Holiday atmospheres have included all the streets of the city. Wherever I look, the ornaments of houses fill me with a positive feeling and happiness that pamper my soul. It is December. It’s the second semester, and I have to enroll in English Composition 1. I walk on the streets and I wonder, am I ready to take this class, or it is still too early for me (the uncertainty I have in myself about the English language as a second language to me, frightens me a bit). “Hey Ada, how are you”? - I hear a voice as it wakes me out of the thoughts, that have invaded my whole being. I turn my head back, and I see one of my friends I have here in US. “Hey my friend, how are you”? – I asked him with a surprised face. “I called you out a few times, but you didn’t answer me. What’s going on”? – he asked me with a strange voice. “I have been a little stressed this time because I have to enroll in English Composition 1, but I am not sure, if I am ready for that”. “Listen to me, go to enroll to Dr. Mangini class, and you’ll love it”. “What are you saying? I just finished an English class, and it was so boring. What does this have different”? – I ask with an unbelieving voice. “Just go try it and you’ll see”- he said with a confident voice. I started my reflection creating a scene because one of the things I have learned during English Composition 1 class, is how to open the life- choice memoir genre with a scene. A scene has more description and action than telling. If you would ask me before this class, to write a life-choice memoir, it would be a story with the beginning, development and the end. Only telling without any description or action on it. Now that the semester is almost over I turns my head back to see all my journey through this class, and I am happy that I heard the word of my friend, and I enrolled in Dr. Mangini’s course. I really enjoyed this class and I learned a lot about writing process. I remember the first class, when Dr. Mangini was explaining about creating a website, where every assignment would be post in a blog, it motivated me for what would come next. The creation of this website, it would serve as a digital portfolio for all the assignments. After I posted my first blog, I felt an inner pleasure because through this website, I was presenting not only my assignments, but and a part of my personal life and my homeland. Visiting my website, maybe the reader will think about a small unknown country in southeastern Europe that is called Albania. After this course, I am feeling more confident about writing in English, I know how to get out my thoughts, what kind of technics can help me to express my thoughts, how to make a critical thinking, and how to present my thoughts to get the reader’s attention. This class made me to be proud of myself for everything I have done in this class. These are some of the technics we have learned to improve our writing.
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The video Reflective Writing is a short video that explain how to write reflectively. A reflection writing has to have less description, and more reflection. In this blog post, I will explain how I wrote my research paper and how I will revise it.
• When did you write this project? Good approach? I collected sources four days before the deadline and I started to write the paper two days before it. This wasn’t a good approach because I was in rush and I didn’t have time to review it before I posted it. • Where did you write this project? Good approach? I wrote this paper in my house late at night, so I don’t think it was a good approach because I got tired, and I couldn’t concentrate 100% on it.
• How did it feel to write this argument ("during, after, and since")? Do you have any "if only" moments that can help you revise the draft? During my first draft I was anxious because I didn’t have enough time to finish it, so I focused more on reaching the deadline than in the quality of the product. After class discussion I realize I have a lot to revise and edit my draft. • How will you revise your argument? I will revise my paper with redoing my thesis statement, and making the argument more stronger referencing to the other writers. Introduction In this blog post I will provide an annotated bibliography with 6 sources, for my research paper. An annotated bibliography include a summary of the source, an evaluation of the text, and an explanation of how the source is relevant to research paper. My research question is : Should America change its school system to follow the Finland system school? Source 1:
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