Unit 10 Post

Hello everyone,

Well, we did it. We have just entered the last week of this course. I would first like to take this time to say “hats off to our Professor, she was great”. I would also like to say it was great working with all of you. I wish everyone the best of luck in your future travel with Kaplan.

For all you new students out there, just remember you can do anything you put your minds to do. Make it a goal you have to accomplish and it will happen. When fist coming into Comp II, as well as Comp I, I was so very nervous. I always have been the type to get really nervous and sick to my stomach when it came down to having to write a paper. Knowing you have to make sure to watch out for plagiarism, to use the right in-text citation, the right way to do your references and where to use a comma or not. It all seems so overwhelming, but trust me after taking these courses (Comp. I & Comp. II) you will feel a lot better about having to sit down and write a paper or even a project. This course is not as bad as you may think; trust me I was the one thinking I was never going to make it through these courses. But once I entered this course and found out that we would be building our paper from week to week that alone lifted a lot from my chest. Then the Professor threw a very good curve ball by having us write a first draft and posting it so everyone could look at. I know you are thinking right now, “Man that is not good, what if I really mess up, or even I don’t want everyone to think I’m not good at this.” I even thought when she first said this that everyone was going to look at mine and say, “This girl cannot write a paper for nothing.” But come to find out it was great to have someone give you advice and help point out your errors. I believe in the long run it saved me from a lot of errors with grammar and punctuation. I still got some punctuation errors as well as citation errors, but not near what I would have had if it was not for my peers, so I thank everyone for that. I will have to work a little more on those things, but at least I can sit down and start a paper without feeling like my chest is caving in. LOL

Just remember this: Your fears are challenges, challenges are what give us strength, and strength is what helps you later on in life to be able to overcome anything. We cannot learn everything in a day, so we use each day to learn something new. That is what makes life fun; you never know what you are going to wake up to. And believe me living in a house with 5 kids, two dogs, two cats, a bunny, fish take, and a husband you act like the kids. I never know what I’m waking up to. One thing I do know when I go to bed, I will be waking up to something I did not know the day before. So no matter what the next day have to bring me whether it be good or bad, I know I will have learned something new or how to deal with that days challenge. So with that in mind the day was never a loss, it is always a gain.

Unit 9 Post

Hello everyone:

Well here we are, in our final stretch of our course as well as our final project. I have written my paper on teenage pregnancy, for anyone that has not known that. When I started writing this paper, I was so nervous and did not think I was going to be able to pull it off. However, with all the help from the Professor and you classmates I really think I can say I feel pretty good about my paper. Well at least with the part of having all the information that needed to be included. While researching this paper I have learned so much about the problem with teenage pregnancy and how it has grown over the years. I have also learned how to do better research as well as different techniques in proof reading a paper. I know one things I will be taking from this class with me, is how to overcome being so nervous on writing a paper. With all the different things I have learned, I feel that I can comfortably research, write and proof read a paper now. Well good luck everyone with your final draft.  

Unit 8 Post

Hello everyone, so here we are only two weeks to go after this. I’m guessing by now we all should be putting the finishing touches on our papers, when I first entered this class I could not stop worrying about if I would be able to write a scientific paper or not because I never really was good at writing. Now here I am in part two of College Comp writing another paper. This was not as bad as I thought it was going to be, although I do have to say the hardest part was coming up with a thesis statement. This was also the hardest part the first time around, which is not saying much due to the fact it is also one of the most important parts of the paper. Although the way that Dr. M. made things in a step-by-step process made it a lot easier for me. I also have trouble in any paper I have to write knowing what information to include and not to include. When researching for information it is hard to be able to keep it all in order and how I want to put it all together. I guess this is why I liked the unit where we had to research the different learning styles and how each one worked.

I feel that the comments that I have received in my blog as well as my discussion post have been very helpful, and spirit lifting. It seemed just when I was getting worried about how my paper was coming or how worried I was even writing one someone would be there to write a comment to left my spirits ups and help see me through it. I hope to continue my blog with my classmates as well as other classmates in my up-coming classes.

