I had an answer, but I struggled terribly with putting it down on paper because I wanted this interview to “be perfect”. I was too worried about what I looked like or sounded like, so ultimately I had lost “my voice.” I went to my dad for more help. I had wasted a whole hour stressing over how to answer a few questions about myself. My dad told me something very important that day, he said, “The best way to impress someone is to be you”. After meditating on what he said to me I had at least something to put down.
However, when Jamal had to turn in an assignment for a competition at school, he couldn’t resist the temptation. The first paragraph of his essay was written by Forrester. Little did Jamal know, Forrester’s borrowed first paragraph had already been published. Jamal’s teacher, Crawford, was already upset with Jamal for being such an excellent writer. When he caught him plagiarizing, it was to Jamal’s demise.
Madera’s desire to overcome her language barrier caused her to decide to go back to college and take English courses (79). Madera had taken her weakness into her own hands and decided to fix it by going back to school. She realizes that the way she speaks does not show the type of person that she, but her writing does (80). “The Bar of Gold” also talks about how the protagonist, Weeping John, is his own constraint, and because of that he is not able to move forward. In this folktale, Weeping John is constantly sick because he is worried about how his family will survive after his death (Gold 148).
11 December 2014 Drowning in the Discourse Julie Wildhaber says that “A strong, well-defined voice is the bridge between you and your audience: It helps your readers understand who you are, and it helps you engage them” (Wildhaber). For students in college, their audience will always be their professor. Along with expecting a strong voice, professors expect students, even first year students, to master and employ the many other writing skills that make up academic discourse. Most students tend to prioritize the more technical conventions of writing over the development of a distinguished and personalized voice. The conventions of college writing are very complex and if professors are more helpful and patient with first year students as they learn academic discourse, students will be better prepared for all future academic endeavors and they will have a better opportunity to strengthen and develop their voice.
Now having to research and provide proper citings to given topics, of which I often had no interest. I began to detest writing, the practice of being forced to plan and propagate my thoughts on paper in fancy ways to “get ideas”. I always asked myself “what’s the point of ideas scattered in bubbles on a paper?” way too disorganized and it never once helped me to “gain ideas”. In fact nine out of ten times creating the prewriting exercises was harder than actually sitting down with a blank page and just writing because I was always able to just write what flows in my mind. Trying to compartmentalize and break it all down into generalized topics to follow made my work become overly stiff and choppy.
Online classes required self determination and a lot time. This is definitely not what I had in mind! Procrastination and grades don’t mix well and the outcome has many consequences. Happiness is hard to achieve when you are always in a rush to finish a task that was supposed to be done weeks or even months before hand. For example I waited all summer to sign up for fall classes and as a result I got stuck with most classes that other students didn’t want to take.
If you need extra help, you may call me. First, | | |write your name on the paper. Second, find the first page and draw a picture of something you enjoy doing with| | |your family. | | Assessment: |First the teacher introduces the story. Second, have the students write down a few of the challenging words | | |they may struggle with in the story.
Fear and frustration are the first feelings that pop in my heart when I have to write a paper. From dawn to dusk, I feel overwhelmed, inadequate and apprehensive when I have to write. For my agony writing an essay has become my nightmare. I abominate the feeling of staring at a blank piece of paper with the knowledge that I am expected to fill it with creative ideas and appropriable writing techniques. In fact, every time I just hope that my brain will come with something creative that I could start with.
VAR Reflection Assignment I did my VARK test and my result was that my learning style was Kinesthetic. I expected to be Read/Write because I noticed that I remember the best when I read over few times and make main points. Vark Inventory Reflection According to the VARK learning style inventory, my preferred learning styles are read and write. I agree with the results, Read/Write which means that I need teachers who use words well and have lots of information in sentences and notes. This preference is for information displayed as words.
That weakness of mine is reading. For some reason when I have to read a book or an article of something, I seen to lose all my focus and everything goes haywire. Stuff like that makes me want to quit school but I can’t because quitting school is rubbish. Then sometimes I feel like I am wasting my time with all these classes because some never seem to satisfy my learning style. So, no matter what your personal style tends to