When writing, formatting can be a very important piece to making your paper a strong one. A professional paper is correctly cited in the given format, and has little to no sentence structure or grammar problems. In this course we used MLA citation. This form was hard to understand at first. It was hard to remember where to put what part of the citation where. To fix this problem you can use sources to help guide you through the process of correctly citing. Two sources that were used in this course were The Little Seagull by Francine Weinberg, Michael Brody, and Richard Bullock, and another helpful book called They Say / I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff. These books can help you cite correctly, and helpful information on grammar and sentence structure. There are also many other sources that you can easily find online that can help you cite your sources. Grammar and sentence structure can make or break your paper. No matter how strong your points are you readers will notice you grammar and sentence structure mistakes. A professional paper keeps tidy of these problems.
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Mike Mammone’s “Life As A Story”:
Essay #3 Life As A Story
I chose this peer review example because I feel that It shows my ability to break down my peers writing and point out areas of interest. Over the semester we have been practicing peer review by engaging in group peer review and having an in depth conversation on what was good or bad in our papers. A specific example from my peer review was “Add a little bit more to really concrete the ideas you have used to finish your essay”. This example gives the author an idea of what readers think about there writing and gives them a suggestion on how to fix the problem. His conclusion needed a little bit more juice to really wrap up his paper strongly. I know my peer reviewing skills have grown because I haven’t seriously peer reviewed before this class. After 3 different rounds of essays, peer review has become increasingly more comfortable.
Having good evidence in your paper can strengthen it. Pulling meaningful quotes from reliable sources is how you can write a professional paper. Having a good quote that carries good evidence to back your ideas is very important when constructing body type paragraphs. In this course we constantly were reading and analyzing the source materials for the prompt. We also would do in class activities analyzing a given quote and explaining its meaning. In my Narrative essay “The Narrative of Society” I used evidence from “The Story of Your Life” by Julie Beck ,and . “Let’s Ditch the Dangerous Idea That Life Is a Story” by Galen Strawson, and an Interview of Brady Lamontagne Conducted by Mike Mammone and I. A specific example of a quote integrates good evidence into my essay is u. In the essay she claims “In telling the story of how you became who you are, and of who you’re on your way to becoming, the story itself becomes a part of who you are”. This quote added to the concept in my paragraph of how narrative and story can give you a personality or name. Using a good quote with evidence that backs up the thesis is the fastest way to writing a strong paper. The better evidence you have the better quality your paper will be.
The revision process can be a difficult process, although it is an important part to refine your paper. In the beginning of this course I was only aware local edits, or edits at the grammar or sentence level. But soon Global edits were introduced to me. Global edits are different from local edits because they deal the changing of concepts or ideas. Both of these types of editing are important but global edits definitely carry more weight. In this course we were actively writing our papers and going back to fix errors in our writing, we also would peer review. Peer review can help both parties in letting them know more about both style of edits. In my significant writing project an example of a global edit would be were I added “Julie Beck a senior editor at the Atlantic, uses her essay”. This was added because in my rough draft I lacked the concept of giving your sources and their authors and introduction before using their evidence for their writing. An example of a local edit was “An article from Galen Strawson … false that everyone stories themselves, and false that it’s always a good thing”. In this I indicated that the quote was from Strawson so I would not have to insert an in text citation at the end of the quote, which I did in my rough draft.
https://elishaemerson.uneportfolio.org/writing-prompt-3-4/
Consider how Beck and Strawson’s essays complicate each other as you explore the role that narrative plays in your life. Use our texts—including your choice narrative project–to frame your discussion on the power and/or danger of narrative as it relates to your identity and write a 750-900 word multimodal, personal academic essay that connects the disparate texts with your own experiences with narrative. Please note the shorter word count and do your best to make every word count.
A meaningful approach to active reading can help you sense of the article you are reading and analyzing. It lays down the baseline of what the authors ideas, keeping track of where ideas shift. There are some texts that are confusing and definitely need to be broken down before complete understanding. The process of active reading can make the text seem less jumbled. To begin my active reading I will read the text without annotating and get an idea of what the author is trying to say. After reading I go back through and mark important ideas and ask myself questions about the text. I used “The Future of Science… is Art?” as an example of my annotating process.
Personally I believe that asking yourself questions is the most important part of active reading, and annotating. When asking yourself deeper questions about the text, you immerse yourself in the ideas that the author is trying to portray. A selection from the Harvard library says “Get in the habit of hearing yourself ask questions” (Gilroy). Gilroy says this because when you ask yourself questions about the text you are essentially breaking it down into simpler forms. Breaking down each part of the text will give you a map to figure out the maze. Once you have completed you mental map of the text you will be able to expand upon it fluently.
This essay is a multi-modal piece on how narrative could benefit society. The essay explores how narrative can give someone a personality and empower them. It also explores differences between the narrative and non-narrative types of people This was my first multi-modal project and I really enjoyed the process. For me I feel that this way of writing can grab the readers attention rather than hundreds of pages of boring text.
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