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What is my 10%?

Intro
Studies have shown that 45 minutes after a lecture students can hardly remember what
was said in the lecture. In fact it is said that people like you and me only remember about 10% of
what we are taught. James Altucher suggests that there are only a few ways that we actually learn
something; by doing it, watching it, reading it, thinking about it, talking about it, loving it, and
repeating it. I must agree to this theory; there is so much that myself as a college student must
intake in a total of five classes, and it is impossible for me to remember what was said from a
9:30 lecture till my last class at 2:00. But, throughout this semester Ive learned how to practice
and do what I want to retain. This has been a major concept while being in the Writing in a
Digital World class. There are a lot of things that I would like to take with me but a few I will not
forget and will be useful throughout my future academic and professional career.
Canva (Image Editing)

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Canva was something that I did, talked about, loved, and repeated. It would be impossible
to forget this technique/skill. This skill taught me how to make pictures my own, and it taught me
how to match pictures and colors with words
that had meaning. Canva to me brought a
whole new addition to just uploading
pictures. The way it works is you get a free
picture from pixabay or Flickr/creative
commons, you upload it on canva and you
add words and style to the picture. We practice this in class and out of class when doing our 6word memoirs. This is a technique that I will continue to use throughout my future academic
career because it gives the picture a better look/feel as I was taught. An example of this technique
is provided for you.

Signal Phrases and Parenthetical Refrences (Conventions of Academic Writing)


This skill took me the whole entire semesterto master. I watched videos, I practiced
myself, I read examples, but it didnt pay off until I kept repeating those steps. I always got them
confused and could never master them when having to complete an assignment when they were
involved. A signal phrase is a phrase clause, or sentence which leads into a quotation or statistic.
They include the speaker or authors name and justification on why they are quoting this source.
Some examples of signal phrases are:

As Matt Sundeen has noted,


claims wireless spokesperson Annette Jacobs

In contrast, a parenthetical reference is a reference within the body of your paper to one of the
sources in your reference list. It shows exactly what you took from the source and where the

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reader can find it. You use a parenthetical reference when you are using material directly from
the source, paraphrased in your words, or when referring to an idea derived from the material.
Some examples of parenthetical references are:

The chicken cam before the egg (Smith 2001).


Smith theorizes that chicken came before egg (2001).

Signal Phrases and Parenthetical References will continue to be used throughout my future
academic and professional career because it is something that will
never not be used. This technique will forever be helpful.

Animoto (Online Digital Video)


With this technique I watched it, talked about it, loved it,
and repeated. This was one of my favorite things to do this semester. I had so much fun doing
this because I didnt think it would be used in a college setting. I have used animoto before in
high school, but it was fun doing it about something I loved. Animoto is a website where you
make memories into your own video, you are able to pick as many picture or even videos to
place in your memory. You have a choice of multiple templates and music (you can even use
your own) to choose from, and can even sample them before you choose one. Animoto is
something that I will continue to do forever and continue to refer to my friends because you can
use it for work, family, presentations, and so many other things.

Blogger (Online Digital Writing)


This was a new a great experience that I fell in love with during this class. Blogger took
the process of doing it, reading it, thinking about it, talking about it, loving it, and repeating.
Blogger took a lot of critical thinking and planning to make it successful and worth reading.

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Blogger was fun but very organized type fun. It taught me how to style a page so that it was
appealing to readers to look at and want to engage in. It showed me how to organize a blog so
that it would be right to the point and easy to read. The pictures, colors, and fonts were nice
touches to the blog and also took a lot of critical thinking. Blogger is useful for future academic
and career purposes because it has taught me how to design and engage readers online with
informal writing. I even have looked into started a new blog.

Conclusion
This is the 10% that I am taking from this class that I feel has been most helpful. These
are the techniques/skills that I will take with me throughout my future academic and professional
career. All of the techniques have helped me and taught me things that are impossible for me to
forget. So that my take away and I guess James Altucher was right those steps do work when
you think about it.

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