Ged Reflection

After receiving the prompt for a reflective research essay three, I began my writing process in a normal direction to starting an essay with simply brainstorming ideas. I started to think about which topic I 'd be most passionate writing about because for a shy person 1500 words is a lot to say about something you believe strongly in. When I was talking in class about possible research topics to Hunter and Marissa, I remembered last year I wrote a persuasive speech about tattoo stereotypes. I thought I 'd be an interesting topic for this essay as well, but narrow it further along the lines of tattoo stereotypes in the workplace and why they can cause unemployment depending on the certain profession. After deciding my direction I was going to go in I started to build up my proposal for my main points I wanted to talk about to support my claim. Also that day during class Dr. Detmering gave me a good idea that I could use in my counter argument. Which was talking about reasons why some professions can 't accept people with tattoos because it 'll affect

What I learned in the documentary called “The First Year” is the aspects of each teacher’s way they deal a classroom with students as first-timers. Especially when coming across to many challenges and the struggle they had during their first time ever as educators. Watching what lengths they will go to for the benefit of the students is admirable. The teachers who are into five separate schools in the Los Angeles area are known to be George Acosta who teaches English as a second language, Joy Kraft-Watts teaches high school history, Genevieve Debose teaches middle school language arts and social studies, Maurice Rabb teaches kindergarten, Nate Monley teaches fifth-grade bilingual education, and Andrew Glass teaches elementary special education.

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

Throughout this experience I have learnt a great deal about the Graduate Teachers Professional Assessment (GTPA) Standards and how the data I collect and analyse are undepinned by the components stated in this document. This culminating statement, clarifies key insights into the 4 components and how evidence produced aligns with and consequently effects teaching, learning decisions and student results. Six months ago, I had not heard of the GTPA standards, however, now due to my newly developed understanding. Via developing a deepening understanding. I have come to realize the importance of unpacking and understanding the requirements for the GTPA Standards (GTPA, 2017).

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

Additionally, I have come across things that have been able to reinforce my worldview in a similar way to finding more information in an essay. My sophomore biology class really taught me about the majesty of God’s creation and the brilliance that went into designing all of it (Bazanowski). This really helped to strengthen my faith and bolster my trust in the biblical values I strive to live out. Similarly, my family has played a crucial role in the revision and development of my worldview. My parent taught me the value of hard work and strong morals and have continued to model these values for me. Their support as I write the essay of my life has been one of the greatest blessings I have ever received. An additional part of the revising process is discovering flaws and trying to remedy them. One issue I discovered near the beginning of high school was an aversion to too much social contact. Although I remain rather introverted to this day, I have made a conscious effort to become more outgoing. This lead me to do things like join the lacrosse team and run for treasurer of the National Honor Society. As I continue to develop the essay of my life, it will be crucial to rigorously edit it to prevent stagnation and ensure I continue to live up to the values

Typically, when most people think about the writing process they think of terms such as a ‘thesis statement,’ developing an outline, body paragraphs, conclusion; it’s imperative to view writing this way. We have only been taught THIS way of writing almost directly after we learned how to spell words—you decide what to write about, usually specified in the thesis statement, then you write a series of paragraphs entailing how you came to this conclusion. Finally, you conclude your paper by restating exactly what it was you spent an entire essay writing about. And most people will go their entire lives believing that is the formula for an effective, well thought-out work of literature. But how often do we go back and read through our writing and completely resent how amateur and forced it sounds? This is usually a direct result of a lack of revision within a work. Defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a change or a set of changes that corrects or improves something” and “a new version of something that has been corrected or changed,” Revision is not a common word we think of when writing—this raises a serious question: how should you revise? In response to this to this, research was conducted to find a general view as to the significance of revision within various individual’s writing processes. These results, along with research from several academic articles provide a clear description as to where revision could be

In my final reflection, I detailed the specific sections of my original draft that needed improvement and then discussed the global revisions that I made in those sections. For example, in my reflection I wrote, “My first primary source revision was in my observation annotation, where I had to find a secondary source more relevant to the information I found through my observation. The connection that I had originally included in my annotation described how I was able to use Kain and Wardle to discover the tools and rules used within Elsa Pardo Dance Center. This relation however, is not a strong synthesis and does not really support my findings” (Major Task II Final Reflection). This shows how I was able to look back on the primary source annotation and realize that it needed improvement. I then continued my reflection by explaining the ways in which I focused on making a new connection between one of my secondary sources and that piece of primary data. An essential part of the reflection was including how those global revisions improved my writing and to do this I wrote, “After making this revision, there was a clear articulation of my primary and secondary source connections. The readers will be able to understand why I chose my secondary sources and

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

Throughout the revision process, I had the opportunity to discover my voice as a writer and engage in the conversation that is academic writing. In my final paper, I tried to reinforce the idea of a roadmap to guide my reader along my thought process. During my Embedded Writing Consultant appointment, I walked through the guidelines of a roadmap with Amarachi, and she emphasized the importance of a roadmap in reorganizing my paper. I realized that I could clearly articulate what I wanted to state by explaining it to her out loud, but when I translated such ideas to my paper, the main point oftentimes became lost. You mentioned something similar in your feedback, as many of the points I made did not connect to my central claim. Recognizing that I needed to emphasize my plan and then carry it out, I rewrote my paper with this in mind.

Over the past week or so I have learned more about the Boys and Girls Club of American in the Austin area and I felt the need to share with my families whom have school age children in their home. I am finding that most BGCA only accept children 6 years of age or older; however, there is an Austin BGCA that accepts children 5 years of age.

For the revision project, I needed to make more changes to this paper due to not fully getting my point across or because I needed to add some more information to my paper. The first thing that I had to work out was my title. I read the beginning of my paper again and decided on a better suited title that would fit into what my paper was mostly about. Next, I had to fix a sentence that contradicted what I had said earlier in my paper. Another big issue in my paper was the placement of the story of Dylan Roof. To fix this mistake I used parts of my essay that talked about Dylan Roof to form a back story closer to the beginning of my paper. Some of the other sentences that I had written originally made more sense in my mind and when I put them on paper they made it sound like I was saying something different, so I changed the wording in those sentences.

The first essay was a persuasive essay on the right for gays/lesbians to marry. I believe that my first essay could have been a lot better. I think if I had based my paper on the topic sentences that I put together in the outline my paper would have been a lot better than

Use peer feedback!! It will be the death of you if you don’t use peer feedback effectively! We were given peer feedback on 3 of our essays—the Hobbit essay, our name vignette, and the Twelfth Night soliloquy essay. If I were to rank my- self from 1-5 on effective feedback usage, I would give myself a 4 because when I receive peer feedback, I evaluate it and see whether the change would be effective, and it usually is. On the times I didn’t use the peer feedback, it would be because of one of two reasons: (a.) the change would not enhance my essay whatsoever, or (b.) I’m too stubborn to realize that the change would be for the better. What I mean when I say stubborn is that I tried really hard on something and I’m disappointed to see that

Based on my own personal experiences in taking the SAT to get into college I feel as though the test is not bias and only assess a certain kind of intelligence. I myself went to a predominantly white school. In the honors classes there were little to any African American students. I personally took both honors and regular classes. Being that when I took my SAT certain thing I should have known I didn’t know because of my class placement. I noticed I scored higher in areas in which I took an honors class in. With less African American students being placed in honors classes the chances of the students scores being higher is lower than a student of another race. It is all how you apply yourself to learn ad study. I do think these test take advantage