Thursday, March 24, 2011
Blog 7 Reflection and Evaluation
Since I have started with this new course, I felt very enthusiastic, encouraged and confident about taking this class. In the beginning I felt uncomfortable and very lost, because I thought that I was lost somewhere else not understanding the instructions that the teacher was giving to the students. He was talking too fast for me to understand him, plus he had too many instructions posted in " Living in The Matrix" which made me feel confused on how to follow the instructions. But since then, I am able to read more clearly the instructions on the " Matrix" giving by the teacher. Nowadays I am adopting to his style of teaching. And I made the decision to be seated in front of the class to better understand the instructions the teacher is teaching. Now my essays are better since I started this class three weeks ago. I have learned so much and the teacher has a good sense of humor when he teaches this class. Now concerning myself I feel that I still have a lot to learn. For example, how to organize the main ideas in a paragraph and how to demonstrate sufficient evidence and support for the reader to understand. But I have come to learn so far well in my writing skills. I hope to improve well in the future as I learn to write better. I would also say that these kind of courses have helped me not only for school but also for my job skills. Which enable me to write in a better manner in the comment section for clients details information. So far I hope to improve my writing skills by the time this course is finish. So far the teacher is doing a good job improving the students writing skills.
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Hi Paula:
ReplyDeleteBelow you will find my response for this blog series. This is not a grade, nor is it intended to be read as an evaluation of your performance in this class so far. The evaluation of the blog series may be found in Blackboard in the gradebook for this class and the grade is derived from a totally dofferent method as described in the syllabus. What you will see below is a response to your overall writing as of this blog series. The categories are from the CAT-W evaluation rubric (what the evaluator’s use). The comments below are intended to be both descriptive (what I see) and prescriptive (what you need to work on). I will be speaking with you personally about your current strengths and weakness during class. Please feel free to ask as many questions as you like about the following in class, during office hours, or in our FB groups.
Critical Response to Writing Task and Text: For this category, I look to see if you summarized effectively thereby demonstrating that you understood the reading/text, that you are actively engaging with the ideas of the text and responding in some way to them. For this category, you are fine but could still use some improvemement.
Development of Writer’s Ideas: This category responds to how well you use reasons to support your claim, how well you use evidence to support your reasons, and how well the reasons work together as a whole. For this category you need more work, particularly in your use of detail?
Structure of the Response: Is it an argument essay? Does it work well as a whole? This category is concerned with the overall structure of your writing--can I see that you had a plan and executed it well.
Sentences, Word Choice, Grammar, Usage, Mechanics: Is your wriitng clear and easy to read? That is what this category is all about. What issues need to be addressed now to improve the overall effect of your writing?
Overall: From this blog series I can see that you have the basics dwon from the first few weeks. You are summarizing the texts, identifying main ideas, responding to them, and you are writing “essays” when asked. Now we will work on argument format for essays and development. You are exactly where you need to be at this point in the class. Keep up the good work!