Discussion Based Learning Over Lecture Based Classes

Once I figured out what we were actually doing, I enjoyed re-learning a style of writing that I had done only once before. The most difficult part of the Anthem assignment was understanding the new style and learning what a new teacher expected out of each essay project. After lots of peer editing and review that I really enjoyed and found helpful, that essay is finished and completely in the past. The argument paper, even though it is turned in, isn’t really finished because I choose to argue for less standardized testing schools which is a topic that is always changing and developing. I do not think I will add any more to the paper, but I have found myself perking up whenever that topic is mentioned, and continuing to learn more about it just because I have a foundation of it now because of my research for my argument. For me, the most difficult part of an argument paper is always finding successful counterarguments that I can fairly and soundly refute. I usually collect all the information and process it together before coming to a decision, with this paper I had to make a decision and then collect

engage and learn even when not taking part in online discussions. The context of this

One of my biggest challenges was accepting the fact that I had numerous habits that I developed in high school which were restricting my creativity. After reading Revising Attitudes by Brock Dethier, I now know that your first draft isn’t meant to be perfect. While writing drafts you need to let it go and not try to perfect anything. A rough draft is called rough for a reason. As a perfectionist, it was hard for me to comprehend the fact that I need to let go. I quickly found out that this would end up being one of my biggest weaknesses. I became frustrated with myself since I couldn’t figure out ways to revise my essay that had obvious problems. I was able to learn from my mistakes from the last assignment and avoid them. I now know to start narrowing your topic down when brainstorming your topic. Then you would continue to be more specific as you do your initial research. This helped me be crystal clear with what I wanted to write about and in the end helped me figure out which claims

Hospitals started to be penalized by CMS in 2012 for high readmission rates that could add up to one percent of what Medicare paid the hospital. This affected two thirds of all hospitals in the United States. Now, the penalty has gone from one percent to three percent. The purpose was to increase the focus on the discharge process that will lead to better outcomes with a decrease in readmissions (Polster, 2015). The purpose of this post is to discuss two learning objectives that Tina would be able to meet at the end of receiving discharge instruction. With each objective, this post will discuss the content of instruction, method of instruction, rationale for the chosen method, the time allotted for the task, resources needed, evaluation method, evaluation criteria, what specific criteria needs to be achieved for the objective to be met, potential barriers and a plan to deal with these barriers.

After receiving the feedback for my first short assignment, I realized that were a lot of revision that needed to be done. For the first short assignment, I was required to write a rhetorical analysis on my service-learning 's organization website. While I did provide a strong claim which was "the purpose of the website is to introduce the organization to the community as a well-established agency that helps Asian immigrants with numerous programs, services and advocacy2.The writing responds to substantive issues raised by the instructor and peers," I failed to relate it to the website 's usage of rhetorical appeals. In order to produce an effective piece, I decided to revise my work but relating the rhetorical appeals to my original claim, and by providing a more detailed analysis on how they relate. As an example, in my original submission, I only wrote "The overall appearance of the website aims to give off an air of professionalism and maturity" without providing any further explanation. After a

The revision process for me was difficult. It was difficult because I thought that my ideas were clearly stated and organized. However, that was not the case. There were sections in which the language of my essay made the ideas that I was trying to convey disorganized. Other times I had too much going on and had to slow down the pace of the essay. In brief there were errors within my essay, therefore I needed to make revisions to improve the quality. There were many changes/revisions that I made. Firstly, I omitted a paragraph in which I made a relation to 187 Reasons Why Mexicans Can’t Cross The Border. Though it had good content in regards to identity, I realized that it threw off the idea of a close reading. The objective of this assignment

My paper is not only completely rewritten from the original submission but also includes new content explaining my learning from the lecture as well as my background on my interest in the field. Even though this newly written paper includes the same topic, I have made sure that this paper is not a repeat of the first. Outcome 4.2 states, “the writing responds to substantive issues raise by the instructor and peers” which is also distinctly in my paper. One of the comments made by my English professor in the original submission was, “I am not sure what your question is. You mention several topics related to pain, but you do not pose a question”. This was a very large problem with my original paper since the point of this paper is to explain what question I will be researching. When revising my paper, I made sure that I included a question and explained in detail what made me want to choose that question. This has significantly improved my paper from the

The discussion assignments between week 4 and week 7 have taught me to view my work in a much more meticulous way than ever before. In activity 4.1, I realized through my colleagues post that the most abrasive or controversial argument is not the most effective, and in my reply I had mentioned the gratitude I had for her insight that inspired a shift in perspective. This in turn, effected how I wrote my thesis in my introductory paragraph; incidentally, I was not successful, because I did not apply what I had learned correctly. Nevertheless, the lesson I learned from both my colleague as well as my introductory paragraph have made me a better writer, because now I approach my writing with the reminder of stating what will be discussed without

