1. I feel more comfortable summarizing now than I have ever before. The main reason it isn’t as daunting is because my professor utilized an exercise for summarization. For example, he asked us to summarize a movie in one sentence. By doing this exercise, it drilled the basics of what a summary needs to be about, which, is key information. My paraphrasing and quoting from a source are stronger attributes now that I have spent an entire semester implementing the summarizing techniques. For example, my summary’s, analysis paper, and research paper. Therefore, I think it is safe to say that I have become more comfortable with summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting from published writing.
2. I have always liked writing analysis’s better than most writing assignments. I usually always write analysis papers as a supporter of the stance presented by the author. This is mostly due to laziness. So, I decided I would switch up my stance and argue against the author. For example, I chose to disagree against Alfie Kohn in his article “‘Well Duh!’- Ten Obvious Truths We Shouldn’t Be Ignoring.” Furthermore, my professor provided useful essay words and phrases for an argumentative styled essay. This, in turn, allowed me to utilize the logic within an article to persuade the audience with concision and flow.
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Incorporating research material from sources was the easiest of all the techniques I had to complete throughout the semester. For example, my research paper had 10 sources that I had to integrate throughout my paper. I accomplished this by reading through the articles and picking out key ideas that supported my research without taking the author(s) statements completely out of context. Thankfully, my professor showed me a cool tip at the beginning of the year, which was writing notes and highlighting key things within the articles. This provided me with an overview of the important information and made it easier to pull out what I needed to support my
2. I have always liked writing analysis’s better than most writing assignments. I usually always write analysis papers as a supporter of the stance presented by the author. This is mostly due to laziness. So, I decided I would switch up my stance and argue against the author. For example, I chose to disagree against Alfie Kohn in his article “‘Well Duh!’- Ten Obvious Truths We Shouldn’t Be Ignoring.” Furthermore, my professor provided useful essay words and phrases for an argumentative styled essay. This, in turn, allowed me to utilize the logic within an article to persuade the audience with concision and flow.
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Incorporating research material from sources was the easiest of all the techniques I had to complete throughout the semester. For example, my research paper had 10 sources that I had to integrate throughout my paper. I accomplished this by reading through the articles and picking out key ideas that supported my research without taking the author(s) statements completely out of context. Thankfully, my professor showed me a cool tip at the beginning of the year, which was writing notes and highlighting key things within the articles. This provided me with an overview of the important information and made it easier to pull out what I needed to support my