good thing there’s a blog… metacognition paper.
April Negrete
January 14, 2009
Metacognition Paper
How I think?!?
I’ve never stopped to think about how I think until now. My mind operates way differently than most people I know. According to the article, Thinking As A Hobby, by Mr. William Golding, I would be a grade one thinker. I think from my heart more so than from my brain. I think in a reserved way, in other words, I’m shy but I’m outgoing at the same time. I think on impulse but at the same time I don’t. How I think is very confusing but it is me.
According to my family and friends I’ve always been a very kind person. I always try to help out people when they need it. Whenever someone or something is in trouble I certainly wouldn’t say I was the first one on the scene but I would be there trying to help in some way, shape, or form. Being a loving person is how I was brought up. My parents molded my brain into that way of thinking. Others before myself. When someone needs something my brain tells my body to try and get them what they need. Its sort of become an impulse. Although at the same time I may not always want to go out of my way to show off what I do to help others or to be the center of attention [I wouldn‘t want people to talk about what I did or telling other people the whole day].
When at school, I’m usually the shy, quiet girl who doesn’t really talk so much and who keeps things to herself. However, when I hang out with friends and family outside of school I am outgoing and adventurous. I think things through before going through with them, but at the end I usually still do it. For example, during Christmas break my cousins and I were walking in Puyallup and we saw a huge hill. They dared me to go down it even though there was a possibility of landing in a lake. All of the consequences flashed through my head. I thought about drowning, hyperthermia, and things such as those. Although I thought about all of the things that could occur, I went for it. It took me a matter of seconds to decide what I wanted to do even though it was reckless, I wanted to have fun. (When my mom found out she automatically told me, “April! Think before you do!” I secretly wanted to tell her that I did think about what I was going to do before I did it ,but fortunately my parents taught me not to talk back as well.)
Whether I’m being shy or outgoing, thinking on impulse or thinking about the consequences before hand, everything has to do with how I think. For me it is very confusing and at times hard to explain the way I think to people. I guess my way of thinking is very different, but its unique, and it makes me, me. I like the way I think and I’m going to continue to do so in the same way. (Let’s hope that a little more intellectuality, maturity, and I guess experience gets mixed in too.) Analyzing how I think truly helped me learn [in a way] more about myself.
Final Sources.
Works Cited
American College of Sports Medicine. “Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 489-90.
Angier, Natalie. “Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 486-88.
Britt, Donna. “A Unique Take on Beauty.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 482-84.
Concordia University. “The University student’s guide to Body Image.” Health Information and Promotion. Concordia University. 11 Dec. 2008 <http://www-health.concordia.ca/pdf/healthinfo/bodyimage.pdf>.
National Eating Disorders Association. “Enhancing Male Body Image.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 491-92.
Sources
Works Cited
American College of Sports Medicine. “Disordered Eating and Body Image Distubances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 489-90.
Angier, Natalie. “Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 486-88.
Britt, Donna. “A Unique Take on Beauty.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 482-84.
Concordia University. “The University student’s guide to Body Image.” Health Information and Promotion. Concordia University. 11 Dec. 2008 <http://www-health.concordia.ca/pdf/healthinfo/bodyimage.pdf>.
National Eating Disorders Association. “Enhancing Male Body Image.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 491-92.
research paper.
April Negrete
AP English, Period 2
December 12, 2008
Focusing on Body Image
Everywhere we go we run into some sort of media advertisement that has the “ideal” body image on display. The media has created a body image that readers and viewers aspire to everywhere. The fact whether it is a man or woman, does not matter. In the last decades we have seen an uprising in eating disorders. Are these the effects of what the media has created?
The media has always been known to show the girls with the supermodel bodies and men with the chiseled chests. They demonstrate so much of what is a fabulous body that so many people yearn for it.
If you sit down and turn on the TV, chances are you will likely see the body image that is so desired by both men and women. Eating disorders are mostly talked over women, but has anyone ever stopped to think that men might have this problem as well? Well indeed, men have a problem with these types of disorders too. In the United States alone, it is estimated that eight-million people suffer from eating disorders. Ten percent of them being men.
research paper
April Negrete
AP English, Period 2
December 12, 2008
Focusing on Body Image
Everywhere we go we run into some sort of media advertisement that has the “ideal” body image on display. The media has created a body image that readers and viewers aspire to everywhere. The fact whether it is a man or woman, does not matter. In the last decades we have seen an uprising in eating disorders. Are these the effects of what the media has created?
