Wednesday, January 27, 2016

It’s Later, so Here’s the More, as Promised

Ultron takes over Iron Man's armor. Cover of I...
Ultron takes over Iron Man's armor.
Cover of Iron Man vol. 3, #48.
(Jan. 2002) Art by Udon.
 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Only the second week of classes, and I almost fell behind already.  I forgot about this blog.  I remembered about 10 minutes ago while I was brushing my teeth.  Not sure if there’s any connection there.  Anyway, about the lesson I had in not naming names.  A person of my acquaintance (is that vague enough?) recently lost his (could be her, but I’m going with him for convenience’s sake) job because of comments he made about the business that employed him.  No, he wasn’t complaining about them.  He was kind of bragging, and gave away a hint about something new coming from them.  They took this as him giving away their “secrets,” and that was that.  I don’t think he knew that they were reading his blog.  I’m going to be very careful from now on.  And yes, this entry counts, because it’s about writing and audience, and I’ll get to my project in the next entry.  I’ve pretty much settled on Avengers:  Age of Ultron, but I’m not sure about my approach.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Starting my research blog

English: A panorama of a research room taken a...
English: A panorama of a research room taken at the New York Public Library with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f/4L IS. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Welcome to my research blog for my English 102 class.  I’m a first-year student at a community college that I’m not going to name because I just had a lesson in why you shouldn’t name names (more about that later).  I did okay in 101 (I think the prof liked my grammar more than my writing; he went on and on about how he appreciated not having to mark a lot of mistakes.  But he didn’t have much to say about WHAT I wrote.  He did ask on one paper that I try not to use so many parentheticals.  I guess he had a point.).
Anyway, this term I’m going to be writing a research paper, and the materials I got on Blackboard make it sound as though this is a much bigger deal than I expected.  I mean, I’ve done research papers before, and they got good grades. 
I’m already over my 100 words, and I still haven’t said much about myself.  I’ll save that for my next post.