Outcome 5 (Document Work MLA) Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA) MLA format is important because it allows me to use outside sources that aren’t mine to help with my essay. It allows me to add in more bulk to my essays by using a source and digging deeper into them in the essay. It always validates my points and opinions as proof or evidence. Screenshot from essay #3 As seen in the screenshot, I highlighted the page numbers…
Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process. Peer review allowed me to get feedback from multiple other people, but it was the 1 on 1 peer review interactions during class that really helped with my writing process. Some people may think it’s awkward or maybe uncomfortable to hear feedback from someone one on one or maybe you don’t want to hurt someone’s…
Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking. I have been doing active reading and making annotations since highschool, but the way we do them in college has already made a big impact on how I read and review text. Active reading allows me to think about readings in different ways and form different questions and opinions about them. Using the different annotation types especially helps with the process of active reading…
Be able to integrate their ideas with others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources. In my essays, I always made sure to make my quotes look nice and proper. As I would try my best to make them look so factual and proper I didn’t pay enough attention to explaining them. Another big problem I had during quote integration was I would just smack down a quote without much personal explanation or context so it wouldn’t…
Outcome 1 (Recursive Process) Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision). Before College, my revision process in highschool looked way different without a question. I didn’t take nearly as much time as I did revising and didn’t pay attention to little details as I do now. At first, I wouldn’t think twice about changing a simple…
In “Is Empathy Overrated”, Paul Bloom expressed many different feelings about empathy and how it is applied to our daily lives. Although I agree with some of his points, I feel that Bloom is a prime example of why empathy needs to be shown more due to some of his close minded views. INTRO TO QUOTE: Bloom believes that it is easier to empathize with people we are closer with than “strangers”. SIGNAL PHRASE: Paul Bloom, explains, “it’s far easier…
2. This draft really reminded me of my high school essay process. It made me realize how much more effective the writing process in college is compare to high school. In high school I always tried to make my drafts pitch perfect and was way too hard on myself. Now that I’m here I learned that I can write freely without the worry of prelims or something sounding off. After all, it’s a draft. 3. In revision I learned that…
Also in his writing he mentions how “Empathy can lead us to prioritize feelings over facts,” meaning that if we are listening to someones struggles we may tend to show too much emotion or feel too bad. At first it doesn’t sound like a bad thing, but doing this can actually mislead our understanding of ones true feelings and points. 2. I don’t agree with bloom on this because I feel like you can never really show too much empathy….
