Reflection Of Thonney's Teaching The Conventions Of Academic Writing

Professor Warnick, I enjoyed this class, and I do believe it helped me to improve my writing. I always have a hard time in English classes because writing is not something I am good at. However, I was able to keep up in this class, and I also learned many things that, I am sure, will be useful to me in the future. In general, I would say my writing process needs improvement. I struggled with many assignments for this class because of it. First of all, I did all of them at home in my room, and it was really hard for me to concentrate on the work. There were too many distractions, and I took too many breaks. As a result, it took me much longer to finish the assignments than it should have. I think I would benefit from writing at the library …show more content…
I am still not that good at it, but I noticed that I started thinking more about the choices I make when I write. For example, I began my summary of Thonney’s “Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse” with a point of view she disagrees: “Thonney points out that some scholars deny the idea that there are set rules to academic writing.” I thought this would be more effective than talking about her ideas, then bringing up the opposing opinion, and then coming back to Thonney’s thoughts again. I wanted the paragraph to have a strong structure because that way it is more effective and easier to understand. This is definitely an improvement. Before I thought more about what I am going to write in a paper, not what order I am going to put the sentences in so that they have more effect on the …show more content…
Here is one I wrote for Post 9: "In the past years, there have been significant changes in the music industry due to modern digi-tal technology. I analyzed five articles on the topic, and found that the writers use the writing conventions mentioned by Teresa Thonney in her essay "Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse." I specifically want to talk about their use of evidence and how it relates to Thonney 's research." In your response, you pointed out that all three of my statements for that assignment were too vague. I had this issue with Assignment 2 as well. Every time I had to write an essay in my previous classes, I was told to write a one sentence three-point thesis. Analytical thesis statements, however, are completely different, so I am still having issues because I am not used to writing that way. I have not had enough practice