Three Things I've Learned
Based on “Guide to Literary Terms” and “Academic Writing: A Guide,” identify and explain three things you have learned during this exercise. Be specific. Give an example in separate paragraphs of no more than 50 words. Include a short quotation in each paragraph (and make sure to get the details right based on your handouts!). Bring a word processed copy to class on Wednesday, November 9.
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In our group work, we identify “Irony” the most important thing that we learned in the class of “Guide to Literary Terms” because in the previous English courses, our teachers mentioned to the “Irony”, but we did not have any exercise about it. “We choose Irony because,” Steven said, “it present the idea of a writer very powerful with its colorful words.” (62 Words)
In our group work “Using Quotation in Answer” and its rules were an important thing that we learned in the class based on “Academic writing: A Guide.” In writing quotation as a part of the answer supports the realty of the sentence for reader. “My idea as a writer,” Steven said, “ could not persuade a reader, but quotation can support my idea like an evidence.” (66 Words)
In the class based on “Academic Writing: A Guide” all my group work members are agree about the importance to learn of “How to Answer Question Well”. “This part of hand out,” Nancy said, “is very helpful for writing.” For example: I did not know how using of “present tense” is important for referring to a story. (57 Words)
The first thing I’ve learned is irony, especially the situational irony which is often used by authors to “expose hypocrisy and injustice.” In the story “Ghosts”, when Pascal is interrogated by the police officers, they are so cruel that Pascal can’t tell them from the gang members. It ironically indicates how corrupt the justice system is! (56 words)
The second one is round character, which is much more “complex” than flat one. Although round characters are not easy for readers to analyze, they “resemble real people.” Teacher Fei in the story “A Man Like Him” is a good example. Taking care of his mother carefully, he is a filial son; however, some dirty desires still exist in his mind. (61 words)
The page about “How to Answer Questions Well” is the most valuable materials I’ve got. I learned I have to “refer to any story in present tense.” Therefore, if I want to show the relationship between the angry girl and her father in the story “A Man Like Him”, I must write the sentence: she hates her father. (58 words)
I have to admit: to plagiarize or not is a very difficult decision because when it comes to plagiary, it can “give a failing grade," and "can be suspended,” but Brad told us to “imitate the famous writers,” I don’t get it. So, which one is it? -47 words.
In our group, we all agreed that “to understand the punctuations are harder than we thought.” Especially for me because I’ve learned them in many years, it’s still hard for me. When I have to use ending dashes and colons because they seemed so easy, but they’re so hard to use them —not that I know all of the punctuation. -60 words.
I will never get to combine the quotation in a right place and explain them correctly because whenever I write a piece, I assume that readers know what I’m writing about, and forgetting to “‘orient’ [my] readers,” and most importantly I leave the quotation alone, not explaining them well. No wonder I’m repeating English 12 again! -58 words.
