Response to "Where College Fails Us"

Q:  According to Bird, what are the faults of a college education?  What is the "contrary evidence" (paragraph 4) against college education.

A:  According to Bird, the faults of a college education are with the young people themselves due to the fact that they are spoiled, and expect too much.  Another reason is because their arent enough jobs and there are too many under-skilled workers.  The last reason is because technology is behind.
The contrary evidence against college education is that some educators are beginning to agree that college isnt always the best thing for every student, immediately following high school.  They are now beginning to reason that its not college that makes you smart, witty, and able to succeed.  They are assuming that it may be the other way around that it is the already intelligent, happy, and quick-learning people who are attracted to going to college in the first place.

October 18th - SELF EVALUATION (Task Two)

What is the thesis for your paper?

      * Through my brothers struggles I realized how an education isn't impossible to achieve, no matter the circumstances.

List the main points you make in your paper.

      * Brother's home life/environment
      * Learning Disability
      * How my situation was similar and different even though we lived in seperate homes.
      * What I learned from my brothers experience.

What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?

    check grammar.

What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?

    grammar usage on proper nouns.. I overlooked them.

How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?

      * I wrote three drafts of my paper. I used outline and produced entire draft at one sitting.

What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?

    *  I cant think of anything that I would do differently, I tried really hard with this one and put alot of time and effort into it.

What are most pleased with about this paper?

   * I am most pleased of how well my structure turned out and how I was able to get the point across without making my story too long.