Many Chicanx/Latinx students, including myself, never really learned our history in U.S. high schools. Growing up, I never really cared that my people were excluded from textbooks, maybe it was because I was always conditioned to think of U.S. history as the same thing we’ve always been told in every single textbook we looked at. For me, it was good enough to think that Cesar Chavez was included in a small section of my textbooks. It wasn’t until I started college and took my first Ethnic Studies
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audience calls an effective writing skills. In addition to this an effective writer must have an extensive vocabulary to be able express yourself. To be an effective writer means the reader will understand thoroughly everything you are writing on the paper. My personal experience in writing was challenging and valuable at the same time. This semester I took an Academic Writing and Argument course with professor Missy Watson. During this semester, I learned how to analyze arguments, write rhetorical
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Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” is an excerpt from her book, Bird by Bird (1994), where she argues to let go of the anxieties and fears of creating a masterpiece paper right away by simply writing without question in order to get all of your thoughts out first. She refers to this style of writing to one of a child’s while also reminding the reader to just freely write knowing that no one else will be seeing this initial draft. It’s clear Lamott wants to connect with her readers and help ease
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In “Writing and Teaching for Surprise”, Donald M. Murray, writes about the true, raw writing process. He explains in the beginning of the essay that writing is all about the experience and the process of how you end up with the final paper. He says several times that the best work is that which stems from hours of jotting down random, seemingly illogical sentences. And that by the end of the piece, those unorganized sentences have been edited and are now a fluid flow of words coming together to create
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social stories on communication So this week was slow again because of the academic award ceremony. The first two periods were pretty empty of students so I mostly did research for the social stories. I honestly never knew how hard it was to find paper social stories. With everything being on line now it’s a nightmare. Looking at from a social worker perspective this is a barrier for the student. The student cant afford an I-pad and the school does not
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The annotated bibliography is an important section of the paper. Usually, a large amount of sources is positive, particularly in research paper where the writer chooses a thesis plus a focusing question to narrow his research and needs plenty of data and evidence that could support what is trying to demonstrate. The annotated bibliography “provides a brief summary of what the source says” where the writer should focus on the main points when talking about each of them (Ballenger, 2014, p. 72). For
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Although in the past years we have learned on how to write a lot of these papers this year we dove a little more into them. We took different approaches to them to get more out of them than we had before, such as the personal narrative. I have written a personal narrative in the past but this time it helped me improve because i could not just be basic. I learned that i would have to write more in detail for it be a quality paper, that i couldn’t just get away with writing it like a 9th grader any more
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If I am writing a paper, work e-mail, or discussion post for an online course I tend to use the same writing process. I would say it is a mix of both Anne Lamott’s described process in “Shitty First Drafts” and the 3x3 writing process in Guffey. My writing is usually done in 3 stages but sometimes only 2, when the prewriting and drafting stage blend together or if I am preparing something like and e-mail that does not need as much prewriting as a paper or discussion post might need. The first thing
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weaknesses through reviewing other’s works and having my own works reviewed. My portfolio includes “Bermudas,” “The Tempest and Source Material,” “Heart of Darkness and Postcolonial Criticism,” my annotated bibliography for my research paper and my research paper.
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My advice for Makayla Makayla’s story happens to me sometimes. I understand the feeling of staring at a new process or test and not being able to translate it into what I am familiar with. I would recommend that she tap into her precision when this starts. It will help her become hungry for answers and open to moving out of the frozen state to a mind that can think past the isolated agenda or task. I would recommend that she write down questions that lead her to feeling stuck. She should be able
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