When going into paper 2 I knew that there were a few MLA format and grammar mistakes I had made in my first paper that I should fix. For example, in paper 1 I formatted the date at the top of the first page wrong. Looking back it was a silly mistake, but it was one I could learn from. When it comes to MLA citations I had a lot of experience with it in high school so it was…
Peer review was always hard for me because I never felt like I could help my peers or that I was in the place to critique their work. Throughout high school I mostly would edit grammar and wording but I would never comment on the person’s ideas because I was scared of offending them. The peer review guide was very helpful in learning how to comment on other people’s writing because it provided ideas on what to comment on and…
Before coming to college my annotating experience was minimal and it was something I actually dreaded. I hated the idea of having to actually think about what I was reading, but when I got to college I realized just how important it is to create an effective argument and to fully understanding text. The two hardest readings for me this semester were the Yoshino and Dalai Lama articles. Because I struggled with some of the comprehension I reread both articles…
Project 2 was a challenge for me because the concept of gene editing and ethics was a new writing topic for me. In high school I would have started researching and scraping together ideas, taking hours to get ideas down and probably barely reaching the word count. Writing was always a struggle for me because I never knew where to begin. Luckily since this was the second paper, I had figured out how to use my homeworks to my advantage….
At the beginning of the semester, using quotes in a paper for evidence was something I had done before but never really learned how to do properly. I was used to just throwing in a quote where it sounded like it fit with no introduction and no explanation. Over the semester Professor Spain introduced new paragraph styles, first the TRIAC then the Barclays, that gave structure and acted as a map for writing with quotations. Both the Barclays and TRIAC…
