Blog #8

Part 1: Reflection

This week during my internship we went over a cover letter with a student. The peer tutor taught the student how to write a cover letter and also the outline what each part should look including, name, company name, greetings, then what each paragraph consists of, and then ending the letter. It reminded me of what a cover letter is supposed to look like and after i went back and looked at my cover letter to make sure I did it correctly. The peer tutor asked if that was what mine looked like and I told him it did because that was what you taught us in class. It is so interesting how much our class is working with the internship, it is helping me pull things together and understand concepts better.

Part 2: Community Partner Project

In class, my group and I talked about who the audience would be and that would be college students because we are on a college campus full of college students. We also talked about a fundraiser or having a table set up in the CUB. The table would consist of a tri-fold just with information about Second Chance Animal, information about what they do, and how the college student could help maybe? Kaycee had a great layout of the tri-fold and what it would consist of. Also with the table set-up Kaycee offered to bring her dog which she adopted to help attract college students to the table. And then also adding a poster that we could put on the table with information about Second Chance Animal, and then about spay and nuturing and how to help animals.

Blog #7

Part 1: Revision

Before:

Media portrays Teen pregnancy daily on a show on MTV and it is starting to become a common thing around our culture today. I believe people should know more about this topic because the issue of teen pregnancy plays a huge role in teen’s lives today and is a life changing event in a teens life. There are many things teens don’t think about when becoming pregnant, and teens need to be aware, before getting pregnant, of what the consequences are of bringing a child into this world.

After:

Media portrays teen pregnancy daily on a show on MTV called "Teen Mom" and it is starting to become a common thing around our culture today. I believe people should know more about this topic because the issue of teen pregnancy plays a huge role in teen’s lives today and is a life changing event in a teens life. There are specific consequences teens don’t think about when becoming pregnant, and teens need to be aware, before getting pregnant, of what the consequences are of bringing a child into this world.

The changes I made were very small but I changed some words around to help my paragraph become more specific to my topic and straight to the point.

Part 2:

My group talked about PSAs for Georgia to consider. The questions we talked about asking her were:

• What points do you want to get across to your audience?
• Volunteering? Spending time with the animals?
• Main focus?
• Who do you want your audience to be?
• Maybe talk about:
• shelter benefits
• volunteering
• spay and neutured
• another event coming up?

Part 3: Revision of Previous Blog

Active: This chapter will help me in the future because it will help me keep writing straight forward again because sometimes you don’t need those extra word as seen in active writing therefore as in passive writing you don’t need the support it is straight to the point and you still understand.

Passive: This chapter helped me because it will help me realize extra words I don't need and it is straight to the point and not needing support.

I chose this because I am still dragging sentences on and mixing up active and passive.

Blog #6

Part 1: In the writing center I learned more about grammar, and also the tutor I was working with talked about connecting sentences which was what we talked about on Wednesday in class. The student we were working with was an ESL student and her thoughts were kind of all over the place and the tutor helped her put her sentences together and link her thoughts together to help the paper make more sense. And then I also helped a little by helping her link sentences. I thought it was great that our class and the internship are working together because it is really helping me understand the class and with my writing.

Part 2:

Before:

The contemporary issue I chose to talk about is teen pregnancy. The reason I chose this topic is because media portrays this on a daily show on MTV and it is starting to become a common thing around our culture today. I believe people should know more about this topic because this issue plays a huge role in teen’s lives today and it is a life changing event in a teens life it is does happen. There are many things teens and people don’t think about when becoming pregnant, and teens need to be aware, before getting pregnant, of what the consequences are of bringing a child into this world is about.

After corrections: 

Media portrays Teen pregnancy daily on a show on MTV and it is starting to become a common thing around our culture today. I believe people should know more about this topic because the issue of teen pregnancy plays a huge role in teen’s lives today and  is a life changing event in a teens life. There are many things teens don’t think about when becoming pregnant, and teens need to be aware, before getting pregnant, of what the consequences are of bringing a child into this world.

Part 3: I focused on reconstructing my sentences to help them tie together and link up. I also fixed my sentence structure by deleting little words that were not needed. By fixing this paragraph, it has helped me really understand chapter 6 and linking sentences together because you don't want to rant which I usually do so by going back to old work and realizing what I was doing has helped me really understand how to change my paper. After all the changes I made on this paper, it makes more sense and now is straight to the point with also linking my paragraph together.

Blog #5

Part 1: Letter to the Editor

Since I was not in class on Monday I haven't picked a topic for my letter to the editor but my thoughts are replying to the woman who wrote about registering kitchen knives. I was thinking of portraying a sense that I don't agree with her, I know she was being satyrical but I am going to take as being serious and reply to it as that. I am going to write it and post it in the comments this weekend!

Part 2: Chapter 5

This chapter was interesting to me because in the part called Throat Clearing they were talking about how we always state our opinion or thoughts and the way we convey it. I am so used to using "I believe" or " I think" and those shouldn't be used or are proper. These statements are hard to find and fix because we are so used to using them that it seems normal to us. Also informal to formal useage was interesting because most people use "sorta" or "really". I use "really" all the time and I have found that in my papers I am constantly using it.

Part 3: Revision

What I noticed about the multilingual writers was that they really want their peer tutor to focus on their grammar and make sure it is correct.
When I noticed about the multilingual writers was that want their peer tutor to focus on their grammar.