Mla Reflection

When this class started at the beginning of this semester I was not sure I would learn a lot. The main objectives of this class were fairly simple. There were five main objectives to use and know. They are the following:

I’m not going to lie to everyone, writing is not my favorite thing to do in life. In fact, I’m looking forward to my last class for my bachelor’s degree and my last essay or paper to complete said bachelor’s degree. I cannot pinpoint whether my discord with writing is attributed to a lack of ideas flowing in my head, or the inability to translate my ideas to paper. With that being said, I started this class with a basic knowledge of the APA writing style and I’d like to say I had an intermediate level of understanding of grammar. After these past eight weeks of Writing 101, I now can easily setup and build an efficient APA essay and I’ve learned how to conform to the APA writing style’s reference page.

One of my least favorite occurrences is to be misperceived. In the attempt to explain an idea clearly and in depth, I often find myself expended of words and witnessing a blank face. My careful sentences are disregarded and the listener hears words they wish to or expect to hear. It is valuable to me to agree and discuss or disagree and debate, but I find neither when my peer does not value understanding or truth, and when I cannot fully transcribe a belief in godly values. Within my education experience thus far, I’ve often felt this lack of connection. While miscommunication as a practice leads to poor relations, a careful, luminous translation of ideas, beliefs, and actions causes me – and each of us – to grow. A Liberty University Honors

All the four students gave me feedback which all had a different perspective regarding my paper and that was very important as it allowed me to see my paper very deep. I used the feedback I got from my peer and changed my first draft, including the format of my paper to APA. The feedback also indirectly helped me to learn more about APA format.

One of the most interesting things that I have learned in this class would be how to write in text citations properly. Considering I had never used APA style writing before I came to Bethel, I think that I have gotten better at them. I also feel like my sentence structure has gotten better since the beginning of this class.

First, I was finally able to meet the word count required for the project. I was genuinely relieved about being able to do this because this had been my biggest struggle. Second, my writing was organized logically and flowed well according to the rubric, and my introduction and conclusion were easily identified. Also, my thesis statement was clear, and I supported my secondary ideas with proper evidence. Third, my instructor commended me for using stats and numbers to emphasize one of the points I made in my essay. Fourth, my transitions were good and last but not the least; my MLA citation format was outstanding.

No one said college was going to be easy. Over this past semester I have gained some support with creating better essays, but also lost some as well. Essays can be difficult if you do not know what you are doing, in some parts of this semester that’s how I felt. Being able to change from high school papers to college paper is different. Over the past semester I have learned to write about many different things that I have not done before, from different audiences to different types of essays, also learning to have to take other people’s thought and put that into my essay to help me improve. In this essay, there will be many things happening, like my effects of each different essay, reflect on the relationship between writing and critical thinking, how rough drafts help improve, and also the purpose goals of my writing.

The pages before a new chapter are usually the most exciting or nerve wracking to read. Those pages determine whether or not one should continue to the next chapter and potentially finish the book or put it down for another day. Metaphorically, this class is those last pages. As a senior in high school, this is my last dual credit and high school English class. Whether I stayed focused in the class and continue to apply my knowledge from this semester to my future college English classes or not depended on my efforts. During this semester, I received plenty of insights about proper MLA citation and grammar.

I have been having a difficult time with your class. I am not sure exactly what you are looking for in the work that I am turning in. It appears that all of my writing is confusing to you and unclear. Also you keep referring me to use websites for APA style reference and grammar errors that you see in my. Well I have been using the websites you recommended for some time now and you still keep deducting point for grammatical errors when the websites that you are sending me to not so any errors. Due to this I am confused on how the scoring for my assignments is being judge. I have attached a copy of my discussion from week 5 directly how in appears in paperrater.com when I ask the site to check my paper. paperrater.com found no errors where

The most common obstacle for a busy high school student is how to spend and manage time so that they are doing what makes one best off. This seemingly fundamental concept is what I struggle with every day. So when I learned about economics, I was enthralled with the problem of scarcity. Hearing a lecture from an economist during a free period at school, I knew right away that I would be maximizing my utility by getting involved in this study. As I have ventured through high school, my economics community is one that I am proud to be a part of. I have been able to publish articles sent to over 8,000 Chicago teens on economic issues facing the world today and why they should be of importance to us. I have been able to publish in the Junior Economist, where I discuss what the future of leadership will look like for my generation. However my place in this community is not just through print, but through action as well.

I feel that I need to continue to work on my APA formatting as formatting your writings correctly is extremely important. I am familiar with the APA formatting as I used this with both my Associates and my Bachelors degree; however, over time I have found that I am forgetting the basic rules. I have also always struggled with formating my citations correctly as the formatting depends on the type of article.

As a hardworking and determined student being a part of the Honors English program would create a challenging, but beneficial, aspect in to my everyday learning. Whether I am in or away from school my main goal is to put in all the effort needed to succeed. I make it a priority to complete all my assignments on time and to contribute to class discussions. Along with this, I am willing to ask questions and come in for extra guidance when needed. Becoming a part of Honors English, for the first time, has created the challenging side that I was missing in regular English. The shift between the two courses has allowed for a tremendous amount of improvement for me as an English student. From the beginning of the school year to the present time,

‘The origin of mixed methods lies in two major research paradigms’ (Terrell, 2012, 257), namely qualitative and quantitative paradigms. The former exhibits many features of natural science approach such as dependency on numerical forms of data, whereas the latter focuses on exploration of social in-depth interpretations in the form of narrative words (Bryman, 1988). However, there has been a debate on the compatibility within qualitative approach and quantitative approach adopted in one enquiry. Advocators for the “incompatibility thesis” (Robson, 2011:162) maintain that ‘the two paradigms cannot be combined since they do not study the same phenomena’ (Sale, Lohfeld & Brazil, 2002, p. 43). I am not in favor of the

Ever since I was a child, I’ve always built an imaginary box around my life. It contained everything that I was used to and shielded against any major external changes. This included my school life. Other than my pre-k class, I’ve never been to any other school except for Maryvale Elementary School. I was in the French Immersion program there with over 50 other students. Throughout the years we all became very close, especially since they were the some of the only people I knew my age. By third grade, 10 students had already left and more would continue to leave. This only reaffirmed the bond between the rest of us. In fifth grade, the total number of French Immersion students in my grade only amounted to a little over 30 students.

Martin Luther King Jr. once stated, “ Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.” If someone would have read me this quote a little over a year ago, to be quite honest I would not have thought much of it.