Reflection Paper

This article was mostly about ways to divided up an academic reading assignment and as she states "read smarter not harder". Karen Rosenberg starts off the beginning of the article by talking about how she did not fear reading heading in to college and then describing the troubles she faced when she began reading academic writings. She talks about dosing off and daydreaming during reading and how she thought she was just dumb for not being able to understand all the information. Then she discussed how she eventually figured out the key to reading an article. She came to the realization that is it as if you are joining in on a conversation when reading these academic readings. Realizing the author’s goals will help you understand the article

The project allowed me to improve my comprehension skills. Through reading the articles, I was soon became familiar to the topic my columnist wrote about. If I didn't

As an eager learner, I often took classes that I felt would challenge me and my writing style. After taking many English courses like History of the English language and English Grammar, I wanted to learn another style of writing, which led me to journalism. The journalism program made me focus on developing my writing and researching skills to deliver reliable information. In the program we learned by doing and were expected to report both on and off campus. I was required to take an Editing course where we learned about copy editing, proofreading and basic editorial skills. In the class we would analyze articles for accuracy, libel, and tightening.

Before I had begun the class, I always thought there was a right or wrong way to write a paper. A typical five paragraph essay, with a specific topic, and in the end would end up being similar to all of my follow classmates’ papers. I would turn it in, get the same grade as all my peers and be happy with it. This class made me realize that that was not the only kind of writing there was. It taught me that there were more options available and more creative ways to write rather than the way they’ve been teaching and pounding into our heads since we were young. Literacy to me, before I started the class, meant following the guidelines and getting a grade. There was no leeway or openness. There was always a right or wrong way to literacy.

During my sophomore year, he asked our class write an APA-style research paper on anything related to U.S. history. This taught me a great deal about how to gather scholarly articles, as well as create an argument that is thorough, but objective. Additionally, I was able to further enhance my research skills when I had to complete a similar assignment my junior year (with the same teacher). Once I moved on to college, I found that courses such as English 101 (Writing the College Essay), English 102 (Introduction to the Study of Literature), and Psychology 250 (Reading and Writing in Psychology) tested my ability to produce a concrete argument and better comprehend what I read. Reading comprehension was once one of my largest struggles academically, which I have continued to develop in order to provide more effective

When I enrolled in Introduction to Journalism and Nonfiction, I expected to be spending the majority of the time reading primarily political articles about happenings in the US and analyzing the structure to write our own. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised to find that we studied selections with a lot more creativity.

For as along as I can remember, literacy has always been incorporated into my daily life. More specifically, an assignment that stand outs above all was my Graduation Project. The assignment was strung out over a course of one and a half school years due to the excessive amount of work and editing process required to complete the undertaking. The Graduation Project was lengthy, citation filled, and an edit worthy task. This was very difficult to me due to it being my first exposure to such a detailed assignment. Along with the paper, I had to complete an interview, volunteer hours, a presentation, product, and several forms of documentation. The essay opened my eyes to new important features such as the length of the paper. This is because it was the longest paper I have ever written. It was also a new experience to properly citing a paper. The last important task that stood out was the editing process because of the multiple drafts that I had to complete. Overall my

Many things we did in this class helped me become a stronger reader and writer. First and most importantly I was able to get lost in a book from anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes a day. This helped relieve stress, relax during the school day, and helped me become a more efficient reader. Secondly, we would have to write journal entries twice a week. These journal entries were either about the novel I was reading at the time or on a current event. These, along with taking AP Government, kept me up to date on what was going on in our world today and gave me a better understanding of real world issues. I also enjoyed giving book critiques, giving presentations in front of a class is something I’m very comfortable doing. It also was interesting to see what other people enjoyed reading and what type of books everyone likes to read. Strategic reading presented me with opportunities and challenges which I believe helped me become a stronger and more independent reader, writer, and student in

In doing my second text analysis, I begin to see some trends in the ways that the Smithsonian Tween Tribune puts together current event articles for students to read. For one, each article grounds the text with images that link to the text, titles that lend themself to pre-reading predictions, and even critical-thinking challenges that engage the reader further at the end of each article. Furthemore, as I stated in my first text analysis, each article is also offered at various lexile levels so students and/or teachers can choose the level that best suits them.

