I was always told that an essay is developed around a thesis statement and resources that support my opinions about a prompt. I realized that there was more to an essay when I came across scholarly writing, which is writing on a higher level, usually one which we come across during college. It meets high standards of communication with outlines, tone, deductive reasoning, format, and way of analytical approach. It has a consistent way of delivering thoughts, shaping arguments, and narrowing down the subject to explain the main idea.
With scholarly writing, students must express their thoughts through thesis statements, and develop an argument with their own thinking, not minding to be objective to clear any chance of bias. And they must present …show more content…
We follow thesis statements as “controlling devices”(Revision strategies 382) that control what we say blinding us from our own ideas, and crippling us from moving forward with developing …show more content…
It’s taking out sentences, adding new ones, or modifying sentence structure. To them, a revision strategy is “a process of discovering a meaning altogether.”(Sommers 385). As a high school student as I read these essays about revising, and rewriting for the first time, I’m reading strategies and definitions that I’ve never heard of. My top priority in revising an essay is grammar and lexical repetition. I worry about how the essay looks, and how it’s read. I worry about repeating words forgetting the most important part; whether my ideas are repeated, presented properly, concluded, or even modified while I rewrite my essay.
Reading Sommer’s essays about scholarly writings, and revision strategies, they confirm what I believe about student’s failure to take their own ideas into account while focusing on thesis statements and authorities words. However It challenged what I had assumed that students think of revising as a process that “Requires lexical changes but not semantic changes”(Sommers 382)
While to professional writers it’s a process of “Finding the form or the shape of the argument”(Sommers 384). Sommers brings many important strategies of writings under the consideration of students, and helps introduce them to future scholarly writings in
With scholarly writing, students must express their thoughts through thesis statements, and develop an argument with their own thinking, not minding to be objective to clear any chance of bias. And they must present …show more content…
We follow thesis statements as “controlling devices”(Revision strategies 382) that control what we say blinding us from our own ideas, and crippling us from moving forward with developing …show more content…
It’s taking out sentences, adding new ones, or modifying sentence structure. To them, a revision strategy is “a process of discovering a meaning altogether.”(Sommers 385). As a high school student as I read these essays about revising, and rewriting for the first time, I’m reading strategies and definitions that I’ve never heard of. My top priority in revising an essay is grammar and lexical repetition. I worry about how the essay looks, and how it’s read. I worry about repeating words forgetting the most important part; whether my ideas are repeated, presented properly, concluded, or even modified while I rewrite my essay.
Reading Sommer’s essays about scholarly writings, and revision strategies, they confirm what I believe about student’s failure to take their own ideas into account while focusing on thesis statements and authorities words. However It challenged what I had assumed that students think of revising as a process that “Requires lexical changes but not semantic changes”(Sommers 382)
While to professional writers it’s a process of “Finding the form or the shape of the argument”(Sommers 384). Sommers brings many important strategies of writings under the consideration of students, and helps introduce them to future scholarly writings in