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Hi Dr. Rivera, Improving writing you can be creative as art. Underlining and annotating help you with your essay and know what your writing about. Everyone in the world write either by sending email, letter, and social network. The more you write the better you understand as you read. Free writing is another technique of writing where you get to write freely in your own thoughts. Always do recursive also you might catch new words and correction. There are three stages in a writing process. First stage is exploring/ experimenting, gathering information. Second stage is Writing the controlling idea / Organizing and Developing Support. Lastly the third stage writing/ revised/ editing. I would want to be a professional writer someday.
I agree with you Edwin, Underlining and annotating really helps with writing essays and expand your ideas on what to write about. It does help with looking deeper into your thoughts. Exploring, experimenting, gathering information is helpful as well.
I like your idea that writing is an art form because this task requires effort, dedication, and a good execution in order to make the reader understand our points and main purposes in writing. Free writing is definitely a good way of letting our thoughts flow so that we could have an idea of how to approach our future writings. Underlining and annotating also makes the idea of writing less stressful.
I feel you, both underlining and annotating do help you with putting your essay together. People all over the world do write in more ways than one! You can be a professional writer in time.
I agree with Trishia, I really like your idea of writing as a for of art because yes it does require a lot of effort, dedication, and good execution because what comes out of great writing is our true and deep thoughts/feelings/opinions. Like an artist we are sharing what is in our mind not by a painting on a canvas but the careful word choices and coherence within our writings.
You have a good understanding of the writing process. With continued practice, there's no doubt that you will strengthen your writing skills and learn to write effective essays. Good luck, and continue to strive for the best!
I really enjoyed today's class. I learned a lot about Freewriting and to follow my flow of thought. The peer review was also very good. I like how we had to exchange essays and proofread our essays.
You're right! I enjoyed class as well! Simple and to the point, we learned how to flow our thought freely on to paper and the peer review was very good ! We learned how to proofread as well as new things about our classmates.
I agree that the peer review was good. It gave us the opportunity to help the other person with their writing and also to learn from it when writing our own essays.
The proofreading was fun. It was refreshing to not be pressured by having perfect sentences and ideas. It eases your mind so that ideas flow more freely.
Today, we read about the writing process: stage one. This introduced free writing to me. I've never heard about that pre-writing process before. I look forward to using this process now on to help with writing future essays. I found it helps give more ideas to write about in your essay. It helps my thoughts flow right on to the paper. With the addition of peer editing today and essay brain stretcher, overall it was a very productive day.
I agree, today was a productive day. We were able to get to talk to our classmates and expand our knowledge on writing techniques. It really does help when it comes to giving us new ideas on what to write about in our future essays. The addition of peer editing helped us gain knowledge and positive feedback on what we might have missed or overlooked.
Today was productive! I believe the pre-writing process is really helpful when writing an essay. The peer editing was a success, we got to proof-read and help our classmates with their essays, while at the same time, get to know them a little more. The brain stretcher was really fun as well.
Today was very productive. In the activities it helped us exercise our creative and spontaneous thoughts. It is also good that you learned something new today.
I enjoyed class today because we were able to free write which is a passion of mine. I enjoy being able to write down my thoughts and express me feelings. I also enjoyed the peer review because I was able to interact with my classmate and gain a knowledge of someone else in the class. I was also able to get positive feedback on my own essay and hear ways to improve it for a better grade. Class is always productive and helps me gain a better knowledge of writing and reading.
I also liked the idea of peer review because it introduces us to the lives of our classmates through reading their papers. By correcting the work of our peers, not only we are helping them make their pieces better, but also, we are helping ourselves as well. It trains us to detect possible errors in our own papers when we write another essay in the future, thus improving our skills in writing.
I also enjoy writing about a topic of my choice! I like how we were able to proofread the essay of our classmate, and have a little interview right after about the changes that were needed to be made.
Free writing is very useful. It gives you better understanding of what you would want to write. Free writing is very good too, just jotting down ideas, feelings and thoughts for you essays or diary entries.
Free writing is also a passion of mine. I enjoyed the pre review as well, it's always good to have other people look at your work and critique it. There is always something new to learn.
I also enjoyed the peer review. It's always good to receive feedback whether positive or negative. It helps us to improve and better ourselves the next time around.
