...Beishline English 202 1 September 2014 As a college student, I walk into classes striving to gain the most possible out of each and every one of my classes. This is simply a subconscious duty that I believe most college students have. However, as we know, there are some students that walk into class on the first day trying to figure out what the least possible amount of work in their course can be, and still be able to slide by with a passing grade. My question to this is—why? As a student we all should be committed to doing the best that we possibly can. This is about the only negative feeling that I have when in any class on a regular basis. I believe that I need to improve in all areas of my writing, there is always room for improvement. Improvement in sentence structure specifically would be something I need to work on. Additionally, I am excited to learn how to write research papers by the end of the semester. This is something that I have not done since the eighth grade, and I do not remember much about it. In my past college English classes, 101 and 121, we mostly participated in short readings and then a paper to follow the reading. This was very annoying, doing the same thing every class. However, I did enjoy the discussion portions of these classes; seeing the viewpoints from many different people was very thought provoking at times. I had the same professor for both of these classes, she was excellent and fun, but I did not enjoy that her viewpoints were...
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...Reviewers: For my major, I am taking many science classes and for that reason, most of the writing I have done in previous classes has been lab reports. I also have not had an English class since my senior year of high school, so I have not had to write many papers since then. In these previous English classes, most of the writing has been research papers. Comparing this project to previous projects in other English classes, I have had much more flexibility in the topic to write about and I feel that in this class, the project topic is much more applicable to me and my interests, being that it was about my future career. Previously, I did not have much knowledge on different citation systems, how to correctly cite, and for example,...
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...Professor Czaja English 101 September 9 2015 If there was one thing I learned freshman year, it was to not believe what everyone has to say. Everyone told me that freshman year classes were the easiest, and they were completely wrong. Sadly it was back to reality, no more staying up late and sleeping in with not a worry about what I was going to do that day. Now I had a schedule to follow Monday through Friday that involved homework, studying, writing essays, and soccer practice. It was seven thirty in the morning on the first day of school, which was the earliest I had been up in 3 months and I was already working on an assignment. I never would have guessed my first day of classes would involve graded assignments and homework. I assumed it would be full of listening to the teacher explain the ten page long syllabus that only comes in use during the first week of school, while I daydream about my summer, trying to fight my eyelids from closing. But the assumption I made about the typical first day of high school was completely wrong and it changed my outlook on high school for the rest of the year. It’s seven thirty in the morning, the sun is barely out and I’m already sweating through my t-shirt. Luckily I am not the only one, as I look around the classroom everyone looks miserable and fatigued. You could tell everyone wanted to be anywhere but at Anderson High School. The bell had just rung and our English teacher introduced himself and it seemed like it was going...
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...Throughout my second semester of AP Lang, I have learned an abundance of information in regards to what it means to be a good writer and analyzer. This semester was challenging in a way that is preparing me greatly for future english classes at Iowa State. New skills were introduced to me, making it easy to be proud of myself for the work I put in, ending with grades that reflected this effort. My overall knowledge on the active writing process, revision stages and analytical skills has increased immensely, allowing myself to feel greatly prepared for the many future classes that will benefit from my learning. Through the many course outcomes of this class, I have been able to improve my overall writing skills. Right away it was clear how...
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...Narrative Paper On Goals. This paper is over my goals as an up and coming college student to pursue my career in dentistry and dental hygiene. My first goal is to finish all basic classes as a whole, in my associate degree program. Basic classes as in Biology, Math, and Comp English I and II. Basic classes are the learning stone to all other higher learning practices. If you do not have them, you cannot grow. Fundamental classes like microbiology and nutrition classes will help me learn about the things I need to know about the body, and how things react to certain things. As for English comp and math, will give me better speaking and writing skills, as well as the skills to do every day job training tasks. I feel as though I need the basic fundamental classes to grow in my career as anyone else. My second goal about my career path is commitment. As long as I keep up my classes, I can reward myself by feeling good about my chosen path to my career. Hard work pays off, and a goal within a goal is to succeed at all costs. No matter how stressed or hard it may be, I can look back and see how far I’ve come already, and push myself to success no matter what the case may be. Try, and try again, and if you first don’t succeed, keep trying. My commitment toward my goals and career are very high, and I am ready to get started with my life, and leave everything behind with my past actions and behaviors as a delinquent. Over all, I think commitment is the key to success, because it separates...
