Peer review was never something that I knew how to do very well until I took ENG 110. Starting off with a list of good vs bad peer review comments really helped because it made people stray from the typical “it’s good” response. Peer review was also much easier when we were given a set … [Read more…]
The most common annotation that I find myself making while I read is when I can connect something in the text to my life in one way or another. As someone who had been a vegetarian for five years, this was especially common in David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” since many of the things … [Read more…]
Before college I was always the type of person to use EasyBib for all of my citations in any class. However, now that I’ve been able to have The Little Seagull on hand to help me create citations it has been much easier doing them on my own. I also feel a lot more confident … [Read more…]
In my third paper I used my outside sources as a way to support my argument as well as a way to include naysayer points in my paper. On page 3 and 4 I introduce a quote from the article “Paying Students to Play Would Ruin College Sports.” All of those involved are hired to … [Read more…]
Rough Draft https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q3XsU8XYiYFIAXTxSvUa5I8PJtKQhl-_UXPcaJTNxgQ/edit?usp=sharing Final Draft https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qax6RuNjXnWetceQ_RRvuUoxZNxA13Nz_TbmFTIrmuw/edit?usp=sharing For this learning outcome I chose to take a look at my first and final drafts of my third essay, in which I argued that college athletes deserve to get paid. The first big thing that I did when editing my paper was add two Barclay paragraphs since I … [Read more…]
I’d say that one of my strengths in my last essay was my ability to transition between views in one paragraph. I was able to include the facts of the argument as well as my opinion on it and in some cases include a naysayer. I think that I did very well making the transitions … [Read more…]
In his piece “Consider the Lobster” David Foster Wallace argues whether our thoughtfulness about what we eat is really true since most people choose not to think about how their animal products are prepared before they consume them. Wallace refers to the Maine Lobster Fest as “something like a Roman circus or medieval torture-fest” although … [Read more…]
Although many people aren’t consciously aware of it, most of us go about our days thinking about the events that occur as they affect us or relate to us, rather than how they could simultaneously be affecting others around us. Take for example a scenario of a drive through restaurant that gives everyone else in … [Read more…]
In today’s society filled with busy people, it is not uncommon that we use most of our brain power to worry, complain, and stress. Thinking about not only the task at hand but also what we’re going to do next, what will we have to do when we get out of work or school, how … [Read more…]
• Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process. One thing that I’ve noticed I have improved on a lot throughout the semester so far is being able to give a helpful and effective peer review. Before ever … [Read more…]
