Reflecting on essays

The things than come in my head about this email essay and my third blog really just hit me. The email essay we have been working on is really a big step up from alot of papers i have done in my life. This email essay and blog number three are the same topic just written differently. The third blog was jus straight up write to a friend about a bad grade you got. There was no format or a certain way to write. All you had to do was jump into it. The email essay basicly came with a page of instructions on how the paper should be written and what should not be in there. When I got that page of instructions I knew I was heading for big problems. The rough draft I had showed up with at class was a total buzz kill paper. I saw some of my teammates papers and I was like I don't even know what I was doing. When it came time for me to read my paper they said it was a good paper but that it needed alot of work. I know it needed alot of work when I stepped in that door. Mostly the whole paper was just messing with my head and it had me all lose in the head. I went to the writing center and that set my head for sure. I wish this paper was as easy as blog number three but teachers just like to make things hard for us. But both blog number three and the email essay are the same but also completley different. All in all I learned something from both blog number three and also the email essay that will stick with me because it will only get worse for me in english.

Workshop experience

Well today we were supposed to get in a circle with our group and discuss how our essay paper are coming along. Each member in my group including myself read what we had and suggested to each other the best ways to make each others papers better. My group told me mine was good but that I should make it longer and to make it longer we I need to put more detail into it. The paper has alot of difficult things in it and it just makes it harder to write it almost perfect. My group didn't want to tell me anything about my paper but I needed them to because I didn't know if I was doing it right so I made them tell me how I can better the paper. All in all they did a good job of telling me what to do and I took it under my consideration because it's the best thing to do right now. Other groups looked like they knew what they were doing and some I am sure were unprepared. This little workshop thing was ok I guess it was helpful to me but not nessesary. My rough draft is out of they way and all I can do now is try to write another and see where I can improve on that one. The final draft will be due soon and I know my paper should be up to the standards set for the essay. Still I need to get the paper looked at in the writing center before I turn it in. Why I need to get it looked at puzzels me but I have to do it so my final draft can be just right. This is a major thing to me and I hope all of it can go my way and not get to me.

Dating

Well today my team did a presentation on dating and how it is now and what are the effects of online dating. Well my paper was about gays not liking that they can't use eharmony's services beacuse eharmony doesn't have a same sex compatiablity feature. I don't why they would want to use eharmony anyway because the other sites such as chemistry.com, match.com, and true.com allow same sex compatablilty. Another article that got me was the one where in mumbai they date online meet that person every now and then but the one of them sends a private detective to see if that can be there future girlfriend or boyfriend. In the article we find out that a guy sends private detectives to see if this girl he's talking to could be his potential girlfriend but the detectives tell him they saw that girl checking into a hotel with another man so I was like wow this is bad. There was also another article that was catching my eye. It was one where people don't have time to date so they use some website where they use avatars and go on dates and can give each other good night kisses. They also take pictures of them selves and send it to the website for the other person to see what they look like. It's a dating website where people can date and never really have the risk of meeting each other and never anything bad happening. These people just go online and use there avatar with this other person and date just like that. Over there is nothing wrong with the online dating thing going on. The only thing I would stress is being very careful and choosing the right sites to use because some sites just might not allow what you may want.

Email essay

Well the discussion about the email etiquette assignment coming up seems to be very difficult. We have to go through a whole process before we do anything. We read the entire paper of directions that were given to us. Alot of it was confusing and I felt was junk. It seems that the teacher wants everything a certain way in a certain time and it's just not that easy. The eassay is about an email you sent to your teacher about a grade you got and you want to know if the teacher can change it. We need to have fully developed body paragraphs and we can only use certain writing and when I was hearing this I was jus freaking out. I was like how can we write a paper when there is limiting on the wording we want. I am going to have to think long and hard before I even write this paper. There is to much that we can and can not do on this paper. Stuff like that just keeps getting me thinking can I even do this I don't think I can. The reqirements for this paper are way different from high school and are tripping me out. This is not going to be easy for me. Another thing that makes this harder is that before we can even turn in this paper we have to get it looked at by someone else before we can turn it into the teacher. The teacher will not grade that paper unless the english lab looks at it and buts a stamp on it. I don't have time for things like that. I have a job that I go to and I just don't have time to make an appointment with the english lab. This paper is going to get done right by me it's just going to be hard.

