During this semester, I have done various work such as reading and writing. This work includes reading articles from the book and writing essays. Some of the work I did was a challenge at the beginning, but I was able to persist and overcome those barriers. During the time I been in this class, I have learned many important strategies that have helped me improve in various ways. One major method that has improved my academic skills and quality in education has been the use of the Habits of Mind. During this semester I have had many struggles, but having a positive attitude towards the strategies and Habits of Mind has improved my academic intelligence. The knowledge I have learned these past days, have been extremely important that I am planning …show more content…
This experience demonstrated, how literacy such as reading could make a great impact in your life or make a difference in whom you are. The purpose of my essay was to describe a literacy snapshot I’ve been through and demonstrate to my audience how it provided me a positive experience. Having the opportunity of writing about my literacy snapshot was a great experience for the reason that it made me even value more the reading of the book “The Pact.” I had always valued this book since the beginning but, having to write about it made me notice the importance of the big impact it had in my life. My experience in the writing process of this essay was very different compared to other occasions considering the procedure I used. Having and trying the pre-writing worksheet was something totally different to me but really advantageous. The pre-writing made the writing assignment more simple by helping me pick my topic, structure my writing, and gather up information and ideas. Learning how to pre-write was really favorable while trying to organize my essay. In addition, I also learned strategies on how to revise my essay such as reading more than once to catch errors. Most importantly, I learned that literacy could have a huge impact in your life. Furthermore, my knowledge grow by applying some Habits of Mind such …show more content…
In this article the author is trying to convey a purpose to prove the misconception wrong about throwing like a girl (being the wrong way of doing things.) Having the opportunity of reading this article was a great experience because it made me relate on the problem. This misunderstanding of girls made me feel related to the problem for the reason that I grew up surrounded by men including women who believed I wasn 't capable of doing certain things as a female. This article taught me how a reading could make you feel identified and supported. Furthermore, I learned how the misconception is not only believed by men but also by women. In addition, we have also read “Always Living in Spanish” by Marjorie Agosin. As well as the other article, this reading has a purpose to make the audience relate to a situation. Reading this article, was a significant experience for the reason that it made me connect and feel identify with the author’s story. From Agosin writing, I was able to learn that even if English is your second language you could still achieve your goals and be successful in the United States. Both of this articles read in class, were really important because they described a problem in which many of us feel identify and they also conveyed an important message. While reading these articles, I was able to use my academic skills of understanding and feeling
My literacy journey commenced at a young age. My story begins with the typical bed time stories and slowly progresses into complex novels. Some points in my literacy journey have made me admire the written word but other times literacy frustrated me. These ups and downs within my story have made me the person I am today. My parents noticed that my reading was not up to par with other children in kindergarten and I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia at the age of five. My parents provided me a reading mentor named Mrs. Mandeville who has shaped my literacy journey in many ways. Events in my childhood have shaped my literacy in various ways.
This assignment is a testament of growth and contributed to my outlook on strategies towards improving my writing through the importance of understanding how crucial, each component of the writing process is and how in depth you should take each process. Lastly, this reflection advocated how editing is the principal task of every good writer. “To write is human, to edit is divine,” Stephen
Although the greater picture is that reading is fundamental, the two authors have a few different messages that they seek to communicate to their audiences. “The Joy of Reading and Writing” depicts how reading serves as a mechanism to escape the preconceived notions that constrain several groups of people from establishing themselves and achieving success in their lifetimes. “Reading to Write,” on the other hand, offers a valuable advice to aspiring writers. The author suggests that one has to read, read, and read before he or she can become a writer. Moreover, he holds an interesting opinion concerning mediocre writing. He says, “Every book you pick has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (p.221). Although these two essays differ in their contents and messages, the authors use the same rhetorical mode to write their essays. Both are process analyses, meaning that they develop their main argument and provide justification for it step by step. By employing this technique, the two authors create essays that are thoughtful, well supported, and easy to understand. In addition, Alexie and King both add a little personal touch to their writings as they include personal anecdotes. This has the effect of providing support for their arguments. Although the two essays have fairly different messages, the authors make use of anecdotes and structure their writing in a somewhat similar
In the essay, “Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality,” Iris Marion Young discusses “embodied” ideas about gender and cultural identity in contemporary social circumstances. The claims and ideas can be applied to many scenarios or encounters that are prevalent today. Young claims that embedded biases translate to the physical differences in the complexity of the body and the lateral space generated by human posture. Young uses girls’ throwing style to show the effects embedded assumptions, and compares that to a boys’ throwing style to represent the embodiment of the often problematic
Many people think that reading more can help them to think and develop before writing something. Others might think that they don’t need to read and or write that it can really help them to brainstorm things a lot quicker and to develop their own ideas immediately (right away). The author’s purpose of Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, is to understand the concepts, strategies and understandings of how to always read first and then start something. The importance of this essay is to understand and comprehend our reading and writing skills by brainstorming our ideas and thoughts a lot quicker. In other words, we must always try to read first before we can brainstorm some ideas and to think before we write something. There are many reasons why I chose Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, by many ways that reading can help you to comprehend, writing, can help you to evaluate and summarize things after reading a passage, if you read, it can help you to write things better and as you read, it can help you to think and evaluate of what to write about.