First thing I learned is that a quotation adds more credibility to the story “A man like him”. By referring to the actual person makes it more factual in a sense. Teacher Fei’s mother exhibits strength in times of crisis by saying “The weak minded choose to hate.” (48 words)
Secondly, figurative language makes the sentences more visual and artistic. Edwin Danticat describes “Bel Air-the Baghdad of Haiti” because of chaotic people in the streets along with armed gangs. (30 words)
The last and most interesting aspect is “ Refer to any story in the present tense.” By doing this, we bring back the love story of “Romeo and Juliet “ fresh and active right in front of us. (39 words)
Noel M. Pedalizo
Student no. 51160
The first thing that I learned from “Academic Writing: A Guide” is the ellipsis, which is using three dots in the middle of a quote. Actually, I have seen ellipsis only in the movies when the subtitles come during the films. The reason we should not use ellipsis is to “make sure the person who has not read the story can understand the quotation you use.” Words - 62
The second thing I have learned is irony which I heard about, but didn’t know how to use in my writing. I had a chance to get a better understanding of irony in my group work. Like in the story “A Man Like Him” the author exposes the irony by having Teacher Fei say “indeed, he was a lucky man” because he didn’t get married. Word - 62
The last and interesting thing I learned is round characters are more complex compare to flat characters. Even though round characters are not easy for readers to analyze, still people are interested in them. Teacher Fei is a round character, and he was a filial son because he was taking good care of his mom. Words - 62
“How to Answer Questions Well” in, “Academic Writing: A Guide”, made clear to me when I answer a question to a story, my response should be written in “present tense” with “simple” and “concise” words. Clarity is essential because a reader should grasp the idea of the writer’s point of view. (51 words)
The “Guide to Literary Terms” helped me to understand a lot about literary terms. I never knew that the meaning of “theme” is the central idea in a story. I was surprised that the theme can be “communicate[d]” indirectly through conflicts and struggles of characters. (45 words)
Reading the “Reasons not to plagiarize”, in “Academic Writing: A Guide”, has taught me the serious consequence of cheating. In Pakistan we were allowed to copy the exact text from a source without a reference. Realizing that copying someone’s work “is considered [to be] dishonest,” was important to me.
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The first thing I have learned is “How to Answer Questions Well”. This is the most important and helpful advice. I learned and I understood how I used the “present tense” when referring to any story. For example” A Man Like Him”, the girl blamed her father publicly of being “unfaithful husband and bad father”.
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The second concept I learned is “Irony”. It is used by writer to expose hypocrisy and injustice. In the story “Ghosts”, Tiye told Pascal “ You wanted to know what it’s like for us . . . . . . . I just thought I’d give you a taste”. The “taste” was the police brutality and a corrupt justice system and of course the Tiye’s irony’s.
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The third one is “Using Quotations in Answers”. Quotation is a part of the answer. It just helps identify the exact words the author or the character used to express feelings, thoughts, etc. For example when William asks her the question, ”What are you looking at?” it informs the reader of the character’s personality.
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In “How to Answer Questions Well”, I discovered for myself the rule about avoiding “sentences beginning with “there” and “it”. I reread some of my paragraphs, and found that I overused these words, so I have to change my writing habit.
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Referring “to any story in the present tense” is other my stumbling block. I have known this rule from English 10, but I often forget it and use the past tense. I am afraid that I did the same mistake in the last unit test.
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The most difficult literary term for me is the Theme. My theme in a story has never matched the teacher’s. So in our group work, I picked up the question from “Guide to Literary Terms” about moral conflicts in a story for finding and understanding the theme in “A Man Like Him”.
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The first subject that I learned was, “Plot,” which I was weak on. Advices in “Guide to Literary Terms,” like, “List major structural units or list the personal qualities,” were very helpful, and now I understand how to find the plot of a story better. (45 words)
Moreover, some small details in “Guide A,” were really consternation. For example, “using question mark inside or outside the quotation to see if it’s part of original sentence or not,” was very interesting, and I never paid attention to use these signs correctly before. (44 words)
Finally, “Plagiary,” was another new subject that I learned from “Guide A”.
