Amy Doty  

ENGL- 1010 

15 July 2018 

Reading and Writing  

Even if it is not fun for me to read and write in English or in my first language, I do it.  

I grow up in family who like writing, my mom was working in newspaper as an author, and my father was a writer at the military, so as a result I was forest to read and write a lot. Also, my teacher at the high school was forcing us to read 30 to 40 pages every day or we will lose points from out grad, so that was the worse class I have ever attend.  

I learned how to read and write at age of 6 when I was in first grad, at that time I start to challenge myself to learn fast, so I can be like my parents as a writer. Later when I grow up and because my parents want me to read for a long time every day I started to heat it, then I started to listen to stores either on CDs or on TV and I like them so much, and at that time, I was just 10 or 11 years old. My parents did not like what I was doing, because they said, "these stories you are listening to will not let you be a good reader to be a good writer." They thought a good writer must be a good reader which I do not agree with them, because I can get my ideas from listing to others saying the story, and I was telling them that a good reader has to be a good listener to be a good writer.  

When I was listening to the stories I was imagining myself in the story, for example, if the story is taking a place in the garden and the person is walking I will close my eyes and imagining that is me in the garden walking. The stories I have lessened to taught me how to make good stories and I start writing short stories and, I start to type them on CDs. I tried to do something to get better on reading, so I attained the reading class at the high school. The teacher likes reading and she do not understand that there are students have never been in a reading class before, so she was giving a very big homework of 30 to 40 pages every day, for me it was a hard class and I could not keep up with the homework she was giving, so the result was I failed the class. That was the bad experience about reading but I liked to keep going and try to learn more.  

Later in my life when I get older I notes the important the reading and writing, and the important of what was my parents telling me. After I moved to the United States I fined emails and text messages are very important, so to be able to communicate with others and telling them the whatever you need must be in writing, and to read whatever they might write for you. That should have some training to be able to get to the point of understanding, I was not at that level. 

 now I am working on my reading and writing skills and that is what the important, and as a person who has been in some treble with my education along my life if the time will go back I will not fallow my parents and I would drop my high school class to be able to keep going with reading and writing.   

Amy Doty  

ENGL- 1010 

5 August 2018 

Reflection for Essay 1 

My assignment for Composition class last week was to write an essay about my position on a social issue, and my social issue was about gun regulation. I chose this topic because I am always wondering if someone will come and kill me using his or her gun. That is because people in the US have the right to bear arm.  

My writing was to persuade the government to put a gun regulation to protect the people, and to inform the people who do not agree with me to persuade them to agree on the gun regulation. I started by writing a first draft that is not correct with the grammars and the spalling it is just a first draft to put the ideas on a paper. I wrote the main three points that I want to talk about them then I start to write whatever comes to my mind, and I changed to the second topic than the third. The biggest problem was to remember the important details and the facts that happened six or seven years ago. After I wrote the first draft I left my work and start on the second day to revise. I start to fix the paragraphs following the theses statement, removing some sentences, and adding some sentences. At that time, I did not have a strong topic, title, or a conclusion sentence. I start to write a stronger topic than I wrote my conclusion and at the end, I wrote my title. It was effective because I been writing the title than the topic than the body of the essay and at the end the conclusion. By that way, I always get to the point that I am not following the theses, and that is been my problem. 

In my essay I used an example of my father’s friend Ahmed Al Jumaily, he came to the US and two weeks later he shot and dead in front of his wife and his brother. I think this example is one of the best examples I can use in this essay because I am talking about gun regulation and I need the US to have gun regulation. That shooting happens in Dallas, Texas which it is one of the states that the people own a lot of guns in it. Another good example I wrote in my essay was about my cousin how to get killed in a mass shooting happen in Baghdad Iraq and how does the owner of the shop get killed and his sons looking at him. So, we should think for a few seconds if people will use guns to kill each other which it is happening now, but do we like to see our parents getting killed in front of us. Do we like to see our kids getting killed in front of us? That is what happens in Iraq, So I hope we will not be like Iraq by having gun regulation. 

The improvement that should happen to my writing for the next assignment that I should work with the tutoring center more and submit my paper to a tutor for at least two time or three times. That will help me get more ideas about what I should change in my paper.  

