Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA) Framing statement: MLA format is really important to give credit to the writer of the source you are using. I did not learn about MLA format until my senior year of high school. When we used MLA format that year, we learned about using a heading and using a works cited page, but very briefly learned about in text citations. During my college English class, I learned about it being really important to…
Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process. Framing statement: I never did peer review in high school, so doing it in college was very new and challenging for me. The hardest part for me while giving comments during peer review was finding places to add comments and writing them in a way that my partner could understand it. The peer review guideline…
Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking. Framing statement: Annotating the source while reading it helps to maintain active reading. It can also help you find specific parts if the article is really long without re-reading the whole thing. It can also help you connect and understand the text. While I am reading without annotating, I will lose focus and start scanning over what it says, but if I am annotating…
Be able to integrate their ideas with others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources. Framing statement: Integrating sources has been very useful while writing my essays and is very different in college compared to what I was taught throughout high school. I was always taught to focus on summarizing and most of my essay was summary. We also briefly talked about paraphrasing or partial quotes, but we were told to focus on full quotes. This is…
Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision). Framing statement: Revision is very different in high school and college. In high school, we focused on local revision. I was told that after writing a draft, I should take a few minutes looking for spelling or grammar mistakes or sentences that did not make sense. This is all…
How effective is what you say? I think I can be more specific about whether I agree or not. There are a few times in my third essay that I think are a little bit unclear whether I agree with the quote or not. I think I also need to go into more details with explaining what I think about each claim before the “they say” part. I think I connected the “they say” and “I say” parts better than…
While it is good to have empathy, there can be some disadvantages to it that can lead to being bad. If you have too much empathy, you may not actually do what is best for someone else. Bloom gives the example, “Any good parent, for instance, often has to make a child do something… that causes the child immediate unhappiness but is better for him or her in the future: Do your homework, eat your vegetables, go to bed at…
Respond, in your own words, and referencing your own experiences, to the validity of Gay’s question: “What if joy and pain are fundamentally tangled up with one another?” I think joy and pain are tangled up in a way. When you are doing something that you experience joy, you always know it will end because nothing can last forever, unless it is a repeating experience. Also, if good things are constantly happening to you, you will get used to it,…
Smith is an author, essayist, and short story writer. After writing her first novel, she got awards. This shows she has credibility because she is a popular author. Zadie Smith says the difference between pleasure and joy is that joy is a more extreme version of pleasure. Pleasure is something small happening and joy would be something big happening. She also says Joy has only happens a few times in your life. She also talks about joy as a bad…
In order to really have empathy, you need to hear the whole story, so you need to look at both sides. Looking at both sides will help to eliminate being biased towards one side. According to Bloom, “Further, spotlights only illuminate what they are pointed at, so empathy reflects our biases” (1). This means if you only look at one side, you may only feel empathy towards that side because that is what you are shown, but you should look…
