Joey Abely

Today I had a conference with Dr. Drown about my progress in ELA-122. Overall the conversation went well; him and I talked about what I was doing well and what I need to improve. I am doing well with my reading skills; I need to work on my annotations while reading though. I have been reading well but Dr. Drown and I feel like I would benefit from making less underlining of meaningless things and underline those I feel are the most important. Even though I have been doing this pretty well I am far from mastering this seemingly easy skill. We also decided I would benefit by articulating my whole thoughts into the margins because right now I am only writing little one sentence phrases that only I understand so it would be helpful if Dr. Drown could see the whole thought in my head rather than one word with a question mark. I also did well in understanding that all readings are in a network. This means that “An Animals Place” was written by Michael Pollan but it is networked because he brought in speakers like Singer, and Dennett so then it networks out to them who go their ideas and some of their writings which networks out to more and the trend just keeps repeating. I am a business major and when Dr. Drown explained to me how the networking was being used in the reading I immediately made a text to life connection about how I can use this in my field of study, which is extremely exciting to me because networking is an amazing skill and can make anything prosper if it is used correctly. I am excited for the rest of the semester due to this feedback because I realize I have a lot to work on. My goal is to review the meeting sheet and go and try to work on the things that say “try” next to them with my writing councilor Megan Grumbling