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blog #8 (4/26)

My favorite project this semester was the summary-response essay we did in the beginning of the year. I really enjoyed it because I could relate a lot to it personally. Not that I couldn’t relate to the other projects we did because I did since I picked the topics, but I felt that the summary-response essay related to me more as a writer and as a student instead of an athlete or a person. Within my summary-response essay, I included quotes from Jill Parrots essay “Some People Are Just Born Good Writers” and agreed with this myth by implying my own opinions and experiences towards the topic but also adding my own little twist. One of my best friends is an English major at USI. I’ve always admired her passion towards writing and I decided it would be a unique addition to my paper to add some of her own personal interview quotes to support my claim. I don’t exactly have a least favorite project, although the research portion of the essays did take the longest as there was more thinking that went into it. The only part I didn’t really like about how the projects were set up is that the last two projects were about the exact same topic and I found myself unmotivated to continue writing about the same issue I was once interested about, that then turned into something I wanted to move past. The thing I like most about writing essays in English classes is that each one is different and unrelated to one another. Although the designs of the two essays were different towards the middle of each of them, I wish it would have been a whole different issue or at least a related issue to the essay we wrote before.

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blog #7 (4/19)

Quarantine has made me do crazy things lately that I never would have planned on doing. Last Thursday, I decided to go on a casual 60-mile bike ride with my boyfriend from Noblesville (where I live) all the way to downtown Indianapolis. That was a terrible idea! The ride down to Indy was fun. It went by super quick and we went to the very center of the city called the circle and we sat there for a few minutes and ate some of the snacks I brought in my backpack. The way back up felt like it took forever! My butt was sore, my back hurt, basically every part of my body was in pain. I was miserable. Once I got home, I treated myself with some of my favorite pizza and breadsticks from our local Boom Bozz. I will not be doing that again anytime soon. Then on Saturday, I had the idea of participating in the 24 hour marathon challenge. I started at 4am on Saturday by running 1.1 miles every hour for the entire day to reach 26.2 miles by 3am the next morning (today!!). The 50 minute period in which I had rest every hour felt like it went by so quick. The first half (13 miles) was so fun. I treated it like any normal day and made cookies, cleaned my hamsters cage, laid out in the sun, and ate some of my favorite foods. It also helped that one of my friends from college, who also runs and lives in my town, decided to do the challenge with me and we facetimed each other every mile to keep each other company. My body has never hurt so bad in my life. I can hardly walk. Why do I do this to myself??

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blog #6 (4/13)

I feel pretty good about how my research paper is going besides a few small things. The main issues I’m having is deciding whether or not information is useful. I have so much information from all of my sources, yet I don’t know how to organize it all and use them to prove an argument. Since my topic is about nutrition labels, I have basic facts about what nutrition labels are, how they were made to be and how people are supposed to use them and then I have experimental data from testing college students and how/if they use nutrition labels. I need to figure out how I’m going to separate all of this information and make it all positive for my argument. My introduction is complete, and I feel that it’s super strong and sets up my topic very well and my conclusion is almost done, I just need to wrap up a few more ideas and I’ll be at a page. The rest of my time will be focused on using my mind map to figure out all the main ideas I want to cover, which then I’ll be able to divide them up into several paragraphs with all of my supporting evidence and set up my research paper with an easy to follow flow. I can’t wait to see how this whole paper turns out after I start piecing together all of my thoughts and evidence and I hope I will teach others as well as influence others to take care of their health.

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blog #5 (4/5)

I just switched my essay with my partner for peer review. After comparing her essay to mine, I realized my introduction and conclusion paragraphs didn’t have to be as deep as I made them out to be. She just simply answered the questions you asked about what the purpose of our project is, who the audience is and what our interest is in this topic. I made the questions out to be more detailed and didn’t realize we could use the word ‘I’ and write out the answers one after another. I plan on using my introduction and conclusion that I sent into you for the rough draft for the next argumentative essay we have this month and I’ll write up two completely different paragraphs. I have learned a lot about how nutrition labels came to be, what they show and how these labels effect college students and young adults consume healthier dietary foods. I’ve found several results that show whether females or males frequently use nutrition labels and discovered the behavioral effects of nutritional labels on students. By looking at my list of sources used from researching my topic, all of my sources are from research articles from some type of journal that includes a volume and an issue number. It was really hard for me to find sources that were up to date and were within the last year or so. I’m not sure if it’s because of the topic I chose, but most of my sources were in the early 2000’s and I hope that’s okay because I had a hard time finding more relevant sources to prove my research to be more accurate.

