Reflective writing from one Fall 2010 English 104 class, based on class activities, discussions, and readings. As E. M. Forster once said, "How can I know what I think until I see what I say?"
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Ch 9 & 10
Here we go again our favorite thing to do BLOG! This time the chapters were really helpful. As I read these chapters, especially 9, it really helped me develop my paper and help point me in the right direction. When I start to write I always do a web to create my format of the information that i have gathered. When it talked about the cluster map it is basically the same thing, which I was surprised that i actually did something that is suggested. I am not a good writer I always get writer's block but I found it easier to overcome that when I construct my web. Also in that chapter, I guess i never really paid attention but there is a difference in reporting and arguing. I never really have written an arguing paper, its always been the reporting paper. One thing i struggle with when writing the arguing paper is that i ramble on a lot, I do that in everything i do tho. In chapter 10, it goes into the gathering and construction of the evidence that is gathered for a research paper. It's important that you gather useful evidence. It's useless if you gather something for earlier when someone has done research on it recently and have proven that earlier it was wrong. So you need to make sure you have the most recent and accurate information so you can have good credibility.
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What you said about chapter 9 is the same for me. I always go back to the third grade technique of making a web as well. Sort of elementary, but very useful still.
ReplyDeleteI also have the problem of rambling on as well. Even though I know what I have to write, I ALWAYS find myself talking about non-important facts that really don't have anything to do with my issue at hand.
ReplyDeleteI was suprised to find that people are using something that Wadsworth's suggests.I haven't used an idea web in possibly ever,but I also to have writers block sometimes so maybe I think I might give it a try and see if it helps me.
ReplyDeleteI like the map a lot better then a same old same old list.sometime it helps to do something a little different .
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