I have never thought that essay writing could be so hard and stressful. However, when I started my first ESL course, which was ESL 263, I was proven wrong. First of all, I didn’t know anything about essay writing. That class was my first experience in English writing. I wanted to drop the class so many times. Essay writing was just so stressful. I remember our instructor telling us that ESL 263 is an easy class compared to ESL 273. Of course that freaked me out. I started questioning myself if I really want to continue studying. Obviously, I kept studying. Nonetheless, I wanted to drop ESL 273 also. I’m glad I stayed in this class because I learned a lot and I can see improvements in my writing. I can say I am ready for ESL 5. As I reflect …show more content…
First time I heard about outlining an essay was in fall quarter when I had to write an essay in my history class. Since I didn’t know anything about it and didn’t want to get a bad grade, I decided to drop the class. After that quarter I started taking ESL classes. Until taking ESL 273 I still didn’t know much about outlining. Right before our first essay writing instructor gave us an example outline. Example outline was there to help me understand what needs to be included in an essay. However, in my first writing assignment I didn’t use the outline that resulted in not so well written essay. Even though I had some good ideas, support was not enough. If I had used an outline, the paper would have been much better. I learned from my mistakes. After that first paper I started using example outline, more for second drafts than the first ones that were done in the class. For example, in my essay “Music Lets Us Move,” there are a lot of organizational issues that are clearly connected to not utilizing essay outline in my in-class writing. At home where I have more time I use the outline. Therefore, second draft is always much better than the first one. Outlining is vital to essay writing and in ESL 273 I’ve learned how to do
The first four weeks of CR510 have prompted this student to reflect on her years of teaching in the public school setting. Having experienced many similar complexities to the ones in the text, this student is sympathetic to the challenges facing those in the education system and is eager to find opportunities to offer a better solution for all involved. CR510 has strengthened this student's belief that a third party neutral can provide valuable benefits to educational systems at all levels.
Writing essays was never my forte, it just never came easy to me like it would to others. Since other subjects came easy to me and I had to focus more than others on writing, I had a negative attitude toward the process as a whole. During this summer semester, I was able to grow as a writer, and gain a more positive attitude toward how I write and a better feel for writing in college. Writing a paper is a process in which there are many different stages. In high school I would never write outlines or any sort of pre planning work. Other struggles I encountered in my writing were my theses, and framing quotes.
In summary reflexivity relates to judgements made from one's own personal experiences. By being reflexive and recognising that I am part of the research data and through exploring my own practice with the intention of understanding my practice, I show how I am part of the research. With this new knowledge I continue knowing differently that my story is my data and as such the application of reflection/reflexivity, in such a way as Bolton, Freire and Cuncliffe suggests, will make it all the richer and more valuable.
On the 1st of November 2013, I performed my first simulation on the module, Foundation Skills for Nursing. This simulation was on checking for vital signs in patients particularly, measuring the blood pressure (BP) which is the force of blood vessels against the walls of the vessels (Marieb and Hoehn, 2010). We also measured the temperature, pulse and respiratory (TPR) rates of a patient. This simulation’s objective was to engage us in practising some basic observation techniques taken on patients in and out of hospitals and to familiarise us on some of the tasks we will be performing when in practise. I will be applying the “What”, “So what”, and “Now what” model of reflection in nursing by Driscoll (2000).
Initial Reflective Essay When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life after college, the first thing I thought of was helping people. The next step in deciding what I wanted to do with my life was to examine how I could accomplish this goal. I started pondering and I was thinking about how much I love to take care of my body. Health care and personal hygiene has always been an important factor in my life. So I decided to major in Health Sciences.
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
“Choose something that you’re good at.” This was the advice given to me by my mom before applying to college. “Choose a major that will get you a good job, but also something that you like.” These are the words that came out of her mouth; these are words that say one thing but really mean another.
Writing two essays in my ESL class was a significant writing experience because they helped me create cohesive paragraphs. This class has taught me how to write well-organized papers. My writing has improved gradually, but I still have some work to do. I did not realize there were numerous styles of writing I had to master as well as new ways of thinking, and I have to come up with questions and answer these issues with critical research and knowledge. As
Coming into college, I always considered English (writing in particular) to be my most challenging class. I never really enjoyed reading or writing and would only do so if I had to for a class. Other than that, I never had the motivation to read or write in my spare time. After this first semester, I have gained an appreciation for writing and put a lot of effort into each essay I wrote. I noticed that each essay got easier for me to write and I got better grades each time. I adopted a new writing practice that works for me and the simple fact that I enjoyed what I was writing about has made me a better writer.
Nicole came to my office today. She talked with me about the HTA 355 – online class she is currently taking. Nicole is thinking in dropping it because she does not like the contents of the class. I advised her to talk with her academic advisor before dropping any class. Nicole was not sure how drop this class would affect the required credits needed for graduation. Nicole said she would talk with her academic advisor before dropping this class.
Walking into my first day of English class I knew I faced many challenges. English 1102 is a higher level course, which meant more was going to be expected of me. I had the basics of writing a well developed essay, but I encountered many of my difficulties writing a well written essay. Getting to read many literature books, have in class discussions, and exploring different works of literature helped me to think out of my normal thinking capacity and learn new things. I learned how to think critically, have a passion for reading, and write better essays.
During my cardiology fellowship, I found myself deeply involved in the care of a 58 year old gentleman who was admitted with a very late presentation of a STEMI. The patient was found to have an ejection fraction of 20 % and he developed multiple episodes of ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation for which he was defibrillated and started on amiodarone and lidocaine. Confident of what current medicine had to offer, we tried everything but the patient became progressively worse. His condition however rapidly deteriorated over the next few days to the point where he had to be defibrillated every few minutes. He was finally transferred to another facility for an LVAD but unfortunately he died before the surgery could be performed. This and similar experiences have helped influence my growing passion to pursue electrophysiology as a subspecialty.
In the past, I used to start writing an essay without writing an outline. I even did not brainstorm before I began to write. As a result, my essays were undoubtedly messy and disorganized. For instance, after I finished writing my Paper 2, I asked my professor for suggestions. He advised me to rearrange the order of paragraphs since my essay was disorganized and disordered. At that moment, I finally realized that if I did not plan out what I was going to write, my essay would be less likely to be logical because outline is like a base and foundation of an article. Hence, I started writing an outline from then on. For example, I nowadays would like to write my thesis statement down first. After that, I will briefly write down what I will talk about in body paragraphs. After using pre-writing skills and techniques, I notice that my essays are much more organized; and thus, my essays are no...
The nonfiction genre allows the reader and writer to learn about a topic they particularly enjoy or one that they know nothing about. I learned that the nonfiction genre can become an enjoyable, hands-on experience. Our classroom environment opened my eyes to various ways to have a writer make nonfiction writing their own. Writer’s have the ability to find a topic they want to learn more about and it gives them an outlet to teach others. Student are able to use prior knowledge to develop an idea about a certain topic and create a piece with factual information. I learned that factual information can easily sound like it comes straight out of a textbook, but after learning about the different ways it relates
Before entering this class, I thought I was prepared for college English. I had incredibly capable high school English teachers, who taught me detailed mechanics, creative writing style, and of course, the necessity of practicing good grammar. On entering this class, I quickly realized how little I had actually learned in my high school English classes. While most of my high school English essays I wrote were based on literature, the majority of the essays I wrote in this class have been more experiential and centered on real-life issues. I expected to be writing essays on books I read and articles I analyzed, but that was not the case. This class showed me in a variety of ways that things are often very different than they seem originally