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Ashley Fry's blogs
Good Feelings & New Habits: Building an Academic Writing Identity
By Ashley Fry August 5, 2016 - 1:27pm Comments (1)My final blog post for MAIS 606 has me in deep reflection. How I felt during week one is like night and day to how I feel as we approach week 14. I remember feeling weak, lacking, uncomfortable, anxious, fearful, overwhelmed and vulnerable....The Ups and Downs of Peer Reviews
By Ashley Fry August 4, 2016 - 11:21am Comments (1)I wouldn’t have described the forum for our first assignment (a critical review) as a “workshop”; in fact, little work actually took place there. What was promised as a valuable practice of sharing and reviewing drafts resulted in...Successful strategies for partner collaboration
By Ashley Fry August 2, 2016 - 12:47pm Comments (1)Last week's forum exercise for MAIS 606 requested a partner activity that included collaboration and discussion -ing clauses and writing cause/effect essays. Next to our critical review swap, it was the first time we were assigned a specific...Writer Anxiety: Jumping from Undergrad to Graduate Writer
By Ashley Fry July 27, 2016 - 1:23pm Comments (1)Writer Anxiety and the Jump from an Undergraduate to Graduate ModelAn article I recently read by geography and social science professors Cameron, Nairn and Higgins, holds the undergraduate model of writing partly responsible for the anxiety of...Seeing Myself Writing: An Identity and Introductory to the MAIS 606 Writing Process Blog
By Ashley Fry June 7, 2016 - 1:33pm Comments (1)Since the purpose of the blog is to document our writing process and learning, I thought I would use an identification piece as my first entry. The ‘Seeing Yourself as a Writer’ project is described (through a figure of example...
