Category: Homework

End of Semester Writing Day 2

Throughout this semester, we learned a lot of different habits in writing, including revision, prewriting, drafting, and editing each essay we wrote. We use prewriting as a beginning for writing an essay so we can get a head start on what we would be writing about. Drafting is writing a rough draft to your essay to get a gist of what you are writing about. We use the rough draft…

End of Semester Writing

Throughout my first semester of college, I learned many different skills in writing that I had no idea existed. High school taught me the main writing techniques, including how to add a quote into an essay. But, in college, I realized that there is a lot more to learn than just writing, you learn how to read articles and how to annotate them correctly. Some procedures and concepts I learned…

Case Study Part 3

I always wonder why we decide to make bad judgments, even if we are not realizing it. I made a bad judgment thinking I’ll be okay to go to a concert by myself in Boston. If you have strict parents, how could thinking about going to a concert alone be good judgment? I had a cognitive fallacy, which is what Kahneman explains. The cognitive fallacy I had was the exaggerated…

Case Study Part 2

There is an article that explains why we make bad judgments. This article is by Daniel Kahneman. He talks about the ways people make bad judgments and why they make bad judgments. Why do people make bad judgments? Do they think they’re confident enough to know if they’re making a good judgment? What goes through someone’s head when they are making a judgment on someone? In the article, Kahneman explains…

Paraphrase of passage 1

Though, people may believe your confidence can make a good judgement, your confidence my not always be true. Having confidence is something you feel could be correct and you think you know you’re right, but, your confidence in judgement could be completely wrong. It is more likely for you to believe that it’s true because that is what you believe. Confidence isn’t a reliable source when it comes to making…

Case Study Part 1

It was mid-October of 2018. I was staring at the screen wondering if I should get this ticket to Lovelytheband. Lovelytheband is an alternative band including 3 members. They make some pop music as well as pop-rock music. While I stared at my phone screen, I thought about my consequences if I were to get this ticket. I had a sense that either it would lead somewhere bad or somewhere…

Interesting Chapters

For a test, many students put off studying to the last minute or sometimes study for the test but remember none of the materials. Sandra Yancy McGuire’s students had some of the same problems. One problem was studying and reading for a test but not remembering anything for the test. There are strategies that can help you including Previewing, preparing for active reading, paraphrasing, actively reading, using a textbook even…

My Journey and Why Don’t All Students Already Know How to Learn? Questions

My Journey: I can relate to the author’s experience because, throughout high school, I never studied for a test until the night before thinking it would make it easier for me to pass when in reality, it made it a lot harder. I do believe that your current academic performance is related to your ability to the amount of effort you put into your courses because the more effort you…

Career Readiness

Between my list and the University of Michigan’s list of career readiness, I’ve realized that their definition is pretty different from mine. In my list, I wrote about how employers want you to have good social skills and is able to fill out an application and they’re able to get their work done quickly and make it neat. The University of Michigan wrote about how employers want college graduates that…

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