Employee Observation Report

Throughout this course, I was able to assess and evaluate my weaknesses and strengths in writing. This class has truly brought out my ability to write, a skill I did not believe I had. I now know what it takes to become a college-level writer. Also, at the beginning of the course I did not particularly enjoy writing. Now, however, I have a greater respect for

University Writing Center (UWC) and Academic Success Center (ASC) are two of the university facilities that help students enrich their academic experience. While UWC assists students in improving their written and oral communication skills through one to one consulting sessions, online resources, and workshops, ASC works to enhance students’ intellectual performance through academic coaching, supplemental instruction, drop-in tutoring sessions, and peer mentoring. Both of the organizations take a collaborative learning approach to encourage students to develop necessary study skills for academic success and increase student retention. ASC offers various student development programs; however, our focus for this proposal will be on drop-in tutoring services offered by ASC.

The Writing Center is one of the more popular services available because of how helpful it can be for a student. The sole purpose of the Writing Center is to revise and edit a student’s paper. The Writing Center is located below the Native American Center for Student Success, and is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. There are some guidelines for the center that have to be followed for your paper to be revised; be present during the tutoring session, schedule an appointment well in advance of the paper’s due date, bring a description of the assignment, know the name of instructor and course, and finally type the essay before the appointment. If you would like to set up an appointment you can stop by or call them at (580)-745-2990.

I am looking forward to using the writing and tutoring center this fall. One of the reasons

Writing is frustrating. Writing is time consuming. Writing is thinking. Writing is different for everyone, and luckily public schools and universities have writing center for students where they can establish their writing as well as critical thinking skills in a comfortable environment. Nancy Maloney Grimm, a humanities professor and director of the writing center at Michigan Technological University, states in her article, “Re-articulating the Work of the Writing Center” that writing centers are, “a site of knowledge-making in the postmodern sense of knowing that [one’s] understanding is always partial, always capable of obscuring understanding of others” (537-8). Grimm is pointing out the importance of writing centers by being a place for not simply teaching like students get in a classroom, but being a place where “knowledge-making” is constructed with the face-to-face interactions of a tutor and tutee. Unfortunately, writing centers are slowly decreasing, for many do not find them essential to

The article “Obama’s Lessons for Transfer Students” by Kim Clark discusses the hassles that transfer students go through. The main idea of this article is to explain the freshmen students that transferring out of a college is not an easy job. It’s not easy because once you transfer out you are starting over again because new college comes with new challenges and different environment. So, you should have strong valid reasons to transfer out. If you decide to transfer out stay strong and dont give up. Also, it is really easy to feel lonely because its hard to make friends since all the freshmen's students have their bonding already.

On July 9 at approximately 1800 I observed an individual walking up the Priest Rapids Road towards the intake. As he was walking up he would stop and began yelling and screaming at something towards the dam. I hurried and grab my patrol radio along with my keys for the patrol car. I got on the radio and inform priest control that I was on site. They asked if I was aware of the gentleman walking across the damn. I informed them that yes I was and that I was heading up towards the intake deck to make contact. They informed me that it look like he was carrying something sharp in his hand. When I pulled up to him and got out of the vehicle I could see that his hands were up in his fist were clinched. As I got closer I noticed that he had a small

When writing for school projects whether for a presentation to just too simply fulfill a requirement for the class one must utilize all avenues and resources to ensure the paper is well written and executed according to the guidelines of the school as well as the instructor. During this course, I chose to do a little research and analysis on Ashford University’s writing Center. In my reviewing of the writing center, I did find that it was

Life is timed and things happen for a purpose. One day when I look back at the time that I began gaining ownership of my life, I will remember of Houston Community College (HCCs); despite the downfalls I experienced regarding my academic achievements. In this journey, every person that I had the opportunity to spend some time with, thought me a something. However, there is one that although we spent just one semester, it felt like a life. And I call her the professor who changed my life. She was my instructor from the introduction to communication class “Speech 1301,” her class helped to boost my confidence and shaped me into a person that I am today. Transferring will open doors to new experiences, new challenges and it will be one step ahead

Aside from time management, I plan on using the writing center resources to help me prepare for academic writing, and knock the dust

This transitioning circumstance is giving me a choice and a chance to make a better future for myself. As an active student, my first choice will be satisfactory academic learning along with participation in extracurricular activities. My motivation for getting higher education in UC Davis is to expand my perceptions of things, because of how different opinions are understand by many people, depending on how they have witnessed in their own way. Coming to UC Davis, I know that I will meet a lot of students from different areas with knowledge of certain things different from others. I am sure that fit in the circle, be comfortable, get connected, and supportive to each other are what called being a part of Aggie Family. I believe that days

Since I am a transfer student, my time is very limited at UIC. Therefore, I go beyond measures to grasp every opportunity that comes my way. Before I transferred to UIC, I was living in a small town called Decatur. I had many dreams and aspirations to make a name for myself and get out of Decatur. During my last three years living in Decatur, I was attending a local community college. The teachers, classes, and even the equipment were limited to increase the value of my education. I working several odd ball jobs to help pay for an associates degree that I felt was not taking me in the direction I wanted to go.

I am fortunate enough to be friends with a vast majority of the people enrolled at my school, and the opportunity for individuality in the classroom is great. The downside to attending a small school and living in a small community is that there is not much of a learning experience with culture and diversity. In spite of my lack of diversity, I am a very open-minded person who wants to learn about all the new ideas a big campus has to offer; I feel Ohio State is the best university to do so. I am thankful to have grown up in this small town because this deprivation of a wide culture has just made my thrive for education steepen. I have learned about my small towns culture, a thing many do not think to do, yet, I am grateful for, but it is now time for me to move on, so I can broaden my educational and personal experience. People that come from my town do not always leave because they know nothing more than the small culture we have here; I am going to be the

After reading the first two chapters of Glenn and Goldthwaite book The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing, I noticed to the book gives a detailed description of what a writing teacher needs to know if he will be teaching the subject. Frist of all, in first chapter “Preparing for the Course “the author mentioned that the teacher should look up writing programs and reading centers in the campus of the university. As this could help students solve their writing issues when the class period is not sufficient. Especially if you have ESL students, these programs might be very beneficial. However, in my Country (Saudi Arabia) where English is not the native language, these programs are not available to English learning students, they only available

One example of how the writing center has been useful to me is when I took my textual analysis paper to the writing center we used the lens more about and say back. The way that I get helped with the lenses is that when we used say back we summarize each paragraph. The other students in the writing center wrote about how they felt I was coming off and I wrote about how I felt I was coming off, and what my audience may notice in my writing. Sayback is helpful because if the people in the group feel that something does not make sense then they would let me know so I can fix it. The other lens we used was more about. More about is what I want to write more about so if I wanted to add more things to certain paragraphs I would let the group know. What the group would be writing is what they want to hear more of. Personally, I like to use say back and more about because when we're discussing it during the writing group it gives me more ideas to write about.