Blog #3

I learned that I have lost the passion I once had for writing. Although I was a bad writer in my middle/high school days, I would love to get the chance to write something now it like when I get it I want it to be over as fast as possible. Last spring I took a class that had a research paper and I did tons of extra credit so when it came time to turn in the research paper I still passed the class with a B and the paper didn’t help at all. I also learned that I like to give people the chance to learn on their own with a little extra help from me. I didn’t want to take charge and not let my partner have the chance to learn something too. I like to think of myself as a silent leader. I think I could have been a little more prepared in the information I brought to the table because I relaied on two people which turned into one and realized that my partner could have done the same thing and we would have been done for (she did not).

On the objective summary I think I did well. I think I am recalling the right paper; I don’t have it in front on me. I learned that I have let go of the steps on which I used to take to complete my paper in a good, efficient way. I know should start using them because I realized it but I am too lazy to want to when it comes down to it.

Blog # 2

If I had to put a label on my writings strength and weaknesses it would be hard because depending on what level we are talking about it could be perfect or very crappy. Talking about a good medium level I would say that I can be an ok writer when I want to be. I am very good with a three body paragraph paper because when I figure out what my three topics are I can support them with 3 to 4 more sentence and the intro and conclusion I write about the same thing and the thesis sentence thing is the same in both.  I am good with creating sentence to make the requirements of a paragraph because I have a habit of writing run-on sentences.

My negative thing about my writing is the length. When I first wrote essay, like in middle/high school I had a problem with putting what I wanted to say on paper so I would have many sentences to explain what I was trying to say. Know that I have taken some good classes on how to really write I am better with explaining myself in fewer words and can’t seem to make a paper of any kind longer without putting in stuff that dose fit/matter or isn’t on topic. I also just remembered that I am very bad at spelling (which ABC check helps me with) and I am bad at grammar and putting words in the correct way for people to understand them and to still be in correct English.

At the moment the thing that I want to learn is to write a good, long research paper because I will need to write many of them since I am now in college. : )  I have fine with just learning to write a long r. paper the good part can come later.

Diagnostic Essay

It was a little of both. At first it was hard for me to think of how I wanted to write my first paper of the year that would show my writing skills.  So I took the easy way out and wrote my paper in a letter format.  If I had the chance to do my essay over again, I would have spent some more time on checking it over by added in more things to help support what I thought. I would have done my format in the same way because after I am done with an essay I normally would recheck it twice, which I don’t do any more, so I think either way the format of the essay would have been fine but I think I choose wisely in my decision.  The letter way was a good way to show my writing skills in an informal way.

 I do like to write but just to show my skills off I think because I never write just I feel like it. I do write a lot throughout my day though. I would enjoy writing more if it was more meaningful, like in class I write for a good grade, I’ll write example to help people, or a scholarship. Something that has a deeper meaning than what is “on top”.

Blog #1

*** Thoughts wrote as reading the section.


(page 3) Write other’s ideas down. I think that it can’t be done correctly because we are not the ones that are thinking the “idea”. When we do infer what the person is trying to get across we sometimes will assume what they think and will all have different ideas and could think it means something totally different then what the write was trying to get across. I think this is probably what reporters do when they get yelled at for write untrue facts, they put words in other people’s mouths so they can get there story to sound even more plausible.

(page 10) I never thought of a “Robotic” way of writing but the book went on to talk about how it isn’t a characteristic of this writing style. Is there a Robotic way of writing? (I thought this to myself) Yes, the 5 paragraph essay. If it was such a bad way to write an essay then why do teacher and such teach it to us in the fist place?

(chapter 1) It would be good if you keep repeating the They Say because it will help them and the writer me and you stay on track with what is being wrote about.

Personally I think it’s hard to find out what’s the main idea of another’s paper, let alone what mine might be.

I agree that we need to start using bigger words that are in our vocabulary, not “spoke” or “said”. But sometimes it is hard to think of the word that we want to say and just put in a word like “talked”.

Its weird how in chapter 3 it says that although summarizing it is the best, like said in the previous chapter, putting quotes in papers is the best. This book is written by the same people the whole time and first they are right then they say I am wrong and now I am right. Confusing!!



*So far I think this book will be a big help to my writing and overall English skills hopefully.