D#14, HW#6 -- Course competencies for deadline reflections

HW#6

• Write for specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications

D#3, HW#12

• Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence and logical development appropriate to a specific writing context

D#2, HW#8

• Use appropriate conventions in writing, including consistent voice, tone, diction, grammar, and mechanics.

• Find, evaluate, select, and synthesize both online and print sources that examine a topic from multiple perspectives

• Find, evaluate, select, and synthesize both online and print sources that examine a topic from multiple perspectives

• Identify, select and use an appropriate documentation style to maintain academic integrity

• Use feedback obtained through peer review, instructor comments, and/or other sources to revise writing

D#5, HW#9

• Assess one's own writing strengths and identify strategies for improvement through instructor conference, portfolio review, written evaluation, and/or other methods.

• Generate, format, and edit writing using appropriate technologies.

D#6, HW#13

D#14, HW#5 -- course competencies on writing project reflections

HW#5

• Write for specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications

D#14, HW#4

• Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence and logical development appropriate to a specific writing context

D#14, HW#4
D#10, HW#14
D#6, HW#11

• Use appropriate conventions in writing, including consistent voice, tone, diction, grammar, and mechanics.

• Find, evaluate, select, and synthesize both online and print sources that examine a topic from multiple perspectives

• Find, evaluate, select, and synthesize both online and print sources that examine a topic from multiple perspectives

• Identify, select and use an appropriate documentation style to maintain academic integrity

• Use feedback obtained through peer review, instructor comments, and/or other sources to revise writing

• Assess one's own writing strengths and identify strategies for improvement through instructor conference, portfolio review, written evaluation, and/or other methods.

• Generate, format, and edit writing using appropriate technologies.
  

D#14, HW#4 -- WP#3 reflection

HW#4

• Steps I used to complete this project were to sort out all of the data that I had required to see what was important and reliable. My next project I would have better time managment.
  
• I am most proud of the additions that I made to my rough draft because my rough draft was so rough and I had writers block pretty bad about how to pull everything together before. Now I think I did pretty well considering how bad it was before. I needed to address my transitions mostly. One of the assignments from deadline 13 was really helpful for transitions.
• My turnitin shows that the instructor will not allow me to view the originality report for this assignment so I cannot answer this bullet point
• I wanted to improve on bringing all of my data together and presenting it correctly. I feel that I improved on this, but haven't mastered it yet. I would continue to work on this aspect as well as my citations that always need work.
• Organize writing to support a central idea through unity and Write for specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications are course outcomes that I worked toward during this writing project. I do feel that I achieved the competencies. My paper involved specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications. On my next project I would like to work on selecting an appropriate documentation style

D#14, HW#2 -- Editing strategies

HW#2

From the powa.org site I chose edit with a partner. I think that this helped a lot because I am so invested in the project that sometimes I knew what I meant, but it was unclear to someone else. I also used the concentration is key method on the daily writing tips site. Usually I like to have a little background noise going on when I study, but I turned everything off and I even made my dog get off of my lap and sleep somewhere else for a little while. I think both of these tips helped to get my paper on track.

D#13, HW#5 -- Grammar assignment #6

HW#5

I focused on the "dangling participle" found on the copy blogger website. I also reviewed dangling modifiers on the purdue owl site. I think these are helpful to me because I often write as if I'm talking and misplace words.

Original:
Fetal death is also listed as a risk of having a baby at a later age in life. A study done by Ruth Fretts, MD; and Robert Usher MD state that “Women 35 years of age or older had approximately one in 440 births end in unexplained fetal death, compared to one in 1,000 births for women younger that 35.” What contributes to causes in fetal death are unknown; leaving the prevention unknown as well. Doctors can do advanced screenings and testing, but without any explanation or medical study there is no way to prevent fetal death.

Revised:
Also listed as a risk from having a baby at a later age is fetal death. A study done by Ruth Fretts, MD; and Robert Usher MD state that “Women 35 years of age or older had approximately one in 440 births end in unexplained fetal death, compared to one in 1,000 births for women younger that 35.” Causes in fetal death are unknown; leaving the prevention unknown as well. Doctors can do advanced screenings and testing, but without any explanation or medical study there is no way to prevent fetal death.

D#13, HW#4 -- peer review reflection

HW#4

I did my peer review on hell if I know's rough draft for WP#3. I am really glad that I got a chance to look over her paper because I felt really lost on mine and it helped out a lot. Her paper flows a lot better than mine and I need to work on presenting the subject as a whole and make it less choppy. I don't have any reviews on my own draft yet (I know we are all struggling here at the end a little) but I will be sure to keep checking them for more ways to revise my final draft. I also have not had very much luck with the turnitin website this semester. My labtop is not agreeing with it so I will have to save my rough draft to a thumb drive and get it over to another computer as soon as one is accesable to me.

D#13, HW#3 -- peer review

HW#3

I peer reviewed hell if I know D#12, HW#8. She did an awesome job. I could not do a second peer review because there was not another class mate with one posted.