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List 4 areas from the rubric that provide you with the greatest learning opportunity. Feel free to include areas that confuse or confound you. Spend a few sentences elaborating on each choice. The organization piece I feel provides me with the greatest learning opportunity because knowing myself I am unorganized when I write. So having …
Part 1: After reading Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” (est. time: 15 minutes), take a minute to compare and contrast your own first draft (and the experience of writing it) with Lamott’s descriptions. What did you notice? Did anything surprise you about this short essay? Did anything offend you? (100-150 words) (est. time: 20 minutes) …
I liked how you started off with a fact as the beginning. I did think it included a lot of other people’s work, meaning the articles and many quotes. I feel you should express yourself more and what it means to you. I did notice how you included if you agreed or not, which is …
Metaphors are around us in more ways than what we think, they are in the songs we listen to and in the words we read on a page. Khullar emphasized the importance of metaphors through a medical lens, specifically with mental health. In some situations it can be hard for someone to express how they …
“The words we choose to describe illness are powerful”. I support this quote because illnesses are hard to explain to people. But the way a metaphor can help break it down without these big medical terms can help calm a person. “Diabetes coats red blood cells with sugar until they’re little glazed donuts”. I support …
Reading Erards essay a second time had a clearer vision of what he was trying to say. I did notice that the comparison between the dandelion and orchid. During the class discussion and rereading the message was how all parents want their kid to be the orchid this perfect kids and not a weed such …
In the article “See Through Words” one of the sections of the article that sparked my interest is the way furniture is used in situations. From my understanding the furniture is being symbolized in a house that has furniture is comfort. The room with no furniture is awkward or uncontrollable. The way I interpreted it …
The comparison of the reading and the video, in my opinion, is hearing it and seeing it had a clearer vision of what he was trying to say. For example, the way he described the pac-man and triangles, reading that I would have been so lost but watching the description and then reading about it …
