Final Presentation

Hello Everyone,
      I made a Glog of my final presentation. I hope you enjoy it. I enjoyed the class everyone did an awesome job. Thank to everyone who commented on my page and who let me comment on there work. Hope you all have a great rest of the summer and good luck. Here is the URL to my Glogster page.
http://se41888.glogster.com/shelly-eng-102/

*If you like what I did for my presentation here is the link Glogster: http://www.glogster.com/

http://www.tayfm.co.uk/near-you/schools-out-for-summer/

blog post # 7

1. What skills have you learned in this class and how might you apply them to writing in your career or future college courses?

This class was very interesting and very informative to me. For one I had only done a few other online classes. But I have never been in a class where I had to have a blog page. By having the blog page really helped me be more computer oriented because before this class all that I ever did on the computer was pretty much homework related things. Oh ya and I would use goggle map often. So let’s just say I do not use my computer very often. After this class I will probably go back to my old ways but it is nice to say that I am able to set up a blog page. LOL!

2. How have the readings in the class affected you?

            Before I had signed up for this English class I have never had any interest in reading. Ya I read something’s here in there when I had to for school but I never read a book…Honestly Speaking. I feel as if I would rather be outside being active than sitting down reading a book, but that it just me. When I tell people that I have never read a book have the time they do not believe me and the other half of the time they say” you just haven’t found a good book or the right book.”When I started reading “The things They Carried” I really got into the book. Maybe because I like history and there was a lot of history in the book or simply I just thought that it was a good book. I hear people say all the time when I read a book that I like I have a hard time putting it down well I guess that I can agree with them now. Because when I was reading I noticed that I wanted to just keep reading onto the next story. It was kind of a joy to read something that was interesting to me.

3. How have you met the learning outcomes for the class (which can be found on the syllabus)?

I feel that the biggest and hardest learning outcome that I can relate to is number 10 Interpret and Analyze. Writing does not come easy for me so when I write I have a habit that most people do which is, I summarize more than analyze. I probably have to work harder at this than most people. I have to really take my time and reread and rewrite my papers a lot more than I would have before I was in this class. By writing this way really makes me think of what I will be writing about and makes me be very cautious on what I am writing on and how I write it. For instance I really have to work hard and not put my personal opinion or summarize in my papers.

4. How has your writing or your writing process changed?

I feel that my writing style has changed dramatically. If I am not careful though I notice some of my bad habits come back into my papers. So I have to really pay attention and proof read often. I have never had to analysis when I am writing let alone I had never really known what that was.  But after this class I have a good interpretation of what analysis really is.

5. What were your challenges in the class?  How were you able to overcome them?

The biggest challenge that I had in this English 102 class was the writing portion. I had a hard time with having to analyze and not summarize. Summarizing was easy for me. But because we had had a few assignment that we had to do strictly on analysis I feel that I am better at writing than I was when I had first started. Slowly but surely I am defiantly getting better at writing.

Blogg post # 6

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Ref # 1

   The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 305. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2011. p248-322. Inside this Volume  |  Inside this Entry COPYRIGHT 2011 Gale, Cengage Learning

Source Citation:

"The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W.

            

         Hunter. Vol. 305. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2011. 280-281 & 318-319 Literature

   

         Criticism Online. Gale. Yavapai College. 5 July 2011. Gale Document Number:

           

          FJ2367150005

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitCrit/yava/FJ2367150005

My findings of this article was through the Literature Criticism Online (LCO) from our library tab on the blackboard page. By choosing this article I will be to use some of the information to write my final paper for our English 102 class. This article talks about the book “The Things They Carried” as well as with the author, Tim O’Brien as well other stories that were in the same book. I am hoping to incorporate some of this information throughout my paper.

Ref # 2

Caught in the Draft: The Effects of Vietnam Draft Lottery Status on Political Attitudes ERIKSON, ROBERT S; STOKER, LAURA. The American Political Science Review 105. 2  (May 2011): 221-237. ...outcomes were randomly assigned, Vietnam draft lottery status has been exploited...Our analysis of how the 1969 Vietnam draft lottery reoriented the political...Have It: The Effect of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on Long-term Career Outcomes

Works Cited

ERIKSON, ROBERT S., and LAURA STOKER. "Caught in the Draft: The Effects of Vietnam 

            Draft Lottery Status on Political Attitudes." The American Political Science Review 

            105.2 (2011): 221,221-237. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 5 July 2011. 

The tab ProQuest Research Library under the library tab has also provided me with some good information. In this particular article I was able to find some information about the Vietnam War, the military draft, as well as what the process of the military draft was about It has a lot of information about the political attitude that was going on during this time. . I have found that this article is very informative and would be a good source for my final paper. I am glad that I was able to come across this article.

Ref #3

1. An Interview with Tim O'Brien An Interview with Tim O'Brien  Martin Naparsteck, Tim O'BrienContemporary Literature, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 1-11Page Scan PDF Summary

Citation:

 An Interview with Tim O'Brien.  Martin Naparsteck and Tim O'Brien Contemporary Literature

Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 1-11 Published by: University of Wisconsin Press 

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1208335

By choosing the tab Language and Literature (JSTOR)which was also under the library tab on black board I was able to find another article. This article is a little different than my others because it is an interview with Tim O’Brien. In the interview he talks about himself and his writing it talks about how he is one of the best Vietnam Veterans who has written about his personal experience with the war. Which, I did not know that the book “The Things They Carried” was his most recent book.

Ref #4

Tim O’Brien (1946-).Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena Krstovic. Vol. 123. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009. p82-190. Inside this Volume  |  Inside this Entry  |  Titles Discussed COPYRIGHT 2009 Gale, Cengage Learning

Source Citation:

  

"Tim O’Brien (1946-)." Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena Krstovic. Vol. 123. Detroit: Gale, 

            Cengage Learning, 2009. 82-190. Literature Criticism Online. Gale. Yavapai College. 5 

            July 2011 Gale Document Number: FJ1584150003

            <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitCrit/yava/FJ1584150003>

     My last source was found again in Literature Criticism Online (LCO). This source was helpful to me because it talks a little bit more into detail about Tim O’Brien’s life. This will be helpful because it allows me to do some light reading about him. I am hoping that after knowing more about him that it will help me with my idea of my last paper. Also I feel that I might be able to use quotes from the article because it does into detail about his life and some of his accomplishments. 

Here is a link to all of my tabs that I used for my sources:  http://www.yc.edu/webtools/apps/library/subview.asp?sid=21