The Pickwick Papers

Steven Barnhart has potential. After a little bit of a bumpy start, he got the hang of the system and how to operate Trello and BLOX. He was consistently prompt in letting me know which stories he planned on editing in his workflow. He responded in a timely manner and was able to catch some errors. However, I believe that there is a lot of room for growth. I believe that this was a good opportunity for him to get his hands dirty and gain experience. Barnhart edited five stories that were…

Beth Fantaskey was born May 5th, 1974. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, got her PhD at Penn State, and got her English degree from Shippensburg, PA. In her book “Buzzkill” it is partially based off of her high school experiences and her favorite books by Nancy Drew. Millie Ostermeyer, the Protagonist, and the author both went to the same high school, like to read, but, they are different because Millie Ostermeyer was not shy in school, while the author was. According to Kate Pavao,…

In all honesty, I was dreading reading the book, The Good Food Revolution. A book about race issues and farming just did not sound like my cup of tea. However, I was a little surprised with Will Allen’s story and what the book was really all about. I think there are interesting stories within this book, I grew fond of a specific character, and the book holds a lot more meaning than just how to farm. Overall, I enjoyed certain parts of the book, but certainly not all. I did not enjoy reading the…

Hi, everyone, I am Keri Inman. I am a Sales Engineer for The Welbilt Company. I am a wife and a mother of two high-spirited girls, two and four. I love my career and my life. There is never a dull moment, however, there is also never a moment of rest. I love doing yard work and organizing, both make me feel I have completed something. In a life of uncompleted tasks, completing the little things like yard work feels very refreshing. I will be honest, I have never really had an interest in…

During this week, our class has went to the African Burial Ground and to Governors Island to learn about our city’s history. Before going to the African Burial Ground, we were able to read an article about it, which that was able to help me understand what this place was about and what their message was. At this place, I was able to have a better understanding of the lives of the African Americans, but more importantly I understood about the lives of them. On this trip, we were given a video to…

My strength as a writer is to be able to include my life experience in my writing. A good writer draws a person into their story or makes a story relatable to others. My challenges are being able to grammatically correct the sentence in order for them to flow. However, If I slowdown, I can make sure, that I am telling the story in its entirety, precise and to the point. This will help me tremendously. Based on the feedback I received from prior assignments turned in, the first assignment was…

Rhetta takes her book and turns around, not talking for the rest of the class, leaving Marylin to take facts upon appearance. Marylin wishes she could have said yes but writing a book with Rhetta Mayes didn't seem like a good idea. She shooed the idea out of her head and walked to her locker with Mazie. Since getting her quitar, Kate was having a hard time writing songs. She wanted to be a guitar player who wrote about a boy named Dallas. Within just a short period of days, Kate had made five…

Today I gave the speech of presentation. Awarding my father with the best dad award. I think it was one of the easies speech we ever done. Not only was it quick and simple, but we had the choice between a formal outline and anything else we were comfortable with. I choose to do the formal outline because it seemed to work for me. Not to mentation I was writing from experience, it came naturally. I noticed I started low, so I tried to rise my voice throughout the speech. My goal for this speech…

something that I hold so dear to my heart, I was still rather confident in my piece and hopeful for a 100%. I felt the strength of this paper was specific to the topic I chose to write, a bit risky but, something unique; not a typical cookie-cutter approach. Additionally, I considered my choice of strong vocabulary words an improvement, resulting in another strength of the paper. Unfortunately, the weakness of mine, which holds true to most of my writings, comes with the improper use of grammar…

Throughout the semester I’ve noticed that the authors Baron, Swales, Bazerman, Alexie, Sommers and Newkirk had brilliant ideas in their text about ideas of writing. All these texts we read this semester had their own importance, but the most significant texts to me were Swales, “The Concept Of a Discourse Community” and Alexie’s text, “Joy of Reading and Writing: The Superman and Me”. Swales describes a discourse community as a group of people who come together and share a common set of…