Online Class

Today, we had to sign in to our Moodle accounts to submit our All About Me essay. I actually turned it in a couple of days before the due date. For me, my computer didn't show a "browse" button. I just clicked on whatever was there and still uploaded it. I'm not sure if that was OK or not, but I hope I'll still get a grade for it. Have a great week everyone and see you all next week Wednesday!

Online class

I hope I understood what to do for the online class. I just posted on Moodle and replied to some people. I hope that every one did their essay too. It took me awhile, but I think I made a pretty decent essay. Have a good weekend everyone!

First Online Session

Hello Everyone!

Today is our first online session class and also our "All about me" essay is due before midnight today. For me this is a new experience so I am kinda glad that we get to have this opportunity.

Have a great weekend everyone and see all of you on Wednesday! :)

Finally done!

Finally finished with my all about me essay. All I need to do is proof read it then turn it in. It took me awhile to complete it, because I have been getting distracted with Facebook and Youtube. At least I am done now. Hopefully you all weren't like me. Now that I'm done, all i have to do is sign into moodle and discuss about the stage one strategies.

Finish your work!!

Hello everybody! Did all of you complete your All About Me essay? I hope so. I turned mine in yesterday. And don't forget to post comments both in our blog and moodle room. Looking forward to learning more in our English class!

Have good weekend!

Online Wednesday~ ^^

The very first ONLINE MOODLE SESSION! Yay! It is kind of odd for me, have not done this before, but i can get the hang of this! A new experience would not hurt just a little bit. I got everything pretty much set to go for what is due today. I turned in the essay a day ahead, although i have a little buggy feeling that i wrote it differently. Hopefully it is still on the right page of the topic and that is still good! :)

Hope you guys are not having a little trouble writing the essay! :)
See yeah next class!... on Wednesday!:)

blogger

hey guys:)
Its our first online class today. personally, I like it. I ennjoy going home atfer my class before this. It gives me more time to relax and do other stuff. I really like this whole online class arrangement deal. I wish we can have more classes online like this.

All About Catherine Techaira!!!

I just wrote my essay, and i was trying to brainstorm ideas, but i had to wait and let them come to me. I thought the Big 6 questions, while i did my paper. Free writing really wasn't helping me, remember information. The library is so quiet, that it's hard to focus. My brain goes blank when i hear people snoring and coughing. I thought it would be easier to work on my paper, while listening to some music. thanks for reading.

Sincerely, Catherine T. Techaira

August 31, 2011

CHEERS! to NO class today! Or at least only going online!
I'm really loving this moodle room online session rather than having to go all the way up to UOG for class! Basically, all we had to do today was upload/turn in our "All About Me Essays" to Dr. Rivera in our EN-100 class moodle room before 12:00 midnight! And respond to her "Stage One Strategies" which we had already completed last week.
I'm really looking forward to just staying home and having class online on those particular dates scheduled for this!
See you all on Wednesday. Remember...NO CLASS MONDAY! It's Labor Day! Whoohoo :)

-Chelsea S.

Brainstorming / Cluster

Today we learned about two methods of brainstorming: the Big Six Questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why, How) and Listing. The other writing strategy is cluster - the double-bubble. These writing strategies enables the writer to focus on their topics and obtain major points to make for an interesting reading.

Regards
Margret Katsuren

8/29/2011

Today we discussed brainstorming in it's two basic forms: (1) asking and answering questions and (2) listing. Asking the 6 basic questions, who? what? when? where? why? and how? is an easy way to get started. Listing helps my simply listing words and phrases that relate to your subject. Clustering is a web-like way of brainstorming by using circles to relate to your main subject. Our activity for today was to answer the 6 basic questions about our freewriting topic from last class and to practice clustering.

Today in class we learned about brainstorming, listing, and clustering. Brainstorming consists of the big six questions. The big six questions are "Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?". You may not answer all of the question. Listing means that you list down word or phrases that pertain to your topic. Circling some topics means that you would focus on those topics. Clustering is bubbling your topics. A double-bubble means that it is your main topic. A dotted-bubble means that you will use those topics. I think brainstorming, listing, and clustering will be useful.

Brainstorming and Clustering are good, helpful ways to find things to write about on a main topic. Today we did a couple or exercises on them. We used our free writing exercise to complete the big 6 questions: Who?, What?, Where?, When?, Why?, How? Then after, we did the clustering exercise. In clustering, you'd respond to the question, "what comes to mind?" That is just what widens your thoughts and takes you in many different directions. In relation to your topic of course. Clustering was fun.

