I found Chapter 7 to be helpful because it breaks down many complex parts of a research paper and simplifies it. The sections on citations is useful for me as well as knowing when it is most appropriate to quote from a source you are using. I liked that one specific part of the reading mentioned that paraphrasing is a way to inform your audience in a way that they can understand. This is important especially with technical and complex topics that people choose to research. Paraphrasing is a way to cater to the audience's limited knowledge of certain topics. Additionally, the reading defined both paraphrasing and summarizing, and I realized that I hadn't thought of those two terms as having different meanings. The MLA citations part of the chapter is something I will reference when writing my first draft as well.
Throughout chapter 1 of “The Bedford Book of Genres,” I learned that there are a variety of ways to improve one’s writing. Several writers tend to get carried away while writing that they forget who their audience is and what message they are trying to deliver. This is when one must ask themselves what their purpose of writing is, do they want to present a narrative/ tell a story, inform, or persuade. After figuring out ones purpose they must choose a genre to be able to shorten their idea and be concise. In order for this to occur one must know the basic qualities and agreed-upon rules about the genre they are composing. Once one makes those decisions they move on to the rhetorical situation which mainly explains the idea. This allows the writer to provide support on their purpose such as saying what is great about it or provide statistics, which will automatically make their writing more interesting for the audience to read, as well as, get t...
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