Week 4- The Five- Paragraph Format and It's Myths

As the five- paragraph formula sets a structure between ideas with the use of having an introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs to demonstrate analysis and a conclusion referring back to the thesis statement and acknowledging final statements. As this method has been used throughout many years upon my academic learning through middle school to highschool. I grew used to this format structure and find it helpful when constructing and organizing my thoughts and ideas to further my statements. I have used the inverted pyramid style or the triangle method, as a template to write essays to incorporate critical thinking and help me establish deeper connections to my personal life experiences. I find these templates fairly helpful because constructing an essay with a step by step process or rubric , makes my writing pieces stronger with the use of sufficient information, while still developing well thought ideas with outside references. Down below is a visual representaion of the inverted traingle/pyramid!

"In general, news stories are organized using the inverted pyramid style, in which information is presented in descending order of importance. This allows the audience to read the most crucial details quickly so they can decide whether to continue or stop reading the story"(Scanlan, 2003). This template was a helpful tool for me in my academic writing.

The paraburger compares to the five-paragraph formula with giving more detailed description upon each paragraph and how each paragraph should contain both the evidence and reasoning, prior to backing up your claim and making your argument stronger. As the template contains basic components, such as clarifying the claim in the first paragraph (Top Bun), giving reasoning (Condiments: Ketchup/ Mustard/Mayo), providing textual evidence or data to support the claim (Cheese/Lettuce/Tomato), explaining the example given (Meat Patty) and finally the conclusion paragraph that connects all body paragraphs to give a final disclosure (Bottom Bun). I believe that the five-paragraph formula is no longer a rhetorically effective choice for writing an academic essay for college-level courses because it limits a students ability to go beyond whats instructed. The students depend more on following a step by step rubric, then connecting their ideas and engaging with personal meaningful work.

As the five- paragraph formula sets a structure between ideas with the use of having an introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs to demonstrate analysis and a conclusion referring back to the thesis statement and acknowledging final statements. As this method has been used throughout many years upon my academic learning through middle school to highschool. I grew used to this format structure and find it helpful when constructing and organizing my thoughts and ideas to further my statements. I have used the inverted pyramid style or the triangle method, as a template to write essays to incorporate critical thinking and help me establish deeper connections to my personal life experiences. I find these templates fairly helpful because constructing an essay with a step by step process or rubric , makes my writing pieces stronger with the use of sufficient information, while still developing well thought ideas with outside references. Down below is a visual representaion of the inverted traingle/pyramid!Thank you for reading my blog and stay tuned for next weeks post!

Work cited

https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/stratcommwriting/chapter/inverted-pyramid-style/

Week 3- Metacognitive Reflection

Prior to completing multiple assignments over the course of week 3, the McGraw-Hill Connect has helped me in every aspects of developing a well written essay with its practice upon integrating sources within a writing piece. You might be asking, “Well what’s McGraw-Hill Connect and how is it helpful?”. It’s a practice session, that includes readings with information inorder to understand the topic and answer the questions provided. As many questions you understand and answer correctly, it gives you the ability to move forward and answer more different questions regarding that topic to be able to finish the concepts. If you don’t answer the questions correctly, you stay at the same level until you get an answer correct. Depending on how many questions you answer correctly within minutes, is the time you spend doing the assignment. But if you spend more time getting questions wrong, it slows the process of finishing.

From doing this practice session, I learned the accurate formats of citing sources upon in-text citations and a page that incorporates work cited in the style of MLA. This connects to the course objectives of giving accurate recognition upon someone’s ideas and work in any assignment that includes information that wasn’t constructed by you inorder not to plagiarize.

The highlighted parts show the use of in-text citations and the work cited at the end of the page in my recent Exploratory Draft #2 , as an indication of my learning.

This assignment demonstrates that I’m strengthening a key skill in my critical reading and writing skills with the concept of not plagiarizing and using sources to indicate my credibility upon my information/claims and showing that I’m a reliable writer to my audience. Learning this particular skill is important to my academic learning because it’s a technique that’s going to be used throughout my life within an academic setting, prior to moving on to WR 39C or in the case of work inquiries. As I want to become a detective in the future, requiring me to write memos and important documents among criminal actions/cases stating sources.

This is a significant visual representaion on how a citation is constructed in a MLA format.

