What’s the Point?
Sometimes, trying to write a thesis may be a daunting task, but it shouldn’t be too hard. Daniel Hengel suggests to think of it as a “macro-question” that will be answered with the help of “micro-questions” in the body. There are three steps to formulating a good thesis: identify something that stands out to you, form your own ideas about the text, and explain the importance of the text. Once you’ve completed those steps, you may be satisfied with your thesis, or you can change it multiple times to make sure that it isn’t too general or unanswerable. With lots of careful thought, creating a thesis can be easy.
Response:
David Hengel gave useful tips on how to create a thesis. With how it lets readers know what you’ll be talking about in an essay, the thesis is essential for establishing that idea in a sentence or a few. I think it’s also important to know that, like how a draft will be revised multiple times, it’s okay to have your thesis undergo multiple changes before you settle on the perfect one.
Responding – Really Responding – to Other Student’s Writing
When reading and commenting on a writer’s work, you shouldn’t focus too much on the technical writing stuff, such as spelling or grammar mistakes. Instead, it is important to give feedback on how the writer can improve on the content of his or her work. While keeping in mind of the goals of the writing assignment, the ideas that the writer wishes to portray, and the personality of the writer, you can form comments that would be beneficial to the writer. Whether they’re positive or negative, your feedback becomes valuable when you mean what you say and say it in a friendly manner. For writers, editing their own work can be done quickly, but improving their ideas can’t be done without the help of readers’ responses.
Response:
This text gave us some great advice on how we can respond well to other writers’ work. Most of the time, we may feel inclined to correct spelling and grammar mistakes, but providing our opinions and asking questions about the work can be greatly beneficial for the writer. We should also be careful of how we give our comments to prevent the writer’s unique voice from being meshed or replaced with our own.