Being at Allegheny for this semester has taught me a lot about my writing habits. In almost all of my papers, I stray way off track just to make a point that needed one sentence of explanation. During the time I sent on my final portfolio, I really tried to focus on getting the point across in much shorter detail and making sure I am staying on topic. The thing that has helped me the most is the feedback I am receiving from you and my classmates. I decided to begin with my original research paper
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At times, thoughts of walking away crossed my mind due to the short amount of time. It was as if I was fighting an inner war with myself. However, once I started writing the essays it became something easy and natural for me. I was able to finish both essays on time and I felt as I won to my other side who said that I was not capable. After a few weeks, the test results were posted and to my surprised I passed the CBEST and got a high score on the writing section
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Kimberly Nunez Professor Shaver English 100S 20 July 2016 Journal 6 In the passage from “Reading Rhetorically” by John C. Bean, Virginia A. Chappell, and Alice M. Gillam, talks about the different ways/strategies a person can read. There are three type of readers, there is the “Fast”, “Slow to moderate” and the “Very slow” readers. According to text, I am considered a “Slow to moderate” reader. My strategy is to read slowly in order to understand the text well. I need time to process what I’m
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The National Day on Writing at Fairfield University was a very inspirational event. I liked doing different writing exercises such as making a list about things I care about and writing a prompt using only numbers. In his presentation, “Writing for Justice and Writing for Healing”, Dr. Yohuru Williams discussed that writing is a reflective process and that your wounds produce an effective narrative. I also learned that, “the core of writing is communication”. For example, Dr. Williams is very passionate
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This semester during english ll I learned many things. Some of them got more of my attention than others and some of them were just not of my interest. Some of the things that I learned in this class are discrimination, a person’s life journey and how to debate. To begin with during the first weeks of school I learn a good lesson about discrimination. During the summer they assigned us to read a book called “The secret life of bees”. In this book there was a lady of black skin color who was discriminated
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I can honestly say that I feel like I use my strengths every day. Before I started college at Bethel, though, that was not the case. I loved writing in high school and my first years of college. I enjoyed research, reading, and writing papers that presented an argument and moved the reader. At my current position, the only writing I get to do every day is in the form of short emails. I utilize strengths other than writing while at work, such as planning, prioritizing, teaching and developing
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Learning Style Activity Chemistry is the most challenging class that I have ever take in college. General Chemistry covers a lot of material very quickly, plus it was my first experience with a lab notebook and the scientific method. The combination of lecture plus lab was so intimidating. It is like if chemistry has its own language. There is more to chemistry than learning the concept. I had to take general chemistry twice and both times I had to drop the class. First time, the teacher was not
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“Primary sources are documents, objects, and other sources that provide us with a first-hand account of what life was like in the past” (Walbert). Both Christopher Columbus’s journal and Bartolomé de las Casas's “Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies,” were examples of primary sources. They both are a first-hand account as to what happened during their voyages in the late 1400s to the early 1500s. Columbus’ journal was more of a log, where he kept records of each day. Bartolome’s writings
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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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CRAMS Essay In the essays, “Living Under Circe’s Spell” by Matthew Soyster and “On Being a Cripple” by Nancy Mairs the authors describe what it is like to have Multiple Sclerosis or MS. Multiple Sclerosis is a nervous system disease that is incurable. Although they are discussing the same subject the authors display different attitudes towards it. Soyster seems to with an attitude of longing for the past while Mairs approaches the subject with a more positive attitude about her disability. Both
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