..About the Author.. O_O

"Today, if a smile comes to you, a happy smile that perhaps you can't explain, it's because in that moment I am thinking of you and smiling too." :)

- Dr. Seuss

     Hi! I am Christian. I was born on May 07, 1994. I am a big fan of computer games especially the strategic ones. I’ve been always lazy to do these essay things especially reading it kills me. Give me a dozen of math problems to solve but not books I can’t appreciate them and I don’t know why. Also, I’m a NGSB (No Girlfriend Since Birth) I think the right time hasn’t come yet and God has a better plan for my life. I love writing but then I have poor organization of my ideas that hinders me to write more because the readers would feel confusing about my writings. Furthermore, I want to pursue to be a doctor and be successful in the future and I want to enhance my reading, writing and speaking skills to be fluent enough when I use them. I also love sciences very much and for me studying them isn’t much difficult and they are interesting subjects that we should learn and discover something out of them. I also love to look up to the sky and think have a peace of mind and calmness within.

|-Preface/Foreword-|

     This is my e-portfolio the final requirement for the course ENGLCOM for the reading and writing component. This would serve as the overall review for us students how to apply what we have learned here in this final project. The significance of the title that I have thought of the “louder louder louder” it signifies the freedom to express ones ideas through reading and writing. It is easier to express our emotions, feelings, ideas and the like through reading and writing. The ENGLCOM as a whole, we could say that it had helped me out in several ways. I have taught about things that I usually commit as an error on how to prevent them from happening and how to create a perfect writing. The whole course is a whole new way of learning English rather than those back in high school days.
 I would also suggest to the readers that they should expect many grammatical errors, sentence fluency errors, punctuations and organization of ideas. But feel free to comment out about my e-portfolio I’m glad to edit this again and correct the mistakes that I have committed.

~INTRODUCTION~

     What pops into your mind when we say the words strengths and weaknesses? Most of us would think that strengths are the strong attributes each one of us had and weaknesses are the imperfections one individual has. Furthermore, all of us differ from one another that means we also differ from one another’s strengths and weaknesses and that’s why we all became unique and depending on one another’s strengths and weaknesses to suffice our own.
     First, on evaluating and reflecting on my learning and writing capability I have good memorizing skills and good learner. Also, in writing essays I have overflowing ideas. But have the mill on these I’m not that good in analyzing things especially reading skills. Problems with my thoughts I just can’t organize them properly to have a smooth flow of ideas. Second, developing writing through active practice and daily tutorial about writing essays. Having the perseverance and determination to do so but what hinders me from this was being too lazy to learn. Now still having problem in time management, ego always fails and overwhelmed by id. Third, organizing ideas having bunch of ideas about that topic the problem was I don’t even know how to put them all together to make my writing credible, because of that the readers usually feel confused when reading my work. Fourth, identifying and correcting my own grammatical lapses I can correct them because of sufficient knowledge but when I am already writing I can’t figure out the mistakes by myself and it bothers me. Fifth, I always set my goals high and to reach them to have my accomplishment but I don’t actually reach it and always fails to.

     My goal for this term is to be an effective English student writer and reader. Also, I want to have a good remark throughout the term. Moreover, to learn how to spot my own grammatical errors without anyone helping me out.

Extended Definition o.o

~OUTLINE~

Cyber Gaming
Role: Student, one of the victims.
Audience: Fellow Student teens like me, kids, adults and others related.
Purpose: to let you know more about the effects and what this gaming could do to you.
Definition:
1. Relating to computers and computer networks.
2. Portable cyber games.
3. Involving networks and connections.
Dominant Expression: troubled, bad feelings but at ease.
Key details:
1. Technology brings us cyber games.
2. Cyber gaming causes multiple effects more on the negative side.
3. Cyber gaming profits from the teens, kids and adults who are addicted to playing.
Introduction
Topic Sentence:
Cyber gaming was often choose by the people over actual sports itself because of its characteristics differ from the sports itself.
A. Why do some people choose Cyber Gaming?
B. Why do some people choose Sports?
Body
Descriptive Paragraph
Topic Sentence:
Cyber gaming are like drugs that causes the people who plays them to become dose, addicted and dependent to it.
A. The life of the people who are addicted to cyber gaming.
B. How they look like when over playing.
C. The way they play the game is extraordinary.
Comparison and Contrast
Topic Sentence:
Differences and Similarities of Cyber gaming and Sports or Real-life gaming.
A. Social Life
B. Tasks
C. Physically fit
Cause and Effect
Topic Sentence:
Cyber gaming is the cause that leads us to two kinds of effects: the positive and negative effects.
A. It provides or contributes to the developing brain of a child with educational games.
B. Resulting in many deficiencies or negative effects among the players.
Conclusion
Topic Sentence:
Cyber gaming and sports are not just the only things we have in life balancing them would help us avoid the side effects of cyber gaming and have a better life style to live on.
A. Balancing of cyber games and sports.
B. Live a better life by avoiding cyber gaming
C. Cherish and treasure your life as your dream lives within.
D. Ruin your life, your dream vanquish.

