peer reviews

While looking over my peer reviews for the research argumentative based paper and the literacy inquiry I noticed that they were different. For example for the research argumentative based paper my responses were mainly questions. Questions on sources and on parts of the paper that I felt could use more research. I did not comment on any grammar mistakes because we were told not to. Even though it was difficult to leave it as it was but there was not very many grammar mistakes that my group mates made. I thought that it was easier to do the research based argumentative paper reviews because we just had to make sure that there opinions made sense and there facts were in order. Our comments were more like helpful hints on how I would have done with their opinions or ways to help them put their thoughts together. During the first peer reviews we did which were the literacy inquiry I had a little trouble at first. But once I got the hang of I began to ask good questions and gave help on parts that were confusing to me. I tried to help my group mates put some ideas together to better help them explain themselves better.  For both the research based argumentative paper and the literacy inquiry I made sure to leave complements on the parts that I liked. I tried not to be to negative in my comments so I choose to make sure I had enough complements to match the other comments that I put.  I did not have much experience doing peer reviews I did some in high school but those were not as in depth as ours. I really think that the peer reviews are a vital part in writing a paper because they help the writer in so many ways.

you tube

After viewing You Tube I did not get off of it for an hour. You Tube as everyone should know is a web site where you can view videos that people have posted up on the internet. The website functions in a way that is easiest for the people viewing the videos. Meaning that on the main page they have videos that they suggest to you based on what videos that you have viewed in the past. Which is a very convenient thing to offer because it sorts through videos so you do not have to.  Then if you click on browse you tube opens it doors so that you can see any video of the 120,000,000 videos that they have to offer. Starting at the top of the page they show what videos are the most viewed that day and many other categories. There are even videos of people doing online blogs, which has become a big thing online and on You Tube. I think that online blogging would be very interesting and more enjoyable than blogging online. They have music and movies to for people who want to see the newest music videos or for people looking for a movie to buy.  The audience that You Tube is targeting is throughout the spectrum of viewers. This website has so much to offer that the audience could be everyone. From someone looking to see a music video to someone trying to see how to do a math problem to anyone searching for current news events. So I would have to say the audience is everyone with Internet access on a computer or even a phone. I think that is why You Tube is so successful and I would go as far to say that it has become a part of our society. 

blogging

Blogging did take a lot of getting used to; I am still working on it. Especially when we first began our blogging and we had a lot of free writes to choose what we want to write about. It used to take me a fairly long time to think of interesting things to blog about. I would try and think of anything that I did that day that I could write a quick and easy 250 words about. It took a while to tell a story of something that happened when we first began blogging in our class. I was not particularly found of free writes at first. Although it did not take me long to get the hang of the free writes. What really helped me to get the hang of blogging was commenting on the other student’s blogs. It helped me see how all the other students handled their free writes. Then it became easy to figure out how to write my blogs. I like the commenting on the blogs because it lets me read other blogs, which can be pretty interesting. Some if not most of the others blogs are interesting and I enjoy reading them. I think that the blogging has improved my writing because it is a completely a different form of writing. I definitely enjoy blogging more than any other kind of writing that I have done in the past. Because blogging is basically just saying how you feel about the subject that you choose to blog about.

peer reviews

I really enjoyed the peer reviewing process because it helps us look at our papers in a different way. As I read my group mates papers I began to think of ways to improve their papers. But really I was unknowingly thinking of ways to improve my own paper. I was able to read my group mates papers and think about ways to make them relate better to the audience or to help them write about how to equate some things in their own stories to literacy. Then the next time I read my own paper I began to ask myself basically the same questions that I asked my group mates. Then making my revisions became easy and I think made my paper better. It was hard at first for me to review my teammates papers and leave comments at first because I did not know what to say. I kept thinking what if I am being too harsh or what if I am not being harsh enough. But once I got started I could not stop I made sure to give my team mates positive feed back to because I really wanted not to be mean. The comments that my group left for me about my paper helped out a lot because they read it and explained parts that they did not understand to me that I thought made worked well where I had it. But it took my group to show how some parts did not make sense. 

working out

Working out is a hard thing to motivate yourself to do. When this semester started and my roommate and me found out that the school had a weight room that we could go to and all we had to do was swipe our card, we were like hell ya we are going to work out all the time. We soon found out that this was not the case. Since classes have started we have worked out two times. One of them being tonight and every time we have gone it has been packed. The weight room is pretty nice I think they need to find away to not have it so clustered around the free weights. There are always so many people around the free weights it took a while for me to find an area I could do some curls. My roommate and I have decided again that we are going to work out almost everyday of the week. I know that we have said this before but now we are a little more prepared. We have made set days to do certain workouts like some days we will only do upper body, and on others lower body and cardio on days we don’t feel like going to the gym to do legs. Also since we have been here for a few weeks we know our schedules better so we can make time to go to the weight room. Hopefully we can stick with it and do our best to work out as many times a week as possible. This way we will not have to fear the freshmen 15 and do our best to stay in some sort of shape.

my voice

Some how i didn't post this on my blog i posted it on the moodle site my bad.I like most people do not think I have any kind of accent. I do not have a very southern or Northern accent. My family is all from up north in Indiana and they all speak with an accent that makes them sound like they are from the mid-west. Then my family all kind of migrated down to North Carolina. When I say family I mean everyone my grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, and cousins. So I have been raised around a bunch of family that speaks like they are still up there. They say pop for any kind of soft drink and also they call all sodas a coke. So I kind of adopted that and other things like that in my accent when I was younger. Then I realized, as I got older that was not how people in North Carolina spoke and my accent evolved again I tried to pick up many southern terms and ways of speaking. Then Yet again as I began to change my accent to what it is today. I realized that did not have to say Y’all and act southern with every word I spoke. I kind of noticed that when I began to speak with a southern accent my family would began to do things to stop that accent. They would ask me to repeat almost every word I spoke and say that they could not understand me because I was talking to fast or I was mumbling. Which is how my accent was formed it is a kind of combination of a Midwestern and a little southern. That may be why I fell like it goes unnoticed even from me. I like the way that I talk because I feel like I created it. I made my own accent out of an accent I picked up from my family when I was young and an accent I picked up by growing up in the piedmont of North Carolina. Reply