Writing 150

This semester I have learned a lot. I learned what college is like and what BYU is like. Everything this semester is new for me and it is probably the same for many. It is the first time I have been away from my parents and what it is like to live by yourself away from home.

                In writing 150 this semester I have learned many new things. I have learned what a rhetorical analysis is. I learned new tools of writing and many big words like proteclepsis (I forget how to spell it) and what logical appeal and emotional appeal in writing was. I learned how to be yourself in your writing and add voice to your writing. Well writing the research paper I learned a lot about the BCS football system well researching that information about the BCS.I learned how to cite different research that I used with different authors. Also in this class I learned about the writing center and how you can take your paper to the writing center for help. I also learned that you should you use your peers for help and peer reviews are very helpful. That there are many things you can learn from others about your writing.

                I still need to work on my writing. I feel that sometimes I get very repetitive in my writing. I need to work on rereading my work. Well taking the pretest and posttest I learned that there are a lot of things that I do not know about in my writing that I didn’t know that I need to learn and work on. I also need to work on putting my papers in the right format whether it’s MLA or a different format. This is what I learned this semester and what I still need to work on.

The State of the American Dream

On the Diane Rehm show I  decided to listen to a political one that was called the State of the American Dream. It was about how America has changed and the American Dream is not what it used to be. They were remembering the times when Americans who got a good education and worked hard could make it. Now a days they say even with those things you can't always make it. They say the government is not doing there part in America in order to keep the American dream. Now a days two people in a house hold have to work in order to make a good enough living to support your family and live with some luxuries. The radio talk show is bascially how the American Dream has changed and it not what it was 50 years ago and how the government is doing nothing to help the situation.

My favorite Movie

My favorite movie is Pursuit of Happiness because it shows that anyone can make it in life. That through hard work and motivation anyone can work hard enough anyone can have happiness. The movie is very sad and happy at the same time. In provides me with motivation because I do not want to be homeless and have his situation. I want to work as hard as I can so I can be happy and live a good life with no financial worries. I love the Pursuit of Happiness though because it is a sad but happy movie in the end and Will Smith is a pretty sweet actor.

How my Writing is going?

My writing on my research paper so far is going okay. I like the subject I chose and it interest me a lot, so this makes it easier for me to write about. When researching though it is hard to find sources that are meaningful, because most resources are newspapers and things like that. I am doing well though and its moving along. I know how and what my paper is going to look like now I just have to do the work.

Pros and cons

The topic I chose to do is The debate on whether the BCS should be replaced with a playoff system. The pros to that is it would be more exciting to watch and small schools not in a BCS conference would have a chance for a national championship. A con would be that the school might have to play an extra month of football during college student finals. There are many pros and cons but you could combine BCS and playoff system and still have bowl games as playoff games like basketball has a tournament. They could use The BCS and choose The top 8 teams to do a playoff. This would make college football bigger then the superbowl.

Rhetorical Analysis

When writing my rhetorical analysis it was hard to find a paper I wanted to write on. It was a challenging paper for me to write, because I have never wrote this kind of paper before. When I went to the writing lab they talk to me about my paper and tried to teach me things. But I felt they didn't help that much because they didn't tell me what direction to go with in my paper or how to make it better. I hope I did well on the paper and I hope everyone else does too.

50 words

I didn't really know what to say in 50 words. So I guess I will talk about school. But I'm getting worn out of school. School is picking up and its hard to keep up. I just can't wait for Thanksgiving break because I'm worn out. I have taken test and didn't realize how hard BYU is. But life keeps going.