Thursday, January 27, 2011

Chapter 46 Summaries Rules for Writer's

Chapter 46 covers information for writing about texts such as essays, articles, books, advertisements, and photographs. It helps to explain different types of texts and what they are by easily breaking down the text's content. Chapter 46 shows how to summarize our thoughts and ideas between our emotions, reactions and analysis by demonstrating our understanding about the main points which gives us useful hints for reading and writing.

I learned how to read actively from this chapter, how to take notes on questions and thoughts and how to go back and outline with a pencil instead of a highlighter by circling points and writing in margins. A pencil allows you to erase and change ideas and thoughts, unlike a highlighter you’re stuck with the illuminated text once you highlighted an area. I did this in this chapter after I read this instruction and realized it worked quite well for me.

The other suggestion for note taking that I thought would work quite well for me, as I love to take notes but find more times than not they are all over the paper and unorganized, is by setting up an outline. This outline would highlight key points of the text and I would probably have to re-read the text when using this method, which is a suggestion I would make anyway because I always feel it is a good way to catch things you may have missed in the first reading.

Lastly, writing a summary is basically just showing your understanding of the text and the main ideas you gathered from the reading. You correctly begin writing a summary with a title and continue by writing it in third person as chapter 46 suggests.

This was a very useful exercise and I plan to use the techniques to help write concise and efficient papers as the semester goes on. I learned many useful tools of writing and reading to take with me for future use making reading and writing much more simple and concise.

Freewriting Exericse Dialogue Week 2

“Free writing Exercises ~ Dialogue” ~ Week two
Free writing is letting your thoughts flow as they will, writing down whatever ideas and thoughts come into your mind and not to produce pages of polished prose but a way to formulate ideas, warm your brain and simply just get yourself in a habit of thinking and writing. This is a place to reflect, make connections between your experiences while learning to put words on paper without judgments. Free writing is actually a loose unorganized way of writing for a period of time without stopping. The purpose of free writing is basically to continue to write random thoughts without correcting anything even misspelling the point is to just not stop writing.
The basic definition of Free writing or another term they call this style is “automatic writing”; this is stream of consciousness writing or a prewriting technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar or topic. (Resource: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free writing).

This type of writing is meant to expand our awareness and grow stronger writing muscles as we put pen to paper and write freely. I believe this is how we can developed stronger writing by simply just taking the time to practice writing openly without judging or critiquing as you put words and thoughts on paper without editing.

Free writing to me seems very flighty but yet is also very interesting as I think of it in a way to do just exactly as it states "Freely" write and not think about editing as your mind flows with thoughts and ideas and you allow yourself to babble.

I was somewhat skeptical about free writes simply because I am so use to being in control of my thoughts and how I write rather than just letting my pen meet the paper and my mind pour out what comes to it. I can honestly see how it can improve my writing in many ways without wasting my time as I originally thought. I can see how it will start to expand my mind with strong points of interest and ideas which will better reflect my opinions and meanings of what I am writing.

I believe I will take the advice that was suggested in this week’s reading and practice this at least three times a week to better improve my writing skills.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Sam's Blog: Sam's blog

Sam's Blog: Sam's blog: "HI my names Samantha. But most people call me Sam or Samie.I’m the baby of six kids. Five sisters including me and one brother. I’ve been a ..."

Hey Sammie ...I would love to learn Italian not that we would ever find time in our busy college schedules to do that but sure would be grateful my family is 100% italian and I know very little!! Thank you for sharing your ventures!! My best~
Daye

Introduction Dialogue Autobiography

GOALS for this class: “Free write” Dialogue ~

My goals are simple, I would like to pass this class with an “A”…learn and absorb new interesting information on this topic and move closer toward accomplishing my degree in Psychology. For this course I would like to develop a deeper appreciation for writing without critiquing myself, let go of my control of just expressing my thoughts on paper and expanding my mind as I do write.
Other than my life goal being accomplishing my degree in psychology and utilizing it in treatment centers and advocacy work as well as a speaker of Behavioral change I also look positively forward at achieving everything I would like to in my personal and professional life without my head spinning.

With that said I am a facing forward, straight ahead open person ready for what this course outline has to offer and enhance in me. I am keeping as clear of head as possible and clearly concisely and openly going to reply in my words, my story and what I can offer to each homework assignment.
So, worries that I may have, knowing myself doesn’t seem like I have any right now, but possibly just running short on time...this course seems to ask me to let go and write freely which seems to be a hard thing at times to allow yourself to do, but I do want to accomplish this task so I will take it on eager and ready with a willingness to learn and grasp all I can from this course.
This is my second year and fifth semester at SRJC which I am specifically going for my AA/AS in psychology and a possible second in Advocacy with SRJC. Most of my courses have been online and most of them this spring are as well...I myself prefer this, for the freedom and ability to take many courses!!
I am taking this course not only to add to my accomplished courses toward my degree but satisfy my interests personally. Being back in college after so many years has been one of the biggest challenges of my life!! This also has shown me to allow myself to make more mistakes in life and realize I learn quicker!!
Which takes me onto inviting you into a more in depth relation with me and that is my personal venue!
I was born in Santa Rosa, moved to Oregon when I was 10 years old, raised horses and sheep as well as competed in 4-H and FFA with both. After high school I followed my high school sweet heart to San Diego and went to San Diego State college in hopes of obtaining my business degree, that didn’t pan out. I joined the United States Marines with the only requirement of myself was getting a direction and learning discipline with myself. Once this was achieved I didn’t stick with it and for many years since wished I would have gone back, but didn’t. So, I then had a series of careers that all had endings. I moved back to California 5 years ago from Oregon and I am happily rooted back in Healdsburg on Fitch Mtn Rd. the Russian River side. I started with SRJC a couple years ago and have taken mostly online courses, because I live part time in Healdsburg and part time in Atascadero, Ca where my step son lives with his Dad. This is quite a story in itself, I adopted him when he was three years old, although his Dad and I have only ever been best friends, but his mother left and I stepped up to the plate to co-parent my best friend’s son with him.
So, I am now going toward my long awaited passion of being a Psychologist and want to specialize in implementing treatment programs in centers and advocacy work to help those transitioning back home after their programs.
I do not currently work, so school is my primary focus, as well as I don’t have any animals to occupy my time…so it frees me up to concentrate on accomplishing my goal.

I am the type of person who is a sponge to learn and experience new things with eagerness and both feet in!! I love to work in a comfortable pace to accomplish my work but as life goes at times it doesn’t always work this way…I have often caused myself to run short due to the amount I put on my plate and commit myself to. I think with age and at times falling short or coming close to not making deadlines I am learning my limitations and that I can do many things but not all at once!!

So, If I had to compare myself to a plant as to what type of learner I am I would say: I put the best plant forward to describe me and that would be a “Arrowwood viburnum” because they are easy to care for and produce wine vines…that are flavorful, they are rich in color and give in abundance. Their goal is to produce and they do it miraculously as expected on time if not before expected.

One last closing: I tend to be long winded, so another area may be learning to shorten up saying the same thing!!

Thank you for reading~ My best to all for this course and your life directions!!
Daye Richardson

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Daye's Blog

I have created a new post to my Blog for English 100 Section # 8736....Exciting!!
From Daye Richardson