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3. This module provided me with information on learning styles. This was especially important for me as a student when understanding new content. I have come to understand that I am not most efficient with a single learning style. I work best with a combination of visual, auditory, and tactile methods. I learn best by doing, talking aloud, and looking at images. Now that I know what works best for me, I can apply them to my study habits for exams and eventually the NCLEX.

4. Priority setting questions are ones that I tend to struggle with most. I find it difficult to determine which patient requires the most immediate attention. I have learned previously about the nursing process, ABC’s, and Maslow. This module helped me to understand different frameworks for answering these kinds of questions. Things like least restrictive, survival potential, and acute vs chronic are additional ways to help with priority setting on exam and NCLEX questions.

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1- This module is going to be most useful to me while I’m a student. I learned many different test taking strategies that I was able to use for my last exam. The tip I used most was the plus, minus, question mark strategy for multiple choice questions. Priority setting is another concept that will need to be used as both a student and a nurse. The strategies they suggested for figuring out what is most important can be helpful in both test taking and practical settings. I will be using these tips for the rest of my student career, for the NCLEX, and in my future as a nurse.

2- I believe that this module will be very helpful to integrate into my future nursing practice. Through this lesson, I was able to explore different concepts on how to make important clinical judgments. Patient catered care is something I believe is most important. I learned that it is impossible to have patient centered care without the concepts from the helix of success. I hope the integration of these concepts will lead to success in my current career as a student, and when I become an RN.

Learning outcome 1 

As a student, when it came to revision, it was definitely not my favorite thing to do. Previously, I was more of a “one and done” type of person. I was not alone in this aspect, although. Many students, when hearing the word revision, would sink down in their chairs and groan and then wonder why all of this was necessary. In Nacy Sommers’ selection about revision strategies, she talks about the differences between student writers and experienced adult writers. She states “Such blindness, as I discovered with student writers, is the inability to “see” revisions a process: the inability to “re-view” their work again, as it were, with different eyes, and to start over… The students have strategies for handling words and phrases, what they lack however, is a set of strategies that help them identify the “something larger” that they sensed was wrong and work form there”(1). Being a student, I have definitely struggled with this. I was always so focused on what I now know as local revision that I did not realize how important global revision was. This class has taught me to pay more attention to the global revision of my paper instead of the local. By the time I was editing my last draft of my final paper, I had begun to realize that if I did not used the strategy of global revision, my paper would have been a jumbled mess. I had noticed myself completely rearranging my paragraphs and changing the theme of my paper completely. I was able to do exactly what Sommers said and look at my paper through different eyes and realize what my biggest mistakes were.

Learning outcome 2

In my significant writing project, my sources were extremely important for my thesis and claims to be supported. The source that I chose I found through the library services. The library is extremely helpful when trying to find sources that are credible considering it it hard to find sources that we think are credible through the internet. The article that I chose was about internet addiction. The author talked about what an addiction consists of. This can connect back to Bill Wasik’s article when he talks about boredom. Here is an example directly form my paper of how I connected these two articles together: “when all of our interactive technologies – video games and mobile devices as well as the web – have kept those of us most boredom-prone from generally thinking, as we might while watching TV, that we are ‘doing nothing’, even if in every practical sense we are doing precisely that” (475). This idea of feeling a sense of accomplishment by doing nothing of meaning or purpose is the perfect example of how the use of technology can lead to addiction. This helps me to support my claim that the dependence on the internet can lead to addiction.

Learning outcome 4

My peer review strategies included global and local revision. When I first started peer reviewing, I used to only focus on the local revision. In the beginning, it was hard for me to try and focus on the global part of the revision. There were points where my professor had asked us to focus only on the global revision but I kept finding myself trying to fix the local parts. As we kept peer reviewing throughout this class, I learned to find a balance between the two. Not only has this allowed me to help with my peers papers, it now helps me when I am going over my own paper. Overall, learning about how to globally revise has positively benefited me and will be beneficial to me in all of my future writing.

Learning outcomes 5 and 6

MLA formatting has always played a large role in my significant writing projects since high school. Because of this, it makes it much easier for me to cite my sources having done it for so many years. It is important to get the MLA formatting correct because if there is a mistake in a citation, it can possibly lead to plagiarizing. Local revision has always played a role in my papers as a student. As a person who enjoys grammar, I always try to make it a point to make mine correct. Although we all make mistakes for the most part, I try avoid the small mistakes like grammar.

this i believe

The paper above was written for my first year experience class. This class is meant to help us transition into college and learn more about ourselves. This paper is called “This I Believe” and is a popular prompt among students. The title is fairly self explanatory, you are to write about something that you believe in. When trying to write this paper, I had a really difficult time figuring out what I wanted to write about. To begin, I started to make an outline. Being in english class this year has taught me the importance to outline what I want to talk about and to make sure I get all of my ideas down. As I was finishing up writing my paper, I began to realize I was going in a completely different direction that I had originally thought. Without learning how to globally revise, my paper most likely would have been a mess. Before this class, I had never really paid much attention to global revision, instead I focused on local revision. Now I see how important this revision strategy really is and I plan to apply this to all of my writing in the future. Going along with global revision, I released how important it is to make drafts. In high school, I used to make one draft and pretty much be done. Now I realize how important it is to do more than one draft. To be honest, I feel like my papers could have improved even more if I had done more than two drafts. I found that eve just reading over my paper quickly allows me to find my weak points that I need to fix and also find the strong points that are focal points of my paper. Steven Pinker’s essay “Why Academics Stink at Writing” talks about wording in essays. “metadiscourse—verbiage about verbiage. Thoughtless writers think they’re doing the reader a favor by guiding her through the text with previews, summaries, and signposts. In reality, meta​discourse is there to help the writer, not the reader, since she has to put more work into understanding the signposts than she saves in seeing what they point to, like directions for a shortcut that take longer to figure out than the time the shortcut would save(5). I agree with Pinker that this can be a problem. I tend to find myself doing this a lot. Sometimes I feel like I am adding words just to add words. I think it is more important to focus on what you are writing about instead of going off to explain things that aren’t necessary.

