1/14/14 Daily writing Family History. 1. Where did we come from and how did we get here?

Im almost one hundred percent sure that my mothers side of the family came from ermany. I dont !now where in ermany "ut I !now that most of them came from there. 2. How did we ma!e a profit and what did we do once we got here? I dont !now much a"out how we made ends meet in the "eginning when we came to #merica "ut I do !now that later on we "ought a lot of farm land and that how we made a lot of our profit. 3. Why did I chose my moms side of the family? I chose to tal! a"out my mothers side of the family "ecause I thought it was the most interesting side of my family. $y mothers grandfather was the founder of the Harris %eeter grocery store. 1/1&/14 Daily writing Well to start off my family' more li!e my mother hates to coo!( )he will almost ne*er coo! for my "rother sister and I. )o when it comes to my familys famous recipe its not hard to pic! from( %he only thin! my mother will e*er rarely coo! is her great grandmothers dou"le chocolate truffle and let me tell you it is pro"a"ly one of the "est desserts out there( +ther than that famous dessert there arent really any other real food recipes we ha*e in my family( 1/,1/14 Daily writing What is the definition of home? Well for me home is not -ust a house or place to go for me. Home for me is "eing around the people that mean the most to you and they are going to "e there for you no matter what( $y family is -ust my mother' sister' "rother and I and luc!ily for us m mother is *ery close with her family so her dad is my father figure. Honestly when I tell people that all they say is .oh Im so sorry to hear that.. %hen ii usually say /honestly I wouldnt want it any other way.. $y dad does not e*en come close to half the man my grandfather is and I than! god e*eryday that I ha*e a wonderful family who has my "ac! no matter what. %his is what I call home. 1/,0/14 Daily writing 1iti2enship 34am5 1. 67 stars' num"er of states 2. eorge Washington' 8arac! +"ama 3. $ayflower' Indians helped pilgrims

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1/,</14 Daily writing /Ha*ing a place to go =is home. Ha*ing someone to lo*e=is family. Ha*ing "oth=is a "lessing.. Donna Hedges. I completely agree with this >uote "ecause family means the world to me and they ha*e always "een there for me no matter what. 8oth sides of my family are e4tremely close with each other. For e4ample e*ery )unday around 4 all of my aunts' uncles and cousins get together and my grandpas house and we all ha*e dinner together. 1/07/14 Daily Writing %hin! a"out a moment in time' ha*ing to do with family' and -ournal a healthy paragraph a"out it. It could "e a 6 minute con*ersation that you will ne*er forget or a 0 wee! *acation in )pain that pro*ided lots of laughs and fun. It was my sophomore year of high school and e*erything in my world had turned around when my grandmother got sic! with cancer. # couple of months "efore she dies we all went on our family "each trip to Hilton Head Island in )outh 1arolina. Im from a pretty "ig family so there were ,6 of us all together that whole wee! of ?une and I remem"er it li!e it was yesterday( We all put aside her sic!ness and we laughed and played games and we all en-oyed life li!e it was our last day on earth( It was hands down the "est "each trip I ha*e e*er "een on and I would do anything to "e "ac! there at any moment( ,/4/14 Daily writing What was the "est super "owl commercial? $y fa*orite commercial from the super "owl had to "e the Doritos commercial. It was a commercial a"out a mom as!ing her children to help her unload the car. %he "ig "rother ta!es off "efore the little "rother and then the little "rother whistles o*er the dog and gets on the dogs "ac! and gets to the Doritos "efore the "ig "rother(( )+ F@AAB(( ,/11/14 Daily writing I am most familiar with the $C# formatting. I ha*e A+ idea what the other formats are li!e. I li!e how easy the $C# formatting is to go "y and a lot of people use it. I do thin!

