Answer to Question #270198 in English for joaan

Question

Writing college-level assignments can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. This week, let’s have a discussion on writing strategies. For this assignment, write at least 250 words - but not more than 500 words - answering the following:

1. Imagine that you have been asked to speak to your classmates and share your most helpful strategy for college-level writing. What would that strategy be?
2. When you write, what is the difference between writing a paper and writing a discussion post? How does the writing process differ for these two types of assignments? Furthermore, what is the difference between writing an initial discussion post and a response to one of your classmates?

Your Discussion should be at least 250 words in length, but not more than 500 words.

Answer 1

I support that most writing tasks will ask you to address a particular topic or a narrow set of topic options. Even with the topic identified, however, it can sometimes be difficult to determine what aspects of the writing will be most important when it comes to grading. I believe that putting the assignment in context is a key strategy in writing. For example, a social science instructor may ask you to write about a controversial issue three times: first, arguing for one side of the debate; second, arguing for another; and finally, from a more comprehensive and nuanced perspective, incorporating text produced in the first two assignments. A sequence like that is designed to help you think through a complex issue. If the assignment isn’t part of a sequence, think about where it falls in the span of the course, and how it relates to readings and other assignments. For example, if you see that a paper comes at the end of a three-week unit on the role of the Internet in organizational behavior, then your professor likely wants you to synthesize that material in your own way. Furthermore, one needs to identify if they are writing an academic paper or a discussion since the former has a specified format and uses past tense, where the latter has no defined format and incorporates present tense.