Rereading my pre-semester assignment opened my eyes to how much I’ve improved my writing skills. Throughout the semester, I learned how to quote readings correctly, organize my writing, and synthesizing ideas. In rewriting the assignment, I was able to merge these new skills. At first, in the introduction, I strengthened my thesis, by adding the details that were mentioned in the essay. This way the reader can get an overview of what the overall passage in about. Also, I quoted the article and…
Words 456 - Pages 2
1301, I was presented to several writing methods that were new to me and I was able to recognize and work on my weaknesses in writing throughout brief assignments, in-class activities, homework, and instructor feedback. Firstly, at the beginning of the course, the instructor gave us three articles and students had to choose the one that they feel more comfortable with to analyze during the semester. I chose the article “Lost in America” by Douglas McGray, which in my opinion was the most interesting…
Words 537 - Pages 3
First Assignment Analysis I did not include a page number (Chang 1) on the top right of the journals nor the cornell notes I typed the course code incorrectly, it should be ENG 1D1Ya; I did not include the lowercase a. I did not click enter in the header of the assignments for the information on the top left hand corner of the first page I bolded and underlined the title of the journal, in MLA there is no bolding and underlining In the cornell notes I wrote the chapter number (chapter 2) for all…
Words 633 - Pages 3
one well. Unfortunately, I got a late start on my project one assignments because I didn’t quite comprehend what was the expectation as it related to the group assignment. Furthermore, my current grade is evidence to me that I did not executed project one at the best of my ability, hence the need to approach project two differently. The IWAs and reading journals except the annotated bibliography portion were beneficial to me in my project 1 assignments. The IWAs was helpful because it prepared me…
Words 432 - Pages 2
In order to accomplish the course learning outcomes, I agree to all of the above and to be: Concise and clear, an active listener, open-minded and challenging. Course Activities and Assignments 1. Activities and exercises. 2. Lectures and assigned readings. 3. Participation in groups/class projects. 4. Analysis Papers to evaluate behavior in your assigned group. Class Policies 1. Attendance: You may miss one class for whatever reason. All misses beyond that will result in the loss of 25 points…
Words 1355 - Pages 6
English 1301. However, my expectations for this class were exceeded. I learned a lot from this course and developed skills such as differentiating between whether a source was bias or not, and correctly citing resources. Like every other student, my aim was to get an "A" in this course. However, this semester I tried to focus on the material more than the grade itself. That really helped in improving my writing skills as well as my analysis skills. Also, the weekly reading assignments came in handy because…
Words 308 - Pages 2
Assignment 4 poses some challenges, such as interpreting most of the rhetorical techniques used and making sure that I could clearly communicate what impact the image had on me. Before this assignment, I was well aware of many techniques used in the photograph, but there were still some that I discovered through this writing assignment. For example, I knew that colors and photo composition played a large role in how an audience member perceives a photo, but I didn’t know it could impact a photo in…
Words 456 - Pages 2
Difference People Love, the reason why I didn’t finish the book completely was because of lack of time. My sister and I are taking the same class so we share the book to avoid spending more money on another book. She first started reading the book, and took her a lot of time. When it was my turn to read the book, I didn’t have much time. I tried to read the most of it in order to do the assignments. I really just missed a couple of pages but I can say I really got most of the book. I know this isn’t…
Words 379 - Pages 2
The timing in class was hard because in other classes I was so used to turning in assignments at anytime but in this class it was a challenge to do my work on time. At the end I started to slack off and i couldn’t finish my work. I need to improve on not wasting my time and to focus. I didn’t really write my best so I need to improve on my writing and to write as best as I can. A challenging assignment was analysis…
Words 389 - Pages 2
To go along with the Censorship Unit, which was a series of note taking and writing responses to questions concerning censorship, one assignment that helped further my insight on censorship is the Banned Book project using the book Absolutely, Positively Not, by David Larochelle. This particular assignment taught me how to judge the reasoning on why the specific book is either challenged our already banned because of what was instructed to do. The Banned Book project consisted of reading a banned…
Words 482 - Pages 2