~EXTENDED-DEFINITION(ESSAY)~

                                                        Be Real!

Hey, there! Are you into cyber gaming or sports? *answer* just as I thought. Kids, teens and adults nowadays prefer their time to be preoccupied through cyber gaming than the usual sports itself. They don’t need to exert much more of an effort than the playing the actual sport, but some do choose the sports. It is because they want to experience the feeling of having them playing the game. They are not contented just controlling the characters inside the game. Also there is a possibility that they are more athletic we should say, so they demand and prefer cyber gaming the most today. Why don’t we dig deeper on how cyber gaming affects us?

In cyber gaming, people who are playing with these are like dosed with drugs, just like when you walked in a cybercafé, you could easily notice them they looked like high and drugged while playing, the emotions on their faces they look very angry and aggressive. You could also hardly see any innocent faces because of their eyes glued to the screen, while playing the way their eyes were somehow focused to the screen of the computer like a camera lens, they could barely notice what’s happening around them. Also the lights of the screen illuminates through their zombie like faces and their fingers were over exercised and madly clicking onto the keyboards and mouse. Inside the café sure enough that there are a lot of people murmuring around like buzzing bee flying around your ear, they are watching the drugged people playing we could see in their screen were famous games like Ragnarok, Dota, Hon, first person shooter games and the like. They can’t help it without these games, they feel so dependent on these games and throws tantrum when taken away from them.

So what’s the difference and similarities of cyber gaming and sports? The simplest similarity they have is that people love to play games, also any kind of gender could also participate, usually the similarity of the cyber games and the sports are their game play and the game rules other than that are all differences. People who are engaged in cyber gaming are prone to diseases, also the games which don’t involve themselves to have some exercise, so the playing of chess is included and many more related to this kind of games. While those who play sports are molded up into good shapes and are physically fit. In short, are more immune to these diseases such as diabetes, obese, heart problems and others. Furthermore, playing cyber games destroys social relationships with other people because they are glued to their own screen while playing unlike in the sports after the game you could have the chance to meet new friends. In fact, it is better to play sports than having ourselves devoted playing cyber games it’s just a waste of time, there is no lesson to be learned after playing cyber games than the real sports itself. 

Cyber gaming is the cause that leads us to two kinds of effects:  the positive and negative effects. Positive, because we could use these cyber games to let the children or the youth learn new things, while their brains are under development also they could have reading software like Encarta with facts, gaming software like Mavis, which teaches typing and develop typing speed. Moreover, video games can be effective to teachers because it provides the child instant feedbacks about their actions and teaches them what’s wrong and right. On the contrary, unrealistic games may cause the child’s perception to be changed and misinterpret and misunderstands the game’s perception. Furthermore, it also causes the player to lose track of the time because they have been glued to their pc most of the time, also having trouble completing the tasks at work and at home they always gives lame excuses just to get pass the situation, delay them until it is forgotten.

So, we have learned and know about cyber gaming which do you prefer now? I suggest that it would be better if we could have balanced the two together to attain equilibrium and not having side effects whether we have too much of this or too much of that. Cyber gaming and sports aren’t the only things we have to balance. We have many things more unique things to do than these, so our world should not revolve around them. We could find better alternative in replace of these two things to do in life. After all we should just avoid over playing with cyber games or it might ruin our life and destroys our future, also our longed dreams in life.