My essay was to inform and persuade the people how likes to own guns either for a hunt or to protect themselves. I chose them because they are on the opposite side of my opinion and also, I am wishing that after they read my essay they will agree with me that we should have gun regulation.                                                                                                                                    

 

 

Amy Doty  

ENGL- 1010 

19 August 2018 

Reflection Essay 2  

My essay was about gun regulation, my position was to have a gun regulation to control the death in the United States of America caused by guns. The assignment was to find someone has an opposite opinion about the gun regulation. Sam is my classmate likes to have a gun regulation, but it should be so light that will allow people to own guns but not to kill someone for no reason. His points were that to own a gun is his right in the constitution, and people should have guns, so they can protect their self. Also, people like to own guns as a habit and to hunt. Then he talked about the chemical weapon and how we should control it and not let anyone have it. 

At the beginning of this essay, I was not sure how to interview someone because I never did something like that, and I did not know who to interview. I asked a friend of mine about gun regulation and he said that he has an opposite position of mine, so I decided to interview him. A few days later he said that he cannot do it, which I do not know why?  Then I asked my friend Sam to do the interview since I know that he has an opposite position, and it was so effective to learn how to interview someone, especially with an opposite stance. 

The most important examples we used in this essay was Las Vegas mass shooting, and the number of guns the killer bought in three days to kill. That was the best example because the gun shop must note and did something from the 3rd of the 4th gun he bought, but instead, he bought 21 guns. The other example was about the protection and when we should decayed if we should shoot this person or if we are in dangers or not (when to judge someone if he is trying to heart me) Sam say that if someone walking toured him with his gun and trying to kill him, he will take his gun out and kill him as soon as passable. And he said that action can take a second verse the officer will take 30 seconds to arrive to protect me.  

In this assignment, I should be improved with my spalling especially I am using Grammarly. Also, I am working on my spelling online by taking spelling courses, and I like to be better by writing transition sentences because I do not feel comfortable writing them in this essay. On that, I am working with the tutoring center outside of my class time to work just on the transitions. 

The purpose of this essay was to inform the reader that even the people who want to own a gun want some gun regulation at the same time because if people can own guns without regulation they can kill others without getting scared of the punishment from the government. The audience will be everyone agree or disagree that we should have a gun regulation in the United States of America, so if a person is totally disagreeing he or she will agree and the opuses.  

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Amy Doty  

ENGL- 1010 

7 July 2017 

Reflection essay 3 

This week assignment was an argument essay about the gun regulation, and how should the United States government control it. I chose this social issue because of a large number of people gets killed every year caused by guns. In the beginning, I have a good background about the gun and how many people killed every year, so I start arguing with Sam because he likes to own guns. I learned from Sam that chemical weapon has its own regulation and it is very strong regulated. So, we have a resolute that guns are harmful if people need to use it to harm other especially in other countries.  

I start with the interview and I wrote essay 2 that where I got most of my information from, and then I start to expend my questions to get more information about the issue. Later I meet Sam and start arguing with him because I did not agree with all of his answers, then I wrote them in my essay. I show it to my class met and the tutoring center to revise it, also, I did my revise. I think the process I used was effective because it is better than essay 2 because I was able to see a person at the writing center. The tutor gives me a good dissection to change some of my writing about the guns in Iraq. He said that Iraq is a country with wore in it and I should not be comparing Iraq to the United States. I used that revision because I think it is effective, also he said that I should include a brief story about Ahmed Al Jumaily. These changes will be very effective for the reader because the story will tell the reader who I feel about it and for the Iraq part, the readers with the opposite stance will agree with me. 

I think the first aspect or the example I used that it is effective is, the example about Ahmed Al Jumaily who came to the United States as a refugee and get killed a week after his arrival because of the gun. The second example was my cusecs and my uncle who gets killed in Iraq due to the guns. 

I think in my writing I should improve on how to write the analysis because it is explaining the relationship between the main idea, and the evidence, and it explains what I need to write about. Also, I need to work on my spelling and my word choice to be able to write a better paper. Due to that I start to work with the tutoring center on writing one paper every week and I have to give it to them and they should show me my weak spots and I should be working on improving it. That helped me a lot because now I can write way better than before. 

