Blog #3

Blog #3: Reading Response and Writing Center Internship Reflection
Due Friday, January 25th, at 11am (Reminder: This is the first week of your Writing Center Internship.)

Three parts to this blog:

Part 1: Reflection on Writing Center Internship (or Continue Revising your Cover Letter)

Writing Center Internship: Starting with this (or the next) blog, please describe what you did for your Internship this week. In addition, you'll need to reflect on your experiences and how they will help you revise your writing.  Below are some guiding questions to help you reflect on what you learn: 

• What you learned as a tutor
• What you notice about other students’ writing
• What you notice about the writing of multilingual writers
• What you notice about your own writing
• The language of tutors and writers
• Insights about language, academic writing, or tutoring
• How you helped other writers
• How other writers helped you

If you have not yet started your Internship, please paste both your original and revised drafts of your cover letter and describe the revisions you made and to what purpose (but remember that you'll also need to post your drafts to Angel according to the due dates in the syllabus).

Part 2: Reading Response to Ch. 3 of Style

 "[V]erbs, complements, and modifiers are more than grammatical categories; they're also useful revision tools" (p.15)

Take some time to rReflect on each of the three main concepts in this chapter: verbs, complements, and modifiers (to start, see the questions at the bottom of p. 15 will help you get started).   How will these concepts help you as you continue to revise your cover letter?  As always, the more details you can give, the more helpful your responses will be to us and to you.

Length: For your reading response section, again aim for about 250 words or 2-3 paragraphs (you could do one paragraph per concept). 


Part 3: Revision of Part 1 or Part 2
After reflecting on how the chapter in Style will help you with your writing, revise two or three of the sentences your wrote for Part 1 (or Part 2).  Specifically, try to apply the concept of choosing the most "active" verb for your sentence, as discussed in Ch. 3.  After you revise your sentences, write a brief rationale of why your revision helped you experiment with the guidelines in Ch. 3.


Response:  For your response, you should 1) continue the conversation the author started in Part 2.  You should also 2) try to comment on their revised sentences in Part 3.  Examples:

• Why do you think the revised sentence is an improvement over the original sentence? 
• Can you suggest another revision?  
• How does the revision follow the guiding questions on the bottom of p. 15?

Due: Respond to everyone in your peer group, including yourself (for your own blog, either respond to one or both of your peers' responses or simply revise another part of your initial post), by Monday morning at 11am.

Length: Again, a paragraph is good.  Try to work on choosing the right verbs and eliminating bulky modifiers in your response(feel free to use the strikethrough option to show us your revision process).