Wk 12 - Writing changing dramatically

I think my writing has improved very well after I did my Generation Y paper. I was really impressed on how it got developed. I had very good supporting details and had a good peer response with my partner, Jennine. She thought I did a very good job wrapping the paper together and did only minor errors. I just had to include a little bit more info to get the reader a better aspect of the paper. I felt really confident while writing this paper because it was a popular topic I knew a lot about and was one that I was feeling good about writing. As I started prewriting for this GenY paper I was feeling great because as soon as I touched the keys on the laptop I kept going and going. That is never me because I freeze up while writing but like I said I wanted to do this topic and it made me wanna keep typing and typing. Once I wrapped all my details and examples into one paper, it was well-developed and the way I wanted it to be. I think I improved more by having an easier topic to write on then one that a teacher assigns. It’s going to be interesting doing the free-choice essay because I will be even more confident and expressing my feelings stronger by me choosing my own topic to write about. I know I did a lot better on this paper than my other ones. I hoping the conference with Stephanie go well because I wasn’t prepared with my other papers and this one I was very prepared for and I will be getting great feedback hopefully. After taking this class I have learned lots more than in my high school. My high school English was waste of time because I didn’t learn anything; I am extremely happy I got placed into this class and learned so much and looking forward to learning a ton more. It will also get me prepared for ENG 110 which seems a tad-bit harder because it’s longer writing and more elaborating topics. But to-this-day I am staying little more confident in my writing and wanting to improve each and every day.

WK 11 - Teen Pregnancies ( Generation Y)

Teen pregnancies are major issues in our generation. After these pregnancies movies came out, teenagers thinks it okay to have a baby. Well I disagree on this issue because these movies are showing how pregnancy is and their teaching young ones to have children. Teenagers think its okay to have babies at such a young age. They think their cute and adorable, but they don’t know the circumstances of taking care of one at their young of age.
Maury is a great show that shows how these young women want to have kids. They have sex all the time and make their own decisions and their decision is they are going to have that child any way, any how, without their parents saying yes or no! The movies that were very popular that showed pregnancies were Juno and Knocked Up. Juno was a movie about a girl that had a baby at a very young age and was deciding to adopt or not. Knocked Up was a movie about a woman that was partying and ended up drinking with a random guy and having a one-night-stand that very night and she ended up finding herself pregnant with a stranger. They did unprotected sex and weren’t prepared for having this child through the whole movie. They had to adapt to one another and decide to keep it or not.
While I was in high school, I took a parenting class and we got assigned a baby. I had a boy and we got to name it and dress it. The baby had different levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard. The hard level was absolutely ridiculous because I would get woken up at every hour and had to do its needs. It was a huge responsibility and took a lot of my time. The baby would drive me crazy because all it would do is cry. I had to feed it, change it, rock it, etc. This baby made me realize its way too much responsibility to take care of and decide to wait for kids when I get much older. I think all teenagers in high school should get the opportunity like I did and take care of a baby for 3 days.
Generation X didn’t get the opportunity to know how babies reacted like we got too. It was a different world back then for Generation X moms. The statistics for Generation Y teenage pregnancy is also far higher than average across the OECD. The UK has the fourth highest teenage pregnancy rate after Mexico, Turkey and the United States. In Britain, 23.4 teenage girls per 1,000 gave birth in 2005.
Teenagers need to realize it takes a lot of responsibility to take care of a baby and should wait till they get to a much more mature age and enjoy their life young without having a child in their younger years.

Wk 10 - Writing changed..

I have noticed that my writing has changed this semester. In High School, I couldn’t just start typing a paper right when I was givin a topic. But once I started ENG 105 I am getting a little more comfortable about writing. It’s making me express my feelings, especially in the blogs on how the writing goes for us.
On Friday, we were assigned to do a horror story and come up with catchy lines and over-all make it scary. The story could be anything we wanted and it was going into a contest. The prize was just a homework pass, and the students were buzzing their brains trying to make their stories perfect in order to win. Well my first feeling was I suck at stories, how can I do this? Well my paper didn’t get very far because I had some problems thinking of a great topic. The substitute was going around and seeing how everyone was doing and I had nothing. He gave me ideas and I tried to go along with it. I noticed there were a few others that were having problems and they were going to put this assignment off too. But after I thought about it, we could have used our free homework pass we got from Stephanie but I thought I could use that for a “harder assignment” because it wasn’t too hard to think of a horror story. The subs idea for the horror story didn’t work out like I wanted it to so I changed it.
I decided I’ll try to do this at home because it was due that Monday. Come to realize, after I did this story I am a better writer at home instead of in the classroom. It was so much easier for me to sit on my laptop and go on and on with my horror story. I think its kinda crazy that I can’t just write up a paper while in class but I can at home. Everybody is different on their writing techniques so I’m hoping by the end of this semester I will over come my problem with writing and develop my papers in class without writing them at home.