Brainstorming!

Today in class we went over brainstorming. Brainstorming is important to writing, it helps high light phrases and other specific subjects your topic is concerned about. The big six questions to write about your subject would be who? what? where?when?why?how This strategy is very efficient , it provides more ideas to focus on the topic. Other helpful strategies we went over are listing and clustering.

hello!

Today in class, we learned about brainstorming, clustering and gathering information. Brainstorming ideas will help you write your essay easy. you need to answer the six questions and this will help you get more information. Clustering is just like brainstorming but you're using bubbles to have more information and they can connect more than one bubbles. gather information from all your sources that you can find. this is like note taking. this are some ways that can help me write essays or text easily and more understanding.

zoya

Brainstorming

Today, we learned that when you brainstorm about a topic you should ask yourself these 6 questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? Asking yourself these questions can help you explore more about the topic you are writing about. There are one more way to explore or brainstorm about your topic and that is listing. In my experience asking myself those 6 questions helps me better in my writing than listing my ideas.

Coming Late and Clustering

Lately, I've been coming to class late. Each time I come to class late, I miss a part of the lesson we are learning. Each part of the lesson I miss, I tend to have a hard time understanding the rest of the lesson. In today's lesson, we learned about clustering, and I am confused about it. I'm confused about it because I came late to class. Hopefully I will be able to understand soon enough so I can get on track with the rest of class

It's Monday

Today's class we continued Chapter 2 going over, Brainstorming, the six questions you ask yourself when writing an essay, listing, clustering, and gathering information. These steps plays a whole role in writing. It lets you separate the little information of general topics of the paper, and give it a detailed understanding in what the topic is about. A good way to keep in track of what is written is following or answering the six questions. Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How? By going through each of these questions while writing the paper, it lets you see if the paper is on a right track. I found these six questions useful in creating a paper, without answering the questions the paper becomes something else. Overall, in writing a paper using any of these steps will leave you with a simple view what what to write or add about with your topic.


-Goldie

"The BrainStorming Session"

When Brainstorming, we usually don't think about the Big 6 questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? We try to brainstorm ideas and thoughts we have that can be useful.
We also learned listing, clustering, and how to gather information. The clustering was kind of hard for me, because there was not much for me to include. I like using the Big 6 questions, because in a way it helps to keep you on track without leaving any important information.
I think that people, who have never heard of the Big 6 Questions, are really good at including their information. This is going to be very useful when writing papers.

Sincerely, Catherine

8/25/2011

Freewriting is originated by Peter Elbow. Freewriting allows the writer to write without limit, writing whatever comes to mind. Today's activity was to freewrite about a topic listed in the book. The topic I chose was "ways of disciplining children." I wrote about how today, there are alternatives to discipling children with out using physical force.

Big six

Today in class we learned more about the stage one strategies. We covered freewriting and brainstorming. We learned about the big six questions: who? what? where? when? why? how? This helps by giving you more ideas and narrowing it down to the main topics. We also did exercises in relation to what we covered in the book. Every time i come to class i learn more and more helpful and effective ways to write.

Brainstorming and Clustering

Truthfully, I do not perform these actions because it seemed tedious to me. After picking up again, I noticed that it can be quite a wonderful tool to use. I'll be trying to incorporate these strategies into my writing. By doing so, I hope to do better in writing essays.

Dear Dr. Rivera and Classmates,

Today we finished up Chapter 2 The Writing Process: Stage One. We learned about brainstorming, clustering and gathering information. In brainstorming we use the big six questions- (who?what?where?when?why?how?). It is an effective way to start. When you answer those questions, you just let your mind run free and jot your answers. Clustering is a strategy to organize and develop ideas. Gathering information takes the form of reading with underlining, annotating, and note taking. We discussed extra credit. I think it will be a big help to my grade. Its good to take advantage of extra credit, you might need it later on!


Zianna Tajalle

listing

Listing is good way,the way can make me clear.let us know how to do best!Clustering is double bubble your topic-that is,write it down in the middle of the page and draw a double circle around it.Draw a single bubble around other ideas on spokes radiating from the hub that contains the topic.

