Eight Weeks of English Classes: Personal Experience
WRITER’S NOTEBOOK
WEEK1
This is my first week of ENG 105 and so far I’m nervous that how am I going to be able to balance my two classes with my work in the Marine Corps, this week it was ok keeping in mind my personal opinion about writing/reading, the reading for this week somewhat showed me what to expect for the 7 weeks left with this class and since this is an English class I’m sure there will be a lot of essays involved.
We had some reading to do for this week for an introduction to writing and the process about portfolios (I’ll see more of this by week 7) andmy experiences with writing and portfolio keeping is almost none. I have never wrote anything unless I needed to or I was told and even worse with keeping a portfolio so the whole process is all very new to me. I always try to learn and doing my best I think I’ll be ok in this class.We are also keeping a writer’s notebook and to be honest I did not know how to start one but I guess it has to be done hopefully it’ll be ok all the way until the end.
The other reading was an article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner, after reading the article, I realize that it was specifically referring to the American culture in a strange way like for example the latipso temple is a hospital, medicine men are doctors, laceration of the face is simply shaving, women baking heads in small ovens is simply going to the salon and putting their heads under the hair dryers and other things that you can relate to our culture.
Next week we’ll be writing our first essay and I’m a little worry about me being able to fill my teacher’s expectations and get good grades.
See you next week.
WEEK 2
This week my required readings were very helpful because it help me to understand about the reading and writing of essays and critical thinking when we are writing, also I had to write my first essay assignment that I had to picked from the three that I had in the required reading part.
Rough drafts are normally the
WEEK1
This is my first week of ENG 105 and so far I’m nervous that how am I going to be able to balance my two classes with my work in the Marine Corps, this week it was ok keeping in mind my personal opinion about writing/reading, the reading for this week somewhat showed me what to expect for the 7 weeks left with this class and since this is an English class I’m sure there will be a lot of essays involved.
We had some reading to do for this week for an introduction to writing and the process about portfolios (I’ll see more of this by week 7) andmy experiences with writing and portfolio keeping is almost none. I have never wrote anything unless I needed to or I was told and even worse with keeping a portfolio so the whole process is all very new to me. I always try to learn and doing my best I think I’ll be ok in this class.We are also keeping a writer’s notebook and to be honest I did not know how to start one but I guess it has to be done hopefully it’ll be ok all the way until the end.
The other reading was an article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner, after reading the article, I realize that it was specifically referring to the American culture in a strange way like for example the latipso temple is a hospital, medicine men are doctors, laceration of the face is simply shaving, women baking heads in small ovens is simply going to the salon and putting their heads under the hair dryers and other things that you can relate to our culture.
Next week we’ll be writing our first essay and I’m a little worry about me being able to fill my teacher’s expectations and get good grades.
See you next week.
WEEK 2
This week my required readings were very helpful because it help me to understand about the reading and writing of essays and critical thinking when we are writing, also I had to write my first essay assignment that I had to picked from the three that I had in the required reading part.
Rough drafts are normally the