Midterm Assignment

1. & 2.

Dear Jackie,

I'm currently taking an ENGL-1102 class.  This class is interesting because the assignment mainly ask for the writer's opinion.  Even though it's only half a semester so far, I have learned quite a few things in this class.  The assignments of this class have encourage me to improve my writing and my views.  This English is quite similar to other English classes as they ask for the deeper meaning of things.  This class however is somewhat different, for it focuses more on the personal viewpoint and the author's viewpoints.

I've read a book called "Peace, Butter, & Jelly" in class.  It's about the author's life and his legacy.  He took the concept of health and food, and apply it to his personal life.  I have learned the principle of meditation as he visit the class.  I learned to see things in his prospective views as the class about the books.  I learned how to identify the author's intention in the book.  This is only half of the class so far.

After the book, the class moved on to the more technical subjects of learning.  I learned about inquiry question.  I used inquiry questions to find different meanings, truths, and understandings about a subject.  I formed my own inquiry question "How depression affects the physical aspects of health?"  It enabled me to learn more about depression as I searched for sources.  I gotten to this question by researching a board subject and narrowed it down by questioning it with inquiry questions. 

I learned to make an annotated bibliography.  It was simply used to cited the resources with standard MLA format, and analyze the data from the resources.  It's used to organize the resources for writing the research paper.  I got my topic idea from the English class instructor, Ms. Ingram.  I wanted my audience to be around the age of college students, and it had changed my searches for my topic.  I had to focus on that age group to get consistent resources.  I had work on refining my searches, so I was able to find more resources for my questions.  I had rework my topic question multiple times to adjust to the amount of research I had done.  This was entirely new to my experience, it was very helpful to use to gather my thoughts.  I learned how to organize my resources for writing my research paper.  I can now find more resources to add to my revised annotated bibliography.  The blogger was very helpful as I can just write down my thoughts about the assignment.  It kept track of my progress with my annotated bibliography and my inquiry questions.  There is more for me to learn in the second semester of this class.

This English class had taught me many things about the writing process.  It also taught me the thought process behind all of it.  I hope you will choose this English class.

Thank you,

Jinjie Chen


3.

The book has very nice light reading for the student to start getting into the semester.  I have enjoy the peace part which was about his life and his relative.  The discussion about the Jelly was nice because everyone just put their views out there.

4.

Have written so much
Why can't I think more, Why me!
This is beyond me.