Week 15
15) Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. Introduction On the first day of class we played a game, the game was called the Guessing Game. I will be talking about how the Guessing Game helped us learn and grow more than what people gave it credit for. I will talk about how it brought our class together quicker, created bonds between my classmates that helped each other strive, and it really showed how each of us portrays ourselves. Guessing game On the first day of the semester we played the Guessing Game. We all had to write on a piece of paper a secret that no one would know about us. we then wrote all of the secrets on a piece of paper, and had to walk around the room and guess if this was something that they've done. Reflection Being the first time I was back in school for two years, I was quite nervous returning. When I was told I have to write a secret of something I've done I wanted to think of something that no one would really expect me to do. I wrote down the secret that I was the one who stole four bikes on my junior year. When it was time to walk around the room I was very curios to what people may think of me. When I approached the first person all that was running through my head was I wonder if they are going to guess something good or bad about me, When I approached Sean, I looked at him and was able to guess that he rode dirt bikes on my first guess. I was actually really surprised and it showed that you really can sometimes guess what a person is by their cover. This lead me to being more anxious thinking that Sean would reply and guess that I stole 4 bikes on my junior year. I was hoping that I did not portray myself as the kid who is a thief. When Sean finally took his guess he went with I was the person who had a librarian find their fake ID. Now that didn't bother me because I do actually enjoy to have a few drinks every so often, but Sean was not able to guess that I stole four bikes on his 2nd try, or 3rd. I remember he made it almost through the whole list before he guessed that I was the person who did that. This made me feel a lot better about myself, it showed that I do not look like a crappy person. After the Guessing Game was over I've meet over half of the class, and all of the other students did the same. I actually was about to hold conversations that I never would of had with some of my classmates, if we never played this game. This lead to a whole lot less awkward feeling when I had to comment on someones blog for the first time, because I have already meet the individual and already had a full conversation with them. Having these early bonds also helped me message some one when I forgot to write down the homework. I already had multiple people that I felt comfortable with and I was able to message them for the homework with out them going who is this stranger asking me what the homework is.
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Week 14
14) Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. Introduction The focus of this blog, is to be a informative, and supporting blog. This blog will talk about how the English Composition I class is ran, and the importance of each blog. I will be going through each of my weekly blogs not summarizing them, but saying the importance, and how, each blog has guided, and taught me how to complete the semester, and become a better writer. Reflections Week 1) The Proust Questionnaire Our first blog of semester, we were able to introduce and meet many of our classmates for the first time. Doing our first blog really helped us learn a lot about our class mates. This also allowed each of us to learn the groove of due dates, and how we must manage our time, if we wish to succeed in this class. The Proust Questionnaire also thought me things about my self I remember answering questions and not knowing the answers to them even though they were about myself. It showed how we are going to have to learn more about ourselves, which set all of us on the rest of our life-choice blogs, and our Life-Choice Memoir. Week 2) Writing Process Quote Collage On week two, we were able to get a feel for how the class would be ran, we had to meet another due date, which showed that the due dates are going to have a pattern to them. This week we also learned a lot about the importance of our writing process, by looking at famous writers talk about their writing process. This week also reminded us how to use quotes correctly. Being reminded how to use quotes correctly really helped through the semester especially when I had to do my research paper. Week 3) Life Choice: The Powers That Be? On week three, we learned that we will have the same due will stay the same every week. Week three also provided us with skills on being able to read and annotate a reading which will provide us with skills needed in our research paper, and for many other activities in class. This blog also had us to begin thinking of the life choices that we make which will later become one of the main supporting blogs, in our Life-Choice Memoir. Week 4) Life Choice: To Tell the Truth? On week four our blogs were based off of another life choice question, this blog was a little bit different because we were not annotating a reading, but we annotated an audio clip, What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang). I've never had to do something like this before, but I found it to be very useful because I was able to hear the actual emotions that were suppose to be portrayed. This also helped set me up for my Life-Choice Memoir. Week 5) Life Choice: Should I Stay or Should I Go? on week five, I learned the importance, of having a theme, and how to show a story instead of tell a story. In the story my story Circles, I used Hills Like White Elephants, as a reference on how to show a story and not tell a story. Week 6) Life Choice: Is This My Tradition? Even though week six was another Life Choice blog that should of been more beneficial to my Life-Choice Memoir, I found this blog to be more helpful for my research paper, I decided to write about gun control and actual had to do research to back up my opinions. Blog six was almost like a mini informal research paper. 