When I look back on my idea of what revision is over the course of the semester I notice a lot of changes. Going into college I always thought of revisions as little picture stuff. Going through sentence by sentence and making sure every period, comma, and word is integrated correctly. Often I found revision a tedious task that was boring. As I’ve gone through this writing course I have grown to understand that revisions is not the tiny stuff…
What reasons–evdience, data, or examples– do you offer to support your “I say”? Do your reasons actually support your position, or is there a mismatch between them? Could a naysayer use your reasons against you to support a contrary position, and if so, could you defend your reasoning by summarizing and answering this objection? Throughout my first draft of my joy essay I believe I provide a lot of examples to support my “I say” of my thesis and writing….
Overall, this speech covered the topic of beliefs and how we choose to think throughout our daily lives. David Foster starts his speech off with this illustration, “there are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘morning, boys. How’s the water?’ and the two young fish swim on for a bit and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and…
Furthermore, Bloom goes on to talk about another flaw with empathy: rather than the spotlight, the fact that we don’t have enough empathy for others. Bloom goes on to say that, “we should empathize with the children and families of Newtown, but we should also empathize with the children and families of Chicago. While we are at it, we should empathize with billions of other people around the world…” (Bloom 3). Bloom continues to use examples to prove his point…
When revisiting my early work in relation to Doyle and Konnikova, I can see drastic differences in not only my writing responses but also my reading and annotation skills as a whole. First, looking at my annotations from “The Hawk” by Brian Doyle, there isn’t much purpose to what I’m doing. It almost looks as if I’m just marking up the text to get something on it. There is no method or reasoning to the areas of annotation. This style…
Overall, my first experience with college peer review was unproblematic. I enjoyed receiving specific feedback on things I typically would not notice within my paper. Some overarching feedback I got through the peer review was to be specific overall when describing my examples. Leading into quotes and evidence as if the reader has no idea who or what I am talking about. Another area of feedback was to drive deeper into my past experiences in high school with annotation, previewing,…
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