Within this article is my paper 4 and my major re-write of paper 1. My 4th paper is about texting and academic writing and if it affects writing. I think that the strength of my 4th paper is my introduction. I believe that I covered what my argument was and the background along with it. The weakness of this paper is the "body" of the article. It could probably have more information about what other scholars think about this subject to strengthen how it's approached by readers. In my re-write paper 1, it's about how big of a problem plagiarism is, and how it can be fixed. The strengths with this article is the amount of information I found to use in the article. But my weakness is probably having a short introduction that didn't explain much about the article. I think that I deserve a higher grade in this class because I improved a lot with my writing skill over the course. I started out writing papers the night before it was due, and making the paper as short as possible and not extending the amount of information within the paper. Now I am writing a week in advance, and describing the information more in depth. I also did all of the class assignments that were asked to do, and I took in a lot of the information that we learned in the class. I thought that this course was very helpful with improving my writing abilities for the future. I have a better understanding of how writing should be done and that there is no rubric for writing. I do think that to make the class more interesting you could do more group activities instead of giving a lecture for the full two hours. I don't think that I could have learned any more than I did this quarter and think that you covered a lot of aspects in writing.
With my 4th paper, my claim is that texting does affect the way students write, but in a positive way. I supported my claim by getting sources explaining that texting is actually a way to practice reading and writing, you just need to decipher the words and letters. My counter argument is that teachers still do not approve of seeing texting lingo in writing, and that students need to realize what they are writing and control it. I think that I had a really strong introduction, but didn't back it up with the rest of my paper. I tried fixing my paper by fixing the problems Paige found, and I attempted to make the flow better. If I had more time to work on this, I would have worked a lot more on the flow of the paper.
With my 1st paper, my claim is that plagiarism shouldn't be punished in most cases because students sometimes don't know that they are plagiarizing. I supported my claim by finding information about some different types of plagiarism, and what some authors think about plagiarism. My counter argument that I found is that even if students don't know that they are plagiarizing, they should still be punished. I think that the "body" of my article is my strongest point in the article, while I think my introduction is my weak point. I improved my article by changing the way my article looked to improve the flow, and I added a little bit more information to back up my claim.
Here are the links to my papers:
Paper 4- http://www.scribd.com/doc/84989542/Does-Technology-Affect-the-Way-You-Write
Re-write paper 1- http://www.scribd.com/doc/85868413/Plagiarism
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Cover Letter Final Paper #4
With this paper, my claim is that texting does affect the way students write, but in a positive way. I supported my claim by getting sources explaining that texting is actually a way to practice reading and writing, you just need to decipher the words and letters. My counter argument is that teachers still do not approve of seeing texting lingo in writing, and that students need to realize what they are writing and control it. I think that I had a really strong introduction, but didn't back it up with the rest of my paper. I tried fixing my paper by fixing the problems Paige found, and I attempted to make the flow better. If I had more time to work on this, I would have worked a lot more on the flow of the paper.
Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/84989542/Does-Technology-Affect-the-Way-You-Write
Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/84989542/Does-Technology-Affect-the-Way-You-Write
Monday, March 5, 2012
Paper 4 Cover Letter
With this paper, my claim is that texting does affect the way students write, but in a positive way. I supported my claim by getting sources explaining that texting is actually a way to practice reading and writing, you just need to decipher the words and letters. My counter argument is that teachers still do not approve of seeing texting lingo in writing, and that students need to realize what they are writing and control it. I think that I had a really strong introduction, but didn't back it up with the rest of my paper. I would like any advice about my paper, but would like to know what I could do better on with the "body" of the paper. If I had more time to work on this, I would have found more arguments and counter arguments.
Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/83912358/Does-Technology-Affect-the-Way-You-Write
Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/83912358/Does-Technology-Affect-the-Way-You-Write
Friday, March 2, 2012
Paper #4 Introduction
How many times do you text a day? Do you use shorthand, or texting lingo? If you do, you probably have used that lingo in your writing at one point whether it was accidental or not. Many students are using this language in their everyday writing, and teachers are getting annoyed with this problem. But some people don't think that texting and academic writing is a problem, rather than it is helping students write more.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Annotated Bibliography
Here is the link to my annotated bibliography:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/83444550/Annotated-Bibliography-Paper4
http://www.scribd.com/doc/83444550/Annotated-Bibliography-Paper4
Sunday, February 26, 2012
February 27th Homework
Summary:
In their article, Reading and Writing Without Authority, Ann M. Penrose and Cheryl Geisler argue that everybody has different beliefs of what knowledge is. They prove this claim by constructing an experiment involving Janet(a college freshman) and Roger(a doctoral student), and ask both of them to write papers about paternity.
QD 3-5:
3.) Janet's writing is based off of a system that she uses for all of her papers. She writes papers by using the way she was taught by her teachers before college, which may include the five-paragraph papers, or a syllabus type of writing.And with this, she needs to look up a lot of information for her paper. Roger's writing style however, is very different from Janet's. Since Roger is going for the doctorate degree, he doesn't necessarily need to look up as much information that Janet needs.
4.) I think this happened to her because she was not confident in her own writing. Since this happened, she wanted to believe any information that she found is correct even if it doesn't go with her argument. Although most amateur writers tend to believe that any information they find on the internet is true, they need to know the difference between what is correct and wrong.
5.) I find myself to write similar to Janet as I do a lot of information-transfering for my papers. But I do find myself every now and then writing like Roger, because with some of the subjects I have written about in the past I have a lot of knowledge for them. So it depends wether or not I have knowledge about the subject.
MM:
This article will help me with future papers so that I keep my confidence level up about how I am writing, and with the way I write my paper. If I don't know much information about a subject, I won't complain about it but rather strive to get the information.
