Week 12

Thursday was the deadline of our second essay’s first draft so we spent Tuesday by talking about the essay. As it was the class just before the deadline, it was very important for all of us. I also had a tutorial with Mr. O’Regan on Wednesday to discuss my draft and make the last changes on it. Wednesday was a sunny and great holiday but I worked on my essay instead of enjoying the nice day outside. But it is not a big deal because there is an upcoming holiday less than a month later.

On Thursday we handed in our essays and got relaxed for a week. I said “for a week” because we will be working on our second draft next week. In our second class, our topic was “topic sentences”. We did some exercises and tried to understand how a topic sentence is constructed. Mr. O’Regan also gave us some exercises about it as homework due next Tuesday. We will also hand in our podcast evaluations on Tuesday and it was a very interesting task to evaluate our own podcasts. We read our classmates’ feedbacks on our podcasts and evaluated our own work.

As I said, there is less than a month till the end of the semester but it will be demanding enough with mid-terms and finals. I am really worried about the Comm. 101 final because we will have to write a complete essay, which is like we write in two weeks, during the exam. I hope it will be a good final whistle.

Week 11

This week we handed in our podcast evaluations and now we are waiting to see our feedback. When we get our feedback, we will evaluate our own podcasts. Podcasts were not very notable for this week because we all mainly thought about our second essay. We talked about Mileham’s text which is about online infidelity and Brendan & Lauren’s story. Mr. O’Regan explained clearly and comprehensively how we would write our synthesis essay. Then he offered an extra week for us to work on our essay but we rejected. Generally students want extra time to do a task but this situation is not one of those because most of us want to do it as soon as possible to have enough time later for our midterms. Furthermore, we wouldn’t have a second feedback which would be beneficial later if we agreed for extra time. So it was a good decision.

Today I had a tutorial to discuss my outline with Mr. O’Regan before I started to write and again it was very beneficial for me to shape my essay. Now I am writing my essay and on Wednesday I have another tutorial to make the last changes on it.

By the way, last week I registered in Mr. O’Regan’s Comm. 102 class in summer school. As Mr. O’Regan said it will be very demanding with my Economy class so I need to study hard in that five-week-period. But the topic sounds very interesting and enjoyable: “Stories and Philosophies”. I think the most difficult part of it will be the research paper as I heard from my friends.

This is all for now. See you later…

Week 10

Week 10 of Comm. 101 was not done thanks to the holy spring break which let us take a breath among those difficult exams and essays. It was a great holiday to refresh but it has passed very quickly. We could find enough time to do our Comm. homework and we did it easily in the comfortable atmosphere of our homes. We read the article for upcoming essay and we assessed the podcasts. Now we are ready for new tasks.

Week 9

What a nice day! I am at home now and I am having great time thanks to spring break. I am also very happy because Fenerbahçe has been playing really well recently and last Wednesday they beat Chelsea as I guessed before. I also believe that tomorrow night Fenerbahçe will have a good result again in London to go to the semi-final.

When it comes to Comm. 101, week 9 was one of the usual weeks. On Tuesday we handed in our second drafts of essay 1 and now we are waiting for the results. We talked about the famous “academic sin”, plagiarism. Mr. O’Regan explained us how to avoid from plagiarism and showed some examples of plagiarism. It was a funny lesson because we were relaxed after handing in our drafts.

On Thursday our topic was relationships and betrayals. We discussed comprehensively about betrayals and at the end Mr. O’Regan delivered an article, which is about 30 pages, to be read in the spring break. By the way, there is also another task to do in the spring break: grading podcasts of the class members. But there is a lot of time to do them so it is not a big deal.

There is not much to say. Bye for now… Have a nice holiday...