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Congratulations to my fellow classmates. Our College Writing 2 journey has come to an end. Some of us more drained than others, but we made it. One of my noted flaws before this class was that I didn't believe in my writing, I always felt like my work wasn't as sharp as others. But over the course I learned new techniques and gained confidence in my writing. When I write I always have had trouble putting my thoughts on to paper or starting a paper. Dr.Kyburz influenced me to write more drafts/ summaries. This was a new technique, by doing this it taught me that these small summaries make it a lot easier to get started and get ideas out on paper. One of the greater accomplishments was the following project.

Microtheme
This was a challenging project for me because it was a new concept. It was the first writing assignment I have ever received were we had only one page to work with.  Were most of the writing assignments want the writer to expand the length of their work. Yes one page, sounds easy right! WRONG. This small slate to work on made it difficult because it caused me to deeply analyze through and delete what I didn't need. Getting my point across with short amount of writing.

Multimodal
The multimodal was one of my favorite projects from this course. It was fun experimenting with the Video Editor and learning new ways to use it. I also think it is important that writing classes should include something like this because it allows us to actually use our advancing technology. I also love this assignment because it allowed us to make our own story from the images we see.  Everyone had their own interpretations and we had the chance open to the class and explain what we saw.

 Future College Writing 2 students,  Dr.Kyburz unique teacher she tries to connect to our thoughts and opinions. My best advice would be to PARTICIPATE!  She does not bite, and the end of the day it will make objectives much clearer and class is much funner when multiple people interact.

Weeks leading up to finals

At this point in the semester for me is a cluster. So many things to turn in so little time! And this weather is not helping at all, this cold weather makes me want to stay in my cozy bed all day. At this point theres no saving grades its basically just trying to finish strong. And Of course I get sick for the first time all year,talk about bad timing...

Travis Scott

On Friday October 28,2016 I got to see one of my favorite rappers Travis Scott. I figured I'd blog about this because it was one of the best experiences of my life. He performed at Freaky Deaky, a music festival featuring many popular Artist and Dj's. There where other people performing that night but my friends and I were really only there for him. When we got to the front gate I realized that I forgot my drivers license and you needed one to get into the venue. Luckily one of the workers let me in after explaining my situation. Once we were in we found our way to his stage just in time. His stage was insane because of how many people were there. As my friends and I made our way closer to the center I lost them. I realized that the chances of finding them were slim so somehow I made my way to the absolute front and center of the stage right before he started. Once he started it was absolute chaos, the crowed roared with excitement. The video I posted is my personal video and in it was the is the first song he performed and as you can see he's an energetic performer. Im not sure if everyone has experienced a mosh-pit but I can say that as terrible as it sounds it awesome. Everything about it is awesome, the raging vibe you get and the musics bass making your whole body vibrate is just an out of this world experience. Half way through his performance he jumped in to the crowed and I got to carry him on my shoulder while he sand a song. This night was just perfect and I will never forget it .(Video on right is when he jumped in)

Class Reflection

 

Well here we are half way through College Writing 2. I never considered my self as a strong writer because it is really hard for me to get all my thoughts on to paper. The Microtheme project was so hard, I just wanted to keep writing and back up my opinions but I had to leave that part out! From the Holistic "Rubric" it helped me with my rhetorical knowledge to expand complex though and how to time and make things flow with the paper. From the class I learned that I am able complexly look at problems mainly because I always ask questions and really try to get to the bottom of things. But the one thing that this class has really helped me is with my mechanical knowledge. I like the fact that we turn in so many drafts because with all the feedback we get to see what patters there are with our mistakes. So by the time of our final draft we are able to see and fix those patterns.

Kneeling During the National Anthem?

 Reading the The New York Times article;Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest and Frederick Douglass’s ‘What to the Slave is the 4th of July?’, by Katie Harris and Tracey Barrett, I've decided that i'm not too sure how to feel about Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem. While I do see where Kaepernick is coming from with our national political and police difficulties I don't think kneeling was a good idea. I think that because there are many other reasons we should stand for our flag one being for those who have fought for our country. In one of the pictures in the article Kaepernick was kneeling right by two troop,to me that seems a bit too disrespectful

Creepy Clowns? Yea, NO

 
 According to online sources for the past couple weeks there have been numerous reports of clowns being spotted around the US. Some people say the clowns are really trying to hurt people some say it's advertisement for a movie. I'm not scared of clowns but I do admit that it is really creepy. If I were to see one in person i'd probably stay away just in case it actually is a killer clown.  I wanted to blog about this because a friend of mine saw one in a town near to mine and I wasn't to sure what to think about it. What would you do if there are creepy clowns roaming your town?

Documentary Project To do List

What do I have to do for my documentary project?  

1. I want to write a stronger conclusion because i'm not happy with the one I have now.

2. Fix my introduction to be more traditional.

3. Include Citation Page.

4. I CAN NOT FORGET TO CITE AT THE END OF THE CONCLUSION PARAGRAPH.

5. Take into consideration the notes during peer review.

6. Procrastinate. 

7.STOP PROCRASTINATING.

8. I have to review my punctuation because I have had a history of miss using them.

9. Have someone else review it.

10. Make last minute corrections.

11.Turn it in by September 30th.