The first, and most important, concept I need to add to my paper is the idea of finding meaning and purpose. It is important for me to introduce the idea that the use of the internet is negatively impacting how young people find purpose in my thesis. Not only do I have to incorporate this in my thesis, I also need to add it throughout the entire paper. The next important thing I need to do is make sure my paper contains less summary. My own personal claims need to be stronger and only supported by the articles instead of being the other way around. The last thing I need to go over in the organization of my paper. It is important to make sure my ideas are presented in an order that will allow the reader to follow my paper easily and allows it to flow better.

I have been applying the recursive process in my life for a long time without even knowing it. I started gymnastics at a young age and this is a sport that requires preparation, repetition, and self-awareness. The first step in learning a new skill is understanding how it works. This step is important because without knowing what you are doing, it is extremely likely that doing it wrong could unfortunately lead to falling and even getting injured. After knowing what to do, repetition is key. I would be at the gym 5 days a week repeating the same skills over and over again to perfect them. It is important to be self-aware in gymnastics because you do not want to try and push yourself to do something that is not safe. This can apply to writing when you are thinking of a topic to write about. You have to know when choosing a topic and a claim that you need to have enough information to support yourself. It is like the human body in gymnastics, if you know your body will not be able to support the impact of the skill, it is important to stop or find a different skill that will allow you to get to the same end result.

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The article that I found is called “Exploring Internet Addiction.” This essay is written by An-Pyng Sun. The first reason I believe that this is a reputable source Is because where I found the website. I went to the UNE website through library services to find my article. I did an advanced search on topics I found relevant to the paper. The website I found is called ProQuest, and this is one website that we talked about in the library that can be considered a reputable source. The second reason why I believe this is a reputable source is because of the author herself. The author has a PhD, LCSW, and is considered an addiction professional from Cleveland. I also looked her up on the Internet to see how reputable she may be and I found that she is well established. The last reason I found the source reputable is through the information contained within the essay itself. When reading this essay, it is obvious that this is strongly based on factual information. Her information is based from research and experiments done. This is not the type of article to express opinions and judgments about the use the Internet, it simply relates how the use of the Internet can be considered an addiction.

The essay that I chose is about how overuse of the internet can be considered an addiction. In this essay, the author relates the use of the Internet to the three classic addiction symptoms. She states that a person can experience withdrawals, tolerance, and relapse, just like a person with a substance related issue. In addition to these symptoms, there are also the neurobiological and genetic issues when it comes to addiction. Research has been done about how the brain individuals can change because of Internet addiction. She also states that she believes that more research is needed in this area.

Next, the author talks about why we use Internet. She talks about “the triple A” theory. This “triple A” includes availability, affordability, and anonymity. She also talks about why the Internet can be so exciting to us. This is one way I can relate this essay back to Wasik’s article. It is important to understand why we feel a connection to the Internet and how it is used.

The last reason I chose this essay is because it also talks about how to help the individuals who could potentially have an Internet addiction. Not only this, she also talks about who can please susceptible to having an Internet addiction. She talks about ADHD and how is critical to understand if there any other co-occurring disorders when diagnosing Internet addiction. This is one way that this essay can be related back to Restak.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18QOj4kquxeDrInySt7cfe8HrRk33D9AINGygeAgNiKg/edit

Bill Wasik begins this chapter of his book by talking about boredom. He said that he believes that boredom is worth interrogating in some detail. In 1986, a test was designed to comprehensively measure boredom within the individual. There were 28 true or false statements to assess how boredom-prone the individual can be. Many of these statements I can personally relate to. For example I find it hard to concentrate, I find myself constantly trapped doing meaningless things, I worry about other matters while I work, and most importantly, I am bad at waiting patiently and can get extremely restless. These are just a few examples that Wasik uses to compare himself to a boredom prone person that I also can relate to. Today’s fast-paced world I believe that many people can relate to the statements. I was importantly technology plays a large role on how we view boredom. Technology acts as a solution to most people’s state of boredom. No longer do we have to be content with our boredom, we only have to just pick up our phones and use them to go on the internet so that we no longer have to be bored.

The Internet was the backbone im Bill Wasik’s Mob experiment. Without any descriptions, Bill sent an email without being straightforward about what the gathering would be like Ultimately the people receiving emails would come together for no specific reason because they had no idea what this event would be about. As time went on word spread and many people had appeared to this gathering. This gathering had been on headlines and throughout the media and articles have been written about this as well. A little while after she had received many emails saying that different parts of the country wanted to follow in his footsteps and create a gathering similar to his. It is amazing to think about that with just one email, many people can be brought together. Without today’s technology and Internet word would not be so easily spread in this experiment would not be as effective.

The Internet was the backbone im Bill Wasik’s Mob experiment. Without any descriptions, Bill sent an email without being straightforward about what the gathering would be like Ultimately the people receiving emails would come together for no specific reason because they had no idea what this event would be about. As time went on word spread and many people had appeared to this gathering. This gathering had been on headlines and throughout the media and articles have been written about this as well. A little while after she had received many emails saying that different parts of the country wanted to follow in his footsteps and create a gathering similar to his. It is amazing to think about that with just one email, many people can be brought together. Without today’s technology and Internet word would not be so easily spread in this experiment would not be as effective.