Learning Outcome 5 and 6: Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA). Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling). Introduction: Citing sources is important when you are using other peoples work. You want to make sure to cite your sources so that you are not plagiarizing. There are different ways to cite sources, below in the power point you will see specific examples from my paper and the different ways that I cited them.
Learning Outcome 4: 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. Introduction: The revision process is not just about rewording, it has more meaning to it. When you are reviewing someone’s paper, you want to make sure everything fits and makes sense. Another thing you should be looking for, is if there are easy transitions. The more you review something, you will begin…
Learning Outcome Three: Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking. Introduction: There are many ways to approach active and critical reading, everyone does it differently. You have to do it in the way it works for you. Annotating allows you to connect with the writer on a deeper level. When I am annotating a paper, I go through and mark things that I simply do not understand. This makes it easier…
Learning Outcome Two: Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources. Introduction: Bringing facts and evidence into your writing makes it come alive. Supporting evidence allows people’s writing to not be as dull. When trying to find supporting evidence to fit with your claims, I find that it is important to read carefully. It is helpful to me to mark things that I do not understand, or things…
Learning Outcome One: 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). Introduction: Between the narrative essay and the final research paper there are many significant changes. This paper has been in the revision process since the beginning. My approach to revising is rereading every few days and making necessary changes. Some days it’s about deleting stuff that…
