and how they affect athletes would be very helpful. Counterarguments are always a good thing to have in your papers too.
vcasottienglish130:
My research has been going along pretty well. For the most part I am satisfied with the sources I have but I think I should get a few more statistics that prove how bad steroids are...
Post #3
As I start to think about how I want to write my inquiry project I’ve realize that I have many good sources but think I am going to need some more. A good source that I will be looking for would be maybe a story of someone who has been trafficked and can explain what she had to go through. I feel like that would be a good way to help people understand what problems there are with being...
Research
These last few weeks I was researching human trafficking and mainly on the sex trade industry. Then for my last annotation I found an article that talked about forced domestic labor and started to think about how interesting that was. Now I am leaning towards writing my article more on forced domestic labor. I’m going to need to find some more articles about forced domestic labor now that I...
Untitled: Killer at Large →
I found what you wrote to be very interesting. I also agree with the idea that your weight also depends on your family lifestyle. I come from a family that cares a lot about being healthy but I also have some friends that come from a family who doesn’t and now here in college you can definitely now tell by their eating habits.
elisedoumitt:
So yesterday I watched “King Corn”, and it...
Untitled: This weekend I went back to my home town... →
I totally agree with you it’s so crazy how kids these days are acting and it seems so different them from when we were their age. I never remember doing any of the things I see young kids doing today. It seems like we were so much more innocent back then and I don’t know if that is really true or if I just don’t think what I was doing back then is as bad as what kids are doing...
Post #2
These past few months I have been researching modern slavery/human trafficking. The first few articles I read talked a lot about human trafficking and the sex trade. But the last article I read talked about forced labor trafficking and how it always gets put on the back burner and no one really knows how much of it is going on. The article talked about how the main stream media puts so much...
February 2012
5 posts
Genre
A genre is a kind, category, and a group of something. Anything can be a genre like movies, music, writing and art. Writings can have many different times of genres. What makes the writing a certain type of genre is based on the writer’s project or the message you are trying to say which consists of its form and content. It also is affected by the audience of the readers because depending on who...
Community
Being involved in a community is something that everyone is apart of. Everyone is involved in multiple different communities at the same time too. You have your family communities, your friend community, and any other clubs or hobbies you might be involve in as a community. Plus once within those communities they can be broken down into smaller communities like being a daughter, granddaughter,...
Untitled: Why A Community? →
I completely agree and don’t think that you can not belong to a community at all. Some how people will always be involved in some kind of community like their family or friends. And because we are involved in communities it makes the world a more interesting place to live and allows us to be whoever we want to be. It also lets us choose what communities we don’t want to be involved...
My English 130 Journal: YouTube video and the... →
I agree!! It is scary how much people today rely on the internet. I personally don’t think we would be able to survive without it. Think about how much we use it even with simple things like the new iphone and now being able to ask questions like how many Chinese restaurants are close by or stuff like that? Do we really need to know why can’t we just drive around and find one? The...
After watching the YouTube video it started to get me thinking. By having all the technology we have today we are able to do and see so much stuff. But being able to do all the things that we are able to is that an advantage or disadvantage? Yes you are able to communicate via video chat with someone hundreds or thousands of miles away but it also allows people to create fake identities about who...
January 2012
1 post
