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Reminders: For our next class, Monday, June 25, please rewrite the introduction from the essay you had peer edited in class Wed. (You only have to rewrite the introduction.) Please also rewrite your essay, "Am I an Active Learner?" for Wed., June 27. Bring this to class Wed. with the peer editing sheets.
Blog question for today: Do you think your voice or style has changed over the semester? If you read a paper out loud, can it help you find your voice? What are you “hearing”?
11 comments:
Yes, I do think my style of writing has changed over the semster.I think by reading the paper out lound,it will help me to find my voice a lot easier. I will hear that what is wrong inside my paper and is the paper run as smooth as I expect.
Before taking this class, I wrote my paper without noticing about my voice. Now I see the important of writing with my voice and I am changing it over the semester. By reading a paper out loud, I not only practice my reading skill, but also fix many mistakes I make on the paper. At first time reading the paper, my voice feel strange; then I fix any mistake on the paper and re-read it until I can read it fluently.
Jotie wrote:
When I read my papers out loud, I find mistakes as well as a certain kind of voice. I think because I have a science background I tend to write in a "technical" kind of voice. I still have trouble findng it
sometimes but I think with practise it will be more fluent therefore, making
papers easier and quicker to write!
Everytime I finish writing a paper, I will read it again in my heart. But now I read it with my voice, even though it's weird (I feel), it helps me to find mistakes easily. Wherever there's not smooth enough, that means a mistake may have been made. That's how my voice has changed over the semester.
Do you think your voice or style has changed over the semester? If you read a paper out loud, can it help you find your voice? What are you “hearing”?
I am not sure if my style and voice have changed. But I belive that my wrting has become more smooth. I tend to read the sentences over and over again when i work on an esaay. It helps me to make sure if the sentence sounds logical and smooth. And by doing this, i can quickly find out the mistakes i make.
Blog Question.
1. Do you think your voice or style has changed over the semester?
2. If you read a paper out loud, can it help you find your voice?
3. What are you “hearing”?
Answer.
1. I do not think, my voice changed over the semester. I improved technically, but we did not work on our voices till the last week. My voice was changing when I read literature imagining dialogues with authors, published prose and poetry, sang playing guitar, but I did not do it for at least a year. Partly essays and blog passages of this semester helped me in understanding of myself since I wrote quite sincerely but I did not work on my voice. Indeed, voice is connected to position and form of writing, but I did not experiment with forms and styles this semester. Instead I learned how to stay on topic following some structural constraints. Of course, this knowledge is also useful, but it is not so significant in terms of voice. In the contrary, it chokes the voice. I was very pleased when last week we read an article about author’s voice. I value voice over the techniques, but academic programs usually concentrate more on taming rather than fostering voices.
2. Yes, I find it important to talk about reading out loud, be that to oneself, in class or on stage. To me it is productive form of composition because it activates me. I have more interest in performing than in creative arts. By talking to others and to myself I come up with ideas and even compose texts. If text is vocally appealing, it has chance to be valuable for an audience in written form too. Of course, reading out loud may help finding one’s voice. It is interesting that even though I am interested in voice actualization, lack of experience and exposure does not translate my desire to high performance. Thus peers often evaluate my presentations to be monotonic. I want to work on it as I want to open up, let my expression flow. If I try to generalize this important question, I should say that just like active vocalization helps one to find his voice, the same way active search and expression helps one find identify socially, find his niche in the society.
3. When reading out loud, I often hear inspiring articulation of my emotions, and such exposure amplifies those emotions as microphone brought closer to speakers. But as I mentioned above, others may not necessarily perceive it that way, as performance must be mastered and practiced. In the past I recorded my singing on tape, and my voice often sounded terrible. However this self awareness helped me correct myself, and I repeated reading or singing many times until I came to agreement with my voice.
Finally, I find voice topic connected to my new career of business. I need to learn (or to recall) how to convey my voice to people. Otherwise I will end up talking to machines again, which makes me shudder. Indeed I remember how uncomfortable I was working as a programmer in a cubicle.
Boris Garbuzov, # 972002918, 604-339-9964, bgarbuzo@sfu.ca
Do you think your voice or style has changed over the semester? If you read a paper out loud, can it help you find your voice? What are you “hearing”?
It is hard to change voice or style within short time. Many people in this class may came from different country to study in Canada. Learning other language is hard. However, If we keep practice other language, it will improve. I try to hear other people's voice to fix my voice. Also, it helps me when I write a paper,I remember what they said .Thus I am able to write it correctly. Sometimes my voice is weired; then I try to repeat it until I can say properly.
Do you think your voice or style has changed over the semester? If you read a paper out loud, can it help you find your voice? What are you “hearing”?
It is hard to change voice or style within short time. Many people in this class may came from different country to study in Canada. Learning other language is hard. However, If we keep practice other language, it will improve. I try to hear other people's voice to fix my voice. Also, it helps me when I write a paper,I remember what they said .Thus I am able to write it correctly. Sometimes my voice is weired; then I try to repeat it until I can say properly.
Actually my voice does not change much during the sememster. I tend to write essays in a way that will surprise the readers. Thus, even in my psychological research paper, i wrote that in the same voice as i did on FAL class. After proofreading my papers, I read out the words loudly often. It helps me to find my voice but also creates so confusion: I sometimes believe the paper I proofread is written but other people but not me.
I do not think my voice or style has changed over the semester. However I tend to find others' writing voice more easily, especially when I read them out loud.
Do you think your voice or style has changed over the semester? If you read a paper out loud, can it help you find your voice? What are you “hearing”?
I think my style is not changed, because style of a person is hard to change. However my voice is easier to find now, i learned how to find my voice easier.
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