spaced it!

I totally spaced on blogging last week so this is my blog for last week. I work to revise project 1 which wasn’t the best of my work. I should go back and edit that project some more since I redid it last week. I need more sources and details to bring my reader into what I am trying to get across. I need to go back and look at my outline of what the project 1 was asking of me to write on and include in my writing. I need to work on my project three. I failed to get my project three revised before class today. I have no good excuse as to why it’s not done. It will be done before I turn in my portfolio. I am going to work hard this week to catch up and get moving. Finals are coming up close so now is crunch time get things done. For this class that means my projects revisions and blogs. I have been pretty good at blogging. Last week was the first week I forgot which I am not happy about. I remembered on Tuesday on my way home but then forgot again over the Thanksgiving break. I will work on my project three this week. I have to find a whole new article. I have decide to do this because I changed my major so it’s only fitting to find a new article to fit with project 3.

week 13

We getting down to the wire with things the semester looking at revising three of the four projects that I have done. I need a lot of work on some of my project especially on projects 1 and 2. I never did attend the Billy Dancing classing because I never got e-mails back from the contacts left on facebook and the BSU handbook of clubs. I need more attributions in all my papers. I just finished up my project 4 revision papers. I like some of the changes I made but I am pretty sure I don’t have enough sources. I chose not to refer to the Beah book as a source. My topic didn’t work well I thought with my paper.

I am probably going to revise project 3 next maybe even find a whole new article if that allowed. Mainly because I recently just changed my major so that would affect the paper I need to write for project 3. I am going to take advantage of the library databases. It helped me find my article I used in the original paper I wrote for project three. It will be a challenge for me though because I am not applying rhetorical analysis while reading. I can honestly say I have learned about what type of writer I am from this class. I have a better idea of what needs improvement in my writing. Before this class I never really paid attention that my intended reader was. I always just though I wrote papers for people to read it and give their opinions and get a grade. I have read many papers that don’t interest me so that idea really helped me to understand what writers are doing when they write.

Assessment of writing

I would give Gardner a 5 for many reasons. She has good ideas about the impact that traveling to different countries can have on someone. I liked how she goes into detail about the going to Brazil and how it changed her as a person. She goes into detail why it’s important to travel and how it changes ones view on the world. She has a clear idea of what she wants to let her reader to know. She is persuading the reader to the travel if ever possible because of the benefits of it. She explains the language barrier had while traveling but how it didn’t affect the relationships she formed with the natives to the countries she visited.
She gives good visual aids with pictures that relate to the topic. She had many sources that give her creditability to know what she was talking about was researched and not just based on her word. She bounces around with ideas a little bit could be more organized. The mention of disease seems out of place by putting towards the ending of her paper is not necessarily were it fits best. The last two paragraphs should wrap it up her ideas and restate her point she is trying to get across.

All about writing

This week in class was all about writing and peer review. The peer review we do in this class is a lot more in depth then I ever went into in high school. I have found this peer review more beneficial to me when go backing a revising my writings. I have never really thought about my intended reader before and what is the conclusion I want my reader to walk ago with after reading my writing. All these new things I have to take into consideration while writing. All my writing is to short in length for them to be complete. I always have a hard time explaining in more details. The sources for all my writings are a new concept for me as well. It does make since though readers need to know I have creditable ideas in my writing and I know what I am talking about.

The weeks coming up in class should be interesting going back and revising the out projects. There are some that need a lot of work. The one I am most interested in is project three because I love the idea. I enjoy reading information about the profession I am going into. My project four is has a good ideas but I may want to rewrite most of it I have not yet decided. It should be interesting because I will have more time now to really make it better. It is nice to know I did not go to far off base and I got the criteria parts that need details added onto those ideas.