By using, “Quotation mark when you use words Written by another person,” I learned that how I can avoid plagiary. Now, I know the importance of using quotation to support my “Comment and explanation”. (46 words)
Dynamic character, "changing or growing personally," is what I have learned from the guide to literary terms. Pascal, the main character of Ghosts, is the typical dynamic character who is from a radio news writer with full career dream to a person affected by gang members. 46 words
Quotation is " the exact words", which has changed my thought. I use to quote the whole sentence as a quotation in my paragraph writing. Now I know I need a phrase to lead my reader to my quotation and a quotation is only " part of sentences." 46 words
The practice of writing quotations in class helped me to understand a quotation needs to be "fully explained." The sentence written by our group, Pascal is shocked by her mother's "the disdain for those she served," does not explained the point of attitude towards those gang members. 47 words
One of the main things I learned during this exercise was theme. Theme is interesting because it draws the reader into the writing “because it gives works meaning.” Another integral facet of theme is the writers ability to let the reader seek their own thematic conclusion, thus making each experience, unique and personal . (53 words)
Another thing I learned in this exercise were the rules for the use of quotations. I was taken aback that the delivery of the quote is just as important as the actual quote. For instance, the suggestion to “orient your reader”, was extremely helpful as I have a tendency to veer off course when writing. (55 words)
Finally, the section on “How to Answer Questions Well”, was also very insightful. I enjoyed the first suggestion of “read and understand the question before you answer.” This has been a recurring issue for me, and it reminds me to be patient and to answer only what is being asked. (50 words)
When I was reading “Guide to Literary Terms”, I’ve learned the ways the author relive their characters. In the story “A Man Like Him”, we can see one of the examples when the author describes the girl with “short, unruly hair” (unruly means something negative) helping us to get a hint about what kind of girl is she.
Sometimes the description of the place is very important to understand the story. In the story “Ghost” the place is described as “Bel Air- the Baghdad” which almost immediately creates a picture of a corrupted and “brutal” place with bunch of flaw characters.
What I found in “How to Answer Question Well” is that “logical order” is very important when we answer questions. My group agree that if we follow this rule “we are not likely to be lost in our explanation”- our answer will be clear and understandable.
I learned that there is a classification of characters in two categories: round and flat. The round character (“complex” and “difficult to explain in a single description”) in “A Man Like Him” story is Teacher Fei; he is so “complex” that most of the students didn’t understand him. In the same story a flat character is “proprietress of the diner” who "studied the few occupied tables.”
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Also, I learned what questions have to be answered to better understand a theme. Therefore, for the story “A Man Like Him”, we can ask:” Do the characters want to escape society, are they trapped by it?” It is obvious that Teacher Fay and the girl’s father are both trapped by the society and they sacrifice “their dignity and values.”
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Referring to the story always in present tense is the rule which I have to memorize. One example of writing in present tense for the story “A Man Like Him” is sentence:“Teacher Fay is resentful towards the girl, because he beliefs that the girl’s father is innocent.”
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One of the many things that I have learnt based on “guide to literary terms” and “Academic writing was to use direct and indirect presentation. In indirect presentation one must show but not tell. For example, I may describe a person by using imagery like, her lips is as red as a rose and her pretty black hair, being blown by the wind in the brightest of days. I described the girl in a way in which I am showing and not telling, like her lips was red with black hair. When using indirect presentation, it is not a surprise that a figurative language was being used. -107
When I was in my group, we were assigned a topic. We learnt that plagiarizing and quotation are related. The reason my group and I think so, was because when copying a persons phrase, word, sentence, etc. we must use quotations, so that the readers knows it was not in the writers own words, but was in fact in someone else’s writing. An example would be when I copy the sentence of page 3 in the Guide to Literary Terms the sentence, “multiple traits so such characters resemble real people.” Notice I have used quotation to indentify the parts I have copied from the author.-105
Lastly, I learnt that, without plot the story would be confusing and hard to understand. Like if the story was to start with a conclusion. No one would be able to understand unless the problem was being discussed in the story. And If the story was structure well enough to understand. -51
From “Guide to Literary Terms,” I learned “theme” is the most important thing. “Theme is the central idea.”(pg.6) For instance, by reading “Ghosts,” we can all take away a message of the story and reflect on it to our own life. It is nearly impossible to tell a story without one’s view of the subject.
I have learned “quotation” is important from “Academic Writing: A Guide.” It’s used “to point out a striking or interesting piece of information.” (pg 2) For example in “Ghosts” Tiye, says “You’re chilling in all this ice while we’re in Hell.” This quote evokes interesting image in my mind. He said it in a very unique way which got my attention.