7) Life-Choice Memoir Reflection wow, week seven. Week seven was a very meaningful week, I finished my first draft of Circles, and I learned the importance of reflection. Blog seven really had me focus on the way I wrote my paper, and made me think if it was beneficial the way I did it. It also for the first time made me think on how I was going to improve my writing through revision. Week seven taught me a lot more than just how to reflect though. Week seven was the week I realized that I had to have better time management on my life, I will have to spend more time on my papers, and If I do not stay on top of my work I will not reach my grade goals. Week 8) Midterm Reflection week eight, I decided to relax for a week, I had to option to do a video blog, but honestly I just didn't feel comfortable doing it so I didn't. I could of learned some things from week eight, but I failed to take an advantage of my opportunity. Week 9) Summary of Where to Invade Next week 9 gave me a lot of experience in summarizing. This was an extremely crucial week because it lead me to try and organize my blogs in a creative way. It also gave me experience in picking out the important information out of a large amount of information. and condensing an entire video (Where to Invade Next) into paragraphs. This was a skill that I had to do for my research paper, not just for this class, but for my other classes as well. Week 10) Where to Invade Next? An Argument. This week I learned to importance of how to create a research question. I learned that I have to have a topic, then with the topic I need to make a research question, and then after the question I must argue my point. Week 10 to me was honestly just a fun blog in my eyes, I was about to argue my point which I enjoy doing to begin with. Week 11) Annotated Bibliography I'll be honest I did not enjoy this week, but I must say this was by far the most helpful week, when I had to work on my research paper I already had six sources summarized, evaluated, and I knew how I would use them in my research paper, These six sources were originally almost all of my sources in the first draft of WORK, Work work. Week 12) Research Paper Reflection The last required blog I had to complete, lucky number 12. This blog was identical to blog 6, I do recommend changing the question up a little bit, because I felt it strange to have to watch the video Reflective Writing, for a second time. Besides that week 12 allowed me to reflect on my research paper, and it's interesting comparing blog 6, and blog 12 to see the differences that people made. Week 13
13) Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. Introduction In the reflection that I've provided below, I will be talking about the importance of revision, and how I never had to revise as intensely in any other classes, like I've done in this class. This paper will also focus on How the revision of my Life-Choice Memoir Circles evolved through out the semester. Reflection In the semester that I've spent in the class I've learned many skills, but in this blog post I want to talk about the skill I believe to be most Important. The skill I learned the importance of, is to continuously revise my work, and writings. I remember when the first time I had to hand my first draft of Circle. I thought my content was solid and I was only going to have to revise maybe 5 minutes of work, before handing in my final copy. I quickly found out that that wasn't true, there was room for improvement everywhere. I then completed my 2nd copy of the Circles, after about 3 hours of taking out paragraphs and adding completely new ones, thinking this was going to the final draft. Quickly after handing in my 2nd draft it came to my acknowledgement that I could make my Story even more vivid, and entertaining. This lead me to complete my 3rd and final version of Circles, and here I would once stand thinking that Circles is a masterpiece, and unable to get any better. I now know that even my final copy of Circles will still be able to be edited, and if it wasn't for the sake of time I could probably create 50 more drafts before I had it close to perfect. "If shake spear was still around he would still be revising Romeo and Juliet" -Sabatino Mangini I'm not sure if anyone remember's this quote from the middle of the semester, but this is one of the thing's that I will be able to take with me through the rest of my life, we will never have a perfect copy of anything, but the earlier you start a project the more time you have to revise to reach your goal. The importance of starting early and revising our work is something that I cannot just forget about, It's something that I must strive to constantly do for my following semester's if I hope to achieve my goals of being a successful person, graduating college, and having a great paying job, so that I will not be one of the people who get stuck in the Rut, of working to just pay their rent, and working there hands down to the bones, until they cannot continue to work anymore. Lastly I would like to thank everyone in my group, hoping that at least one of you guys read this. I hope you all learned the importance of revision and, good luck to everyone on your next semester. Week 12
