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High School
This would be the last essay I ever took in High School using what I was taught for all those four years it was easy for me to pass it with flying colors. Of course I was taught how the TAKS test wanted my essay done. This ment 5 paragraphs, correct and proper grammer, spelling, an introduction, main idea along with two supporting details, and of course a ATTENTION GRABBER!!!! Little did I know what I have been taught about essays would no way prepare me for college. -
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Killing my Brain with Summer
About here was summer nothing really important idk why you clicked here so kiitah fasezzz ;3 -
Rhetorical Analysis
When I got in to college it had been a while since I wrote anything, but yet I had what our High School teachers have trained us day in and day out what to believe burned into my brain. I did what felt to me as normal and did what I normally did a 5 pharagraph essay, topic sentance, thesis, main idea, ATTENTION GRABBER!!!! I did the attention grabber even though our Proffesor, Mr. Garcia, instructed us not to. This just goes to show how deeply embedded this was in my freshman head. -
Rhetorical Analysis (cont.)
This essay required us incoming freshmen to "look past the facade." It was quite difficult to understand at first but when you really look at something that is produced there is always a Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos- the ethical appeal. Pathos- the emorional appeal. Logos-the appeal to logic or reason. I ended up making a 73 on the essay, yet I walked away with more information than I previously had with teachers tips and insight about writing I felt more confident about my future essays. -
The Writing Process
In this writing essay we all read about Perl and her idea of a writing process. This allowed me to view what I have previously done in my past and what I am doing now. This let me see how I workded and discover what process worked best for me. This showed me that what I was generaly taught in High School is wrong there is no right way to write. There is a gerneral way but there is also so many other ways none could be claimed as a single correct form -
Abstract
Well I got a 60 on my abstract but I can honestly say I'm proud of it this was the first time I ever did a abstract. I now know how to do abstracts thanks to this failure. I know now that an abstract contains very important things and it will be the thing read by your audience to show basically the direction of how your paper will go. -
References
An eight out of ten isn't that bad unless that's a sixteen I really don't know. But just like the abstract this is my first time I have every written a reference page like this. As much as it pains me to say this, I kind of like this it gives my paper so much more bulk. The reference page gives you all your resorces and what you have learned from it. This makes it easier so that when you state your opinion in a text you have your reference to back it up. -
Pecha-Kucha
From doing the Pecha-Kucha I learned that a pecha-kucha isn't a rare fish from japan but a very effective form of giving a speech while having no real effort put into it other than pictures and a snazzy transtion slide and just talking. -
Dipity
The Dipity is this prodject since like many of my other peers, it didn't work for me. Basically what I learned from this is that I should be prepared for whatever might happen. -
The Community Ethnography
I haven't turn this in yet, but still I use everything that I have learned up to this point to make changes and edit my paper. From my writing process to how I actually form my paper and of course the most recent thing I learned how to use athority in my paper. Its alot of work come to think about it but it seems just to come to me now, now i know who to write like a college student :)