I also learned from ““Guide to Literary Terms,” the importance of “setting.” It’s “the time in which the action takes place.”(pg 4) Setting helps reader’s to relate with a story based on environment of the story. For instance, in “Ghosts” the author describes the setting as “destitute and brutal neighborhood.” This setting helps me understand the story.
The information that I’ve learned from “Guide to Literary Terms” with my group was “Irony.” The reason is because we didn’t know “Attitudinal Irony.” However, we discovered that attitudinal irony occurs when character thinks differently then what reality can offer. For example, “A student who arrives late for a Provincial Exam expects to get a time extension.” -57 words
Also, from “Academic Writing: A Guide” I’ve learned that “Quotation” play an important role. This can support detailed information for example, in the story of “A Man Like Him’’ she said that “My father is less a creature than a pig or a dog because he is an adulterer.”
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Lastly, I’ve always learned in my previous English classes not to “plagiarize.” Because it’s wrong to copy someone else’s work and get credit for it while, without "No reference is given." As a result, it better to use quotation and put source to make sure the information provider get the credit. -51 words
In the “Guide to Literary Terms” package, Me and my group discussed what was the most important term. I learned that “plot” was the most important, because a story without a plot would be boring and basically just rambling. As the writer, the interest of the readers is what’s important.
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I also learned that “plot” alone isn’t the most important, a good plot goes in tandem with a good “theme”. The theme is also important because without a theme, a story has no meaning, value or point. Like for example, cartoons; completely pointless, just there to entertain you.
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In the “Academic Writing: A Guide” package discussion on the other hand I thought, what if a person wrote a phrase or a sentence that meant something significant and innocently thought it was his own, but is completely oblivious that he was committing plagiary. Would he still be guilty?
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Properly responses to questions heavily rely on readers’ comprehension. “Knowing exactly”, “Analysis answers”, and “be simple” are mentioned in the guide. They’re essential, but not always easy. Well understanding and logical thinking are time-consuming indeed, but are definitely worth it. The self-training process rewards hugely on the mark sometimes, with a bit of inspiration. – 54 words
Although agreed with the majority of my class, I found myself not satisfied with just finding themes. Critical readers would reach beyond to writer’s point of view. Revealing which character the author “disappears into” or he/she “come between reader and story” makes sense of the reading, it also leads to a more interesting discussion. – 54 words
I like irony; wondering who doesn’t? Look at the definition then you know why: “a contrast between appearance and reality.” – just like what life keeps throwing to us. In terms of reading and writing, it needs broad observation, throughout thinking, and accumulated experience. I reluctantly admit it’s easier to the older me now— ironic, sadly. – 55 words
In the “Guide to literary terms”, I learned that in direct presentation, the author “tells” the reader, but in indirect presentation “the author ‘shows’ us rather than tells us.” For example, an author could tell us, “the child was happy”, or she could “show” us by using words such as smiled, laughed and skipped.
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Also, in the “Guide” I discovered the impact between an understatement (minimizing the details) and an overstatement (over exaggeration). For example, an understatement might be “please don’t leave me” and an overstatement is “if you leave me I will die.” It is up to the author to decide how much influence he wants to exert on his reader.
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In “Academic Writing: A Guide,” plagiarism is “the ideas and/or words of another person” that you claim as your own. I did not realize that plagiarism is a change of only some words without acknowledging the reference. What I have learned is the importance not to take credit for someone else’s words or ideas.
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“Guide to Literary Terms” is useful with practical examples that help anyone to improve clear and fine writing. The discussion in class clarified differences between Plot and Theme. “Theme is the central idea”, the most important issue in any writing, that develops the human states. Meanwhile, plot supports and enhances themes.
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Studying “Academic Writing: A Guide” gives relevant tools to enhanced capital writings. Quotations are essential in writings. A short phrase “lets the reader know” and corroborates the author ideas. Quotations also increase all parts of the writings such as characters, conflicts, settings or figurative language. Although, quotations used incorrectly become enemies.
