...Dual Enrollment English 112 is a pre-college composition course provided to the students at Brooke Point High School. Students must have completed Dual Enrollment English 111 to move on to this course. Similar to English 111, English 112 continues to develop college writing while putting emphasis on critical essays, argumentive styles, and research. The second semester of Dual Enrollment will have taught me how to accurately embed research into my papers by locating, evaluating, and documenting APA format, while effectively editing for style and usage. In this last semester of English 112, our class has written four different types of papers to improve our writing skills and show the importance of research. The first paper written in Dual Enrollment...
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...My Self Evaluation I am writing this paper as a self-evaluation of myself as a writer and my growth in writing as a college student. College is something many people try to tackle in their lifetime and also a fear many people never tackle during their life. At eighteen years old I was one of those people fearful to become a college student and because of that I did not attend college until I was twenty one years old. When attending my first semester of college I thought that the English class I attended that semester would be the only English class I would have to attend throughout my college experience and the only form of writing I would have to tackle. Little did I know that it was only the beginning of my journey with writing? When starting English 102 I was very nervous not only knowing that there would be an extremely long and time consuming paper involved but also the numerous comments I’ve heard about how hard the class truly is. One of those comments being that the national average drop rate for the course was a 60%. During my first night in class we were informed that our first paper would be a website evaluation. I was frightened just starting...
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...------------------------------------------------- Just for a “Piece of Paper” Warren Green PSY202 Dr. Allyse Sturdivant 3/02/13 Outline I. What did I do after I left high school? A. I’ll be back B. Life begins C. No Choices II. What did I want to become when you grew up? A. Singing B. Lawyer C. Physiologist III. My educational experiences A. I’m back in school again. B. It’s harder getting into school than out of school. C. Receiving my first degree IV. My personal, professional, and academic goals A. My Degrees B. Business C. College Instructor V. Conclusion Introduction Life, before graduation, starts when you are about to graduate from high school. You envision college, girls, parties and sorority as your reason for college. But the academic part of college seems to play a mere second to your thought process. Priorities are a little different due to the fact that you don’t see a degree being important. The intent since I was a child was to become something big in life and get a Noble Peace...
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...The closest I ever got to writing a “college level” paper was last year in my AP Language and Composition class. I quickly realized that the papers we wrote in that class were nothing close to the papers we wrote in this class. All the papers written in this class had to be much more detailed and required more components than the past papers I have wrote. The most challenging part of the transition from high school papers to college papers is the length of them. I was not used to writing 3-5 page papers and it was hard for me to do that to make that change. I think the most important thing I learned about myself this semester is that I am capable of writing at the college level. When I first started this course, I imagined myself receiving C’s or lower on my papers and how hard I was going to have to work to improve my essays, but after I got my first essay back I was shocked at the grade and I...
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...Annotated Bibliography: “The benefits of a college degree does not outweigh the cost of it” Abel, Jaison R., and Richard Deitz. "Do The Benefits Of College Still Outweigh The Costs?." Current Issues In Economics & Finance 20.3 (2014): 1-12. Academic Search Complete. Web. 6 Mar. 2016. People who graduated with a college degree still questions whether college was a good investment for them. “Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?” addresses how students who graduated with a college degree are still unemployed and in debt. Furthermore, students have paid more to attend college and earning less upon graduation. This academic journal compares both the pros and cons of attending college. It contains graphs and illustrations that contribute more data about increasing tuition and how it affects your decision about whether to attend college. “The total costs to attend a 4-year college outweighs some people’s home value.” I thought this quote summarizes the academic journal very briefly. “Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?” is a scholarly source and an academic journal. The data in it is really reliable for my research paper. It contains graphs and illustrations which could be used to make conclusions. This academic journal is more biased towards the people who believe that the benefits of college do not outweigh the costs. I could potentially use this source to support my thesis more efficiently. I could use this to provide more backing to my...