The media has always been known to show the girls with the supermodel bodies and men with the chiseled chests. They demonstrate so much of what is a fabulous body that so many people yearn for it.
If you sit down and turn on the TV, chances are you will likely see the body image that is so desired by both men and women. Eating disorders are mostly talked over women, but has anyone ever stopped to think that men might have this problem as well? Well indeed, men have a problem with these types of disorders too. In the United States alone, it is estimated that eight-million people suffer from eating disorders. Ten percent of them being men.
Essay Guidelines.
Good
- used multiple sources and cited them
- combined sources with opinions to form a supported argument
- effective language and development
- well chosen examples, some of which were personal experiences
- stay on topic
- used appropriate and convincing historical examples
Bad
- abrupt transitions
- oversimplifications
- did not develop position
- weak link between argument and sources
- did not synthesize sources
- get off subject
- no citations
How dumb can we get?
The general argument made by author Susan Jacoby in her work,” How dumb can we get”, is that of the recognition of the stupidity of Americans and what we can do to fix it. She writes, “Despite an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at encouraging babies as young as six months to watch videos, there is no evidence that focusing on a screen is anything but bad for infants and toddlers.” In this passage, Jacoby is suggesting that marketing is increasing stupidity from the get go. In conclusion, Jacoby’s belief is that if we don’t do something about our education than we are going to continue to be dumber thn we used to be.
In my view, Jacoby is right, because according to the data Americans are dumbers that they used to be. More specifically, I believe that society as a whole needs to improve on intelligience. Although Jacoby might object that society is trying to improve (when in fact we’re not), I maintain that we need to improve on education in America. Therefore, i conclude that we need to solve this problem as soon as possible.
Corrected Essay.
In the essay “It’s all about the Implications”, the author, Pico Iyer, criticizes society in general while using personification to make his critique more agreeable to his audience. Pico Iyer criticizes society in general because most people do not use implication as much as they should. Pico Iyer also personifies Implication throughout his essay, and he makes the subject of Implication not being used enough more agreeable to his audience.
Pico Iyer’s critique of society as a whole is demonstrated when he says, “He’d always been able to call upon his colleague, the telephone. People loved to leave things hanging on the telephone, to hint giggle and let sentences trail.” Here he hints that society used to imply things rarely, but he [implication] could always count on conversations for people to need him, but later on Pico Iyer says, “But now the telephone, too, had a screen, and people were transmitting furious messages to one another consisting of squashed words and images and acronyms.” Implication was being used less and less as technology grew, and would eventually stop being used thanks to texting, instant messenger, and e-mail. Although Pico Iyer does criticize society in general, he still tries to personify such words as Implication, so that the problem of implication being used less and less could become more pleasant and persuadable towards the reader.
Pico Iyer personifies Implication very well. He speaks about Implication as if it was a true human being. Pico Iyer personifies Implication by referring to the word as a “he”. Iyer tells his audience about Implication’s life growing up. He says such things as, “He didn’t get picked very often when the other kids were choosing teams.” This is only one of the several ways that he personifies Implication, though you have to keep in mind that Pico Iyer doesn’t refer to Implication as a boy or a creature, but he refers to the word Implication as a spirit. It’s up to you to imagine how he [implication] is and what he looks like. What you imagine is neither wrong nor right. Pico Iyer exhibits to us throughout his essay how Implication went from somewhat needed to fading away day by day as technology finds new ways for us to communicate without the necessity of speaking.
Pico Iyer makes the subject of Implication being used less often easier for his audience to agree with by talking about Implication as if he were a person. He writes about Implication like it was a biography or a story of a young boy being an outcast throughout his life. Pico Iyer writes things such as, “As he grew up, Implication found himself running with a not very fast crowd — Irony, Irreverence, Adoration, Poetry.” This is referring to schools situations where most people find themselves not in the popular cliques but in the outcast groups in some point of their lives. Iyer makes him [implication] more relatable to people and causes people feel sorry for him. Iyer shows he is making the reader feel sorry for Implication when he talks about how much of an outcast Implication continues to be during his lifetime. When it says, “His own picture was next to the sentence that read, “These are the ones we need to lock up forever,” it refers to how people keep implication out of their vocabulary and way of speech for as time continues.
Throughout Pico Iyer’s essay, “It’s All About The Implications”, Iyer persuades his audience to continue with the use of implication in their vocabulary and speaking style. By personifying Implication, Iyer makes his essay more palatable and persuadable to his audience.
