Sachi's English Class Reflections

In English class today, we looked at four people’s e-portfolios and went over its flaws. Firstly, we saw the mistakes being made most frequently in the “resources” section. This seemed to be due to students not knowing the difference between resources and sources. According to Mr.Paterson, resources are on a bigger scale, so things such as websites with lots of sources or libraries containing many books. On the other hand, sources are the actual news stories and books in the resources. Additionally, another problem we saw is that the teammates didn’t start revising each other’s documents until yesterday in class. This applies to both people who had their first draft done over the holiday, and for people who seemed to have written it in the last couple days of winter break. In the first situation, the teammates who hadn’t accessed the e-portfolio until yesterday is at fault. However, in the latter situation, the person writing the essay is to be blamed because they didn’t give their tea...

Today was our first English class since third trimester started, and we were given class time to work on our academic writing after a brief talk. As a class, we lightly went over the mistakes people made in second trimester and were reminded about the winter break homework. Those mistakes include things like not sharing the documents properly, which could have a huge impact on your grades. Also,  our homework over the holiday was to type up our introduction paragraph (first draft) in our e-portfolio, and comment on our group mates’ documents. Although I should’ve started the latter a bit earlier than I did, I was glad I had the entire break to research about my topic and get a good grip on where I stand. Afterwards, we got into our groups and continued to comment on each other’s documents, make suggestions, and help make it the best it can be by revising it. I was glad to have gotten more work done than I thought I’d finish. I hope to to take the suggestions from my teammates in a ...