Final Project Idea

For my final project about my argument essay, I have decided that I will do a magazine ad or a brochure for my argument. There is a lot information about my topic and I would have to put a lot in to get my point across to people. Like seen in magazines, some ads have both an ad and an a brochure to further convey their argument, which I think is a very good idea.
Furthermore, the ideas that I was given about my final project was giving my argument on four squares to tell all sides and using big bold letters and colors that would attract which either side that people are on about this issue.
Finally, for my ad, one of my ideas is to do bold colors that would capture all my audiences attention about the way I feel about the topic and see how and get my point across. Another idea that I have is showing quotes of TCU students who have been complaining about 24 hour visitation, whether wanting it to change or not, surrounded around a school with rules of their visitation rules and regulations that are stricter than TCU's. I think that this idea would also show students, whichever side that they are on, that TCU always put the students feelings first and have done a lot to make them happy on campus. I believe that this will be a very effective idea because I telling all sides of what people debate about in this topic and then I am also getting my point across as well.

Argument Topic

My topic for the essay four will be about 24 hour visitation in the women's dorms at TCU. This debate from what I have observed has gotten very heated in the past couple of months and it is issue that really needs to be solved. When I write my essay, I will argue why it is good to have 24 hour visitation in the women's dorms and why it is not because frankly both sides give a compelling story. I plan getting my information for my essay through meetings held, surveys, RA's, students and Hall directors here at TCU and also give background information about the whole situation. I hope that you will enjoy my essaytopic because I believe that this a good argument to write about to see why students at TCU are on different sides and finally get the chance to back up what they believe in.

March 5 Prompt

For my enthnographic paper, the topic that I am thinking about writing is about the our dance team, the TCU Showgirls. I really love dance and means so much to me in so many ways, I would like to get a deeper look on how the showgirls are as a team and how they interact with each other. The Showgirls do so many performances for the school. Questions I want to ask them are what is like during practices or competitions and how are the relationships between you and your fellow dancers? I would like to also investigate during any practices or meetings they might have just to get the full picture of how they prepare for a performance and how it is like to travel to so many places. I hope this is a good in depth topic and I will learn so much from getting to know the showgirls more with their dedication and drive to dance in front of so many people in football stands and in basketball courts.

February 25 Prompt

In my research paper, the themes that kept reoccuring in were the statistics and stories that I have found that showed why cyberbulling made people lives change and also change for the people who are around them. For me, I thought that the themes I mentioned in my story was all over the place and I did not flow enough in my story as I thought I did. When I revise my essay, I think I should focus more developing more sense of my story that those who read will understand why I chose the topic and why it is so important that cyberbullying is stopped.
The themes I have mentioned the story are fit with my topic they just need to flow more so that the paper makes more sense to the reader and also to me. I do need to make more connections with the information about cyberbullying to the stories that I have researched as well. The way the paper is worded I started off with information then worked my up to experiences that happened to other people and then finally how it has affected me. I believe I have good concepts, I just need to develop more information for the experiences I give that they will be more clear. I did not see any repitition in the paper but just a lot of confusing sentences and paragraphs that need to be reworded.
To make my paper a better one, I need to break down my sections more clearly and give more ideas, information and life to the paper so that it is more interesting for readers to read.

Prompt for February 15 Cont'd....

Advice I would give to my classmates about seaching through this process is to have your keywords already in your mind ready to type so you will know which ones work and which ones do not give you results. Also, I would say pick a topic that you know will give you the results you want for your paper. For me, I think the way I typed in the key words made me not find the results I wanted. If I don't find the right sources then I might need to change my topic as well.
This whole process was easy but hard at the same time. I had to really think out which articles would help my paper be a great explanation of what point I want to get across. I definitely recommend this searching process for future projects because it was very useful doing the search from the comforts of my dorm room than walking in the cold wind to the library that is all the way across the street.

Prompt for February 15

Searching for the sources for my iPaper, was a really thorough and interesting process. I had to change the way worded my searches in the on the TCU Library resources three different times. After I got the right wording, I found more articles that I believe will be beneficial to my paper.