In today's activity, writing process: stage one, I've learned how to start on a topic of a paper. Using free writing could help you expand on your paper and give you general ideas of what is important to point out. Free writing will help you brainstorm and get rid of any clustering ideas that are irrelevant to the topic, but those clustering ideas could give you another topic you can write about.
Free writing was definitely helpful in writing and giving us new ideas on what to write about. It helped us put our thoughts and ideas on paper without worrying about what is correct or not. It was our thoughts and our feelings. I also helped us think about things we would have never thought of prior.
So true! Today's activity really helped us put our thoughts on paper. Brainstorming helps the writer's block doesn't it? Let's you expand your mind on a more broad view and not be stuck on that one subject.
I agree, whenever I write I find myself putting down things that are entirely irrelevant, making my paper seem pointless but with free-writing we can always go back and see where we veered off and avoid putting in things that don't make sense but can help in writing about other things.
Today's activities included how to free write well in order to begin writing an actual assignment. It is a useful tool in order to get your thoughts moving; plus you can expand on an essay with all the helpful notes you wrote already. For my free write assignment, I wrote about the use of drugs and how mostly all of them have a negative effect except for a select few. Cannabis and alcohol when ingested correctly and moderately become beneficial to a person's health. However, there are a numerous amount of bad drugs that outweigh the good ones. All in all, it depends on the person and how they can handle the use of substances.
I agree with you on your opinion of drugs. A person controls how much they intake and there can be positive and negative aspects to almost everything. The free writing today definitely helped expand our thoughts and express our feelings on paper and not worry about being wrong or right.
Yes, i agree that free writing helps us on expanding on our essays. It gives us the opportunity to find new and better information that we could have been holding back because of writers block.
Today's activities were great. I have learned the styles on free writing and the relationship between annotating and underlining. I enjoyed the process of free writing because we chose a broad topic sentence and expanded it and free writing was very interesting. Also I enjoyed the peer reviewing period in which it helped me improve on how to write my essay.
Agreed! Learning the relationship between all the pre-writing activities we learned today really helped us learn how to think outside the box on many topics. Peer review taught us our mistakes that we will learn from in our next essay!
Yes, i agree. Free writing did help us elaborate on our topics when writing a paper. Also, learning how to underline and annotate is a useful skill to use when free writing or drafting.
True, free writing makes us think when we choose a topic and write about it and going from broad to narrow. Free-writing really does prepare us to be better writers because explaining a broad topic and breaking it down for readers or audiences are what good writers master.
In today's class, we learned about free writing, annotating and underlining. Once you follow these three tips while writing, those three will help ease the fluidity of writing. Following the lesson today is a good practice to have whenever writing. I'm not as good as most people whenever I write in a time-constrained period, but I believe these tips can be very advantageous to me especially if I continue to practice these few things.
I agree that these elements of writing greatly helps us in improving our work's fluidity. Writing is not an easy task and like you Theia, I also have some issues concerning time constraints, but I always try to do my best to finish my work and I believe that free writing, along with underlining and annotation would make a great help in overcoming this obstacle. I suggest just to do your best, always remember these three concepts and keep practicing.
I completely agree. When given a certain time to complete a writing assignment I sometimes panic and don't do as well as I hope I would but with these three steps I think that it will make it easier for me to get my thoughts out and message across in a timely manner without worrying that I skipped some parts or added irrelevant thoughts.
Today's activities regarding the writing process and free-writing was interesting. It wasn't particularly new information, but it was refreshing none the less. The exercise itself was pretty brain racking and helped me stimulate new thoughts on new subjects.
In today's class, I have learned how to make the writing process much easier through exploration of the topic by free writing, gathering information using annotation and underlining important points in the free written section of the paper. I also learned how these ideas become a source of such an elaborate discussion in my essay topic. The essay peer review is a part of today's class that I liked the most especially because I get to know the person who's paper I get to read.
I agree that today really gave us a great tool for the writing process. It will definitely ease the process of future essays. It gives us a chance to use all our ideas to elaborate on the topic. I liked the peer editing as well great way to meet new people!
The activity of free-writing was very enjoyable because it's not everyday that we write our thoughts down on paper. We're so caught up in trying to complete other assignments that we despise the thought of the simple task of writing. As I was writing I thought it was a great stress-reliever that can be used not only in this English class but wherever you are.
