On our first meeting in English 2 this week, we had a fun activity about the APA citation system. We were all divided into four competing groups. The object of the activity was to gather bibliography information from a given book, write the correct APA format of the bibliography on a manila paper and post the manila paper on our respective walls. There were two rounds for the activity. In each round, four books or journals were given. Since there were 7 of us in our group, we decided that four members would do the information gathering process while the other three write the correct APA format in the manila paper. The activity was fun yet very exhausting. We were given only 2 minutes to gather information from one book and 5 minutes to write it all on the manila paper. Fortunately, our group was able to do all of that and we got 29 points out of 40 points, which is not bad.
On our second meeting, Ma'am Lynnie interviewed each of us concerning our topic and thesis statement. She wanted to make sure that our term paper was worth writing and can have applied to people who are not related to our field. She was right by saying that a common mistake made by students is writing a term paper that can only be useful to the writer's field. But fortunately, my thesis statement was accepted since it is argumentative and can be helpful to different people.
And so I hope that there are more interesting things in store for us in our English 2. Until next time...
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