Shattered Glass

1. The people in this video used editing, fact checking, and recorded data when writing their articles.

2. The characters collected data by observing, taking notes, interviewing, and taking pictures.

3. There were a lot of ethical issues involved in this movie. The main character was making up everything he was writing about. None of his information was credible and the magazine kept publishing it. He used people he knew to pose as other people, he invented sources on his own, and made up quotes.

Shitty First Drafts

Had this article been called anything different, I would not have read it. Anne Lamott describes in her essay that how people just write down whatever they are thinking and feeling, and then they go back and "tweek" the paper to make it more polished. I love the idea of the shitty first draft. I always write one, it's the worst part of writing. When I am writing a first draft I always have to sit down and do it all at once. If I don't, I will loose concentration and never be able to finish. I have to allow a lot of time time to write the draft, because as I said before, I loose my concentration very easily and need to stop and get on Facebook or watch some TV to get back into things. I plan to re-read my draft, outloud, and then take the comments that have been given to me and improve the draft. I will probably re-read the literature I have aquired and add anything I can to prove my point. I like to put the entire project together and re-read it again, and it I see anything wrong I can fix it then.

MLA Practice

Liza Burby, a writer for Better Homes and Gardens explains the difference in mood children feel when they are in school as opposed being at a birthday party or interesting event. Russ Quaglia says, " THe sense of fun and adventure they have in going to school and learning new things begins to wane by third grade when they've leanred the basic skills...By high school, they are talking about school as some kind of prison." (Quoted in Burby 108).

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When I was younger I was on a swim team for my school from age 6-18. Some of the best memories I have in life have been from swim meets or practice, and to this day my best friends come from that team. I loved swimming in the summer the most, the team had the opportunity to swim outside, play games outside and have parties. Swimming has given me excellent team work skills as well as leadership skills. I miss the feeling of being in a competition and giving it all you have to win a race. I loved to swim backstroke, and that carried with me through my high school years. Even though I was on the high school team, I still competed in the meets for my rec team over the winter. I still go back once a year and participate in the "alumni swim meet" that my high school has every year.

I-SEARCH

I picked this topic because I am interested in the advancement of women in today's workforce. Suprisingly, it wasn't as easy as I thought to find information about this topic, but when I did, it was full of statistics and how things are "getting better" in today's work world. I plan on doing a questionnaire that asks women how they have felt over the years as a woman in the working world. My goal is to prove to the reader that most women have in fact felt oppressed in jobs they have had in their life time. My views have no really changed since starting my research project because I went into this thinking things aren't as easy for women as they are for men, and my research has yet to prove me wrong. I am having a hard time getting people to participate in my questionnaire, but hope to find more participants this week!

Paraphrase

When writing a research paper, students tend to use direct quotations more than they should which causes their research papers to be full of quotations. Students should be cautious when writing a research paper because about 10% of the finished product should be directly quoted. Due to the amount of plagarism in today's academic world, students should be aware of the amount of direct quotes they use when taking notes. (Lester, 1976).