Summary

I learned that starting my summary with a quote is not a good technique. After finishing the reading I have learned a lot about how I can work certain techniques in to get readers attention. There are a lot of different options that I can add to an essay or writing that can make it better such as context, word choices, formal or informal paragraphs. Finding out from other students what they did to make the reading easier, and how that ultimately made writing better for them as well really got me thinking on what I can do as I read. Putting in new vocabulary words into my writings will be a good idea to get readers more interested. Usually like many other students I chose to make the smaller sentences that are straight to the point, but after reading I’m going to do better with how I structure sentences and making them larger and more informal. Using different techniques when I write and read will make assignments a lot easier, and will also make me get more out of it.

Key Terms

1). Technique(s)- A way of carrying out a particular task, especially the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure.

2). Writer(s)- Is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate their ideas.

3). Context- The circumstances that form the setting or an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.

4). Genre- A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

5). Choice(s)- An act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.

Analysis

With the way the author started the paragraph talking about where he lives and such, I could see a lot of teachers criticizing the paragraph and reduce points because it has nothing to do with the article. Also first hand, it has happened to me before. There is a lot of information roaming around in this article, so with that I can see how it may be tough for people to interpret a lot of these strategies into the reading and writing, making it difficult for writer to do well. If the author had better reasoning to how he used everything it would be better. He asked a lot of questions for the reader to answer or think about, but in my opinion he didn’t really answer his own questions to let the reader know what his thought process was for the questions. The students he used as examples of what they did before reading and writing had good suggestions, but they never let us know what went wrong or what went well with using the techniques they did. If they would have let us know we could use those flaws and make them better for us. Instead of going straight into it and getting criticized. All in all this was a good article and was hard to find the flaws and maybe I was incorrect or maybe I wasn’t.

And by Islands, I mean Paragraphs Notes

Summary

This is a very unique way of writing that I particularly thought was cool. It uses a lot of the same sentence structures, but there are clearly many different ways for a writers to uses sentences describing something, and this did that very well. As you can see in the sentences structure with whatever way you put the sentence there should always be an explanation for why you used it that way, and the islands paragraphs used that really well with giving specific examples. Adding things in such as coordinates into the island paragraphs let us as readers know more about it and its different traits that it has to follow. One island talks about how there are two kinds of islands and how they form. This is good for the readers because it gives them more background knowledge about islands. Using history about certain islands helps readers know more about what the islands went through and how it may of overcome bad things and made it for the better. Talking about the population on some islands let you know or think about how change, changed the islands with people.

Key terms

1). Change- To make or become different.

2). Structure- The arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.

3). Trait(s)- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.

4). Island(s)- A thing resembling an island, especially in being isolated, detached, or surrounded in some way.

Both of these articles worked well with each other. They both gave us good examples of different ways to talk about something. It goes with what the author said in the first article I read about, that “writing is a word-by- word, sentence-by-sentences process”. They both let us know how we can rephrase sentences. Rephrasing sentences can make a a boring sentence into a better one.