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REQUIRED JOURNAL RETAKE ASSIGNMENT

English Composition (ENG100)

Student name: Claudia Payne Student number: 22283501

Exam number: 250207 Date: July 28, 2018 Evaluator: EJ

Exam grade: 60

Dear Claudia,

Unfortunately, you earned a failing grade on the first-attempt of this part of your final exam
which is worth a total of 33% of your grade. According to the Academic Policies in the Penn
Foster Student Handbook and to improve the likelihood you will pass this required course, you
must prepare a make-up submission.

Be sure to answer all parts of each question in each journal entry

Proofread for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.

Use correct header, title, date, margins, font, and line spacing.

Within the next four weeks, submit a document containing the required journal entries once
again using the format required for the course journal as assigned on page 16 in your study
guide. Review the assignments as given in your study guide along with any related pages in
your textbook. Add to, delete, and/or revise your current entries to meet each assignment.
Contact the school with any questions about the requirements.

Include this set of instructions with your retake submission, or there may be a problem
completing your evaluation. For electronic submissions, copy from “Required Journal”
through the evaluator’s initials and paste at the beginning of your retake document. For the
file name of your make-up journal, use your student number,******, and your name as
required but add “Retake” after your last name. Then submit your retake journal for grading.

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Best wishes on your retake,

Education Department

Penn Foster College

250207 – Course Journal Evaluation

Unit 3: Research Writing and MLA Citation, Entries 13-18

Your journal will be evaluated according to the following requirements:

• Ideas and Content: How accurately and effectively you have responded to the entry; your
writing focuses on the topic of the entry and is based on the correct reading assignments in your
texts; you effectively engage with the content of the reading assignments and compose thoughtful
original responses to each entry; when required, you cite and document secondary source material
appropriately and correctly.

o In this section of your journal, you will be required to do research and cite your sources.
Your citations should include correct parenthetical references to the author, article or
website, as well as a list of works cited.

• Organization: How well each entry is developed; all paragraphs begin with an appropriate topic
sentence and are developed fully by using examples, illustration, and/or evidence; each entry
meets the required minimum length.

• General Correctness: How well entries meet the expectations of college-level academic writing
in the following areas:

o Sentence structure
o Grammar
o Word choice and spelling
o Punctuation

• Format: How accurately you have followed the prescribed format for the journal by including the
required header, entry title and date, and used correct margins, font, and line spacing.

A B C F
Comments 100-90 89-80 79-70 69-0

13. Evaluating Your Sources
Describe
Evaluate

10-9 9-8 8-7 7-0

14. Organizing Your Information

Describe

Reflect

15-14 14-13 13-12 12-0

15. Using Sources Responsibly
20-17 17-15 14-12 12-0

16. Planning Your Argument:
Examples
MLA Citations

20-18 17-15 15-13 13-0

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17. Recognizing Your Opposition:
Identify incorrect answer
Reflect lacks clarity

15-14 14-13 13-12 12-0

18. Course Reflection:

Reflect

Evaluate

10-9 9-8 8-7 6-0

Format: header; title and date; margins, font,
line spacing: 10-9 9-8 8-7 7-0

Student Name/Number: Claudia Payne 22283501 Date: July 28, 2018
Evaluated by: EJ Exam Grade: 60%

Required journal entry13:Evaluating your sources

When writing an essay, it is important to use a source when
you are quoting someone’s text. This is especially when you
are stating a fact or giving a statistics. If you do not cite a
source to your stated statistics, you need to explain how
you obtained the data and how you analyzed it. If you do not
cite a source in such a case, then your statistics will be an
assumption and biased. For instance, when you state that
20% of deaths in America are heart related, you need to
state where you obtained this information. If you are the
person who did the research, then explain how you
conducted the research. It is very important to differentiate
between facts, opinions and bias when choosing a source. If
you just copy and paste someone’s work without even
analyzing their statement, you might end up being biased
yourself yet the original work was not biased. For instance,
if you cite an opinion as a fact, your readers will assume
that it is a fact yet it may or may not exist. At the end of the
day you turn out to be biased. A fact is something that
actually exists or has been there, while an opinion is just a
suggestion of ehat ought to be. These are two different

Commented [EJ1]: Spelling. Be sure to proofread.
Some, but not all, future errors in spelling, grammar, and
punctuation will be highlighted. Not all errors will be
highlighted as it is up to you to carefully proofread your
paper. Use MS word spell and grammar check,
Grammarly, and have a friend or family member proofread
your papers.

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worlds that need to be critically considered by anyone who
is looking for sources to cite.

Required journal entry 14: Organizing your information

Describe

From the course text, there are serveral ways of organizing
information effectively. One of the ways is by organizing the
information alphabetically. This works well when a person
knows the specific topics or the terms that they are looking
for. This is therefore the best method when a person knows
what they are looking for, otherwise if they have no clue it
may not be useful to the reader. The other way of organizing
information of by categorizing. This is the broadest way to
organize information. The reader can easily know that some
information fall in such a category and they can easily
understand. The best method that I can work best on is the
categorizing method. This is because it will help me avail
everything to the reader in a categorical form. Every
concept will be grouped according to some standardized
characteristics. This will be helpful for any reader that has
no clue of the concepts because they will easily identify
concepts according to their category. The organization by
categorizing can be based on anything that can be easily
understood by the reader. Be it color, shape, size, gender,
price, or anything else that is applicable.

