Process states

outline in 15 minutes. I learned that organizing an effective essay is like constructing a new building. It requires a detailed plan, a blueprint to develop a thesis statement. An outline serves as a blueprint for an essay and helps guide the writing process. How to develop my outline into a draft by adding depth, significant detail, and evidence to my outline. To write a draft you don't have to think about what to write it’s just a rough draft. Revising and editing your rough draft to is your…

Recently, it was decided that all state government employees needed to complete Lean Six Sigma White Belt training. Essentially, this training is designed to combine Lean’s methods for reducing waste and maximizing flow in processes and Six Sigma’s methods for using measurement tools to decrease the variations that lead to inefficiency in processes. These concepts can be incredibly useful for government agencies, because government agencies are often extremely inefficient and behind the times…

Guns, Germs and Steel: Blog post #1 I had a fairly basic process for picking the book Guns, Germs and Steel. I mainly decided to read it based on how it was highly recommended for AP world history. It also seemed very interesting, as it proposed a question that I have never thought about very well. I was debating over this book and Girl With a Pearl Earring, but I decided that if I really wanted to read it, I could read the latter for my own leisure whenever I wished, but this book had to be…

student finds different meaning in every text they read as they show when they state, “There is a growing consensus in our field that reading should be thought of as a constructive rather than as a receptive process: that “meaning” does not exist in a text but in readers and the representations they build” (167). This shows that they do not share the same ideas about reading that many K-12 institutions throughout the united states do considering…

(Calkins, Hohne, & Robb, 2015). Lucy Calkins, et al. (2015) provides teachers with a handbook of successful student checklists, rubrics, prompts, and student writing examples to aid teachers in this process. Students can revise their work and independently guide themselves through the writing process with these tools and self-assessments. The teacher will also confer with individual students during this time, to check in and help them revise their work (Calkins & Harwayne,…

The first challenge I faced during the applying process was passing the TOEFL test and the essay part of the application. Even though I scored the lowest on the writing part of the test, I managed to pass the test with a score higher than the required score and I was accepted to the college. What I am…

Basic Introduction: Process theology is defined as “a contemporary expression of Christian faith.”(5) Though the word, “contemporary expression” can have different connotations, in my view, according to one’s understanding and perspective it lets the reader contemplate on the idea about how one’s personal understanding can, or is a part of one’s course of action. Pointing to the word “expression,” one can also perceive the inclusion of orthopraxis, (Dancing with God, 34) which further leads one…

of writing problems in their complexity, shaping writing to the needs of the audience, commitment to the writing, extensive revisions, and ability to pay attention to the various aspects of the writing tasks, depending on the stage of the writing process. FYC professors need to be explicit about the behaviors of skilled…

over the world. It helps people improve writing and reading skills. Also, it helps children process ideas and handwriting things triggers a different part of your brain. Kids that write by hand make more words than typing and they show more ideas. Handwriting helps in adulthood and even can change your life. Some things that surprised me in the article were, “Those lessons are falling by the wayside as states adopt Common Core standards, which only require manuscript handwriting instruction…

Throughout the course, I have realized, there is so much more to academic writing that I could ever imagined but more importantly, it’s not as hard as I once thought it was- that is, if one takes the necessary preparations. To begin with, the writing process deserves a lot of thought and it is not something one can do in one night. Up until this class, I barely made rough drafts however, now I can not picture writing anything without a rough draft. I have realized that it is a great way to…