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...that at least half of college students admit to cheating at some time in their academic careers (angell, 2006, Roig & Caso, 2005: Whitley,1998).Some researchers have found even higher rates , including self-report evidence that 80% or more students cheat in college.( Cochran, Chamlin, Wood, & Sellers The Most common form of cheating is plagiarism .Here we find two types of cheats those who do it intentionally and those who do it unintentionally. Academic Integrity 3 Plagiarism Studies have demonstrated that a large proportion of college students are not informed about the principles of properly quoting and citing others work (Roig, 1997, 1999). I know for myself that I did learn and was not taught how to do so in high school nor in my first year of college being that I was a physical education major writing papers were not a major requirement in my freshman year. So I never learned about quoting, citing or even how to do research for a paper. Which can be another source of plagiarism or just producing poor quality papers? Some students can do research using non-credible sources and quote information from these sources at face value and lead people astray. A paper written by Cullen J Chandler and Alison S Gregory called Sleeping with the Enemy: Wikipedia in the classroom. They did a study on Wikipedia a free online encyclopedia written by people with no qualifying credentials that college students were using for...
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...for the first time I accepted that this place will be my home for the next two years and I was going to make the best of it. With not having too many friends and out of school for a year I quickly decided to make my friends and family in my very congested new home. Like anyone would say starting college was not easy and my experience was no different. After getting accepted to BCC in mid-August by doing a late direct admission, it was the beginning of a long and tumultuous road. There was an initial hassle with financial aid and me waiting in a 3-hour line, then back to admissions. It was a long day. When I got into Bronx Community College (BCC), I had to do the placement test, just like any other student and...
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...when I reflect on my college experience. From 1978 to 1982, I was making decisions and memories that would last a lifetime. Some aspects of this time period I have wished I could repeat, but for the most part, I am who I am today because of how my college experience has shaped me. In this paper I will share about the factors that most impacted my development during my college years, specifically in the areas of psychosocial, cognitive, and spiritual growth. Then, I will link those stories to the student development in college theories we are discussing in this class. Finally, I will reflect on the positive and negative impact of my college years as it relates to my own development today. Significant Factors Impacting My Development in College Three things stand out when I think about the factors that impacted my development in college: first, my decisive goal of what I wanted to get from college; second, how personal insecurity can limit opportunities; and third, how I found God. My goal for college was to get a job…plain and simple. My mother always told me that I would find what I was looking for in college. What she meant was that if I went looking for trouble, I would find trouble. If I looked for fun, I would find fun. If I sat around doing nothing, I would find nothing. She was right. I set out to find fun and life experience in college, and I did. My goal when I started college was to balance fun and gaining work experience with getting good grades. Since I finished...
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...Psych 100 Term Paper Psychological factors can be related to many different problems, one problem that had personally affected me was the grades I got my freshman year of college. I started my college career struggling a little bit and often wondered how I could raise my grades and improve my GPA until I was satisfied with the grades I would get. Coming to college I was finally on my own with no one to wake me up, make me do homework, or go to class. These all led to my GPA not being exactly where I wanted it to be along with a number of psychological factors that have all been introduced throughout lecture and the readings. The four different chapters I can relate this problem most too would have to be those on stress, personality, motivation and social psychology. Stress is one of the main leaders for college students and low GPA’s and I believe it had a lot to do with my original GPA from my freshman year. Living here on campus is extremely overwhelming at first for a freshman here at UMass Amherst. There are so many events that you can attend, RSOs that you can join, and other things in town and campus. It is also the first time moving away from home and that can lead to stress because no one is around to remind you about things that you may forget to do. The classes here at UMass were also extremely different from any classes I took at my high school. I was used to smaller classes of about 20-25 students that were all mostly my friends, now I was being thrown into a...
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...Essay 1 Writing Experiences My Writing Experiences 101 Ebony Harris Freshman Composition 1010-004 Cherrlyn Eller 2/6/2012 My Writing Experiences 101 Writing can be an intimidating task if you are not equipped with the knowledge and techniques to write a successful well-structured paper. More importantly in order to excel at any craft it takes practice and critique to make anyone an established writer. As an economics major and accounting minor, formal papers, essays and exerts are expected of me to write. These types of papers include research working papers that illustrate results based around a thesis. Through my college career I’ve had a lot of experience writing working papers , as well as evaluation papers based off of sample working papers I’ve read and expressed my stance. In this essay I will illustrate what experiences I’ve had in the past with writing and highlight any strengths and weaknesses I’ve experienced in each area. In many of my economic courses a lot of our topics of discussion were based on theory and evidence to support a writer’s research. For instance my instructor Alexander Padilla challenged his classes to read many working papers and write what our thoughts and educated opinions concerning the publications were. A lot of times he challenged our intellect by discussing more controversial subjects which initially were not in my comfort zone but highlighted many social phenomena’s our society faces today. For instance we read an article published...
