Welcome, students!
Welcome to English 112-43 at Southern.
This blog will be a space in which you can share your reflections on, and questions about, the assigned readings for our class. You'll also use this space to respond to your classmates' thoughts on the same readings.
Working as a team will help all of us use our skills and knowledge better. As Dr. Martin Luther King wrote from the Birmingham jail, "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
I look forward to working together to extend the boundaries of our learning.
Cheers,
Prof. Church
This blog will be a space in which you can share your reflections on, and questions about, the assigned readings for our class. You'll also use this space to respond to your classmates' thoughts on the same readings.
Working as a team will help all of us use our skills and knowledge better. As Dr. Martin Luther King wrote from the Birmingham jail, "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
I look forward to working together to extend the boundaries of our learning.
Cheers,
Prof. Church
posted by wordperson at 10:34 AM
9 Comments:
Im looking forward to working with people in the class and improving my writing skills.
Im not too sure where I'm supposed to write my three questions on the "Composing and Revising" chapter in A Writer's Reference for English 112-43 so I will leave them right here.
Much of the stuff I read I understood and learned last semester. It is a good reference to have though when writing an essay. I did like how Hacker talked about freewriting because that is something I always do before writing a paper. "In its purest form, freewriting is simply nonstop writing". I completely agree!
1) Hacker talked about how a conclusion can be short but how short is too short and can a conclusion ever be too long?
2)How do repeating key words help a reader gain coherence?
3)I do not understand when to cite an expert opinion and exactly how?
I agree with cutie because I am also looking forward to this class and I am hoping to improve my writing skills. And I'm sure this blog will help me alot.
I felt that by reading the first section of A Writer’s Reference really helped me brush up on what I’ve previously learned in other courses. The information that I found was nothing new. Yet, often I found myself looking over topics that I had forgotten about. I feel that A Writer’s Reference is a good tool for all writers because it allows you to glance over important writing tools with ease. While reading over the material for instance, I found a passage describing how to conclude a work of writing with effectiveness. “To make the conclusion memorable, consider including a detail, example, or image from the introduction to bring readers full circle… (17).” I found this to be an important tip that would benefit any writer. Unlike last semester I feel that I have a useful tool in regards to a writing handbook. The book itself seems organized and well written making it easier to use. Last semester I rarely opened my book. Yet, this semester I am looking forward to all the help it can give me. I feel that this class has started out on the right foot and I along Yankee22704 feel that this course will benefit my writing. Allow A Writer’s Reference seemed to be helpful it did leave me with a few questions.
1.) When is it unwise to have a thesis in an essay?
2.) “Repetition of key words is an important technique for gaining coherence.” But how many times is too much?
3.) How can you tell when a paragraph is to long or to short?
Like everyone else who has posted so far, I am also looking forward to writing and working with the class this semester.
The Hacker chapter was a good refresher to things I have learned in previous classes, it also reminded me of things I had completely forgotton :)
Here are my three questions regarding the chapter:
1. I'm not really clear about using headings. I always thought they hindered rather than helped a paper's flow. When would this be effective in paper writing?
2. When planning a paper what techniques are most helpful? I like the idea of lists and clustering, but are formals outlines too much? It seems a little overkill.
3. It is hard to maintain consistency when writing a paper. It is easy sometimes to run off on tangents. What the most effective way to stay focused oon the topic at hand?
i think i might be late, but i wasnt sure how to do this hole blog thing. Anyway.
I feel that this article on composing and advising took me back to what i had sressed and used a lot last semester in my english class. This chapter discussed alot about thinking before you begin to write and using different techneques to organize your ideas and to get out everything you want to say. These will and have helped me as a writer, before beginning an essay i always take a scrap piece o paper and free writ to getmy ideas out. The editing and revising tips will help me a great deal.
1. Is it ok to to have more then one topic sentence in a paper ?
2.Does it matter when in your paperyou should start an argument?
3.what ideas would you recommend before atrting the paper. all of them?
Reading the packet allowed me to understand that a successful paper is acheived through the consequencial stages of Pre-drafting: thinking, outlining, drafting, and revising throughly as explained in the assigned reading. Allowing yourself to carefully think through each topic and content of the paper allows you to write a better paper. I love this book. I really beleive that, if i follow all the suggestion given by the book i will do very well in this class.
In a conclusion, can I add a person story or lesson learned while writing the paper?
There are many ways one can conclude a paper. Which ways is the best way? I never know what to say.
Can I disagree with my findings?
I found this packet to be extremely helpful. You sometimes feel as if you know and remember everything from previous classes and then you come across something that you completely forget about! This was definitely a great refresher!
By the way I couldn't get this blog thing so quickly!!
Here are a few questions I have:
1)I find clustering and pretty much all outlines kind of boring and not helpful. Is there a certain approach to creating a successful one that is beneficial?
2)I agreee with yankee22704. I try to finish with a strong conclusion because it is the very last thing your audience will read. However, I notice that it will be rather short because I do not want to basically rewrite the intro. On the other hand, I feel like I ramble on and on. Any suggestions for a strong conclusion?
3)Does the topic sentence neccessarily have to come first?
Hackers key ideas about writing seem very helpful. She explains points that will help your papers be the best they can be from planning to final revising.
1. Hacker says it is good to end the conclusion on a positive note is that always true?
2. Transitions between paragraphs usually link the first sentence of a new paragraph with the first sentence of the previous paragraph, does that always work out?
3. Hacker explained many techniques for exploring ideas like clustering, freewriting, and listening..which on seems to be most useful?
After reading "The Achievement of Desire" by Richard Rodriguez I have come to the conclusion that his story is something that is experienced by many children who's families moved to the United States. I have chosen a quote from the readings.
"Initially, he wavers, balances allegiance. (The boy is himself[until he reaches, say, the upper forms] very much of both the worlds of home and school."
I found this quote to be very true even for me. In a way 'we' live two lives everyday. One at school and one at home. At school you are expected to act a certain way and to follow certain rules. At home those rules are different. Some people speak english at school and another at home to their parents. I think that what Rodriguez wrote is something that most people who have had some form of outside education can relate to.
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