English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jessica Aspinall | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jaa12/activity/ Activity feed for Jessica Aspinall. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f5cd2395e92426d1dbedf8d37d559321 Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post Compare & Contrast in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10086/ Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:14:26 -0500 As this semester comes to the end, I can’t help but compare it to the last semester’s end and final week. By comparing the two semesters I can see how much growth I have made. There is a great contrast between t […]

]]> 0 b29678f3f249004e9ce466e59ed03a19 Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post Something I've Noticed in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10084/ Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:38:00 -0500   Dr. McCoy used to be the sole facilitator of the conversation in our classroom, but as the semester ends the students have taken the reigns. Now, class discussions are partially student run. Throughout the s […]

]]> 0 49e9893338f60ff00f5877f6a8bc2404 Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post The Cycle of Failure in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10052/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:45:53 -0500 I have been reading my classmates blog posts, and the struggles of reworking the Blood Child essay is a reoccurring theme. I sometimes let frustration keep me from: working on assignments, sharing my work, and […]

]]> 0 b62882a27099f0ea1360fd74cadeca69 Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post Our Progress in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10051/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:06:10 -0500 In the beginning of the semester Dr. McCoy led discussions and us students were responsible to respond. As a class, we struggled to be ‌ participants. Dr. McCoy worked to pull thoughts out of us, and constantly a […]

]]> 0 687b6c8fdea02c9585e051c2963d1cfc Jessica Aspinall edited the blog post Response to Hannah's Post in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9991/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:04:33 -0500 Hannah Sharkey wrote a recent blog post about tragedy and the reality of tragedy. This blog post inspired me and I was reminded of my team and the support they give me. I believe that life is all about connections with people, and as tragedy happens we must come together.There are so many struggles and adversities students go through while at…[Read more]

]]> 0 384a20cf1efc841210f54a95e1079e5f Jessica Aspinall edited the blog post My Response to Courtney's Blog Post in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9975/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:28:00 -0500 I want to put a disclaimer at the beginning of this blog post that: The class I am referring to has a male and a female professor, whose identities I don’t want to reveal. As I refer to them as the male and female professor that does not reflect how I view different genders. This blog post has nothing to do with gender differences; it’s about d…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7198a33b4ed24b72b6588afbd3639b1 Jessica Aspinall edited the blog post Academic Probation in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9960/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:39:02 -0500 When students have less than 11 credits or have a GPA that falls below a 2.0 they are on academic probation at Geneseo. Academic probation can seem like a student’s drop out sentence, when it isn’t even close. During our class discussion of Geneseo’s academic probation letter, the initial reaction of many was that the college needs to be stern…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd6309a8b2145b5de4e4ceb8ba7fe674 Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post The Pomodoro Technique in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9765/ Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:16:47 -0500 The first day of biology they bring up statistics that more than half the freshman pre-med students will not end up in the school of biology. I was surprised that the hardship of picking a major wasn’t over. When […]

]]> 0 3a4ee9443259dc0443be47a4754488e3 Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post “What College Will Be Like” in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9689/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 17:20:46 -0500 Ever since the beginning of high school, teachers harped on my classmates and I about college expectations. Writing classes had papers on reading assignments due every week. I was told, “this is preparing you f […]

]]> 0 d0d16009baef9e076e9a7fffb50ef37b Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post A Whole New World of Writing in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9551/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:46 -0500 Writing without guidelines is a newly discovered struggle of mine. Assignments have always been structured around a proposed topic, argument, or question. I wrote to achieve the assigned word count, or to hit all […]

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