Month: November 2016
Unit 4 Reflection- Op-Ed blog post 11/16
This unit was a little bit complicated because I am still trying to get used to blog spaces even though it is November, but it was really neat being able to write like this. I really enjoyed this unit because it was so different. Although it was challenging at first, I got pretty good at formatting and other things on the blog space. Writing for a different audience was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be because I already had original ideas in my head from writing my argumentative paper. It was difficult not to repeat myself from my paper and to make it more opinionated. I am not used to writing opinionated articles, but I actually enjoyed it. I am also proud of myself because I got my formatting and pictures to look exactly like I wanted them to and it was a lot simpler than I had expected.
Daily Write- Op-Ed Gallery Walk 11/14/16
Today’s gallery walk was extremely helpful because my classmates gave me a lot of ideas to further edit my Op-Ed. Their encouragement helped me a lot because I did not feel like it was as good as it could be. It was helpful to walk around and look at how others formatted their opinionated articles and see others views.
Brainstorming Op-Ed Ideas
Unit 1:
Common read synthesis essay
-College identity and how it changes- out of state student example
-Racial identity- profiling/ black lives matter/ race in the election/ hopewell church burning
-Journey/quest
-Native americans- pipeline protests
Unit 2:
Rhet. Analysis Op-Ed
-Anne Frank Today is a Syrian Girl
-racial profiling
Unit 3:
Argumentative
Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered
-current things happening with alcohol or underage drinking?
-teenage rights
Unit 3 Reflection 11/4/16
Writing this paper has helped me realize that I honestly am a good writer and I have grown tremendously in my ability to research. The library website has also helped me so much with finding specific things. I have also gotten a lot better at citing sources and giving credibility and ethos to authors. Seeing my progress as a writer has helped me by encouraging me by seeing how far I have come already. My counterclaim argument have me a few challenges here and there, but I am happy with how it turned out and what I ended up writing about. I had challenges with finding a topic that I wanted to write about and that I could write a lot about. I ended up changing from my original topic because it was not specific enough, but I am happy with what I ended up writing about. Writing is definitely a process and I have learned that more and more as I struggle with patience and time management. I really liked when we did the memes about our papers also because it helped me realize that I was not the only person struggling.
Daily Write 11/2/16
The peer review assigned this week was actually not very effective because none of my group members were here on Monday. When my partner looked over my paper on Wednesday, it was very effective and helped me expand a lot on my research and gave me different ideas to write about.