Evaluations

Evaluating something is basically your opinion about a certain subject. After reading pages 102-118 in "How to Write Anything" I've learned easy ways on how to evaluate things. This will be helpful when writing my fourth essay, because we have to look at different "reviews" which are just evaluations of the different movies/albums. We, also, have to write our own review on a movie or album of our choice. This information will be helpful in forming my opinion about the movie of my choice, which is "The Notebook". I believe that I am constantly evaluating things, I just don't write those things down all of the time!

Rhetorical Analysis

The article assigned for reading on the subject of 'Rhetorical Analysis' taught me alot. Before reading this I had heard of the word rhetorical but never really searched to find out what it meant. I've written quite a few rhetorical analysis', but I didn't know that they were called that at the time. I learned that a rhetorical analysis is what you write about a something. It is your opinion on someone else's work/ideas, and it is supposed to be persuasive. I guess there are things in this world that I do that I just don't know the names of. I must have written over a dozen papers like this in highschool, but the teachers just didn't call them that.

Presentation of 'The Scientific Method'

As a person I consider myself very shy. I always have been. Presenting to me is like jumping out of an airplane for most people...not even joking. When people get ready to jump out of an airplane their heart races, they hope that it'll go well, but most have doubts that something bad could happen. That's exactly how I feel when I get ready to do a presentation and there's no way for me to stop it. I don't know why it happens, but it always does. Always. I try to calm myself down in my head but I can't. Once I get up there everything is blury and I forget everything that I am supposed to know. When my group had to present the scientific method I wasn't completely freaking out at first, but once we got up there I wanted to run out of the room. I can't tell you why but presenting is probably one of the only things that I get really nervous about. I never get nervous on tests or at interviews or when I have a big paper due, just when I present! Oh well, it's over now!

Revising

Revising is important. The article "Revision" by Anne Doyle explains the different reasons for revision and how to revise. I don't always like to revise because once I get my paper finally done, I'm tempted to press print and take the paper and put it away in my backpack and not think about it again until after it gets graded. However, I never really do that because I've found that whenever I do, I end up making stupid mistakes that would've taken me two seconds to fix, such as a simple spelling error or a grammar error. Growing up my teachers stressed that it was important to revise. Most of them would make us hand in several drafts as homework assignments and, also, when we passed the final paper in pass in the drafts with the final, counting them towards your final paper grade. That got me into the habit of revising. Now, I always change my papers. Sometimes I end up rewriting the whole thing because I decide I'm not getting my point across well enough and I don't know how else to fix it so I just re-do the whole thing. The article just re-emphasized all the things that I was taught throughout my elementary/highschool years of school.

A Twisted World

This article was pretty funny. Honestly, I agree with everything they say. If we had celebrities run our country I'm pretty sure that all of that stuff would happen. For example, if someone like Lil Wayne was running our country weed would be sold at every store that there is and marajuana would definatly be legalized. He's in jail for it right now(and some other things), but no one would be put in jail for it. It would be something people thought was like going to school and had a good job...like if someone smoked weed it would be looked apon as if they were a great person. I like the sarcasm in the writing too. It keeps me interested and makes me laugh(:

Response to Examples

When watching these examples the one that stuck out to me the most was Jrapp's video about music and how it changed his life. As he made more friends by performing, I, also did while doing gymnastics. I liked the way he made his video. There were a lot of good effects and he used a good choice of songs. They made the video more entertaining. His essay was well written and got his point across, too.

Essay 1

For my essay project I though that I would make a scrapbook of pictures that show different moves that I had to learn in order to compete in gymnastics competitions. I started doing gymnastics in fourth grade and to me, then, there were simple things like cart-wheels, handstands, foreward and backward rolls. When I started competing in sixth grade I was required to know a much greater variety of terms for the four events I competed in(bars, beam, floor, vault). For my scrapbook I would make four different sections(one for each event), and write the names of different moves in order from first learned to last learned. There were also different phrases that the coaches would say to us in order for us to learn to do things better during practices that i'll include.