Albert
DeLacruz
Professor
Melanie James

English
1b
11/13/19
Lab#1
Last
week, I would say I managed my time well up to the point until I was
sick. I was getting ahead of assignments and planning ahead after
every assignment I finished. I’m very happy with performance when I
am ahead of my work and I understand all the work I am doing. Last
week’s work was going all well and after one day of not keeping up
I found myself falling behind on some assignments. But I see now that
keeping up by doing more assignments each day, will improve my
overall stress by cutting the amount of assignments I have to
complete. I want to make change this week by getting ahead of my
assignments and completing them, rather than just starting on them.

For
essay 1 I would say I managed my time a little poorly. I started on
the essay quite early but as time went on I worked less and less as
the days passed and ended with a load of work to do by the day the
before the due date. For critical reading and note taking, I would
say I answered each question and listed all main ideas well as well
as got my point across for each paragraph. I pre wrote the intro and
worked on it before I worked on any other part, and it goes to show
in my opinion. For my organization, I feel like I could’ve done
better by starting each paragraph with an essential point and talk
about the point alone in that paragraph and have a new point for each
beginning of a new paragraph. I feel as if I got a little off topic
as the paragraph went on. For my thesis statement I feel as if I did
an excellent job, I still do honk I need a lot more work to perfect
it, but i am proud of what i put out, it may have been a little out
of the box, but I am proud of what I put out. I explained all the
arguments I listed and made sure to go in to depth on each analysis
made. For the in text citations, I missed one citation that I forgot
to mention in my works cited, but other than that I felt good about
it. I had some trouble and had to look up online to make sure I did
my citations correctly and I am positive I did.

For
essay 2 I definitely want to get ahead and I want to get most of it
done and proofread before I can say it is completed. I want to manage
my time right get both the lab and the essay done well enough for me
to be proud of my work. Not to take away any credit from essay 1, I
am extremely proud for what I put out, but I still feel the need of
improvement. Although I am a perfectionist but I definitely know that
I can do a better job on my next essay, especially with the time.