“Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name)” PDF

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During the first weeks of class, we began discussing how to approach the writing process. Brent Staples’ essay “Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name)” addresses issues with plagiarism, originality and critical thinking in student writing.

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Topic: Goals for writing during college career. Thesis: Body Paragraph 1 Topic Sentence: Past experiences/individuals who impacted writing relationship 

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Detail 1: Ms. Boote helping me improve my writing by helping me build confidence and develop my creative thinking abilities by working on my own problems and analyzing different writing styles. It also helped me develop narrative and storytelling techniques. Detail 2: My 11th grade English teacher, Mrs. Friedlander, made us constantly write essays. This wasn’t because she wanted to keep us busy, it was simply because she saw we all have potential but just need guidance.

Body Paragraph 2 Topic Sentence: Personal relationship with writing 

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Detail 1: I’ve always had a good relationship with writing. It stems from my love of reading at an early age. I continuously read throughout elementary school, which benefited me in many ways. Detail 2: Reading helped my writing because it opened my imagination and boosted my creativity.

Body Paragraph 3 Topic Sentence: Writing Goals (how to critique my own writing without being overly critical) 

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Detail 1: Editing, proofreading, and peer review isn’t the same as self-critiquing. Selfcritiquing can help me find and fix errors, such as redundant or repetitive words, off-topic details, and many more things that can affect the quality of my writing. Detail 2: Growing up, and still to this day, I have a hard time sharing my work with others because of the constant fear of criticism and rejection. This is why I become so overly critical when trying to edit my writing; If I don’t think it’s absolutely perfect, I convince myself that it’s garbage and I tend to start over.

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Naomi Sterling Mrs. Kuttner Fundamentals of Writing 09/04/2020

Ms. Boote, my creative writing teacher, helped me improve my writing by helping me build confidence and develop my creative thinking abilities by working on my problems and analyzing different writing styles. It also helped me develop narrative and storytelling techniques. My 11 grade English teacher, Mrs. Friedlander, made us constantly write essays. This wasn’t because she wanted to keep us busy, it was simply because she saw we all have potential but just need guidance. It is important to be able to organize and articulate your thoughts clearly. She taught us how to find the right words to express our thoughts coherently and how to analyze what we’ve read and understood the main point. Her class helped me develop critical thinking skills and taught me the importance of writing daily. th

I’ve always had a good relationship with writing. It stems from my love of reading at an early age. I continuously read throughout elementary school, which benefited me in many ways. Besides helping me gain knowledge, reading helped me build my vocabulary and learn how to understand and analyze information. Reading coincides with writing because it exposes the reader to other genres of writing and different writing styles. It also helped me make a connection with my own emotions and experiences, which in turn helped me become a better communicator. Reading helped my writing because it opened my imagination and boosted my creativity. I started writing short stories throughout middle school and continuously edited and compared my old work with my new work. Writing all the time helped me improve my writing skills and introduced me to the many important factors of writing. The more I wrote, the more I learned, which will continue to make me a better writer. Editing, proofreading, and peer review aren’t the same as self-critiquing. Self-critiquing can help me find and fix errors, such as redundant or repetitive words, off-topic details, and many more things that can affect the quality of my writing. Even though self-critiquing is supposed to be viewed as an opportunity to improve your writing, it’s important to not focus on failures and issues. As a perfectionist, this is one of my biggest problems, which is why my main writing goal is to learn how to self-critique without being overly critical and second-guessing myself. Growing up, and still to this day, I have a hard time sharing my work with others because of the constant fear of criticism and rejection. This is why I become so overly critical when trying to edit my writing; If I don’t think it’s perfect, I convince myself that it’s garbage and I tend to start over. In the end, this becomes a prominent issue for me because it makes me more self-conscious about sharing my work. I’m realizing that it’s important for me to acknowledge the positive things about my writing just as it’s important to identify the flaws. I have to have an understanding of what I’m capable of and learn how to not convince myself my writing is terrible....