blog 6

Writing center

This week for the writing internship a girl needed help with grammar. The major things were, improper use of past tense and present tense. Along with plurals being placed in wrong areas. The other thing was format for journal article citation.  This seemed to be something the writing center doesn’t do, fixing grammar, but I guess they made an exception.

Part 2

This was a piece from a assignment in landscape ecology

Landscape ecology has many different aspects to it; the most important aspect of landscape is the linking of patterns and space. The spatial context is important in the function of habitat and dispersal of organisms due to the fact that, fragmented habitats are restricted  with things like edge effect- even if there is a vast amount of land- because of distance between sections of land.  Another part of landscape ecology is heterogeneity, at some scale of the landscape each section is homogeneous and make up the heterogeneous landscape; similar to that of a mosaic. Patterns are created and repeated within intervals of acres to hectares. Heterogeneity is changed by and made up of different factors; which include biota, human activities, disturbances and geographical templates. These factors influence one another and are all intertwined affecting the heterogeneity. To sum it up “landscape ecology is the study of the entire complex cause-effect network between the living communities and their environmental conditions which prevails in a specific section of the landscape..[and] becomes apparent in a specific landscape pattern or in a natural; space classification of the different orders of size” –Carl Troll (1939).  Landscape has structure which includes: patch, ecotone, edge, matrix, corridor , and pattern. These patterns make up the landscape and differentiate the area.   Processes in landscape are disturbance, fragmentation, percolation, and linkages. The processes are the factors that change the structure of the landscape.  Reciprocality occurs through cause and effect between the processes and spatial patterns   

I didn’t see many spots where the sentences didn’t logically connect , all seemed to flow into one another with conncetions. But it may be because this is a subject that I kno in my major and could be mentally filling in the gaps in my head while reading this paper

Part 3

Chapter six talks about making connections in your writing; so that a paper will flow and connect to the previous sentence. Otherwise a paragraph is just a jumbled mass of sentences. If a paragraph is torn apart is should be able to be put back together in order, from the use of those connections between sentences. This is important in writing because unlike speaking the reader of a piece of writing cant ask questions to fill in the gaps.

The anti paragraph as the book refers to it is something that has no transition or connection between sentences. There are a few ways to fix this, first adding new and given information. Add ne information to the first sentence then tie the next one back to the first by using given information. Another way to achieve this task of connection is to use nominalization.  To do this reverse the process of converting nouns to verbs to animate the sentence. Then use the verb in the following sentence to give cohesion between sentences.  The third way is to use antecedents which are word like he, her, that.  This ties sentences together without using the same word over, just referencing the previous object or person.