I was particuarly interested in Rose’s presentation on domestic violence. My sister was involved in nothing but violent relationships. The presentation put me in my sister’s shoes for a second as I studied the picture of the woman crouching in the corner…it took my sister literally years to get away from those types of relationships, but unfortunately, […]
Swing Into Exercise! Managing Bipolar Disorder with Aerobic Exercise
Years of depression. Years of anxiety and irritability. Damaged family relationships. Poor decisions. Nervous breakdowns. In-patient hospitalizations. Over dozens of different medications. Counseling for years. As I’ve struggled with Bipolar Disorder since I was a child, my main focus in life was just being able to function […]
The most important lesson I learned in this class was “to read as a writer and write as a reader”. For me, that means to read and re-read until I comprehend the information and to write and re-write until it’s comprehensive to the reader. I learned that process AFTER Essay 2 and during Essay 3.
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Everything I learned in during this course will help me in future courses! As I thought I would never be a critical thinker (something I kept saying over and over again during the first half of the class) I am going to use the skills of reading and re-reading and annotating as I read other […]
My writing has definitely improved during this class. It had been over 13 years since I’d written anything more detailed than a lengthy email! The best thing I discovered in the textbook From Inquiry to Academic Writing was the Introduction: What is Academic Writing? It explained exactly how to view writing as a process – […]