MLA citation
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Blog Post # 7: Reflection
The first thing that comes to mind when I think back on the different assignments we’ve had that taught me something, the poetry of witness pops out at me. I didn’t even know that was a “type” of poetry let alone what it was about and how to write a poem that would fit that category. I have re-learned how to write analytical essays and how to use the popular MLA format. I learned these skills in a past English class but because of time that was between that class and this one, I was a little rusty. Also going over the grammar, commas, Apostrophe and Run-on sentences was a great refresher for me. The way I will apply these different skills that I have learned in this class would be to produce better essays and papers for future classes and other time it will be required. Every time that I write an essay or do a research paper I can use these skills to get the grade I should with the hard work I put into the papers. Another thing I learned from this class was how to set up and maintain a blog.
The readings that we have with this class have affected me by teaching me more about The Vietnam war through my research for the third essay. Also Tim O Brien’s story is actually really good.
I know that right off the bat I have met # 7: Identify and evaluate multiple meanings and perspectives in language. This is how we have been doing both essay 2 and 3. As well as the blogs you have had us do every week. #8 objective we again accomplished by having to research information for our essays and blog post. # 10 objective would go with # 7 objective same with #11 objective. The other entire objective has been met by the writing of our essays and blogs. We either had to do research, then analyze the data to see if it would be feasible to use then we had to organize the information and use basic English grammar and sentence structure to complete the assignments.
I know that my writing is not as good as it should be fore the level of education and age that I am at. I have always had problems with English in school and my writing has shown that. I know that with the reminders of how to write an essay and then teaching us how to write an analytical essay has greatly changed my writing for the better. Also the MLA format that you went over again in this class will help keep me from issues of plagiarism in the future. I have always had issues as well with the citations and how to put together a work cite page and the information that goes into that page.
I think the greatest challenge would be the writing of the essays. Normally I can write page after page about a subject that I choose but having a topic chosen for me makes it a lot hard for me. I then have to go and find information that is not only correct but will support my thesis statement. I also noticed that when I have to write about someone else’s chosen topic I have issue with the structure of the essay and the citations that I have to use. I was able to overcome this challenge by doing the research and following what you taught us and wrote the essays.
Denise
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Final presentation annotated bibliography
Aaron, Jane. The Little, Brown Essential Hand Book. 6th edition. Pearson Longman, 2008. 265. Print13 July 2011.
In this source, Jane has put together the basic things you will need to know to write a good piece of literature. She goes in to what make an effective sentence, grammar and sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and mechanics of it, and how to properly research. She also talks about four documentation styles MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE and how they are formatted. I will be using the section about MLA formatting and how to do it. I will be taking examples of how to properly format a piece of writing and also how to cite you resources that you used from your research.
Russell, Tony, Allen Brizee, and Elizabeth Angeli. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 16 Nov. 2010. Web. 13 July 2011.
In this source, the authors put together all the general information that you would need to know to write a piece of literature in MLA format. On this page they talk about the basic format to use and give general guidelines that we should follow to make it easier on us. The authors go on to talk about how to format your first page with kind of a list of do’s and don’ts. They continue into the topic of headings and how to put them together in the correct way. At the end of this site it talks about how to cite Purdue OWL in MLA. I will be using the information from the general format section, the general guidelines section and formatting the first page. I will take this information and use it to support my stand about why everyone should use a format like MLA.
Russell, Tony, Allen Brizee, and Elizabeth Angeli. "In-Text Citation: The Basics." The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 14 June. 2011. Web. 13 July 2011.
In this source, the authors have put together the information that we should know to correctly use citation in text according to MLA format. The source gives the basic rule for in-text citation for the different type of sources we could use. They continued on by talking about author-page style and how to use it. They add in-text citations for known and unknown authors of printed sources. They distinguish between and give examples of how to cite Author-page citation for classic works and literary works. They show us how to cite authors that have the same last name and how to put a citation together that has multiple authors. At the end the briefly talk about when we don’t have to use a citation and these different formats. I will be using this information to give examples and back the different citation forms that we use when writing a paper.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Close Reading of a Passage
"At times, in fact, she seemed fascinated by it. Not the gore of so much, but the adrenaline buzz that went with the job, that quick hot rush in your veins when the choppers settled own and you had to do things fast and right" (Tim O'Brien page 98)
The first thing that caught my attention about this story and this part was the fact that a female was allowed on to the base and that she was freely accepted and became in the end one of the guys. Which is very odd since the Vietnam War was back in the 60's and 70's when women really were not thought of as an equal to men or could do the same things a man could. The fact that she too felt that rush of having to act fast, having no time to second guess your decision is why she came back. The men felt this too and in a way is why they stay, that and the embarrassment that would come if you wounded yourself just to go home.
This contributes to the story and whole book by giving that example of what when the men are out fighting for their life and that adrenaline is flowing there are in the moment. Then the dust settles and they are happy to be alive and in that moment they feel more alive then they ever have or will if they get home. It is that rush that gets them through it. the rush of fighting and winning the fight for your life. The rush to make a decision and having no time to think about it twice or go back and choose differently. It is the ultimate high that one can achieve.
This is why I think so many go and sign up is in a small part to have that adventure and to support something that you feel you beleive in. It is also a way to find who you are real quick.
in the story the female kind of represents America and the way of life we have here. Then she comes over to Vietnam and is corrupted by the rush and wilderness of it all. The same thing happened to the guy. She was able to become her true self in a way and prove that she was just as good as anyone of the guys there.
Image From:http://historyplanet.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/forgotten-heroes-of-the-vietnam-war/
Image From:http://www.allpics4u.com/places/the-years-of-vietnam-war.html
The first thing that caught my attention about this story and this part was the fact that a female was allowed on to the base and that she was freely accepted and became in the end one of the guys. Which is very odd since the Vietnam War was back in the 60's and 70's when women really were not thought of as an equal to men or could do the same things a man could. The fact that she too felt that rush of having to act fast, having no time to second guess your decision is why she came back. The men felt this too and in a way is why they stay, that and the embarrassment that would come if you wounded yourself just to go home.
This contributes to the story and whole book by giving that example of what when the men are out fighting for their life and that adrenaline is flowing there are in the moment. Then the dust settles and they are happy to be alive and in that moment they feel more alive then they ever have or will if they get home. It is that rush that gets them through it. the rush of fighting and winning the fight for your life. The rush to make a decision and having no time to think about it twice or go back and choose differently. It is the ultimate high that one can achieve.
This is why I think so many go and sign up is in a small part to have that adventure and to support something that you feel you beleive in. It is also a way to find who you are real quick.
in the story the female kind of represents America and the way of life we have here. Then she comes over to Vietnam and is corrupted by the rush and wilderness of it all. The same thing happened to the guy. She was able to become her true self in a way and prove that she was just as good as anyone of the guys there.
Image From:http://historyplanet.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/forgotten-heroes-of-the-vietnam-war/
Image From:http://www.allpics4u.com/places/the-years-of-vietnam-war.html
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