Learning Perspective for Week Six

In this week open blog post, I would like to talk more about my learning progress in the writing class and response towards it. As we did in the class, Kate introduced us the second project in which is to write a five to seven pages of research paper associated with American Pop Culture. Before we start on our research paper, she let us to practice more about summary, paraphrase, quotations, and citation. In order to see the differences between them, she divided the class in groups of two. We are assigned to find an article about the Valentine’s Day, and use the article to do summary and paraphrase. In this way, I learned that paraphrase is a more specific task compare to summary, and direct quotes are words that exactly from the source. In addition, we need put in-text citation for all the direct quotations and indirect quotations that wrote in the essay. Furthermore, by taking notes and “My Response” near the “Notes form the Source”, I found it is really interesting to see how those notes can associate with my opinions.  Using this way, it is clearly to give my response either I agree or disagree about the issue.

Also, on Thursday’s class, I learned the structure to write a topic report. Basically, it requires us to give information about our next coming research paper. Firstly, we need to write the introduction paragraph, state the topic. Then in the body paragraphs, we need to specifically introduce the background information of your topic in multiple sources. Thirdly, recap and take away the topic sentences, and ask further questions and observations towards your research. Last but not the least, cite the works in a separate paper.

To conclude, it is handy that Kate taught us these writing strategies to help with our next coming research paper. Also, to make connections with specific days and our class make the class more insightful and joyful.

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