Those new things about English Writing I have learned!
1. Doing self-revising or peer-feedback and doing reflection!
It's really hard sometimes for us to reread the work we write on our own. For me, I always don't have the patience to go over with my writing assignments. It's really common to find my own assignments have plenty of grammar mistakes or misusing words. Sometimes it's even worse to find out that what I write no longer follows my plan at the beginning. During this semester, I wrote longer writing assignments and paper than before. Reading paper with thousands of words again and again is not a fun thing to do. But when I followed the steps of self-revising and reflection, I found myself correcting a lot of avoidable mistakes and revising my work to follow the purpose and proposal of my writing. I attach part of our reflection instruction for one project and hope it can help you to know how to do revising and reflection! Trust me! It's really good for you to read your own work again and do the revise and reflection! And thanks for Dr. Suhr-sytsma's assignment guideline!
"1) How your project 4 part 1 (planning for, conducting, editing the interviews) developed over time."
2) How you personally revised elements of the project based on the peer feedback you got in class Friday, conversations with your group members, and anything else.
3) What you are most proud of about this project (should be something you personally contributed to).
4) What you would revise further if you had more time (again, in terms of something you personally contributed to.) "
2.Writing with signal phrases!
When we write formal writing or academic paper for courses, we always have to quote some research paper or compare different opinions. It can get really boring when we use " they say…" "They find…""their opinion is…" repeatedly. There are a lot more ways to say that, let's see some~
Link to a nifty handout on using Signal Phrases to introduce material from sources (and what you are doing with it!): http://www.csub.edu/eap-riap/theysay.pdf
And another link to a more detailed handout drawing on the same book (They Say/I Say): https://mysite.dmacc.edu/personal/ajneuendorf/instructor/LIT%20185%20Contemporary%20Lit/Academic%20Conversation%20Templates%20Worksheet.pdf
3. Finding resources for your own paper!
How do you find academic resources for your own paper? Google? Baidu? Wikipedia? It's really convenient for us to use those Search Engines to search for the related research results or academic paper. But among tons of search results, there are many redundant information or actually unrelated work for your specific topic. For the bibliography project in this English writing class, thanks to the introducing speech by the librarian during class, I learned how to use data base like: ebscohost and Eric to search for academic journals or peer reviewed journals for my research paper. They are really useful!!!! Let's learn to find resources in Database or the online resources of your school's library!
1. Doing self-revising or peer-feedback and doing reflection!
It's really hard sometimes for us to reread the work we write on our own. For me, I always don't have the patience to go over with my writing assignments. It's really common to find my own assignments have plenty of grammar mistakes or misusing words. Sometimes it's even worse to find out that what I write no longer follows my plan at the beginning. During this semester, I wrote longer writing assignments and paper than before. Reading paper with thousands of words again and again is not a fun thing to do. But when I followed the steps of self-revising and reflection, I found myself correcting a lot of avoidable mistakes and revising my work to follow the purpose and proposal of my writing. I attach part of our reflection instruction for one project and hope it can help you to know how to do revising and reflection! Trust me! It's really good for you to read your own work again and do the revise and reflection! And thanks for Dr. Suhr-sytsma's assignment guideline!
"1) How your project 4 part 1 (planning for, conducting, editing the interviews) developed over time."
2) How you personally revised elements of the project based on the peer feedback you got in class Friday, conversations with your group members, and anything else.
3) What you are most proud of about this project (should be something you personally contributed to).
4) What you would revise further if you had more time (again, in terms of something you personally contributed to.) "
2.Writing with signal phrases!
When we write formal writing or academic paper for courses, we always have to quote some research paper or compare different opinions. It can get really boring when we use " they say…" "They find…""their opinion is…" repeatedly. There are a lot more ways to say that, let's see some~
Link to a nifty handout on using Signal Phrases to introduce material from sources (and what you are doing with it!): http://www.csub.edu/eap-riap/theysay.pdf
And another link to a more detailed handout drawing on the same book (They Say/I Say): https://mysite.dmacc.edu/personal/ajneuendorf/instructor/LIT%20185%20Contemporary%20Lit/Academic%20Conversation%20Templates%20Worksheet.pdf
3. Finding resources for your own paper!
How do you find academic resources for your own paper? Google? Baidu? Wikipedia? It's really convenient for us to use those Search Engines to search for the related research results or academic paper. But among tons of search results, there are many redundant information or actually unrelated work for your specific topic. For the bibliography project in this English writing class, thanks to the introducing speech by the librarian during class, I learned how to use data base like: ebscohost and Eric to search for academic journals or peer reviewed journals for my research paper. They are really useful!!!! Let's learn to find resources in Database or the online resources of your school's library!