Learning Outcome 1:
Revision, one of the most troubling factors that many have today. Just like Nancy Sommer has said in her article, “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced adult writers.” that “…is the inability to ‘see’ revision as a process.” (Sommer). This quote is just talking about the troubles people have when they review their work. They sometimes we can be a bit bias when it come to revising a paper. People need to look at it with a new eye. I always look at my work wondering how I could improve this sentence or even paragraph. The thing is you have to look for your weakest parts in the story and then do some rethinking. When I had to revise my first paper, I was completely shocked. The way I had it written made no sense to me. It was just a bunch of work vomit about this ART project, but I did make it better. Later on my skills have surely increased in my writing.
Learning Outcome 2:
I took this paragraph out of my Prompt 2 writing paper (link below). To begin creating a quote sand witch I first looked for a quote that I thought could help the readers to understand the point I’m trying to bring out. For example, I picked this quote in one of my papers, “The arts help us cope with these issues by engaging, not avoiding, the deep emotions of intimate loss involved and retelling over and over again the story of the human condition and its limits.” (MA 2). Once you have your quote you wanna try to introduce it before getting to it. So in other words you will briefly talk about your point that the quote backs up. For example I wrote before that quote this, Why do we need to acknowledge the ways art can express things with and without verbal context? Simply because we acknowledge that art gives us the opportunity to create answers to the most complicated questions by giving us more room to think, and believing in the impossible. By doing this you already get the reader thinking about what you want them to think about. The next step is adding the quote(which I talked about first). Lastly to make sure your reader gets a better understanding of the quote you want to explain it in your own words. Creating a more clearer understanding of the quote it’s self. example is below.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ED2TlNLnZK06dAssp9Szzl5C-faQYFFEFOpY_WJMJA/edit
Why do we need to acknowledge the ways art can express things with and without verbal context? Simply because we acknowledge that art gives us the opportunity to create answers to the most complicated questions by giving us more room to think, and believing in the impossible. In fact, “The arts help us cope with these issues by engaging, not avoiding, the deep emotions of intimate loss involved and retelling over and over again the story of the human condition and its limits.” (MA 2). To put it bluntly we would teach people to be more empathetic, and add reason to everything. By doing so we would create a new form of thinking in science. As a result it will make us look at these problems with many different aspects of views.
Learning Outcome 4:
When it comes to revision there is two very important types the Local Revision; paying attention to details. Or the Global Revision; seeing the ‘big’ picture. Both seem like great ideas but one tops the other. Global revision is better than local revision because you are looking at the paper as a whole, not a bunch of different chunks. Where as in local revision they would like you to break down certain sections. That sound good, but in the long run it is an easy way to lose track of that general flow. I mean it is always a good idea to look at it in a local revision, but than make sure you do some global revision before finishing. This way it helps create a flow to keep the readers interested. Once you have done both different revision you could easily have a wonderful paper on your hands.
Learning Outcome 5&6:
When it came to MLA format I thought I was a pro at it, well at least I thought that. Turns out I was missing a few important details. Like the fact that I was missing a title, or even the fact that it was only about three paragraphs big. To make it worse those paragraphs didn’t even have a flow. It was more like fact after fact, with no explanation. I thought that once you bring an idea up in the paper people would understand. Yet I was wrong, I need to go into more detail on what I was trying to argue. Once I figured that out I was able to create a new version of that paper that was completely stronger than the last draft. I made a lot of errors in my writing but so far I’m learned a lot from my errors, peers’, and professor.
