In Sherrie Turkle’s TED talk Connected, but Alone?, she claims a lot about how she feels about technology and what she believes that it is doing to us as humans and as individuals interacting with one another. The main idea of Turkle’s TED talk was that we, as individuals and as a group, are letting technology … [Read more…]
As a writer, I have always had the habit of using run-on sentences or putting commas where they don’t belong. After reading The Little Seagull‘s tips on comma splices and fused sentences, I got some really helpful advice. For example, I didn’t realize that comma splices, which I use a lot, are often seen as … [Read more…]
I will most likely use iMovie as my way to do my digital piece to my literary narrative. I have had a lot of experience with iMovie throughout middle school and high school because it was automatically installed on the MacBook laptops and I would always play around with it. For my digital project, I … [Read more…]
After re-reading Sherman Alexie’s article Superman and Me, I picked up on some of his narrative elements that he used in his writing in order to keep his readers locked in and also to make his writing better. One of the methods I noticed was that he uses imagery. When talking about how he was … [Read more…]
Mary Focused, caring, hard-working, respectful Lover of playing basketball Student of nursing Who feels anxious about taking this class Who hopes to learn how to become a better writer in this class Who fears the workload in this class Who loved the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar as a child Who read the Hunger Games … [Read more…]