Commented [EJ2]: Alphabetizing is a method of
categorization. The other two suggested ways of
organizing material are to use a graphic organizer and to
write an annotated bibliography.

Commented [EJ3]: Lacks clarity. The purpose of
organizing material is for your own benefit so that you can
easily draw upon sources when writing your essay.

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Reflect

Plagiarism is simply an act of fraud. It involves copying
someone’s work, or rather stealing it and lying about it
afterward. Someone’s copies someone else’s work and lies
that it is his original work, this is called plagiarism. It is
appropriate to cite information that involves facts and
statistics. These are issues of concepts that have been
researched already and you intend to you them, therefore,
you need to cite them. When a person states a fact that
there are 7.5 billion people in the world, it must be cited
because you are not the onr who counted the popilation of
the entire world. However, there are issues that do not
necessarily need to be cited. For instance opinions, an
opinion can either be suggestion or a true thing, but you
don’t have to cite it.

Required journal entry 15: Using your source responsibly

Quoting is the direct picking of a statement from someone’s
text and using it in your text. This is followed by adding
speech marks to the statement and citing the author{s} so
that it is known that you quoted a text. Paraphasing is the
modification of someone’s statement. In this case, you read
a statement and you want to write about it but not by direct
copying. Therefore, you change some few words or the
structural apporach of the statement but retain the original

Commented [EJ4]: This is inaccurate. If you draw upon
someone else’s opinion, you must cite the source.
However, common knowledge does not have to be cited.

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meaning. Summary is simplification of the entire text. It is
the overview of what the entire text means. The most
effective use of quotation is when you are using someone’s
facts. It may also be used when you are using someone’s
speech in your text, you have to quote it directly.
Paraphasing can apply to any statement. You can
paraphrase any statement to avoid plagiarism. This means
you can re-state someone’s fact or opinion in your own
words but retaining the meaning so that it does not look like
you copied everything. Summarizing is simplification of a
large text by giving out the main points. You may quote or
paraphrase the main point of the text

Journal 16 is missing.

Required journal entry17: Recognizing your opposition

Having an opposing view in your essay gives a higher credit
to your essay. This is because you do not just have a biased
standpoint but rather you look at both sides of the issues as
well as come up with your standpoint on the issue. When
you are arguing against an issue like the assisted suicide by
doctors, you also have to look at the reason why people are
willing to go for an assisted suicide. If you only remain on
one side, your essay becomes rigid. No matter how evil the
other side is, try to touch two or three points from there
before drawing your personal conclusion.

Reflect

Commented [EJ5]: Remember that both paraphrases and
summaries must also be cited.

Commented [EJ6]: This question asks you to identify the
three ways the text suggests to recognize your opposition.
This includes: acknowledgement, accommodation, and
refutation.

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When William Safire acknowledges his opposition, he
strengthens his arguments. The reader begins the essay
thinking that it is all about the little ruddy cent. However,
they come to realize that he has been camouflaging his
claim through his construction. In fact, William Safire comes
up with a comprehensive rhetorical solution after
postulating his aruments. This strengthens the essay and
leaves the reader with no option but to hold. This makes him
assert a stealing message. When readers comprehend such
a stealing message, they are left with the feeling of truth
and consciousness about whether we should maintain some
out-of-date penny or not.

Required journal entry18: Course Reflection

As a learner, I have gained a lot from this course. For
instance I started to learn this course when I had a very
shallow writing skill and technique. I even had no idea of the
steps of writing. Most of my papers looked pathetic. All
along, I have been writing papers not knowing how to
organize the work in a proper and systematic way. It never
crossed my mind that one needs to thoroughly review his
work. I was just too sure about myself such that once I
finished writing, it was the final draft ready to post. After
going through this course, I have been able to know how to
organize my essay. This course has taught me how to write

Commented [EJ7]: incomplete

Commented [EJ8]: What is a stealing message?

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a proper essay. All the examples in the course have helped
me to write proper grammar, check spellings and
punctuations as well as avoid writing passive sentences.
Organizing my work for the better understanding of the
reader. I just discovered that the best way I can organize my
work is by categorizing. This is a great way to enable the
reader to know the class under which the concept lies. So
far, my writing has changed completely and it is changing
towards the better side. As per now, I can write a
professional essay with a comprehensive progress. I no
longer have to throw points here and there without proper
formality. I can also write paper without plagiarizing
someone’s work because I have learned the essence citing
someone’s work. I have also learned to create an essay with
both sides of an argument so that I give a clear picture to
the reader.

Evaluate

At the beginning of this course, I set some few goals but
they were not properly organized. All I wanted to know was
how to write an essay that can please whoever reads it
regardless of the subject. So far, I have accomplished a
better part of this goal. I can write a paper that is free from
plagiarism and well-organization. My essay is now free from
errors like grammar and spelling mistakes. This means that
the course concepts of writing have been important to my
writing knowledge. I had not gone through this course, there

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are things that I would have done so differently. One of the
things is to just write an essay without reviewing it and
correcting the errors. This is because I have been too sure
about myself such that I believed I could not commit such
errors, yet I noticed that I have been committing such errors
all along. I would also have plagiarized some works since I
hate wasting time to cite someone’s work. However, this
course concepts of writing have helped me to become a
better writer. In the future, I will be writing an essay by
following all the steps of writing processes taught in this
course, If it is an argumentative essay, I will have to look at
both sides of the argument before I give my standpoint.