This paper is about arguing with someone about the gun regulation to let the government put a stricter gun regulation. My primary audience should be anyone who disagrees about having a gun regulation in the United States, and people who agree with me to let them agree more and more, also the government of our country to let them work on stricter gun regulation.                                                       

 

Amy Doty  

ENGL- 1010 

10September 2018 

Reflection essay 4 

This assignment was about writing an essay about the gun regulation with recourses. This essay as same as essay three but I should add some resources to it to make it stronger and let people agree with it. I decide to write on gun regulation because I have seen the bad of using guns on people that really close to me, so I would like to have done to this problem. My idea is changed from the beginning that we should not bean the guns, but people should be safe. In this essay, I start with essay three and I start to search for recourses and then I add them to the essay, I revise it than I finished it. This essay is the most important essay I have written for Composition class because it is the final essay I must write. Also, because it is the one with the evidence, so it is the complete paper. This essay has a lot of narratives explain why I do not like to let people own guns, however, this essay is for the people of the United States not for the people in Iraq. Iraq has war at this time and every country with war guns will be easy for people to own, so that cause many problems, one of them was to kill each other without a reason. The revision suggestion I got from the tutor was very good because it let me change the way I am thinking about the problem. First, in the introduction, the suggestion was to expend and pot more stories to get the reader attention and make them interested to read my essay, as well as the conclusion. Also, in the body paragraphs, I have some changes to let the ideas worked with the resource. Most of my examples was a narrative talking about the people who got killed either in Iraq or in the United States. The only things I want to improve in my writing is my spelling, and my word choices, so I am working on that since the beginning of this term online and with a tutor. The purpose of this essay is to persuade the people of the United States not to own a gun or to agree to have a structured gun regulation to save people's life.  

 

Amy Doty  

ENGL- 1010 

19 September 2018 

Final Reflection 

In this quarter I enjoyed my Composition class with all of the struggles, and I liked how I grow and what I learned. In the past, I took this class with another instructor, but this time I think I learned more, and I could keep up with all the homework and the learning. At the beginning, I found some struggles with the reading because English is not my first language, so it took me a long time to read the assignment. However, I practiced reading faster, and the good thing I learned from this class is to skim throw the reading before I start to read. Also, the good thing that Amy taught me from previous class is the Annotation and how to write on the merge of the book. It is the great thing that I have ever learned because I can understand the reading, and I do not have to read the entire thing to remember what I was reading about because I just have to read my initiation. The only thing I have as a suggestion for the Commotion class is although, the book has a great essay that we read, I think we should not have to read from it because the papers Amy give us is enough for the class.  

For the writing assignment think stocking with one topic is a bad idea because when I get throw the end I felt I do not like my topic anymore. Also, I could not find other things to add to my writing in the final essay “essay 4.” I liked the way the class goes throw, at the beginning of the quarter we start to write about our self and how does the topic affect us. I have the chance to put my ideas and the narrative on a paper, and I have the chance to let others see what happen in my life, and how this topic affects me. As you know my topic is about gun control, so by writing this first essay I have the chance to show the reader how the guns affected my family and me. In my country guns are the biggest problem from 2003 till now and people trying hard to solve the problem, and as I am a US citizen know and even before since I came to the US I wish to help this country to solve the guns problem. By taking this class I have the chance to write a good paper and probably someone in the government will read it and make some changes. In the second paper the assignment was to interview someone, so this type of thing I have never done before. I had triable finding someone to help me interview, but I find Sam and he gave me great examples of why he likes to own and carry his gun. On paper three the assignment was to argue with the interviewer, and it was one of my favorite papers I have ever written because I could show my opinion and the other person’s opinion in one paper. The thing I was not like about this time is that I feel I am stuck with the topic and I liked to change it. However, in the final essay, we had to add some sources to the essay, so that when I was struggling because I could not find a good source to add to my essay. At the end, I find what I need to add to the essay and I did all the final changes I need, but at the end, I felt I am repeating myself over and over, and I liked to add new things, but I could not because I do not have any.  

The best thing I liked about this class and all the class I have taken with Amy Doty is that we have the time to think together. The first time I have taken a class with her I did not like the idea about thinking out loud because I did not like other students to listen to my thinking because I did not want them to think I do not know what is going on. But later on, I understand what the reason behind that is, is to let us help each other and to learn from each other's mistake. Know and as a student how took this class two times I like the way we were thinking, and I really like to have these conversations again and again in my class. And besides all of that, my classmate was really great students, they helped me many times either with technology, with Homeworks, or with classwork.  

My biggest take out in this class was the great way to write papers and how to show the reader what I need them to know in my paper. I like that I learned how to manage between my audience, stance, and my purpose. The other thing I like to talk about is that I learned how to respond to my friends when we were writing the Summary Responses. That was one of the best things that I learned in this class because one day I could respond to an author. Finally, think I want to write about in my reflection today is the use of time in class, I think we used every second toured a good thing. I think that we have not wasted any time during this quarter, and every second, we were in class we talked about something important and we learned from it.  

Thanks, Amy Doty for all of the hard work you did and for every advice you gave me. I hope all my instructors will be like you. Wish you the best, and I will see you around.  

Thank you  

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