Synthesis
Both classes this week helped me get a start on my synthesis paper. I liked how we got to work with our sources in class and get our thesis statements together. I sometimes have trouble figuring out where to start when I write papers but I feel like this week helped me get started. It also gave me some ideas of where I want to go with my synthesis and what my main points or ideas are. I also think the peer editing class on Tuesday will help a great deal just like it did on my critical analysis.
Reading: Model Critique
After doing the reading in A Sequence for Academic Writing, I really got to see how a critique is done. I understood what we talked about in class and what needed to be included in a critique, but seeing it actually done really helped. I also wasn’t aware that you could both agree and diagree with the author or the topic in a critique. I thought you had to either agree or disagree with the author’s views; however, I am now aware that you don’t have to. I liked how in the model critique the author points out, “If Ryan defends high standards in one breath and criticizes parents in the next for pushing children to acheive these standards, she is only reflecting a confusion in the larger culture.” The author points out how the mother contradicted herself by agreeing there should be high standards but then saying that parents shouldn’t be pushing their children. This model critique really helped me and now hopefully I will be able to write a good critique myself for next week.
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