Blog Post 6: What Have You Learned
Thus far, we’ve been focusing on the graphic novel Freshman, and we’ll return to it one last time before the semester ends. Now, however, is time to start thinking about what you’ve learned thus far in Engl 165 and what are still your biggest concerns with completing the semester successfully.
To accomplish this, look back on the chapters that your’ve read in both the Understanding Rhetoric and the They Say, I Say books, as well as the chapters we’ve completed in Academic Writing. Consider the following questions to guide your response, or go out on your own:
- What have been your favorite chapters thus far and why? (Give details)
- What have been your least favorite chapters thus far and why? (Give details)
- How do you honestly feel about your own writing?
- Where do you see your strengths?
- Where do you see your weaknesses?
- What kind of plan to you have to overcome your perceived weaknesses?
- What do you know thus far about Structure, Language, and References in the four disciplines that constitute academic writing.
One of my favorite chapters has been a more recent chapter, chapter 3 of understanding rhetoric. In this chapter it goes over identifying and writing identities. To go deeper into the chapter it explains what identity an author should be. For example should an author be personal, conversational, impersonal or mannered. Each one has a different reason to be used in writing. In my own opinion I really don’t have a least favorite chapter. I mean some are boring but they are very informative and key components in advancing in writing. I feel okay about my writing. I sometimes go more in detail in more things than others instead of having a balance in my writing. I see my strengths in having a good separation and transitions in my writing. I see most of my weaknesses in grammar and going off on things that I should not and get side tracked in my writing. I plan to overcome my weakness by writing more and trying to stay focused while I am writing and taking more breaks than I usually do because I like to write in long sittings. I have learned alot about Structure, Language, and References in the four disciplines that constitute academic writing. In each of the four disciplines Structure, Language, and References are different in each. For example, structure is different like for a humanities paper you follow the general guidelines like MLA format but for a scientific paper you are going to be more APA format.The next one is Language you are going to be more to the point in a Mathematical paper than a humanities paper. Lastly is References for MLA papers like humanities you are going to have a MLA references for a historical paper you are more likely are going to have a chicago style references.