You have spent a lot of time with your Writing Group this semester. I hope it has been helpful both to receive comments from your group members, but also to have been able to read their writing and learn something you might not have learned otherwise.
In terms of writing, I want you to think about what you learned about writing from your Writing Group members.
By this point, you would have read:
- multiple versions of their Literacy Narrative
- multiple versions of their Rhetorical Analysis
- a draft of their Research-Driven Writing Project
In the ELD you are asked to spend at least 1 paragraph on someone else’s writing from your Writing Group to talk about how it has influenced your own reading and writing.
Take some time now to start to think about this writing you have read and what might be a valuable lesson that you took away from it.
Without naming anyone, in a comment below, write about one aspect of someone’s writing (if you can quote it, even better!) that you thought was really great and explain how it demonstrates something about writing that you think is important and that you could learn from.
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One thing that I saw that was interesting about someone’s writing style occurred in our QSR 4, this writer was able to go into great detail about a concept that could easily be explained. Although it may seem tedious to add more detail, the writer did a great job and allowed me as the audience to further understand and to know every single aspect.
I thought that one of my group member’s narrative ability was great. This member, in making an analysis on an episode of a TV show, structured his essay in chronological order, and gradually built his argument by constantly throwing in evidence and analysis. I found that technique to be very effective in terms of readability. It helps the audience to follow the author’s ideas all the way through.
I liked how clean-cut and direct one of my groupmates ‘ writing was. He did a good job of getting his points across with evidence to back them up. His writing was professional and well written.
One of the peers made their rhetorical analysis about a very well known commercial. He made a very good analysis from it, looking at marketing, symbolisms, audience, and different perspectives that elaborated their thesis very effectively. It was well built and easy to comprehend. Overall all of them have been doing a great job tough, with noticeable improvement and effort.
I am always impressed by how one of my peers has always been able to structure their paragraphs in such a way that their sentence flow coherently and reflect variety in terms of wording. I believe that syntax and sentence processing is a very important aspect of knowing how to write and hope that I can replicate the same in my own writing.
First let me begin with the fact that I am impressed by all my peers writing. However, one member in particular has a writing style that keeps the reader wanting to know more and knows how to structure their writing. This member also is very open when sharing their writing which is greatly appreciated by the audience.
One thing that really impressed me was one of my peer’s analysis on a song for the rhetorical essay. This person went very deep into the meaning of different lyrics, and on top of that, offered multiple meaning for certain parts. This person also used the historical background of the band to help him further understand the lyrics of a specific song. This was inspiring to mean because it showed me how certain words can have many more meanings than what’s just on the surface.
One of my group mates had many good aspects in their rhetorical analysis. I especially liked their wide variety of sentence length and punctuation. It gave the reading much more suspense and emotion. I hope to learn from this and use these skills in my own writing.
One of my group mates wrote a letter to his future grandson for the Narrative and I thought it was a very creative way to use a genre to craft how personal the topic was. After comparing it to my own writing, it helped me understand that I needed to consider the reading experience and not just write about an interesting topic, but also write in an interesting way.
One of my peers was always so analytical. Their papers always made me think and say “wow”. It also always “sounded” like their writing which is something I admired.
Something commendable that one of my peers did was structure their essay in a manner that was extremely thorough. As someone who struggles with organization, I found it as an example and often times thought about the organization when I wrote my own papers.