WP1 Reflection For writing project one, I followed a relatively straightforward composition process from brainstorming through drafting. While I was trying to find a topic to write on for my outline, I was considering Leonhardt’s essay and was trying to focus on what he said to get ideas. Then, I discovered that the issue that needed to be addressed was not what he said about education and inequality, but it was what he didn’t say. While writing my outline, I focused on keeping Leonhardt’s essay in focus, while presenting my “I say” through personal experiences. I found the progression of starting with applications of Piketty’s first law of inequality to open to my topic of the exuberant cost of a college education, which forces many working-class families to remain stagnant. While I was developing my draft, I had to cut out paragraphs regarding the political stigma of education that Leonhardt briefly addressed, due to size constrains and a relative lack of personal background knowledge on the topic. I do not regret the decision, as it narrowed my focus on the essay and it helped cut what would have been my weakest link. Presenting my ideas as a response to some other person or group has been a challenging experience in my writing. The requirement of presenting my ideas as a response challenged me to brainstorm ideas based off a singular text, and to address that text. It forced me to critically read the text to decipher the author’s overall thesis, and his
Usually, reflections are one of my stronger suits simply because I am good at pointing out my own mistakes, of which there are plenty in the first essay of the year. However, my summer reading essay was by far not the worst essay I’ve ever written, but it expectedly had some faults. While I made some good points about the role of societal standards in a person’s obligations, i stopped before analyzing much further. There were also issues with my sentences, as some of them ran on for too long, giving my essay a droning feel. This also forgoes concision, one of the two main principles of essay writing. The mistake I made that was by far the least conducive to my claim, however, was spending a sizable portion of my essay recounting plot events,
Students reviewed order of operations (PEMDAS) during the warm up problem. During small group work, the students reviewed the steps for solving proportion problems.
The second project assigned consisted of developing the information we synthesized from our first project into our own argument. I had originally planned to write about the value of a liberal arts education because that is the model I have always expected to follow, but after completing my preliminary reading I realized that the exploitation of students by for-profit colleges was more compelling to me. The process of drafting the essay was simplified because I had a clear understanding of the larger issues involved, but making sure the essay was properly structured as an
One of the most engaging points that Leonhardt makes is the belief that someone’s economic class will greatly impact their decision on whether or not to go to college. This
The Vista courthouse experience was very informative. The only downside to this experience was not being able to stay and watch the proceedings in department 14. I really enjoyed watching how easily department 14 flows with the high volume of people. I didn’t understand the codes they were using, which made it harder to know what people were being charged. One thing I did notice just by sitting and trying to understand the codes was the appearance of everyone. Most people looked a little dishevel and like they were part of the lower SES. Another thing I noticed was the ability to navigate the court system that people displayed. It is easy to say that many of those people were not first timers. Most of them most likely have a length criminal
Writing is a form of communicational practice that grants the writer the ability to provoke conversation. Communication is the way that we are able to voice our ideas,” I wanted my students to find a way to talk back to those other writers.” (426 Sommers) Sommers wants her students to be able to develop the skills to debate and to not accept the social norm. She wants her students to be able to think on their own without others thinking for them,” Borrowing words from authorities had left me without any words of my own.” (423 Sommers) Being
Education has always been a key importance in my life, but I have had some challenges along the way. In August of 2013, I injured my left ankle, while at work and I would have never imagined the long road I would have ahead of me and how it would take a toll on my education. When I originally injured my ankle, I was told that it was just a simple sprain, that ended up not being the case to any extent. I was transferred from doctor to doctor to doctor, each one telling me something different, and each one being wrong about their diagnosis. The second physician I saw, but my first ankle specialist, repeatedly told me that he felt that I was lying about my injury and was only looking to get attention. This took a strong emotional toll on me, repeatedly being told that they could not
With an improvement in writing, there also comes an improvement in reading. The first reading assigned to us, “The Banking Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire, was one of the more difficult pieces of writing I had been asked to analyze throughout my career as a student. This course has provided me with the resources and skills to break apart readings piece by piece and understand them as well as apply them to my own life. I slowly became a better reader, finally realizing the use of annotations and the importance of re-reading texts until you can understand them. A better understanding of the readings gave me the ability to produce essays that are well developed
I showed that I accomplished the goal of knowing how to discover, develop, and explain ideas through writing processes that include generating, planning, revising, editing, and proofreading multiple drafts of a text in my discourse community analysis. The analysis was on my church, St. Luke Church of
On the Friday the 6th of January, I was very disappointed to be to be told about a silly and dangerous where chairs were thrown from the top window of WD302.
Throughout the quarter in UWP 1, I have learned that good writing takes time and multiple drafts to develop. In all of my assignments, I have revised and made at least 3 drafts before submitting the final. With each draft, I noticed improvement in focusing on one main topic. For example, in my literacy narrative, I was confused with the prompt at first, so my first draft was confusing where I talked about multiple experiences in high school. However, after going through peer reviews and edits, I decided on a single event that affected my writing the most, which was my Sophomore year of high school. The college literacy project focused on presenting information towards an audience. Before this class, I thought the best way of presenting information would be in the form of a text or essay, but after using a PowerPoint for my college literacy assignment, I was proven wrong. Giving advice to students is best presented in a clear, and straightforward manner, and PowerPoint
What I have learned these past eight weeks from your WEBD121 is reference. I learned where to go to understand what is going on in the computer. I was surprised to see things work in our assignments. I guess I expected to have more trouble with all the information provided in this class. When I would hook a thing up it seemed it would usually only take a little work to get it to work, and then pass inspection and grading. It makes sense that it would work, but with very little previous knowledge it seemed like it could take a genius to figure it out.
Before this semester, I didn’t know what was expected of me in a college writing class. I thought there would be tough requirements and the professor would assign around five to ten pages for every assignment. However, this semester isn’t as challenging as I thought and did make me feel prepared for the WRT102 class next semester, like accessing to the university’s library’s database, making a works cited page, and knowing the format for college papers. I actually liked this year’s writing class compared to the ones before, the topics are different and more interesting. My strengths in writing would be the organization of my ideas and how they are presented to the reader. Before I write, I would write out a simple outline for the paper. My
The reason that I enrolled into the introduction to writing course, or WRTG 101, is because it is required in order to receive my degree. I actually tried to avoid this course by completing the college composition exam through the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP); unfortunately, the University of Maryland University College’s (UMUC) credit by examination guidelines still require that students take WRTG 101, even if they get a qualifying score(“College Level Examination Program”, 2016). My writing skills were good enough to complete the exam with a qualifying score, so I definitely considered myself pretty good at writing. Before taking WRTG 101, my writing skills were decent, but now I feel more capable of applying the writing process,
Working on my project for the ITP-2i, the time allowed for working on the project, I allowed myself two days four hours each day in the afternoon. I thought it was possible to finish in two days. I reread the instructions, turned out; I was still in the middle of performing the project. Which I notice that now needed a lot of work because I did not completely read all the instruction.