English 110.01

Dear Student,

This qaurter you are taking English 110.01. For most of you it is your first english class at this university. I remember at the begining of the qaurter i was nervous at how well my writing skills were. I did not know what was expected by my teacher and knew i was not a strong writer. I came to find out that your skills as a writer do not matter just as long as you try your best on everything assignment you will do fine. Your teacher and peers will give plenty of feedback and editing on assignments that will really help you out. Also do the reading assignments will help, because that is what your teacher is teaching off of, and everything will be much clearer and easier. just do the work and try your hardest and you will be successful at this class.

Commonplace Essay

Our essays are much different than what we have read on commonplace. no commonplace essay that i have read has been longer than a 5 minute read or around two pages long. the hard part i feel converting my essay will be shortening it and putting my opinion in it more. in most of the published essays their opinion is so strong. one other difference is the lack for a primary source for a majority of the essays. this wil not be a problem for me because the hard part for me in our RAP was getting a promary source and analysising it. in commonplace i read mainly secondary sources and information that let me know the author was well educated in their topic.

I feel like my topic is timely because it is happening right now. for that same reason it is relevent because steroids in baseball is important to alot of people. making my work compelling my be the hardest part of this essay. i look forward to converting my RAP into a commonplace essay and hope it will get published.

what i want

family is very important to me. they keep me grounded and keep me headed in the right direction. if i start to change course or get of course they wont let that happen. they always are looking out for me and support everything that i do. my family consist of me my brother and my mom and dad. the 3 of them mean the world to me and i really look up to my parents. my one brother is older than me so i can look up to him as well and ask him anything and he will try to help me the best he can.
sports are also very important to me in life. i love to play and watch all sports. my favorite sport to play is baseball and to watch is either basketball or football. sports keep me in shape and active. i am really competitive so i hate to lose and always do my best to help my team win. without sports i would be out of shape and really lazy, so im glad that i am able to play them as often as i want.

Thesis

Throughout high school my english teachers tried to make thesis statement very important to our papers. I feel that they didnt do that great of a job teaching it. The most I have learned in the 4 years there is that the thesis statement is supposed to tell the reader what the paper is about. That if the reader only reads the thesis he/she can summarize most of the paper. I think through experience that this is true but i know there is so much more that goes into thesis'.

Writing Analytically did a great job describing what a thesis statement is. The book said that a good thesis is one that makes a claim and makes a point to your readers about your overall subject. It also says how to make a thesis and how to revise and old one. it gives examples of good and bad thesis' and says whats wrong with the bad ones. WA is a great tool for devoloping and learning what a thesis statement is.

Blog #2

1) The person is said that the forest is being destroyed.

There is a sign that says forest is reserved

Guy looks like he tried to fight for the forest

Sky is dark like its about to rain

There are still trees in the back

Death in the front life in the back

2) Artist is Latif Maulan

Title is Forest Reserved

I think the painting exist to show that companies do not care if they are not allowed to destroy land just as long as they can do it they will.

In the painting it looks as if a man tried to fight to keep the forest up and not be destroyed, but he lost. there was nothing he could do to stop the bull dozer. this causes him to be sad so he sits on a rock with his head down.

3)There is still life in the background. This to me can either show hope for a future or it could just mean the bull dozer has not gotten there yet.

The intended function is to show that sometimes you just can't do anything to save something.

In this case the person is trying to save the forest and he failed.

4)

First Blog

Hey, my name is Matthew Everson and i am a first year student here at Ohio State. I did not do to much writing in high school so blogs are new to me. I have only had to blog once before in my life and I did not do it so this is my first official time blogging.
The first year writing assignment was very interesting and it made me think about my writing past. This really made me realize that I do not like reading or writing too much. When I did write it was normally for a given topic assigned be the teacher. Every year I had to do atleast one research paper for my english class. The last research paper that I did was to compare a poem to a song. This was very challenging and it really tested my writing skills.
I do not recall ever writing analytically for an assignment in high school. This new style is very new and a little confusing. I will have to change my way of thinking because I do no feel like I am an analytical thinker. What I am used to is free writing as I did a lot of it in high school. In most of my english classes we had journals atleast 2-3 a week and they were free writing asignments.
I feel like I am pretty well prepared for the writing in this class and in college. With all of the writing help here on campus you just can not fail in your writing. I plan to use these resources to help me and look forward to the future writing assignments.