Secrets of a Writing Freak

     In this blog post, I'll be writing a summary on facial recogintion as I'm writing my second formal writing paper on it. I haven't started it as I'm typing, but I thought it would be good to kill two birds with one stone and write a blog post about it? Perhaps I'm being lazy. :')      The general arguement made by Chistopher Koopman in his article, "Should we fear facial recognition?" is that facial recognition is to be feared. More specifically, Koopman argues that facial recognition is a violation of our right to privacy. He writes, "In July, a report from the Washington Post detailed how the FBI and ICE conduct facial searches on driver's license databases, scanning photos of millions without their consent." In this passage, Koopman explains how facial recognition can be used on us without our permission. Overall, Koopman's belief is that facial recognition could hurt us more in the long run than we expect.

       Something that I had never done until write now (yes it's a pun, you can laugh) was praise or critiquing a written piece. I have out loud, or in the fanfiction that I like to read sometimes when I'm bored, but never properly critiquing or praising.     My amazing teacher, (Ms. Lizzy) had us do an optional praising or critiquing for our first formal writing assignment. I'm kind of ahead as I worried I wouldn't have time to do it. I thought it was due on Wednesday, (luckily it's not due till Sunday so I'm not really worried on time yet) and I thought I'd experiment with an article that I'm not using for my essay as practice for future reference.      Today, I read a new article in class, about dark matter and ghosts. I personally believe in both but I thought it would be fun to not agree with the author or the physicists that the author was critiquing for not believing in ghosts but believing in dark matter.  Here's the link in cas...

     So in my freshman English class I was practicing writing summaries for an upcoming essay we have due in less than four days that I haven't really known how to start.      I wrote this summary on an article on Bigfoot called, "Why Wikipedia Is So Tough on Bigfoot," and I'm not really sure how I did as I'm still learning how to write proper summaries. I haven't written a proper summary as of Spring of 2022. So it's been definitely been a while and I'm a little rusty. Here is it for you all to read and critize, for the better of course. I'm open to all constructive critisism! Stephen Harrison in his article, “Why Wikipedia is So Tough on Bigfoot,” argues that both Wikipedia and the two sides of Wikipedia's Never-Ending-Cryptozoological War should come to terms that they both can agree on to keep everyone at peace. More specifically, that Wikipedia should label cryptozoology as pseudoscience, in order for non-believers to make an acknowledge...

6/13/2023     Hi there! I'm Fatima Herrera Hernandez, I'm a first-year college student and I enjoy the art of writing. Pronouns are she/they/he which basically means use any you prefer! I'm not too picky on those cause, pronouns ya' know? I'm a Psych Major hoping to become a Child's Psychologist. I'm a musician and a bit of an artist sometimes.        I hope to become a stronger writer as I haven't written more than 2 essays since my junior year of high school. Which mean I've definitely become a bit rusty. I hope this class will make me more comfortable in whipping up an essay in less time as it usually takes me forever to write a good concise essay in less than 3 drafts. Not only that but I want to have fun and learn more about myself as a writer. I can't wait to meet the lot of you and make friends.  Peace and Love, Fatima <3