The HARDEST part about this project with the word maximum. Taking out all of the fluff and just getting to the point isn’t something we are told to do often. However, it was refreshing; just being able to type exactly what I mean and feel about the subject without having to politically correct or set up too much background information was really kind of fun. I also really enjoyed having to make a website. I think I will continue to write and post on it throughout my college career.
Month: November 2016
Brainstorming Op-Ed Topics
Unit One- Common Read Synthesis:
- college
- social vs. academic life
- out of state troubles
- quest
- race
- hate crimes
- election
- Black Lives Matter
- Native Americans
- pipeline protests
Unit Two- Rhetorical Analysis of Op-Ed:
- global warming
- importance of endangered species
- make less of a footprint
- walking
- palm oil
Unit There- Argument:
- parenting style
- is everyone a winner?
- spoiled generation
“Well this sucks …” -Penguins in Madagascar
When I read what I have of my paper so far, these are my thoughts:
My paper is tragic and late and I don’t turn things in late and what is even happening.
My paper would be on time and fine and not sucky if I didn’t have to do research. Because really my opinions are better than research anyways. Jk. Not really. But seriously I am just having trouble finding legit sources that I could use in an academic paper. Partcipation trophies seems to be a war of parenting style and most of “sources” are blogs and opinion columns about the issue.
But the sources isn’t even the real problem. I have some good sources from two different credible newspapers so I can make something out of that. But I have simply lost all motivation to do anything. This entire unit I have felt swamped and school is slowly beating me like a pinata.
Also, the “peer review” did not help. I felt my intro was fairly strong, but I wrote the rest of my paper in about two hours the night before our rough drafts were due and only one person gave me feedback, instead of the four people I should of had, and he told me to change Edison to Thomas Edison because some people might not know who I am talking about. Although I may be a strong writer, what I gave him to evaluate was the epitome of a shitty first draft.
Hopefully I will turn the paper in on Monday and hopefully I will feel confident in it and hopefully I won’t drop out of school. But we can never be too sure. So until then, enjoy this accurate representation of me and this paper … I bet you can guess which one I am
Peers are Slacking
This peer review sucked. I gave my paper to three people because our fourth member didn’t even come to class to get the paper. Only one person even looked at it and gave me any feedback. His only comments were “you might want to say Thomas Edison instead of just Edison.”
Literally my peers are useless.