RR e e a a dd y y o o uu r r pp a a pp e e r r a a l l o o uu dd . . Sometimes your ears catch inconsistencies that your eyes miss.
This is a very helpful skill. Reading aloud will help catch any flow issues or things you might not notice with just your eyes. I prefer my essays to sound like how I would normally speak. This usually helps me find where commas need to go or other grammar issues like that.
While the revision stage of the writing process focused on clarifying what you write (your ideas), theediting and proofreading stages focus on how you write—you express those ideas.
I am glad this was clarified. Revision is good for making sure your essay is organized and all the concepts you want are there. Editing is good for making the small details make sense in the essay. More of if your words make sense or not and how your style is throughout the essay.
When you revise to improve organization, look at the flow of ideas throughout the whole essay andwithin individual paragraphs.
Organization is very important in essays. It is easy to get ahead of yourself when writing, especially when it is about something so personal. I improve my organization by making my key topics I want to cover, then writing my intro and conclusion, making sure to mention all of them before diving into the actual essay.
Revise and edit in stages: do not expect to catch everything at once. Each time you review your essay,focus on a different aspect of construction so that you will be more likely to catch any mistakes oridentify any issues. This chapter contains checklists that identify specific things to look for with eachrevision.
I really like this advice. I have a hard time re-reading my work. I like the strategy of revising in stages. I agree that it will make you more likely to catch any mistakes. Adding peer review in your stages is also very helpful because of how hard it is to catch your own mistakes.
community is an important concept for social change because it helps us to see that social change requires a change in some of the most important stories we tell ourselves. Social change requires that we rewrite our communal narratives. Social change is change in community.
I agree with their connection between community and social change. Communities have norms, stereotypes, and expectations that come with being a part of the community. To create societal change, you need to start with changing the actions and ideals of the communities within the society.
The sense of a shared identity, of being part of something larger than we are, is well known as a source of good feeling. But it is also morally-neutral. Being part of a community is just part of how we live our lives.
This is what I consider to be the definition of community. I think rather than it being some perfect, positive thing, it is more of a place that anyone can find a home, no matter if they are good or bad people.
It must be able to explain why “community” has the normative (moral) power that it does
I think community always has the connetation of good moral value. This doesn't mean that they all have the same idea of what "good" even means. This is what makes each community different. You have many different types of people in different communities with different values and morals.
attach the word “community” to “policing” and it turns the legitimate monopoly power of the state over the use of force into something warm and cuddly.
I like that he adds an example to prove that we view the word community in a positive, comforting light. It shows that we all strive to be a part of a community and have the sense of home that comes with it.
f I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner. I would see Africans in the same way that I, as a child, had seen Fide's family.
I think this is very important because it shows that we identify with our own communities and don't normally take the time to fully understand others. We take one story and stereotypes we hear throughout our lives and assume that they are what the stories say. It is hard to imagine groups of people more than the one or two things we know about them. I also think our lack of knowledge and misunderstandings of other communities help up stay resonated with our own communities rather than branch out.
went through a mental shift in my perception of literature.
I thought this was cool because she found a sense of belonging and community through her literature. This is important because you get to see stories of people like you and imagine yourself in those situations. When you read about people you cannot relate to, it is harder to imagine yourself doing more creative things.
people learn more successfully when they feel relatively secure, and negative emotions like fear can drain energy needed for academic engagement
I agree that people learn in a more positive environment. That is why transitions from high school to college is so hard. I think that it is more of a subconscious feeling of being less than the other people around you, knowing they are more comfortable than you.
The field has continued to in-novate within Thomas Deans’s classic model of writing for, about, and withcommunities,
I love that they are describing the model that we are going to use in this class. It is nice that the author goes into depth about they achieve this model through partnerships, writing, and collaboration with youth programs. I hope that we are able to do things like that in this class to not only write about the community, but also make an impact.
It’s helpful, for example, to get a context for the reading:
I think it is important to look at the context of the reading, as well as decide what you want to get out of the reading. This will give you a good starting block before you start reading. It will make it easier to actively read.
ask why we like one piece of writing and not another. Similarly, most of us do not ask our-selves why one piece of writing is more convincing than another.
I have never thought to ask these questions when reading before. I think these could be very beneficial questions to ask because knowing why we are drawn to certain types of writing can help us determine how we should write our own pieces.
fter reading an essay, most people feel more confident talking about the content of the piece than about the writer’s style. Content is more tangible than style
This is interesting to me. I have never realized that when I read, I always read for the content and pay no attention to the writer's style. I agree that this is due to schooling. We are always taught to analyze the text by finding the main idea of the passage, even in standardized testing.
To m o v e f r o m r e a d i n g t o w r i t i n g , y o u n e e d t o r e a d a c t i v e l y, i n a t h o u g h t -ful spirit, and with an alert, inquiring mind.
This is talking about the importance of actively reading. This means you are asking questions and staying engaged rather than just going through the motions of reading words. It is beneficial because it could reduce the need for rereading and give you a good understanding of how the different parts of a paper work together to create a big picture.
In this course we will explore writing as a social practice. We will look at and define community: our families, friends, home lives, online networks and professional groups. We will use our writingto understandwho belongs to which communities, what belonging means, how we share values, and how we create new knowledge in communitywith one another.
This class seems very interesting. I like that we are going to be exploring the impact of communities through writing. I am excited to dive deeper into these topics.
WriJng from CommunityExploring a space (physicalor virtual)and analyzing how that environment reflects the values of its community.WriJng About CommunityConduc5ng interviews and analyzing ar5facts to explain how a specificdiscoursecommunity operates.WriJng for CommunityCrea5ng a mul5modal text (website, newsleMer, podcast, handbook, etc.) designed to benefit or advocate for a specific community.
I like that you are covering writing in communities in many different ways. This gives us a broader understanding of the different things that influence a community, as well as the opportunity to have an impact on our community.
All assignments for this course must be written and submitted directly in Google Docs.
I am glad that this is outlined in the syllabus. Most classes use Word, but each person has their own preferences. I personally prefer Google Docs.
am not expecting perfect work.I just want you to do the work. Even an incomplete grade is better than a zero.
I appreciate that you offer an alternative to using AI in this course. Writing is interpreted differently by every person, so I like that you are not expecting perfect work, but hopefully work that we are proud of as writers.