Hello Bloggers! We’re done! We made it! The stress can flow from our bodies what a damn good feeling. This has honestly been one of the most difficult classes I have taken at AVC. I love English and it has always come pretty easy to me but this class has been the exception. I don’t think I have written so much in my life, and I was on the newspaper for two semesters! Plus some of the topics we wrote about including our research paper were pretty challenging. Jennifer wasn’t lying when she said we’d be doing some critical thinking. I feel like my life has been consumed with English 103, I was constantly reading or writing something pertaining to this class. I have no clue how I was able to manage my other classes in with this one. Its been long nights with aching headaches from looking at the computer screen for so long. Its been sheer panic when I forgot to blog, or ran late on an assignment. But its also been pride for completing something that seemed so very difficult. This class has also presented enlightenment from some of our readings, I love Fitzgerald and Orwell.
I have learned a lot from the class and have renewed my skills for critical thinking. Smarthinking has been a great tool and I now know that I have a bad habit of creating sentence fragments. I have become a better copywriter and more thoughtful in tie things I write. I have discovered the many techniques that the brilliant novelist we analyzed used. Along with this I have been able to rediscover the beauty in the diction we read. The hidden factors that make a novel so meaningful. But I am an English dork like that. Our thinking critically readings have shown me other exceptional writing techniques pertaining to propaganda, humor, and race. I love how we can all interact and express out thoughts without judgment or harsh criticism.
While I am on my class tangent I want to express my thanks to all of you! Without group projects and PDR’s I would have been lost. You guys have helped me complete this class more than you know. I think we have all sort of taught each other, not only through our assignments but in general. By reading blogs and interacting with a few of you I have learned some interesting things. I feel I have my feelings eased by this too. Knowing that I’m not the only one struggling with the class along with personal things. I have been able to help others not lose hope in the class or the life pursuits we pressure ourselves to achieve. Granted in this class I have come in contact with some people that have not been so nice to me, but whatever that’s life. Either way you have have been a big help with everything and I truly appreciate it. I wish you all well on your future endeavors and hope you can reach your goals, whatever they may be. Thank you again and have a very Merry Christmas-Happy Holidays- and a prosperous New Year!
This is it! Over and out :)
Vanessa!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
RP= Our love/ hate relationship
Happy Friday and almost Saturday bloggers! We here! We’ve reached the end, or almost end at this point. The hardest part is over and man am I happy for that! So for this weeks blog, it has to do with what we’ve learned while writing our research paper. It surly has been interesting.
First and foremost I learned how to write a research paper of this caliber. After much “pain in the ass” I managed to scrap one paper and start over on another. Now this was super stressful, but I really wanted to pump out some good work while challenging my writing skills. Relate one book to another is not the easiest task. I found it a bit difficult to parallel the two while keeping a sound structure to my paper. Plus adding in other sources without repeating myself a million times. Pretty scary, I was intimidated to say the least. But after I got writing I began to get the hang of it and the organization sort of came natural. I think I thought of it as too difficult therefore it became exactly that. I did have to go back and re do a few paragraphs reading it al the way through, but that’s the whole point of editing.
I think my favorite part of the whole paper was just getting to analyze the two novels. The subject matter was close to my heart as I too can be a dreamer, and idealist. Many of the things Gatsby and Nafisi encompass are things I could relate to. The intense obsession with a dream until you lose yourself in it. Its terribly sad to find that both Gatsby and Nafisi have there dreams end in defeat, but it the longing that fascinates me. I love how the two focus on the want and the longing for a dream and how that makes them who they are. It opened my eyes to see that sometimes we really don’t know what we want or what exactly we are hoping for. I sort of lost myself in the deep meaning that ran through both Nafisi and Gatsby, for me that’s the best. When I can become so divulged in something that I begin to feel a part of it. Not and outsider analyzing the items before me, but a player in the game experiencing these emotions first hand. It brings me back to personal anecdotes that came close to Gatsby’s ideals and Nafisi’s hope. I really enjoyed this part once the intense stress washed over.
This has been a research paper like no other, I can truly say I have never encountered something so complex and be told to make sense of it. Though it makes me proud of myself to be able to conquer something I perceived to be so difficult. Not only that but being able to become emotionally connected to the novels I am analyzing made the experience a little more enlightening. Analyzation came to a new level of critical thinking for me, and it sort of rounded off the semester by incorporating everything we’ve learned. I hated it and quite enjoyed it at the same time. I am sooooo happy I can breath again.
First and foremost I learned how to write a research paper of this caliber. After much “pain in the ass” I managed to scrap one paper and start over on another. Now this was super stressful, but I really wanted to pump out some good work while challenging my writing skills. Relate one book to another is not the easiest task. I found it a bit difficult to parallel the two while keeping a sound structure to my paper. Plus adding in other sources without repeating myself a million times. Pretty scary, I was intimidated to say the least. But after I got writing I began to get the hang of it and the organization sort of came natural. I think I thought of it as too difficult therefore it became exactly that. I did have to go back and re do a few paragraphs reading it al the way through, but that’s the whole point of editing.
I think my favorite part of the whole paper was just getting to analyze the two novels. The subject matter was close to my heart as I too can be a dreamer, and idealist. Many of the things Gatsby and Nafisi encompass are things I could relate to. The intense obsession with a dream until you lose yourself in it. Its terribly sad to find that both Gatsby and Nafisi have there dreams end in defeat, but it the longing that fascinates me. I love how the two focus on the want and the longing for a dream and how that makes them who they are. It opened my eyes to see that sometimes we really don’t know what we want or what exactly we are hoping for. I sort of lost myself in the deep meaning that ran through both Nafisi and Gatsby, for me that’s the best. When I can become so divulged in something that I begin to feel a part of it. Not and outsider analyzing the items before me, but a player in the game experiencing these emotions first hand. It brings me back to personal anecdotes that came close to Gatsby’s ideals and Nafisi’s hope. I really enjoyed this part once the intense stress washed over.
This has been a research paper like no other, I can truly say I have never encountered something so complex and be told to make sense of it. Though it makes me proud of myself to be able to conquer something I perceived to be so difficult. Not only that but being able to become emotionally connected to the novels I am analyzing made the experience a little more enlightening. Analyzation came to a new level of critical thinking for me, and it sort of rounded off the semester by incorporating everything we’ve learned. I hated it and quite enjoyed it at the same time. I am sooooo happy I can breath again.
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