Tag: writing
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Response to Elizabeth Wardle and Catherine Savini
Both these articles show that teaching writing truly works when it focuses on specific topics, not one broad idea
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Literacies
In a professional setting, you’ll be able to attack problems correctly because you’ll be able to switch between all the styles.
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Discourse Community
By exploring the concept of the discourse community, Swales provided the importance of the understanding of how to communicate, and social structures.
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Good Writer = Good Reader
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. In the same way, an overly polite reader never made a good writer. Good feedback breaks writer’s bad habits.
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From one extreme to another: “Use ‘I’ more”
Let’s get this straight: The quantity of “I”s in an essay does not matter. It’s the quality of the “I”s that does.
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Technology and its untapped potential for literacies
Schools don’t make use of technology as often as those who do homeschooling; the efficiency of technology is flying over the head of schools.
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Why Study Writing?
Writing can be conducted in multiple ways, but a sense of professionalism or informative writing is crucial as you grow.
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You Can’t Write in General
Have you ever written something in general? Probably not. This blog explores two pieces that discuss this concept and goes into why someone should write.
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Writing In General?…
For this blog, I read Elizabeth Wardle’s “You Can Learn to Write in General” and “Looking for Trouble “by Catherine Savini.
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First Person, in College Writing?
To use or not to use, “I” in college writing. This blog shares feedback on the use of first person pronouns in college writing.