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...Communication for scholarly productivity among all universities offering communication degrees (including M.A. and Ph.D.). This ranking conveys to people that the UMSL Communication Department employs the best staff for inspiring communication majors with a curriculum that highlights the key elements of what it means to communicate effectively with people in different social situations. But, I would like to ask something that has baffled me since becoming a communications major. Why do communication majors take online classes? Most communication classes are only offered online and the ones that aren’t online are usually held in time slots that do not mesh together with a students schedule thus you have to take online classes to keep on track. Now I must point out that online classes are a new innovative method of learning with education but wouldn’t a communication major benefit more from learning their craft in a environment conducive to their major. Online classes are great in a theoretical sense you can learn at any time and practically anything. But in communications extra steps need to be made in order to fully grasp the concept of the subject. For example one of the key courses that every communication major has to take is Intercultural Communication. In Intercultural Communication you learn the intricacies of interacting and working with people who don’t share the same values, ideas and etiquettes as you personally hold. This class is so much more effective in a traditional...
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...Ta’Shaki Ball Mr. Meeks Midterm 08 March 2013 Why one college course is more rewarding than the other There are a few different types of classes in college. First, there are the classes in my major, which is Biology, that are directly relevant to my field of study. Second, there are classes that are fun and interesting, but completely optional. Then there’s a third kind: required classes that don’t necessarily relate to anything I’m studying, usually called general education or in my case, First Year Experience. The other category is the most frustrating. These are the classes where I usually feel like I’m not having fun or learning anything useful. However, these classes aren’t always the huge waste of time and money that many students think they are. One of my general requirements turned out to be the most rewarding class I’ve taken so far in college. That class was Public Speaking! This class didn’t have things a standard college class would have. I learned far more than I would have in a traditional class were we did a lot of reading, bookwork, and homework assignments. There were no big reading assignments! Nobody likes reading textbooks all the time. They aren’t fun to read, and I usually don’t learn well when I’m bored out of my mind. Public Speaking wasn’t taught out of a textbook, so there were no huge reading assignments for seventy-five percent of the class to blow off. Sure, there were a few small readings, but they were painless enough that...
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...English102, I have reviewed both my strengths and weaknesses. By reviewing both my strengths and weaknesses has helped me a lot to realize what I have improved, and what I still need to work on to improve. My two major strengths I have acquired during this semester are being abele to do my homework on time, and acquired the ability of outlining in order to control my idea through logically formulated outlines. What I need to work on to improve is class participation. I have improved my homework doing habit dramatically during this English 102 course. Doing homework has always been a complicated task for me before I attended this class. Since other English classes I took before were a full semester schedule, I used to come class with out doing my homework. Finally, when I registered in this accelerated and fast paced class, I realized that I had to do all my homework before I go class to follow my professor lecture very well. Now, I am able to understand what the professor teaches about. This helped me to follow the professor attentively during the lecture. Doing my homework in time is the most powerful thing I acquired during this course of semester. The second strength that I have improved a lot is my outlining ability to stick to my central idea. Before this class, I wrote a couple of paragraphs and essays on other English classes. However, I usually used to deviate from the main idea of my paper while I write. Then, I started to explore what makes my paper ineffective. Finally, I...
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...Cover letter Professor Hickman, My letter is in response to the writing assignment on the core reading. I chose Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna be Average”. I am hopeful my writing will provide you with a summary and response as directed in writing project 1. My peer review by one classmate was quite helpful. In her review she stated which sentences, and where to find them, that needed the most help. She commented on the fact they were hard to follow and confusing. She also pointed out that I needed to elaborate more on the summary. I only mentioned Ken, a classmate from the excerpt, once in my paper. I need to introduce him in my summary to understand my reference in the conclusion. I should also explain more of Mike and Jack MacFarland’s relationship and why that reference is so important to this story. She mentioned, I should use more quotes and details in my response to back up my opinion. My second review was not very helpful. That peer review was vague. It echoed the first review without a lot of details that will help better my paper. I made an effort to revise my paper. I incorporated my peers review into it. I gave more details about the relationship between MacFarland and Mike. I also included Ken into my summary to help with the confusion of who he is. I also reworded sentences that were confusing. I’m hoping my revised final draft will give insight into this excerpt by Mike Rose. Ashley Reuzenaar Professor Hickman English 111 05D 2 September 2015 Summary and...
