Writing class
One of the things you’ll notice I say in your syllabus is that this is a writing class. And that is very much true, especially in an online format. Your discussion posts can be as formal or informal as you’d like, just as long as they’re substantive. Your research missions aren’t graded on grammar, or how well you’re technically writing, but you still have to make enough sense for me to understand you. However, for all the rest ever written assignments, you must write in the formal voice overall, you’re always going to be graded on content, grammar and organization. Content relates to how strong is your research or argument? Did you accurately explain things? Are you answering the prompt? Are your sources valid and relatable to what you’re writing? Usually, people do their best with content. If you understand the assignment, they’ll understand how to write about it. The other two sections is a little bit thanks. Organization relates to how well you’ve organized your thoughts. Does your paper have a good flow? Do you cite your sources accurately? Did you reach the minimum page count? Is there a work cited page? Do you have proper formatting? A lot of times people miss out on organization points because they didn’t pay attention to font size, page count or didn’t use sources at all. There should be pretty easy category to get just as long as you meet all the minimum requirements. The biggest struggle people usually have is with grammar. Now I understand grammar is a class related and sometimes outdated concept. When I grade your papers for grammar, I’m not necessarily trying to nitpick over how you write your sentences or start your paragraphs with perfect transitions.
Well I’m looking for is that you take a formal tone, then you clean your paper have typos, that you ensure every sentence has a subject and a verb, and that there are no wrong sentences. And there is more than three commas in a sentence or sometimes no commas for multiple thoughts. That’s a problem. This could still be murky topic for students to understand. So I’m going to give you some specific, never right and personal voice. What is a personal voice. In general, it is the use of personal pronouns. For discussion board posts, you’ll probably use a personal voice all the time, it’s likely you will for your research missions as well. Though advise not doing so just so you can get into the practice of not doing it automatically. And your formal assignments. This is not acceptable. Mainly because you’re investigating a topic not turning in a blog post. Not writing on letterboxed think of analytical skills sources you read? Do they ever use? Iwi? You our us? 95% of the time? No. So don’t do this in your own paper. There are many ways to work around this. And if you need more tips on how email me italicize films, no matter what you’re going to be talking about movies and everything you turn in for this class. I won’t get on you for not italicizing on your discussion board posts. But the rest of the time. Please tell us eyes. While sometimes do you may be understood a lot of the times you won’t be example, alien. Imagine not I tell us as you’re capitalizing the film Alien and a paper about aliens makes a big difference. And General think of every time you see a phone print, whether it’s physical or virtual 99% of the time, and as I tell the size, no matter if it’s formal Avenue or not. Get into this habit. Now. Do not tell me what assignment you’re writing. Just write it. A lot of times you’ll have been taught the habit that introducing an assignment you’re doing no matter what, for example, in this paper, I would discuss vampires. That’s cool, but you’re writing a paper about vampires that literally what I in general, this is a very elementary way of writing and it’s irrelevant. You should just state your thesis instead of introducing it. So instead of in this paper, you can actually tell me what you’re investigating. Lesbians and vampires have operated under the male gaze, but recent films have twisted the narrative of LGBT representation and vampire film. No fragments usually fragments are written by mistake almost no and toxin broken start stop diction that is implied with fragments. This of all fragments usually don’t have a subject or a verb. Well, this seems to be common sense actually is one of the most common mistakes I see in papers. Having multiple fragments alone will drag people down to an app. It’s a simple and often silly mistake. My best advice, read your paper aloud or have someone else read it. Your brain when it’s writing will automatically fill in blanks for you. My brain does this every day. I hate it. Yours most likely will to. This practice also helps you catch typos and misused words other mistakes that will easily drag your paper down if it’s not cleaned up, no paragraph style or drop quotes. This is another highly common faux pas i noticed and papers, since our written assignments require citation to some degree, also see a point you’re making your own words. And the next assumption is a full quote without any context or integration into your writing. It’s jarring mainly because nothing you read will ever do that. It is as weird to read as a professor, especially in a formal context. When you use quotes, you want to use chunks of the sentence, isolate the most important parts, instead of his debut feature, which arguably was the beginning of the current Mexican wave of filmmaking is a wash every film in the war canon. Think of the tour’s first film prognose is considered to be the beginning of the current wave of Mexican filmmaking and an homage to every film and work. Whatever you view as most importantly, quote should be integrated into your own words. Similarly, if you’re not crazy about using quotes, you can paraphrase writing in your own words, and then in tech, cite your source at the end of your sentence or paragraph. If you follow all of these tips, I guarantee you won’t have any trouble writing in the class. If you’re confused or need further help, please email me
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