Agrumentative/Position Paper :)

~OUTLINE~

Role: Lasallian Student
Audience: Administrators
Purpose: to persuade them to retain the no eating policy
I. INTRODUCTION
     A. Hook:
“At  a working man’s house hunger looks in but dare not enter.” – Benjamin Franklin, so what do you think about no eating policy in class? Is it needed or not? Last year statistics for no eating policy (minor offense) was 18.06% according to the DO bulletin.
     B. Background of the Issue:
             1. Supporting Detail:
The no eating policy being implemented in the classroom policy results to cleanliness; no trash scattered around or piled up. It helps the students to be more efficient in learning because of the surroundings and no disturbances (Lin, 2011).
             2. Supporting Detail:
On the other hand, eating helps the students stay awake or alert they could eat if and only if they would keep their area free of any signs of food liters such as wrappers, plastic bags and the like (booboosmoosh, 2011).
     C. Thesis Statement:
The no eating policy in the classroom should be retained because it trains the students to have self discipline and have their sense of responsibility another it helps the students to be efficient in their learning process and lastly it preserves the cleanliness and neatness of the environment, classrooms wherever they are.
II. BODY
     A. COUNTER-ARGUMENT + REFUTATION
The students would not be that effective in learning due to the hunger they feel and the drowsiness that hinder them to stay alert. But this treatment could help the students develop a sense of discipline in their lives. In fact, class is a place where teaching is being concentrated and not eating nor drinking (salim, 2011).
           1. Supporting Detail #1 for CA:
Eating in class helps the students to be more effective in class and could pay attention better when they’re not starving because they could focus on what their teacher was teaching (pacorz, 2011).
           2. Supporting Detail #2 for CA:
Due to this deficiency, the teacher allow eating in class because it helps the students to concentrate rather than thinking that they are hungry and the pain they feels the whole time while the teacher is discussing.
           3. Supporting Detail #1 for R:
College students can handle an hour or more of not eating and drinking, high school students and middle school should also be expected to comply with this policy (bullgatortail, 2011).
           4. Supporting Detail #2 for R:
There are breaks and lunch time that they could use to do their thing and breaks between classes are the best.
     B. ARGUMENT #1
Eating in the classroom would affect the efficiency of the students’ learning process because of their divided attention and some other factors of the like disturbing odors, sounds.
          1. Supporting Detail #1
Eating in the classroom promotes the unwanted smell of rotten food which is distasteful to the students. Also, the food allergies have the chance to occur (thanatassa, 2011).
          2. Supporting Detail #2
Students who are eating in the classroom aren’t just disturbing others but also affect their own learning capabilities. While they eat sometimes they miss some of the important information during the discussion (Lin, 2011).
          3. Supporting Detail #3
When they are eating the chewing sound created from their mouth and the smell of the food disturbs the other students during class discussions (accessteacher, 2011).
     C. ARGUMENT #2
It would also cause a terrible mess in the classroom when the food and drinks were not properly disposed or being spilled off by another student who passes by.
          1. Supporting Detail #1
This policy was implemented so that it would help the place preserve its cleanliness, neatness, orderliness and develop or improve the environment conductive for learning to the students (DLSU, 2009).
          2. Supporting Detail #2
To avoid the mess from happening the classroom time and the canteen or eating time should be separated so that it would lessen the distractions in class (Chong, 2011). Finally, eating in class, the students tends to leave candy wrappers, plastics and the like behind.
          3. Supporting Detail #3
The students of the latter class would be affected by their mess and could feel irritated and annoyed. They would be not in the mood to learn the lessons anymore (Lin, 2011).
III. CONCLUSION
     A. Summary/Restatement:
No Eating in classrooms should be followed in order to train them to have their own sense of responsibility and discipline, to prevent deficiency of the students from learning and to maintain the cleanliness and develop an environment conductive for learning.
     B. Closing Statement:
Never let your weaknesses overcome you rather than you overcome them yourself to achieve your dearest goal.

~ARGUMENTATIVE/POSITION PAPER~

                                                      Hunger Games

     “At a working man’s house hunger looks in but dare not enter.” – Benjamin Franklin, it is said to be that we can achieve something we really want by sacrificing ourselves due to hunger plus hard work. Also, eating promotes laziness and drowsiness it could create a terrible mess just like the nature of the pigs. So, the no eating policy in the classrooms, laboratories, offices, study areas and the like, is implemented because it might produce unpleasant smells within the premises. Food spills could attract rodents, insects which they might inhabit and reproduce in these areas. Every school now practices the cleanliness campaign like the No Littering and DLSU famous acronym the CLAYGO (Clean as You Go) in order to maintain the environment efficient for learning. Due to the implementation of this policy some or even a number of students still commit this as their minor offense.
     Did you know that last year statistics for no eating policy (minor offense) ranked 2nd and it was 18.06% according to the Discipline Office’s bulletin. There’s no wonder why this was implemented they don’t intend to deprive us the food but they just wanted to maintain the cleanliness; no trash scattered around or piled up. It helps the students to be more efficient in learning with no distractions (Lin, 2011). On the other hand, eating helps the students to stay awake or alert they could eat if and only if they would keep their area free of any signs of food liters such as wrappers, plastics bags and the like (Smith, 2011).