Listing

Listing is a great way to brainstorm your ideas. Allow yourself to list any ideas that you may have regarding your topic. Afterwards, circle the ideas that you would like to use for your essay. Doing this strategy will help you narrow down your ideas and focus on your main points. However, if you do not have a specific topic, doing random listings may help you obtain a topic. When you are done listing, sort them into groups and you are on your way to creating your essay.

the big 6

Today in class we learned about brainstorming and listing. We also learned about the big 6 questions. Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? I think that these are important tools in writing. These tools can really help us improve our essay writing. I'm looking forward to learning more

Stage One strategies:continued

Today we talked about the big six questions (who, what, when, where, how, and why), clustering, and gathering information. I found them all very useful tools for writing an essay. We were also informed about the extra credit we could earn if we attend a conference November 5th. With 50 available points on the line, I accepted the offer. Despite the fees and the fact that it will take up the whole Saturday, I value the given opportunity.

August 29, 2011

Hey Everyone,
In today's lesson plan, we started off finishing the stage one strategies which were brainstorming, listing, clustering, and gathering information. Before brainstorming, we learned the big 6 questions that would help start narrowing the subject you're using which were who? what? when? where? why? and how? Listing is simply making a list of words and phrases related to your topic and that is another way to brainstorm on your topic. I enjoyed learning how to cluster. It's basically double- bubbling your topic and then bubbling and connecting ideas to that same topic, and following that, we completed an exercise of our own clustering with the topic we chose last class.
The readings and exercises today were fairly easy. They weren't difficult at all. GOOD CLASS SESSION :)

~ Chelsea S.

On our first class discussion, we talked about underlining, annotating and outlining. After the discussion, i found out that these are really important in helping a person study and understand the text being read. It is also a good source of information when reviewing your notes after reading. From now on I'll try doing it and I think I'll be able to understand most of what I read and not have to read again the second time. :)

*Sumch Chin

wednesday class

Hi :)

During class we discussed about stage one strategies like exploring, experimenting, and gathering informations. Brainstorming, freewriting, clustering, and gather information will help you write your essay in an organized way. This part of a writing will help you write whatever that comes into mind. Freewriting lets you write things that you want to write without worrying about the sentence structure, spelling and grammar errors. We also chose a topic and freewrite it.

Zoya

monday class

hello!

So on monday, we learned about underlining, annotating and outlining. Underlining the main idea will help you understand and concentrate on what you are going to talk about. Always figure out what to underline and dont underline the whole sentence. When annotating, you need to be able to write notes at the margins. This will help you understand the concept of your essay. When you are done underlining and annotating, you can start your outlining. Having an outline will help you see and know what the essay contains.

Techniques

So as many of you may know, reading in the college level is very rigorous and time consuming, well certain tips that Dr. Rivera mentioned could really help you read through a lot of material and be able to understand the important points. Certain techniques would be, underlining the main points or sentences that explain what the paragraph is truly about. Another is to annotate the paragraph. You should write notes on the side of the paragraph further explaining what it is about. I frequently use these techniques to help me understand and really remember what the text was about. This should really help you cut down on reading time. Use it :)

Imagine Greater:

Today I've learned that when we are freewriting, we don't have to worry about editing and revising our work. While writing, we allow our ideas to come crashing down on our paper like an avalanche. I think that freewriting enables us to dig deep into our thoughts and forget about the world around us. It is important to write continuously and not care about what others might think. For instance, you are given a topic, think about it, then you'll get the hang of freewriting. There are no limitations in this type of writing. Some people may write because they want to, or others may find that through this writing process, that you can best describe the way you're feeling. You probably won't realize it, but you might be exploring, experimenting, and gathering information without even knowing it. Today I chose the topic, "An event that was important to you in your youth." I took that one to the heart, and if someone was to tell me to let that go, I don't how I would react.

Sincerely, Catherine T. Techaira

Free Writing

In todays class we took it back to the first strategies in writing. One of those strategies is free writing. Free writing allows you to write flowing in any order. Also, it lets you explore other ideas that relate in the topic. Free writing lets you jot down the first thoughts that come to mind. It gives the writer a general way of how he or she would want to present the paper. I believe free writing is a great way to start writing. If I get stuck or do not know what to write, I free write my ideas and make smaller ideas to create a bigger picture.



- Goldie

AOU

Hey Guys! On the second day of class we went over the book for the first time! We reviewed on outlinging, annotating, and underling. How these steps gives a clear summary of what the essay is about. Also outlining may be used in setting up your paper. For example, giving your writing passage an over view what you will be mentioning later on. I know we all have done at one of these these things while reading a paper. In my experience I have only done one, which is outlinging. Hopefully in the end I get a hang of the other steps!



