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Could letting students have their phones out during class for educational purposes help students stay more focused? Well, some people think that it will work and others think it won’t work because, if students have their phones out during class, the students aren’t going to use them for educational purposes, but the people that do think that it will work probably think it will work with the proper supervision that the students would be under. Although students’ cell phones aren’t allowed to be out during class currently, students should be able to have their cell phones out during class because they can be really useful for presentations, notes, school work, etc.. but cell phones can be really useful. Even though cell phones can be really distracting during school they can be really helpful and can keep a student’s grade at a passing level. It will take time to adjust if teachers allow students to use their phones for class work, but I doubt that it will take a long time for it to be adjusted to considering the fact that a lot of students are on their phones all the time when they get out of school.

In college, I will have to use effective writing skills in all my classes to complete research papers, essay tests and communicate with professors. Throughout my education, writing strategies persisted to be a challenge for me. I dreaded writing because I could never find ways to transition my thoughts from my mind to the paper. Ironically, a class that petrified me due to the amount of required writing ended up helping me in numerous ways. English 1301 and my professor prepared me for college and real life by giving me a foundation of effective learning strategies.

I think without the knowledge from this class I would not have done as well as I did on that paper. That is why I am grateful for this class because it helps me write papers for others classes and do well. In the end, Dual English Comp has caused me a lot of stress but it has also opened my mind up to writing a successful college paper. I learned new things from writing a thesis to the correct apostrophe positions, to how to cite things correctly. My high school English class never taught me any of the things I have learned in here, so now I can proudly say when I go off to college that I know how to write a college academic essay because of Dual English

I did not understand the purpose of the essay so I wrote about what I thought altering public space meant. After reading the assigned reading I still did not understand what was being asked of me and this is where I should have emailed my instructor for clarity rather than guessing. If I would have had a better understanding on the assignment rather than going into the assignment guessing if I was doing it correctly I would have gotten a better score than I got. There was some misuse of commas and even commas splices included in the essay. In previous course and now I do not know how to correctly use commas I did not really understand the concept whenever my

I came into this class thinking it was going to be just like high school. Unfortunately, College Writing One is far more complicated than high school. I will continue to grow while learning many methods to improve my writing skills. Trying to improve your paper by not using the same words over and over again is more difficult than most people think. Another struggle is trying to find an advanced word selection to replace those words we tend to use often.

I think it’s ridiculous for a student to make such excuses! It made me angry when I read that some student’s lie about a relative’s death so that they can get excused from an assignment, how could somebody do that!? And who would want that irresponsible student to work for them after they graduate, or if they graduate from college. She explained so many different excuses in the article and I was actually entertained reading them. Why continue to attend college if you are never able to turn in work on

Young’s work missed its mark with me. Unfamiliar with his dialect, I had difficulty understanding what he was trying to communicate. His personal attacks on Mr. Stanley Fish, President Obama, and Mr. Grassley left me disenchanted with his work. I thought I was reading a glorified blog. Even after several readings, my comprehension did not match that of our instructor.

Ever since elementary school, he was put into programs where students had a hard time understanding the concepts of writing, but in time through the combination of taking foreign language classes and taking full advantage of the program, he did improve his writing skills. Another weakness that the author has that all traits have in common is adapting to online classes. He had past issues with taking online classes due to a combination of miscommunication, misunderstanding of assignments, and little to no assistance from previous professors. To reinforce the author’s issue regarding online classes, utilizing an article from a source that not only focuses of their issues, he will explain further the correlations between the article’s and the author’s issue regarding online classes (Shore, n.d., para. 1).

The rivalry between students who believe they should be able to use their cell phones in class and teachers who believe them to be disrespectful has caused a ripple effect that now bleeds through many classrooms roaring its controversial head. And here we are stuck in an ongoing battle seldom won by students. The position that students should not be able to misuse their cell phones in a classroom setting is one held by the author of “Today 's Lesson: Life in the Classroom Before Cellphones” Louise Katz, who believes that “those halcyon days” were over (Katz). Likewise, Zoya Kahn, the author of “Why Cell Phones Do Not Belong In The Classroom” has a similar stance on the topic, Kahn states that “it is in everyone’s interest for instructors to

Argument Essay Graphic Organizer Hook:Is technology a distraction or a good thing? Line:Technology is a distraction from kids to adults. Argument/Claim/Thesis:Technology is a distraction because these days everyone is on there phones and it’s a distraction from their work because they can’t get off their phone long enough to get anything done. ______________________________________________ Reason #1:Technology is a distraction because it enables students to focus on their work. 2 Example:Professor Rosen of California State University, Dominguez Hills did a study on high school students to figure out how technology is a distraction and how it affected their study habits.