blog #12

Part 1

This week in the writing internship we helped a guy get started on a paper for a communication major class. It was to be written as a news article. He had interviewed three people and was supposed to write using those people as a source. We helped him start on a thesis to get him started. Unfortunately I had to leave before the tutoring was done since I had to leave for class but I learned the different parts of a thesis and that even though the source of a paper may change but the style is still the same even though it’s not the normal text or articles we are used to drawing our writing from.

Writing internship reflection

  Overall my writing internship was a good experience in that I learned where common mistakes are made in witting. And recurring issues people had the biggest one that I saw was grammar and misuse of past tense and present tense. But this may have been due to the fact that majority of the students that came in during my hours there were foreign students and English was their second language. So that could have been another difficulty for them getting lost in translation when writing their thoughts down. The most helpful thing that I noticed in the internship was the need to put the thesis early in the paper and make sure to have one to tell the reader what is going on in the paper. I applied this to my own writing by making sure to have the thesis right off the bat in a recent paper about disturbances in a landscape for my landscape ecology class. This helped with my issue of origination in my papers.

Part 2

 Thing I worked on this semester (there’s more but these are the things I thought I had the biggest issues with prior)

·         Organization

·         Passive versus active writing

·         Use of punctuation (colons, semi colons, apostrophes, ect. )

·         Cutting out extras (streamlining)

·         Flow of sentences (sentence connectivity)

Some pieces of writing I might include for the writing portfolio are the cover letter, a recent piece of writing from my writing in the major course since I’ve been enrolled in English 304 and a piece form my junior writing portfolio that we revised in class. There are probably more I could include I just can’t think of them at the moment.