- Goldie

First try (Brainstorming)

Brainstorming is a great tool for us to find new ideas from our deep mind. However, not every is good with pull ideas from our heads. One of the best ways to do this is through brainstorming. It will open a diversity to the topic at hand and along you to come up with striking new ideas to better describe the subject. Brainstorming should be a tool that everyone utilizes from time to time, whether it be creating a new product or writing your term papers.

Class Today!

So today in class we went over the book and did a few exercises. We went through the three stages of writing, the first step is free writing. I find this writing procedure fun! To free write and explore ideas before writing a paper is easy, just let your brain run free with out editing any text what so ever. Enjoy your weekend people! See you all on Monday (:

August 24, 2011

Hey Everyone!
Well, today was a fairly easy lesson to comprehend! We started on Chapter 2 which was "The Writing Process: Stage One. Exploring/Experimenting/ Gathering Information. We began reading "Stage One Strategies" which are based on developing our ideas in writing. The first and only strategy that we talked and learned about today was freewriting. Freewriting is basically writing on your own. Jotting down all the thoughts and ideas that come to YOUR mind when you think of a topic, without stopping. Freewriting is to get you started on brainstorming, helps break through the emotional barrier, helps develops different and more ideas about your topic, and also helps open up the mind to greater thoughts about a topic. There is no such thing as a "mistake" in freewriting. According to the textbook, freewriting also eliminates the blank page. After reading that section of the textbook, we proceeded onto the first exercise which was to freewrite about any of the following topics that were given to us, and there were some volunteers who came forth and gave us some of their ideas about freewriting on that topic that they chose. Overall, today's class session was a pretty light lesson. I enjoyed it. OH! I almost forgot, we also learned how to work the moodle room for those of us who never used it before. That too was pretty easy to get. See you all Monday!

-Chelsea

Stage One Strategies

Today in our EN100 class, we've briefly went over the first strategy of writing which is Freewriting. This particular strategy will be helpful to any student as it will help them gather their ideas before writing an essay. Freewriting allows you to gather as much ideas as you can and writing them on paper. Forget grammatical errors, forget spelling errors, etc. None of those are important now. The key is to brainstorm wisely and use those ideas to create a well written essay.

Freewriting

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Today we started off class by taking a class photo. We took the photo by the staircase at the EC building. When we went back to class, we learned about freewriting. Freewriting means that you can whatever you want without stopping. You can write whatever comes to thought. In this type of writing you can put "blah, blah, blah" if you don't have anything to write or if your mind is blank. You can easily fill up half a page within 5 minutes. I think freewriting is really easy and fun. I'm going to use freewriting for the "all about me essay".

I love freewriting! It allows me to express myself by writing down what I think and feel about issues and stuff. It helps me clear my mind and it actually makes my head feel lighter. It is like writing in my journal, writing about random subjects. It was a good exercise and I hope we'll be able to do it again!

*Sumch Chin

Hafa Adai,

In today's lesson, in En 100, I've learned about the strategies on improving your writing skills. One of the strategies I thought that was important is free writing. Free Writing is important to me because it helps you get use to writing or typing out papers. Free Writing also helps build your imaginative thoughts. It will come in handy one day.

Matthew Arriola

Freewriting

Today's lesson about the stage one strategy, freewriting was a very informative and helpful way to start writing. It gives more ideas to start with and I find it kind of fun just jotting down words and ideas.

Today, we got to freewrite about any of the subjects listed in the book. I picked "ways of disciplining children". I wrote about how abusing your kids is never an option. Also, I listed several other ways that would be more acceptable such as verbal discipline. When it came to sharing what we wrote, no one wanted to share so I had to, as Dr. Rivera said, "save the day".

Hi Everyone,

Today we did some freewriting. This was particular easy and fun for reasons that you basically write your thoughts and what comes to mind first. No edits required in this form of writing. Other forms of writing strategies include brainstorming, clustering and basically gathering information, which are all, believe it or not - very much part of writing. So all those drafts, scratch papers used for writing, thoughts taken, that we usually discard and trash is actually a significant part of writing. Basically the beginning. Enjoyed today, hope you did to.

