Author: Kelly Aube

My ability to cite sources using the MLA guidelines has significantly improved since writing my first essay and the beginning of the semester. The Little Seagull Handbook in particular has helped a lot in teaching me the proper MLA format, and also how to cite things correctly. I have also become better at addressing my … [Read more…]

Copy of Peers Edited Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iJ_wPeJlLUd_43mS8HBzW2yZA5o6kPsv/view?usp=sharing This semester I have improved a lot on this learning outcome and making useful critiques on my own and other’s work. When editing my peers paper, I first look out for small local revisions that could easily be fixed, and then move on to the bigger global revisions. The … [Read more…]

One of the reasons that I chose my third essay as my Significant Writing Project is because this was the essay where I used the most pieces of evidence and quotes from other pieces of writing. In this essay, I had three different articles that I could use to pull sources of evidence from, and … [Read more…]

First Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JfqIqmOcoCdg11RoUEkvgw6dOkyprScDO58pgoccbkI/edit?usp=sharing Second Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fTY5MG0jRtwkzv1hTPk_LSazmnsZqoyB1KlYxpTsz_s/edit?usp=sharing I chose my third essay as my Significant Writing Project because I felt that after writing three essays I was confident in my skills of editing and revising my writing. I began my revision process by taking my first draft of my essay, and looking through it to find … [Read more…]

First Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JfqIqmOcoCdg11RoUEkvgw6dOkyprScDO58pgoccbkI/edit?usp=sharing Second Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fTY5MG0jRtwkzv1hTPk_LSazmnsZqoyB1KlYxpTsz_s/edit

Paper #1: There were many changes made, and differences between the first and second draft of my first paper. My first draft was very rough, and was basically just a collection of all my ideas thrown together in an essay. When editing my first draft, I looked for ways to transition to and from each … [Read more…]

Paper #1- From writing this essay, I have learned a lot about how to integrate my ideas with quotes from others. Whenever I introduced a new idea or argument, I liked to back it up with a quote from another piece of work that related to my idea. This is a new skill for me, … [Read more…]

Paper #1- I am fairly new at having to be a critical reader and annotating texts, but I’ve improved a lot throughout the last couples time I have done it. I am good at taking the text paragraph by paragraph, and summarizing each one and finding the main point. I know how to take whatever … [Read more…]

Paper #1- When critiquing my own work, I mainly look for the big things first like spelling and punctuation errors, and things that are quick and easy to fix. I try to organize my ideas, and get my writing to where I think it should be, so that I can then get feedback from others … [Read more…]