Discussion prompt #3

1. I'm sure everyone's ability and technique to writing is different. Depending on where one may have went to school will shape how they even organize their thoughts. I, for one, have my own technique that I'm accustomed to. I don't necessarily read my assignment a certain number of times, but more or less read over it until I grasp what it's asking me to do. When I begin a paper, I tend to let everything flow out first and foremost. After that I methodically go back and revise my work sentence by sentence, usually by working through them backwards. My first draft and final draft tend to look like entirely different papers with different diction in each.

2. For my augmentative essay from personal experience I'm the expert authority. Therefore, no outside sources will be given for the evidence that I choose to present.  This, in turn, makes me the authority on my topic, as previously stated. Granted, my views may not be readily accepted by my peers or instructors, I will be able to give a vast amount of insight from the experience I've had. Although I may not have the citation within my essay from a higher source of intelligence, I will still be able to present my argument based on how I perceived my given experience and not the view or opinion of another.

3. I found that the most useful information presented in the "Academic Writing Is an Analysis" section was simply giving the meaning of actually analyzing a paper. When one analyzes a paper they're not asking "what" because "what" is already present within the paper. You're exclusively analyzing "why" or "how" something is happening, an example being, "why did this author write about this topic?". I believe that we should definitely go over that actual act of analyzing a paper in class. We should ask ourselves, as a class, why specific things were stated within a paper from the author's perspective and how we, as readers, infer this information and relate it to our own personal experiences.

4. For the most part, I see nearly no differences in the expectations of my academic writing. Coming to college one must arrive with the expectation of presenting an intellectual argument for the sake of learning. I must present an argument with valid evidence to not only back up my point of view and opinion of a topic but also sway my audience, be them a reader, peer, instructor, adviser, and so forth.