1. So I definitely learned that the 5 paragraph essay isn't going to work here in college, which kind of sucks because that's all I've been taught for the last 12 years of my life but oh well. Overall I've learned to be a better academic writer, as in I know how to support the ideas I have in a way that will actually be useful to both me and the reader. I’ve what the difference between a claim and evidence is, which I never even knew there was a difference.
2. I would love to learn more about theses, because my mind was BLOWN today. My prior thoughts about theses were kind of shattered, but then again I really haven’t had to do a lot of academic writing of the caliber expected of me here at Western. Also I’m kind of still having trouble with claims and how to pick them out of a sentence or paragraph. This might just because I was absent from class the day that claims were gone over.
3. I think my current problem with my writing is connecting my ideas with each other. I can do it in my head but when I try to write them they just don’t come out right. I would also like to learn how to wrap everything up at the end. In a 5 paragraph essay you just restate your thesis, but are professors expecting something a little different than that. Finally I would like to learn how to pick a quote, if there is a certain method to it or if you just go “oh this sounds smart so I’m going to use it”. Are some quotes better than others?
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