March 30, April 1

On these two days our class discussions/exercises were geared towards helping us write better, and helping us to understand how to write under a certain topic/criteria. On thursday our class was about convincing, and persuading. They both kinda go hand and hand. For example, if i was trying to convince some one to be against abuse, in my effort to convince them i would also be persuading them.

March 23, March 25

March 23 is my birthday yeay!!!! I turned 19 for the first time. I woke up and my mother was all ready up and waiting for me to put my clothes on so that she could take me to the hair salon and the nail salon. I was so excited and reday to go. After i got my hair done we went to the nails salon, i got my nails designed the same colors i had on. I thought that i would have been finish all that before i had to be at school. But i didnt finish in time to make it to school.

Today we didnt have class, however today we had the opportunity to set up conference mettings with Professor Perkins. This also gave us the opportunities to work on our research papers.Our analytical/evaluation essays were also due today. I wasn't able to set up a conference today instead i was doing work. But i did talk to my professor and i set up another appointment for another day.

March 15-21

We had spring break for a whole week! Most people that i talked to, talked about going out of town and stuff, but i didnt plan to go any where. I actually forgot about spring break, and when i did start thinking about places to go and things to do it was to late. I spent most of my spring break sleeping and doing work here and there. My spring break was also bad because, University of Baltimore let us go on spring break way before other colleges. My boyfriend had to go to school everyday that i was on spring break.

March 9, Match 11 Journal entry

On Tuesday, we went over pronouns, verbs etc..Some people in the class felt like they were back in elementary school, but i didn't feel that way. Some things that i learned in middle and elementary school i fotgot. So this class exercise was a great one, because it helped me to remember things i forgot, which are important when writing. We also had to turn in our analytical/evaluation writing plan today i planned on writing about Same Sex Marriage.

On Thursday our class exercise was about MLA citation, and quoting vs. paraphrasing. This was a much needed exercise, because i didnt know how to do any citations i always got some one to do them for me. I also learned that citations especially MLA aren't as hard as they look. We also discussed quoting and paraphrasing, at first i thought they were about the same. But after the discussion i was informed that there is a big difference. For example, paraphasing is when you take someone elses words and put them kinda in your own words, but you keep the same meaning. Quoting is taking someone exacts words and putting them in quotations marks.