Upon submitting my plagiarism weekly response and checking the originality report, I noticed that all directly plagiarized information was immediately caught, both from the source I was analyzing and the one I randomly copied off the internet. The plagiarism checker did have a little harder time picking up the very slightly paraphrased text because it read more
My Writing is Like A Road Trip
November 1, 2016 – 10:21 am
All good road trips are a bit spontaneous, sparked from an idea that came out of nowhere. Nonetheless you run with the idea and get the itinerary in order so that the trip can finally begin. Likewise in my writing, most ideas for my writing are not formulated from deep brainstorming, but rather a spontaneous read more
The Race Card Project
October 24, 2016 – 9:32 pm
1/16 of an inch isn’t everything Racism is solely based on a tiny visual difference in the pigmentation of our skin. We as humans are essentially all the same past that 1/16 of an inch that is our skin; the same organs, veins, hearts, brains, etc. There is no reason that the color of a read more
Reflections
October 17, 2016 – 1:30 pm
Among all things, I believe my biggest fault, and my biggest area for improvement is my use of diction and sentence structure. From analyzing my reading and also the comments given to me from my professor, I often use vague and pretentious diction, which can be simplified by using a more simplistic vocabulary that says read more
Research Question
September 29, 2016 – 9:41 am
Moving forward with this topic and pushing to formulate a research question, this topic should be looked at in a way that brings about the conflict. Conflict in research questions aids in bringing about different types of perspectives that give a wide range of responses to the questions. With my research topic as the focal read more
Gerard Interview Quiz
September 26, 2016 – 3:41 pm
In regards to Philip Gerard’s interview where he explained his own discovery of a topic through writing about it, the topic I am choosing is the intersection between sports and protest. I am going to be looking a lot at the recent events involving Colin Kaepernick and other famous athletes that have decided to kneel read more
Letter Back Home
September 6, 2016 – 10:32 pm
Dear Devin, I’m stuck. I have to start deciding on a topic to create a research paper for and I don’t know where to begin. The paper needs to have exigence and I thought you could help me to sort through some ideas that I’ve been pondering for a while. You and I both know read more