1. What have you learned about writing academic texts so far? Anything from ideas of audience to invention techniques to thesis and topic sentences can be discussed here. Do not simply repeat whatever notes you took in class--the point is for your thoughts on what we did in class: Did these concepts connect with things you already knew and how did you make these connections? If something was unfamiliar, how did you approach it? What is still puzzling to you about these writing concepts? What are you not sure of regarding them?
Actually I have already been familiar with some writing techniques and the elaboration of an essay as in high school in Ecuador; they gave us a lot of written assignments. From practicing thesis statement to coming up with the topic sentence, and writing in an introduction, body, conclusion form; is what I’ve practically learned. A technique that I used to practice a lot in my school was to outline. It’s a way to come up with supporting ideas for your topic sentences in each paragraph. I connected some of my learned techniques in order to come up with ideas and elaborate a blog post according to this class. Something unfamiliar to me, to be honest, was the whole blog post. Actually, this was the first time using it since I wrote on Blog #1, and these blog posts had actually improved my writing skills thanks to practice.
2. What did you think of the interaction with ENA 099? Does such interaction make blogging more meaningful for you or not? How was writing to someone not in class different from making comments on classmates' blogs? Did trying to critique someone else's summary make you more confident that you know the criteria for a good summary?
I think that the interaction with ENA 099 was really helpful as besides from critiquing another person’s summary, and providing them with helpful tips to improve their essay, we received valuable feedback in order to apply those ideas. This means that we helped each other out in a way generally and for future reference as well. Writing to someone not in our class was particularly dissimilar besides not really knowing that person, makes you feel without a certain pressure to critique their work in a good way. Honestly, I’m not the kind of person that likes to critique others but instead provide them with helpful feedback so that they can be able to improve their essay if needed; I like to help others. Maybe this exercise made me feel a little more confident about knowing the criteria for a good summary, but of course not totally because I feel there are certain things in which another person can come up with and help me as well.
3. Area of reflection of your choice: What else would you like to share with all of us?
I have to say that I definitely learned a lot in reference to the classmates’ opinions and ideas about certain topics. There were some stuff that people would say and I would be like thinking: “Wait, what is he talking about?” and I would feel that everybody knew that but I wouldn’t. I would state the same when reading others’ essays. For example, I personally don’t know that much about historical events; and when some pointed out certain topics about that I would learn something from it.
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