Peer Reviews

Have you ever read an article and thought wow, they should have wrote that differently or, that sentence just doesn't sound right? Well, that is where peer review can help. It is kind of like feedback on what you have written.

This week we recieved peer reviews on our papers in class. Peer reveiws are very helpful when writing papers. You can recieve some very helpful feedback and if you take the tips given, you can usually end up with a very good paper. Peer reviews also help in the fact that they may find an error in your paper that you have overlooked. Take peer review as being helpful and not that your work is being criticized. Listen too what they are saying.

Rough Drafting

I recently finished an outline for my orugh draft. I was doing horribly with my outline until my son made me stop and realize that an outline was basically brainstorming only you add a thesis statement and a conclusion. so, with his great smartness I rewrote me outline and it looks much better than the first one.

It is kind of nice because we are both in college and what I am weak in he is good at and vice versa. So, I help him with math and things like that and he helps me with writing papers.

I like to write, however it is different than just writing for everyday use or writing a letter to a friend, etc... There are more things you have to worry about like; correct punctuation, spelling and grammar.

Well must get back to work on my writing so let me know what you think and have a great day!

Unit 5 post

Well here we are again another week and another unit. The different methods used for starting a paper are brainstorming, freewriting, outlining, bubbling and there are many others. Myself, I prefer freewriting and brainstorming because it allows you to write what you are thinking at the time and then you can go back and put your own wording together and make it come together to make sense. I have alwasy used freewriting and I find it works well for me. After I write a paragraph or two I find that all of a sudden those few paragraphs I just wrote led into more information that I could use. After writing it all down I then go back and rearrange it and put everything into place.

Many of my great papers have been completed this way. I also use brainstorming so that I don't foget the important things to put into my paper.

Writing and Plagiarism

Today I am writing about whatever comes to mind when a person writes a paper.

Writing a paper takes a lot more critical thinking than a person would think. The process is well thought out and planned when writing an important paper.

Depending on the topic you will have to do some research and find information about your topic.

The biggest part is plagiarism. You have to be sure to give credit to the person your information was gained from. Plagiarism is an act of stealing and shows that you are not capable of writing your own material.

You want to let everyone know that you can write a paper and do research to find the information you are talking about and that you have done your part by finding the valuable information from whatever sources you have used.

You want to be known as credible and show that you can do good work by using correct citations, punctuation, etc...

Oh, and you can use in-test citations also to show where your words came from.

Hope this helps with learning about writing everyone! Have a blessed day!

July 6, 2010 11:48 PM