Overall, I believe that I acquired a conceptual and practical knowledge of argumentation. The rhetorical situation worksheets that we were given in the beginning of the semester was a great refresher on all that I was taught on argumentation. It also helped me to understand the format that the professor would like us to introduce the articles and it’s Kairos before we analyze them. These worksheets definitely helped when it came to writing our first paper. However, although the worksheets made it easy to know what to put in the paper, it was not easy to actually put the paper together and make it flow. Therefore, when I wrote the paper it felt choppy in some places due to the fact

Joseph Williams and Lawrence McEnerney, in the third chapter of Writing in College, offer strategies for revising a paper, including suggestions regarding the point (or thesis), the organizational structure of the a paper, the evidence, and the attitude of the argument as a whole. The first step of the revision process “is intended to ensure that the beginning and end of your paper cohere with each other” (14). To accomplish this first step, Williams and McEnerney recommend isolating the point in the introduction and conclusion, and ensuring these sections communicate the same argument. Williams and McEnerney also suggest two different methods to communicate a point: point-first, in which the introduction contains a full statement of the argument

My first major essay was to write about an issue in the State of California. The subject of an issue that is taking place in California alone and how it can relate to our major. I wrote about the California NFL Teams Relocating to LA. I focused on this because it relates to my field of study in Kinesiology-Sports Administration Emphasis. The paper in my opinion seemed easy to obtained information, with the issue still being ongoing event. In my research, I found a lot of arguments on “Why the teams should move to LA?” and also “Why the teams shouldn’t move to LA?” I found that the research part of it was a bit more difficult than I thought. Even though this was an ongoing event, some of the research was harder than I expected. There was too

In terms of education, talk can be defined as everyday uses of spoken language and it refers to the act of both speaking and listening (Bearne, 1998). (Mercer, 1995)categorised talk in three ways; cumulative, disputational and exploratory. Cumulative talk is when pupils work together in pairs to gain a shared knowledge about a subject, disputational talk is mostly short controversial utterances in the form of a debate and exploratory helps people work together by using each other’s ideas critically. Mercer’s three categories of talk are examples of the types of talk that can be found in the classroom environment. This essay will consider will examine the importance of the talk in the classroom and the challenges of it, with specific reference to storytelling.

In my initial meeting with my advisor I received much insight regarding the errors my essay contained, and the revisions to be made that would improve the quality of my writing. As I began the draft of my introduction I had doubts on having enough content to develop a 4000-word essay on my topic and I was afraid my essay would become repetitive. Upon reading my paper my advisor pointed out ways in which the organization of my information needed improvement or readjustment. I had realized that a lot of the information I incorporated was mixed in with other points in different paragraphs, and together my advisor Ms. Lugo and I came up with designated paragraphs incorporating the separated fragments into single complete paragraphs that helped

Interactions between teachers and students in regards to teacher talk is one of the most important learning tools used in the classroom. Talk moves are tools for building an environment that serves a range of productive interactional, social and intellectual learning functions in the classroom (Edwards-Groves, 2014). They are enabled and constrained by the “sayings, doings and relatings present in classrooms” and prompt responses from students (Edwards-Groves, 2014, p1). Teacher talk is a large part of how students learn, through models such as ‘Initiate, Respond, Evaluate’ (IRE). The IRE model involved the teacher asking questions and giving appropriate feedback to the student’s response to help them understand the reasons behind their response. The Scaffolding Interaction Cycle (SIC) is another important tool, which involved teachers scaffolding a students’ response to engage higher learning functions. It is important to consider Bull and Anstey’s three-style model, consisting of pedagogy of school, pedagogy of literacy lessons and pedagogy of literacy learning (Anstey and Bull, 1996). Pedagogy of school involves the teacher and the student conversing in a Q&A like manner, or a ‘guess-what’s-in-my-head’ approach taken by the teacher. The pedagogy of literacy lessons involves the students carrying out the teacher’s instructions but not making the connection to what they are learning. There is a time where these styles may be useful, but

The paper I wrote on technology was an essay. Like most essays, it had 5 paragraphs. An introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. My teacher also had me write an outline to the essay, to help me stay organized in my thoughts. In the introduction paragraph I summarize my main points. I chose three points about technology that I would mention in each of the body paragraphs. In my first body paragraph, I talk about how technology has affected education and the way people can learn. In my second body paragraph, I talk about how technology has changed the way we communicate with people. And in the third paragraph, I talk about how technology has changed the way we entertain ourselves.