- It is recommended to write an essay that demonstrates artfulness and voice.
- Instead of trying to sound smart or academic, aim for a form of expression that is comfortable for you and showcases your own voice.
- Use imagery and metaphors to bring creativity to your writing.
- It seems similar to writing a college application essay (blu3mo).
- It sounds enjoyable (blu3mo).
- Instead of feedback that focuses on what was good or bad, provide feedback that describes the reader’s experience and how they understood, interpreted, or felt while reading.
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give feedback that helps readers to make their own choices
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Read model essays. 1.
- Explain the intention behind something that is different from the norm.
- Provide evidence through quotations from the text.
- Expand the discussion to include the effects of both a and b.
- Mention contrasting ideas in relevant areas.
- Clearly state and explain things that are implicitly indicated through writing choices, etc.
- Use a mnemonic title.
- Other techniques to consider:
- After stating a claim, explain it again in other words to make it easier to understand.
- The Capacity of the Cryptic
- It’s good to present the question in a clear and understandable way.
- Use quotations to show that it raises certain questions.
- Show what the essay will be about.
- I want to try imitating this approach (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
university writing
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Tips for Reading seems useful, so I want to read it later.
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Actually, all of UW Writing Resources seem helpful.
- https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp/writing-center/writing-resources#planning
- Task management, reading strategies, writing introductions, etc.
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Writing an email.
- Is it similar to writing an essay for IB?
- Office hours are not available, so find another way to ask questions.
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Why should we consider a “problem”?
- It helps us interpret and paraphrase the content, and grasp the main points.
- It assists in understanding the background and overall structure, and relatively positioning the author.
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Tasks for the next session:
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Identify the “problem” you want to focus on.
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“Throughout this book, we’ll use the world ‘problem’ in a specialized way. By ‘problem,’ we don’t mean mistake or fault. We mean an intellectual tension that merits resolving. When scholars analyze a text––a novel, a building, a journal article, a film, a performance, an event––they’re mining for problems. They search for tensions or dissonances: things that don’t quite fit together in expected ways. Scholars then work to make sense of the tensions or dissonances. If the scholar can show how making sense of the problem matters to others, it can become the foundation of a research project. Stuart Firestein, for instance, used a problem that he noticed in the laboratory––why does a brain cell respond in this particular way to this particular smell?––to launch an array of research projects that help other researchers understand how the brain processes odors.” (How Scholars Write 6)
- It’s like the “issue” in the Bajiro Seminar.
- Look for tensions or dissonances to identify the problem.
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Office hours may not work, so find another time to meet.