FINAL REFLECTIVE WRITING
Out of all of the English classes I had in college so far, English 2010 was by far the most difficult out of all of them. This was my last English class before finishing my Generals, and I knew I couldn’t afford to screw up in class. It was great that we had a goals sheet to keep track of our priorities throughout the semester. However, the beginning of the semester was where I began to collapse. I kept forgetting to do so many assignments that I was in deep trouble in the beginning. Eventually I was able to keep up with the discussions and the notebook assignments, but what was the most difficult were the essays. My performances on the essays were not as I wanted it to be, but I did learn to write better but giving in more details and sources in to my work. I still didn’t get the best scores, but I was really proud of myself that I had to get through the stress and the headaches in able to complete the essays. This course did help me in my other classes, such as my Education class, where I mostly had to do APA format assignments. They were really difficult, but from my skills that I learned from my other English classes, including 2010, I was able to succeed in that class.
This class changed my assumptions. I thought I knew how to write an essay without any worries or problems, but this class showed how dead wrong I was. Other than my grammar, punctuation and details were not enough, the most stressful thing were the sources. For my Academic Essay, I had to include sources that were “academic and credible.” I thought I had the correct support I needed for this essay, but I was way off. I didn’t blame anyone for my mistakes, I know it was all on me. I did the best I could on all my essays, but in the end I was happy that I was able to complete them all and to pass the past with a satisfying grade.
My instructor, Professor Kilpatrick, is a great instructor. She teaches the class in a very good way that you pay attention to her even if there are distractions. I would recommend her to any students that it takes English 2010. I learned new ways to write an essay and I will use these new skills in future classes or in my career after college.
Out of all of the English classes I had in college so far, English 2010 was by far the most difficult out of all of them. This was my last English class before finishing my Generals, and I knew I couldn’t afford to screw up in class. It was great that we had a goals sheet to keep track of our priorities throughout the semester. However, the beginning of the semester was where I began to collapse. I kept forgetting to do so many assignments that I was in deep trouble in the beginning. Eventually I was able to keep up with the discussions and the notebook assignments, but what was the most difficult were the essays. My performances on the essays were not as I wanted it to be, but I did learn to write better but giving in more details and sources in to my work. I still didn’t get the best scores, but I was really proud of myself that I had to get through the stress and the headaches in able to complete the essays. This course did help me in my other classes, such as my Education class, where I mostly had to do APA format assignments. They were really difficult, but from my skills that I learned from my other English classes, including 2010, I was able to succeed in that class.
This class changed my assumptions. I thought I knew how to write an essay without any worries or problems, but this class showed how dead wrong I was. Other than my grammar, punctuation and details were not enough, the most stressful thing were the sources. For my Academic Essay, I had to include sources that were “academic and credible.” I thought I had the correct support I needed for this essay, but I was way off. I didn’t blame anyone for my mistakes, I know it was all on me. I did the best I could on all my essays, but in the end I was happy that I was able to complete them all and to pass the past with a satisfying grade.
My instructor, Professor Kilpatrick, is a great instructor. She teaches the class in a very good way that you pay attention to her even if there are distractions. I would recommend her to any students that it takes English 2010. I learned new ways to write an essay and I will use these new skills in future classes or in my career after college.
REFLECTIVE WRITING FOR ACADEMIC ESSAY
This essay was the most difficult out of all the essays that I had to write in my college life. I wanted to write about how an unhealthy mind can cause an individual to commit mass murder. It was a great idea and I was able to complete the essay, but there were so many thing wrong with it. First of all, it was supposed to be an Academic essay. I had to include sources that were academic and credible. I couldn’t tell if sources I used in the essay were academic and credible, but the sources I did use gave so much support that I kept think it was correct. How dead wrong I was. Turns out that out of all the sources I had used for the essay, none of them were academic nor credible. I was really disappointed about the results. It was probably just me, but I really couldn’t tell the differences between sources that are academic/credible and the sources that I used in the essay. I was given another chance to complete the essay again, this time using the correct sources. But due to having to worry about other classes and finals, I decided not to full improve the essay. It was nice that my instructor understood the main idea of what I was trying to go for. This essay didn’t have the best results, but I was satisfied what I had in the end.
