End of semester reflection

1) I did all my work.

Although a vague statement, I did essentially accomplish all of the tasks given to me. No, I did not do every single summary on every article I read, but I did retain a lot of the information in my head and it helped with the process of writing my papers. Something that I enjoyed about doing the work for this class was that we were able to chose our own topics. That was a huge relief because it made the work fun and interesting. Compared to my CW1 class, this was a ton more influential to my life. Being able to voice my opinion on things that I enjoyed was pretty new to me so putting my interests into a paper form was kind of cool.

2) I did my best at all of it.

Eh. I work almost full time as well as being a full time student so often it's hard for me to make time to really look into revisions and format issues. I just write the content and think I can get by with that. I think I got a little too carried away within the "summeritis" when trying to write the Informative and Surprising essay. I do give a lot of things my all and try to work at it when it is not good enough, and that's what I did with my revisions to the Informative and Surprising paper. However, knowing I got a bad grade with that one, I did step my game up with the Rational Argument paper. I truly do not think I've ever made more drafts on any paper than I did with that one.

3) going forward...

Going forward I now fully and completely understand where to put my commas and periods when trying to cite a source in MLA format. (haha). But seriously, coming into this class I had seriously MLA issues, and coming out of it I'm much more confident in that! My writing skills have definitely improved and I can't wait to apply everything I've used from this class into future assignments or papers.

things to improve...

One can always improve. I'm sure my MLA will always need even the tiniest bit of help as well as my rhetorical analysis. I have a hard time trying to voice my opinion in a paper because I feel as though it is not credible. I now know how to apply my voice without sounding too pushy or that I'm of some wonderful influence in the world.

Thanks for the help and patience everyone! I really did enjoy this class. I hope everyone has a wonderful summer!!

Erin

Another Progress Report

Finally, I have finished my Classical Argument!

I think my handwork and research shows all throughout my paper. Since my argument's topic is about my major and minor, I think I've done a really good job on this since I can apply knowledge that I already have gained in other courses I've taken.

I'm excited to get feedback on what others and Dr. Kyburz think of my paper and what details need to be tweaked or changed. I can't believe this is the last project for this semester's class. Time flew by so fast! I'm excited to finish up this paper and be done with my first year of college. (And officially done with College Writing classes, too!)

Thanks for all the help and guidance throughout the way, everyone. Reading everyone else's blog posts were able to help me steer my projects in the right directions as well as make changes to my papers off of your feedback in the comments.

See everyone tomorrow in class!

Erin

Progress Report #1

This is my current progress report and this link is my rough draft.

By clicking on either of the "this"'s the link will bring you to my google docs page.

Very open to suggestions, ideas, comments and critiques. Thanks, guys!

After finding a few educational and popular articles I've finally begun summarizing and writing! I always feel like I'm so behind, but at least I'm making progress.


I think the Roast is really going to help my article because at the very end of the program Justin Bieber makes an "apology" to all the viewers about his downward spiraling career and all the legal altercations he has been in within the last three years that he hasn't been producing music. This shows exactly what I am trying to argue! A roast is getting all of the embarrassing and ridiculously stupid things one has done in their life, being put on blast for it, and 100% owning it. I think it says something when a person can laugh about the stupid things they've done and move on from it. This is what Bieber executed during the airing of his program. During the serious and heartfelt apology, Bieber tells the audience, "I've turned a lot of people off in the last few years, but I know I can still put out good music and turn everything all around." This shows that he is using all of his bad publicity to fuel what is about to come from him. He is determined to change the minds of the people that have petitions to send him back to Canada! But really, this kid is helping me out a lot more than I ever expected he could. 

Happy writing everyone, see you in class tomorrow!