Feedback!!!!

I get all kinds of feedback on my writing. Most of the time it is good but sometimes it is pretty bad I must say. I think my main problem in writing is that what I think is good may not be very good in other peoples eyes. One thing people say about my writing is that, the content is good but my grammar is horrible. I am constantly revising my papers because my sentences never flow right or I have comma in the wrong spot. Another, thing people always tell me is that I need to work on my thesis statement more. I always think I have a good thesis statement and it makes sense to me but no one else. Although besides all the negative things about my papers there is some good that comes out of all this. Last semester Stephanie opened my eyes to see that my wording of things was kind of dull and I need to spice it up. So, if you were to look back on the writing I did at the beginning of the year and look at the stuff that I write now. I think you will be able to tell that I have greatly improved on my sensory detail words. Which have greatly improved my papers. In the endorsement groups this semester everyone has really worked together on not really bring people down but to help them get through the paper and do it well. Last semester we would peer edit with people and when I got my papers back it was like they really didn’t care and none of the stuff they said really made sense. So, I believe all the positive feedback people have been getting back from the groups has helped the class greatly.

Types of Writing

There are so many different kinds of writing. I have only done a few of them but ever since I got to college mostly this class it made me realize that there is a lot more to it then one may think. For example, English 111 is based on argumentative writing did you think that there was a whole book on how to write argumentative papers. I certainly did not know that. That is one kind of writing that I have done thus far this year. Another kind of writing I did back in the day I used to keep a journal of sweet and funny things that that I learned and good things that happened to me that day. I find this kind of free writing just kind of writing about whatever. I really don’t do that anymore I kind of got lazy. Although, anyone that uses Facebook such as myself is basically free writing, because you are writing whatever you want and don’t really care what people think. Also, have you ever found yourself writing for another class and really don’t put that much effort into making it into a well written paper as you would for an English class. I certainly do I think it is because most teachers are just looking for if you got the content down instead of grading it like an English teacher and most students realize this. Now, Im not saying everyone does it but I think that good amounts of people do not put that much effort into it. Anyways, I just wanted to highlight some of the writing I have done and its not very much but I can defiantly I have got a lot better in English since I have been writing in college.

College Advisors

This week I will be talking about my experiences with College Advisors here at ICC. I know a fellow classmate talked about this in the last blog but this is a big issue. Let me explain why something needs to be done. At the beginning of this semester my advisor had put me in a math class that I had not even tested into nor did I have the prerequisite to. Now does this seem right? NO its not because I was in that class for a couple of weeks and I had no idea what was going on. I would have never passed it because I do not have the experiences that I need to do so. Not only did he put me into that class he told me that I would do fine in the class. I felt that I was very misadvised and luckily there are some good advisors out there that helped me get through this problem, which was really nice. This has nothing to do about ICC but when I called to set up an appt. with my ISU advisor he was not very passionate about his job at all. I had many questions for him and he hardly had anything to say. Now, I just feel that advisors need to take there job a little bit more seriously considering we are paying thousands of dollars on the classes they put us into. I also believe that if we are paying this much money they should be more than happy to help us instead of acting like it’s a big pain in the butt that we need help.