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...grade physical education is much more intense than in grade school. I grab my gym clothes from Mrs. Appell and stroll toward the locker room. When I exit confidently dressed in the ugly green uniform, I can hear snickering behind me. Being in a rush and quickly shoving my “Welcome to Seventh Grade” papers away, I ignore it and continue walking toward the new class. Then, I feel my friend lightly tap my shoulder and whisper in my ear, “Maele, your pants are on backward.” My confidence suddenly deflates; my face flushing red. “Oh. Great, I'll be right back, thanks.” Seventh grade can be difficult, but if you keep good friends, stay organized, and take all of your classes...
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...COM 360 Entire Course For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com COM 360 Week 1 Individual Assignment Intercultural Competence Worksheet COM 360 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Formal Outline and References COM 360 Week 3 Cultural Differences Driving Miss Daisy COM 360 Week 4 Verbal and Nonverbal Coding Worksheet COM 360 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Communication Training Guide Paper COM 360 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Communication Training Guide and Presentation ………………………………………………… COM 360 Week 1 Individual Assignment Intercultural Competence Worksheet For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 1. What does “intercultural” communication mean to you? 2. Define “intracultural” communication. How is this definition both similar and different to “intercultural” communication? 1. Briefly describe the person and the place. 2. How were you changed by the encounter? 3. What do you wish you had known to deal better with this intercultural encounter? ………………………………………………… COM 360 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Formal Outline and References For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com COM 360 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Formal Outline and References ………………………………………………… COM 360 Week 3 Cultural Differences Driving Miss Daisy For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Driving Miss Daisy Write a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper about the cultural differences portrayed in the film. Provide specific examples of how both Hall’s perspective...
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...charge more than online classes. There is more flexibility for students with other commitments in online education. Online schooling requires dedication, discipline, and a distraction-free-environment, but online is better because it allows flexibility and often charges less than traditional schools. Concerning grading papers, online is so much faster than traditional. Because all online students work at different paces and when done with assignments can send them right in for grading not having to wait for the next class session, allowing the teacher to grade or send correction feedback before the assignment is due. This also gives the teacher time to look over them as they come in, a few at a time instead of 25 all on the same day because of class schedules. With online classes grading for papers is easier because everything is transmitted via a computer which calculates how many words are in the paper, where as traditional schooling the teachers have to count each word of everyone’s papers and if you have 25 students it, can take more of your time just making sure they have enough words. With online classes it has been my experience that if I have questions I can get them answered more rapidly without having to set an appointment to see them and waiting in their office for hours. I can send an e-mail, call on the phone, and wait for a response while trying to figure it out on my own or do other things I need to do at that time. In traditional classes you either have to wait...
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...I have been a student at California State University Channel Islands (CI) for 5 semesters, and over the course of my stay I have grown and learned more that I thought possible. I came to this school from Moorpark Community College already knowing that I wanted to be an English teacher; I had taken numerous English courses and though I knew exactly what I was headed for-was I ever wrong. Going through the English program has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me how to be me. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don't know. Most importantly I have learned how important literature and language are. When I started at CI, I thought I was going to spend the next 3 years reading classics, discussing them and then writing about them. That was what I did in community college English courses, so I didn't think it would be much different here. On the surface, to an outsider, I am sure that this is what it appears that C.I. English majors do. In most all my classes I did read, discuss, and write papers; however, I quickly found out that that there was so much more to it. One specific experience I had while at C.I. really shows how integrated this learning is. Instead of writing a paper for my final project in Perspectives of Multicultural Literature (ENGL 449), I decided with a friend to venture to an Indian reservation and compare it to a book we read...
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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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...Decision-Making Process Paper Sarah McKenzie MGT/230 May 21, 2012 Davis Fish Decision-Making Process Paper In 2009 I made the decision to enroll in school. Four years earlier in 2005 I received my high school diploma. Because of a bad circumstance after 26 day in the sixth grade school became a dream and I converted into a dropout. The process of getting back into school was a very challenging task to say the least. Early one Monday morning I identify that I needed an education to advance as well as set an example for my children. Once I recognized the need for schooling I contacted a local college to inquire about classes on adult studies for the GED. Receiving the information on what was needed for getting in school, social security card, birth certificate, and a state ID card, I decided to go and register for classes. The process started with talking with someone in admission to discuss registration, details about the GED classes, times, schedule, and what dates will classes began. The steps in the process that I used are similar in the way that I identify the need to get an education than made the choice and implemented my decision by going to school, receiving my high school diploma and seven years later in college studying for a degree in business. According to the text in this week reading, states that the stages of decision making are identifying and diagnosing the problem, generating alternatives solutions, evaluating alternatives, choice making, apply and...
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