Friday, April 27, 2012

Back Track

Looking back into my 1st blog post I can tell that I have achieved a few things that I wrote & also that I have gained more knowledge than what I thought. One of the things that I think I did learn was how to write a paper with a purpose because before I would care less about whether I had stated a clear purpose for the audience to clearly identify.

Another thing that I have achieved was paying attention to the tone I use when I begin a paper and when I finish writing as well. I also achieved how to keep an accurate chronological order and was aware of not rephrasing the same things all over again. If I would change a goal? Perhaps not, because now I am more familiar with college writing level, than I was before.

I can't say that I have fully grown as a writer because there are still some aspects in which I still need improvement on such as grammar and punctuation as well, but after all I am more confident that I can do better on my next writings.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Preparing for Le PortFolio!!

For my portfolio I chose to revise my narrative essay simply because I feel that I did a pretty good job paying attention to the audience since it was one of my strengths. I'd say that over all the essays that I've worked on, this one was the most strongest because it helped me keep track of what I was writing about and to whom I was directing it towards to. Also because I had a a clear way to keep the tone as when I started the essay and that I find difficult to keep focus of but in this paper I'm pretty sure I kept it the same.

To effectively revise my essay I will focus on more on my grammatical errors and pay close attention unto not repeating myself or rephrasing the same idea again. And lastly I will try to keep a longer length of the essay.

Then to rewrite my essay I will make sure I write everything out first make sure it's in chronological order, make see I don't loose my tone and keep track of the audience I am writing for. Lastly I shall check my grammar and punctuation as well. :D

Friday, April 6, 2012

Being The First Born



The thesis im going to argue about is if: The first born of the family shouldn't be the one to take all the responsibilities of their younger siblings.

My most compelling evidence is that just because they were the first ones to be born doesn't mean that they have to set an example to their younger siblings. Also sometimes parents expect a lot from you and they want you to be perfect so that one day your younger siblings could look up to you. One last thing is that even though you are the oldest you can't go out a lot because you have to babysit for your parents when they go out and since your older they expect you to knw how to take care of them.

My weakest evidence is that being older also has an advantage because you can stand up for yourself and have the chance to make your own decisions and also, in most cases you are the one in charge therefor you can tell your younger siblings what to do since you are older they have to respect you, like they say respect your elders. :D

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Trail And Error

          So, i write a paper thinking that there are no more mistakes, but noooo there's plenty and the worst thing is that they are the same mistakes i make each time i write a paper. some of the commom mistakes that i make are: run-on sentences, chronological order, few details, and lastly i keep repeating the same things all over again.
  
         Sometimes when I'm writting a paper I tend to forget splitting up long sentences because i feel that they are perfect they way im writing them; its almost as if im thinking that i am writing what i speak instead of typing wht im writing. Due to that I have chronological order malfunction (lol). Yea i write whats last first and i write what's first last (some habit huh?).  Also, when I am writing  tend to leave out details because i just want to finish the paper fast that I don't wanna include details just to finish the paper, but that sometimes turns out to be bad. Instead I repeat myself all over again and that causes a bad paper.

          And there you have it, my usually mistakes or errors that I make whenever I write papers, luckily I have procrastinsted on making the same mistakes now. All thanks to the corrections and spotting of the same errors each time I rewrite a paper. =D

Friday, March 16, 2012

What About Peer Review?



So what about peer review? Well for most I think it's a very great way to realize what mistakes you made or ideas that are missing to your paper. I strongly agree that this method is effective upon writers because it helps us be comfortable listening to opinions from people that you are most comfortable with. Can this be improved? I don't quite think this should be improved because I don't think there is something that may have a bad outcome. But if anythig I would just suggest more time reviewing with peers bc one or 2 days can't kill all the reviewed material.
As a peer reviewer I find that I can strongly identify mistakes within reading my peers paper and I can automatically add various opinions as well. If I have a weakness upon reviewing; I don't think so. When I review a peers paper the first thing that I do is read the whole paper, next I retread again and then I go into detail with my peer and tell them what I think about their paper. After, I tell them what I think needs to be improved and I give them my opinion on what could be added. That's typically my peer review process.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Yay! Free Writing!



Isn't it great when the teacher gives you the option to write about anything you want? To me it is because it's like freedom! LoL. Well since she said we can write about anything I'm going to write about a paper that I am so happy about, not proud but happy! :) during my sophomore year in high school my science teacher asked us to do an extra credit assignment. It didn't matter what it would be on but it had to be science related. So I decided to write a small poem about mitosis. I didn't fully understand the whole process of mitosis, but I knew what I had to write about and therefor I wrote my mitosis poem I was so happy that everything came out like I expected and also because my teacher really liked it too! It was a paper that I didn't have to brainstorm alot, give me headaches, or didn't even procrastinate on it. I finished it in a flash and enjoyed jotting down every single word and added all details to it. When my teacher returned the paper the first thing that I saw was a very big smiley face along with a comment saying that she had enjoyed the poem of mitosis and that I had earned my extra credit points! Hehe that's the poem I am truly happy of have written. :)

Friday, February 17, 2012

Is it similar

Is it similar?


The rhetorical situation for my ad analysis compares to that from the one of my literacy narrative essay in the way that both have a tone in which makes it easier and fun for the audience to understand. Also, these essays have a point in which the reader can agree, feel or understand the message that I am trying to convey exactly the way I'm expressing. The tone apparently switches from my literacy narrative because it is more of a serious writing since it is something that I am trying to explain an ad that I have chosen. It's something I have not experienced in my life, but something that I see in an everyday life and that sometimes as a young adult am asked about. Under my perspective, I see that the choices for the rhetorical situation I make upon this next writing assignment might affect the way I write this paper because it's completely different in humor and audience. I'm guessing it’s a challenge and well I’ll see how that goes. :)