it is important to ha*e a wor!s citied "ut not necessarily at the peer re*iew. )ome people li!e me ta!e longer to put those tings together so as long as they ha*e it "y the final draft I thin! it would "e o!. ,/1D/14 Daily Writing When it comes to direct >uotes I find it *ery hard to rely on them. %hey -ust are not my things. I feel li!e direct >uotes are tric!y "ecause if you mess up a little "it you can get caught for plagiarism. )o with saying that I dont do direct >uotes "ecause I am too scared I am going to do something wrong and I will get called out for plagiarism. ,/,6/14 Daily writing %he >uote that relates the most to me would "e /In much of society' research means to in*estigate something you dont !now or understand.=Aeil #rmstrong When it comes to doing research I automatically thin! a"ut leaning something new. I a "ig fan in leaning things that I dont !now and I lo*e doing a lot of research. ,/,E/14 Daily writing When if comes to writing papers a"out e4plored and argued situation I am *ery familiar with "oth. %hin!ing "ac! to past topics and past papers I ha*e had >uite a few papers on "oth of these. For e4ample my short in>uiry pro-ect I am doing it on $elanoma. I thought I !new a lot a"out this topic "ut after doing all of the research I now !now so much information I didnt !now and how useful the information will "e when I put it into my paper. 4/71/14 Daily writing When it comes to procrastinating I am hands down the >ueen. It should honestly -ust "e my middle name' the >uote I pic!ed for this daily writing was /procrastinating is a thief of time.. When it comes to me and doing things I will always say I will do it in an hour or after this show' then the how or show will pass and I say it again and again until it is hours "efore the assignment is due. )o I need to start to learn that procrastinating doesnt sol*e anything and that you would "e "etter off doing it sooner than later. 4/E/14 Daily writing In our semester long multimodal pro-ect we are loo!ing at our topic from any and all angles at we can thin! of. Why is it important to focus on the o"scure and not the

o"*ious? What is something a"out your topic that is so o"*ious' it doesnt need to "e stated' "ut could "e considered !nown entity for your audience. For our semester long multimodal pro-ect we are doing the affects on twitter in the society today. Its important to focus on the o"scure "ecause it is gi*ing people a chance to learn a"out that information than learning a"out the o"*ious. With saying that' there are a lot of o"scure things that we can focus on throughout our semester long pro-ect. )omething a"out our topic that is so o"*ious is the >uestion what twitter is. $ostly e*eryone !nows that twitter is' it is a social media app. 4/17/14 Daily writing When loo!ing for facts/data/statistics to support the *iews you ha*e a"out your topic' thin! a"out the following >uestionsF 1. What sources do you see! out first? 2. How do you !now those facts/data/statistics are accurate or credi"le? 3. #re there sources that you consider unrelia"le or inaccurate and would ne*er use them for academic purpose? %he sources that I usually see! out after first are the ones in the li"rary so that I !now that they will "e relia"le sources. %hen after see!ing through those sources I will go to appro*e relia"le we"sites to gather some information. Bes there are many sources that are going to "e relia"le and unrelia"le. Wi!ipedia and those types of we"sites are sometimes not relia"le and gi*e off false information. 4/16/14 Daily writing We all !now that good writing does not /-ust happen.. We ha*e to wor! at it. Here are three >uotes "elow that pertain to writing as a process. #s we are in the last classes "efore presentation of your semester long multimodal pro-ect' I was you to thin! a"out your own writing process and your process for the semester long modal pro-ect. ;ic! on of >uotes "elow that "est descri"es what you went through. /%he first draft of anything is shit. 3rnest Hemingway. I chose this >uote to write a"out "ecause when it comes to writing papers for classes I always ma!e up some "ull crap rough draft and I usually ma!e up ideas that dont always go together. %hen for my second rough draft I will usually ta!e the ideas that ma!e the most sense to me and se them for my final paper. $ost of the time all of the ideas usually come together. 4/1E/14 Daily Writing We all want to "e successful with our semester long pro-ect and the 3=portfolio' so use this time to ma!e a laundry list of what you still need to doF 1. I need to clean up my e=portfolio so it is easier to na*igate

2. I need to finish putting the last "it of information into my semester long pro-ect. 3. I need to figure out what DW and W; I am missing. 4. I need to re*ise my paper one more time.