REMINDER: For our next class, on Monday, June 18, we will meet in our classroom and then walk over to the SFU Library's Student Learning Commons for a tour and some instruction on how to locate materials.
Homework reminder: Mark the errors on the "Essay with Problems" and bring to class Monday; do the reading and work on your draft of "Am I an Active Learner?". This draft and your rewrite of the Diagnostic essay will be due on Wed., June 20.
Blog question: What is the most important thing you have learned about writing so far?
13 comments:
There are many important things i have learned about writing so far. They are understanding topic, brainstorming for ideas, organizing ideas in essay structure, writing each main idea in paragraph, and reviewing the essay. For me, the most important thing is reviewing the essay when it's done. Because I can detect any spelling mistake and grammar error which usually are major problems in my essay.
The important things i have learned so far is how to brainstorm, outline, and structure an essay. But the most important thing i have learned is how to fix the mistakes after each essay is handed back. It's very useful to learn from mistakes and not make them again next time.
I have learned that my writting needs some more organization. I need to be more focus on how am I goin to construct my paragraph.
The most important thing I learned about writing is that I need to write a thesis statement to introduce my big idea. Then, I must focus on my body paragraphs to support my big idea. I must brainstorm before writing my essay in order to prevent repetition and off topics.
Jotie wrote:
There are alot of things I have learned while being enrolled in Fall x99.
These things include, brain storming for ideas, writing an outline, and
what the goal of a introduction and conclusions should be. The most
important I learned has to be writing the outline before writing an essay.
This helps me focus my Big Idea and write the final draft.
So far the most important thing I learned about writing is that how to begin an essay. Introduction is very important in an essay, I must begin with an attention grabber. Next I should give out some ideas about the essay topic. Finally I finish the paragraph with a thesis statment.
The most important thing I have learn abour writing so far is grammer. For example, you did wrote a eassay with good idea and structure. However, if you had bad grammar, it would still cause you marks for the paper. therefore, I think the most important thing I have learned about writing so far was you got to be carefull with the grammar. When you have good grammar the chance of having a good paper is going to be a lot higher.
I have learned how to structure and organize my ideas so far. Organizing my writing in the more logical and fluent way made my writing improved. However, the most important lesson i have been taught was to revise my essays following the suggestions and advices I recieved. It made me notice those mistakes i did not recogzie before by myself.
Question.
What is the most important thing you have learned about writing so far?
Answer.
First I should mention some technical points that I obtained for the month of this course:
1. I warmed up my writing in general, improved my writing shape including speed.
2. Learned how to write summaries from learning commons while preparing for this course.
3. Collected better examples of title page format.
4. Expanded my knowledge about reference formats.
5. Re-assured my ways on structuring essays.
6. Learned more details on multi-pass editing routine.
7. Found out more resources on help in writing.
8. Realized importance of staying on topic.
9. Posed many new writing questions that still await their answers.
But if I want to select the most important result of this course, I should mention not the technical content that I acquired from the course, but something that came from within me. I realized importance of writing direction for my career and my desire to pursue it. I also discovered new facets of myself and sharper articulated those known before – personal, educational, and career-wise.
I should also mention some critical point of my present way of learning to write. It bears restrictive flavor. Before I wrote more without educational routine, just driven by spirit of creativity and desire to publish. Now I am pressed by writing assignments, but as a result I write less. And I daresay quality of ideas in my current writing is also lower than before. This is another lesson I drew from the course. Something positive always comes with side effects.
Boris Garbuzov, # 972002918, 604-339-9964, bgarbuzo@sfu.ca
What is the most important thing you have learned about writing so far?
The most important thing i learned so far is to check alot after i write an essay, to clear so simple errors. And get organized and get prepared before writing, so i can write a good essay.
I believe the most important thing I have learned is how to construct a good structure essay. In order to make a good essay, I try my best to work on organization and put ideas in appropriate orders. In the courseware book, there are several lessons about the structure of essays. I read them through and I learn a lot. For instance, when people read your essays, they do not want to see ideas that are appearing over and over for several times. As well, they want to see well connected ideas but not a set of ideas that do not have an overall meaning. Thus, a good structured essay can show the writer’s idea in a better way.
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