Positive Impact
One of the many topics of discussion in our class was ways to improve the clarity of our information. To further our understanding, we read They Say/I Say a rather small book that in detail goes over the basic ways to clarify your writing. Following the easy outlines that it gave us, our class quickly realized that we need to be direct when identifying our personal ideas vs. another individual/groups ideas. The presentation and clarity of any information given or acquired is extremely important because the clairity strengthens your argument and allows the reader to fully understand the purpose of the paper. This is the point to writing--to express yourself to others through the marvels of choreographed words. Without clarity, the meaning and understanding to writing is lost.
The process of revision in our classroom was simple: 1)Do the origional work and gather peer edits. 2)Revise again. 3)Finish and turn in a hard copy. 4)Look at feedback. 5)Make improvemements-Highlighting the changes you make. 6)Return in your paper with a) the origional finished copy [step 3] b) the attached rubric/feedback sheet and c) the finalized highlighted copy. This revision process allowed for us to get numerous opinions on aspects of our paper to improve. It also helps the author to be able to recognize things that they aren't seeing when writing. Furthermore, it allows the author to develop their writing from good to great.
In regard to these assignments, I have learned a major key to my academic writing in which every other teacher has told me to disregard. This major aspect of my writing is my voice. I have been told many times to suppress the use of "I" in my writing. Writing any paper without the use of 1st person is a skill that takes time. However, when writing without "I", I found that I lost track of whose ideas were whose myself. When reimplementing "I" back into my writing, it became easier to focus on content and clarity rather than decrypting my own writing.
The process of revision in our classroom was simple: 1)Do the origional work and gather peer edits. 2)Revise again. 3)Finish and turn in a hard copy. 4)Look at feedback. 5)Make improvemements-Highlighting the changes you make. 6)Return in your paper with a) the origional finished copy [step 3] b) the attached rubric/feedback sheet and c) the finalized highlighted copy. This revision process allowed for us to get numerous opinions on aspects of our paper to improve. It also helps the author to be able to recognize things that they aren't seeing when writing. Furthermore, it allows the author to develop their writing from good to great.
In regard to these assignments, I have learned a major key to my academic writing in which every other teacher has told me to disregard. This major aspect of my writing is my voice. I have been told many times to suppress the use of "I" in my writing. Writing any paper without the use of 1st person is a skill that takes time. However, when writing without "I", I found that I lost track of whose ideas were whose myself. When reimplementing "I" back into my writing, it became easier to focus on content and clarity rather than decrypting my own writing.
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