Wednesday, January 5, 2011

First Day of Class

Hello All,

For this trial run, briefly introduce yourself: your name, major, and one surprising detail about yourself.

Then briefly list what you consider to be one of your writing strengths and weaknesses.

33 comments:

  1. Hi, my name is Diala, I am a liberal studies major, and my birthday is on Christmas.

    When it comes to writing, my strength would be analyzing, and my weakness is grammar.

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  2. Hi, my name is Regina. I'm majoring in Liberal Studies and concentrating in Special Education. I have a child with Autism and this sparked my interest in special education.

    My writing strengh is developing ideas and my weakness is keeping those thoughts organized.

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  3. Hello everyone! My name is Ashley Corvera, I am a psychology major/ CAFS minor. I just got married this past summer and I have a dog named Kevin. Sorry to anyone in the class named Kevin :)

    My writing strength(s) would have to be I can be creative but my weakness would have to be I can be "wordy" when I write.

    Good luck to everyone this quarter.

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  4. My name is Gonzalo and my major is physics. One surprising detail about me is that I sleep a lot. Grammar is probably on of my weakness while structure is one of my writing strengths.

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  5. My name is Baleria I am a sociology major, a surprising detail about myself is that i am the first in my family to attend college. A strength in writing is that I have many ideas on what to write, but when it comes to writing them down on paper I have trouble connecting them to the topic, or making them understandable to the other reader.

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  6. My name is Derek. I am a mathematics major. I am taking this class as a corequisite for math 450. Although I do not enjoy reading or writing, I am proficient at college level writing. My math professor is not willing to allow me to take the GWAR test in February.

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  7. Hi, my name is Ariana.
    I am a criminal justice major. One of my favorite things to do is to go to the gun range.
    One of my writing strengths would be my ability to form a solid argument. However, one of my weaknesses would be my struggle to think abstractly. I am more of a concrete thinker.

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  8. Hello my name is Roy, my major is Criminal Justice, and I am a big time Lakers, Raiders, and Dodgers fan. One of my writing strengths would be research and citation and my weakness would be commas.

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  9. Hello!
    I’m Stephanie my major is art history and I make jewelry.
    I have a lot great in-depth thought when writing and I’m good at analyzing subjects.
    My weakness is my grammar and spelling. I struggle with this area in my writing.

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  10. My name is Cristina, I'm a Psych major and I love coffee and chocolate.

    My writing weakness is that I can never concentrate long enough to write a good paper. As far as a stength, I don't know of any yet.

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  11. Calie Wright

    I am an Anthropology major and I rescue abandoned cats and dogs and find them new permanent home. I am great at doing research for papers but I have trouble writing effective and insightful essays off the top of my head.

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  12. My name is Sandra. I am a liberal studies major with a concentration in special education. One surprising detail about myself is that I am the first from both sides of my family to graduate from a junior college. I will also be the first to graduate from a university. One of my strengths is that I can come up with ideas, but I often have trouble writing them down on paper

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  13. Kevin ,
    From Compton
    Liberal studies
    Weakness is structure
    Strong point is idea and brain storming
    Work at a funeral home

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  14. Hi my name is Amber. I am a Liberal Studies major graduating in June. I have a 7 yr old son.

    My weakness in writing is comma splices and my strentgh is spelling.

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  15. My name is serena. I am a psychology major and a criminal justice minor. I have a son name zacharias, who will be 4 january 30th. I am not a very good writer. My weakness is that I am not good with grammar.

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  16. Hello! My name is Nicole and my major is CAFS. One detail about me would be that I am a mom to a wonderful 5 year old daughter.

    When it comes to writing I would have to admit that it is not my strong point! I often have writers block and putting all my thoughts down on paper in a logical and effective form does not always come easy for me. On the other hand, I usually do pretty well grammatically.

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  17. Hi my name is Zully I'm a CAFS major and should be graduating this Winter quarter! I would like to teach grades Kinder-3rd.
    I have always struggled with writing, not sure if I have any strengths, but I always work very hard and have never given up on any of my goals. Hope this class helps improve my writing skills. Good luck to everyone.

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  18. Hello my name is Joanna my major is liberal studies, and this is my junior year here.

    What I consider one of my strengths in English is that I can take my time, and organize it. One of my weaknesses are citation.

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  19. Hello, my name is Chika Nwanonenyi, and my major is Nursing. One interesting thing about me, is that I visited Nigeria in 2008.


