Writer’s Sketchbook Template
Name:
Entry 1
Sentence Level Focus and New Evidence:
Confusion with subject-verb agreement
I read “Understanding Writing Situations” by Palmquist this time. The basic idea of this article is to discuss writing as a form of communication between writers and readers. Palmquist found common points between writing/reading and social acts/conversation. And the article mainly talks about those factors which can affect the final understanding between writers and readers.
Description: In order to prevent my article from subject-verb agreement mistakes. I underlined every subjects after writing and check the verbs after them to see if then fit with those subjects.
Analysis and Reflection:
In this example, there are 4 subjects with different verb. It shows my choice of subject-verb agreement became better after the review after my writing. I double checked the tense, singular/plural, and whether the subject is first person or third person to make sure all verbs are in correct format. I will like to practice using different subjects in the future assignments in order to see if I can use the correct verb at the first time. It’s always better if I can avoid these grammar mistakes so that I can spend the reviewing time working on the whole structure and organization of my article.
Writing Feature:
To-do list
Samples:
In the article “Good Grammar Might Derail Your Career” by Penelope Trunk. She gave a idea that good grammar is not as important as good social skills in career. She used several evidences to support this idea. For example, people may get a job or got fired because of how he/she getting along with people, but not for for know good grammar. Penelope believes that grammar mistakes are not that fatal because even the words are wrong, people can usually understand the actual meaning it wants to send. Her idea is basically saying that people should focus on good social skills than good grammar because good social skills can help a lot during everyone’s career.
Description: In order to make my article well organized. I started with a to-do list with 4 elements: topic and writer, writer’s idea, evidence from the text, summary. So in this assignment of Key points summary I followed my to-do list and write about these 4 key points one by one.
Analysis and Reflection:
In this example, I think I should use more key evidences in order to support the summary rather than just one from the original article. However, I think my overall writing organization is not bad. Readers can clearly understand what the article is about after reading my summary. I will build my to-do list much clear to remind me that which evidence should I add into my article and which not. A much detailed to-do list will help me a lot during my writing process.
Entry 2
Sentence Level Focus and New Evidence:
Confusion with subject-verb agreement
Moreover, it is essential to mention that the authors are well-known researchers of the University of Melbourne in Australia. Furthermore, most of the sources utilized in the article are peer-reviewed articles with no more than ten years of antiquity. As well the source has proper citations and does not bias the information in any way. The author’s authority can also be perceived by how they establish the investigation’s course, research questions, and methodology. The results demonstrate their thesis by achieving a quantitative analysis of their methods.
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Paraphrasing from a source
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It is essential to mention that the authors of this paper establish and maintain credibility and authority (ethos) by utilizing diverse resources. This essay is credible because it has a reliable purpose. The data and arguments presented by the author are current, it is not biased in any way, and the information is reliable. It has a profound overview of the subject. It is essential to mention that this is a peer-reviewed article. Thus, it provides a positive indicator of its value, academic precedence, and reliability.
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