For my service learning project I worked in Mrs. Evelyn Costa's first grade class at Meadowlane Elementary. Meadowlane is located at 4280 W 8th Avenue in Hialeah, Florida and was constructed in 1957. There are one thousand one hundred and seventy seven students enrolled at Meadowlane Elementary school. Meadowlane has fifty three classrooms and fourteen portables and there are one hundred and seventy nine students per grade level. The school was built on nine acres of land. The student population of meadowlane Elementary is comprised of 97% Hispanic, 2% White, and 1% Asian.

“Writing an essay is not difficult! I am actually great at it.” This is a common statement that I would formally say, and even believe. In the past, I had never felt the need to thoroughly revise my essays before. In all my past essays, I would work intensely on my first draft and then just turn the essay in. I never spent too much time re-evaluating my writing decisions before turning it in. This process had worked well for myself in the past, and as a result, each essay I turned it would be an easy “A”. When I signed up for EN100 I figured that it would be just like the other easy English class that I have taken. I assumed that I would work on an essay, turn it in, and then earn an A on it, but this was not the case. When I signed up for EN100 I figured that I could continue my previous essay writing methods, but that was quickly disproven. When I received my first graded essay, I was unsure why I earned anything but an “A” on it. It soon became clear to me that I was going to be required to change the way I formerly wrote my essays and spend more time with correcting them.

I usually spent the trip to school staring at the pages: the pictures, the headlines, and occasionally I read a bit of the articles, while my father listened to the radio. Years later, already a teenager, I definitely decided to become a journalist.

I selected journalism as my elective for this year because I wanted to continue the journalism career that I began in middle school since it allowed me to write about topics that grasped my interest and passion aside from writing required essays in a classroom setting. In addition, I believed that this course would allow me to improve my writing skills by learning the ethical, grammatical, and organizational concepts relating to journalism, such as the code of ethics, the inverted pyramid, and the editorial hierarchy. I also hoped for the course to help me with responsibility and time management since I knew I would have to write articles and have other loads of works from other classes. Not to mention, journalism has allowed me to be motivated to write an outstanding article not for the grade, but for the sole purpose to make the article right. In middle school journalism was an extracurricular activity and this year I was graded on my personal interests, my time management, and my writing quality rather than on the actual learning of a subject. This course has challenged me to write outstanding pieces of work based on my motivation and time management as well without as many guidelines and structure given. It also made me a lot more confident since it requires interaction outside of class to acquire sources for articles. Thus, through reporting I able to establish a rapport with people and build a network. Overall, this course had helped me become a people person,

Winter of my junior year, I experienced a change in my life that has affected every single thing that I do: I became a minimalist. The term “minimalist” sounds stark and forboding, but it really means that I live my life intentionally by only taking in things and doing activities that are necessary and add value. Over Christmas break of 2016, I completely purged my room of excess material items and hauled eight garbage bags full of donations to Goodwill. With a clear space and clear mind, I was able for the first time to really consider what I filled my time with and what my values were. This transformation helped me grow into the happy and successful student I am today, and I believe that a minimalist mindset will allow me to leave a positive impact on any campus.

We all grow up differently, with a different background and story that follows but, it’s not likely reading and writing are a factor to who we are. When I was two years old, I was consistently having surgeries on my right hand because of my hand disorder called syndactyly. I was used to having help consistently, never honestly did the work for myself but, as time progressed into the fifth grade the reality of school hit me hard. I had a cast on my arm from surgery and was dreadfully struggling to keep up in any of my classes. I failed math that same year and, was clinging to social studies an English by a thread. I was surrounded around intelligent role models yet, I was struggling and didn't take school serious enough. That summer was my final summer before entering into middle school which meant I had to do a summer assignment called “Summer Reading”. Two books, two pages of summaries, for both journal logs, and much more, I wasn't hopeful that I could do it by myself. had much pride that somebody wowed do it for me.