Journal 6

Since the mid- term is a big part of my grade, and will show progress of my writing I want to ensure that I w get a full nights rest that way my mind will be ready for writing. I will also ensure that I eat a good breakfast and might even drink a cup of coffee or two. I will make sure that whatever room I am working in is a quiet and comfortable spot. I don’t want to hear any outside voices.  I don’t procrastinate when doing work so I don’t think I will have any problem getting my work done on time. I always try to stay focused on an assignment but sometimes I get overwhelmed and feel rushed, so I want to make sure that I take my time and read everything through thoroughly. I will also keep in mind the things I put on my editing checklist and make sure that I focus on those problems the most. I feel confident in making sure that I won’t have has many mistakes as before when writing my midterm paper. After reading Chapter 5 it gave me a lot of helpful tips that I will use during the test and I will probably re-read it to ensure I will do well on the test. I feel like my writing has improved tremendously I just hope it shows when it comes time for the test to be graded.

Journal 4

Thesis Statement:Due to the inclement weather and road conditions, I do believe it was in the best interest of commuter students and staff that the university be closed on February 18th ,2015.

Topic Sentence 1: One reason Old Dominion University should be closed is because of the inclement weather.

Topic Sentence 2: The large amounts of snow and ice pose a hazardous threat to road conditions.

Journal #3

I’m really glad for our essay number 2 that we talked to write about what our learning style was. Not only did it help me to identify what style worked for me, and how can I use this learning style when it comes to studying as well. Since I have found my learning style it has made studying a lot easier. Before I didn’t really know how to study or if I was actually retaining the information. I looked up different techniques for how auditory learners learn, and what things they do to help them study. Now I may repeat studying material over and over or even come up with funny little mnemonics to help me remember important information. When writing my essay I figured I would talk about my learning style, and what it actually meant. I used some of my own ideas and even read other peoples ideas about what is like being an auditory learner. I personally think my learning style as nothing to do with writing this essay, other than reading it aloud and making sure the wording sounded correctly. My learning style doesn’t really affect me when it comes to writing essays. Since writing an essay has never been easy for me, my learning style didn’t play a positive or negative role in helping me right. All my learning style helped me to do with essay is found out what type of learner I am, and how to improve my studying skills

Essay #2: Learning Styles

Which Learning Style Are You ?

 

There are three main types of learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.I have always thought I learned better when I took a hands-on approach. This type of learning is called kinesthetic. After taking a short questionnaire, I also found that I prefer to learn by listening or that I am an auditory learner. Many people learn between a combination of these three learning styles, but everybody is different.Visual learners like to see a demonstration of things. Auditory learners learn by hearing things being explained to them, and kinesthetic learners like to have an “hands on” experience with what they are doing. Only you know which type of learning styles work best for you. Even though I think at when it comes to certain subjects I am a combination of all three.

Learning style awareness allows people to learn things in ways that appeal to their strengths. This can result in an increased capacity to retain information, which can lead to success in learning a subject. Visual learners can use the following to maximize learning: pictures, handouts, maps, graphic organizers, multimedia, note taking, flashcards, books,and highlighters. Auditory learners benefit from discussions, presentations, recording verbal notes, reading aloud, storytelling, mnemonic devices or techniques to help them remember things and verbal analogies. For kinesthetic learners, these strategies can make learning easier: skimming printed material, playing background music while working or studying, chewing gum, standing or pacing, taking several short breaks and using Post-Its or brightly colored writing tools.

My preferred learning style is auditory, but like I said before some people can be a combination of  all three types of learning styles, it just may depend on what you are learning. For me, when I’m doing math I have to see it being done, and then I have to do it by myself. I won’t understand it if someone reads it to me and then tells me to do it. When it comes to studying or reading a book, the room has to be very quiet. I have to read  the information aloud so I can fully comprehend what I am trying to learn. Often times it helps by writing, or repeating  studying material over and over again. Sometimes I often try to come up with funny little sentences that I can remember on test day. I also like to highlight things that I feel like are important and that could possibly be on the test. Even though I said my preferred learning style is auditory, its hard to just have one because I often have different ways of studying instead of just one.

It is very important that everybody knows their learning styles. It will make learning so much easier. Especially for people who are in college. Don’t make it hard on yourself, find what works for you and stick with it. There is no right or wrong way of learning, people vary. Don’t get discouraged when you are studying because sometimes the way you study for one thing may not be a good way for you to study something else. Taking that quiz before I wrote this essay helped me to verify what type of learning style fit me, because I didn’t know at first and many people don’t.

Journal #2

For me personally, I struggle with run on sentences, and where to put commas. Even though on my peer review comments, it has never been said by my group members who view it, I just know thats a problem I have. I have had a hard time trying to figure out where a sentence needs to stop and if a comma could fit in the sentence without making it sound weird. I also struggle with repeating myself, I have found that I will same the same thing about three times in one paper, but  just found a different  way to re-word it. I have a tendency of running out of things to talk about, and I don’t know what else to say. I think the only way for me to change these things is too read over my paper thoroughly, and ask for opinions on how it sounds. I think it would also help if I had extra practice with writing papers.Writing papers has never been anything easy for me. With every paper I write I try to make it better than the last one I wrote. I really don’t know any other techniques for getting help with these things I am struggling with.I am just going to keep improving on these things, and ask for all of the help I can get. Hopefully this class will help me a lot, that way I will be prepared when I take English 110.

Journal 1

This assignment was fairly easy to me. My group decided to do Perry Library. The library is well known  by most students at ODU  and is a common learning and studying facility. Some students spend most of their time in the library, when they are not in class.  In my part of the presentation, I did evaluating the facility. I had to answer a question. ” what suggestions do you have to those who are in charge of the facility?” That was hard for me to answer, because the times that I have been in the library I never saw anything that needed to be changed. The staff was very helpful and they even offer tutoring. So what more could I ask for? This is a challenging assignment for me because I absolutely do not like to talk in front of people. It is hard for me to make eye contact and I tend to talk really fast. There have been times where I have practiced giving a presentation in front of my friends.  Everything has went great, but once I get in front of people I don’t  know I forget everything I practiced. I try to stare at things in the back of the room, or just focus on a few people but that doesn’t work either. Hopefully this presentation will be different since it with a group, and we actually work well together. All of my group members have done there parts, and we all made sure we knew what we were doing. We all shared our work with one another and gave feedback on how it sounded. My group is very helpful to one another, and everything is going as planned, and our presentation should be finished by this weekend.