03/14/11

I emailed my Mid-term essay assignment to Dr. Rivera because I could not upload it onto Moodle. This is not the only thing I did today. Today's chapter was based on the readings of Critical thinking, Discussions, and writing. I was not sure whether I was suppose to answer the exercises or not, but I did it instead so that I could understand the subject of this chapter better. I also do not know which page or which part of the readings should I stop on, but I ended at page 139. A brief summary on what I have read so far is the story of Shastri and the decisions she has to make with her life, Kavanagh and the topic he has come up with for his essay "The Drag", Rensky writing about his life, and the cashier, Ross who chose to write a narrative about an incident that occurred between two elders and a plastic binding material at work. All this Authors had great topics and great stories. I hope I write as well as they all did. The last part of the chapter is the suggested topics and prompts for writing descriptive narration. There is so many that goes by categories, but I'll just jot them all down. Reading-Based Writing: Summary, Reaction, and the Two-Part Response. Reading-Based Writing topics: "The Story of a well-made shield", "No tears for Frankie", "More", "Yearning for love", and "Rituals as comfort food for the soul". General topics: Objective Description and Subjective Description. Cross-Curricular topics, and Career-Related topics. Last but not least the Writers Guidelines of a Descriptive Narration is the Narration, Description, and the Incident Report. Hope this summary was good enough. I also tried to finish up my Writing Process Worksheet from last weeks activity on a topic we were all assigned to write about. See you all next class.