English101 Week 1 Assignment

In English 950/1101-350 one will join in collaborative exercises with their classmates and guided research. Students will use the Norton Field Guide and adventure their ways through CNM’s Library Database’s. Students will receive, ancillary readings, grammar handouts, and model essays from past students. While students will spend most of their time in a classroom, they will also have a chance to go to a computer lab and do research for their essays. Students will receive an assignment one week in advance and is due the following week on Wednesday but the instructor, Sue Fox, will accept it Thursday that week without any grade penalty. After the assignment is graded and handed back, revisions are allowed, students have one week from the point it is handed back, to fix and turn it in for a better grade. By the end of the term students will have written eight essays, the essay genres students will write are; a diagnostic essay, a literacy narrative, a textual analysis, an informative report, an argumentative essay, a proposal, a memoir or reflective essay, and an evaluation essay for the final. Students will be given three chances to earn extra credit as well; students can present their textual analysis to the class for ten points extra credit, one can also receive extra credit if the whole class participates in the course evaluation, and the student will have a chance to earn up

Directions:  Answer each question in a paragraph—be sure to give specific details and examples.  Remember that each of these questions has multiple parts to it.  You must type your responses out and hand it to me by the end of our class period.

Michael has had a very rough morning. It started during language arts class. Ms. Woods was administering a district wide language arts assessment, and Michael began arguing about the website that he needed to go on. Mrs. Wood's ignored him, and attempted to direct him back to the proper site.

Learning how to develop an outline before starting my essay is probably the biggest help. At the beginning, I thought you just start writing. I did not know to start with an outline. The outline helps me get my thoughts organized. I thought completing an outline would be redundant. Furthermore, the outline alone has improved my confidence.

A syllabus is a document created to outline a course and set expectations for the information to be learned and the work that is to be expected. The syllabus for English 111 gives us a clear idea of the activities that will lead to success in this course as well as those that will result in failure and punishment. The syllabus also contains general information on policies of the college as a whole including accommodations for students with disabilities, facilities provided for student use and attendance or participation policies.

My method has changed since this class. I always knew what an outline was but now I have implemented it into my pre-writing. Before, I write I try to make an outline of all of the topics that will go into the essay. After, the outline is finished, the biggest lesson I’ve learned to get my paper started is to simply start typing. It doesn’t matter

Making several drafts and outlines are very helpful to organize my paper. Before this course, I like to do free write. I just start writing, and add in information while editing. However, I start to create outlines for my writing. I found that creating an outline can help me organize my writing process and provides a full overview of my paper. For me, creating an outline after first draft is more helpful than start with an outline. Below is a picture of my AP outline. I created this outline after my first AP draft.

When I think of writing I think of peace and pressure all in one. I love writing when it's just me writing to myself releasing my frustration on to paper. I might write poems, letters, or just dairy entries but it's my peace filled moment. I start to think of writing as pressure when I thinking about writing anything anyone be sides myself will read. I have always pushed myself to do well in my writing courses yet I tend to fall short do to simple mistakes. I start to over think or over look simple things that make great impacts on my grades.

Emily Bazelon, “Why America Should Outlaw Spanking”, Writing in the Displines. A Reader for Writers. 5th ed. Mary Kennedy, William Kennedy, and Hadley Smith. Upper Saddle River.

I learned many new things from English 1102 class. It was not much fun but I learned some interesting things. For my research, I needed a topic that interests me. I first started to search topics from the chemistry field. I could not find any interesting topics then I came across an article that talks about how robots will take our jobs and every one would be jobless. After reading that article, I was really convinced that robots were bad for human society and people should be focusing on improving other fields such as medicine than wasting time and money in inventing a robot, which is one type of luxury and that, will take our jobs. So I chose this topic for my research. For further discussions, I started searching for some more article about robots not good for human society and I found that there was not much about the negative impact of robots in human society other than taking human jobs. So I was stuck but then I found an article that supports the robots. It was a good article and it explains how robots are useful in human society. The Article says that robots will create new jobs and benefit employers, government and disable people. I also found in one article saying that if robots will do our jobs humans can focus on bigger problems like finding cures for diseases, finding solution to prevent natural disasters and many more. Therefore, I decided to support the robot’s positive impact rather than supporting

Encompassed in this portfolio for the English 125 course are revisions of Project #1, “What Do They Have to Say?”, and Project #3, the research paper. The central reasoning for my decision to revise these essays is due to an interest I hold in their topics. These topics include the hidden dangers of the food industry, such as the mistreatment of animals, as well as the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States of America. These topics are similar in that they both revolve around food as well as an injustice in the world. When reading through these two essays, I noticed a great deal of structural errors as well as a few grammatical errors that I had not noticed prior. When reading through Project #1, I noticed that I had made a few

In the beginning of the essay, the outline is not the only thing that makes the essay better. It starts internally before one can even hold a pencil or type on a keyboard. One should think of what they are going to write, when they are going to write, and how they want to write. Once one does that they should find what works best for them and make them their rituals. Outlining can be a very advantageous ritual it actually may be the most helpful ritual a writer may have. An extreme example of a ritual is the ritual of the famous author Schiller. Although his ritual is odd he took a whiff of rotten tomatoes before writing. For most writers’ rituals are always necessary for the process. As Wyche puts it in her essay Time, Tools, and

I think an outline is a very good idea. I remember using an outline in high school and it made the process a lot easier. The ideas and evidence are all in your outline you just got to put it together into your essay. This outline is kind of like a check list making sure you expressed all ideas and evidence into your essay.

When I stop to think about what shaped me to make me what I am today I can only think of

Each week, I was given reading assignments in which I had to prepare for the following class. This allowed for the exposure to different styles, genres and form of writings. I had to critically analyze and evaluate numerous passages and make logical sense of the text. This in turn taught me how to cite evidence from text, have a good sense of judgment thus maintaining objectivity, recognize different arguments and form my own opinions. Along with this accompanied summary writing and paraphrasing activities. This was a real challenge for me as I struggled immensely week after week until I believed I had grasped how to do it properly. These critical reading activities has enhanced my critical writing skills in allowing me to learn how to write for different audiences, expand my vocabulary and improve my diction.