Integrating Ideas with Others:
Integrating ideas with those of others, is a lot of connecting ideas and challenging ideas with those of your own. Introduction your ideas and your views into pieces of work you are reading and even pieces of writing you may composing. A lot of this section is showing if you understand and grasp the writings ideas and seeing if you can make relationships between a piece of writing and a different piece of writing or even real world experiences. Not everything in this section has to be connections though. A good majority of integrating ideas with those of others has to do with challenging what you are reading and making claims to support your challenge of a certain topic or opinion.
Evidence:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fmy5fGJ1JnqTN8aQkilhtQEZedoOPkX7L_ioQCxPpkI/edit
During our mid-term meeting, i said i thought i was moving towards Advanced Journeyman. With the evidence i have shown, i believe i have made it there. My evidence shows a lot of contextualizing what i have read and also a lot of connecting one piece of writing with another piece of writing i have read. In our mid-term meeting i felt like i wasn’t doing to much connecting but looking at my evidence i found that i now do it more than i actually thought. Another thing i found in my evidence is that i do some challenging but not as much as i would hope. I do see myself giving my own opinion based on a writings thoughts or ideas. I try to make relationships between most of the readings and their own ideas, and i feel like i have made some solid explanations for the relationships and connections i have made between two or even three writers. Again, in our mid-term meeting i said i felt like i was moving towards Advanced Journeyman, and personally i feel like i have made it there.
Active Critical Reading Process:
Active and Critical reading is a lot of annotating what you are reading and trying to answer questions you may have, challenge ideas you may see, and overall just show that you are understanding the text. This section, is a big part of being able to fully grasp the ideas that the writer is trying to instill in their paper, and being able to read a text and not only comprehending what you are reading, but moving beyond the gist of the main idea that the writer is trying to get across. Quantity and Quality are big components of this section, because the quality of your annotations show that you are moving in the right direction and the quantity of your annotations shows that you are actually putting effort into reading the topic and putting effort into understanding and making relationships with the text you are reading.
Evidence:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15oYIG3XluUpfrR4WxLPaHzvMZjAQvfyyP7-M0jGGB4Y/edit
In our mid-term meeting i stated that i felt like this was the section that i had the most room for growth in. Today, i still feel like this section is my weakest because as my evidence shows, my annotations are defiantly moving in the right direction, but i still need to do more of challenging ideas, and just overall trying to “explore” more and new ideas from the text. In the mid-term meeting, i stated that i thought i was at the “Apprentice” level. Right now i do feel as though i move forward, but not as much as i would have hoped. Right now, i feel as though i’m pretty strong in the middle of the “Journeyman” level. Looking back at my annotations for earlier in the semester, to my annotations right now, i defiantly see myself making more quality and quantity annotations, but they are still just understanding the text and and somewhat making connections. I do need to “move beyond the gist” of the text i am reading, and i see myself doing little things like making connections and relationships beyond the text, but not as much as i think i need to. Again, I thought in our mid-term meeting i was at the “Apprentice” level, and right now i do think i made a step in the right direction, but not as much as i would’ve hoped so that is why i think i’m pretty dead middle in the “Journeyman” level.
Writing as a Recursive Process:
Writing as a recursive process is a lot about taking what you, your peers, and your professors have said about your paper and about your writing, and try to hopefully make it not only better but stronger as well. This section is a lot of restructuring paragraphs, developing new ideas off of comments you may have received, and attempting to make your overall paper stronger in the end. Not only is this section about strengthening your paper, but this section focuses a lot on trying to think of new ideas to incorporate and maybe some new and better quotes to get to the end goal of having a solid/ strong paper, with good ideas and solid quotes that support your ideas. Having limited amount of “typo” errors is another big thing in this section. By having little typos, it shows that you are showing effort and showing that you care about your piece of writing and are taking the time to go back and fix the little things that will again, lead you to the end goal of having a strong paper.
Evidence:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cGuyHmhwIce_axw7xvLvb7x7rxrsQpkEwLtfZ2jUAwY/edit
In our mid-term meeting, i felt as though i was pretty solid in the “journeyman” stage. Honestly looking at my rough draft, to my final draft of our food prompt paper, i feel as though i made a pretty big leap in this section. I personally think i am at the end of the “Advanced Journeyman” level. My evidence shows that i made a lot of improvements to my paragraphs structure and and reorganizing a lot of my initial paragraphs. Another reason why i think i made a big leap to this level is because from my rough draft into my final i made a decent amount of new paragraphs and a lot of new, developed ideas that essentially made my overall paper stronger, in my opinion. I showed a lot of like i said before, restructuring in my paper, because as i was reading my rough draft over, i had a lot of ideas and evidence that weren’t really in the right place, or could’ve worked better in another place. Another thing i did (with the help/idea from a peer), was that i brought in new sources into my final and new quotes that would overall help strengthen my paper and really just help support my ideas that i was trying to get across to the reader. Again, in our mid-term meeting i thought i was pretty solid in the journeyman level, but right now i believe i made a pretty big leap up into the end of the advanced journeyman level.
Critique Your Own Work and Others’:
Critiquing my own and others work in my eyes is a big part of the English class and just learning in general. Being able to look at a peers work and being able to find areas where they can improve is a big skill to have. Not only making comments that are good and supportive, but making comments that help them think in a different way so in the end they can hopefully find new ideas that will help strengthen their paper. Being able to make specific suggestions that point them in the direction of developing new complex ideas and claims will help not only them, but it could help yourself. This section is a lot about addressing claims, evidence, and organization, and being able to help your peer (and yourself) think in new ways and hopefully find new opportunities to strengthen the paper.
Evidence:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f_-NFf0267hjCf6MoQJ7yALjK6hyEpICD0HBlwP-3ls/edit
