Your Choice 4/21/2011

For this blog post I’m just going to tell you about my day.

This morning I woke up at 9:30 A.M. I am unable to drive myself to school right now because my car needed repairs so, it’s in the shop for the week. Because of this, I was driven to school by my mother. The conversation on the way there was strangely uneventful. My mother and I usually have no problems striking up some sort of conversation but, for some reason, on this particular day, I wasn’t in the mood.

Anyway, once I arrived at school, I proceeded to attend my math class as usual. For some reason math class has proven extremely difficult for me this semester. I’ve always had some monor difficulties with math but never to this extent.  Bear in mind, this is my first college level math class though, so it could just be that I’m not used to the pace.

After going to math class my day was over because I don’t have to attend English class this week. My teacher is holding conferences, or as I call them, last minute counseling sessions. ” I’m assuming he is going to calculate his grade book soon; especially since the final exam is just around the corner.

Sorry, got off on a little tangent there.

When I got home from school I took a nap. “But you barley did anything” you say. I tire easily, what can I say. It was a shot nap thiugh, because I had to work today ar 4:30 P.M.

I went to work and the day went pretty smoothe for the most part. Except for this one thing that happened. As soon as I got there, I was tasked with clearning up a spill. For some reason I always seem to be cleaning up spills at that place (I work at Farm Fresh for those who don’t know). Besides that though, the rest of my night went pretty smoothe.

That’s what I got for today. There you go. My entire day can be boiled down to about our paragraphs of text.

Enjoy.

4q's - Suprising Essay

1.    What one specific aspect of your paper are you proudest of? Why?

a.      I am proudest of the length of my paper. I was surprised that I could take a topic that I knew next to nothing about and still write an excellent essay on it.

2.    What was the most difficult aspect of writing this essay? Why?

a.     In my opinion the most difficult aspect of writing my paper was citing my sources. I had forgotten how to do it.

3.    Imagine that you have a few extra hours to revise this paper. What aspect(s) of the paper would you reword, write, and/or polish? Why?

a.     I probably have a few grammar issues to work out. Improper grammar bothers me a lot

4.    How would you approach such a revision?

a.     I would research how to properly use grammar.

Writting Quick Start 573

The picture on the left side of page 573 is meant to make a statement about the environment. The statement, in my opinion is pretty clear. There is a sign in the picture that says “Save the Redwoods”. There is also, in my opinion a bigger meaning behind this picture. I believe the overall theme or message of this picture is “Save the rainforest”. With that being said, in order for me to form a working thesis about this photograph I would consider consulting sources such as The Wildlife Conservation Society (wcs.org), defenders.org, or any other organizations whose main interest revolves around the conservation of wildlife and the rainforest.

 In order to provide further evidence for my thesis I would look at how Red Wood trees in particular help to support the eco-system in the rain forest. The main questions I would ask myself is: What affect does the Red wood Tree have on the forest and its inhabitants? And what would happen to the eco-system if that tree were to disappear? The answers to these two questions alone would provide enough substance and evidence to make a compelling argument about this topic

Writting Quick start 553

The Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial is a monument that was erected in recognition of the sacrifices that 50,000+ soldiers made to protect our country from communism.

Necessary information

·         Where it’s located?

·         Does the location of the memorial have anything  to do with the memorial itself?

·         How many names are on the wall?

·         Who built it?

·         What is it made from?

·         Was it always supposed to be a wall?

·         Interesting facts

·         What year was it made?

·         How tall/big is it?

4 Questions - Midterm

 What one specific aspect of your paper are you proudest of?   Why?

The one aspect of my paper that I am the most proud of is the amount of topics I covered. Given that I had a very limited amount of time to complete this paper, I find that fact impressive

2.   What was the most difficult aspect of writing this essay?

 The most difficult aspect of writing my paper was probably the brainstorming portion; it was difficult to come up with a topic that I was comfortable writing about for this paper

3.   Imagine that you have a few extra hours to revise this paper.   What aspect(s) of the paper would you reword, write, and/or polish?   Why?

 The transitional phrases between topic within the paper were probably the least though of aspect of my paper

4.   How would you approach such a revision?

 I’d re-word the conclusion and topic sentences of my paragraphs in order to make the essay flow better.

4 Questions - Advertisment Paper 3/3/11

1. What one specific aspect of your paper are you proudest of?   Why?

A: I would say that I am most proud of the introduction portion of this paper, not just because I wrote it. I think it did a very good job of setting the stage for the rest of the paper.

2.   What was the most difficult aspect of writing this essay?   Why?

     A: The most difficult aspect of writing this paper was collaborating as a group. On the days in which we did not have class, generating ideas for the paper became difficult.

3 Imagine that you have a few extra hours to revise this paper.   What aspect(s) of the paper would you reword, write, and/or polish?   Why?

     A: I would revise the portion of our paper that includes how we would change the Advertisement. Although I find this portion of the paper completely sufficient, there’s always room for improvement.

4.   How would you approach such a revision?

     A: I would expand a little bit upon the information that already exists in the paper, then brainstorm for new ideas .

Blog Post 2/24/11

Who would have ever thought we’d be writing a blog post about whatever we want? Writing about whatever you want is fun! There doesn’t have to be any structure to whatever you write. Gone are the worries of describing mundane events from your life in an overly dramatic, needlessly compelling, ridiculously wordy, stupidly over sized paper. Think about that for a minute. I mean, every time you sit down at your desk, office, class room, or wherever else it is you find yourself when tasked with writing a paper like this, take note of one thing.“What is this thing?” you ask? It’s the fact that anytime you’re writing one of these papers all that being asked of you is to take a topic, whatever it may be, find out what they facts are, then exaggerate the hell out of them with savvy, emotional stimulating word play. That’s it. In my opinion, there really is nothing more to it than that.

I suppose one could argue that my viewpoint is, in some way, very flawed. Who knows, they may even present it to me in one of those over exaggerated, emotionally stimulating, pointlessly long, essays of misery, I love so much! All kidding aside though, consider this before you completely discount my seemingly anger driven viewpoint of this subject.

When you write something like this, do you really consider your audience? Now you might say, “of course I do, that’s the silliest question I’ve ever heard!” Read on though and you may find that the above question isn’t so silly after all.

For instance, if your writing a biography for a Skate Boarding magazine, do you really think the audience of that magazine is intended for is really going to sit there and read your wordy description of the events in someone’s life. The answer is no; they’ll pick it up for ten minutes of so if you’re lucky, read the articles that interest them and be on their way. The rest of their time will probably be used skateboarding. In cases such as this, there is no need for such clever, polished, emotionally charged, language. In this case it would be more useful to state just the essential facts, and attract the reader in some other way. For example, you could use pictures to attract their eye to your article.

The bottom line here is: Before you write a paper, decide how much an emotional stimulus is really needed for your intended audience, otherwise you run the risk of over doing it. Nobody wants to read your piece of writing if it’s pointlessly overcharged with emotion. Believe me, it creates boredom.