Journals

Personal Journal pg 133 # 3 & 4

3. In preparing for my last exam in anthropology, I tried to review the notes from the class that I had taken and look up the chapters in the book that were assigned for reading. My problem was that I was not able to interrupt the material correctly for the type of exam. It was one that required remembering dates and places, which made it difficult. Next time I plan on taking notes from the book and going over class notes.

4. I am sure some people are going to have a slightly better chance at remembering facts if they are really good at memorization, but people who study and want to learn what is being presented will not be that far behind. If the people with the natural gift do not even study then they have no better chance anyways.

Pg. 153 # 5 & 6

5. I find the writing style in the book to be helpful, but I don’t use it when I write papers. If I were to use it though it might benefit, me because I think my biggest problem with writing papers is that I don’t go through and rewrite them after I am done. I also don’t prewritten so there are two things that could most likely help me out.

6. I would rate my writing at a 3.5 because I have problems with grammar, punctuation and format. The English aspect of writing papers, but when it comes to content I think I can get to the point if it’s a good topic that I am familiar with. Sometimes I am impressed with the combination of words that I use to write something, so I think that makes for my positive part of writing.