This essay was the most difficult out of all the essays that I had to write in my college life. I wanted to write about how an unhealthy mind can cause an individual to commit mass murder. It was a great idea and I was able to complete the essay, but there were so many thing wrong with it. First of all, it was supposed to be an Academic essay. I had to include sources that were academic and credible. I couldn’t tell if sources I used in the essay were academic and credible, but the sources I did use gave so much support that I kept think it was correct. How dead wrong I was. Turns out that out of all the sources I had used for the essay, none of them were academic nor credible. I was really disappointed about the results. It was probably just me, but I really couldn’t tell the differences between sources that are academic/credible and the sources that I used in the essay. I was given another chance to complete the essay again, this time using the correct sources. But due to having to worry about other classes and finals, I decided not to full improve the essay. It was nice that my instructor understood the main idea of what I was trying to go for. This essay didn’t have the best results, but I was satisfied what I had in the end.
REFLECTIVE WRITING FOR VISUAL ARGUMENT
For my Visual Argument Essay, I went for a topic about how we as people are being judged about who we are on the outside instead of the inside. Basically about racism and religious views. The reason why I choose this topic is because as a minority myself, I also get looked at the wrong way from people just because I’m a Latino. I found this interesting because these bad people believe that minorities are the one ones that are bad because of the color of their skin, religious views and gender. Just because we are different on the outside, doesn’t mean that we are bad people. On the outside, we all look different, but on the outside, we are all the same. Same skeleton, same color of blood, same organs including a heart. It doesn’t matter if you are white, black, Hispanic, European, Jewish, Muslim, gay or straight, we are all human beings and it just makes me disappointed that there are a lot of people in this world who don’t agree with that.
For the visual argument, I decided to create a very small website dedicated to the people who have been judged for who they are. To do this, I went around my college and took pictures of strangers with different races and religious views who agreed to help me. I asked them to put their hands over their heart and say something about how they are human beings. Some of them said longer quotes, but it helped me out more. I got help from a Latino, and African American, Jew, Muslim, a European, a Homosexual, and a group of women. With their permissions, I was able to use their images for the site.
I originally wanted to use a chart for this assignment, but it didn’t really fit with the images that I had already taken. Those pictures and direct quotes that I had received from the people that helped me out was just right. I did use some pictures that I had found on the internet. To avoid copyright infringement, I put the sources below on each page and gave credit where credit is due.
To make the site look good, I had to use Wix.com for help, I was able to use a web design page that was originally meant for fashion, but I transformed it to the site that I wanted to be. The site has a home page with a large image of a women with her hand in front of the camera that had writing on it. The worlds were “We are all equal”. I knew that this image was perfect to just be the home page. For the second page, it was a small text that I wrote myself describing what the site was all about. I then used a quote from an unknown source to finish the text. The third page, I used the photographs that I had taken of the people that had help me. I put their images in a silly order. I wrote their names down, their race/religion and their quotes.
I was really happy how this assignment turned out to be. At first I knew this was a good idea, but I didn’t know if people were going to understand what I was doing. Taking pictures of people was the most difficult part. I didn’t know most of these people and I tried my best not to offend them by any chance when I told them what I was doing for this assignment. Thank goodness that they did understand me and gave me their support. The site isn’t as big as I wanted to be, but it shows enough of what I wanted to do for this visual argument. I would love to work on the site more to make it grow so that many people can see it. Maybe, just maybe, that other people could send me pictures of themselves with their hands over their hearts so show how equal we all are.
From what I learn from this project, I learned that if you treat people they want to be treated, they will treat you back the same. I didn’t know what was going to happen when I started doing this essay, I didn’t think anyone was going to help me, but it turned out to be a success. I was nice to these people when I asked for their help, and they were so kind and gentle to me. I didn’t care if they were a different race than me or if they had a different religion. I saw them as humans and they saw respect from me. We can all learn to get along if we just show respect to each other and look at everyone in the world as equals.