You're right about writing being a good stress reliever Honeina. It is a very efficient and productive past-time as well because it exercises our mind to think and it stretches that way of thinking that could be very beneficial on how we write in the future. I agree that free writing is fun because it gives our minds the opportunity to explore the depths in our thoughts we never knew we are capable of reaching before. It allows us to come up with variation of possible topics to cover in our essay which makes the task of writing much bearable.
You have a good point, free writing isn't something we do everyday and doing it was very enjoyable. I agree with it being a stress-reliever and how it allows a variation of topics to come to mind.
I really enjoyed the free writing activity today. I was able to talk about my hero/role model, who are my grandparents. I realized that they are the kind of people I want to become in the future. Also, annotating and underlining are truly helpful in expanding ideas of the chosen topic.
Hi Tamm! It's Celine from your ID-180 class! Anyways, I love how your hero/role models are your grandparents that's really touching. And I agree annotating and underlining are very helpful.
I thought that today's activity was fun. The freewriting was a refreshing experience. I don't usually freewrite and it felt good to just jot down whatever idea came to my head. I do see myself employing these strategies that I have learned today. It helps the creative juices flow when experimenting with different ideas.
I totally agree with you, free writing was a great refreshing experience. I love jotting down whatever comes to mind and not have to go through the trouble of editing.
I enjoyed the free writing activity because it's a great way to express your opinions and ideas about a certain topic. I used to free write a lot but for some reason I stopped, doing the activity made me want to start free writing again. Also I learned how to organize my writing by learning the underlining and annotating technique. These techniques in writing are going to improve my writing in the future and I cannot wait to start using them.
Hi Dr. Rivera,
ReplyDeleteImproving writing you can be creative as art. Underlining and annotating help you with your essay and know what your writing about. Everyone in the world write either by sending email, letter, and social network. The more you write the better you understand as you read. Free writing is another technique of writing where you get to write freely in your own thoughts. Always do recursive also you might catch new words and correction. There are three stages in a writing process. First stage is exploring/ experimenting, gathering information. Second stage is Writing the controlling idea / Organizing and Developing Support. Lastly the third stage writing/ revised/ editing. I would want to be a professional writer someday.
I agree with you Edwin, Underlining and annotating really helps with writing essays and expand your ideas on what to write about. It does help with looking deeper into your thoughts. Exploring, experimenting, gathering information is helpful as well.
DeleteI like your idea that writing is an art form because this task requires effort, dedication, and a good execution in order to make the reader understand our points and main purposes in writing. Free writing is definitely a good way of letting our thoughts flow so that we could have an idea of how to approach our future writings. Underlining and annotating also makes the idea of writing less stressful.
DeleteI feel you, both underlining and annotating do help you with putting your essay together. People all over the world do write in more ways than one! You can be a professional writer in time.
DeleteI agree with Trishia, I really like your idea of writing as a for of art because yes it does require a lot of effort, dedication, and good execution because what comes out of great writing is our true and deep thoughts/feelings/opinions. Like an artist we are sharing what is in our mind not by a painting on a canvas but the careful word choices and coherence within our writings.
DeleteEdwin,
DeleteYou have a good understanding of the writing process. With continued practice, there's no doubt that you will strengthen your writing skills and learn to write effective essays. Good luck, and continue to strive for the best!
Best regards,
Dr. Rivera
I agree. It's important to remember that writing is a recursive process. It helps you to improve on previous ideas.
DeleteI really enjoyed today's class. I learned a lot about Freewriting and to follow my flow of thought. The peer review was also very good. I like how we had to exchange essays and proofread our essays.
ReplyDeleteYou're right! I enjoyed class as well! Simple and to the point, we learned how to flow our thought freely on to paper and the peer review was very good ! We learned how to proofread as well as new things about our classmates.
DeleteI agree that the peer review was good. It gave us the opportunity to help the other person with their writing and also to learn from it when writing our own essays.
DeleteThe proofreading was fun. It was refreshing to not be pressured by having perfect sentences and ideas. It eases your mind so that ideas flow more freely.
DeleteI meant freewriting.
