Academic writing

Knowledge, enquiry & communication (KEC) is a paper that helps you develop skills and ways of thinking to help you enquire and communicate about a topic of choice. It teaches strategies that will help develop academic and literacy for knowledge construction and helps develop written, verbal and online communication, which are skills needed for future papers at university. The lectures were based online delivered through YouTube and on campus-based tutorials. In this paper I will be reflecting on…

selection, sentence structure and conformation to writing codes and styles should reflect the nature of the format. Blunt and verbose statements should be avoided (Hulbert 2-3). Critically, a liberal use of the active voice is imperative…

Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provides a useful method of teaching academic writing. Each chapter has different contents like chapter two is the Art of Summarizing, chapter three is the Art of Quoting and chapter six is Planting a Naysayer in Your Tex Every chapter has a unique understanding and the specific way to teach that how to use correctly. All of these learning processes in this book will make your personal writing skills inventory shine. Summarizing is an important point…

Out From Under The Blanket Writing comes in many shapes, forms, and fashions. Most people have a common idea as to what writing is or what writing should be in a school setting. When asked most would automatically recall past papers done in middle school, high school, and college that were purely academia prompted by a specific topic. Since there are various ways to express knowledge through writing, why are musical forms, such as rap or hip hop, seen as unintelligale or even purely…

improve my expressive writing skills and teach me skills to organize my texts in MLA format. Our introductory essay was a diagnostic essay about ourselves. After Mrs. Keller gave us some basic instructions we began brainstorming. At first I thought this should be easy, but I quickly realized that knowing the material does not automatically mean, putting it on paper is easy. Therefore Mrs. Keller provided us with worksheets that helped us organize our notes before we began writing. It took me…

modification. Normally, I tend to procrastinate in writing papers for school, an issue which has resulted in countless mediocre and lackluster papers. By doing papers in smaller segments, perhaps, academic aptitude would improve accompanied by less stress brought on by long nights before the deadline. Essentially, there is much to gain by separating the amount of time over shorter intervals rather performing the Herculean task of a one night writing session. Research affirms this common sense,…

During my first year at Spelman College, I have not necessarily acquired any new writing skills. However, I have definitely sharpened three imperative writing skills, including: forming my ideas, reasoning, and synthesis (based on readings and discussions) to develop the content of my essays, integrating sources and evidence that corroborate my beliefs, and making my writing more clear and concise. In addition, I still stand in the process of learning to write well under the pressure of time…

literary themes and forms, continue training in effective prose writing skills, and demonstrate maturity and thought and style when deconstructing literary elements such as image, plot, character, theme, and conflict. In "Standard Freshman Composition," I prepare my students to produce quality work that utilizes writing techniques, analyzes reading material, and incorporates research techniques that will aide them in their academic future. The outcomes of this course are for the student to be…

teaching style was. Being in GSW 1110 my senior year of high school has taught me so many things and made me become a better writer as well as getting me ready for my future college classes and my future career. This class has bettered me in my writing abilities as well as my ability to do better research. I have learned many things throughout my semester in GSW 1110 such as counterarguments, different…

things I learned from 5A. It was very difficult to find the right parts and piece them together to create the “perfect” essay. On the other hand, I was able to learn the necessary skills to converse with the authors in the text, From Inquiry to an Academic Writing, by Stuart Greene and April Lidinsky. It was an essential skill to be able to properly identify the different arguments in their conversation, which I thereafter, explained using the They Say, I Say techniques and templates.…