Reflective Journal: It All Comes Together As my journey through Writing 39B comes to an end, I begin to reflect deeper on the spectacular experiences I have had. Coming in as a Computer Science major, writing was something that was not high up in my priorities in learning. Most of what I learned involved technical and literal logic that did not really apply to writing, or so I thought before taking this course. However, as time progressed and I really got a feeling for how important and…
Differ From the Traditional Approach, Concept to Classroom). Students will perform an inspectional look at a picture. After writing down their observations of the picture, the teacher will model the difference between the inspectional process and the analytic process by using a simple example. Students will then write down their analytical thoughts of the picture. They will also create a title for the picture. Students will communicate their ideas and interpretations. Students will then read a…
“If your not afraid of the voice inside you, you will not fear the critiques outside you”(Goldberg) . In the book, "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg, she writes a series of stories that she has experienced throughout her life. Because she a writer, she give the student and teacher tips on writing. With these stories and tips Goldberg does a really good job of pushing the reader and motivating our ideas. These both stories taught me a lot like, self appreciation,not doubting myself ,…
Portfolio Reflection Throughout the semester I personally feel as I got a lot of solid concrete information on how to enhance my writing. When I first came into this class I thought to myself “I am going to fail”. I know for a fact that I am not a strong writer and I will fully admit that. When I look back at myself as a writer in high school I think how in the world did I pass English with the grades I did. It boggles my mind from time to time. It actually makes me mad. No teacher in any…
that the first essay assignment was being discussed and explained I began to think that the assignment was going to be somewhat easy. I began to search for books that seemed interesting to research, that I could use for the assignment. The selection process was one of the most time consuming parts of the assignment. I I gathered the final four books which were “Rebel Souls”, “Walt Whitman Reconsidered”, “Walt Whitman: A Gay Life”, and “Walt Whitman”. I began to realize that this essay was not as…
Michaela Cullington authors “Does Texting Affect Writing” which addresses the primary challenge to formal writing in the form of texting. With the invention of texting many professionals and teachers feel that it negatively impacts the formal writing of the populace. Michaela Cullington goes into detail in this essay on why text speaks does not affect formal writing negatively and in some cases even affects formal writing in a positive light. The author stresses the amount of support each side…
I also don’t waste my time and have more confidence in my writing process. Depending o which essay my purpose for writing changed. When I wrote the narrative, it was communicator because I was bias, wrote about myself and how I felt about the topic. When I wrote the analysis and argumentative papers, my purpose was the…
The Literacy Narrative was sort of a trial and error project. I wrote the essay the best way I knew how and hoped for the best grade. I did though get to tackle a more creative aspect of my writing that needed much working on. Since this essay was based on our own experiences, it allowed me to be as creative as I would like rather than being confined to the requirements that something like a research paper would have. Despite this, I still realized that my Literacy Narrative was not my strongest…
while on a train home, purely to get it over with, but surprisingly I enjoyed the podcast and had very little trouble finding a subject for my paper. The process of writing the paper was not incredibly difficult but it did end up becoming challenging once I had to start finding sources, but I did end up finding everything I needed. The process would have been a lot harder if my professor had not shown the class how to use the library’s databases, and citing it would have been impossible if we…
Alicia and I have two completely different styles when it comes to getting our work done. I like to wait until the last minute to start anything, whereas Alicia likes to start everything as soon as possible. So when we were paired to write the group curriculum I was concerned that we would be butting heads with one another. Thankfully this wasn’t the case we split up the work as evenly as possible, we each planned four of the sessions and wrote different parts of the narrative. I’m positive I…