Unit #4 Blog #3
Aaron Pilgrim
LSTD 1233 Interdisciplinary Composition I
Prof. Rhonda Kyncl
Caleb chose to go with the assignment of analyzing There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury. I looked at doing this assignment, but I was a little intimidated by it being that the professor has such a close tie to it. I wasn't sure I could do the piece proper justice, but according to what Caleb says about his feedback it appears he did. I have alot of the same problems as you do on that kind of paper where I get too factual and don't make it as fun for the reader as I could. I learned this in Unit #2 when we did the community profile. At the end of the day though, I personally believe this class made us all better writers than we were three months ago.
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Unit #4 Blog #1
Unit #4 Blog #1
Aaron Pilgrim
LSTD 1233 Interdisciplinary Composition I
Professor Rhonda Kyncl
Chapter four in our book focuses on proofreading and revision of papers. It tells you all the steps to take to make sure that you are taken seriously as an author and your paper is taken seriously by the reader. After writing your paper you should wait one day before you come back to proofread the paper so that your mind has time to "cool off" and you can clearly think about what you have written. When rereading the paper you want to read it as though you are someone who has an opposing view of the topic that the paper is written about. Does the author give enough information about the subject so that if you had no clue about the topic you would be able to make a formed opinion after reading the text? The biggest key to proofreading is being able to slow down and digest every word that has been written to decide how it can be improved. For example, make sure that the text is not too wordy when you can get the same point across with less words. Try to use action verbs when at all possible to make the paper seem more exciting.200 When responding to a writers draft you should read the paper a total of three times. During the first reading you are just trying to get the main idea of the paper. On the second reading you want to look at content, organization, and completeness of the draft. On the third reading you should focus on audience, style, and tone. Keeping these ideas in mind will make sure that the final draft of your text will be the best it can be.
Aaron Pilgrim
LSTD 1233 Interdisciplinary Composition I
Professor Rhonda Kyncl
Chapter four in our book focuses on proofreading and revision of papers. It tells you all the steps to take to make sure that you are taken seriously as an author and your paper is taken seriously by the reader. After writing your paper you should wait one day before you come back to proofread the paper so that your mind has time to "cool off" and you can clearly think about what you have written. When rereading the paper you want to read it as though you are someone who has an opposing view of the topic that the paper is written about. Does the author give enough information about the subject so that if you had no clue about the topic you would be able to make a formed opinion after reading the text? The biggest key to proofreading is being able to slow down and digest every word that has been written to decide how it can be improved. For example, make sure that the text is not too wordy when you can get the same point across with less words. Try to use action verbs when at all possible to make the paper seem more exciting.200 When responding to a writers draft you should read the paper a total of three times. During the first reading you are just trying to get the main idea of the paper. On the second reading you want to look at content, organization, and completeness of the draft. On the third reading you should focus on audience, style, and tone. Keeping these ideas in mind will make sure that the final draft of your text will be the best it can be.
Unit #4 Blog #2
Unit #4 Blog #2
Aaron Pilgrim
LSTD 1233 Interdisciplinary Composition I
Professor Rhonda Kyncl
The assignment that I found most gratifying was the writing assignment in Unit #3 in which we got to add a new chapter to a short novel we had read. It has always bothered me that the novel I had added to had never really finished the story in my opinion about what happened to the characters as they got older and became adults. Many authors do not ever tell you what happens to the characters in their novels as time goes on from the end of the story. I really enjoy books that tell you what happens to them later on. It does not have to go for 10 or 20 years, but a simple Joe went on to become a famous hockey player would suffice in many circumstances. A good example of this is at the end of the movie Stand by me, which is based on the novel The Body by Stephen King, the author tells you what happened to each of the main characters as they got older. For some of the characters things turned out well. For others it did not turn out so well, but you feel like you know more of the story by knowing the outcomes of their lives.This whole spill of mine may sound dumb to some who read it, but it's just the way I feel about the particular subject. I'm obviously not a literary expert by any means. There aremany who are smarter than I am on this subject that can probably explain why it is better not to reveal further lives of characters.
Aaron Pilgrim
LSTD 1233 Interdisciplinary Composition I
Professor Rhonda Kyncl
The assignment that I found most gratifying was the writing assignment in Unit #3 in which we got to add a new chapter to a short novel we had read. It has always bothered me that the novel I had added to had never really finished the story in my opinion about what happened to the characters as they got older and became adults. Many authors do not ever tell you what happens to the characters in their novels as time goes on from the end of the story. I really enjoy books that tell you what happens to them later on. It does not have to go for 10 or 20 years, but a simple Joe went on to become a famous hockey player would suffice in many circumstances. A good example of this is at the end of the movie Stand by me, which is based on the novel The Body by Stephen King, the author tells you what happened to each of the main characters as they got older. For some of the characters things turned out well. For others it did not turn out so well, but you feel like you know more of the story by knowing the outcomes of their lives.This whole spill of mine may sound dumb to some who read it, but it's just the way I feel about the particular subject. I'm obviously not a literary expert by any means. There aremany who are smarter than I am on this subject that can probably explain why it is better not to reveal further lives of characters.
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