- What did you learn about your subject that you did not previously know?
- What did you learn about your approach to writing assignments and your writing style?
- What did you learn about constructing this particular type of writing assignment?
- What are all the features of this piece about which you are particularly proud?
- What do you see as its weaknesses?
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Preparation For Reflections on Essay 3
Respond to these questions as you are working on Draft 1 of Essay 3. Here, you begin reflecting NOW, before the actual Reflection Statement is due. You will respond to a different set of questions that target revision after you finish Draft 2.
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I have learned early on that there seems to be a movement of fathers who are striving to be active in their childrens lives. There are still voices out there that continue to argue that fathers have no significant or unique impact on their children. I learned that it is important to get writing early and that revision is a good thing! So far, constructing this type of writing assignment has been interesting because I get to have an opinion at the same time I am hearing other opinions on a subject. Some of the weaknesses will center around not having a lot of time to really think this essay out, it feels a little rushed, I am proud of writing on this subject because I feel like our society needs more fathers who are willing to "get their hands dirty" and father from the front.
ReplyDeleteI have learned that donmestic violence is seen as a social norm in some places. People actually see it as something that happens everyday life. Instead of batterers being frowned upon they are gloried for being in "control". As far as my writing approach I learned to not just scan over the wrting but to actually revise; because I might not only be missing grammar but also key points I am trying to make.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the construction of this paper because it has been placed in my own perspective. I can speak from my own views.
I have yet to get finished with this piece of writing but I am proud to give a voice to those who cant speak out. This is a serious issue that is surpassed by many different angles.
I hope that my weakness is the fact that I do feel so strongly about the subject matter, I hope I dont sound particularly bias on my side. I want to show not only my perspective but also the insight of others.
I have definitely learned that it is a more widespread issue than I had ever imagined, and nature vs. nurture is definitely something common that psychologists study, especially when referring to drug addiction. I learned that my approach doesn't always have to be so formal, and sometimes is better to be less formal depending on the writing subject, or when considering who your audience is. I also learned that it isn't all necessarily research and report type of essay, you have to incorporate personal feelings into theessay. I haven't completed my essay as of yet, but so far I am proud of my ability to show all aspects of the spectrum for the widely discussed discussion. So far not enough revision is an issue with my essay, I need to complete it and then review it, and get peer review as well.
ReplyDeleteI have learned that elderly abuse is something that may not be reported as often as it should, but it does exist. This subject matter is very close to me because i have worked in the elderly care field for so long. I have witnessed abuse first hand. I believe that writing this piece will make me stronger on the views i have for elderly abuse. I know i wont be able to change this problem by myself but maybe i can be heard to just a few people. Only us as a society can stop this abuse.
ReplyDeleteI learn that there is a relationship between the level academic success and whether or not a student commutes to school or lives in the dorm, but not a very strong one.
ReplyDeleteI usually try to jump in before I really do the research and plan what I am going to say then find evidence to back that up, but this assignment forced me to sit down and actually get answer to my questions from my sources inside of saying things I think maybe true and finding evidence to support that.
I learned that it is more useful to write about your process instead of listing facts that support an idea, because there is never a true cut and dry answer to these questions, but writing about the process will always help for future papers.
I think this piece is helping me to understand some of the issues that I am having right now with being at home and trying to go to school. It makes me have a greater respect for those who commute throughout the year.
The weakness of this piece maybe that there is no cut and dry answer. I have always been taught to find an answer and it is frustrating because I can't seem to find that perfect article.
I have learned that there do not seem to be many schools that offer college credit for life experience and even some establishments that warn against life experience credit.
ReplyDeleteFrom your instructor:
ReplyDeletemtaylor15,
How does each school you looked at go about evaluating the prior learning or life experience of a prospective student who is an adult learner?
Some require extensive writing, and some don't--right?
You might want to re-read Rachel Aviv's article on this assigned for outside reading in the first week of class.
If you can't find it on Blackboard, I will give you a copy.
She might cite some sources at the end or in the article itself. You can try to track some of them down for your paper.
I learned that kids do better in school when they have structure at home and they see how two parents working together makes the stress on home less. My approch to wrting is difficult for me because i dont know how to make the body of the work. I know that i want to show the diffrences between haveing two parents to compared to one but i dont know if i should seperate how it is as a single mother and then do another paragraph of how it is being a parent of 2. I learned that you can write alot about a subject your interested in.
