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Sommers, Nancy. "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers" (pp. 378-388).College Composition and Communication, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec., 1980).

Nancy Sommers has a great point of view for students' writing improvement. This step of improvement is called review and it means that in order to be a better writer you must share your ideas with other people in order to get feedback. Sommers explains that writing is in constant changing and that reviews are the end of the first steps in a writing process. Sommers make a very good example of this by making a comparison between music and writing, the conection was very interesting because we noticed that music is always trying to be better in order to make it more interesting for people that would hear it. That process is the same with writting because you will always be able to change, erase and improve your articles in order to make it better.

Homework Reminder

Homework: We're getting through the starts of our essays! It is important to come to class and keep on task! This Essay will be due by the end of the week!

Due tonight, Monday by midnight: A Summary, Paraphrase and Direct Quote for each of your articles posted to your personal blog! Titled it MY NOTES. You've got summaries available to you already, right? I'm totally cool with you pulling these from your SQRs and the summaries you've done over the weekend. What's a summary, paraphrase and direct quote:

Quotations must be identical to the original, using a narrow segment of the source. They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.

Paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. A paraphrase must also be attributed to the original source. Paraphrased material is usually shorter than the original passage, taking a somewhat broader segment of the source and condensing it slightly.

Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s). Once again, it is necessary to attribute summarized ideas to the original source. Summaries are significantly shorter than the original and take a broad overview of the source material. (OWL Purdue)

Due Tuesday at mid night posted to Class Blog: Intro (150 words) + Lit Review (250+ words). Your lit review is more than your explanation of others ideas, although you can begin by simply writing about other's ideas. I want you to evolve this piece into explaining not simply their ideas but how you are using them with your ideas as well.

Due Friday at Midnight, posted as a comment to your original SQR: your revised SQR 1, addressing the questions and concerns I commented with You can jump a grade here! For those of you missing SQR 1, this is your last chance to make it up! Go ahead and post it up, entitled SQR 1: LATE, to your personal blog by Friday Midnight!

Just in case you can't make it in to the workshop, though you should have! Here a pictures of the info that was on the board: This all needs to be completed and posted tonight! I will bring in grades tomorrow.

 

Introduction

Audience goes beyond being only a group of spectators; audience are the persons that show interest, support and enthusiasm to the speaker or the writer. For this research project my interest is based on audience and I want to know what is the relation between the audience and the topic that the author is discussing. Does every topic has it's own audience or is it universal? For me, it depends on the topic; some topics are universal because we are all concerned about them but others are for a specific audience. To prove this theory I'm going to use the articles from the authors Downs and Wardle, Gillam, Ede, Lisa and Andre Lundsford, and Park. All of them discussed the role and the importance of audience and the response that the person gets from it; finally to back up all this information I'm going to apply some surveys to my classmates and make some interviews to other college students. After all, "The Audience is the best judge of anything." (Barbra Streisand)

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Kroll, Barry M. "Writing for Readers: Three Perspectives on Audience." CCC 35 (May 1984): 172–85


It´s an article that talks about three conceptions that affect the audience and influence the topic: rhetorical, informational and social. The rhetorical focus on the theory, try to put the audience in an argument with themselves, The informational says that the information has to be clear for the audience for a better understanding. And the social that is related with the writing and the way how it comunicates.This article focus more on how can you spread your idean and the best way the audience will understand it.

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Sommers, Nancy. "Responding to Student Writing." CCC 32 (May 1982): 148–56. Rpt. in Teaching Writing: Theories and Practices. Ed. J. Travers. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1988


   in this article they she mainly talks about the models of writing. and how this helps students learn a little more. alsoo they explain all the projects they go thru, just the help the studnts learn different ways of doing that they are being thought. by this she means thaat teachers sometims have a hard time to give feedback that makes sense for students to revise their work. and for this to some students their "feedback" is not very useful. 

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Sommers, Nancy. "Responding to Student Writing." CCC 32 (May 1982): 148–56. Rpt. in Teaching Writing: Theories and Practices. Ed. J. Travers. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1988.

I found this other article by Sommers, which we've read. And seeing how i am covering peer response. I thought it would be interesting to see a different type of response. Teacher response in this case. I think it would be interesting to compare different types of responses instead of only focusing on one.


Sommer says that a challenge teachers face is to develop comments which will "provide an inherent reason for students to revise". By this she means that teachers sometimes struggle to give feedback that will make sense for students to revise. For some students according to Sommers, revision is not fully learned. She says we must think of it as "a sense of revision as discovery, as a repeated process of beginning again, as starting out new". Sommers article is mainly telling how teacher response is not 100 percent accurate. As teachers, they make mistakes too. And sometimes students revise wrong by not fully understanding what is being asked for them to revise.

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In this article firts of all and the most important is that authors encourage students to not use plagarism. They are talking about the writing situations and how students can get better on those situations depending on what they are studing.

