7th week on Comm101

Well this week was a bit different. First day of the class was about observing the first drafts of our essays. However Mr.O'Regan did not gave our essays back on that moment. He was right about doing this because if he would gave those essays on the beginning of the class, no one would listen to his comments. That is why he explained the common mistakes Turkish students and Comm101 students do.
While explaining these mistakes, he explained how he denoted the mistakes of ours. Lesson went on with Mr. O'Regan's explainings. At the end of the class Mr. O'Regan gave permission to take our essays. I was really afraid of seeing mine. Because about the turnitin comments he noticed that we shouldn't quote from the text, but I realized that I did. Also as I said on my first writing on this blog Mr. O'Regan is famous with his low scores. However I was shocked when I saw the criteria sheet. There was one false all of the others were ticks. That gave me courage to look at my essay. When I looked at it I saw that Mr.O'Regan wrote more than I did with his red pen Even though that disappointed me I was glad about the criteria sheet. I knew that does not mean that I wrote a wonderful essay, but it meant that I did a fairly good job. If I can work harder for second draft there is good posibility that I can get a high grade.

Whatever... Second lesson was a bit different, Mr.O'Regan gave clues on how we should improve our vocabulary skills. Like making a vocabulary notebook, or using the right dictionaries. He was aware that most of us use seslisozluk.com. However he mentioned a very good point. Seslisozluk was done by Turkish writers and they were not the best on English. That was for sure. After realizing these kind of things. Mr.O'Regan wanted us to do a vocabulary quiz to realize how we do... I will explain you the result on the next week's blog...

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