Reflection
Reflect on the writing process for your first essay. Answer these questions:
- What did you do well in your essay?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of your essay?
- Where did you struggle, if at all?
Library Research Notes
Today we are meeting in the Crafton Library computer room.
In the Crafton Hills website go to the library link.
Crafton Hills Library Databases
You can search for books, ebooks, reference books, and articles.
Use the EBSCO Academic Search Complete database under interdisciplinary section
Find your keywords to search effectively in the databases.
Example topic: the rising costs of textbooks
Keywords: textbooks, cost, price, course reserves
Search the keywords you came up with for your topic.
Limit the results to full texts and scholarly.
Can also limit the results to current publication date, depending on your topic.
Boolean Terms
Use the Boolean search terms to help narrow your search results
AND, OR, or NOT
Read the abstract, summary, and/or introduction of the article you are considering to see if it is useful and relevant to what you are researching.
Quick Write
What are some possible reasons for banning books?
Introduction to Sandra Cisneros
Have you ever read anything by Sandra Cisneros before this class?
Did anybody look here up? What did you find out? Her books were banned in Arizona. Why do you think they banned them?
Why are we reading her stories in a composition class? How is this different from our previous readings?
“Eleven”
Write
If you were Rachel, what would you have done?
To answer this, write a dialogue between Rachel and Mrs. Price. Begin your dialogue with:
Mrs. Price: Of course the sweater’s yours. I remember you wearing it once.
Continue the dialogue any way you want.
Professor Ramos' Blog 
What I did well in my essay is use punctuation.
The strengths of my essay are: I used detail and told a good story.
My weaknesses are: I used a repeatedly.
I struggled at trying not to make a really long essay about a bunch of nothing.
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What I did well in my essay was really thinking about what was happening in my literacy narrative and being really descriptive on what was going on.
Some strengths in my essay would that it is very descriptive, long, and organized well. Some weaknesses would be that it is long and maybe its too descriptive.
I didn’t really struggle in writing this essay because I remembered everything about that day and could easily write down my thoughts.
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1.I learned to deal with difficult people. I also learned to be grateful.
2. My essays strength and weakness is the content, i knew what i was talking about but I had so much material that it came out jumbled. My weakness is also my writing experience, I haven’t really written a paper in at least twenty years.
3. I struggled with the topic mostly. I don’t learn fun positive things and am a private person. I also struggled with my organizing my words and thoughts. I didn’t know if what i was trying to say came across on paper.
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Why ban books? i feel like most books are banned becasue of the unsatisfactory content in them. Maybe some are too sexual or theyre homosexual and the people above us dont want us reading about gay people. Or maybe the books are about rising up aginst the man thats keeping us down so obviously they dont want people reading that because the more people that read than than the more people that will join the cause
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Mrs. Price: Of course the sweater’s yours. I remember you wearing it once
Me: but but but thats not mine
Mrs. Price: well if its not yours then whos is it?
Me: i…i dont know(while looking at my desk not the teacher)
Mrs. Price: well if you dont know whos it is and Sylvia says it’s yours then it’s yours
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Mrs. Price: Of course this sweater is yours. I remember you wearing it once.
Marco: No! Its not mine
Mrs Price: I remember you wearing it, so wear it
Marco: nope!
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