Abstract

I have chosen to focus on paper 2. I have decide to choose paper 2 because I feel like you can see a significant amount of growth in my writing compared to paper 1. In paper 2 I began to have a better understanding of putting my opinion in my writing, I also became more …

Homework for 4/28

My peer review approach has improved since the beginning of the semester. In the beginning of the semester I was scared to really give my opinion on other people’s work because I didn’t think I should, even though that’s the whole point of peer review. In recent peer review assignments at the end of the …

Homework for 4/26

Learning Outcomes Students who complete English 110 should Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision). Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and …

Homework for 4/19

In “The Coddling”, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt talk about a concept they call vindictive protectiveness, which is when individuals shield themselves from ideas that may potentially make themselves or others uncomfortable, they state, “The ultimate aim, it seems, is to turn campuses into “safe spaces” where young adults are shielded from words and ideas …

Homework 4/14

Paragraph from essay In the 1900’s African Americans were treated nowhere near equal to white people. Many Americans had fixed mindsets that didn’t allow them to expand their thoughts and beliefs on African Americans living and working the same way white people do. In 1961, when an African American man named Clyde Ross, bought a …

Revising 4/12

In the 1900’s African Americans were treated nowhere near equal to white people. Many Americans had fixed mindsets that didn’t allow them to expand their thoughts and beliefs on African Americans living and working the same way white people do. In 1961, when an African American man named Clyde Ross, bought a house he was …

Homework for 3/31

HR 40 is the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. Coates talks about how we would support this bill, but America is not interested. HR 40 has never even made it to the House floor. Coates suggests that the reason HR 40 has not been passed is not because of the impracticality …

Homework for 3/26

“A country curious about how reparations might actually work has an easy solution in Conyers’s bill, now called HR 40, the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act.” (Coates). “That HR 40 has never—under either Democrats or Republicans—made it to the House floor suggests our concerns are rooted not in the impracticality of …

Homework for 3/22

Task 2: The information that Coates provides about housing in Chicago complicates historical discrimination because Clyde Ross was able to get a house and support himself just as any other person in this time was able to, except he experienced a racist housing policy. African Americans would pay over twice as much money than a …

Homework for 3/17 Task 2

Original: In the reading, “7 Major Misperceptions About the Liberal Arts” Ungar explains in Misperception No. 2 that some recent graduates from liberal arts colleges have had some difficulty in the job market, Ungar states, “College graduates are finding it harder to get good jobs with liberal-arts degrees. Who wants to hire somebody with an …

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