JulianaCox

It's the end of my freshman year at Seton Hill University and I have never been happier. College is nothing like high school! I actually had to think and find out where the library was.(haha....no, but really I found out its that buiding right infront of my dorm) As for Intro to Literary Study, it was not as bad as I buit myself up to think. It taught me how to make deeper meaningful connections between texts and come to class prepared to have something to talk about. That's where blogging comes in. It's not my favorite, but I will admit its a good lead in to the next day's class. Dr. Jerz it's been great and here is my last portfolio.

"Deadlines were sometimes kilometers long. This  one was just a bit longer than a wall of the bathroom" (Ender's 203).

I thought the text did a good job of showing images. I know for myslef that I had no idea what a deadline was. Especially since this plot dealt with the military I was going to be lost with terms, but the text did a good job of using discriptive words and imagery for me to get the jist of it.

"The initial models for free verse poems were psalms and the Song of Solomon in the King James Version of the Bible" (Hamilton 239).

Wow! I feel like everything I have learned thus far in college comes from the bible. I took the 2 and a half hour course Bible as Literature and lets just say I have never new that so many concepts and words came from the Bible. Coming into this year I did not know what to expect but I never learned about the Bible so closely  growing up as I do now. Then again this is a Catholic school. I guess I should have expected it.

"MLA style encourages you to expend fewer words introducing your sources, and more words developing your own ideas."

When I used to write I would always spend so much time writing out quotes and then expanding upon them. But that was highschool. When I came to Seton Hill I learned how to incorporate the important words or ideas in my sentences. So instead of having a sentence put aside for a quote, I only use a few words of that quote in my sentence to help prove my point.

"Enjambed lines...also called run-on lines, are those in which the sentence or clause continues for two or more lines of verse; no punctuation appears at the end of the enjambed line" (Hamilton 204).

M'Kay - just another way to say okay. I liked this because I feel people, mainly my friends, used to say this all the time. But now I believe it has been relpaced with the letter "k." Especially with texting and AIM. 

The Pittsburgh Penguins. My home team I LOVE!

"The theme of a lterary work is a central idea that it conveys...the theme differs from the subject of the work" (Hamilton 154). 

Coverage

"It's a funny old mark, the hyphen. Always has been. People have argues for its abolition for years..."(Truss 168).