Writing Center #29

Today experiences was going to the writing cent to start on typing my bibliography on the articles I was given. Well to start off my professor handed out different articles to each and every student in our class. So some students receive one, but others receive two just only because some articles were too short and it was not going to be enough to reach our bibliography requirements. Now that we all had articles we could start writing. When we went to the writing center our professor handed out a paper that gave instructions on how to start off the bibliography. To start the bibliography you had to write the authors last name first and then first name last. Followed by the articles title in quotations. Then the title of the web site where the article came from. Sponsor or publisher. Then date of posting and then date of access, when the reader read the article. This paper was very use full, because I really did not know how to start off the bibliography. We also have to use MLA format. When I was in the writing center I could not get started because I never wrote a bibliography before in high school.

Annotated Bibliography example #27

In today's assignment we jumped into our next assignment. We received the next articles that we are going to write an bibliography on the author. In the bibliography we have to use MLA format like we have done in the past with our other assignments. Well our teacher gave us an example on an article almost the same as the one she gave us. This article was about an author who was just talking out of term. The article was called "A hard case of cyberbulling making bad law." This article was about a young girl who was getting harass by another person that was 43 posing to be a young girl on the Internet. This young girl committed suicide from all the harassment. On the article some people wanted to pass the law of cyberbulling. To the people who were harassing on the Internet. This little girl took her life just because some one on the Internet wanted to harass her. That is not right they should pass a law on this. The person that is harassing some one that commits suicide so be but in jail. It is almost the same as them murdering the person. At the end of that article was another printed paper that talked about the author. And what other articles they wrote.

What does Thanksgiving mean to me? #26

Well the real meaning of thanksgiving is right in the word thanks and giving. You thank your family for always being there for you. No matter what situation you are in. Family will always be by your side through thick and thin. Those kind of family members are someone whom really loves you with all their heart. They will walk a mile to make you happy. Another thing to be thankful is being able to eat the good food that the family was able to buy for thanksgiving. A lot of family's do not have enough money to buy the good food to eat on thanksgiving and sometimes family do not have any money to buy a warm dinner to eat on this holiday. You can also thank your teacher for taking time out of there life to go to school and teach. Your teachers are people who really want other students to become some one better in life. Thanksgiving is a holiday when your whole family gets together and have a big dinner in one big house and talk about the old day and how much fun they had and how much trouble they would get into when they were younger.

The second word of thanksgiving was giving. You get a warm feeling in your heart when you give some one in need help. Some people go out there own ways to help others. They give a hand to some one in need. Like making food drives to help people whom do not have a home and whom do not have nothing to eat on thanksgiving holiday. A lot of company's also do food drives to help around in there neighborhoods. Giving out to your community will make a differences in there own personal life. My mom always told me "What you give is what you receive" This means if you help other people when they are in need. Some one will always be there to help you when your are also in need. The smallest thing you give means a lot to other people who do not have any thing to to eat. Some people do not have a roof on top of there head or sometimes people might not have family members to celebrate this one holiday out of the year. Giving is a very strong word that means a lot all around the world whom is struggling in life.

Presentation #22

Today two teams where suppose to present, well at least we were suppose to. If I am not mistaking it was raining hard this day. And not everyone showed up especially the team that were assigned to present the articles. So our professor move the presentation to our next meet class. Now that our class met again one team was able to present the articles that were assign to that team, but the other team was not prepared to present any of these articles.

Well the one article that really interest me was "Facebook and Divorce: Airing your dirty laundry" This article was about a couple that were going to divorce and his lawyer had a lot of weight on his wife that was found on Myspace. The article was very interesting and it cough my eye. When this lady Tammie's husband wanted to divorce her (his wife) she went and got on his Myspace and wrote mean comments about her husband (but so to be ex-husband). So now that he has a lawyer he can now use all the stuff she has posted onto her Myspace. On her Myspace they found out that she has posted that she was single and had no kids. But the truth is she had a husband name Patrick and was a mother to her kids. This article mostly states the falls facts that people post on Myspace and expose to the public. All of these falls facts are being used now in court by couples that are being divorce.

The other article that was read in class was "How safe is Myspace?" This article is about a 14 year old girl who went out on a date with a guy who posted to be a senior in high school that said he was 19 years old. They had decided to go out together for the first time since they had never seen each other before and hang out at the movies and bond in other activities. This young girl sued Myspace for failing to protect underage users from online predators. I do not think it is Myspace fault that this happened to this young girl. This young girl should not had lied about her age in the first place. And plus you should know better that you do not even know the other person on the other side of the computer. Who knows who that person could be it could be a real teenager to a sex predator. Myspace is not safe for little kids whom lie about their age.

Reflecting on writing assignment #23

In today's class we created a thesis and a draft plan for our essay. We also learned how to MLA our paper. The first thing is to set the margins to one inch. Then we had to add numbers on our pages. Before the page number we had to type our last name. The heading had an pacific way Mrs. Crawford want it. The first line was our name, followed by the class name and number, then professor Crawford, and finally the date. After we were finish with the heading, the whole class had to come up with an unique title for our essay. My essay title was I picked this title because it was showing that Myspace was more easy to use. I think that Myspace is mostly used by teenagers and Facebook is used by older adults. Myspace is used by teenagers looking for friends they attend school with and other young people. Facebook is usually used by older adults that have lost in touch with friends in their younger days, or with family members. I have already wrote my outline in my writing appointment. All I have to do now is start my rough draft. I really did not know how to make my paper into a MLA format. Now that I learn how to format it. It will be easier for me now.

Writing Center #25

Today at the writing center we had to have done a rough draft printed out. But since I did not have a draft done at this time. I was going to start outlining a draft. Now that we were in the writing center I would be able to set an appointment since there was some conclusions that students have made.

Comparison / Contrast #20

In today's experiences we had to get with another team member in our group and focus on the content of our essay. We had to complete a worksheet that was given to us by our professor. The worksheet was showing us how our essay was going to be scored. It could be between two options, point-by-point or whole-to-whole. My essay was going to be scored point-by-point just because they way my outline looked when I wrote it. I really did not know which way to score my essay was the best way. When I wrote my outline I had an introduction, a body which had four paragraph in the middle and my concluding paragraph. I'm guessing that the way our outline looks will determine which way your essay will be scored. So now that I know how my contrast essay will look. I now know what my score might look. Only as long I have everything that is require to be on my essay. Well some things that has to be on our essay was MLA format, one inch margins and the heading on the top left hand corner. Our paper needs to have a lot of details to make your paragraph come alive. The more detail the paper has the more the reader will be interested in.