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“Academic Writing: A Guide” contains helpful list “to answer questions well”. All the fifteen tips are valuable, but “follow logical order”, the “why” for every answer and “quote accurately” are the most effective for precise writings. Definitely, these guidelines not only improve academic writings, but also in general any writing.
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Without knowing about the theme or the concept of a writing there is less one can understand about that work. As it is mentioned in the guide, “ theme is attractive because it gives work meaning,” without a clear and strong meaning a literature work would have less value.
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One more important point that I learned while studying “ Guide to Literary Terms” was that though one or two of those terms are seemingly more important, but in general you can not ignore none them if you want to present a good work. They are all like ingredients that are making each other complete.
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Plagiarism is unacceptable. How you can take pride on something that is not yours, and worst that you have stolen it? As it is mentioned in the note “plagiary is considered dishonest,” how a person who like to portray himself as an intellectual can achieve that by dishonesty? Unacceptable! For me plagiarism is more than just dishonesty.
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A guide to Literary terms and Academic writing.
Characters:
For me characters play a significant role because they help shape the story. I leaned how characters can be presented and how to identify them when I’m reading. In a man like him, Yiyun Li uses an indirect method to reveal the girl: “she “had short, unruly hair and wide-set eyes.
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Plot:
I learned how to produce a story that contains both internal and external conflicts. In Ghost, The external conflicts in this story are focused around the hard survival situation that Pascal had to face. For example when Tiye (the head of Baz Benin) was first arrested he named Pascal as the mastermind of the operation killing the night guard”.
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How to Answer Questions well from the “Academic writing guide” was helpful. #4 Follow logical order is a great reminder, because I find it easier to share my opinions or thoughts, but at the same time I need to support my ideas. Sometimes I drift off and my answers end up being a summary which I need to avoid.
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After reading “Guide to Literary Terms” and discussing it with my group, I have learned that theme is the most important literary device. “Theme is what a work says about a subject “because if the writer doesn’t give us a lesson or teach us, then there is no point in reading the story. (53 word)
“Academic Writing: A Guide”, helped me to understand how to use a quotation properly. Always ask a question such as,” why?” This is important because rather than only putting your ideas down you need be able to integrate the quotation correctly. (41 words)
If the teacher catches a student plagiarising, then the teachers will “expel students from university or college”. I have never known that plagiarism is such a big issue. The best advice that I have learned is to read the text and gain knowledge there after close the text and be able to rewrite it in my own words. (58 words)
Academic Writing
1.Quotations- Through the two days of work I learnt that a inserting a quotation is not easy it seems, there are rules that have to be followed. Especially that a quote should only be twenty percent of our writing.-48 words
2.Ellipsis- Often when I write quotations, if I think the quote is too long I use ellipsis. But after reading Academic Writing I learnt I can use this because it confuses the reader. I read an article once “always write an essay that the reader can understand without reading the book.”-51 words
3.Plot- After reading Guide to Literary Terms, I got to learn that plot is main element to a story. I realized theme is the main idea to the story but the plot consists of series of events, climax, falling action etc. “ A plot exactly tells us what happens in a story”-55 words
1. Ellipsis – I have never heard of the word “Ellipsis” before we learned the literately terms. Though I did not know what “….” Was called by name, but I have seen it in many articles and writings. I personally think that there is nothing wrong with using it, but for many readers this may cause certain confusions in quotations or in a sentence. Over all, it is best not to use ellipsis when writing.(77 words)
2. Quotation – In two days that we learned about the literal terms, quotation, I thought was one of the best ways to create an image into the readers mind. It sounds different; it keeps the story or interesting to the reader. In the story “A man like him” The teacher Fuis Mother said “The weak minded choose to hate”. This line was one of the strongest lines that caught my attention. (65 words)
3. Theme – A story without a theme is like food with no taste. The story needs a “point” or else it would not make sense. Theme is the message a writer is trying to get across. Theme can also be a “lesson” that a story is trying to convey to the audience.(50 words)
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