9th week

We are on the 9th week I guess. I'm confused with the number of weeks but whatever. As I told you so Comm101 goes on . And I'm trying my best to go on. This week second drafts were given to Mr. O'Regan. I suppose he read all of the essays but still we don't know our grades. On the first lesson of this week Mr. O'Regan talked about this. We are going to learn 40% of our grade and if we get a low one and if we have the chance to fail then we can already fail by not doing anything. And also this grade will show how we performed these 9 weeks. So I'm a bit afraid of having that grade, but also too curios. Hope to learn it. Then on the first lesson Mr. O'Regan shocked us by telling us to write stories. On Comm101 classes we were use to write essays but this time Mr.O'regan wanted us to write a story. However story was about Internet again. Itwas about cheating on Internet. Whatever we used our creativity and write our stories.We were going to learn why we wrote it on the second lesson of this week.
Second lesson of this week we were suppose to give evaluations we made on peer reviews on our podcasts. And also we were suppose to read the text by Whitty.Whitty' text was the reason we wrote that stories. Whitty conducted an experiment like this to search how people affect towards cybercheating. So Mr. O'regan tried this experiment on us =). This text and another Ben Ze'ev text will be our second essay's main texts. The second essay is going to be 4-5 pages long. It's first draft will be given on 5th of December so I'm starting to write some this week. So we talked about this essay and the Whitty's text. Mr O.R'egan told us to read Whitty's text again and Ben Ze'ev text to answer the question he asked for our essays. It's time to read them... Bye bye

This week was a bit harder than others I guess. We were suppose to write our second drafts this week. It seems easy for must of us, because the hardest part, the first draft, is finished. However to check every little mistake is not easy as it seems. So I spend my entire week on making by second draft better. We were suppose to book a tutorial with Mr. O'Regan and I did book one. We meet with him. He explained all my questions and criticized my essay.However the stopwatch which was counting down from 15 minutes made me nervous a little bit.

This week we also get our podcast reviews back from our peers. The reviews that are made for my podcast seem fine except some of them. I do agree with some of their criticizes however you feel different when someone writes really bad things for your podcast. Whatever... Then Mr. O'Regan explained all types of essay writing. He explained us that it is not as we think like just compare/contrast or agree/disagree essays. He spent a lot of time explaining us each type. Then he wrote a topic and bring some papers. Everyone had to choose one paper and on each paper there was written one type of essay writing. It would be challenging I think, but it is great for us to learn writing skills.
See you next week...

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...

Bye Bye

comm101 goes on..

This week was a bit shorter than others. Because of the "republic day" we missed the first class of Comm101. So I can only explain one lesson for this week. On that lesson we were suppose to give our essays to Mr.O'Regan. But it was not as easy as you think. Most of the teachers take all the essays and if there is something missing they take points out of your essay. But Mr.O'Regan's style was different. He did not get any essay if there is something missing. He believes that if something is missing then you didn't read the instructions which means you have a lack on this course, so there is no need to take your essay. We spend lot of time on that, then we spend a lot of time on turnitin.com. Which is a nightmare or some students. This site is calculating how much plagiarism a student have done. Because Mr. David know we'll panic he block the system for us and only he did saw these percentages. We talked a bit on that and observed that this percentage does not show that much reality. This week was short but a harsh one. See you a week later bye!