Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 101 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start those conversations BEFORE we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Monday, February 23, 2015

For anyone struggling..

I was struggling with assignment #2 at first, and a few other people said they were too. If anyone else is still struggling with it I think this might help..

The timeline we had to write today in class helps a lot. It's literally a personalized list of exactly what needs to be in our paper. Actually writing out the timeline also helps you see exactly where your research and your interview becomes relevant. This is what I did:

Write an initial timeline. Then, for each event you wrote on your timeline, write one or two sentences about what you're referring to and how it's relevant to the assignment. Let that be your outline.

Then develop your sentences into paragraphs and string them all together. This would be your draft. Then after group critiques and proofreading, you can develop your final.

This is what I'm doing and it makes the assignment seem easier to me.

Hope it helps guys.

7 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing, Dhyani! I'm glad it helped.

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  2. What about the other assignment from Monday, what are we doing exactly

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    1. Do you mean the four things he wrote on the board? We have to pick one of them (they're topics from the book) and post on the blog about it.

      I don't know if that's what you're asking about though.

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    2. hey yeah the four things i saw you wrote about the myth and lagecy these two topics are in the book

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  3. Initially I was having complications writing out my essay but the time line really helped me get everything into perspective and helped me get started. It truly was a big help so I would recommend everyone to really do it and use it.

    Best

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  4. it's actually helped me too because i was confused where should i start from then that time line gave me an idea. i wish we get more suggestions like this!

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