Assignment #15

I've learned a lot as writer through my writing 101 class. I've learned things such as organizing papers better, creating strong thesis statements, avoiding sentence fragments, and adding specific details and examples to help support my claims. I liked this class overall because it helped me improve in areas that I was having trouble in. My previous writing classes would just just assign an essay and a rubric in hopes that the students would accomplish what the teacher asked of them. On the other hand, in this course I liked how we wrote drafts, pier reviewed them, and then had the final draft due a couple days after. I like this because with a rough draft you can build, add, take out, and prefect your paper with your classmates. It was also nice that we had a chance to read other peoples papers so we had a feel of what our own paper is supposed to look like. Overall, this course has helped me immensely on becoming a better writer in general. I've learned different ways and techniques to make my papers better overall. I've also gotten a chance to read some of my piers amazing essays. Something I really likes about his course was that we got a chance to write a draft before our final paper was due. I think that helped me the most because my drafts have never been all that. It usually takes me a couple drafts to really perfect my papers so that I feel like they are fully complete and ready to hand in.

Assignment #14

For my portfolio I chose to revise my writing process essay. I chose this one because it's an essay that was personal to me so which ever way i choose to revise it, it will be stronger. My strengths of this essay were that i added a lot of specific and personal detail and my weakness was my conclusion. I say this because I think i could have summed everything up in a better way that was more appealing to the reader. To effectively revise my essay I will go through each paragraph to make sure it relates back to my thesis and makes sense.

Assignment #13

I analyzed Malikas essay, in her essay she used a straight forward approach to grab the readers attention right away. She was arguing that teenagers should not get tattoos at such early ages. This will then lead to problems in the future such as your own kids wanting tattoos or even being prevented form being hired at a job because of a tattoo. This thought me that I should use a straight forward approach to really get the attention of my reader. It also thought me that I should use specific examples to get my point across.

Assignment #12

• The strongest evidence is my claim that everyone should live a healthy lifestyle because it leads to a happy more bright future. It's strong evidence because it pertains to everyone. Everyone wants to be healthy and fit. Health and fitness are the two most important aspects of a brighter future. Since my claim is good I'm going to come back to it multiple times during the course of my paper.
• My weakest evidence is my rebuttal which would be its not easy to live a healthy lifestyle.Most people now a days are lazy and don't have time to make healthy food or exercise properly. I will strengthen this part of my essay by telling the reader that you live a longer life if you stay healthy. I mean no one wants to live to only 25 I'm sure. You control what you eat so your health is on you.

Assignment #9

                                                                       College Experience

My college experience this semester and a half has been a memorable one. I say this because I've met new people, you have more freedom, and your getting closer to establishing your future. I've still kept some of my friends from high school, but most of my good friends are the people i have met this year in college. I like getting to know people because even my job requires me to build relationships with other people I've always loved change and Northeastern has fulfilled my expectations. You also have plenty of freedom is college because unlike high school you get to pick classes that will lead you closer to your future goals. I also say more freedom because you also get to pick your schedule and most definitely don't have to stay at school for 8 hours like high school.

Assignment #8

Free speech off campus must be protected by Frank D. LoMonte

Summary- LoMonte describes the laws that are being made on students to be more aware of what they say on networking sites such as facebook, twitter, ect. He uses multiple examples from past student experiences that help get his point across.For example, he uses the Tatro v. University of Minnesota case. In this case Amanda Tatro had been called to the student-conduct board because of what she had written on facebook. She had written that she had nicknamed someone in the laboratory "Bernie". She also wrote about stabbing someone with a dissecting knife and many believe it was her ex-boyfriend. A classmate of hers read these messages and forwarded them to to the University of Minnesota authorities. A criminal investigation was filed and although Tatro had no intent of hurting anyone, she was charged and disciplined anyway. Although these laws are being made for students who don't know how to carefully post things on facebook or other social networking devices, I think it's freedom of speech. It seems to me from the Tatro case that she had no intent of harming anyone, but just to joke around on facebook. On the other hand, I do understand that students need to realize  that when you post things, they are viewable to many people and someone may take something you said offensively. My personal opinion is that students should be able to make jokes on facebook because its your site and you control what goes on it. At the same time you should be careful about what you say and how you say it.

Assignment #7

I feel like everyone grows as writers somehow. Looking at my past blog posts, even I have grown. I say this because I realized I had multiple sentence fragments and run-ons in my sentences. I still make the mistake of having a couple here and there, but its an improvement. This class has been helping me immensely on perfecting each individual sentence. I learned how to create sentences that go straight to the point and don't linger off of topic. With this, my paragraphs and papers make much more sense and its not as confusing to the reader. This class and my past English classes teach me something new every year. Every English class I've taken in the past have taught me something different from run-ons to adding details and examples to papers. To be more specific, my papers now include details that are not off topic. If I'm writing a paper about Nike shoes I wont mention anything about the other brands just so it wont get off topic.