February 2021

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Seth Kahn “Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, 2011
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	In this article, the author, Seth Kahn, writes in depth about the significance of Ethnographic writing. The author explains in vague detail that ethnography is “what anthropologists do when they live in faraway places for long stretches of time, trying to understand what makes a culture unique or interesting” (175). Seth Kahn connects this definition of ethnography with writing, calling it ethnographic writing. Instead of finding what is interesting or unique about a culture or group of people, ethnographic writing encourages one to find interesting things about writing. It also makes one think about the idea of ethics.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	“Ethnographic writing challenges you to consider everything that’s interesting and difficult about writing; it pushes you to generate, collect, analyze, and synthesize more material than you’ve probably had to work with in one paper before.” (175)
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	Finding things that are important and unique about writing is a significant skill to have while in a writing class.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	What is ethnographic writing and why is it important?

1.How did you decide what information was most important for the draft? I thought about it for a while and brainstormed my ideas for the draft. Once I finished thinking about it, I put my most important thoughts on paper and thats when the draft came to be.

2. Why did you decide to “leave out” certain information? How did you make these rhetorical decisions? I left out some of the less relevant information and things that wouldn’t fit in well into the essay. I read the essay or paragraph over and removed some things that didn’t quite fit.

3. What were the steps for your research in this draft? I read the discourse community paper by Johns and researched some things about the subject.

4. What assumptions/biases did you bring to the research? How did you work to contextualize and check these assumptions/biases? The essay is about my fraternity, so there may be some assumptions and biases. I worked to be as honest and non biased as possible while writing this essay in order to avoid any sort of wrong answers.

5. How did you work with facts, observations, and so on, in order to form an argument? I have been in the fraternity for a long time, so I am pretty used to what goes on and how things work.

6. What information are you still searching for to help your research? There are still some people I have not been able to interview yet for the project.

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Dana Driscoll “Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys, and Interviews” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, 2011
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	This essay focuses mainly on the concept of research and primary sources for writing and for papers. The author starts off with expressing the importance of primary sources and research in one’s college career. Driscoll explains the usage of research and primary sources for different subjects, such as engineering and sociology. The author writes that research “ is not limited to what has already been written or found at the library, also known as secondary research” (153-154). The ones doing the research are the ones making the articles, according to Driscoll.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	“research “ is not limited to what has already been written or found at the library, also known as secondary research” (153-154)
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	We research a lot in the class in order to find secondary sources required for papers.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	Why is research important?

 

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	This article, written by Kate Warrington, Natasha Kovalyova, and Cindy King, is once again about critical thinking and reading for students while writing papers or in the classroom. The authors plan to teach students about critical thinking in order to help them select viable sources which could improve their papers for class. The essay also includes the thought process of ethos, logos, and pathos for selecting credible sources. The essay is designed to help students recognize the credibility, trustworthiness, and viability of a source that they may find online or at a library.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	“when determining the credibility of published sources for your research paper, you’ll have to be thorough and focused.” (190)
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	Critical thinking has been a big theme of this class so far this semester. We will probably do a project about it.?
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	Why is critical thinking or reading important for selecting good sources?

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Sandra L. Giles “Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1, 2010
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	This article is about the reflective writing process. According to the author, Sandra L. Giles, reflective writing is about thinking about and being aware of your own thoughts on paper. According to Kathleen Blake Yancey and Jane Bowmann Smith, reflective writing has to do with a “student’s process of thinking about what she or he is doing while in the process of that doing” (170).  The author then proceeds to talk about her experiences with reflective writing and her history of it. She remembers it as a “performance” as a doctoral student. She says it was “the first class I had ever taken where we English majors actually practiced what we preached” (192)
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	““Reflection” and “reflective writing” are umbrella terms that refer to any activity that asks you to think about your own thinking” (191)
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	I feel like I have done reflective writing in the past and I will do it more in the future, and especially in this writing class.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	Why is reflective writing important?

The paper titled “The Puerto Rican Student Association: A Community Identity Analysis” was well written and went into sufficient detail on the topic. It’s strengths include good writing, good detail and MLA formatting was on point. I have never really seen a picture like that on an essay before, but that does not look too terrible in my opinion. Works cited page was correctly formatted.

In the essay “You Better Think Before You Spit”, the author tells an interesting story about joining a poetry club in their university. The story was well written and intriguing. The formatting was not correct MLA format, as the author labeled his paragraphs. Overall, a good essay and enjoyable to read.

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Dan Meltzer “Understanding Discourse Communities.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Volume 3, 2020
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	The author of this article, Dan Meltzer, describes the definition of “discourse communities” by John Swales to express the significance and importance of the term in college level writing. Meltzer shows how genres exist and work within different discourse communities, and also he explains how discourse communities work and what they are. The author gives many examples of the operations of discourse communities and different genres. The author also mentions the pros and cons, the benefits and set backs of discourse communities and how it could be good or bad to participate in them.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	“Writing teachers and scholars have come up with the concept of “discourse community” to describe a community of people who share the same goals, the same methods of communicating, the same genres, and the same lexis (specialized language).” (102)
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	Discourse communities are important for writing, which is significant for this class.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	What are some of the benefits and setbacks for participating in a discourse community?