Improvising Academic Essays as a Class
In English class today, we took some documents and went through them as we corrected their mistakes. First off, he reminded us that all students must have shared their e-portfolio with Mr.Paterson so that he can comment and edit it. Not giving him or group members editing rights, could be misunderstood that we don't need their help. In addition, he said that an essay without resources is not an academic essay. It would become like a blog post, which is writing straight off of your head. As we looked through more academic essays, we came across the mistake of using personal pronouns in our paragraphs. Saying "I think" makes your statement weaker, because the point of this writing is to argue what your research shows, not your opinions. We should avoid words like 'you' as well, and we can eliminate them by replacing it with phrases like "people". When we looked at my e-portfolio, he commented that I had contractions in my academic essay. Instead of using w...