12) Research Paper Reflection [Categories: Research Paper, Where to Invade Next, Reflection]: Please complete the following:
Introduction After writing the first draft of my research paper, I watched the video Reflective Writing, I will be annotating the video Reflective Writing by SkillsTeamHullUni. This blog will also answer the above questions with thoughtful answers. Annotate Reflective Writing After watching the video Reflective Writing by SkillsTeamHullUni I found out that reflective writing is primary about looking at past events and learning from your mistakes, to correct them for your future events. You also need to focus on your thoughts and feelings to reflect on why I am making these decisions in my writings, compared to asking yourself what, when, who, and where. Most importantly you should be learning making your reflections which this segment from the video shows how you should properly use reflection to maximize your learning. Provide thoughtful answers to these questions:
**Introduction and Annotated Reflective writing was originally from blog #6** Week 8
8) Midterm Reflection [Category: Reflection]: Please complete the following:
Week 7
7) Life-Choice Memoir Reflection [Categories: Life Choice, Memoir, Reflection]: Please complete the following:
Introduction After writing the first draft of my life-choice memoir, I watched the video Reflective Writing, I will be annotating the video Reflective Writing by SkillsTeamHullUni. This blog will also answer the above questions with thoughtful answers. Annotate Reflective Writing After watching the video Reflective Writing by SkillsTeamHullUni I found out that reflective writing is primary about looking at past events and learning from your mistakes, to correct them for your future events. You also need to focus on your thoughts and feelings to reflect on why I am making these decisions in my writings, compared to asking yourself what, when, who, and where. Most importantly you should be learning making your reflections which this segment from the video shows how you should properly use reflection to maximize your learning. Provide thoughtful answers to these questions:
2) Writing Process Quote Collage [Categories: Writing Process, Reflection]: Please copy and paste the following bullet points into blog post and complete the following:
Introduction
Today I'm going to talk about a few quotes from the readings The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova), Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) and Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury). The quotes are going to explain how the writer's writing process goes. Provide 3 quotes about the writing process from each reading. 1)In the writing The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers E.B White said "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper" This shows prewriting because E.B. White will just start writing what comes to his mind. 2)After a long day of Writing Jack Kerouac says "I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day" This is clearing how Jack Kerouac revises the work that he has accomplished in his day. 3)Maya Angelou revises her work when after dinner is cleaned up she says "I read what i wrote that morning. And more often than not if I've done nine pages I may be able to save Two and a half or three" 1)In the writing Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life E. L. Doctorow says "writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way". This is how E. L. Doctorow Prewrites. 2)Anne Lamott says "the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them". This shows how Anne Lamott writes drafts, and edits them. 3)Anne Lamott says "when someone reliable gives you this kind of feedback, you now have some true sense of your work's effect on people, and you may now know how to approach your final draft. If you are getting ready to send your work to a potential agent for the first time, you don't want to risk burning that bridge by sending something that's just not ready" this shows how Anne Lamott is getting ready to start the publishing process. 1) In the writing Zen in the Art of Writing Ray Bradbury says "Almost every Writer I've ever known has been able to find someone who could be both a friend and a critic" this shows that most writers edit because a critic will show them mistakes for them to make Improvements 2)Ray Bradbury writes "You stumble into it, mostly. you don't know what you're doing, and suddenly, it's done. This shows how Ray Bradbury prewrites by just starting to write ideas of his life and then he finds the path he needs to complete his work 3)Ray Bradbury wrote down " THE LAKE. THE NIGHT. THE CRICKETS. THE RAVINE. THE ATTIC. THE BASEMENT. THE TRAP DOOR. THE BABY." This is a form of prewriting and it gave him ideas and even made him learn more about himself to become a better writer. Personal writing processes
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