Goal Statements

1. Critical Reading- Critical reading can best be described as annotating an article or re-reading something you don't at first understand. I believe I demonstrated critical reading strategies in my research paper. I first found websites and books dealing with my topic. I then read through them, and took notes on important sentences or chapters. I also annotated some of the websites by printing them out, highlighting and underlining them. Another example of critical reading would just be when (sometimes if) I am reading the text book and I don't understand a sentence or paragraph. Instead of just saying, whatever, I re-read the section to better understand it.

2. Rhetorical Approaches- I really don't remember what rhetorical approaches are. So I'm going to say I met this goal by writing my blog.

3. Appropriate Technique- I don't necessarily follow the perfect technique model when writing a paper. I usually just start writing a bunch of garbage and eventually make it into a formal paper. I guess you could say I demonstrate revision because I have to go back through the paper and fix all of the mistakes in grammar or whatever else. In class we had to hand in many different drafts of our paper before it was actually due. I don't really plan anything out for my papers, I just throw things out there and hope they end up making sense.