READY OR NOT, HERE I COME!

Only one more week of school and one week of finals until the relaxation and the warm summer sun. However as the end of the school year approaches I ask myself am I ready for Eng 104? Has my writing developed effectively and am I ready to take on the new challenges next fall? I know I can honestly say I have tried my best and worked to the best of my abilities in this course. I can notice a significant difference in my writing, and just how more easier writing is. I use to dread writing a paper, but I believe now it really is not that freighting. I have learned the right approaches to take when forming ideas; like using a clusters or a web. I have become 100% better in locating academic sources and citing them in my paper. For most of my papers, I would use Academic Search Premier, to find scholarly journals and see where those ideas take me. I have learned how to incorporate appeals into my papers such as: logos, pathos, and ethos. Even my mother who will occasionally read a paper or two of mine even expressed my growth and development in my writing skills.
With this year coming to an end, we are preparing our final portfolios for this class. These portfolios are one last look to see how our work demonstrates our best writing we have done in this course. I have chosen to do projects one, two, and three. I am trying my best to rethink, and revise my papers and ideas. Like they always say practice makes perfect!

Conjunction Junction

This week in class while reading papers out loud we focused on grammar. Grammar is the most common mistake found in papers. Grammar has always been a tough subject for me; and I still have to go back and check that each of my sentences has a subject and a predicate. A sentence must express a complete thought. A sentence could be as simple as “Dogs bark.” The noun being dogs, and the verb being bark. What I struggle the most on is commas, semicolons, and colons. I always get these confused, and some times use the wrong one. A comma connects and links the sentence. (I love English, but I hate math.) A semicolon links related independent clauses. In addition, a colon links independent clauses that define or explain each other. (My favorite class are: English, History, and Science.)

However, when it comes to grammar, no one knows it better than School House Rock! We all remember this animated musical educational short film. The topics covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. Airing on Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network ABC The series produced original episodes between 1973 and 1986 with 37 episodes. The famous “conjunction junction what’s your function” is well remembered, and the catchy tune that will never be forgotten. Just incase you need a refreshment of this song, the video is below!





- Works Cited -

BallPoint 7.2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo

Revisions

Revision means to see again, revision are the idea to look carefully at all aspects of the paper. This week we have focused our time on revisions. Each class, two students were able to read aloud their papers, allowing them to see any errors they have made, and for constructive criticism. When reading aloud you hear how your paper sounds, and could catch many silly errors. Classmates then look at the writing program grading continuum, and are assigned a current topic such as: convincingly, thesis, organization, development, syntax, research, mechanic, and format. The readers get much more feedback then how we use to do revisions. Usual we would only have a short feedback from only about two or three students. This way everyone gets to really think about each other’s papers and give helpful feedback. Although this method takes so long, I really enjoy this beneficial way to revise and rethink papers.

Relaxation

This week, class was a relief and very relaxing. It is always a relief to present a project and know you have completed it to the best of your ability. In this case, but not always others, we worked as a team to get our project accomplished. Andrew Carnegie once said, “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” I was nice to watch the other groups present and see what they did, and how they worked through the projects with the same goal. Though we had the least amount of fans, I believe we had the one of the most interacted pages with statues, pictures, and even a video. We had a total of 71 fans. Overall I think my team and I did a great job! Below is a video that is on the Carmichael facebook fan page. This video interview a couple individuals about there thought on the smoking section, and why they enjoy it!