Thursday, September 30, 2010

"Rhetorical Awareness"

Q1. You are probably aware of the importance of Rhetorical reading thus far. I would like to know how you would evaluate your use of rhetorical reading strategies and whether you will have any plans to improve your rhetorical skills and what are the plans?

Respond: To this point my usage of rhetorical strategies is not good, but from this day on I would try to use the rhetorical strategies on the SQR'S. Which means that I would go back to my reading and examine the article more that one time. I would also try to check my spelling and other kind of mistakes from my paper. I would also check for any repetition of my words,and i will also give more example either from the article or from my own experienced.

Q2. You are also expected to have a good understanding about Writer-Based Prose and Reader-Based Prose and the difference between them lies in the use of Rhetorical Strategies. I would like to know how you would differntiate the use of rhetorical strategies in writing (from reading as above)and what will be your plans to improve your rhetorical strategies in writing.

Respond: My plans for using rhetorical strategies in my writing would be by reading the article carefully and trying to get the main points from the article. I would also revised my writing paper more than once and i would try not to have any repetition of my words.

Monday, September 20, 2010

1. What were your concerns about in an SQR? What would you like the group to consider, respond to, or evaluate on an SQR of yours?

I like doing the SQRs in groups but what i don't like is that some of the classmates don't revise your paper to the fullest. I would like for my classmates to check for grammar or any misspelling. Also I would like that if they do not like my paper to leave me a comment saying go back and write more or something like that.

2. How did you see/evaluate the comments you made on your peer's paper? Honestly, do you think they were really helpful? (It's ok that you can say no. If that's the case, please state what made you unable to provide specific comments as you wished. It's important form me to know how carefully you read your peer's papers and how did you work on commenting your friend's papers).

When i was reading my peers paper i was going through the summary and see if they have the main points from the article and see if they have examples. I think that my peers were not very helpful in revising my paper, although some groups were helpful and telling me my weakness on my paper. And that is what i would do for them when i would get their paper.