My harmonious stream by https://padlet.com/kysoretsiryna/8w7wwlp92zc7 Made with love en-us 2018-10-10 16:37:40 UTC 2018-12-18 06:05:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Literacy Narrative kysoretsiryna https://padlet.com/kysoretsiryna/8w7wwlp92zc7/wish/291350350 My personal story as a writer is really long and interesting at the same time. As some of you already know that I was born In Ukraine, so my first language was Ukrainian. I've lived there for fifteen years and from my first grade I started to practice my writing. I was really good at it, but there were days when you just don't have any ideas in your head and don't know what to write about. In Ukraine I was one of the best writers in my class. My teacher was proud of me and helped me to develop my skills. So, when I started my fresh man year in high school, back in Ukraine, I find out that my family and me are moving to US in couple month. It was kind of exciting and stressful at the same time because I knew that I'm going to need to learn another language, even though I was already familiar with English because I had class in Ukraine, but it didn't helped me that much. I only knew some basic stuff. So, when I came here with my family, I started to attend High School right after two month. I was struggling so bad and writing was really difficult for me because it's  a different language and I didn't know that much about rules in grammar and etc. So, after a year In US, I really improved my skills as a writer and speaker too. My teachers were helping me and I really appreciate that. When I experienced a lot of things in my life, then I started to have more ideas and imagination to write about. As a Senior in High School, I took one English class. It was called " Senior English Seminar". In that class we had to write a lot and create our own imaginary stories. From that moment when I got my first assignment and completed it, I felt good about myself as a writer and a good thinker. My teacher always gave my A's for my essays and she often used them as an examples in her different classes for other students. It was such a little things that made me so happy. Learning different language was difficult and still difficult for me, but I'm working hard every day. Yes, my writing maybe isn't perfect in grammar. but the main thing for me is the topic and an idea. It's all about how you connect things in your writing and introduce them in sentences. It's a daily work and development for me. Be a good write is difficult and will never be easy. No one is perfect in writing and I think that for everybody understands it differently. So, I can't call and consider anyone or myself as a perfect writer. ]]> 2018-10-10 16:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kysoretsiryna/8w7wwlp92zc7/wish/291350350 kysoretsiryna https://padlet.com/kysoretsiryna/8w7wwlp92zc7/wish/298825562 Iryna Kysorets
Amy Doty
Composition I
October 30, 2018
                                         Writing Reflection 
My assignment was to write an essay about the issue which I picked. My issue topic is “Personal engagement with different cultures in order to battle stereotyping”. By completing this paper, I thought that it’s a really helpful project for us because we start to develop more our writing and thinking skills, which is pretty cool also. I decided specifically on topic when our instructor told us to pick something that we really worry about. One of the topics that I reject in favor for this one was "The importance of cultural traditions". I knew a lot about my topic before, but when I actually started to write about it, it was pretty difficult. I realized that by going deeper with it, I evolved my thoughts and ideas about the issue. 
            Writing this essay was not a really big process for me, but it took me a little longer than I thought. So, in order to write a good essay, I chose a couple of strategies for myself. At first, I wrote down the main ideas/reason for my issue. Then I tried to find more supporting details to prove my reasons. By following this process, I think it helped me a lot to organize my thought. After completing my essay, I send my paper to an online tutor in order to get some advice from him. Tutor read my essay and told me to make my reasons clear and specific, so the readers will understand what were my main points about the issue. I used his revision and noticed that my essay became with bigger message and readers felt interested by reading it. 
 The most effective aspects of my writing are my personal examples. I mentioned in my essay how one American guy offended me by been rude to my accent and the way I spoke English at that time. I consider this as a good aspect because I've experienced such things on my own, which really connects me with my topic even more. 
            What I would improve in my project is probably my supporting details and vocabulary.  I’m working on my English every day and better vocabulary would be better. 
            The main purpose of my project is to persuade the readers to engage more often with different cultures in order to stop stereotyping others. It's a really pertinent issue especially today and I thought that it would be very necessary to talk about it. My primary audience is people of all ages. Issues like mine are really widespread, so I can't pick the specific group of people because it belongs to everybody. Also, my essay would be appropriate for any publication sites because everyone should feel concerned about it.
]]> 2018-10-31 03:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kysoretsiryna/8w7wwlp92zc7/wish/298825562 kysoretsiryna https://padlet.com/kysoretsiryna/8w7wwlp92zc7/wish/314551332 Iryna Kysorets 
Composition I 
Amy Doty 
10 Dec. 2018 
Reflection Journal 5 Over Essay 4 
Writing my last essay, I was really worried about the three articles that I found as my resources. I knew that a lot of information in there isn’t necessarily following my position, but I found what I needed. It was difficult for me to focus only on one position and find more supporting evidence to it. There is a lot of things that I could talk about in my essay and by giving some example I still tried to connect them with my main idea. Stereotypes are really difficult to understand and avoid in our life.
 By using the information from other research paper, I proved that every person can control their actions and reduce stereotyping in their life. The articles that I found, contained a pretty good information in them and it was just exactly what I needed. I learned how to use someone’s thoughts in my paper without plagiarizing but using my own words. Writing an essay for 8 pages long wasn’t the best experience of my life. Honestly, I really struggled and could get my thoughts organized. Then, I remembered the words from Mrs. Doty, when she said that we have to focus on the main points in our essays and use our best-supporting evidence from the articles that we picked, by analyzing them. I really tried to put my best effort in this final essay, but I’ll be honest I had no time to work more through it. I felt actually not really confident in it, and I knew that I’m not going to get a better grade for it than I did on the essay three. I realized that it’s always better for me if I’m going to manage my time wisely and give more attention to the subject. In the future, if I’ll have to write more essays or research papers, I'll use Mrs. Doty’s advice. Thank you for your help and support!   
]]> 2018-12-14 07:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kysoretsiryna/8w7wwlp92zc7/wish/314551332 Reflection Journal 3 kysoretsiryna https://padlet.com/kysoretsiryna/8w7wwlp92zc7/wish/315416056 Iryna Kysorets 
Amy Doty 
Composition I  
15th Dec.  
                                 Reflection Journal 3 (Over Essay 2) 
     One of my favorite assignments in class was essay 2 when we had to interview another person about our social issues. At first, I thought that this paper is going to be one of the harder once because I couldn’t find a person to interview for a long time. I felt really frustrated about this assignment at first because I considered myself a bad communicator. Having a conversation with other people about my topic was the hardest things for me to do. I’ve never actually interviewed anyone in my entire life before this assignment. So, it was a new experience for me and that why I was so freaked out.  I thought that my topic isn’t a good one for an interview, but then when I found a person who wanted to talk to me about, I felt really excited. 
     It was interesting for me to hear a different opinion about my social issue because it opened my eyes to many things that I never noticed even in my personal life. My interviewer Nataliya, shared with me how she experienced stereotyping and why she was scared to engage with other cultures. For example, I could never think that people could be scared to engage with other cultures like that was a new thing for me. After the interview, I agreed on a lot with Nataliya’s opinion and even her personal experience was kind of shocking for me. I changed my mind about some things too and I thought that it’s pretty cool to find a person that would disagree with you in something. 
    I think that this essay was one of my favorites and the most successful once. It was pretty amazing to experience something new in my writing and I was really satisfied with my paper.  
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