Prompt for February 13

For my iPaper, I will be researching to dangers of online bullying, sexual solicitation, and harrassment, and how it can effect the people involved. Many fights and sexual harrassment cases that are happening now in schools and other places have started mostly with what was said on someone's MySpace or Facebook. When I watch the news sometimes, I cannot get away from the daily topics of people involved in fights, put in the hospital or jail, or even killed becasue of something that happened on the online profiles. Words are worth a thousand words and I going to find out more about this issue and also how it has effected me in school as well.
The question I will be asking is "How what is said on online profiles can effect the lives of people and those who are involved and what can be done to stop it?". You always hear about the stories about teachers or students or other individuals who have been effected badly by this sweeping addiction of profiles and blogs but you never really hear about how it could have been prevented.
When I write this paper, I would to learn about online profiles, and how we can prevent online bullying and assults once and for all. Also, I want to research more cases that involve this issue and how it effected its victims.
This topic matters so much to me because it has effected many people I know and I am so glad that bounced back from the problems that they were faced with because it could have led to something even worse. Me writing this paper is chance to show that online bullying is a real issue and it needs to be stopped because it could happen at any time, in any place to anyone.
I hope when I get started on this iPaper you will be enjoying revising as well as reading it.

Essay Workshop 01/01/2008

First of all, I want to start out and say thank you to the those who read my essay and gave the comments during the workshop in class friday. What you wrote was very helpful to me. One of the people who read my paper said they would like me to go more in depth about details I have in the writing like describing the main points that I mention. I believe that that is very helpful advice and will let me be more freer in my writing because I did not know if I should push myself farther.
I will definitely add more detail to the paper so that whoever reads it gets a better understanding of it. Finally, the key points that I wanted the reader to get out of the story, they found it. I wanted them to know why this story was meaningful to me and why I love to tell people about because it is so close to my heart.
I can't wait to see everyone in class soon and I hope you have a good weekend and a great Monday.

My topic for the Personal Essay is....

I have come to the conclusion that my topic will be about the time my friend gave me a charm bracelet as a gift. The day she gave me that bracelet is a day I will always remember because what she said to me about why she wanted me to have it always will make me smile and I also love talking about how I received it.
When I start writing this essay, the questions that I want answered is why I this memory I have always comes up in my mind and also why it makes me feel better about myself and being helpful to others. I cannot wait to start writing this essay and also learning more about myself as a writer.

Artifacts

Writing is so simple and easy to do. It is not something that you really think about until you break down and see how writing is so important in our everyday lives.
Doing the artifacts assignment for class, I saw how much writing I did for just one day and also how many different types of roles I play. Also, looking at some of my artifacts that I brought to class, the way I wrote down some things were different.
One example of this, were the notes I left for myself as reminders for things that were coming up. "4 E.H, read CH. 19 and STUDY FOR QUIZ!!", E.H stands for European History and how I need to read a chapter in the book and study for an upcoming quiz. If someone looked at that note for the first time I think that only thing they would have understood was I need to study for a quiz. Little mental notes like these are always burned in my memory and help me so that I won't get swamped with a lot of homework. All my notes are color-coated and are used for things from classes to meetings with committees. If I did not keep notes like these, I don't know what I would do. Writing notes like these show how my role as a student is important to me and keeping everything together will help me keep my grades up and be a student who is focused.
Another example is my the resume I completed for the OSA and Frog Camp Facilitator applications. Since these positions are hard-working and professional I knew my resume had to be too. On it , it has my name, home address and phone number, and also my e-mail so that they could contact me. I wrote down what schools I attended and where I am going to school now, what activities I was in during my high school career, awards I have received, work and volunteer experiences and also references and recommendations. It was a lot of work but in the end, the way it was layed out and put together it showed the side of me that is very professional when I know something I am writing down will be critiqued by people who are trying to decide if I will be good employee and very dedicated toward whatever I do.
Finally, I believe that texting to my family and friends is the one artifact that shows how I am as a person. When I text, I am very goofy and so open to those who I know. "O, mi GOD, mi dae wuz soo long n borin', I wish u wuz here gurl so we can go out n hav fun 2nite." When I text I don't spell the words out or correctly and I just express myself to my loved because I know they will listen. I wrote that text to my cousin who going to college up in Lubbock and I miss her so much. When we do get in contact with each other, we literally text for two hours and then actually talk on the phone twice as long.
Putting together some of those artifacts made me see how writing helps me express how feel, show how I am as a person and also how determined and studious I can be. Writing can be interpreted in many different ways and all those ways can affect us different ways in our lives.

