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Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post Compare & Contrast in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post Something I’ve Noticed in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post The Cycle of Failure in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post Our Progress in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Jessica Aspinall edited the blog post Response to Hannah’s Post in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 4 months ago

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]
Jessica Aspinall edited the blog post My Response to Courtney’s Blog Post in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 4 months ago

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]
Jessica Aspinall edited the blog post Academic Probation in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 5 months ago

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]
Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post The Pomodoro Technique in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post “What College Will Be Like” in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Jessica Aspinall wrote a new blog post A Whole New World of Writing in the group Critical Writers: 8 years, 7 months ago

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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