I chose to read Chapter 11 of “They Say/I Say”, titled “Using the Templates to Revise”. This chapter discusses how to put all aspects of the chapters before into your essay when thinking about the process of revision. It offers a checklist-like approach using the central idea from each chapter before to pose questions making sure you’ve incorporated every aspect into your paper. For example one of the topic questions is “Have you introduced any naysayers?”. This is to make…
Revision Strategy: My goals for revision is to incorporate my peer’s revisions into my final essay and use their suggestions to revise my essays. Another goal is to thoroughly go through my rough draft and find what needs to be changed, what can stay, what needs to be moved, etc. To accomplish my goals I will read through my peer’s comments, pick out which ones I believe will help, and then find ways to incorporate those suggestions into my writing….
Free write (15 min) When I initially read Galen Strawson’s article “I am not a story” I didn’t know whether to agree with his idea that narratives do not shape who we are or not. He brought up some valid points that I might agree with individually, but as a whole, I lean towards disagreeing with him. He brings up several compelling points throughout his essay. For example, he mentions that we are made up of many selves, not just one….
Julie Beck explores how seeing our lives as narratives can actually affect us and our wellbeings. There were a few moments that made me sit up straighter, grabbed my attention, and pulled me back into the text. One of these instances was when she talked about how different ages affect our storytelling or the way we see things. When we are young adults still trying to navigate the world we often speak about the changes in our lives because it…
I chose to look at my first essay. Do you see any patterns? I seem to follow a pattern of restating the topic of conversation in the paragraphs. Other than that, I don’t seem to follow a specific pattern. Do you rely on certain devices more than others? I rely on repetition and transitions. I repeat key terms and ideas throughout each paragraph and circle the idea back to my claim. I also use transitional phrases to keep the words…
Personally, my favorite brainstorming method is either follow the thread or just simply free writing. Following the thread allows me to annotate a piece of writing at a more in-depth level. Freewriting allows me to just get my ideas out and let the words fill the page. Often times I find my argument this way because I can get everything out on the page without thinking too much and I find what I want to argue along the way if I wasn’t…
Steven Pinker and Yo-Yo Ma present a similar view on connecting science with humanistic approaches. In “Science Is Not Your Enemy”, Pinker writes about how science provides reasoning for why we are able to believe in our moral and spiritual values; it allows us to distinguish fact from fiction and explain why humans think the way that we do. Pinker says “The facts of science, by exposing the absence of purpose in the laws governing the universe, force us to take…
Jonah Lehrer’s main argument is that art makes science better. He explains how the two seemingly different worlds actually work really well together. If we incorporate artistic ideas into science then we can discover more about really complex ideas, such as string theory and neuroscience. In turn, science can make art better, too. Science in art can “offer science through a new lens”. Lehrer writes about how art and science complement each other. Without one we will never challenge the…
