User:Erinbrown

=Analytical Writing=

Personal Essay
Recycling Recycle I’ve found has been very difficult from what I’ve been taught from a very young age. It appears that only more well-off families can afford recycling bins in front of their houses, as well as in recent years has more varieties of plastics been added to the list that can be condensed into reusable goods. I feel that I should recycle in today’s times, or I will be looked down upon from my peers as a bad person, or a person who doesn’t care about the environment. That’s not where I coming from, nor do I want it to appear that way; I want to help save our planet and its environment in this ‘go green’ stage. Recycling is important to protect us, the land and animals, and feel that people need to be taught more in schooling and workforces about what can and can’t be recycled, what colors, what numbers and what sizes, to help everyone better understand. I don’t want to be left behind in the help to make the proper change in the world, nor do I feel that anyone else wants to be either. Tthis is my chance to do my important part, though it may be small, but my impact will become huge.

Self Assessment
Erin Brown December 14th 2009 Self Assessment

Overall I felt that this class was just okay, I felt that I didn’t really learn too much on an ‘English class’ standpoint, but did learn much about my groups researched project of recycling and Trash Island. I felt that there was too much time spent on this project and team members, besides my group, were tired out of it by the 3rd and 4th week. I liked how different readings were placed into the quarter those were interesting, and the video.

Though the class was large, I felt I sometimes didn’t get a lot of one on one time with Steve, though he is great guy, and knows his information, a great writer too, I would have loved to get more of that from him into the class room with different writings and projects to expand myself in that way. Overall I felt the class could use some changes and tweaks to make it more of an English class rather than a research project class. But it was never dull with the random conversations =)

For myself in this class, I felt I could have grown more and put forth a little more effort, I just grew somewhat tired of the ongoing project from beginning of the quarter till the end. The conversations were great to listen and interact to from other student’s ideas and thoughts as well as Steve's.