Project 3

Project 3 final draft

Mashal

Bashar

21 November 2021

Professor Daniel Sansing

English 0097, Project 3 draft

Is it important to learn how to write?

As a high school student, I never enjoyed my English classes. There were notes, summaries, biweekly seminars, and vocabulary quizzes. After graduating I had a feeling of regret because I did not give attention, time, and energy to these classes. I realized they were the foundation I needed to improve writing and reading.

In high school, I can call that the teacher would help you even if you do not ask, they will approach you look at your work and give feedback as needed, however, college is different, there is help, but you must learn how to use it, how to approach it, and when to use it. Communication skills are needed to be helped, and writing is one of these skills, that if you do not learn you will struggle not only in English but in other classes in college.

It has been a beneficial semester for me, I have learned a lot, and I have seen my progress while doing notes, reflections, key terms, summaries, and projects.

Notes taught me how to understand deeper meanings in the text, and that copying what is written by the author is not a note, notes should be a personal thought about what you have read, it is the understanding you felt as continuing in reading. My notes at the beginning were the same words and meaning the author has, but then I learned how to paraphrase and how to break what I read into smaller sentences that show my understanding.

Your first step in writing is to think of a title, this will write down the topic that you will discuss. Nevertheless, I have learned that writing has many factors, but you should be familiar at least with the basic key terms such as who your audience is, what style suits your topic, and what your purpose is.

The targeted audience in my writing was the college community which are professors and students. To address my audience I used formal style, language, and tone.

As an example, we learned about in-text citations and how to add a work cited page in week 12. My reflection for this week was as follows, “In week 12, citations and references in MLA format are most important for preventing plagiarism, and students should learn how to add citations and links to their writing if it has ideas and sentences from an article or a website that is by an author. The authors and publishers are thus given credit for their work as a result of this” (Mashal). All of this could have been summed up in two sentences by saying, in week 12 I learned how to add work cited, and when to use in-text citations. Nevertheless, reflections are to show knowledge, and a developed reflection can be a way to practice more on showing knowledge and a summary of the work that was undertaken throughout a period.

Moreover, other factors can be influenced by the audience when writing. As writers in this class, we knew the work we would do would be for the college community, and we had to choose novels, poems, or stories to summarize. It was a challenge to select writings that have real meaning for the reader, and that have a lasting impact on them.

It would have been much easier to summarize an article about cars or a new t-shirt design, but they are not meaningful and useful enough to practice summarizing and writing. For project 1 I analyzed the following key terms; genre, rhetorical situation, and audience, I used two texts that were discussed in class and the third text from my readings.

Good Video Games and Good Learning by James Gee, and the “Banking” Concept of Education by Paulo Freire, as these two had similar purposes and audiences, it was easy to relate them during the analysis since they had similar ideas, and the way they both complement each other. For example, in project 1, Gee and Freira agree that the educational system constrains students' creativity.

Through analysis, I learned what impact the audience and purpose have on the genre. The expository genre, for example, is where Gee interprets and analyzes learning principles. Considering Gee knew students and teachers were his intended audience, as well as his purpose in proving how the education system treats students, the genre made sense for explaining the learning principles since each principle has its own definition and example.

Sometimes it is easy to get confused while writing, especially when working with too many sources and ideas in one text, sometimes there are multiple genres and purposes proven which makes it easier to lose track if you are not fully focused. When analyzing I tried to break down the novel or poem into parts and decided how they are connected and what is the mutual purpose and genre in between, to keep my analysis for the same audience, I only considered the most dominant genre and purpose, without going through too many ideas that will not display the object of the writing.

Equally important, one of the most important styles when using someone’s ideas, is paraphrasing, to me, it meant to show your understanding by rewriting in your own words, for example in my notes for week 13 the original quote for note number one was “Develop your ideas into multiple paragraphs, synthesizing your ideas and evidence from your writing and any texts you use as support” (Prof. Sansing). My note after paraphrasing is “Throughout the semester, integrate the arguments and evidence we used in your writings and texts” (Mashal).

In conclusion, writing is an important skill, it is not a skill that you can achieve and be an expert simultaneously, it takes practice and effort to learn. However, always start with the basics, it is like a process that starts with the basics and starts moving forward.

Work cited:

Mashal, Bashar. "Project 1." English 0097 Bashar,

https://sites.google.com/view/english-0097-bashar/project-1.

Mashal, Bashar. "Notes." English 0097 Bashar, https://sites.google.com/view/english-0097-bashar/notes.

Mashal, Bashar. "Weekly Reflections." English 0097 Bashar, https://sites.google.com/view/english-0097-bashar/weekly-reflections.

Mashal, Bashar. "read, summarize, and share." English 0097 Bashar, https://sites.google.com/view/english-0097-bashar/read-summarize-and-share.

Project 3 draft

Mashal

Bashar

18 November 2021

Professor Daniel Sansing

English 0097, Project 3 draft

Is it important to learn how to write?

As a high school student, I never enjoyed my English classes. There were notes, summaries, biweekly seminars, and vocabulary quizzes. After graduating I had a feeling of regret because I did not give attention, time, and energy to these classes, I realized they were the foundation I need to improve writing and reading.

In high school, I can call that teachers would help you even if you do not ask, they will approach you look at your work and give feedback as needed, however, college is different, there is help, but you have to learn how to use it, how to approach it, and when to use it. Communication skills are needed in order to be helped, and I believe writing is one of these skills, that if you do not learn you will most likely struggle not only in English but in other classes in college.

It has been a really beneficial semester for me, I have learned a lot, and I have seen my progress while doing notes, reflections, key terms, summaries, and projects.

Notes taught me how to comprehend deeper meanings in the text, and that copying what is written by the author is not a note, notes should be a personal thought about what you have read, it is the understanding you felt as a proceeding in reading or hearing. My notes at the beginning were most likely the same words and meaning the author has, but then I learned how to paraphrase and how to break what I read into smaller sentences that show my understanding.