Significant Writing Project – English 110J 2018

Overall, I chose to focus on my second paper due to it being the strongest work in my eyes. I believe I improved the most from the first paper with this essay, I attempted to add complexity along with depth. I didn’t write two completely different essays for my first and final drafts like my first essay, instead I focused on weak areas and improved. With this said, I believe I wrote like my professor intended for us to, at least better than my first essay, I had more prior knowledge due to my area of weaknesses before. This paper is stating what is necessary to be included in a science discourse by using Gee’s Building Task text, Nair and Nair, Haas and the IMRAD Cheat Sheet. My central claim was how inclusion in scientific discourse requires specific practices that allow for a deeper understanding. Practices such as the ability to establish connections, significance and relationships. I mentioned that “Without connections, similarities and differences couldn’t be made and members couldn’t notice the building of works in the field as well as establishing a stance or validity. Without significance, members couldn’t pick out what’s important to be efficient for their own work as well as see the value and impact on the community. And lastly, without relationships, members couldn’t inform the community about new knowledge efficiently.”