I had to disregard a lot of information that was not entirely relevant to my research question. Also at times the content was vague, and the ideas did not always follow logically. I used Study Support to develop my writing skills, but wished I had approached them for help at an earlier stage, as this would have saved me a considerable amount of stress. To conclude, the dissertation assignment has improved my confidence in my ability, through producing a lengthy piece of work. I feel it has effectively concluded the academic phase, and I am excited and motivated by the prospect of getting a job in the fashion
The way I improved my paper was taking my instructors constructive criticism and making the necessary corrections, to the best of my ability. I had obvious problems with the comma usage, dangling modifiers, and it was no question that I have to improve my vocabulary. Referring back to the text book and using the Thesaurus definitely helped me make the best revisions that I can make. The most challenging part of this assignment for me was to expand the use of my vocabulary. I know a lot of words; I just don’t use them in my everyday conversation, thus making it more difficult to incorporate in my essay.
I did not realize how easy it is to unintentionally use bias language. Specifically, careless use of pronouns, subject-verb agreement, using open-ended age definitions, or how the order of presentation of groups can show superiority over others is all examples of errors I commit in my writing. Chapter 3 of the APA Manual will serve as a useful resource not only throughout my career, and for future writing I undertake. It provides a clear explanation of the essential components of sound expository writing and I walk away with more attention, and to pay careful attention to in my future
I have the opportunity to reread what I have written and then make corrections so that the point that I am getting at is full understood by the reader. I learned to do this from trial and error. I found that more people understand my writing as opposed to me talking directly to them sometime. C) Some symbols that people use to communicate are Morris code. They also use sign language.
On our way to the final construction of our first paper we were given some readings; one by Gee and one by Swales. I found myself pulled towards John Swales writing, The Concept of Discourse Community. How I got my information from him is what is being asked though. I got my information through several separate ways, because I had to connect these ways to my interview and artifact to make it more meaningful. One of the ideas I thought of when I started reading was that I need to track whats going on in every paragraph.
Unit one also taught me to reevaluate how important certain priorities when it came to writing. I learned from the other unit one authors, Joseph M. Williams and James E. Porter, that when an essay is read by someone who is looking for grammatical error or plagiarism instead of content, they will often find the error and ignore the content. Although I do still know the importance of grammar and originality, this class and the grading style has let me put those constructs in the back seat until the editing process, instead of making them something I had to constantly worry about. I don’t believe that good writing revolves around grammar, but rather how well your words can convey a message to the intended audiences.
I've decided to revise my second essay, “Havaianas: Selling Flip-Flops or Something More?”. I did receive an A on this paper; however, I also received an A on my first essay and figured that there were at least more micro-errors on my latter paper than on my first paper. So after I communicate the few micro-errors that were committed and how to fix them, I will delve into what I would like to see in my writing in a more general sense. I want to first fix the the pronoun disagreements that I had in my essay. For instance I wrote, “...Havaianas shows that they are just like the audience.” To fix this I referred to Rules For Writers where it reads, “ collective nouns such as jury, committee, audience, crowd, class, troop, family, team, and couple name a group.
When I came across anything I thought was relevant in the textbooks I stuck post-it notes around my desk stating briefly what it was and where I found it. Deciding which points to use in my essay was difficult and did result in a considerable amount of deleting and re entering information. Using the textbook I found ir easier to read the conclusion at the end of the chapter first, followed by the summaries at the end of each unit and leaving the beginning til last. This gives me a better understanding of what concepts im covering. I am still finding the referencing process quite difficult but I am hoping this will get easier as the course
I noticed a few moments where I had gotten nervous and sped up my speech, which only led to me getting tongue twisted and I stumbled on a few points. I also kept noting all dates as being in the nineteen hundreds, I was so nervous that I had not realized at the time of my speech that I was making that mistake. I thought I had done a good job on organizing my outline, but after several practice runs I noticed I was going well over the time limit. Shortly before my speech I had omitted a few points, in doing so I compressed the sub-topics of fermentation and pasteurization too much. This made it sound unclear as to what points I was trying to convey in the speech, possibly causing confusion in my audience.
Personal Reflection Paper In my first discussion question that I answered for this course I said that the difference between thinking and critical thinking was the way that we act upon a thought. I also said that a critical thinker will ask more questions to have a better idea about a particular issue. According to Elder (2009), “It is the art of analyzing and evaluating with the goal of improving thought.” (p.9). During this course I have learned many interesting subjects in relation to critical thinking, but there are three that I found to be most significant. The first one is that individuality means more than claiming independence, it means achieving it by acknowledging the influences that have shaped my thinking, by sorting and evaluating my ideas and attitudes, and finally by choosing the best ideas by resisting the pressure of habit and by changing the ways that I think because the evidence tells me to do so.