    One of my writing strenghts is being able to combine quotes within a sentence. My weakness is using proper punctuation.

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  20. Maria
    liberal studies major
    writing strength: I always seem to know what to write. I have a ton of ideas all the time.
    weakness: run-on sentences

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  21. Hello my name is Francisco and I am majoring in Liberal Studies. I enjoy playing soccer.
    One of my writing strengths is using transitional words. In contrast, I don't do well in long papers, like 10 page papers.

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  22. Hello Professor,
    My name is Melissa L. Sherman and I am a Registered Nurse that has decided to step outside of her comfort zone and return to school to eventually complete a double masters program. My husband thinks I am insane and feels my life was complicated enough without adding to my stress levels. I intend to finish my career working as a Nurse Practitioner and as a Clinical Nurse Educator. I put myself through nursing school as a single mother of four children, and have become the spokesperson for single mothers everywhere (in my own imagination) that if you want something bad enough... you will suck it up to succeed. I teach for no pay a customer satisfaction and personal success class at Milan Institute, in addition to my regular job as a full-time nurse at San Joaquin Hospital in the Telemetry Department. I write a blog for nurses at nursetank.blogspot.com, and find that it the perfect outlet for my sarcastic attitude. My writing strength is that I attempt to be uplifting a humorous in my postings, but tend to have run-on sentences and make errors in punctuation. I enjoy my new grandsons, that I recently inherited when I married my husband, and I spoil them often. I enjoy traveling and photography.

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  23. My name is Patricia. I am a Psychology major and Spanish minor. Surprising detail about me is that I look like I am Caucasian and everybody I meet think I am but I am actually Mexican. Once I tell people I am actually Mexican and my first language is Spanish they are so shocked and don’t believe me unless I speak in Spanish and tell them where my parents are from.Both my parents immigrated to the United States when they were 16 years old.

    My strength is writing is that it comes easy to me and I rarely get a writer’s block. I enjoy writing about anything and everything because I like to see how far I can get writing about any topic especially the ones that I am not too fond of and find very boring. My weakness would be that I still do not have a very strong vocabulary and frankly, my writing sometimes sounds too simple because of my simple vocabulary word choice.

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  24. Hello,
    My name is Thalia, I am a liberal studies major. One surprising thing about me is that I am left handed. I would say that one of my writing weaknesses is grammatical mistakes. I am not sure of the strengths.

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  25. Hello, my name is Hilda. I am a psychology major. One surprising thing about me is that I love to paint and draw. One of my strengths in writing is that I am creative. Some of my weaknesses are that I am not very organized and I get writers block.

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  26. Hi, my name is Lauri. This is my first quarter at CSUB. I was a Nursing major, but due to an injury last year, I had to switch to Liberal Arts. I run marathons. Writing is my weakness. I am hoping by the end of this class I will be able to articulate my thoughts on to paper.

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  27. Amber's post is funny.

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  28. Hello!

    My name is Bryce and I am a Linguistics Major looking to pursue Speech Pathology. I work at the CSUB SRC on the rock wall staff.

    As for strengths in writing, though I haven't done any in several years, I believe my strength would be being capable of arguing my point. However structure and syntax have always been a challenge, and I have a strong distaste for research.

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  29. Hi my name is Maricela. I am a liberal studies major. I enjoy working with students.
    One of my writing strengths is that I am an organized writer and my weaknesses is that I need to do better on research papers.

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  30. My name is Javier Calderon, and my major is Liberal Studies, something surprising is that I’m always reading something for leisure; I am what could be called a voracious reader.

    I consider myself somewhat of a creative writer, but my grammar sometimes is a problem. It also takes me a lot of time to come up with ideas. I prefer leisurely writing better as opposed to structured (stressful) writing. Consequently, the in-class essays will be very challenging for me.

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  31. Hey my name is Ashly Anfield, I am currently a student at Cal State Bakersfield and my major is Criminal Justice. The one thing that is surprising about me is that I have a one year old son.

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  32. Hi
    My name is Marco. I am a Math major. One surprising thing about myself is that coffee makes me sleepy.

    My writing weakeness is that I start to think too much about what I want to write.
    My strength is that I come up with good ideas to write about.

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  33. Hi my name is Rosa Mendoza, I’m a Liberal Studies major and this is my third quarter at CSUB. One surprising detail about my self is that I like to spend time with my family.

    One of my biggest writing weaknesses is that I run out of ideas easily when it comes to writing, and I have problems placing the comas.

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