One major part of the writing process is being able to read and revise an essay. Great pieces of writing are not written overnight and are not written in one draft. There is a reason why the writing process is a process because it takes time and revision to make for a clear and concise … [Read more…]
When writing it is often really helpful to use outside sources to use as evidence to support your argument. By doing this you give your writing more credibility because the evidence that you are using can come from experts on a certain topic, and can also give the writer a better idea of what they … [Read more…]
My approach to active and critical reading is typically to summarize paragraphs, sentences, and sections in my own words and asking questions of the text as they come up. I feel that in order to rephrase a section it forces you to think about what it means and if you are confused then you can … [Read more…]
Peer review is a great start to learning how to revise a writing draft. While writing there is going to be multiple drafts written, which come from looking back at the piece and revising parts that do not make sense or could be better if they were placed in a different part of the essay. … [Read more…]
Along with being able to integrate quotes and interpret them into your writing, being able to cite those sources is also a very important part of writing. If you use any person’s ideas or writing in your writing, then it must be cited, if not then this is plagiarism. This is wrong because it is … [Read more…]
I have been annotating since middle school, and it is one of my favorite strategies that I use when reading. I will mostly rewrite the main ideas that I find in the paper in my own words. I do this because it is one way that helps me to remember what the essay is about … [Read more…]
