My approach to active and critical reading is typically to summarize paragraphs, sentences, and sections in my own words and asking questions of the text as they come up. I feel that in order to rephrase a section it forces you to think about what it means and if you are confused then you can … [Read more…]
Peer review is a great start to learning how to revise a writing draft. While writing there is going to be multiple drafts written, which come from looking back at the piece and revising parts that do not make sense or could be better if they were placed in a different part of the essay. … [Read more…]
Along with being able to integrate quotes and interpret them into your writing, being able to cite those sources is also a very important part of writing. If you use any person’s ideas or writing in your writing, then it must be cited, if not then this is plagiarism. This is wrong because it is … [Read more…]
I have been annotating since middle school, and it is one of my favorite strategies that I use when reading. I will mostly rewrite the main ideas that I find in the paper in my own words. I do this because it is one way that helps me to remember what the essay is about … [Read more…]
Language is how we communicate. Language does not have to be vocal, it is any expression that is used to communicate with other people, such as sign language or different symbols. Without language people would not be able to understand each other and the world around them. Everything has a name to it and without … [Read more…]
Is Art the New Cure: How Art Therapy is Being Used as a Way to Treat Depression There are millions of people who suffer from mental illness every year. It can come in multiple different forms that can be both seen or hidden. Depression is a type of mental illness that can be developed by … [Read more…]
Brainstorming Essay
The problem that I chose to look into was mental illness and how art therapy can affect it. I specifically chose to focus on schizophrenia as a mental illness. In the future I plan to study/work with people who have any form of mental illness, but I have always thought that schizophrenia was interesting and … [Read more…]
TREAC Paragraph Art can be used as a way to expand our knowledge of different scientific processes and see them through different perspectives. While the scientific process is good in some areas, it is also flawed in other aspects. In her article, The Future of Science… is Art?, Jonah Lehrer explains how science would not … [Read more…]
