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During my time at the writing center I worked with one student who brought in a scholarship application to be looked at. I was a little nerves because like I have said writing is not my strong point, but while I was working with him I was shock at myself at how much of a help I was. Just simply pointing out things like describe a little more on what you  did at this certain event,  telling him that he should reword some sentence because reading it I do not understand what you are trying to say here. I also was able to help him out because he kept saying he does not feel like he has enough information for each question, even though there was a word limit. I said that what you have done is great because by reading what you have said you are not trying to fill the word limit with fluff words you are telling me what you did and that is really great because as the person reading this you don't want to feel broad or that you are BSing questions. In the end I ended up staying a hour longer then needed just helping this one student out.

I really do not know what to say about chapter 3. I mean I understand what the modifiers do for sentence and how they make a sentece understandable, but it just seem like information I already knew expect I did not know it was called complements, modifiers or style.

Blog post 2

To whom it may concern:

Part 1:

            I am seeking a opportunity with your company to gain more work experience.

How I can benefit the company in many ways is that I treat everyone with respect and the why they should be treated, I’m not afraid to take charge and lead people, I am very creative and love to think of new ways to make some jobs easy and work fun, and I’m very outgoing. Have the qualities of a leader to get people involved and if I’m having a bad day I never let that interfere with my work. I have had work experience not only babysitting but in retail working at Hallmark for many of the holiday seasons and I have worked security at a company called Staff Pro for the Tacoma Dom and Quest field in Seattle. This last summer I got a paid Internship at HMS Host working at the Seattle Tacoma airport being a manager and working with Starbucks, Burger King, and Great American Bagel.

Thank you for taking time to consider me for the position at hand. If I am chosen I will not let you down, I have the drive to do the best I can at any situation given to me.

 

Part 2: In chapter one a few of the concepts that stood out to me where the Be Relevant and Be Clear. To me these two concepts kind of run together because if you are not relating back to your topic it will not be clear to your reader. Also with the Be Clear concept, when I am writing sometimes I think I am being clear at what I am saying but either I go back read it or someone else reads it and you can not even understand what I am trying to say. I think this is with my writing sometimes it is because in my head I think I wrote it down but I did not. In chapter 2 "the verb" for me is a very important concept because I know I use weak verbs. At times it's very difficult for me to find a stronger verb to use, and at other times I do not realized I used a weak verb.

 

Part 3: How I can benefit the company in many ways is that I treat everyone with respect and the why they should be treated

I can benefit this company in strong ways is that I treat everyone with respect and the way they should be treated

 

Post 1

               (Part 1) One thing that I like a lot about Toni-Lee Capossela said was that you are a consultant not a tutor, because people feel like a tutor can be intimidating and knows more then you. For me though I am a little scared because I am not a great writer and if someone needs more help on their paper then I can see, brings me to the next thing helping a writer with surface features. I feel like I will miss the small things like comas, different word choice, and simple spelling. I know with time and practice I will get better but I do not want to give a student a bad peer review.

 

               (Part 2) All through my education I have struggled with my writing, it has always been my weak point in school. As of know the writing I do is whatever my classes require of me and the simple social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and texting. When it comes to my writing what works best for me is to think about what I am writing about write down the ideas and then organize them in the order how I want to write the paper, then I just jump right into writing the paper and then leave for the night or day and then come back and revise it. My strongest point in writing is coming up with the ideas on what I am going to write on and know what I am going to say. I am really good at coming up with a good hook in the introduction and writing the introduction. My weak points in writing are coming up with a good thesis, conclusion, using different word choice. Also one thing that I really need to work on in general is not waiting till the last few days to write my paper, in college it’s a little hard with all the other work but since writing is difficult I want to work on not waiting till the last minute to write a paper. What I want to work on this is semester is my weak points and get better at them.