Year: 2025

Peer review is another thing overlooked in high school. We would spend ten minutes maximum going over our peers work and would only focus on the grammatical errors. When I got to college I then learned that although these are helpful, they aren’t what is […]

Annotating is never something I look forward to doing as throughout high school we never did it or were told it was basically pointless based on our assignments. Even when needing to respond to questions about the readings we were assigned, all we had to […]

Integration of different sources was never my strong suit when it came to writing. Most people will say it is hard for them to include personal examples in their writing and using sources is easy, but for me it is quite the opposite. It has […]

Revision has never been something I focused to much on as in high school we really didn’t go into much depth with it. We focused on the grammar aspect of it, rather than the sentence structure, evidence, source integration, etc. I never actually liked revision […]

What reasons-evidence, data, or examples-do you offer to support your “I say”?           Throughout my essay on joy, I tend to try to tie not only my ideas but the sources to my real life. My ideas are a part of my “I say” but aren’t quite as […]

     As for our worship shaping our minds, it relates to his other main point of two different meanings to the same experience. “A person’s most basic orientation toward the world, and the meaning of his experience were somehow hard-wired” (Wallace 2). Our beliefs and ideals […]

Responding to an empathetic situation however, is much more complicated as there are many different routes you can take. “Empathy is a spotlight with a narrow focus” (Bloom 2). In Bloom’s statement, I had taken this as we only empathize with the things we choose […]

What if I told you the ability to read and write weren’t just skills, but instead are the foundation of how we think, grow, and communicate our opinions? Going into college, I was led by the misconception that writing was merely just a response to […]