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... TASHIMA RESEARCH PAPER ASSIGNMENT Educational Goal: This Research Assignment intends to develop a student’s ability to: 1. Read and follow directions. 2. Collect information/data. 3. Analyze and interpret the information/data. IMPORTANT NOTE: Realize that every class and instructor/professor may have different formats and requirements for their research paper. Carefully read the directions, instructions and guidelines for every class. Take the time to prepare each paper specifically for each class. One instructor/professor may require one thing and another instructor may require something that is totally opposite. DO NOT assume that all research assignments will be the same. SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH PAPER 1. A written and WORD PROCESSED college level research paper. This paper will utilize the scientific method to analyze and discuss data/information concerning our contemporary society. ALL papers should use “Word” or be saved in an .rtf format for Turnitin.com submissions. (see page 8) Papers must be submitted to Discussion Board #6 – Research Assignment in Blackboard by the due date listed in the syllabus. 2. Your paper should include the following parts of the SCIENTIFIC METHOD. You MUST use these as HEADINGS in your paper. They are like chapter titles in a book. There is a 30-point reduction if you are missing these headings: A. STATEMENT...
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...Coming into my freshman year of college writing, I did not know what to expect. I was never a terrible writer, but knew I could always improve. College writing has helped me improve in many ways, and has let me identify my weaknesses and strong points as a writer. As the course went on, with the three different writing prompts we were assigned, I saw myself improving each time. Each person learns at their own pace and at their own time. For me, It took me a while but by the last essay, I feel more confident as a writer. I noticed my writing skills improving a lot by the third essay. I knew how to set up a thesis, subclaims and evidence with little to no trouble. I enjoyed writing the third essay because it was on a controversy. I decided...
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...shaped differently from my peers because of the fact that I wanted to be a teacher. When I had bad teachers all I could do was tell myself the things I did not want to do in my own classroom, and there were no good teachers to compare them to. Until I came to college, I did not have any teachers that influenced me in a positive way. By not having those positive factors in my life, my idea of literacy was very negative. When I was younger I would always get in trouble from my teachers because I was very social. My teachers would send notes home to my parents asking them to control my talkative habits because I was distracting to my peers during class. They would stick me away from my friends, which would not work because...
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...Education in the late 1970’s Andrea R. Ferrari Professor Josephine Sarvis Dominican University April 19, 2016 Abstract This paper highlights key features of the development of education at Dominican University comparing 1970’s to today, focusing on how Dominican has been through changes such as name and diversity as well as the overall education during the latest 1970’s. This analysis is based off of an interview and has comparisons to today’s schooling system based off of historical events. Keywords: Education Education in the late 1970’s For my oral history interview I chose to interview my soon to be father in-law about his experience in the late 70’s. The reason I decided to interview him was because he had attended Dominican University back when it was Rosary College and I figured it would be great to see how different the school is now vs back then. During my interview I got to know a lot more about the person I was interviewing as well as their experience in school and the overall experience to education in the 70s’. Throughout this interview I’ve come to notice a couple of things that really stood out to me and one of those would the diversity of students in the 70’s was lacking, although segregation ended it was like there was still and unwritten form of one. Another thing that caught my attention was the advanced in technology from the 70’s to today, it may not seem like much but when compared to how that applies and effects the education systems it’s...
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...trip indeed. I have learned so much in the short amount of time that I have spent here at Georgia Southern University. I feel as if I have grown, not only as a student, but as a person as well. I have met many new people, made many new friends, and learned many new things. I have so much in my English class. I thought I knew everything there was to know about writing, but I was very wrong. However, I have now learned how to improve on my writing skills, how to write better grammatically correct sentences, and how to use better verb usage. When I came into this semester as a freshman I was very confident in the caliber of my writing. However, my ego was soon crushed shortly thereafter. Even though my writing skills had been very good amongst my fellow peers in high school, at the university level they were merely average. I had to do something quick to learn how improve on my writing skills. With the help of my teacher, I have made tremendous improvements and strides on my writing skills. I believe that I am writing the best papers that I have ever written in my life. I am avidly anticipating the beginning of next semester when I take English 1102, because I cannot wait to see my writing skills improve again. When writing, it is very important that your sentences are grammatically correct. Nothing can ruin a paper faster than a couple of incorrect grammatical errors. I was good about not making any grammatical errors in my papers in high school. However, when I started writing...
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