This moment in learning provides me with more fundamental knowledge about the course objectives purpose to my future projects in this class and future work.The practice sessions on McGraw-Hill Connect, demonstrate that I’m becoming a member of a academicdiscourse community with the use of specific styles and formates of analyzing and constructing well written writing pieces within any genre and rhetorical figures. This particular learning is meaningful to becoming an academic writer because you want to be able to be a credible source of information while contributing others ideas in your work as reference. With mastering this skill, it’s important to my academic ethos for the following reason being that my audience can trust me as a credible writer based on the actions I take upon not plagiarizing and including citations.

Thank you for reading my blog and stay tuned for next weeks post!

Work Cited

https://www.bibliography.com/mla/mla-format-and-citations

Week 2- Metacognitive Reflection

Between the course of 2 weeks, the assignments assigned give a purpose and connection to future references, whether it’s for formulating projects or incorporating these techniques to a setting that doesn't just revolve around WR 37 but other scenarios. A particular activity that has given me the ability to strive for better understanding and good learning habits to making connections within my course objectives, would have to be the reading assignments that include annotations prior to using the metacognitive tool. You might be asking, well what’s metacognitive tools and how does that relate to the class readings? As each reading assignments have their own subject manner represented upon week discussions during class. Annotating these readings require adding explanations, questions and comments as you thoroughly go in depth with each section of the reading pieces, which is what the metacognitive strategies is all about.

From the reading assignments that require the use of metacognitive strategies (annotations), I’ve learned how to develop my critical thinking skills by interpreting information into my own words and expanding on the significance and purposes by the use of organizing my thoughts and making meaningful analysis. With the key concepts of evaluating, analyzing, understanding and reflecting by making self connections. Which refers back to the course objectives of being able to gain skill on critical readings to establish a well design writing process and understand the concepts approaching those practices related to genre and rhetoric figures for revision of essays, class discussions and organized thought processes. Down below is evidence prior to my learning.

This assignment demonstrates that I’m strengthening a key skill in my critical reading and writing skills because I’m taking more time in understanding what I’m actually reading by evaluating ideas throughout paragraphs to enhance a better comprehension by analyzing those ideas to make further connections.

Learning this skill is important to my overall learning because it justifies the concepts to what I use in my everyday life routine, by being able to construct papers with good structure. As for including in depth analysis and arguments which can be used to develop my Genre Analysis essay and Imitation project . My understanding about this skill provides better efficiency and confidence when writing my own essay or examining a critical reading.

This skill relies on the importance of my academic ethos because it’s not shown as a bais viewing but more of a trust between the reader and my response. It’s a way of building my credibility as a writer. This learning, demonstrates that I’m becoming a member of an academic discourse community, by knowing basic components and using those skills to better my progress.

Metacognition is referred as a cycle of different components that revolves around the awareness of one's own thought. The picture above shows a great overview of the elements I devoped prior to my practice with this strategy. Due to these elements, I'm able to analyze a reading in an accurate matter/structure.Between the course of 2 weeks, the assignments assigned give a purpose and connection to future references, whether it’s for formulating projects or incorporating these techniques to a setting that doesn't just revolve around WR 37 but other scenarios. A particular activity that has given me the ability to strive for better understanding and good learning habits to making connections within my course objectives, would have to be the reading assignments that include annotations prior to using the metacognitive tool. You might be asking, well what’s metacognitive tools and how does that relate to the class readings? As each reading assignments have their own subject manner represented upon week discussions during class. Annotating these readings require adding explanations, questions and comments as you thoroughly go in depth with each section of the reading pieces, which is what the metacognitive strategies is all about. Between the course of 2 weeks, the assignments assigned give a purpose and connection to future references, whether it’s for formulating projects or incorporating these techniques to a setting that doesn't just revolve around WR 37 but other scenarios. A particular activity that has given me the ability to strive for better understanding and good learning habits to making connections within my course objectives, would have to be the reading assignments that include annotations prior to using the metacognitive tool. You might be asking, well what’s metacognitive tools and how does that relate to the class readings? As each reading assignments have their own subject manner represented upon week discussions during class. Annotating these readings require adding explanations, questions and comments as you thoroughly go in depth with each section of the reading pieces, which is what the metacognitive strategies is all about.