DeleteToday, we read about the writing process: stage one. This introduced free writing to me. I've never heard about that pre-writing process before. I look forward to using this process now on to help with writing future essays. I found it helps give more ideas to write about in your essay. It helps my thoughts flow right on to the paper. With the addition of peer editing today and essay brain stretcher, overall it was a very productive day.
ReplyDeleteI agree, today was a productive day. We were able to get to talk to our classmates and expand our knowledge on writing techniques. It really does help when it comes to giving us new ideas on what to write about in our future essays. The addition of peer editing helped us gain knowledge and positive feedback on what we might have missed or overlooked.
DeleteToday was productive! I believe the pre-writing process is really helpful when writing an essay. The peer editing was a success, we got to proof-read and help our classmates with their essays, while at the same time, get to know them a little more. The brain stretcher was really fun as well.
DeleteToday was very productive. In the activities it helped us exercise our creative and spontaneous thoughts. It is also good that you learned something new today.
DeleteI enjoyed class today because we were able to free write which is a passion of mine. I enjoy being able to write down my thoughts and express me feelings. I also enjoyed the peer review because I was able to interact with my classmate and gain a knowledge of someone else in the class. I was also able to get positive feedback on my own essay and hear ways to improve it for a better grade. Class is always productive and helps me gain a better knowledge of writing and reading.
ReplyDeleteI also liked the idea of peer review because it introduces us to the lives of our classmates through reading their papers. By correcting the work of our peers, not only we are helping them make their pieces better, but also, we are helping ourselves as well. It trains us to detect possible errors in our own papers when we write another essay in the future, thus improving our skills in writing.
DeleteI also enjoy writing about a topic of my choice! I like how we were able to proofread the essay of our classmate, and have a little interview right after about the changes that were needed to be made.
DeleteFree writing is very useful. It gives you better understanding of what you would want to write. Free writing is very good too, just jotting down ideas, feelings and thoughts for you essays or diary entries.
DeleteI totally agree with you on enjoying writing down our thoughts and expressing our feelings. I'm a fan of venting, and just free writing itself!
DeleteFree writing is also a passion of mine. I enjoyed the pre review as well, it's always good to have other people look at your work and critique it. There is always something new to learn.
DeleteI also enjoyed the peer review. It's always good to receive feedback whether positive or negative. It helps us to improve and better ourselves the next time around.
DeleteIn today's activity, writing process: stage one, I've learned how to start on a topic of a paper. Using free writing could help you expand on your paper and give you general ideas of what is important to point out. Free writing will help you brainstorm and get rid of any clustering ideas that are irrelevant to the topic, but those clustering ideas could give you another topic you can write about.
ReplyDeleteFree writing was definitely helpful in writing and giving us new ideas on what to write about. It helped us put our thoughts and ideas on paper without worrying about what is correct or not. It was our thoughts and our feelings. I also helped us think about things we would have never thought of prior.
DeleteSo true! Today's activity really helped us put our thoughts on paper. Brainstorming helps the writer's block doesn't it? Let's you expand your mind on a more broad view and not be stuck on that one subject.
DeleteI agree, whenever I write I find myself putting down things that are entirely irrelevant, making my paper seem pointless but with free-writing we can always go back and see where we veered off and avoid putting in things that don't make sense but can help in writing about other things.
DeleteAgreed! Freewriting can be very helpful in finding and expanding ideas.
DeleteToday's activities included how to free write well in order to begin writing an actual assignment. It is a useful tool in order to get your thoughts moving; plus you can expand on an essay with all the helpful notes you wrote already. For my free write assignment, I wrote about the use of drugs and how mostly all of them have a negative effect except for a select few. Cannabis and alcohol when ingested correctly and moderately become beneficial to a person's health. However, there are a numerous amount of bad drugs that outweigh the good ones. All in all, it depends on the person and how they can handle the use of substances.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on your opinion of drugs. A person controls how much they intake and there can be positive and negative aspects to almost everything. The free writing today definitely helped expand our thoughts and express our feelings on paper and not worry about being wrong or right.
DeleteYes, i agree that free writing helps us on expanding on our essays. It gives us the opportunity to find new and better information that we could have been holding back because of writers block.