January 18 Prompt

I believe that can learn to write because it is not just about putting things on paper, writing like you see in everday life can tell stories, inspire someone you know and also inspire you in many ways. Believing in yourself will always help you in whatever you do in the future.
In Chapter one of our book it there was one place that really made me think about how I was writing. That part was when the author said "don't use common sense" and just write what you know kind of took me by surprise. I have never heard anyone tell me that before and it was also the truth. Stressing about what you are going to write makes writing not fun letting go and just being yourself makes the process more exciting. For me, using webs, diaphragms, and pros and cons just made writing more confusing to me and also really boring. I am very interested about how my writing will turn once I get more in depth of what the book teaches and how it is different from what I learn for most of my life.
In my opinion, I believe writing can be a long drawn out process for most people because we don't see how important things are once we put it on paper. On the other hand, what we believe in and speak passionately about was what we rely on to make a point, but really writing can also make a point too we just have to find the one issue we believe we want to be voiced out.
Writing seems like the most simplest routine we do in our daily lives but really it is a connection we have in ourselves, friends, family anything else that shows that are heard and even maybe giving the point we try so hard to make.

All About Me!!

Hello Ms. Patrick and my fellow classmantes!
My is Amber Harris and I am a freshman at TCU. My majoring in Musical Theatre and minoring in journalism. I am very excited about doing the writing assignments for class and also getting to know the other students. I am planning to be a more confident and strong writer and not be afraid to put my thoughts on paper. Writing in my life now I just write down the necessities what needs to be done in my daily life like in planner or on post-its and calendars so that I will not forget what I need to do or what is going on next week and such which makes me happy about being punctual and being on top of things that I need to get done.
If could write all the time I would write about the memories I have in my life that I cherish like families, friends and life and how much that means and how maybe that can mean to other people. I believe that my favorite pieces writing are always editorials in magazines and any kind of writing that is in a magazine cause besides my favorite books I read those most of the time. I really do not dislike any type of writing because it comes from the mind of the author and what the author writes is as important as whatever we write which has meaning as well.
I absolutely love writing short stories because in a way it gives you freedom as writer and you can use your imagination and not hold back whatever is in your mind and making up a whole new world is the most fun to me. I believe everyone around me, that goes for who I know who I don't know contribute to what I put in to my writing because in a way we are all characters waiting to be put in a story because we are all unique in our own way.
When I do write a paper the only strategy I really use is to write like your telling a story to a friend but in a professional way and not just writing words on paper. I learned that strategy my sophomore year when I was on the newspaper staff and I have used that one strategy ever since because none of the others like brainstorming and pros and cons haven't really helped as much.
I love write about people because so many ideas come out one person by just getting know and how interesting that person is how much that have will change your life after meeting them.
I believe writing can become diffucult when you have to follow a standard or just write about facts which really makes it hard for becasue I don't know if I am writing the facts down write to where my paper is meaning and understandable, everything else to me is easy to write about because I get that freedom to be me.
Writing will always be important to me becauseI use it to remember so many different things and also to put down my thoughts and ideas which become really useful to me in the future.
As a writer I would love to bring my imagination and ideas when I write about serious issues because I can't really put two together and then my writing isn't at its full potential. My strengths are being creative and loving to write something I am passionate about but weakness is not bringing those strenghts to something I am not really interested in writing in.
If I do come up a subject I am not interested, I hope the techniques that I will learn in this course will help me put my negative thoughts aside and write a very positive and amazing story.
I agree to all the terms that were mentioned in the syllabus and I can't wait to start writing stories this semester.