Monday, October 18, 2010

Blog 5

I could say that my paper was flawless but that is not the case, I am human and boy do I make penty of mistakes. The first thing I would think about when I get my paper back ws did it appeal to the audience. Then I would consider revising the entire paper because when you look over someting such as an English paper you always come up with new ideas.The new idea part is tough for me because I would come up with a whole different paper so I would much rather stick to my original draft on the paper. Once I reread and reread the paprI find many errors and thats why I would rather just try to do better the first try. And I know that I had mny reeatsed words on the evaluative essay because I have a little problem wit transitions so I try not to repeat the same words over and over again.

Blog 1

While trying to find a reading in the book They Say I say, I came across "In Other Words" The Art of Metacommentary. This reading caught my attention because I wntd to know not only wha this reading was about but the word meanig of Metacommentary, I knew what commentary meant but not metacommentary. So I began to read and realized after the first couple of setences that I was not the only who did not know what commentary meant.But after readingI realized that I did know what the word meant, I just had not ever heard that particular word before. am becoming very famliar wit this book and I use it a lot when I am trying to draft an essay .In this particular reading I have learned that I use the Art of Metacommentary every single and just didn't did not know that there was such a word for it.I also understand the use of metatext now, it just explains th way to interpret what is being said or sen.Well now ta I knowabout metacommentary I hope I can use it to help me better understnd the meanings of things . Come to think of it metcommentary kinda of reminds of context clues,either way they are both useful.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Blog 4/Research Paper Free Write

Ok lets see! I really do not have an outside interest. I rarely go anywhere I am always tired and I do not like to be around folks for a long period. I would rather just stay at home in my own house instead of sitting in someone else's home.Sports is not my fortay. As you can tell from the way my body is shaped and my weight. I guess there was anever a sport that was interesting enough for me or gave any thought about playing.
No I am not a member of a Greek organization.I did not know that there was an organization for Greeks.
No I am not in a chess club or any other club here on campus or outside of school.
I talk about life with my friends. Issues involving children. Our conversation may include decisions on how to successfully dicipline teenagers.The correct type of dicipline for teenagers. We talk about if the dicipline actually work and what I could chane or add when diciplining them.I also talk about relationship issues with my friends along with our employment likes or dislikes.
What really upsets me anpot the news is that every single time it comes on someone has either been shot, stabbed,acid threw on them or an innocent child has been murdered.It seems as though the news only have bad news to show all day long.It almost seems as though it is the majority of poor neighborhoods that they expose.
Now the newspaper on the other hand is a bit different not much better but a bit better. I like to read about whats going on in my community that is good news. You know like gardens for peace, or baby announcements, free giveaways, engagements 50 yaer anniversaries,and babies first years.I am reall not interested in world affairs, I am just ready for our troops to come back home with their friends and families. The good USA can let those othose other countries fight in their own war for their own country instead of our soldiers dying for another country's war. I love movies. I do not care much for television though because it has too many commercials that interupt the tv program, iI would much rather just watch the program straigt through.
Everyday I think my family. I pray that my children are successfull in a positive way . I pray that neither I or my family members are negatively influenced. I pray for knowledge, wisdom , and understanding. I pray that I do not judge anyone because it could be me in that same situation. Last I just think about life in general.

Blog 3

I gound out that when you are in a class and the teacher does assign individual groups and it is left upm to the students to make or shall I say form a group on their own it was very hard. In my opinion it was very hard because I feel that the group I choose to work with was not as commited to the project. They just kind of blew it off. I found it very difficult to communicate with the members of my group, we had all exchanged telephone numbers and email addresses but I had not heard from either of them until the day of class and that was only one of them. I had to step up and become my own leader of the group. The project was not at all hard it was just the fact that after everyone bailed out on me I had to go in at it all alone. Npo sweat though it just helped me to realize why I do not like to work with a group.I would have felt better if the teacher would have assigned groups instead of allowing us to choose on our own. A better group commitment.