Final Portfolio

                                                    Final Portfolio
In my portfolio I am going to have my final fourth paper which is also my major rewrite of my first paper, my annotated bibliography, and a peer review that I believe I did a good job on. I think that my fourth paper should also be my major rewrite because of how much I improved it and how much it changed from the first time I turned it in. This being my first paper and also my last paper using it as a rewrite helps me to show you how much I really improved throughout the course. This paper really grew as you can tell by reading it and I just didn't think if I did another rewrite that I would have as much improvement on a paper.  I am really proud of how much I improved this paper and how I can tell that my writing has improved too.

In my fourth paper I argue that even though writing scholars have previously talked about how certain things shouldn't be considered plagiarism and how some things that are considered plagiarism should not receive the punishments given, nothing has been done about it yet. I use three types of "plagiarism" in my discussion. The first type I mention is copying and pasting and I don't really talk much about this subject because I believe it does not need discussion and it is just plagiarism no argument. The second thing I talk about is patchwriting and how I believe that it does not deserve harsh punishments given and is kind of a complement. The third thing that I discuss is using citations incorrectly which does not deserve the harsh punishments given. I mention how teacher need to put the amount of energy given to catching and punishing students into teaching them how to properly cite things and and what needs to be cited. I used many different sources and different writing scholars to help me in proving my point in this article. I considered what other people might say to argue against me and discussed why those arguments would be wrong. I came up with my idea of if the things I mentioned are going to be considered plagiarism still that they should have different levels of punishment for different levels of plagiarism. I think that this is a good paper to put into my portfolio because it has everything that was asked to be in it and I personally think that it is that best paper I have written this year.
4th paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/85852124/4th-Paper-Final

I am putting this is here because I think it does a good job of showing you my ability to research well. It took me a very long time to do this annotated bibliography and I used most of the sources in my paper. This shows my ability to research well because I needed to have an idea of what I was doing in order to find all of these sources. There were a lot of sources that I had to find for this and finding a way to use them all really shows a strong ability to do this type of research. I made this to do my fourth paper which is also my best paper so I think it shows that doing this really helped me in doing my paper so I thought it should be included in my bibliography. This might need some work in understanding what exactly all the sources were saying but over all I thought I did this very well.
annotated bibliography: http://www.scribd.com/doc/83411938/Annotated-Bibliography

I am using my responses my response to Katies paper four on procrastination to show you my ability to respond to a peers writing rhetorically. It is difficult to be able to respond to another persons writing because you aren't in their head and don't know exactly what they are thinking and why they did things the way that they did. It is even more difficult to respond to a peers writing because we are both in the same class learning the same things so its hard to be able to act like you know what your saying when really the both of you are just trying to learn yourselves. I thought this response would be better to put in than my other peer responses because I felt a little more comfortable with doing this one because it being our last paper I felt I knew more of what I was looking for. I had a lot of practice doing the other responses and this one to me really seemed like I did the best correcting. In this I looked for everything that was asked for in the paper and made sure that she had it and had corrections for other parts of the paper.
peer response: http://www.scribd.com/doc/85857901/Katies-Peer-Response

I believe that I deserve a A in this class. I might not have been the main speaker is discussions and I didn't have a strong opinion on everything that was discussed but I felt that I really took in everything that we learned. I completed all of the assignments on time and never had an issue with completing anything by the due date. I made comments on other peoples blog each response. It is difficult for me to really understand reading on my own so I listened and really tried to understand during each discussion. If you were to go back and look at all my paper you can really see how I improved and took into consideration for my next paper what you had talked to me about in the previous paper. I came into this class not very confident about writing in fact I hated it and just lived with the fact that I knew I was horrible at it. This class really changed my view on this I am much more confident in my writing now and think that the article we read in this class were a big part of this new view on myself as a writer. The improvement from my first paper to my fourth is a perfect example of how I improved and I believe this show how hard I have tried in this class to become a better writer and for this I deserve the A I am asking for. If you look at all the things that I have said here I think that you would have to agree with me on this.

In my fourth paper it really shows my ability to paraphrase, quote, and summarize different sources. I used a lot of different scholars to write this paper and using this helps to show that I could do all of these things. I used the sources to help me to find a problem with all of the things that these different scholars are saying and come up with my own idea about the issue. I did a good job with peer work in this class I believe because whenever we worked in groups my groups and I really did a good job of discussing what was asked. Also, I responded well to other people blogs and papers. In the group project that we did I really thought me and my group worked well together. I think that my writing style has even changed throughout this course for the better.

I hope that I was able to convince you to change my grade for this course. I really tried well and think that I have developed a lot sense the beginning of this quarter. I enjoyed the way that you have this course designed and I think that it made more room for improvement and gave students the ability to gain confidence in their writing.  I struggled with understanding all of the articles and wasn't the person to stick out in the conversation in class but I really improved in this course and tried my hardest to do well. All of the class discussions were a great way to help all the students get involved and really say what they thought about what we were reading which was very interesting. I liked being able to see what other students were thinking because it helped to develop my thinking process. I also really liked the fact that we all got to have individual meetings with you because I think that helped so much with helping us understand how to improve our papers. Please look at my progress in this class and consider everything that I have said because I believe I do deserve a A. Thanks for all your advise on writing I really think it will help me in writing for future classes.

Blog:http://mackenzicallander.blogspot.com/
paper 4: http://www.scribd.com/doc/85852124/4th-Paper-Final
annotated bib: http://www.scribd.com/doc/83411938/Annotated-Bibliography
peer response:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/85857901/Katies-Peer-Response

Paper 4 Cover Letter for Teacher

With this paper I was trying to say that all of the different things that are considered as plagiarism do not deserve the same punishments. I described the different things that are considered plagiarism and wrote why patchwriting and misusing citations should not receive the same punishments as copying and pasting someones work and mentioned using different levels of punishment for these issues. I described how giving students another chance to fix things would help improve their writing. I mentioned how teachers jump right into punishing because of the policies that they have to follow and how the policies should be changed. I understood how people would argue that everyone deserves credit for their work and acknowledged what others might say. I think that my idea is working well and I have good points. I feel that maybe I might need to go more into different ideas but I am not sure which ones or how I should go about doing that. My peer review fixed some grammatical errors and gave me advice on using different words in different areas and changing some sentences which I did. Also, she told me to elaborate more on the idea of the different levels which I tried to do but am not sure how I should go about doing it more.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/84547376/Plagiarism-and-Punishment

Paper 4 Cover Letter

With this paper I was trying to say that all of the different things that are considered as plagiarism do not deserve the same punishments. I described the different things that are considered plagiarism and wrote why patchwriting and misusing citations should not receive the same punishments as copying and pasting someones work. I described how giving students another chance to fix things would help improve their writing. I mentioned how teachers jump right into punishing because of the policies that they have to follow and how the policies should be changed. I understand how people would argue that everyone deserves credit for their work and acknowledged what others might say. I think that my idea is working well and I have good points. I know my paper is missing something and needs to be longer so if you have any suggestion for when needs to be added or talked about more that would help me a lot.  If i had more time I would have probably read through a lot more articles.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/83850902/Plagiarism-and-Punishment

Intro

We all know what plagiarism is. Recently there has been a lot of different conversations going on about what fits into the category of plagiarism. Teachers are frequently accusing students of plagiarizing and punish it harshly. Should all of the different things that people put into the category receive the same punishment? Wether students are intentionally plagiarizing or not they will still receive the same levels of punishment. But should students be punished for things that they never learned from their teachers?



 to be continued.........

Annotated Bibliography

http://www.scribd.com/doc/83411938/Annotated-Bibliography