D13, HW4, Writing Project Reflections

The writing reflections help with summarizing the entire process in completing that specific writing project. By looking at the different reflections I can see not only how I advanced in my projects, but also my growth in different areas, like research and actual writing. Using these reflections, I can create a strategy to continue my advancement in research and writing, which can all be placed into my final reflection.

D13, HW6, Deadline Reflections

The deadline reflections are helpful because it really gives an entire capture on that week's deadline. Using these from day 1 to now, it will show my progression and room for improvement in overall projects. For instance, I usually talk about how much I procrastinated, so I know that that is an issue when looking at all of them in whole. That can be used in a strategy to help my current growth and improvement.

D13, HW5, Reading Reflections

Since the final reflection letter needs to be about progress and growth, taking a look at past writings and to the most present will help me develop a strategy to improve further. I will be able to see how well I have progressed, if any at all, and to make sure I continue progressing.

D13, HW1, Grammar Assignment

I chose to learn more about hyphens from The Owl at Purdue. I learned a few things I did not know about them, for instance, you "use a hyphen to join two or more words serving as a single adjective before a noun." Using this, I revised 2 paragraphs adding hyphens when possible. Some places that could have used one though, I still did not because I did not want to have an overkill.

According to the IC3, 4447 of those complaints were in Arizona alone in 2006. Two-percent were identity-theft alone. However, 71.1% of those reported a monetary-loss, with a medium-loss of $1374.19. Other crimes such as credit card fraud and check fraud had higher numbers, but usually have some sort of correlation with identity-theft after excessive use.

Some agree the government needs to step-up and help fight the battle of identity-theft over the Internet. However, there are also a group of people who think the government should be left out of the Internet all together because it is an invasion of their privacy. If the government steps in to protect the internet, they will have to protect more than just identity-theft. For instance, if the government were to lock-down websites so they had to have a special key issued out by the government to be able to sell products online, this would pose a threat as to who is the one responsible for whether one business is truly more legit than another.

D12, HW9, Deadline Reflection

There was a lot work this week so I was kept busy. The larger revisions helped a lot and I think I definitely am making my paper stronger, much stronger than it was. Reviewing other's papers made me realize how important proofing was and I do not do it as often or as thorough as I should.

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D12, HW8, Peer Review Reflection

Peer reviewed: Kathy & Paulette

I learned that it is highly important to proof read my work before I finish. In some of the papers I found many mistakes, not only in spelling and grammar, but sentences that did not even look like sentences and had weird citations mixed in with the paragraphs. It is easy to tell on others who put more effort into a paper, and with your own you always think you put a lot of effort into and someone else may disagree. No one has proofed my paper yet but I hope it is noticeable that I did put effort and work into mine.

D12, HW4, Style in Argument

Section1

I think word choice was very critical in in my 3rd paragraph, which talks about IC3 and all of the statistics they had on identity theft. It is very crucial because I often find that when quoting numbers like that, it feels hard to not commit some sort of plagiarism by accident. So, I find this one of the most creative times because you really have to be careful.

Section 2

This will have to relate back to Section 1. Plagiarism can happen very easily even when trying to give credit to the original source. With statistics, it always seems like there is not many ways to approach it, so you have to make sure word choice and sentence structure are both properly in place.

Section 3

In the paragraph that talks about LifeLock, I have a list going on and I used a colon right before the list. I did this to make it more noticeable it is a list and also to be hopefully be more effective because it is almost like a check list.