Discuss your research sources. What media are you using? How do these different types of media support your topic/ideas? your writing work? For my research, I’m mainly using blogs and articles that focus on the past and present of lower Manhattan, especially where the World Trade Center is located. All these sources focus on different periods, whether it is pre-colonial, past, or present, but all with the same purpose of helping me understand and create a timeline for my paper. Showing how before Manhattan was inhabited by Europeans, the Lenape people were the first settlers fast forward to the 20th century the area was called Radio Row and later on…

What theory or theories are related to your proposal? How do they relate to your research? OR if absolutely no theories are related to your inquiry: What have we done so far that has been helpful to your writing process? Peer review is one of the most helpful things to me in my writing process because when I’m writing, it is hard for me to criticize myself because I want to believe that my work is good, but with peer review, I can get real feedback on my paper and try to fix it. Another thing is annotating the text I’m reading for my research. How might you apply this…

Select one learning objective or one component of a learning objective. How have you learned it? How have you developed this arena so far this semester? I decided to pick our learning analysis essay because it was our first paper this semester. Preparing to write and then submitting it was a whole process on its own. At the beginning of the semester, I can say that I wasn’t very confident in my writing, but as time passed, class after class, I saw myself getting better and better. I believe two things that helped me a lot to get where I am right now were the learning analysis outline and the…

Annotate one article you plan to use in your research. Share what kind of information you wrote in your research. Did annotating help you? If yes, how? If no, why not? What else do you need to do to process this article? I have started to do my research and have been exploring my options on different architectural sites around NYC. Even though I still haven’t quite picked out what I want to write about, I did come across an article on The Metropolitan Museum of Art that piqued my interest. This article was posted on the MET website and it highlighted the history of the building. I would say…

Analyze the rhetorical situation of your Learning Analysis. Introduce your essay’s genre, purpose, audience, and context, and reflect on the extent to which you achieved the learning goals of the assignment as well as any goals you set for yourself. “Becoming Elena: A Journey of Learning” is a personal narrative with my peers and teacher as an audience. The purpose of the essay is to describe three different ways through which I learn. I would say that I have written this essay within the context of personal development and learning experiences throughout the years. But not just random learning experiences. I have highlighted three different ways I learned that still…

The past weeks we did a lot of things that I have found very helpful in my writing. Between reading and annotating an author’s work, writing short vignettes, creating an outline for the essay, hearing and discussing each other’s work all the way to writing a draft and peer reviewing it in class. If I had to single out one or two things that helped the most to improve my writing process, I would say it was creating an outline for the essay and the peer review we did in class the 3rd week. Creating that outline made it so much easier for me to start writing a draft for my…