Intelligence tests have been developed by scientists as a tool to categorize army recruits or analyze school children. But still discussing what intelligence is, academics have a difficult time defining what intelligence tests should measure. According to the American researcher Thorndike, intelligence is only that what intelligence tests claim it is (Comer, Gould, & Furnham, 2013). Thus, depending on what is being researched in the test and depending on the scientist’s definition of intelligence the meaning of the word intelligence may vary a lot. This essay will discuss what intelligence is in order to be able to understand the intelligence theories and aims of intelligence tests.
Throughout this semester I have learned many ways of writing through two main essays literacy narrative and comparison and contrast. These two essays have taught me how to correctly fix my comma splices, thesis statements, and capitalization. I have engaged in numerous learning material during this summer class. Many times when I thought it would be hard to work on those three developments I never gave up. I gain more positive feedback from my teacher because he pointed out most of my mistakes I made on both literacy narrative and comparison and contrast essays to help me understand what is it that I need to work on. My development as a writer became stronger.
Some typical sexist remarks include throwing like a girl, saying that a certain sport isn’t for women, or in general that women can’t do something that men can do. “Throwing like a girl” is not because women being inferior to men in terms of athleticism but because they are conditioned to move a certain way in a patriarchal society. This brings back the restriction of movement due to the contradiction women face in that society. Although women are of human existence, they are still limited in subjectivity and transcendence by existing in a patriarchal
“Throwing Like a Girl.” A Phenomenology of Feminine Bodily Comportment, Motility and …Spatiality.” Human Studies 3 (1980): 137-56
Surprisingly I don’t have many memories of my experiences with literacy. Early on I just remember picking up any book and reading, writing without stopping, and all those parent teacher conferences with my English teachers that became a blur. Throughout my years of school, I’ve come to realize that writing has become a bigger part of me than I had previously thought. I didn’t go into elementary or middle school thinking I was skilled at writing so my confidence came from teachers who admired what I wrote. Their compliments and encouragement lead me to have a better view of my capabilities. My improvement seems to be invisible until I finally notice the progress when I get to my last paper at the end of the semester or year. This semester and especially this class have tested me the most so far. Learning more about literacy has made me recognize who I am and what I can do so, I will move ahead through the ever continuing process.
Hence, this technique has helped me a lot to become a proficient writer, which really assisted me to understand and care about the real world issues; how there are so many problems in the world that yet not have been solved. After continuation of some extra research on my topic, reflection, and different exercises on The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander novel, I was finally able to understand that I want to learn more about the topic on prison sentences which led me to research about my topic broadly, helped me select those sources that interested me a lot and helped me to develop more as a writer. A main purpose of this e-portfolio is to demonstrate four different areas such as my Composing Process, Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Multi-modal Communication Process through two different projects, Revision Process with multiple drafts, and additional resources that I used outside the class time and Transfer Process, how this course has helped and shaped me become a writer that I am
If you look in the dictionary, you’ll find the definition of educated to be something close to this: having undergone education; characterized by or displaying qualities of culture and learning; based on some information or experience. But I haven’t found this to be particularly specific, or really helpful at all. As I’ve come to understand, being educated is transient, unless you learn to be, as a truly educated person is, a life-long learner. True education comes from yourself, from gaining an understanding of yourself, and from honing skills such as creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. These skills are what make a truly educated person, because they can use and further these skills throughout any aspect of their lives.
Being literate defines who I am, and forms an integral part of my life. From the practical to the creative, it aids, and enables, me to perform the tasks that modern society dictates. I shall explore the many aspects of my life that are affected by literacy. Through this, understanding in greater depth what it means for me, to be literate. I would not be writing this essay if were not for the pathways being literate.
When a person utters the word “intelligence,” people tend to think of a genius like Albert Einstein developing some obscure equation that the great majority of the population will never understand. The problem with the definition of intelligence is that people relate intelligence to words like “genius” which require intelligence but do not have the same definition as intelligence. Often, people try to use related words to define intelligence, but these words are unable to define intelligence since many are only different levels of intelligence. While many definitions try to encompass the meaning of intelligence and various definitions describe a small part of intelligence, no definition completely explains intelligence, because intelligence is a concept that is understood only after realizing that intelligence is based on three basic concepts: logic, growth, and emotion. Although many people believe that humans are the only creatures capable of intelligence, other animals exhibit intelligence and are capable of further demonstrate the complex concept of intelligence.
The three articles I read for this debate measured emotional intelligence abilities for students in higher levels of education, yet it does not seem that age is a deciding factor of emotional intelligence towards academic achievement. Throughout the articles, they explain the importance of educators implementing stress-management and emotional coping skills into their daily schedules for students. It seems that students who have a higher emotional intelligence will perform better in school which is why emotional skills should be taught in both lower and higher levels of education. Different factors can contribute to people’s low and high emotional intelligence levels such as: self-esteem, interpersonal/intrapersonal abilities, and support systems.