P1 Make-up

I was born speaking only one language, spanish. Since both my parents were raised in Mexico it only seemed right for me to learn spanish as my primary language. When I turned 4 years old my father decided to change the way I was going to experience school. Like my sister, I didn't know english when I started Pre-K. My parents enrolled her to a bilingual speaking class. Which made things a lot easier on her since we didn't know english. Well my father, the swell guy he is threw me in an english only speaking class. I did not speak for the first six months of the year. Listening to everyone around me I was able to pick up a few words here and there. I felt so isolated from everyone in the classroom. My sister, being a few years ahead of me was able to teach me the basics of reading and writing in english. She was pretty much the biggest inspiration I had when I was a young child. My father working on his business and my mother working full time at a clothing store, my sister took the effort and responsibility of making sure I did not have a hard time since I didn't get the advantage she did. In the long run it worked out well because I was able to practice the language a lot more than she did. In the contrary I now do not know as much spanish as she does, since I would only speak english in most of my early classes. From then on the only person I can actually trust and speak about my english classes or writing in english is my older sister. None of my teachers were able to get me to open up to them about my writings. She was the only one that was able to get to my level and make me learn and understand the way things are read and written.


My theory is that since my sister was around the most when I was a child, her decision about something was that mattered the most in my life. I looked up to her, so if she told me a way to learn I was able to adjust to that method and understand what she was telling me.

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Emig Janet "College Composition and Communication"  Vol. 28, No. 2 (May, 1977), pp. 122-128

writing is unique and doesnt always have to be written correctly. in here janet emig

 talks about the four languaging process of listening, talking, reading, and writing.

 she explains some important points, "successful learning is also engaged, committed 

personal learning". another thing is that things have to be maximally detailed. by that she 

is trying to say that things have to be very detailed in order to be understood to the 

fullest extent. 

Summary First Article

This article by Janet Emig talks about how important writing is in our school lives. It takes a big part when we're learning something new. Is a way to express your feelings and it shows a little bit of your personality. She also gave us some facts about writing one that cached my attention was ''writing is learned behavior; talking is natural, even irrepressible, behavior.'' pg 123.

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Behm, Richard. "You Want a Workshop or a Revival Meetin'?" English Education, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 39-43


In this article Behm tell us about the right ways to make a workshop great. The first thing you do is to choose a topic that you want to do research about and then you select an angle of topic because you need to concentrate in specific parts of the reading investigation. After that we choose a partner that would help us in the traveling of the work and this partner should be able to work on this topic. Finally you evaluate your ideas and you will get feedback.

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Revision points up a split between teachers' claims and students' performance. Teachers assertt that the practice of multiple drafts is the key to good writing. This is not a strategy that every student use because some students can end up with a worse.

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George, Diana. "Working with Peer Groups in the Composition Classroom." College Composition and Communication 35 (1984): 320-6.

Summary: Diana George talks about how working in peer groups in a class where composition is the focus can be helpful to students. Learning about each other is what she focuses on. The author questions as well how effective it is. She says that it has been studied before but not thoroughlys. Using group discussions and peer response in classrooms, Diana George say that it can actually increase responsibility in a students and teachers learning. The teacher is made to constantly listen and watch while students work on their own and evaluate each other.

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Behm, Richard. "You Want a Workshop or a Revival Meetin'?" English Education, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 39-43.

In this article Behm tell us the steps to make a workshop in a perfect way. He first tell us that we need to find a topic that is important to us, then we choose the angle because we are not going to see the whole point of the topic, just the most important and specific things. After that we choose a partner that would help us in the traveling of the work and this partner should be able to work on this topic. Then we evaluate everything we have done at that moment in order to have feedback on things.

Summary: The Visible Voice, An Approach of Writing

From the article, voice is important in writing.  In it, voice is a personal item created into ones work.  As it is the spirit of the person.  Where the style is the strutured and the voice is the might of it.  Where as it holds a creative mean to express feelings intot he matter created.  With it, it can help in creative writing, as it doesn't make the person go into structure wording but by looking with in to form their work.

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Hamalian, Leo, The Visible Voice, An Approach to Writing, English Journal, 59.2 (1970) pg. 227-230

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Ede, Lisa, and Andrea Lunsford. "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy." CCC 35 (May 1984): 155–71. Rpt. in Corbett, Myers, and Tate [171].

Summary “The Meanings of Audience.”

Audience is a main part of writing and it’s difficult to define. There are two types of audience. First we have the one that has its owns beliefs and expectations and due to this in the author has to connect itself with it. The second one, it’s mainly a “fictional audience” which is implied by the writing. Even when we can identified our audience it is still difficult to apply our writings to a certain audience because we have a lot of varieties. One thing that can be due to this problem is that instead of only focus on the audience we have to make sure that what we are trying to communicate its well communicated and expressed.

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Arthur, B., et al.  "Evaluation Reactions of College Students to Dialect Differences in the English of Mexican-Americans."  Language and Speech 17 (1974):  255-70.

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Schreiner, Steven. "A Portrait of the Student as a Young Writer: Re-evaluating Emig and the Process Movement." CCC 48 (February 1997): 86–104.
Perl, Sondra, ed. Landmark Essays on Writing Process. Davis, Calif.: Hermagoras Press, 1994.