Month: March 2020

For the annotations I did in Robin Marantz Henig’s, “What Is It about 20-something?”, the three types of annotations that were the most evident during the coding process were understanding annotations, questions, and drawing relationships. For the majority of my annotations, I like to write understanding annotations because it allows me to write what I read in my own terms. This helps because I can comprehend the information better. One specific section I did this in Henig’s writing was when she was talking about the Yellow brick comprehensive residential program. On page 213, it talks about an example about a young woman, C., and how she had many struggles like drinking and anorexia. Coming to Yellow brook, she was able to pull herself together. Through the whole passage, I wrote two blurbs summarizing what the passage said and pulling out the key information. This was able to aid me in grasping what was going on.

For question annotations, I always read a section and see if I understand what it is saying or if I can question what it is saying. I do this often because I feel like they are questions of value that I can ask my professor or a friend. One area that I did this was on page 202 where he was talking about children take so long to grow up, and I asked the question why is it that children take so long to grow up? I even tied my question with a relation as I talked about how in Twenge writing, she too talked about how it takes children so long to grow up, and she said it was because of technology. This book talked about different factors such as we just have developed this way overtime.

For the drawing relations annotations, I mainly look over a passage and see if I’ve heard anything prior to the reading that relates to what had been written or if I have my own experience that are like what have been written about. In this texts, I can relate to what was talked about on page 209 where they talked about the New Yorker, Julie, and how she was coddled her whole life. She was happy to be so privileged but felt she had not grown up yet. I compared to her because I was given a lot of help growing up and now I feel like I still have so much to learn on my own.

With all these annotations, I was able to understand what Henig was writing about in this text. Without the annotations, I would still be confused about some of her ideas.

Over the past two week, there has been a lot of change to how I go about my day. Educationally, this virus has effected where I do my work. Most of the time, I feel like I get my work done more proficiently in the library or the commons. With being at home, I am still able to find space to get my work completed, I just have more distractions. However, so far those have not gotten in the way. The one thing that is majorly different with my learning is that everything is online. I am used to worksheet, but I will just have to adjust.

In my daily life, we have had to adjust majorly. Our family ended up going to visit family in a Florida for a few day, which was a trip we have planned for a long time. We ended up cutting it short, and are now quarantined in our house for 2 weeks. We have found ways to keep busy such as playing card games and watching movies, but it does not feel normal because our family is so used to moving around a lot and traveling. My mom did end up going to the store once since we’ve been back, and she said it was crazy because there was barely anything left. It is just such a change that this generation is going through.

Over the next few weeks, the only concerns I have are with my internet at home, hoping it does not crash, and whether I will be able to do all my work on time. Hopefully, we have a family computer as well as my laptop so hopefully with the combination of the two, I should be able to get everything done at the right time.

Compared to my first essay, I have been able to make a lot more global revisions that has improved my writing. For the first essay, my global revisions mainly consisted of fixing my thesis and having a more deep explaination of my quotes and being precise as to why I chose them. When it came to this essay, however, I feel like there were other areas in need of focus because I did well on those other aspect. For this essay, I made sure my thesis was very clear as to what I was trying to say because I know this has been a struggle of mine in the past. I also made sure that I was specific in my paragraphs when explaining the quotes and how they relate to my thesis. The things that I need to change in this essay mainly focus on seeing if there are places where I can add in texts from different authors. When writing my first draft, I made sure I had at least one author in each paragraph and I even tried to compare their writing to other authors writings. However, I feel like I can even add more examples to strengthen the piece of writing. I know in the first essay, this was a comment I got from my professor when he sent us back our essays once they were graded, and even though I tried to do this on my first draft of this essay, I know that, after taking the advice of my peers, I can do this even more so. I feel like since I spent more time on my first draft, I was able to make it more organized and flow together. This is something that I feel is important because it makes the essay easier to revise. I did not take as much time on my first draft of the happiness essay, which made it harder to fix.