In English 100, peer reviewing rough draft essays has been a helpful process that has helped me improve in my writing. I used peer reviewing as a tool to make the necessary corrections that were needed in one of my essays. The comments and grammar suggestions from my peers have been useful to make modifications in my writing. For example, when I received a graded paper back, I read over the peer review comments and used what was needed to make the Essay stronger. If a comment stated to include…
well as throughout this semester, I had one big goal in mind for this course. That goal was to improve my writing skills to a college level. Now that the end of the semester is within sight, I can see that I have achieved this goal. I am ready to move on from this course to the next one in order to continue to increase my writing abilities. I know this because, overall, I have honed my writing skills and have been able to earn a passing grade on all of my papers up to this point. With each paper…
way. As a result during the Writing Project One Part One, upon turning in my draft, I seen no flaws. Though that may be rudimentary, high school notions would deem the essay decent, but college notions claimed the essay unsatisfactory.…
Knowledge, enquiry & communication (KEC) is a paper that helps you develop skills and ways of thinking to help you enquire and communicate about a topic of choice. It teaches strategies that will help develop academic and literacy for knowledge construction and helps develop written, verbal and online communication, which are skills needed for future papers at university. The lectures were based online delivered through YouTube and on campus-based tutorials. In this paper I will be reflecting on…
selection, sentence structure and conformation to writing codes and styles should reflect the nature of the format. Blunt and verbose statements should be avoided (Hulbert 2-3). Critically, a liberal use of the active voice is imperative…
Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provides a useful method of teaching academic writing. Each chapter has different contents like chapter two is the Art of Summarizing, chapter three is the Art of Quoting and chapter six is Planting a Naysayer in Your Tex Every chapter has a unique understanding and the specific way to teach that how to use correctly. All of these learning processes in this book will make your personal writing skills inventory shine. Summarizing is an important point…
improve my expressive writing skills and teach me skills to organize my texts in MLA format. Our introductory essay was a diagnostic essay about ourselves. After Mrs. Keller gave us some basic instructions we began brainstorming. At first I thought this should be easy, but I quickly realized that knowing the material does not automatically mean, putting it on paper is easy. Therefore Mrs. Keller provided us with worksheets that helped us organize our notes before we began writing. It took me…
modification. Normally, I tend to procrastinate in writing papers for school, an issue which has resulted in countless mediocre and lackluster papers. By doing papers in smaller segments, perhaps, academic aptitude would improve accompanied by less stress brought on by long nights before the deadline. Essentially, there is much to gain by separating the amount of time over shorter intervals rather performing the Herculean task of a one night writing session. Research affirms this common sense,…
Out From Under The Blanket Writing comes in many shapes, forms, and fashions. Most people have a common idea as to what writing is or what writing should be in a school setting. When asked most would automatically recall past papers done in middle school, high school, and college that were purely academia prompted by a specific topic. Since there are various ways to express knowledge through writing, why are musical forms, such as rap or hip hop, seen as unintelligale or even purely…
things I learned from 5A. It was very difficult to find the right parts and piece them together to create the “perfect” essay. On the other hand, I was able to learn the necessary skills to converse with the authors in the text, From Inquiry to an Academic Writing, by Stuart Greene and April Lidinsky. It was an essential skill to be able to properly identify the different arguments in their conversation, which I thereafter, explained using the They Say, I Say techniques and templates.…