Wednesday, March 21, 2018
MW2 changing in writing
Our textbook Changing in writing Chapter 3 laid out 4 steps to complete an writing. The first is analyzing your writing processes, this includes figuring out your writing space, habit, tools, and mind. For me, I find writing in my room is very hard to focus so I usually go to the 3rd floor of the library to plan out my writing. I also like how in the library I can immediately go look for print sources if I reached d bottleneck. Having the right writing mind is also important because that's where my words flows out of me, I also I have to make a decision in making my standpoint at the issue I want to talk about. The second point is starting out the paper with consideration of PACT: purpose, audience, context, and Text. When I was writing MW2, I focused mainly on the details and getting down the facts from my sources, so there were less argumentative elements. However, by examining PACT before writing can help set the tone and voice for my essay. I think my audience is youth aged from 15-24 year age group because they are a large group of users of social media. My purpose is to lay out the benefits and disadvantage of social media for MW2; however, for MW3, I would have to take a opposition on arguming only on one behalf. My context is the social and academic learning development on youth. The third point the textbook introduce is how to have ideas. This means reviewing the assignment, doing research, and gather sources. Sometimes it is hard to come up with an opinion on something we never considered before, so getting to know the material from the sources helps shaping that opinion. After spending 2 days of class with Martha, I am very comfortable in gathering information using SLU search and library texts. Finally, the last point that the textbook mention is how to move ideas to a draft. For me, this is the hardest process because it involves organization of everything I want to say to a coherent piece. Instead of knowing my outline before I write, I often just start writing and then begin moving chunks of information to the point where everything flows. During this process, new ideas are added and moved to other places. The draft may eventually looks very different from what I constructed in the beginning. For me, the brainstorm never stops during any part of the writing process.
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