Literature Review : The Class Collage By Jeff Sommers

Scholarly peer review, also known as refereeing, is the process of subjecting an author’s scholarly manuscript to the scrutiny of others who are experts and working in the same field (Ware 2013).

As stated above, this section of the book specially emphasizes change of focus of your compositions when you start college writing. In high school your writing assignments are mainly executed using your personal opinions and your own self encounters. On the contrary, college writing is much more factual and involves critical thinking. Instead of your writing being inspired by your emotional thoughts on a subject, your words now need to be backed up by scholarly sources that can prove your information. This, however, does not mean that you will never write about yourself or your personal opinions, it just means that you need to provide proof for your beliefs. College writing also introduces you to different genres such as essays,

The Article “A Stranger in Strange Lands” written by Lucille P. McCarthy is an examination of the writing process. This article follows a college student through a twenty-one month study to determine how the students writing ability is affected as he transitions from one classroom to another. Focusing on specific writing processes in different types of classrooms,this article hopes to uncover the importance and effect of writing towards a specific audience within a particular genre and to offer a better understanding to how students continue to learn to write throughout college.

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

In “Expectations for College Writing,” the author indicates the importance of thinking and communicating to succeed after college. A writer’s style acknowledges a social or academic expression. A writer’s skill to rationalize ideas and think critically demonstrates an essential technique for enhancing communication in the work environment.

In the 2011 article “Helping Students Meet the Challenges of Academic Writing”, educators Linda Fernsten and Mary Reda offer innovative self-reflective writing exercises that post-secondary instructors can employ to help students improve writer self-image and academic writing. The authors’ rationale for reflective and practical writing strategies were developed from direct classroom experience, and are based on four (4) assumptions. Their claim that self-reflective writing can aid student writers in overcoming conflict (due to dominant culture, upbringing, former writing experiences, gender, and other marginalizing factors) to improve writer self-identity is plausible. However, their argument that cross-curriculum academic writing can be improved through self-directed, self-reflective writing requires further investigation.

When looking at each of the articles presented, there are defining factors that allow researchers to determine whether or not it is a scholarly or popular resource. Of the two articles, one can assert that the USA Today Article is a popular source and the article by Baker and Algorta (2016) is a scholarly source. Each of these sources has their advantages and disadvantages due to the stylistic devices employed by the writers. With the help of each article, knowledge of readers and viewers is expanded, and while there are some facets that detract from the quality of the knowledge gained, the readers benefits from the time spent reading.

A peer review is a process of subjecting research methods and findings to the study of others who are experts in the same field. The purpose is designed to prevent dissemination of irrelevant findings, unwarranted claims, unacceptable interpretations, and personal views. It relies on colleagues that review one another’s work and make an informed decision about whether it is legitimate, and adds to the large dialogue or findings in the field.

There is no way I can do a works cited for this assignment since you did not give me a book that these articles appear in. You requested four pages of writing for this assignment, which is what I gave you. The vocabulary in this paper is appropriate for a senior in college.

Along with Grantham’s marvelous simplicity, his particular ordering of events is very wise. The set order in which he describes his three factors of change actually becomes crucial to the progressive development of the entry-every key factor plays on the previous. Another way the reader digests the article, in regards to Grantham’s writing, is the way he writes in an appreciative tone that correlates the readers demeanor to his.

English 3010 is an intermediate course in reading, research and writing; it is designed to create, in Anne Beaufort’s words, a better “product.” Beaufort boldly claims that the current freshman writing courses make freshmen ill-prepared writers, incompetent and limited to one discourse community. i.e. bad “products.” However, English 3010 is a course for upper-level students, and the emphasis is on conducting research by drawing from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professions in preparation for Writing Intensive courses in the majors and beyond. In relation to the course learning outcomes, the works I have done have been majorly about Discourse, discourse communities, genres, writing expertise, research questions, and collection and analysis of qualitative data. Over the semester, I was tasked with completing several pieces of writing that would demonstrate my progress in understanding of the above mentioned topics. In order to achieve this understanding, I was to review literature from respected writing scholars, namely Beaufort, Bazerman, Gee, Johns, Swales and Merriam. The literature was used to create analytical texts. These texts were to demonstrate my understanding of the literature, as well as showcase progress in achieving ENG3010 course learning outcomes. These course learning outcomes are the following:

The objectives of this essay are to critique the authors’ credentials, compare and critique the articles, discuss amongst other things such as language, structure and style. Discuss my criticism about the article, which one is better and why and the impact of the article on practice.

Finally, the journal or periodical writing style is intended for a professional audience. The research information is factual with an accepted method of research technique. After careful review of this article, I have decided that this article is credible and supports my research topic. At this point, I have performed most of the work included in the preliminary stages of critical reading of research articles.

In general terms, there are two types of people in terms of scientific competence. To appeal to each type of person, there are similarly two types of scientific writing. For the well-educated scientist, there are scholarly scientific articles which follow a specific form and give immense amounts of information about a specific study executed by other scholars. These types of articles can be used as references in other scholarly articles, and can be used as the basis for the other type of scientific writing: popular science. The majority of people who are interested in scientific study would struggle to comprehend scholarly articles and would prefer not to take the time out of their day to

In this essay there are several things that I have analyzed in a rhetorical manner. I first analyzed the reliability, dependability, and credibility of the authors of the article as well as the journal itself. I then continued by analyzing the rhetorical situation of the journal. This will include my analyzation of the context it was written in, the intended audience, and purpose it was written for. After this I analyzed the main arguments and/or points made by the authors of this journal and the effectiveness of the evidence provided to support these arguments/points. I then analyzed the rhetorical appeals made by authors of this journal. I did this by first looking at the ethos of the journal which is the evidence the authors provide of their credibility. To further my analysis of the rhetorical appeals, I then analyzed the pathos -the emotional appeal- of the journal and the logos -logic/statistic- of the journal. Lastly, I discussed how effective this article was to me as a reader and concluded my findings.