Reflection:
I thought this article will help me in the future because this will remind me to never get down on myself when I hit writers block, but to try and fight through it. This article is very useful because young writers can learn that confidence is the key to writing. If you aren't confident about the way you write, the paper will turn out bad.
In their article, Reading and Writing Without Authority, Ann M. Penrose and Cheryl Geisler argue that everybody has different beliefs of what knowledge is. They prove this claim by constructing an experiment involving Janet(a college freshman) and Roger(a doctoral student), and ask both of them to write papers about paternity.
QD 3-5:
3.) Janet's writing is based off of a system that she uses for all of her papers. She writes papers by using the way she was taught by her teachers before college, which may include the five-paragraph papers, or a syllabus type of writing.And with this, she needs to look up a lot of information for her paper. Roger's writing style however, is very different from Janet's. Since Roger is going for the doctorate degree, he doesn't necessarily need to look up as much information that Janet needs.
4.) I think this happened to her because she was not confident in her own writing. Since this happened, she wanted to believe any information that she found is correct even if it doesn't go with her argument. Although most amateur writers tend to believe that any information they find on the internet is true, they need to know the difference between what is correct and wrong.
5.) I find myself to write similar to Janet as I do a lot of information-transfering for my papers. But I do find myself every now and then writing like Roger, because with some of the subjects I have written about in the past I have a lot of knowledge for them. So it depends wether or not I have knowledge about the subject.
MM:
This article will help me with future papers so that I keep my confidence level up about how I am writing, and with the way I write my paper. If I don't know much information about a subject, I won't complain about it but rather strive to get the information.
Reflection:
I thought this article will help me in the future because this will remind me to never get down on myself when I hit writers block, but to try and fight through it. This article is very useful because young writers can learn that confidence is the key to writing. If you aren't confident about the way you write, the paper will turn out bad.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
February 22nd Homework
Johns Summary:
In her article, Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice, Ann Johns explains that it is possible to be involved in many different discourse communities. She gives her own definition of a discourse community and describes what it is like to be part of an academic community. She also explains the conflicts that can occur within each of the different communities.
QD 1-6:
1.) One of the big problems that can occur within a community is somebody being in authority to all the other members of the group. Another conflict that tends to occur is a disagreement with the group members. This conflict I feel is the worst one because everybody wants to do something the way they think is best.
2.) In gee's article, change was a good thing. It meant that when somebody had to leave the group they would be replaced by somebody to complete the group. In Johns' article, it is very similar but with a little more detail. Here the group members would all have the same goals to get more intellectual and knowledgable, and strive to achieve those goals.
3.) When it comes to me learning to read and write, my beliefs and values do not change. I have always stuck with my values and beliefs, and have always defended them if there were any conflicts.
4.) I don't think that Johns views on learning to read, write, and speak change your identity. I think that these things can form around your identity and help you find your identity a little more.But it does not change your identity because you will keep believing what you did before.
5.) I think that my authority over the writing I have had to do in college so far is small. Mostly there is a certain way that the professors want the papers to look and format to follow. So I follow the way my professors want me to so that I can get a better grade.
6.) Rule breaking is like a minefield because you don't know if you will get blown up at by your teacher for breaking the rules or be safe even though you didn't follow rules. Sometimes when you break the rules the teacher or professor will actually like the way you changed the format in your paper rather than take away precious points. But there are some instances where your teacher will not accept that change, and it will feel like you just made a wrong step on the minefield.
MM:
Knowing the "rules" of a discourse community can help you to becoming a member because you will know whether or not you could fit into the group. But it could be a downside because it could feel like the group is pressuring you to becoming somebody that you're not.
Reflection:
I thought that this article had too much information than it needed. If Johns would have just explained the negative parts of being a part of discourse communities, this article would have been much better. With the amount of information in this article, it can lose the readers attention which happened to me a couple of times.
In her article, Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice, Ann Johns explains that it is possible to be involved in many different discourse communities. She gives her own definition of a discourse community and describes what it is like to be part of an academic community. She also explains the conflicts that can occur within each of the different communities.
QD 1-6:
1.) One of the big problems that can occur within a community is somebody being in authority to all the other members of the group. Another conflict that tends to occur is a disagreement with the group members. This conflict I feel is the worst one because everybody wants to do something the way they think is best.
2.) In gee's article, change was a good thing. It meant that when somebody had to leave the group they would be replaced by somebody to complete the group. In Johns' article, it is very similar but with a little more detail. Here the group members would all have the same goals to get more intellectual and knowledgable, and strive to achieve those goals.
3.) When it comes to me learning to read and write, my beliefs and values do not change. I have always stuck with my values and beliefs, and have always defended them if there were any conflicts.
4.) I don't think that Johns views on learning to read, write, and speak change your identity. I think that these things can form around your identity and help you find your identity a little more.But it does not change your identity because you will keep believing what you did before.
5.) I think that my authority over the writing I have had to do in college so far is small. Mostly there is a certain way that the professors want the papers to look and format to follow. So I follow the way my professors want me to so that I can get a better grade.
6.) Rule breaking is like a minefield because you don't know if you will get blown up at by your teacher for breaking the rules or be safe even though you didn't follow rules. Sometimes when you break the rules the teacher or professor will actually like the way you changed the format in your paper rather than take away precious points. But there are some instances where your teacher will not accept that change, and it will feel like you just made a wrong step on the minefield.
MM:
Knowing the "rules" of a discourse community can help you to becoming a member because you will know whether or not you could fit into the group. But it could be a downside because it could feel like the group is pressuring you to becoming somebody that you're not.
Reflection:
I thought that this article had too much information than it needed. If Johns would have just explained the negative parts of being a part of discourse communities, this article would have been much better. With the amount of information in this article, it can lose the readers attention which happened to me a couple of times.
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