Monday, December 6, 2010

Finals


I have already taken two of my finals on inqsit and I have four more to take next week! I really wish that I didn't have one on Friday so that I could go home early! My roommate gets done on Wednesday so she is going home after that. I am already worrying for finals week. I need to start studying! I wish we knew what our English final was too! Good luck to everyone during finals week!

SNOW!

We got our first snow of the year! I usually really like snow, but I've realized that I like it when I don't have to walk in class in it. It's gotten really cold here the past couple of days. I started bundling up in my clothes. I wore leggings under my jeans, wool socks, 2 sweatshirts and a jacket, and mittens today to stay warm. The worst part about walking in the cold is the wind. If the wind wasn't there I don't think it would be that bad. Anyways I have been trying to stay inside as much as possible cause I don't want to freeze! I can't wait to go home and have snow though because I will be able to go outside in the snow and then come back inside and drink hot chocolate!

Friday, December 3, 2010

Blog Assignment

Course Goals ~ Introduces and develops understanding of principles of rhetoric; basic research methods; elements, strategies, and conventions of persuasion used in constructing written and multi-modal texts. Upon completion of English 103 students will:
1. I feel like I learned that almost everything that we do is persuading. Everything that I write, say, or post means something.
2. I learned a lot about how to identify my audience. I learned how to appropriately address different audiences. I learned a of this when we did intensive reviews because I had to write and read others papers.
3. I don't really feel like a learned any new way to brain storm, draft, and revise. I feel like it has remained the same from high school.
4. Yes I feel like I learned a lot about how to properly back up my information and to give effective reasons for my ideas.
5. Yes I feel like I learned this in English and other classes here this semester.
6. Yes intensive reviews helped me be able to critically look at another work a lot. It was good to see what others thought besides just me and it got me thinking a lot more.
7. I don't really feel like the class concentrate on this, but I don't really feel like it needed to. I think that by college everyone should already know it is important to format and spell things in your writings correctly.
8. Yes I took a lot of responsibility in my own writings. I spent a lot of time on my writings and even went to the writing center to get extra help.
9. Yes working with others during intensive reviews helped a lot.

Course Content & Format ~ The content and format of English 103 are designed to enable students to achieve the course goals; specifically, students in English 103 will:
1. I feel like the class address a variety of topics to help me respond to ideas.
2. I feel like I improved in my ability to persuade in my writing.
3. I learned more about how to analysis writing through intensive reviews and I learned how to collaborate visual and written text in our weebly project.
4. Yes I learned how to rewrite my drafts and take the ideas and feedback I was given.
5. I think I improved on this this semester.
6. I am better at analyzing work now.
7. I feel like all the writing assignments helped me address different ideas and audiences.

University Core Curriculum Goals ~ The central purpose of University Core Curriculum is to enable men and women to live rich and satisfying lives and to undertake the broad responsibilities of citizenship in a free society. Although The University Core Curriculum seeks to discover and nurture individual talents, its primary emphasis is preparation for roles people share as human beings and as members of family and community groups. Thus, students will be able to:
1. I have never gotten so involved in some of my writings. I find myself looking for information up about it and wanting to keep up with the problems and issues I have wrote about.
2. I feel like I was able to communicate my ideas with others clearly and appropriately. I feel like overall as a class though I others did not communicate well with me or do their work properly.
3. I never had any problems with being sensitive to others ideas and thoughts.
4. I feel like I learned how to find new ideas about my topics and writing through other people and their experiences when editing.
5. I feel like my writings gave ideas about how we can solve world problems especially in my public writing assignment and weebly website.
6. I feel like I used my talents and passions to write about ideas that I cared about.