English 101: College Reading and Composition I Spring 2013 Dr. Kimberly Manner Office Hours: M-Th 12 – 12:45‚ M 2:15 – 3:45‚ and T 2:15 – 3:15 in FO 2605 Email: mannerke@piercecollege.edu Website: http://faculty.piercecollege.edu/mannerke Course Description From the 2012-2014 Pierce College General Catalogue: 101 College Reading and Composition I (3) UC:CSU Lecture 3 hours. Prerequisite: English 28 with a “C” or better‚ or appropriate skill level demonstrated through the English placement
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have went over a lot of material and in turn I have learned a lot. A major thing I have learned from this first chapter is rhetoric. Rhetoric is the fluency and ability to get to the point across in your writing while using all the “laws” of the English language correctly. Although hard to do‚ in order to have good rhetoric you must avoid Engfish‚ show don’t tell‚ and have good word choice. Engfish is writing how you think someone else would want you to write instead of how you would like. Nearly
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The transition from high school to college can fluster many college freshmen. Specifically‚ the change from high school courses to college courses can be difficult. While many high school classes were preparatory for a future university and have similarities to these courses‚ there are obvious differences that make adjusting for a first year student somewhat difficult. AP‚ honors‚ and dual enrollment courses are high school courses aimed at preparing students for a four-year college. They are
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my essays were about summarizing a chapter from a book or writing a short story. There was no set length it had to be and there were not any specifics to focus on such as to focus on a strong introduction or to focus on being organized when writing. The essays that I wrote in high school were just for a quick grade or to help out our grade. I did not really have that much experience in writing essays. In the past semester I have grown more as a writer than I have in the past years. My essays have
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Reflective Writing on “How will my writing classes help me learn to write or compose?” I took English 110 last semester and this semester I am taking English 120. Now that the semester is about to end the time has come to write reflective letter discussing all the learning outcomes I gained from English 110 and English 120 especially English 120. English classes I took in high school were easy. The first ever challenging English class I took was English 110. It was a great class for me.
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My former English professor would always say “find a way 101”‚ whenever a student found themselves struggling in her class. At first I did not understand why she was so rude to her students‚ this was until after I graduated high school when I realized I was wrong. She was not rude‚ she was not mean‚ she was preparing her students for college level English classes. Reflecting on my past encounter with the toughest teacher at my former high school‚ I can say I feel prepared for a college level class
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I participated in an interactive oral discussion; about the novel by Nawal El Sadawi named ‘The Woman at Point Zero’. From the interactive oral‚ I was able develop a new idea which I had never thought of. The idea was that the characters in the novel were two dimensional‚ so that the main character Firdaus is able to change‚ which she is not. The idea stemmed from what Ashleigh said about how Firdaus has the power of rejection using her physical body. So I said that it was a delusion for women and
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Nickohl Bjornson English 101 5 February 2015 Wendy Byard The Journey to the End As I glide across the snow feeling the cool crisp wind running through my coat. My dad and I always go up north once a year to go snowmobiling. Preparing for our snowmobile trip took forever. We always over packed and brought everything from sleeping bags‚ food‚ clothing‚ and gas for ourselves and snowmobiles‚ but when we were finished we hit the road. My dad drove in one truck with the snowmobiles and I drove in another
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Reflective Essay Jazmine Caballero Walden University Dr. Paul Trautman EDUC 6731: Assessment for Student Learning June 28‚ 2015 Reflective Essay I can give faith that my assumptions about assessment have been changed throughout this course. Dr. Davies stated‚ “When students are involved in the classroom assessment process‚ they are more engaged and motivated‚ and they learn more” (Reeves‚ 2007‚ p.31). Therefore‚ when creating are lesson plans we should establish appropriate learning goals
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The Reflective Essay Since joining the class and over the last semester‚ I have been pursuing English as a subject consequently learning the importance of brainstorming‚ aspects of organizing prior to writing‚ revising and collaborating in writing. The subject has provided a gateway through which I have learnt the art of expressing myself‚ literature‚ grammar as well as the language itself. However‚ this did not come without its challenges. English being my second language‚ it took me a while to
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