Regards,
Margret Katsuren

Freewriting

Today we learned the first stage of writing which is Freewriting. It is a way for us to explore, experiment, and gather information about our topic or what we want to write about. In freewriting we can write about anything that comes into our mind. We can write the "Blah" or any word when our mind is blank. I like freewriting because I don't have to worry about my punctuations, spelling or sentence structure. At first it may be messy or the ideas are all over the place, but when we get to the next stage of the writing process then it will be more organize.

Freewriting

Today's lesson was very informative to me, especially freewriting. Experiencing how freewriting is like really interested me. The non-stop writing of words and not caring about punctuation really made me feel great. I enjoyed jotting down sentences onto the paper. From what I feel, this is a good way to vent.

Dear Dr. Rivera and My fellow classmates,

Today was a pretty good class session. First, we went over the moodle and blogging websites, so that everybody knows how to use it correctly. Then we read chapter 2, "The Writing Process." We discussed stage one strategies but we only covered the free-writing part. I think it is a really useful technique when writing a paper. It really makes you brainstorm. I find it really fun because you basically write whatever comes to your mind and if you are at lost of words you can just put "blah, blah, blah." I hope the rest of the chapter is fun!

Zianna Tajalle

*CLASS ACTIVITY*

We just competed a practice on free writing, which was a really great exercise in my perspective. It allows students to free flow on their ideas and afterwards edit what they have written. These methods provide a chance for the student to re-read their work and turn in a quality production. Today I chose to write about "Ways of Disciplining Children", through my free writing exercise I not only was able to write freely about anything that comes to mind, but also realize that I love and highly respect certain laws, and one i feel strongly about is that of child abuse. :)

Freshman

Hafa Adai,
As you all know, I am a freshman in the University of Guam. Everything I see and do is a new experience for me because I never went to a college. Everything for in college life is hard because I'm still new to the college system. Hopefully I will get used to it soon and take the stress off me. Right now I am taking this class called EN 100. I thought this class would be hard because of all the new information I will be taking in, and I thought the teacher would be up tight and strict because that's what I thought of every teacher that teaches in a University.
Now, after a week of going to college, I was wrong about the teachers being up tight and strict, but the classes are still hard. In EN 100, I hope to expand my knowledge of whatever it is we are learning in this course.

Matthew Arriola

blog

hey whats up classmates,
Honestly, this is my first time blogging. I'm not even sure if i'm doing it right.
Well, my first day of class was on monday and it wasnt that good because it was raining and i got
late. We learned about summary. I think we did chapter 1. It was hard for me because i didn't have a book. Luckily, my classmate near me shared his book. I think I need to get myself a book.
I am really looking forward to the rest of this school year



- Jared Andrada

Hey Everyone,

On our Monday class we learned about reading techniques, which are underlining, annotating, outlining, and taking notes. Afterwards we did an exercise on it and it was somewhat easy. We even learned about reading-based writing forms, which are summary, reaction, and two-part response. Then we did another exercise on the 9 rules of summary and it was kind of difficult. I thought I was going to be the only one that didn't understand it, but to find out when we were discussing it, almost the whole class was having trouble with it. We should start following these techniques and forms to become better readers and writers.

I'm looking forward to learning and gaining so many things in this class.

Thanks for reading...

Sincerely,

Zianna Tajalle

Hafa Adai Fellow Classmates,

My first day of class was yesterday evening, so I was a bit scatter brain and had to catch up pretty quick.

Learning about the structure, techniques and style of reading-based writing was very interesting for me. There are several forms that were addressed in Chapter 1 that speaks to underlining, annotating, outlining and taking notes. The second part covered summary, reaction and two-part response. It went on further and identified the significance on how each reading technique and writing forms would help us improve to be better readers and writers.

I really enjoyed first day, so thank you for that.

Regards,

Margret Katsuren

Learning how to blog

Greetings En100 fellow peers,

Let me be honest with all of you, I have no experience in blogging.

My auntie has talked about it, for quite sometime now. I told her that I won't need to learn how to, but look

now, i have to learn it on my own. Please bear with me, it's hard enough for me to sign in. Sorry, I'm going

off track. Yesterday's session has changed the way I look at English.I used to think that it was sophisticated,

but I realized that it takes time to understand things. We learned how to figure out the mistakes in the passages

that we've read together. My favorite part was when we reviewed the answers, and we each had a chance to

say our results.

Sincerely, Catherine T. Techaira

Hey Everyone!