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blog #4 (3/29)

The struggles I’m having with my annotated bibliography project mostly include the layout of the project and what I’m supposed to include. I don’t know why I’m struggling with this essay so much. I picked a topic that is interesting to me because I was curious to find out answers about nutrition labels that I didn’t know but it also doesn’t connect with me as much as my essay topics I’ve chosen in the past just because I’ve never used nutrition facts to further enhance a healthier diet. The only time I’ve looked at nutritional labels when picking out food is to look at the grams of protein and iron because as a runner, it’s important we get enough in our daily food intake. When it comes to the layout, I’m not sure how to separate this topic into different paragraphs and where the annotations and citations are supposed to be placed. The introduction and conclusion slides helped a lot with how those are supposed to go. I plan on fixing these issues by sorting through what I plan on showing my readers with what I have learned and how my topic was tested. Finding out how nutrition labels effect college students’ attitude towards their healthy eating habits requires testing to be done to figure out the most accurate results. As I’ve thought through it, I will have my introduction, a paragraph that addresses all the information I found out about nutrition facts, experiences with college students and how these were tested followed with a conclusion paragraph. The body paragraphs may expand into 4 or 5 depended on how much information is found.

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blog #3 (3/1)

I have my conference meet this weekend. I’m super nervous. I’ll be running the DMR which is the Distance Medley Relay with three other freshmen on my team. The DMR is a relay race that is set up with four girls/boys who run different distances and hand off a baton as they run. The first girl will run a 1200m, which is 6 laps on an indoor 200m track, the second girl will run a 400m sprint, third will run 800m and the fourth girl will run 1600m (a mile). It’s such a cool and interesting event to be a part of and I’m super excited to see what my team can do at the high level. I’m really hoping that I run well because lately I haven’t been running as well, I should be and I’m definitely capable of running faster times. Hopefully the added pressure of doing well for my teammates in the relay will come into play and help improve my time in the 800. As for my second race, I’ll be running the open 800m on Sunday. The conference meet is up at UIndy, which means I get to go home for the weekend and sleep in my own bed! I’ll be heading up late on Thursday night to go up to Indy since my lab won’t get out until 8:00 and I still will have a four-hour drive back home. My team doesn’t arrive in Indianapolis until around 1:00 on Saturday, so I’ll have plenty of time to relax at home and play with my puppies and cat.

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blog #2 (2/23)

I’m interested in writing about how writing plays a role in nutrition labels for my research project. As a student, I feel like it would be beneficial for me to research this topic as I’m thinking about adding nutrition as a possible minor for my dental hygiene degree. Nutrition has always played a major role in my life. As an athlete, I’ve sat through several presentations from nutritionists that explain what I should eat, foods that obtain the highest amount of iron/protein etc. I never truly understood how much of each nutrient I’m supposed to consume each day and how these nutrition facts are made. I’ve never been to the point where I’m obsessed with checking how many calories I’ve consumed in a day or how many calories I need to lose, but I do feel that people should get in the habit of checking nutrition labels to figure out what exactly they’re putting into their body. One of my roommates/teammates has this app that tracks her calories, what’s inside the food she’s eating and how many calories she needs to burn by the end of the day. The main things I want to focus on when I’m researching is finding out who creates them, what have been major changes through-out the years, whether or not people use them in the daily lives, why they are important and many more. I want my readers to understand their importance and figure out how to use them towards their own personal diets and maybe I can learn something too. :)

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blog #1 (2/16)

I think that my topics and the way I’ve chosen to separate my paragraphs. The first paragraph is normal, but all of my body paragraphs talk about the different situations I want to discuss throughout the paper. My introduction paragraph was probably the easiest part to develop because the majority of the paragraph is just the summary of the essay I’m responding to and the end is my overall thesis I want to cover. I think my title incorporates what my essay is about really well. I also like how I’m bringing in some direct quotes from one of my friends that is an English major to further support my evidence. The main struggles I’m having with writing my essay is developing the conclusion paragraph to reach a more universal topic that wasn’t really discussed during the essay. During my years of high school, I was taught that your conclusion paragraph of your essay was meant to tie all of my thoughts back to my original thesis but also open a more universal question that makes the reader question their own beliefs. In addition to making a well-organized conclusion paragraph, I struggled mainly with coming up with new ways to explain the quotes I included. I felt as if I was repeating myself a ton throughout the entire essay and struggled with saying things in a different way as well as paraphrasing a majority of the quotes into different words. I’m going to fix these issues by having my friend, who I mentioned in my essay, look over my essay and have her give me feedback on my concluding evidence and paraphrasing techniques.