Over this semester of schooling my writing has changed dramatically at times and very little at others. Through my years of schooling people have determined my weaknesses and strengths that I would need to work on in my writing. In this academic writing course, I got to assess my own strengths and weaknesses based on the trouble I had writing, feedback, and overall grades.
In all my years of school, I have always had trouble beginning an important paper. The longer it was, the more I procrastinated. The beginning was always the hardest part, once I really got started, it all started to come together.
I mainly had trouble with that assignment. As I was not really satisfied with my original grade, which was affected by my paper’s lack of cohesion, …show more content…
I would want the introduction to flow and clearly start what I was talking about. This would not really work very well. Whenever I would write an introduction, it would never flow. It was always fairly choppy and I could not figure out how to smoothen it out.
With the position paper, I tried to be more creative with my introduction. This required much creativity and thought; how best can I pull the reader in? This was a lot more difficult than simply explaining what the paper was about.
I mostly worked making my points “full circle” with my use of evidence. Also, I tried to establish more a more logos- based argument in order to combat my use of a popular source in many parts of my argument with the use of scientific research. I expanded the types of arguments used, using more cause-and-effect forms of giving an outcome from what is already believed to be true like of Japan and the papaya. In addition to that, I worked on making a lot of my phrases simpler, shorter and easier to …show more content…
With what I adjusted, I tried to make my writing less stiff and appeal to the reader more. I tried to make reading my work more interactive and engaging. I wanted that so the audience could react rather than reading off facts. I am most proud of the Digital Forum as I was able to find small ways (especially with the survey) to keep the audience engaged.
In addition to these, I have tried exposing my writing to more people for feedback. If I do not spend long on a piece, I often overlook small typos or grammatical issues. I do not craft my words quite as carefully as I should. I also tend to be quite repetitive. I tried to have as many people as I could read over my writing having someone do that can highlight these issues and help me clean up my work. This also helps as it gives me a break to refresh my mind before I come back for more
In all my years of school, I have always had trouble beginning an important paper. The longer it was, the more I procrastinated. The beginning was always the hardest part, once I really got started, it all started to come together.
I mainly had trouble with that assignment. As I was not really satisfied with my original grade, which was affected by my paper’s lack of cohesion, …show more content…
I would want the introduction to flow and clearly start what I was talking about. This would not really work very well. Whenever I would write an introduction, it would never flow. It was always fairly choppy and I could not figure out how to smoothen it out.
With the position paper, I tried to be more creative with my introduction. This required much creativity and thought; how best can I pull the reader in? This was a lot more difficult than simply explaining what the paper was about.
I mostly worked making my points “full circle” with my use of evidence. Also, I tried to establish more a more logos- based argument in order to combat my use of a popular source in many parts of my argument with the use of scientific research. I expanded the types of arguments used, using more cause-and-effect forms of giving an outcome from what is already believed to be true like of Japan and the papaya. In addition to that, I worked on making a lot of my phrases simpler, shorter and easier to …show more content…
With what I adjusted, I tried to make my writing less stiff and appeal to the reader more. I tried to make reading my work more interactive and engaging. I wanted that so the audience could react rather than reading off facts. I am most proud of the Digital Forum as I was able to find small ways (especially with the survey) to keep the audience engaged.
In addition to these, I have tried exposing my writing to more people for feedback. If I do not spend long on a piece, I often overlook small typos or grammatical issues. I do not craft my words quite as carefully as I should. I also tend to be quite repetitive. I tried to have as many people as I could read over my writing having someone do that can highlight these issues and help me clean up my work. This also helps as it gives me a break to refresh my mind before I come back for more