Moving On Up

Today my teacher asked out class if we thought that we were ready to move on to English 104. after she asked this question I really got to thinking if I really was or not. This started to scare me a little bit. I automatically started to think about the writing competency exam next year. Now I am nervous.

After class I had a meeting with my teacher to see where I am at in my writing and how I am feeling about my writing. throughout the meeting see told me that I was a pretty good writer. The fact that I am not stuck on my words meaning that I am open for change make me somewhat unique. She says thins but in my head, I am thinking that I am more narrow mind when it comes to writing. But her tell me these, make me feel a little more self confident. Towards the end of the meeting I had to ask my teacher if she thought that if I were to take the writing competency now if I would pass. she told me that I would do pass. Then she gave me some advise on what to do to ready myself for the test next year.


After the meeting with my teacher I was ready to answer the question on if I am ready to move on to English 104. My answer is YES, I am ready to move on up to 104. I feel that I am confident enough to do well in that class. I now cannot wait for next year to come around and start a new adventure in English.

Another Week In Class

So class this week has been a real battle for me. When you do the same thing over and over again it starts to get really boring. What am I to do in this situation?

I walk into class every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with an Ice Moca coffee in my hand so get some energy for the rest of my day. Normally this does not kick in till after my English class.

In class this week we are doing the same thing that we did last week, Workshopping. This is boring when you are not the one reading or being the discussion leader. All I have to do is sit there listen and follow along with the person who gets to read their paper that day. Then I give them my feedback on what I thought of the paper and what they could do to improve that paper. when I do this my other class mates look at me as if I don't really know what I am talking about. This just makes me not want to help them out.

On Wednesday we talked about how to write sentences and the different kinds of sentences. This made me feel like I was in middle school again. I mean yeah it is helpful to be reminded of what we are doing wrong with them. I don;t know anymore. I think that my brain is just ready for a nice long break, aka SUMMER!!!

Over all this week I have just been really really bored out of my mind. My brain needs something fun to do. Lets play a game or something to get out brains having fun and not so bored.

Workshopping

So this week in English, our class had print off 15 copies of a paper that we wanted to read in front of class that we thought that we would have the most trouble on. We do this so that we can hear what our own papers sound like and so that our classmates can gives us some really good feedback. This method of revision is called "Workshopping".

When I read my paper out load it sounded really choppy. It sounded even worse because I stuttered quit a bit when reading it. Even thought this was an extremely horrific experience, it helped me no how to really improve my paper. I got a lot of feed back from everyone. After I got back all the feed back, I went to work on improving my paper.I think that this will be one of my best papers that I have ever written. I am pretty happy with my success.

Next week I am going to go to the Writing Center to do this workshopping thing on my other papers. We will see how that goes next week. I hope that it will go well. I really hate doing revisions so workshopping is the best way for me to understand what I did wrong and how I should fix it.