Unit 7 Post

Hello everyone,

I cannot believe we only have three more weeks left after this week. Things have really moved fast on writing this paper, which I was really nervous about to begin with. I do have to say I really like how the Professor setup this class. It worked out great for me, how each week was building my paper, now we had to do a draft that was basically my whole paper with just a little more to write. To top things off she now has us reading each other’s paper, I mean think about it she really is setting us all up to be able to get an “A” how great is that. All we have to do is follow her step-by-step plan. I can remember in the first part of this course I was worried about if the writing center was going to get back to me in time, now I have the writing center and all my classmates as well helping me with my paper. This is really a good process for writing a great paper, for me at least anyway. So hats off to the Professor, she was great in the helping process. Not only can I get my paper written with less nerves, I now have all kinds of different eyes looking at my paper and giving me either suggestions or helping me with spelling and grammar errors. Now I have the opportunity of learning from others as well as my own mistakes, which brings me to something that I found very interesting as well as shocking, while doing research on my paper. I discovered that while teenage pregnancy is raising so is the percentage of baby shaken syndrome, this is due to all the pressure and depression in the teen age mother. I bet this puts a lot of pressure on the parents or grandparents of the teen mom. I was also shock to find out the there are 1.1 million teen age girls getting pregnant every year, what are these kids thinking today?

By the way, thank you so much Professor for making this class less stressful and more pro-active.

Unit 6 Post

Well hello everyone, here we are now in Unit 6. I still feel like I’m not getting anywhere on any of the papers I have to write. I have three classes this term, and go figure two of them are the ones that I’m not so great at. They would be Anatomy and Physiology II and this class Comp. II. My third class is like a second nature to me, it is Medical Office Management. This class I feel like I have to work on getting the answers, but I do not feel like I’m ready to get sick, my body cramps up, and my nervous are about to jump out of my body. Now with Anatomy and Comp, that is a totally different story, I really have to work out getting the answers to all homework and quizzes. Not to mention both of these classes are asking for me to write a paper. Which I’m not very good at, at all. In Comp. II I’m writing my paper on Teenage Pregnancy and in Anatomy, I’m writing my paper on the Respiratory System. So between all the paper writing and projects I feel like I’m sinking. Anatomy is really the hardest from them all for me, I read and re-read the chapter and sometimes I just really do not get it. I just I need it more in layman’s terms. Well I hope everyone else in the collage world is doing a lot better than me right now, and I mean that in the sense of school work as well as health wise. I have been raising five kids, which seem to keep bringing the sickness back to me. I now have landed myself in the hospital, due to amonna, what fun I’m having now. But hey I always look at things on the bright side. At least school is keeping me busy and taking my mind off this nasty food they serve, I really could go for Mc Donald’s right now. I even hate that place, but anything is better than this. Or maybe someone could sneak me a really big salad with everything on it. Also on the bright side, I guess I can get a lot of studying done, never mind scratch that. At least the studying I’m getting done will help me in the long run. Being forced to do this will help me get even better at the fears I have for these classes. 

Unit 5 Post

I cannot believe we are half way through already; time is really going by so fast. I feel like I have not got anything really started on my paper yet. I guess this is where I would tell you about my academic challenges. Which by the way happen to be this class, lol. I have never been really good at writing anything. So when I found out I was going to be in College Comp I, I have to say I got really nervous. Then come to find out there was a part two, to the class. Now I feel like my heart is in my throat and I can barely breathe. I keep telling myself everything will be alright, and I will make it through without destroying my GPA. But to tell the truth, I never had to write a scientific paper. Before this class I never even knew what one was. I hoping that sense I’m doing my paper on teenage pregnancy that I will do somewhat of a good job. Only because it is something I really would love to learn about, due to the fact I have three daughters. However, I always thought that if a teen got pregnant that she would really suffer an education. But come to find out in the research I have been doing, it is saying that the child of the teen mother, will be the one to suffer. I also learned that teen age pregnancy has grown a huge amount in the last three years, and if a teen had a baby at 15 or 16 years old they are most likely to have another on by the age of 18 years old. What are these kids thinking?

Unit 4 Post

Hello everyone well here we are in week four already, time is really flying by so fast. Just think in no time at all we will have written a scientific paper. I’m not sure about the rest of you, but for me that will be a really big deal. I really am not good at writing papers at all, a matter of fact when I knew I was taking this class and it being part II I thought great am I going to make it through. LOL Anyway, so far we have learned how to search for our references and how to cite them. Now we are being asked the question why it is so important to cite what we have looked up be to our references for our paper. Well beside the must known reason, which is plagiarism. There are also reasons that are very important to you as a student and as a person. One thing we all should live by is giving credit to where credit is due; think about it would you like to work your but off on working on a paper just for someone to come along and steal your work and take all the credit? Then there is the reason for not wanting to get kick out of school. Many schools require proper citing and have a very strong rule on plagiarism, which if you are caught doing this you will be removed from the school. And I’m sure we all have worked too hard to have it taken away now. One other reason I think it is important to cite our work is because when we are writing a paper, we are really becoming more knowledgeable, so you want to make sure you really know what you have learned and are talking about. I think that if we have a lot of citations than the more expert option we have. I have really learned a lot about my topic on teenage pregnancy and I have to say with all that I have read, I’m really blown away and worried for all those teenage girls out there now.