Thursday, August 15, 2013

Doc 3, continued.

Tonight I'm home working on doc 3. The college guide as a PTA major. This will be good for me learn as well. Because I am new to college and have no prior knowledge about the PTA program. I know a few basic things, but I will need to do more research to even get started. The basic things I know are that only a select few will be accepted in to the PTA program. I believe its 70 people. And that's nothing really, because so many are here for PTA. Since only a few are accepted, there are a few things that will help me stand out.For instance, really good grades of course. Taking all the prerequisites at south university. Also getting the 40 hours of shadowing a PTA in a pt facility.And I also know I low the PTA field, and have major respect for it.I know it works for everyone.I know because I was in physical therapy for 2 long years. So I don't know a lot about it yet. I want to wright something pertains to school. And I want my audience to be the students. So I am choosing this topic to write about. I'm getting started tonight, its going to be a long weekend.A strong rough draft is due for the first peer evaluation in a short week, God help us all.



Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Doc 3

For doc 3, Im diong a persuasive essay. I think it might be a little easier then an informative essay. You can state your opinion in an argumental persuasive essays. your aloude to use wods like, I think so, or I believe. Still I dont want to sound redundent with the words. So ofcourse, I will be looking for credible resourses. The doc 3 may be fun, I will be writing a persuasive guide on getting thru college,as a pta major. I will be able to conduct in person interviews with some of the professors. Im looking forward to that part. Professor Peterson,is who I mainly want to interview. He is the instructor for the pta program. Although he is a very busy guy.I hope to get a short interview with him, he is really nice,I met him in orientation.And maybe even some students that are already in the program as well would be up for an interview.

Monday, August 12, 2013

A little bit of evrything

Well its Monday again, and you know what that means. I was super busy all day,since 7:00 AM I been running around with my mom doing all her little stops today. We went to a few furniture stores to look at new couchs. Then the bank,and the grocery store. I been getting up super early, and not being able to sleep. Im so tired right now I cant see straight. After I leave here I need to go home and work on my demonstration and outline on baking a cake for speech class. Im a little worried how this demonstration will turn out. I mean, I can mix a cake in a room full of people just fine. The thing that Im worried about is being able to demonstrait as well as speak from my outline.And not going over five miniutes is scary too. I got to practice when I get home, and time my self. By the way did I mention its due tomorrow.But ill be ok I have been practicing, a little.

Friday, August 9, 2013

My writers voice

I'm not sure what my writers voice is yet. But I would like to find out. I do believe that will take a lot of practice. Which is OK because I like to write. Am I any good, that's a different story. I understand that we do create a persona that works with our purpose of our writing. I like the persona triangle term. We do use all of these personas at different times. Depends on the purpose of the paper.And of course my audiencej . I think I try to use the stuffy voice persona. But I wonder if using that persona in writing will I complicate things,and confuse my audience. That's the last thing I want to do. But then again, the stuffy voice does mostly relate to academic writing.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The writers purpose.

If Im asked to volunteer for somthing, I always find out what it is first.And all what I need to do. If I want a free app ,or game I read the fine print and scan to see if its a contract or any charges. The samr thing with writing I want to know my purpose what Im writing about. We learned in the Colorado State University handbook to identify the purpose. Which means why am I writing this, and who is it for.Mostly at school its for proffesors. But thats not always the case. We may write an argumental paper to persuade someone to do something for us . For example a favorite tv show may be getting cancelled soon. And we want the executive producers to keep it on the air. What would motivate them to listen . Probably ratings , because ratings equal money .My point is its always good to know your audience, if you want the best response. Knowing the right form will help us in our writing.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Hectic Monday

Im back in school blogging. Its now 8:00, and its just a few of us in class tonight. I hope my group fronm doc 1 shows tonit. Because I really want to get our doc1 on flipping the classroom finished. That papers gota be due soon.I was up editing it all night. This has been a long weekend for me. Long days, and a lot of homework. Today was Monday, and Mondays are always hectic for me. I went to 3 different grocery stores today. First I was in walmart. That place is crazy hectic. So many people go thier for the same reason I do, for yje low prices. Then I went the publix , because they have better meats. As well as a few specialty items. The last store I was in was the health food store.They dont have one in wpb where I live. So I drove out to wellinton to get a few things I neede for my diet. Which is gong pretty well so far. I finished cleaning out my icebox and packing my groceries away and came to class

Friday, August 2, 2013

Tales from the MOOCs, And credible sources

Well I'm home on another Friday night,whats new. I'm trying to get caught up on my homework. I have been looking at all my fellow students essays on MOOCs. Everyone has a lot of great information. I need to comment on any grammar errors and thing like that. Its hard to say to each other if something don't sound right. I feel like I'm being rude. But really its only to help one another out. I really appreciate all the comments and help i have been getting. I like getting the other opinions from the other students. I had my mom look it over , but she thinks everything I do is great. So shes no help. I had a lot of revising to do, and still will continue to work on it . I have all my 1200 words but i need to move some sentences around . I really want it to turn out good. I learned from the professor to really check out my sources. They really need to be credibly right of the bat . Other wise if their not , the whole paper is practically shot. I mean I search on the net , but I know not to use wiki or things like that , I know also, ro not just use the first source I find. But looking for credible sources really goes further than just that. Its finding who actually said it , and where the information really came from in the FIRST place.So that what ill be working on wit my MOOCs paper . where, and was the sourses really credible.