The Wicked Wikis
Last Wednesday, we got in
to the group and discussed about discourse communities and comics that we made
or chose. That group was going to my group which is Wicked Wikis. We had group
homework on the wiki. The homework was to post one of our paragraphs from our
writing project 1 and then revise each group members’ paragraphs. It was kind
of hard to do it because if I did not really understand peers’ main point or ideas,
then I might edit my peers' paragraphs all wrongly. Also, if the other
classmates are editing a paragraph at the same time, it could be all out of
topic, so I read really carefully and then edited them.
When I revised group
members’ paragraph, I edited the sentences to make them more understandable.
Also, I added some grammatical errors and sentence structures. I felt that some
of the words were too colloquial so I changed words academically or removed the
colloquial words. In one of my group member’s paragraph, I added some words and
added a little bit more of commentary to the quote. I just feel that the quote
did not have enough commentaries, so I added on two more sentences after the
quote. In another group member’s paragraph, I edited the grammar and sentences. I think that the way the sentence
was originally is too confusing and so I changed just a few words to make it
more easy to understand.
In my paragraph, I can
see my grammar issues were fixed and they added some more words to make it
flow. My peers changed some sentences to make them flow and connected them to
each sentences. It looks better and it is more understandable now. They also removed
a sentence that didn't really fit in with my point.
Chapter 8
When you are writing academically,
you need to put evidences to support your ideas. You cannot just say your
thoughts without evidence. It cannot persuade your reader. In chapter 8 “Reasoning
from Evidence to Claims,” of Writing
Analytically was about how to use evidence to improve your writing and
develop your ideas, rather than just trying to prove you are correct. This
chapter mentions there cannot be claims without evidence and evidence without
claims. The evidences are enough to make a thing as true and believable. Also,
you should make sure that there is a relationship between the evidence and the
claims. And it is better if you make the details speak out which shows that you
considered how the evidence complicates the claims. Using evidence can support
my ideas more and show that I understand what I am arguing for. These
strategies are going to be in my strategy toolbox.
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