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Ashley Fry published a blog post Good Feelings & New Habits: Building an Academic Writing IdentityComments- Angie Abdou August 7, 2016 - 5:36pm
Great! Congratulations on finishing these blogs. A few tips:
1) avoid ready-made phrases. Any time you use a phrase you're accustomed to seeing in print, think of a fresher way to make your point. Example: "like night and day";
2) Avoid unmodified this. Always say this what - for greater clarity and precision.
Otherwise a good, clear post - I enjoyed reading it. I'm glad the course has been such a positive experience for you.
Angie
- Ashley Fry published a blog post The Ups and Downs of Peer ReviewsComments
- Angie Abdou August 4, 2016 - 12:11pm
This is another well-written blog, Ashley. Good work. I'm sorry to hear the first workshop-group didn't work out for you. That's disappointment. I'm so glad that this one was more productive.
We're all caught up on blogs now - send me a link when you have your fifth one done.
Thanks!
angie
- Ashley Fry published a blog post Successful strategies for partner collaborationComments
- Angie Abdou August 4, 2016 - 12:09pm
This is great! I'm glad you enjoyed the partner exercise and found the work beneficial. I too hate group work, so I can relate to your anxiety. My own reservations about group work probably led to my approach to assigning partners (to aim for motivated people ending up with motivated people). I'm glad that worked for you.
Angie
- Ashley Fry published a blog post Successful strategies for partner collaborationComments
- Angie Abdou August 4, 2016 - 12:09pm
This is great! I'm glad you enjoyed the partner exercise and found the work beneficial. I too hate group work, so I can relate to your anxiety. My own reservations about group work probably led to my approach to assigning partners (to aim for motivated people ending up with motivated people). I'm glad that worked for you.
Angie
- Ashley Fry published a blog post Writer Anxiety: Jumping from Undergrad to Graduate WriterComments
- Angie Abdou August 4, 2016 - 12:07pm
Intresting blog, Ashley. Thanks for it.
Some writing tips:
This sentence has a dangling modifier: "Unlike the process approach used by most graduate programs, they describe..."
This site will help you with this modifier error: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/597/1/
(If the link doesn't work when you click it, cut and paste the link into your browser)
Misuse of semicolon (change to comma) - One claim made by the authors is that the undergraduate model only teaches writers to report on the findings of others; whereas, experienced academic writers discover their own meaning through what they describe as “the messy business of writing” (271).
A link on semicolon: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/04/
I'm glad you're find the drafting, peer critiquing and revising process helpful. :-)
Angie
- Ashley Fry published a blog post Seeing Myself Writing: An Identity and Introductory to the MAIS 606 Writing Process BlogComments
- Angie Abdou August 4, 2016 - 12:02pm
Thanks for this, Ashley. Two small tips: 1) single quotation marks are only for a quotation within a quotation. You should (usually) only use quotation marks when you're quoting someone. If you're using them to distance yourself from the words, ask yourself if you could use different words (and drop the quotation marks); 2) Avoid using passive voice (i.e. "the 'Seeing Yourself as a Writer' project is described ..." Active voice puts the subject before the verb: Fernsten and Reda describe the "Seeing Yourself as a Writer" project in ...
Otherwise: good work.
angie
