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In an essay, I expect a clear and concise thesis that lays out the format of the paper. From what I have written this semester, I have noticed that a new approach to my writing has helped me see the importance of a clear thesis. Instead of writing a thesis at the very beginning of my writing process, I have moved it to the end of my essay. After writing my entire essay will I move on to write my thesis. This has helped in having a clear thesis that coincided with my essay the way a good thesis should. I also expect essays to have multiple sources. Not only should these sources contain relevant information, but they should be interlinked. I have found that it is useless to include a plethora of sources only to have an unclear essay. By linking my sources together and finding areas of similarity, I have achieved stronger focal points in my essays. I have also noticed the ease of writing after I have a pool of sources to pull from. By relating the sources to one another, it has become easier to string a conversation between the different sources and how these sources might respond to one another making a clearer and stronger argument. Moving forward, I expect that I will have stronger essays. I now have a method of writing effective theses as well as supporting my arguments with multiple sources.
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Blog Post April 10
Usually, my revision process includes me reading over my essay. I will start from the beginning and read over the essay for grammatical mistakes. Once that is done, I will go over it again and make sure that the flow of my essay is satisfactory. This involves making sure that my ideas flow from one to the next. I also need to make sure my ideas are coinciding with the main purpose of the essay. Towards the end of my typical revision, I will re-examen my thesis. This part tends to be the easiest at the end because I will have rad my essay multiple times by that point. I will read my thesis one more time and rewrite it if necessary. Now, for my deep revision, I will take a look at all of my essays again. I will look at which paragraphs I will use in the final deep revision. I will now re-word those paragraphs so that they fit into my paper while maintaining a good flow. While doing this adjustment of paragraphs, I will also work in the new ideas and research I found to have a complete deep revision.
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Blog Post 4/3/15
Campaign ads, are more or less a part of the advertisement umbrella. These ads may not necessarily be trying to get you to “buy” something through spending money. But they do propose to the individual to buy into the ideology of the person that the ad is campaigning for. Barack Obama’s slogans for his presidential campaign implement a lot of demographic specific slogans. For example, his campaign assumes that all hispanic latino families or citizens are either relatives of illegal immigrants, or sympathize with immigrants who are in need for some sort of affirmative action. By assuming this basic idea, Obama’s campaign is heavily weighted on winning over the latino vote. He does this by pushing for affirmative action. He sways towards making a law for naturalization of immigrants. By doing so, he can appeal to the minority or demographic of hispanics. By having this demographic “buy” an investment in their future, Obama can sway this vote towards his side by making those assumptions that most latinos are immigrants or know immigrants.
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Blog Number 3!!
In the past, I have done my fair share of synthesis essays. In high school, I took AP english where we were taught how to incorporate quotes within our writing. Not only that, but I was taught how to introduce a quote without it seeming to take away from the overall paragraph or assignment. Personally, I believe my use and incorporation of quotes is fairly strong. The only thing I feel like I may need further development in is using quotes in scientific papers. To me, that is the most important goal because of my major.
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Blog #2
So, a huge approach that we delved into from out book is the idea of dropping the 5 paragraph (or 4 in my case) and just writing. Instead of just writing in such a structured way, we were shown to pick out details to use as evidence to support our claims. These pieces of evidence were then written about, but not in any particular order. For me at least, when I put together my essay, I wrote about the different pieces of "evidence" out of order relative to how I actually placed them in my final product. For me, it was a huge difference, and it was so much easier to write my paper after structuring my body paragraphs in a way that made sense. So for me, it was so much easier to create my own order before adding the constraint of a thesis.
One thing I didn't do however, and this is something I have never really done, was to plan out my essay. I have never been able to write out on paper, exactly how I wanted my essay to flow. I could never effectively write out a good outline that I could stick to when writing. This is one thing I am yet to change. It is something I may never choose to change about my writing.
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Blog Post #1
By using inductive reasoning to analyze my ads, I was able to effectively determine what it is that my ad was trying to say, or more importantly, the idea of health that it is trying to portray. The reason inductive reasoning is such an easy-flow method of analytical writing, or at least for me, is that it has a sense of order. By picking up on prevalent details, I was able to infer what my ad is trying to communicate with its' audience. This method is almost like a default common sense ideology of analyzing and synthesizing ideas.
To be quite honest, I have noticed that the school of thought I implemented for analyzing this ad is very similar to the way I usually think about things in my past analytical writing. The process of picking out the main details and making connections between them, while bringing in outside sources seems to be almost second nature. The only difference, which I find to "feel" new is that I am no longer skimming a passage, or image and picking out what stands out the most and running with it. No. Now I am looking at every possible detail and processing what details or facts flow together in the smoothest manner.
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