Recursive Process
Evidence:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JsW-CyQxHqvam2uaY5SHEys2S0qtU2jKsTJfmiVixcE/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rK1QSHdqAHSE2OIev7VwF8UKbFZXThIjQQtzyK-pWuM/edit/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10MBcwaLBg003KpLdQpQ71n0dULLY4JuwmZgj7jg_h28/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13hGGz9EImmSBsVy1-JJC5bYP3qKiF-2Xxvda2d_3GFs/edit
Self-Evaluation:
The literacy narrative in some ways was difficult for me. For the first drafts I really just wrote ideas I had down and it was really pretty messy work. I think the reason I did that was because I was having a hard time getting sentences down that actually made sense. When in the tutor session with Jack he told me something that I really took and used in this project. He said “Don’t try and make your first draft perfect.” I really think that what i was trying to do. I was trying to make my first draft look like a final draft when in reality all I need to do is get the ideas down on the paper and work from there molding it. My revision notes I feel like were the most helpful for me in molded this messy piece of ideas I had into sentences that brought the ideas I had to life. I had a lot of good feedback from not only my peers who revised it but Jack as well. They both gave me different ways to approach what I’m trying to get at in my paper. I think all together the revision process was one of my stronger areas.
Active, Critical, Informational Reading
Evidence:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-_fGiXoveQeFxJZ1MQEZyYlLDsWkpE4LH-o2h4YeN98/edit (SHERMAN ALEXIE)
In this link is some annotations I made from Sherman Alexie. I put this think up because the annotation i made about the last paragraph on the first page really stuck out to me when going through it again. Where Alexie says, “Our reservation was a small paragraph within the United States. My family’s house was a paragraph, distinct from the other paragraphs of the LeBrets to the north the Fords to our south and the Tribal School to the west.” This really made me think about how Alexie was able to connect his knowledge on words with structure. Even though he was very young the connection he made would last him a life time. I really took away the idea of trying to connect what I’m learning/ what I know into my everyday out of the classroom life.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xXcwa18BM-iQOSGU65StkU1fOiULgm89dPbbPL2EiX8/edit ( SHEPHEN KING)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U7IJEGc4obGy9izBixRSRYEmUzVltq0DVqAKjlXXnC8/edit (DWECK’S TED TALK)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qmp6tCyUjS6APhZSWLrPviFc9Z67-ybvW_L7Ar4HWU8/edit (“I JUST WANNA BE AVERAGE”)
Self-Evaluation:
In this section I honestly feel like I have a lot of room for growth. As you look through my annotations of some of the readings we have had, you’ll see that there isn’t much of a response from me. I think I need to write more about what I think about a particular section of a passage or maybe write about how it makes me feel or even how I can relate it to my own life. Maybe some of the problem for me is that I have a hard time understanding what the author is trying to say. When we read a chapter in the “They Say I Say” book one section really stuck out to me. On page 180-181 there is the little section of the feminist article by Judith Butler. It was a very very difficult couple of sentences to understand and grasp. But the thing that stuck with me is when the book says, “To understand difficult passages of this kind, you need to translate them into your own words.” I think this is a great technique for me to use when I’m having trouble understanding what the writer is trying to get across. By putting them into my own words, and essentially my own language makes it a lot easier for me to grasp the material.
Critique Own and Other’s Work
Evidence:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lv4URnpAcEBkCRjFPV73jGcq67djmrANkrCM-LuXMyI/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSZSVzNuIQc60AZJity4PeGP3xxOpYmDMi1lDhEghNQ/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wYpNVsXjkiKRQPkQI_KN0fyHMdz7pN2PswaglMPVaCA/edit
Self-Evaluation:
This section I feel like I have the most room for improvement. Going through examples of my revision on my peers papers, I saw myself giving simple feedback. Feedback that maybe wasn’t useful to my peer. But again, I saw some examples of good notes for my peers. Notes that I honestly thought would improve their paper. Maybe I’m just being hard on myself but I really do think that this section I have the most room for growth. When going through a peers paper I sometimes don’t know what to say. I really don’t wanna say negative things about ones paper so most of the time I end up just writing positive feedback. I’d really like to learn how to read ones paper and analyze it and honestly make good, solid feedback. Feedback that the writer will look at and use to better his paper.
Control Individualized Error Patterns
Evidence:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KF4CYwHoNZaPuwwAVkDBLTa5nZwExepKMK7D_EJV7Rk/edit
Self-Evaluation:
In this section I didn’t find too much evidence of error patterns. The only pattern I was seeing with my papers, was that I wasn’t using MLA Format. Obviously MLA Format is a big part of making your paper essentially look “clean” and finished. Jack and I went over this section a little and went over a couple of my writing assignments and we found that I need to break up long sentences a little more. Also I need to focus on using commas more to make sentences flow better. All of these things are easily fixed so right now I’m happy with where I’m at in this section.
