Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Research paper free write

Back in high school i remember i could never wait till the day i grew up and finally got to go to college. I always felt i was to mature for my age, and i was ready to grow up already, and move on to the next chapter in my life. Don't get me wrong i did love high school. I had some of the best times of my lives and made my best friends i still have. I was never the girl who played sports, but i was always involved in clubs. I did a lot of leaderships groups throughout my school. Then in senior year i took the best class of my life and it made me realize what i wanted to do for the rest of my life. I enrolled in med topics and experienced some of the most amazing things i had ever seen. After going to the hospital and it experiencing it for myself i knew this is what i wanted to do for the rest of my life. So once it was time to start looking for colleges, i wanted to find one of the best nursing schools close to home i could. I was accepted into UIC and ISU's nursing programs. I made my decision and packed up my bags and headed of to ISU. I would say going away to college was definitely a life changing experience. I loved being away and on my own, but i knew this wasn't really the school for me. So i returned home this and deiced to persue my school for nursing at Waubonsee. Currently school consumes all of my life. Classes such as anatomy and microbiology take up all of my time and i have never found myself studying so hard. However i try and look at the bright side and hope it will pay off in the end.
However i decided to write about pharmaceutical companies and how they are ripping us off. How is it fair that some companies such as Walmart and Meijer can charge only $5 for a prescription while these only drug companies are charging about 15X the cost. Why is it that some drug companies are doing so well in the stock market, could it be because we as consumers are being ripped off? If these drugs are really so expensive to make then why is Canada able to give them out to people for free? There are so many questions that seem to just slip right through the cracks.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Blog 4

No paper is ever perfect, and could be re wrote 100 times before the author feels its right. However this will be my hardest obstacle i will face in this class. As my grade shows my paper needs work, however it is very challenging for me to find more to say when i already wrote something once. Yes you can correct the basic grammatical errors, but i run into trouble adding more depth to my paper once i get around to the second or third revision.
As i said in an earlier blog i tend to have trouble using more interesting words or words that communicate my ideas clearly. This was an area i lost quite a few points for on my paper. So for my next time around i will try and find as many words that seem dull or even confusing and then select a more unique word choice in my next revision.
For my next revision i also need to find a logical order and follow it. However i sort of had trouble with this issue, while writing this paper because it didn't seem to need to follow any order. However I'm sure there is some rearranging that could be done to make this analysis flow better. Also i need to establish a clear audience and refrain from using the word "you". That is a word i cant seem to erase from my vocabulary. So for these next rewrites its all about clarity and establishing a main argument.

blog 3

I always thought i was the leader in the group, until it came to writing. While working on our informal summaries, i definitely was not the take charge person i normally am in most situations. This was most likely because, i could tell i was not the strongest writer of the group. So during the project i definitely offered my ideas and helped, but my first goal was not to take charge. I sat back a little more on this paper and tried to observe a little more, noticing that Liz had much better wording for a lot of my suggestions.
Normally I'm a huge fan of group work, because i love working with others and seeing what we can all put together. However sometimes in an English class i feel it is harder to work in groups, especially when working on certain writing assignments. This assignment worked out fine for our group, because we all worked well together. However in the end someone had to do way more work, and its hard because we all had diff rent views.

Blog 2

Writting has always had a love and hate relationship with me. I love the way writing frees your mind, and allows you to express yourself freely. However i have never been the most talented writer. I have always been the writer that can never start from the beginning and never finishes at the end. That's why writing essays such as the first one we wrote in class was challenging for me, because i cant just pick up the pen at start from the beginning. I love typing my papers so i can start where ever i like and add in as i go. If i could of changed something while writing my essay, i would of tried to make my points more purposeful.
As far as my strengths and weakness as a writer, there are many things i wish i could improve on. My writing tends to have a lot of grammatical errors. My papers also could use help making a stronger argument, i believe i always make the argument clear, but i wish i could find more ways to make my writing more exciting. However i do believe that i am good at transitioning and once i start writing my paper it normally just flows pretty well together. Overall i just need to work on better organization skills throughout my paper.