For my Visual Argument Essay, I went for a topic about how we as people are being judged about who we are on the outside instead of the inside. Basically about racism and religious views. The reason why I choose this topic is because as a minority myself, I also get looked at the wrong way from people just because I’m a Latino. I found this interesting because these bad people believe that minorities are the one ones that are bad because of the color of their skin, religious views and gender. Just because we are different on the outside, doesn’t mean that we are bad people. On the outside, we all look different, but on the outside, we are all the same. Same skeleton, same color of blood, same organs including a heart. It doesn’t matter if you are white, black, Hispanic, European, Jewish, Muslim, gay or straight, we are all human beings and it just makes me disappointed that there are a lot of people in this world who don’t agree with that.
For the visual argument, I decided to create a very small website dedicated to the people who have been judged for who they are. To do this, I went around my college and took pictures of strangers with different races and religious views who agreed to help me. I asked them to put their hands over their heart and say something about how they are human beings. Some of them said longer quotes, but it helped me out more. I got help from a Latino, and African American, Jew, Muslim, a European, a Homosexual, and a group of women. With their permissions, I was able to use their images for the site.
I originally wanted to use a chart for this assignment, but it didn’t really fit with the images that I had already taken. Those pictures and direct quotes that I had received from the people that helped me out was just right. I did use some pictures that I had found on the internet. To avoid copyright infringement, I put the sources below on each page and gave credit where credit is due.
To make the site look good, I had to use Wix.com for help, I was able to use a web design page that was originally meant for fashion, but I transformed it to the site that I wanted to be. The site has a home page with a large image of a women with her hand in front of the camera that had writing on it. The worlds were “We are all equal”. I knew that this image was perfect to just be the home page. For the second page, it was a small text that I wrote myself describing what the site was all about. I then used a quote from an unknown source to finish the text. The third page, I used the photographs that I had taken of the people that had help me. I put their images in a silly order. I wrote their names down, their race/religion and their quotes.
I was really happy how this assignment turned out to be. At first I knew this was a good idea, but I didn’t know if people were going to understand what I was doing. Taking pictures of people was the most difficult part. I didn’t know most of these people and I tried my best not to offend them by any chance when I told them what I was doing for this assignment. Thank goodness that they did understand me and gave me their support. The site isn’t as big as I wanted to be, but it shows enough of what I wanted to do for this visual argument. I would love to work on the site more to make it grow so that many people can see it. Maybe, just maybe, that other people could send me pictures of themselves with their hands over their hearts so show how equal we all are.
From what I learn from this project, I learned that if you treat people they want to be treated, they will treat you back the same. I didn’t know what was going to happen when I started doing this essay, I didn’t think anyone was going to help me, but it turned out to be a success. I was nice to these people when I asked for their help, and they were so kind and gentle to me. I didn’t care if they were a different race than me or if they had a different religion. I saw them as humans and they saw respect from me. We can all learn to get along if we just show respect to each other and look at everyone in the world as equals.
REFLECTIVE WRITING FOR SIX WORD MEMOIR
"SIX WORDS IS JUST NOT ENOUGH"
When I first heard about the six word memoir, it was great that we finally had an assignment on where we can get to know a little bit about ourselves. This turned out to be difficult, because all i can think of were negative things.
Reason why I chose what I wrote was because a lot has happen in my life and it's hard just to say six words about it. I originally wanted to add the words "Impossible" and "Difficult" The shortest I can come to is seven words. I wanted to put a positive response, but I felt like I would be lying to people if I were to put that, so I discard it in the end.
It wasn't easy to get where I am today, and to be honest, it's still difficult to get to where I am today. I'm happy for that, but it took sacrifice and strength to get here. I want to say more, but I can only say 6 words. I would read this memoir over and over again. If someone else were to write this, than I would understand what they went through.
"SIX WORDS IS JUST NOT ENOUGH"
When I first heard about the six word memoir, it was great that we finally had an assignment on where we can get to know a little bit about ourselves. This turned out to be difficult, because all i can think of were negative things.
Reason why I chose what I wrote was because a lot has happen in my life and it's hard just to say six words about it. I originally wanted to add the words "Impossible" and "Difficult" The shortest I can come to is seven words. I wanted to put a positive response, but I felt like I would be lying to people if I were to put that, so I discard it in the end.
It wasn't easy to get where I am today, and to be honest, it's still difficult to get to where I am today. I'm happy for that, but it took sacrifice and strength to get here. I want to say more, but I can only say 6 words. I would read this memoir over and over again. If someone else were to write this, than I would understand what they went through.