before last week

This week we had only one lesson because of the bayram holiday. So I'll be explaining only one lesson of this week. This week we filled the evaluation forms for Mr. O'Regan. Koc University has a system which plans to evaluate each teacher with the help of students point of view. That is why we filled a form. Then the lecture was about transitions and linkers. Mr. O'Regan realized that we had difficulties on using linkers that's why before final exam he explained us how to use and where to use them... This week will going to be the last week of Comm101 class, if we pass. So wish me luck.. See you!

last weeks of semester

This week we received our essays back. Mine was okay at least it was read by Mr. O'Regan. Some of my classmates essays were not read because they didn't wrote as the minimum requirement. Whatever I hope they will fix their mistakes with tutorial and on the second draft. My essay's criteria sheet was commonly ticks that was good however the comments that Mr. O'Rwegan shared was not that much well. He claimed that I couldn't understand the topic and so on. So we arranmged a tutorial with him. He explained all of my mistakes and which I think was really useful.

So again I started to change my essay. This is like the fifth time I'm sitting infront of the computer and writing my essay. Except these essays Mr. O'Regan made us realize that these are the last days of the semester which means final is coming. So he said we should learn things not only for our second draft also for our final exam. Lets see what the last days bring...

11th week

This week all ogf the students were in a hurry. Because we were suppose to give second essay's first drafts. First lecture of the week was same as the week before the first essay. Mr. O'Regan talked about the things we should do and we shouldn't while we are writing our essays. He said our essay look like coban salad which is not mixed or even chopped. That's why he advised us to combine the ideas of Ben Ze'ev and Whitty, by ours.

Then Mr. O'Regan gave us examples of bad titles or introduction sentences, however not an example of good. I think if he present some good examples it would be helpful. I also think Mr. O'Regan can teach us more on writing essays. My writing skills are from the high school and last year of my high school because of OSS I didn't get any english lessons. I wasn't in ELC in the Koc so I don't have that much writing skills. If he could show some technics to me I'll be glad. Only technic I learned, which actually no one told me but I used to it, is Toefl type of essay. Except this critique I think Mr. O'Regan is being helpful while we are on the writing process. With his critiques I change some of my first writings..

I believe that Comm101 will be helpful for myu academic carrier and Comm102 however if I could learn more writing skills everything would be easier for me.

Before entering December

This week was a strange one. First lesson of the week was going quite well. We were suppose to read Whitty's text and the stories that we wrote about cybercheating. Till then it was okay. Mr O.'Regan then distrubeted some charts that we should fill about those stories. Everyone was split into groups, and we had really fun while filling that chart. Then the horror movie started for me. Mr. O'Regan distrubeted the essays we wrote. I was expecting a good grade, because I spent lots of effort and Mr.O'regan commented well on my first draft. However when I got my essay back I saw that it wasn't graded. I got a 0. At first I couldn't understand it and with that angryness I started to cry. I felt that there is nothing that I can do, so it is the best thing for me to leave this lesson and get a F automatically. I don' know how but my self-esteem came back and I asked Mr.O'regan what changed his mind. My first draft was quite good, but now I got a zero. He told me that I made 3 mistakes that he corrected in the first draft. I know he was right but it disturbed me a lot. I spent hours to correct each mistake how come it could be like that. Then we realized that I printed the wrong one. Mr.O'Regan looked at my first draft and saw how I corrected my each mistake with a pen, so he gave me a one more chance. Whatever I wrote it again got 86 out of hundred. It is not a wonderful grade but after writing third time it is unbelievable that Mr. O'Regan was that generous.

Second lesson was quite good too. Mr.O'Regan talked about Ben Ze'ev's text. He compared and contrast some points on Whitty's and Ben Ze'ev's texts. He talked about good manners, moral,immoral and amoral things. Which I think we learned a lot. We are suppose to writ our second essay's first draft for Wednesday, so I should start working hard...
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