What's with the ipod

Well today in our class I found two articles that really caught my attention. One was about ipods such as iphone and itouch are allowed at one university. They say its a good way to have kids learning to use the new technology and not have to deal with the hassel of a laptop. In the articles somewhere it said that it saves you money on not having to buy books and other resources the iphones have. I say that's a lie and a scam. You have to pay the monthly service and additional fees for other stuff on the phone. You will be paying way more for that phone that books that you will not need for long and can always sell back. The iphone is a distraction. Another article I read today was on internet in schools. Some people think its a good and in the articles it said the parents should teach there younger ones to use the computer at a young age and be caught up with the technology. This will help them learn quick, know what they are doing and also help them be ahead. There are lots of people that are behind on knowing how to use the computers but that should not stop us from teaching others. 60 percent of jobs require computer skills and thats alot of people. So its best that we teach the world because one day every job will reqire computer skills. One last think the articles mentioned something about how english teachers love students to write there papers on the computer because it takes away bad handwriting pencils, pens, and has spell check and other additions you just can't know from smarts. All in all i like computers but im not the best typer so i woud rather write it out because it's faster and an easier more effcient way because you can always get a pen and paper to write and not always a computer.

articles discussion about texting and literature.

Today was a heated discussion about the technology known as cell phones and texting. How all that is connected toward the way you write or in your english class. Man well the texting article got me thinking and disagreeing alot. Alot of it is that people say its rude and bad posture. Well I got some words for them. Get over it, this is the new generation. We need to use our phones to call but to text more because thats less rude than yamming your mouth on the phone. Also the texting slang and how it affects me and many other people. We control when we use computer and texting slang. There are no affects of it toward writing an english paper of letter. Kids and young adults just need to turn off the texting mode they have in there brain and start up there modern language mode. There is controveresy about it. I have sometimes done it but always find myself catching so I know that I am not texting right then and there but writing a paper. Lets start with the iphones that are given to freshman at a university. Thats just a way to make money for the phone company and lure students to that universtiy. It's a big scam. That phone is super popular and all it will do is distract students from what they are really there for. It just another great idea for theft, more phone use and distraction. Finally lets get to the last thing. Writing has changed alot since from along time ago. We text now and write and also have slang talk. It may be a new revoultion for writing because back then it was limited and faked in a way. Writing is changing and will continue to do so. We use writing on devices now and have a slang for it. Eventually something more bigger and universal will impact the way we write in the future.

A reflection

Well overall the discussion went good and the teacher gave us a whole lot of information on the rest of the semester. Well be getting alot of stuff to do, mostly essays and writing assignments. My group is actually made up of really good people who actually will get the work done. We all communicate really well and get along. We talk together everyday we go to class so I think we will be one of those stronger groups and rise above the others. We are very serious about our work and will go to the extreme to get it done. What I have to say about the writing assignments is that I hope there easy and eye catching topics I can write about. I really don't want something I won't want to write about because it will take me a while to get it done. The assignments do seem to be easy just from looking at the assignments sheet. I know I will be able to get stuff done in a timely manner as well as my group members. Also as a member of my group I will try to get my group to pull together even though I am not team leader. I really want a good grade for myself and as well for my group because they are a reflection on me since I am part of there team. So for the remaining semester days I hope me and my group can hold it together me work around my life outside school and work to get what I need done. I am a strong person and hope that this semester can make me a better person in english and better person with a team that can help me succeed. Thats all I have to say about my reflection about my team and the upcoming assignments.

Complaing about a grade I got

Dear, Joey

Hey man I'm writing to you because I need to let some rage out man. Well It's about a damn grade that a teacher of mine gave me. It was on a writing assignment that needed to be five pages long. So she said it will be due in two weeks. So I start looking up stuff to write because we could write about anything. After that for the next week I blow off eveybody and everything to get this paper done right. I pour my heart out and stay up late nights because I am never satisfied. Then I continue to start over and over again right. Days are coming to an end and my brain is blistering, my eyeslids are heavy and fingers just stiff as hell. Two days before the due date I tone it down and start getting things done hour by hour. The night before comes and I'm re-writing it so it can look nice and proffesional. The next morning I turn it in and sit there till class ends and race out of there. I go home proud, tired and worn out. I feel I will get a good grade and don't worry about it. Finally the next class day I arrive in class and the teacher passes out the paper with a grade on them. Mine gets to me and all I see is a big red seventy. I was flaming because that paper should have been an A. So I go home and beat myself because I went to hell and back for that paper to be an A and it wasn't so I just wanted to cry so bad. I got over it and hated the teacher for the rest of the year but I guess it was a lesson learned. Thanks for listening man. Peace