half-way blog #2

Where have you come as far in regards to the unit? 

• Well at first, I really did not know what to do for my topic or what to write about or what I thought was interesting. I have my topic now and I think it is interesting about learning about how making one stupid choice on one day can change your whole life. So far, my topic is pretty good, but that is all I have so far. 

What have you learned, give specifics?

• I have learned that it is hard to pick topics if you do not know what to do. One big thing I have learned is that I am a very detailed person. I guess I am detailed person and guess that means I need structure with my assignments. I have learned this because in this class it is not as structure as must of my English classes have been in the past. This also could be from teacher in high school and grade school not letting me pick whatever I want for my topic and decide how I want to do thinks. I have always been told by my teachers that I was not good at writing because I was not good at spelling and grammar, but that does not mean I am a good writing. 

 What questions do you still have?

•  How are you grading this project in the end? 
•  What all are we do for this project? 

Is there something that you just really don’t understand?

• Well I still really don’t know if I did my rubric/criteria right. I really don’t understand what you want from this project in terms of the information or assignments. 

 What do you think you are doing really well?

•  I just started figuring out what I really want to do for my topic or what I find interesting that will be relevant to Illinois State. I think I have done some good research for just figuring out my topic. I have done good research because I have been searching for the right topic and I did not give up until I found the right one I wanted to do. In all and all I search through a lot of articles on drunk driving to find out if this would be the right topic for me. Also, I have been doing good on figuring out what I want to do with my topic. 

Is there anything else that you really want to talk about?

• I was just wondering about my topic, should I try and find facts on DUIs on Illinois State students? 

Use specific examples from both your work as well as the other work read/examined in class in order to more successfully back up your claims.

• I think to be successfully with backing up my claims would be based on the facts and statistics on drunk driving. The facts could be what is drunk driving? What is the legal limit on drunk driving? I think I could show different statistics on drunk driving with the super bowl and drunk driving in general. What are some of the statistic on fatality of drunk driving. How many people actually go to the super bowl and of how many of them drink. I can ask really good questions to the person I am interviewing to get really good information on the topic I am doing.