Yesterday in EN 100, we learned several techniques for reading. First, we learned how to use underlining to engage in your readings. It helps you distinguish the important ideas and the unimportant ones. Second, we learned how to annotate, to take noes in the margins, or to record your understanding. The third and last thing we learned was how to outline. It helps you see the relationship of ideas and relative importance in your readings. After, we did a couple of exercises that were pretty easy. I feel like i can be a better reader now. We all should use these techniques when reading to get a better understanding of the passage.

Thanks,

Tiffany

Wow. This is my first time blogging!

Today in our EN100 class, we've covered the section Reading for Writing. Doing these exercises has definitely improved my knowledge for writing and gave me great reading techniques. The various techniques I learned today are Underlining, Annotating and Outlining. Underlining is a basic strategy where you underline important statements in the paragraph, key words, or any questions you may have. Annotating on the other hand, is writing any of your ideas on the margin. Lastly, outlining is a technique where you place your ideas in terms of sequence, relative importance and independence.

I look forward to learning more in Dr. Rivera's class.

-Junho "James" Duenas

It's been a while.

I believe that it has been about 2 years since I last blogged on blogger. I am having a hard time thinking about what to write on this blog.

Well anyways, today we learned about text-based writing. It taught us the fundamentals of underlining, annotating, and outlining. We also did a exercise on them. That exercise was really quite easy. Next, it talked writing a summary and the rules you will need for an effective summary. For exercise 2, I really wasn't sure on how to do it. I needed a little more clarification on it. Writing a reaction is another kind of text-based writing that we learned. It is basically your own experiences on the writer's topic. Last, was the two-part response, it consisted a summary and a reaction. The summary comes first when you write the two-part response. It is then followed by the reaction. I am hoping to gain more knowledge on text-based writing.

Thank you for reading my blog.

Summarizing

I think that almost everyone have summarized an article or two in their high school life, whether its for a current event or just for note taking. Some just pull out random sentences in the article to have at least three to five sentences to make a paragraph for a summary. But even in summarizing an article or text you still have to remember that there are rules. And today in class we learned that there are 9 rules to follow when writing a summary and that when you follow these it can help you write a more effective and well written summaries in the future.

August 22, 2011

Dear Dr. Rivera and my fellow classmates,
Today, we started reading Chapter 1, "Reading for Thinking, Discussion, and Writing." In this segments that we were able to cover in today's lesson basically taught us the techniques of reading paragraphs. Some of those techniques were underlining, which is mainly pointing out the main ideas in paragraphs, along with the support. Annotating, which is writing notes in the margins that represents intense involvement and shows that the brain is building its muscles, according to Dr. Rivera. Outlining, which is reducing a paragraph into simple parts so that at a glance, it's easy to see the relationship of ideas. And taking notes, which helps you refer back directly to what you just read. After this part of the lesson, we completed exercise 1 and it seemed pretty easy. We also learned the reading-based writing forms such as writing a summary to paragraphs, evaluating a summary, writing a reaction, and writing a two-part response. Then, we completed exercise 2 which was evaluating a summary, and I must agree with Jhorge that it was a bit difficult to match the 9 rules to the sentences that were shown in the passage, within the time frame that was given to us, I even got some sentences mixed up and matched with the wrong numbers. All in all, today was a good class session and it helped refresh my memory of how to construct paragraphs and such. I'm looking forward to the next lessons and class session.

Sincerely,
Chelsea Sablan

Flaming; It's all the rage nowadays.

In class, we read Chapter 1 of our textbook and came across a word called "Flaming". In my own words, "flaming" would best be described as outputting emotions through text. For example, for anything on the internet that is casual (social networking sites, blogs, and internet messaging) or through texting, "flaming" is a part of the daily social life for teenagers and some young adults. A lot of us would like to get our feelings across, so "flaming" is one way to do so. With all capital letters, you can determine from the message whether the person is surprised, furious or excited. Professionally, we should not use "flaming" for it is inappropriate to address someone that way. Thanks to Chapter 1, we should all keep in mind not to do this to people of higher authority.

Reading for Writing: Monday August 22

Dear Ms. Rivera,

Today, we discussed chapter one, "Reading for Writing". We talked about several tips on how to take quality notes such as underlining, highlighting, annotations, and looking for key points in each paragraph. We also completed a couple of exercises pertaining to the subject matter. Personally, I found the first exercise easy but was a little baffled on the next. I wasn't able to comprehend the meaning of the 9 steps within the given time frame and apply them to the exercise. Overall, the session was informative and I gained valuable tools for taking notes.

Sincerely,

Jhorge Gonzales