What a boring day

Or should I make that what a boring past couple of days. In these past few day after thanksgiving I think I have left the house twice and one of those times was just to ride with my boyfriend to the gas station and back. I didnt even get out of the truck. lol. I have just been sitting at home doing laundry, cleaning, and keeping up on my homework. Heck even now I am still in my PJ's at 330 in the afternoon. Wow I need a hobby or something. lol

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY DIVORCE IS FINAL AS OF TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM SO EXCITED. I DROVE A TOTAL OF 3 AND A HALF HOURS TODAY JUST TO GO TO COURT. JUDGE SIGNED THE PAPERS WITH NO PROBLEMS. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!! ALSO I WENT TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE (GOT MY NAME CHANGED) AND THE DOL TO GET MY NEW ID! AT THOSE TWO PLACES IT MUST HAVE BEEN A COLD DAY YOU KNOW WHERE BECAUSE BOTH PLACES I WENT IN AND WENT STRAIGHT TO THE COUNTER. SO....

DRIVING TO COURT...... 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES
JUDGE SIGNING PAPERS..... 20 MINUTES
GETTING NAME CHANGED...... 15 MINUTES
GETTING NEW ID WITH NEW NAME..... 10 MINUTES
DRIVING HOME..... 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES

FINALLY BEING DONE WITH HIM!........ PRICELESS


LOL

Unit 5

Discuss your personal writing process and see what others have to say about your style.

My personal writing process is probley the hardest way to write a paper. lol. I tend to gather all the information that I have and then sit down and write the paper. I think this is harder because I have no idea how I am going to organize my paper or what I even want to say. I like the fact that we went over prewriting skills this week because I am for sure going to use those to write this paper. I feel that doing this will make things much eaiser for me.

If there was one thing about your academic challenges, what would it be?

I think the biggest challenge that I face is that until enrolling at Kaplan I had never written anything. I did not pay attention in high school very well so when it comes to spelling, grammar, or anything that goes with writing I lack in the skills. My goal is to overcome these.

How is school influencing your life at or up to this point?

School up to this point has boosted my moral within myself greatly. Even though I am only 25 I have lived a very hard life and in turn I have always had low self confidence in myself. Comparing myself to how I was when I first enrolled I feel like I am a much better person and the way I perceive myself has improved greatly. Its amazing what an education can do for someone. :)

Unit 4

Based upon your reading on plagiarism, why do you think we need to cite our sources?

It is important to cite our sources because it gives the person credit for their work. Imagine for a second that you worked very hard to find information based on your own research over a life time only to later have someone use your information as their own. That wouldn't feel very good. So it is important to give people their credit. Its respectful.

• What would you do if someone used something you created without giving you credit?

In one word. Complain. I would feel used and violated.

• Consider some of the real-world plagiarism issues you have learned of that include professionals. How should those issues be handled?

I personally give the person credit even if it was just an idea they had. If I saw someone using someones idea without giving them credit I would call them out on it and make sure they do the right thing.

• Does the Internet blur the lines of “legally owned”? Consider sites like YouTube and Wikipedia.

I think some sites do. For example on youtube I can save a video to my computer to later just repost it as my own. All I have to do is check a box saying that it is mine. Its not fair to the person that worked hard to make that video.

Unit 3

Hello everyone!
So I have the topic I want to write about for my paper, Autism… However I cannot come up with a good name or thesis statement for my paper. I was hoping I could bounce a few idea off everyone and get some input. :)

Name:
1. Early diagnosis of autism
2. Benefits of early diagnosis of autism
3. Autism: Knowing early is better
4. Autism

Thesis:
So for my thesis I know I want to talk about many different thing, what autism is, statistics, different therapies for autistic children, routines for both parent and child, as well as more I am sure. I am just not sure how to write a thesis statement for it. Here are a few of my ideas...

1.With numbers on the rise for children with autism find out early in life is best for everyone in the child's life. It helps parents to adjust to life having a child with autism, helps the child figure out how to cope with situations, as well as (help here I don't know)

2. Children with autism are growing in numbers this is why it is important for both parents and children to find out early in life. The earlier a child is diagnosed gives the family more time to adjust to the idea of having a child with autism as well as getting new routines down and starting therapies early.

I am really stuck with these. PLEASE HELP!


On to the next topic for this week... I love love love love being an online student! The fact that I can do the work on my own schedule is GREAT!!!! I also like the fact that there is still some structure to the classes too. I know there are some classes out there that you can take online that you can do them all in however long it takes you but I don't think you can actually learn something from those classes and retain the information. The one thing that I don't like is I cant put faces with names.

Now that I am taking this writing class and we have this blog I think its great because I can put faces with names now. Also with the blog I am encourage to write more. Its great.