Source Analysis And Skills For Basic Textual Research

8 Grammar Errors Aren’t Always Important
Coming from Vietnam, a southeast Asian country where the native tongue is a combination of Latin alphabet, with a Chinese root, and a Spanish like pronunciation, learning English at least the writing aspect of the language was always the hardest part for me. When I first came to the U.S. at age eleven, I have no English background which made my school life a living hell. The process of learning English took me no less than two years to learn how to speak the language and the rest of my life up until now to learn how to write the word correctly. When I first started UWP 21 and UWP 22, I know that there will be numerous errors that will need to be addressed, like paragraph structure, vocabulary and the

These skills become very handy in my research paper. Using my research paper as a reference, you can see that now the majority of my sources came from very trusted writers and sites, in addition to the proper sources the structure of the paper is also much smoother than before. However, during my first draft and before learning those necessary skills, most of my sources were from unreliable sites or at least the ways I presented them were very messy and confusing to the reader. Also my paper was quite disorganized. Outside of this course, my new-found skills were instrumental, I remembered during a class assignment I must read and summarize a research paper which was four pages long, without my new abilities the summarizing part would have taken a lot longer and more much

Before attending this class, I only write my academic papers to teachers and others academic audience which is much more formal and needs less explanation due to the audience's knowledge on the topic. The first notable change in genres comes during the first portfolio assignment. In this assignment, the viewers are students, peer, and teachers; thus, the paper needs to be quite informal, exciting, and in dept so that the readers would not get bored or lost reading it. Due to my past writing experience, it was challenging for me to write a fascinating and detail paper, in the past, all I have to include in my article are logic and formalness due to the audience being people who know the topic I'm writing on. During the first draft of paper one, my essay was much more formal as one of my peer pointed out, also that the paper was quite dull to read and wouldn’t be an interesting paper. After the first peer review for paper one, I attempted many different styles of writing to see if any of them will improve my paper; then I learned from class that is was not how I wrote the essay, but who I address it to that make the writing boring. After knowing this knowledge, I at once began fixing my paper, and that is how my article is at now. This skill works nicely outside of class particularly for extracurricular activities, for