Blog 3: Reflecting on a summary

 

• What have you learned from the Summarizing class?

I got a pretty clear idea in my head what a summary is and what it should consist of.

•         How do you know that you have learned it?

I still remember what a summary is, what information I should use when writing a summary. 

• Can you describe how you learned it?

Doctor X, Reading page 2, talking with other students.

• What helped your learning? What made it difficult?

Doctor X, and doing a summary of a text in a group.

• How do you feel after today's class?

My head is filled with summaries, summaries and summaries ;)

Blog 2

1. What did you get from thinking about annotations?

I learned that annotations are a very helpful and useful. They help pinpoint out all of the important clues in the text to for me to later elaborate on in my essay. Annotations help stay focused on the main point of the text so we don’t start writing about things that are totally irrelevant.
We annotate everything - main point of the text, clues that we will elaborate on in our essay, ideas for quotes, facts. Annotations help us get an idea of how we are going to write our essay.


2. What did you get from writing annotations for "Is Google Making us Stupid?" with your partner?

It helped me understand what the text was about. Given clues gave me ideas on how to elaborate on the main point of the text and how to relate to it.


3. What did you learn about the reading by annotating it?

It helped me to understand better what the author was writing about.


4. How may annotating make you a better writer?

It will help me first read critically, than keep my work more organized and elaborate all important clues.


5. What did I learn from the exchange with my partner?

Comparing my work with Lisa's I realized that annotating really does help pinpointg out the most important clues in the text, because we both basically have highlighted the same lines. :)

Blog 1

In the given passage "Hype" the author writes about advertisements being the "most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants." He concentrates on their constantly increasing number. He points out that no matter where we turn all we see and hear are commercials -"there is nowhere to run".

I agree, commercials are everywhere, in every aspect of our lives, even on a nozzle of a gas pump, however  I do not necessarily think that it is a bad thing. Ads now a days are created more and more to entertain people first and than promote the product itself. Yes maybe a movie you are watching on tv lasts longer than it should but al least you get news on upcoming products and get a good laugh as well. They are short, funny and very catchy. I can bet that everyone has caught themselves singing a jingle or even saying a whole phrase like "I lift things up, and put them down" or "stay thirsty my friends" .... I actually know people,which may surprise you, that only watch the Superball just for the commercials aired during halftime.

I say if we were about to stop all advertising at once, people not knowing it now, would actually miss it.

What do I expect from this class?

I expect to improve my writing skills so that I am fully prepared to pass the Final Test and go to the next level - ENG 101.