DeleteToday's activities were great. I have learned the styles on free writing and the relationship between annotating and underlining. I enjoyed the process of free writing because we chose a broad topic sentence and expanded it and free writing was very interesting. Also I enjoyed the peer reviewing period in which it helped me improve on how to write my essay.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! Learning the relationship between all the pre-writing activities we learned today really helped us learn how to think outside the box on many topics. Peer review taught us our mistakes that we will learn from in our next essay!
DeleteYes, i agree. Free writing did help us elaborate on our topics when writing a paper. Also, learning how to underline and annotate is a useful skill to use when free writing or drafting.
DeleteTrue, free writing makes us think when we choose a topic and write about it and going from broad to narrow. Free-writing really does prepare us to be better writers because explaining a broad topic and breaking it down for readers or audiences are what good writers master.
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteIn today's class, we learned about free writing, annotating and underlining. Once you follow these three tips while writing, those three will help ease the fluidity of writing. Following the lesson today is a good practice to have whenever writing. I'm not as good as most people whenever I write in a time-constrained period, but I believe these tips can be very advantageous to me especially if I continue to practice these few things.
DeleteI agree that these elements of writing greatly helps us in improving our work's fluidity. Writing is not an easy task and like you Theia, I also have some issues concerning time constraints, but I always try to do my best to finish my work and I believe that free writing, along with underlining and annotation would make a great help in overcoming this obstacle. I suggest just to do your best, always remember these three concepts and keep practicing.
DeleteI completely agree. When given a certain time to complete a writing assignment I sometimes panic and don't do as well as I hope I would but with these three steps I think that it will make it easier for me to get my thoughts out and message across in a timely manner without worrying that I skipped some parts or added irrelevant thoughts.
DeleteToday's activities regarding the writing process and free-writing was interesting. It wasn't particularly new information, but it was refreshing none the less. The exercise itself was pretty brain racking and helped me stimulate new thoughts on new subjects.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it was pretty interesting. Actually doing the free-writing essay also helped me understand and comprehend it much more.
DeleteIn today's class, I have learned how to make the writing process much easier through exploration of the topic by free writing, gathering information using annotation and underlining important points in the free written section of the paper. I also learned how these ideas become a source of such an elaborate discussion in my essay topic. The essay peer review is a part of today's class that I liked the most especially because I get to know the person who's paper I get to read.
ReplyDeleteI agree that today really gave us a great tool for the writing process. It will definitely ease the process of future essays. It gives us a chance to use all our ideas to elaborate on the topic. I liked the peer editing as well great way to meet new people!
DeleteThe activity of free-writing was very enjoyable because it's not everyday that we write our thoughts down on paper. We're so caught up in trying to complete other assignments that we despise the thought of the simple task of writing. As I was writing I thought it was a great stress-reliever that can be used not only in this English class but wherever you are.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about writing being a good stress reliever Honeina. It is a very efficient and productive past-time as well because it exercises our mind to think and it stretches that way of thinking that could be very beneficial on how we write in the future. I agree that free writing is fun because it gives our minds the opportunity to explore the depths in our thoughts we never knew we are capable of reaching before. It allows us to come up with variation of possible topics to cover in our essay which makes the task of writing much bearable.
DeleteYou have a good point, free writing isn't something we do everyday and doing it was very enjoyable. I agree with it being a stress-reliever and how it allows a variation of topics to come to mind.
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ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the free writing activity today. I was able to talk about my hero/role model, who are my grandparents. I realized that they are the kind of people I want to become in the future. Also, annotating and underlining are truly helpful in expanding ideas of the chosen topic.
ReplyDeleteHi Tamm! It's Celine from your ID-180 class! Anyways, I love how your hero/role models are your grandparents that's really touching. And I agree annotating and underlining are very helpful.
DeleteI thought that today's activity was fun. The freewriting was a refreshing experience. I don't usually freewrite and it felt good to just jot down whatever idea came to my head. I do see myself employing these strategies that I have learned today. It helps the creative juices flow when experimenting with different ideas.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you, free writing was a great refreshing experience. I love jotting down whatever comes to mind and not have to go through the trouble of editing.
DeleteI enjoyed the free writing activity because it's a great way to express your opinions and ideas about a certain topic. I used to free write a lot but for some reason I stopped, doing the activity made me want to start free writing again. Also I learned how to organize my writing by learning the underlining and annotating technique. These techniques in writing are going to improve my writing in the future and I cannot wait to start using them.
ReplyDelete