    The no eating policy in the classroom should be retained because it trains the students to have self discipline and have their sense of responsibility. It also helps the students to be efficient in their learning process. Lastly, it preserves the cleanliness and neatness of the environment, classrooms wherever they are. But, the students would not be that effective in learning due to the hunger they feel and the drowsiness that hinder them to stay alert. This treatment could help the students develop a sense of discipline in their lives. In fact, class is a place where teaching is being concentrated and not eating nor drinking (salim, 2011). Eating in class helps the students to be more effective in class and could pay attention better when they’re not starving because they could focus on what their teacher is teaching (pacorz, 2011). Due to this deficiency, the teacher allows eating in class because it helps the students to concentrate rather than thinking that they are hungry and the pain they feel the whole time while the teacher is discussing.
     However, college students can handle an hour or more of not eating and drinking than high school students and middle school students but they should also be expected to comply with this policy (bullgatortail, 2011). Moreover, there are breaks and lunch time between classes they can use to do the things they need to do like eating, drinking and the like.
     Eating in the classroom would affect the efficiency of the students’ learning process because of their divided attention and some other factors of the like disturbing odors, sounds. Eating in the classroom promotes the unwanted smell of rotten food which is distasteful to the students. Also, the food allergies have the chance to occur to the students with allergy to some foods could be triggered by the food morsels and some leftovers around (thanatassa, 2011). Furthermore, students who are eating in the classroom aren’t just disturbing others but also affect their own learning capabilities. While they eat sometimes they miss some of the important information during the discussion. In fact, when they are eating the chewing sound created from their mouth and the smell of the food disturbs the other students during class discussions (accessteacher, 2011).
     Lastly, it would also cause a terrible mess in the classroom when the food and drinks were not properly disposed or accidentally spilled off by another student who passed by. This policy was implemented so that it would help the place preserve its cleanliness, neatness, orderliness and develop or improve the environment conductive for learning to the students (DLSU, 2009). Also, to avoid dowdiness from happening on classroom time; the canteen or eating time should be separated so that it would lessen the distractions in class (Chong, 2011). Finally, eating in class, the students tend to leave candy wrappers, plastics and the like behind. The students of the latter class would be affected by their mess and could feel irritated and annoyed. They would not be in the mood to learn the lessons anymore (Lin, 2011).

     No Eating in classrooms should be followed in order to train the students to have their own sense of responsibility and discipline, to prevent deficiency of the students from learning and to maintain the cleanliness and develop an environment conductive for learning. Never let your weaknesses overcome you rather than you overcoming them by yourself to achieve your dearest goal.

~REFERENCES~

www.enotes.com/teachers/discuss/food-drink-classroom-113630?start=0

www.dlsu.edu.ph/announcements/default.asp?isd=2046

do-bulletin-t1-ay-11-12.pdf

DO Statistics of Discipline Cases AY 2010-2011

www.thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/hunger/

Lin, Ivy. 7 April 2011. School Rules: Eating in Classroom. Retrieved 22 March 2012 from                                      sites.pccu.edu.tw/i-say-you-say/144444/schoolruleseatinginclassroom-1

~MEMORIES LAST FOREVER~

     I have acquired through the reading and writing to produce better essays, how to supply necessary citations or references and further enhance my skills as a writer. Also, joining the ELL tutorial sessions made a big help for me they taught me about sentence fluency, organizing my ideas a little and explaining the idea before moving to another and punctuations and how to make arguments for position paper. I have improved on how to use punctuations, organizing my ideas, sentence fluency and grammars; through exercises, quizzes and the lessons being conducted every time we meet. I think that it had met the expectations for this subject because the things I wanted to improve in was taught and explained fully to me. This course had helped me achieved my goals because the first time we wrote an essay was the entry essay full of mistakes and grammatical errors. Second, was the extended definition essay I have lack in developing how to organize my ideas and the citations not fully learned. Also, the sentence fluency I have difficulty spotting them and edit them to be more parallel. Lastly, the argumentative paper when I have learned through my mistakes I commit less error and have a pretty considerable grade for that essay. The only problem that I got was to be more distinct in choosing the things I need in order to support some of my arguments. But all in all I have achieved my goal in ENGLCOM class and have met my expectations.

"I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point towards the heaven." 

THANK YOU! HAVE A GREAT DAY! =)   

P.S. Don't Forget To Smile! :)

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