ReplyDeleteI have learned that being a single parent doesn't get any easier as the child gets older. There will always be different situations, problems that you have to attack as a parent. The job is never done.
ReplyDeleteI learned that we spend more than ten times as much money on special education than gifted education. Also, following No Child Left Behind, Michigan and some other states cut funding for gifted education to ten percent of what it used to be.
ReplyDeleteMy writing style is not quite right for this type of essay. I tend to write persuasively, not to inform. I had to take a more passive tone in writing this piece.
In writing this assignment, I learned that it is important to be somewhat detached from your subject. If you are too attached, then you will write a biased paper.
Iv'e learned that there are sooo.. many ways that everyone can recycle and that it takes so little effort to do it.There's really no reason why people don't do it.I have learned as a writing student that for me just sitting down and basically spilling my guts is the best way. I tend to think too much and get myself stressed out about it.Picking out a specific questions and researching has been interesting and I learned more about recycling.I think that researching the building aspects of recycling is kinda interesting for me.The sad part of the paper is how many people don't try to recycle,how it's effecting our enviroment.
ReplyDeleteI learned during my reaserch that Dr. wWertham might not be the monster that comic publishers have made him out to be. In the 1954 senate hearing he seems to be the "David" figure and not the Goliath, hell bent on destroying comics. To learn that the comic book industry was a million dollar plus a year business: was shocking. It is amazing that in the fifties the publishers were pulling that much in a year. I was also suprised that the publishers had Dr. Wertham investigated and even harrassed.
ReplyDeleteI have learned that there are some establishments that warn against schools that offer cresit for lide experience. They seem to fell they are just dipolma mills and the degree they offer is useless
ReplyDeleteAshley Flewelling:
ReplyDeleteYour concern about how to organize the body of your essay is a real one.
Several ideas come to mind:
1) The organization or structure of this essay is not the most important issue involved in writing it.
2) Whenever we read lots of sources on a subject, we should sit down periodically and write for ourselves, like Jama says above. When we freewrite on the information we are learning by reading the sources, major points emerge. These are major issues or questions in our own processing of the reading.
3) Our essays also can take shape or organization based on our research questions: Which sources more directly addressed your research questions? Which sources brought up some side issues? The body of the essay could be organized in that order as well. Reminder: Your questions won't be answered, but your reading will enlarge your sense of what is involved.
Another reminder: What is important here is reporting to readers the story of your search, not the information you read itself.
Thanks for your post.
Laura Tobias
I learned that there is a large variety of scientists that follow a variety of religions.
ReplyDeleteI learned that my approach to writing assignments was to find a writing style and an introduction to pull the writer into my essay.
As for constructing this type of essay, I learned that I have to be more informative and WAY less opinionated.
Seeing as how I have yet to start my essay,I wouldn't know which parts I am proud of.
One weakness is the amount of time I've had to really think it out, research, and put it all together. I believe that if I had more time it would come out better than what it is.
I hve noticed that many of the items on single parent house holds focus on the education of the parent not the affects on the children. I think maybe it is that the results of the child's education is further in the future and we (America) do not think in the future. but I have enjoyed the fact every can see a problem and many have the same cause effect issues it is solving the problems that seem to be in debate.
ReplyDeletei learned during my research tha gays and lesbians in middle schools are dealing with more intolerance and abuse than high school students are. Constructing this assignment has been like no other for me before, i had to start all over several times beczuse i was not satisfied with how it flowed together.I am very proud of the material i chose to use for this paper, i believe with the extrme of it that i am actualy get a point across to some.I believe that it could use more time and development in it, it could also use more research but from the time period we had i did what i could and i am proud of where my paper is at so far.
ReplyDeleteIndia Malone
ReplyDeleteEnglish101-11
6/22/09
Reflections on Essay 3
My goal in essay 3 to is to tell people how many teen get pregnant in each year or how teen pregnant affects their baby and how if they keep the baby how they grow up. What I’m trying to say in this essay is to prove to ten mothers don’t listen to how the statics and how they down teen mothers do the best that you can and prove to them they are kids won’t do the same as what you did when you was growing up. The most discoveries I made in this paper is to show what the statics say about teen pregnancies. Changes I don’t believe I need in changes but if you read it I would love to hear if I need any changes. What I like about this essay is that I learned a lot because I never knew about teen pregnancies. The least part that I didn’t like is that when they said teen pregnancies may cause low birth weight and birth effect or my lead to death and how my son my end up in prison or my girl may become a teen mother also I fell that I got lot of research for this paper.