Blog#15

At the beginning of the semester, my goal was to become a good writer. I think my goal is not completely achieved but I've learned a lot of concepts on different styles of writing which will help me in English 102. I still have to specifically work on wording usage and sentence structure in better clarifying my writing. I have also engaged in proof reading and revisions which will help me recognize my errors and improve my writing.

blog #12

My most compelling evidence is my claim that students who take too many classes per semester will struggle through balancing out work for each class, stress and eventually perform poor on exams. My audience might be convinced by this evidence because they are familiar with it, especially students who have experienced it. With too many classes per semester, students might eventually have to repeat courses due to  stress and poor academic performance. This evidence will be mentioned at the beginning of my essay since it is a strong evidence that can be broaden throughout my essay.
My weakest evidence is that students will burden the financial problems by taking more classes each semester. This evidence is weak because it does not apply to everyone because not all universities charge more for every additional class student take. However, I will add to the evidence that if students fail a course, they might have to repeat course which will also make the financial problems even worse.

Blog #14

I chose to revise my argument analysis essay for my final portfolio. The strengths of that essay were I had a clearly stated purpose as required and good ideas. However, my summary and ideas were not completely clarified and organized.

To make effective revisions for my essay, I will clarify my ideas and better organize the summary and critique in different paragraphs. I will also reword and change my sentence structures to emphasize my indications. Lastly I will proofread it several times to catch every little errors.

blog #13

Out of the four essays, I have enjoyed writing the argument analysis the most. I guess it is because I like doing analysis and critiques. Hence, the article I chose to analyze for this assignment was interesting. I learned carefully analyze an essay, make inferences and most important is how to set up an arguable argument. I would consider to revise the argument analysis for my final portfolio.

Blog#11

I analyzed the article "Not Just Un-Constitutional, But Un-American". The author used an informal tone to build connection to the reader. He showed good evidence to support his claim. Author made a few claims specifically supporting only his side of the argument without considering the opposing side and skeptical readers. I learned that the credibility of an argument depends a lot on the choice of tone, every claim must be qualified and proven with evidence and both sides of argument must be considered.

Blog#10

Personally I think it is hard to recognize mistakes while proof reading your own paper. Peer review in class is helpful because readers can easily recognize your mistakes and give you opinions on how to improve your paper rather than proof reading it yourself. I think it would be more helpful if the peer reviewer correct any errors that he sees and make comments on the paper instead of reading the paper to just answer the peer review questions. I think my strength as a peer reviewer is I can easily recognize the errors that writer make while reading but I can't really give a good advice on how writer can improve his overall paper. It is helpful to do peer review at the early stage of writing process especially that we are still new writers, and we can also pick up the skills in revising other's essays. Smaller groups in peer review would be better because everyone has different style of writing and advice, larger groups would be too complicated and writer won't be getting as much attention and advice to improve his paper. As in timing wise, the whole period of class time is enough to review a paper.

blog#9

Through peer reviews and graded papers, I recognize that the errors I made seem to be repeated. I have a problem with correct word usage in sentence. I tend to use words that make the sentence sound awkward.
Another error that I tend to make is using unnecessary words. I often use  the "really" and "very" in front of adjectives to describe things. These words do not add any description to the sentence but make the sentence sound wordy and also devalue the adjective word used in the sentence. It is hard to recognize errors while proof reading my own paper but I'll be more careful and try to catch these common errors.