Ch 30
Ok who doesn’t know how to use a search engine now days? Everybody uses them all the time so there is no excuse if you cannot find a website that has correct information on it. Search engines have that preview thing were you can look at the website without actually going on it. This is just stuff most people learn from the countless hours they spend on the internet and usually people have that one friend who is amazing with computers and they show people how to use everything on their computer so everything is quick and simple. Search engines like bing make searching for stuff on the internet even easier so this book is a little out of date. This chapter was just stuff that some people I guess just never tried one day while they were bored on the internet.

Ch 28 I found to be filled with information that I all ready learned in high school. Like how to do bibliography in MLA format, and the different type of sources. One thing I did not know about was the guide lines for a questionnaire. Finding sources is usually a tedious thing to do because I always try to find sources that repeat each other so I know the information is correct and I didn’t go any websites with false information. Books are always the best sources though. Besides field but most of the time you cannot get that kind of a source for a research paper unless you get really lucky.

After reading about the portfolio that is due at the end of the semester I am still nervous on how I will do because I lack confidence as a writer. I have no idea how if I can even find my first drafts, or my first revisions. Since it is a group of people who know a lot about writing for some reason I do not think I will be able to get up to their standards even though I possibly could be. I think me being nervous is a good thing though because it will make me try a lot harder on my writing.
The only way I can take this is if I have a c- or better which I hope I have by now. I need to find all of my work because I know I did not throw anything away. I need to make sure that they are all in a presentable manor when I have to submit them for the portfolio. I really hope I can pass this because I want to transfer next fall and I do not want to take English 200 next semester because I am trying to make next semesters schedule a walk in the park.
My 2 pieces of writing out of the 5 that are required I think will be able to pass. I have worked hard on those papers and I know I will have to revise them more than once but I think I will have passing papers by the end. I really hope my margins are not the reason I do not pass because it happened to a lot of people at my high school during the research paper. I am going to have to do multiple checks to make sure.

readings

The first essay “General Apache” is a story that is hard for me to relate to because I do not know any Vietnam vets, and I am not an educator so I cannot relate to that part as well. Maybe someday if I become one of those things I could relate to it but at the moment I am young and I have not experienced a lot of things. I thought it was a pretty good story though. I found it to be a very easy read. The story does not relate to the life of an average college student anymore maybe in the late 60’s or early 70’s I can see it being relevant to the life of a college student because it just happened. I thought the poem was really good. I could picture the story in my mind while I was reading it. It defiantly reminded me of Rambo.
The second essay “simplicity” is defiantly a bash on how Americans write. I honestly wish the guy would use lest contractions because I find them as annoying as he finds unnecessary words. It was a fun read a little easier to relate too unlike the first. The way he told us to simplify our writing made a lot of sense because we do use words that are unnecessary for writing papers. I do not really believe that it makes it harder for a reader to follow the story because I doubt most readers are that dumb. Yeah some words in papers are not needed but that is what makes writing papers fun. When you are able to add fun adjectives and adverbs to help describe the idea in your head, it is what makes writing anything a fantastic experience. If we did not need these words than why is it correct grammar to use them, we all know we love to use these things in our speech when we are telling some sort of story or epic tale. I have used a lot of words in this blog that do not need to be used but I used them anyway. I think words can never be unnecessary because it could show some individuality in a paper or poem.