Referring to an educational setting, when students are instructed to write a formal paper they often leave mistakes on their paper unknowingly or unaware of their mistakes due to the comfortability they have gained through online writing and instant correction, also known as autocorrect. Autocorrect is the software function that makes or suggests corrections for mistakes in spelling or grammar while typing. Frank Gannon captured the point concerning absence of proof reading in his piece English 99: Literacy among the Ruins by allowing the audience to visualize the decline of writing skills among youths in his college class. Gannon begins the piece by describing to the audience his new position as a college “philosopher” educating college students that were unable to learn in a higher-level English class due to the automatic assumptions that the students would be “overly challenged” (Gannon 215). As any individual would, the students in the class began to assemble into their own groups: “the bored looking girls, the jocks and the Bosnian refugees” (Gannon 216).
In her essay "Does Texting Affect Writing?", Michaela Cullington presents her argument that texting does not impact formal writing written by students. She discusses the concerns presented by many people about how texting language can transfer into writing, but through the use of personal experiences and credible sources she discusses how this is not true. Her use of multiple different studies and situations help boost her argument and allow the reader to truly see how students actually do formal writing. She presents a strong argument as to why those who believe students don't have the control and knowledge to write formally, instead of with text speak, are wrong.
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John Kaag begins his article by stating that the desire of any “good student” is to be told that they’re paper was “flawless.” He then goes on to recount his experience during the 9th grade of being told exactly that, and how when he told his mother, she became upset and decided to show him the error of his ways. He says that from this experience he learned the value of criticism. From this point on he talks about his first case of writers block and of how writing forces you to look inwardly.
The concept of drawing the readers into and amiable conversation is the whole ideal. As we engage in our writing process our beliefs are often relayed in our writing. As a scholarly writer, I often want to convey my opinion, thought and beliefs to my reader. In chapter fourteen, Booth (2016) states revising for readers is hard, because we all know our own work to well to read it as others will.
In the book Naming What We Know “Revision is Central to Developing Writing” by Doug Down, mentions how many students don’t revise their papers because they see it as a form of “punishment for poor performance” (pg.67). Student being asked to revise their essays take it as a form of being told that their paper isn’t worthy enough so they need work on it some more. Another reason why student don’t take the time for revising papers because they feel like it’s a waste of time. Many of us don’t seek feedback from our peers or teacher, so when it comes down to revising your paper you decide not too because you may feel like it’s a waste of time or there is no point because you weren’t able to improve it from your rough draft. Teachers tell us that
Therefore, it is often said that many people are worried texting is taking over and is affecting the students’ education when it comes to writing. In her essay “Does Texting Affect Writing,” Michaela Cullington is doing a study by observing people weather not texting is affected by writing. Certain people state that texting has a negative effect on students’ formal writing but it seems that texting has no major effect on students writing.
Article Analysis: The Importance of Writing Badly Bruce Ballenger’s article titled “The Importance of Writing Badly” takes a rather peculiar approach to addressing the issue of effective writing. The author eccentrically argues for the importance of ‘bad writing’ by describing different reasons to support his arguments. He argues that it is normal to apportion blames without understanding the root causes of poor writing skills. The author quotes different people who have expressed concerns about poor writing among students including his doctor. He proceeds by explaining why he would encourage his students not to concentrate on their poor writing experiences.
Edleen Roberts Unteaching the Five paragraph Essay Into In the article “Unteaching the Five Paragraph Essay”, Marie Foley infer that the five paragraph essay format is blameworthy of high school graduate unpreparedness for college coursework. Foley stated that “Many college freshman enter composition course alienated from writing”(P.2) Foley also claim that “teaching the five paragraph formula harms the student in some fundamental ways….i'll-preparing them for academic and real world writing”(P.3) This paper is going to analyse Marie Foley point of view on the five paragraph
Selingo’s use of analytical-based data gives factual credibility to his assertions that it is important to have logical and consistent writing, however, writing is not the only skill set that countless jobs are requesting that one should have, they also look to employ people that are able to communicate well. They both are crucial to have in order to be successful in the workplace. Nevertheless, the two skill sets are lacking in many students and still is. Selingo argues the reason for these is that students are not taking sufficient amounts of writing courses or either students are taking to few. “... sociologist Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa described a study that tracked more than 2,000 students at
The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols, 1967) is a film about a young man named Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) who is just beginning to face the harsh reality of life after graduation. Ben gets involved in an outlandish situation as he falls in love with Elaine Robinson (Katharine Ross), the daughter of a married Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) whom of which Ben is having an affair with. The montage sequence “Drifting” captures Benjamin’s uncertainty for the future, as well as his discontent with his current lifestyle. The use of the elliptical editing devices such as dissolving, and impossible match on action calls attention to this idea of temporal ellipsis exemplified throughout the montage.
One of the biggest commitments a person can agree to take is joining the military. It requires physical and mental rigor to be able to survive months, even years, in this career. There are five branches within the military; Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and the Navy. The Air Force and Navy are two of the most popular branches in the U.S. military. Together, they consist of about forty percent of all enlistees and are considered one of the most important jobs in the United States.
Not So Fast”, conducts her own study with a few colleagues to take notes on how students writing skills are changing. She decides to conduct another one twenty five years later to see how much the writing skills have changed since technology has been updated and became more available to students. She found that “students today are writing more than ever before.” Although we still have the same amount of writing errors as before, the patterns of errors are different. Many people argue that technology is only making our writing skill worse, this study helps to prove a different theory.
In “Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer” Carol Berkenkotter. Berkenkotter did study and experiment on Donald M. Murray to see how professional academic writer writes and see his writing processes. In this essay I will talk about how's my writing process is the same or different from other people processes. Planning and proofreading is strategies I’m using during my writing assignment During the any writing assignment
Every student wants to be successful. However, the success of students around them causes them to exert even more, and sometimes unnecessary, work on their classes. This includes binge studying for a test to be sure that they do better than the students in the class, or as mentioned by Zinsser, “writing ten-page papers to impress them [the professors]” when five-page essays were actually assigned (Zinsser). Because there are students that do this, others feel the need to add more writing to their essays in order to reach the levels of those students.
