Wednesday April 28, 2010 ENG 102 BLOG

This is the last week in english 102 and I feel as though I have accomplished a lot this spring semester. When I look back at when I started english 101 in the fall, I feel that I have improved in many aspects of my writing skills in many different categories. My main goal when I first came to english class was to improve my way overall skills to the college level. I felt like in high school that I didn't learn enough to be prepared for college writing. So when I first started college english I was a little nervous writing my first paper, and receiving feedback. I realized that my writing was sufficient at the college level, but I needed to make improvements on little grammatical errors. I also noticed that I needed to do a better job with my sources. I realized that I need to incorporate my sources better. I also needed to get better sources. I knew that wikipedia wasn't a legitimate source but I didn't realize that dictionary.com was a bad source.

Saturday March 27, 2010 ENG 102 BLOG

This week in class was getting us ready for do a in class writing test. This whole week we worked on our facebook pages, we got our team together and decided what to do. We got together and split up the project into 3 parts. Also this week we made all 3 of us administrators on our facebook page. Our challenge has been to get as many fans as we can get, and to have tons of things on our Atrium wall. We all discussed our layout plans for our page monda and wed. We also did a timed writing this week on friday for 45 minutes. The timed writing dealt with a paper we read earlier in the week for time magazine. The article was about sarah palin's son who had down syndrome. Family guy receives negative feedback about the epidsode from all politicians.

Sunday March 21, 2010 ENG 102 BLOG

This week was all about getting are project 3 revised. I wrote about an officer getting killed in a drunk driver freeway race, so I revised that paper. We also had to get our facebook group together by friday and post our strategy friday. I started off our group by posting the site as a business site on monday. Our site is all set and already has 200+ fans on facebook, and more coming later. Our goal is to have a huge discussion on facebook and 500+ fans on facebook.

March 4, 2010 ENG 102 BLOG

This week in class we went over getting our Project 3 polished and completed. Project 3 was based on finding a problem in your local area or something that is a problem in the State of Indiana or on a national level. The problem that I chose in my local area dealt with an officer who was killed in a high speed chase by a drunk driver. Now my paper didn't deal with just officers getting killed by drunk drivers, but with drunk drivers in general getting behind the wheel and causing an accident. I backed up my paper with tons of facts and reliable sources. The facts I provided dealt with drinking in general before you start up an autombile, and what leads up to driving drunk. I put tons of facts about the limitations of drinking. The feedback I received Wednesday from Stephanie was all postive. She told me that she liked everything about it, and that I needed to change nothing. I think for all the information I provided for project 3, it turned out to be a great paper. I actually enjoyed writing this paper, because it dealt with a friend, and local news in my area. The revised version of this paper is due March 19. Then on Wed. we started a group about the atrium and I am teamed up with Stephanie and Arica.

February 23, 2010 ENG 102 BOG

This week we were suppose to attend a Ted Koppel event, or write a video discussing the event. The video I watched was the one where Ted Koppel was discussion his prision views. He firsts off my talking about freedom, and how prisioners should be punsished. He's talking about the prision system does not work well. Therefore he's suggesting that prisioners are let out of prision too soon. He does not trust how the California prision system is working and he thinks there needs to be a drastic change. He discusses how out of sync the system is. I believe he thinks that there is no consistency when it comes to prisioners and time served. Another point he brings up in when prisioners get out, that they get out as productive citizens, and not come out too early, to most likely commit another crime. Another good point he brings up is the subject of solution. He states that the solution for the prisioners is not set up by the staff and the guards watching them at the prision. What the solution is that the prisioners are set up with is the political process. My solution would be setting up the sentence for the individual and not necessarily the norm of the crime. I also would not put any bearing on special privlidges for certain people such as celebs and athletes.

February 21, 2010 ENG 102 BLOG

This week was all set around working on, completing, and revising project 2. Before class on monday morning, we were suppose to turn in our first copy of project 2. Project 2 was centered around visual images. You could choose a picture, a video, or even a commercial from the super bowl. My choice for this project was a controversial super bowl commercial. I chose the Tim Tebow/ Pro life commercial. We turned in our first copy on discussion board. On monday we teamed up with one other person to read our project 2 out loud. We then went on discussion board and we did something different, in regard to normally commenting under a person's paper. We went under our own paper, and we wrote what the other person said you need to improve on. That was interesting due to the fact that the person would tell you out loud what they liked about the paper, and what they did not like about the paper. They would point out the flaws, and told you what you could expand on with regard to the paper. After that we then later in the week received feedback from the professor. We then were told we needed to get our revised copy turned in. On monday we will post on discussion board our revised copy of project 2.

February 14, 2010 ENG 102 BLOG

This week in class was scheduled around turning in our revised copies of our project. The project revision dealt with our paper regarding multiculturalism. I keyed in on making grammatical errors, and attempted to structure the paper differently. We turned the revised copy in on monday through discussion board on blackboard. We then went over our next project that same day. The next project deals with a visual item. Everyone is suppose to pick a visual item such as a picture, video, or super commercial. We then will write a 3 page paper regarding the visual item. We then scheduled an individual conference for later in the week with no classes wednesday and friday. My conference was on wednesday at 1:30 in the Robert Bell building. At the conference we discussed revising my first project again. We also talked about my plans for my next project. While I told the professor I thought I had an idea about the Tim Tebow abortion/pro life commercial, she suggested that I think about writing about my future in the landscaping business. She said I could write about the plans and blueprints that are in connection with the second project. I will finish up my project tonight and post it up on discussion board.