Trip To Knobview

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Our class trip to the writing center was a nice get-away. For all of my classes this semester, I am either in the physical science building or the life science building. So, yes—I would consider our trip to Knobview-208 to be an exotic get-away from the windowless rooms of my science classrooms. Knobview is a really cool building because there is an extensive amount of students’ art work hanging all around the building for other students to admire. Knobview also has all of the theatres for plays and other productions which I am looking forward to attending. I have actually already met the girl, Cassie, who was the instructor for our class; we met at orientation back in the beginning of June. I just so happened to sit with her and her friend at lunch and we clicked from there. Orientation day reminded me so much of my first day at a new school; I had to be prejudice and judge people on their appearance to rationalize if they looked “nice” enough to sit with. Turns out, Cassie is very smart and sweet. I thought her presentation was very well constructed because she projected her voice and engaged us as a class by asking questions and encouraging us with prizes. Her engagement was helpful because it helped me remember all of the resources the writing center had to offer. I went to the writing center …show more content…
One thing I think would be beneficial to me when I take advantage of the writing center is to have someone else reread my paper because sometimes my eyes will overlook silly mistakes. Even when the writing center is closed, there are still many online and paper resources that can help students. For example, they have many grammar and punctuation pamphlets for students who have a quick question or for students just trying to brush up on certain

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