November 29,2009 ENG 101 BLOG

This week was all about getting out 2nd revision done and getting started with our 3rd revision. By monday we were supposed to get our 2nd revision done. My second revision that i chose was my project 1. In project 1, I went over my first event and how I prepared for it. This paper got wae all ready for the event, and I planned out my approach for the meet your pajor event. I discussed my event questions so I could be completely prepared. My first plans to revise this paper was to work on the works cited and to then to later on change any grammatical errors, or any writing errors. Then on monday we were suppose to look over 2 other classmates papers, and giving them a grade ranging from A to F, and explain our reasoning for the grade. I looked over arica's and justin's papers and graded them. Then after I got my paper graded and graded others, I then later in the week started revising my final revision. My final revision dealt with our most recent paper which is project 4. I adjusted my works cited and have already revised my paper, and just have to look at grammatical errors. I will then later tonight submit my final revision and put it on blackboard.

November 22, 2009 ENG 101 BLOG

This week in class was all centered around getting our first project chosen to revise. We picked groups earlier in the week, in order to pick which paper we wanted to revise first. I was in a group with 2 other people, and the goal of being in a group was to pick a part each other's papers. Later in the week we worked on works cited. We looked at our individual works cited page and were suppose to disect them, and make them a lot more legit. Then a guy in our class got up , and went to a computer. He pulled up microsoft word, and he attempted to show up a better way and an easier way to use works cited by showing a secret where you can just fill in information and the works cited page will be made for you, and then thomas discussed what another way you could do your works cited. His suggestion was to look at a website, so i checked that out it definetely is legit. We then worked on our projects. We turned our projects in our disussion board before friday morning class. Then during the friday morning class we looked at our group's own paper. We disected the paper's and looked out for errors, such as grammatical errors, and other things that didn't work well in the paper. We then went on discussion board and graded the paper's, using the grading continuim. I gave my classmates a B- and C+ for the papers.

November 13, 2009 ENG 101 BLOG

When I first look at the paper I see many things that stand out. When I think about scoring the paper on the National Writing Project holistic rubric I think about how the paper is written. I think the paper would be scored a 5. The paper is written extremely well, and there are so many bright spots in the paper. The lady ties in her paper very well with her experiences in Brazil with her everyday life. The woman also has a very nice flow to her paper. The paper is very easy to read, but still serves an academic composition. The paper is nicely ordered with her travels year from year. When I look at the images I think there are placed in the perfect place. There not necessarily right after they talk about it, but they keep you focused on the paper, and keeps you in a rythem of the paper. One is placed on the second page, which is the perfect place for your starting image, because it keeps you thinking about the paper right off the start, and keeps you from losing paper shortly into the paper. Then the second image is on the 5th paper. This is vitale because it keeps you on track to finish the whole paper, and keep you thinking about the end.

November 8, 2009 ENG 101 BLOG

This week in english 101, was all about getting prepared for project 4, and individual conferences. On monday we were told to think about what we were going to have prepared for Project 4. We went over the project 4 idea prompt, and we were told to have our ideas ready for our scheduled 1 on 1 individual conferences later in the week. On tuesday at 9am, I went to my scheduled individual 1 on 1 conference. The professor and I first discussed about my participation in class. After that we discussed project 4, and how I planned on going about this paper. While we were talking about project 4 we looked at my past papers. We discussed about my writing style and we pointed out the good and bad things from my first 3 papers. During this we looked at the writing continium that I did earlier in the year. This paper was the one where we rated our writing skills from an A to and F. Most of my categories were B, and that was sufficient because of my little above average writing skills for the college level. After the conference I felt more confident on my paper, and I was prepared to get it started right away.