ethan spelde's List: Writing Textbook AB

Summary: reading strategies is basically summed up as how you read your paper or even others paper. Reading strategies is different ways to read and understand what message the writer is trying to get across.

How and why is this resource useful? This website give you different definitions on what reading and listening strategies and also different ways to read and evaluate your paper or others paper along with some helpful tips to go along with it.

How and why is this resource credible? This website is credible due to it incredible citations and where it was generated from

Citation: Jerry Plotnick, Director of the University College Writing Centre, (2009)

After reading this particular URL I found that it was very helpful when it comes to prewriting. It gives you various ways or techniques on how to get all your idea on paper in a legible format for when you begin to write your paper. The website also tells you what the definition of what prewriting is if you are unsure of the correct definition. As well as giving you different techniques as far as prewriting it give you some example on the different ways to do it. One of the techniques for getting you ideas out on paper is to do a cluster as they call it by making a spiders web with your topic in the middle and examples or supporting details branching off from it. As far as credibility towards this website I fell very comfortable because of it being citied from a collage level book from the University of Richmond Writing Center by a professor by the name of Dawson, Melanie, and Joe Essid .

Summary: Research strategies can be useful to the writer in more ways then one. One way in how its useful is, the better you prepare yourself in knowing your information you are writing it on the better your paper flows and the easier it make for editing and revising.

How and why is this resource useful? The site is useful in that it first tells you what researching is then it goes along explaining what was you can use to research your information.

How and why is this resource credible? This site is credible due to the amount of information it covers and also that it is from an .edu site as well.

Citation: 1999, 2000, 2002 Virginia Bower (Mars Hill College)

Summary: Drafting can be explain in many ways in that it is a more than one step process drafting starts at the beginning of the researching extravaganza in that the way you draft your outline down to the way you do your final draft all is roughly the same and the better you understand what it is the easier it will be to do and the better your paper will be in the end.

How and why is this resource useful? This site is useful in that it goes not only into what drafting is but it tells you where drafting is used and what are some thing to use to help you draft papers better so your paper is easier to revise for a phenomenal final draft.

How and why is this resource credible? This site is credible because it is another educational website.

Citation: Penn State University(2006)

Summary: peer review is kind of like editing as far as correcting your written piece. But peer review is just another over look at your paper before you finish it up to make sure there are no imperfections in it and that you didn’t miss something silly as far as a period or capital letter.

How and why is this resource useful? This site is useful in the sense that it gives you a great description of peer review and also along with giving you a description it goes into the pros and cons of peer review for the students and the teacher.

How and why is this resource credible? This site is credible once again in that it is another educational site.

Citation: 2009 University of Guelph Library

Summary: revising is not just reading it over fast while you have a little break. Revising is where you dig and pry at every little thing to smooth out all the rough spots as far as grammar, punctuation, spelling, correct tone, ect.

How and why is this resource useful? This site I found useful because it starts out and gives you a brief description on what revising is then goes into helping you almost revise a paper as far as asking you all the questions you ask yourself as you go threw the paper.

How and why is this resource credible? This sit is credible from the education its used for and where it is from which is a educational site.

Citation: last updated August 6, 2000

Summary: Editing strategies is basically deals with everything else that you need to look at as far as sentence structure spelling typos grammar and basically how your paper is set up and how it was written

How and why is this resource useful? It is useful in that it begins and tells you what editing is and then fallows it with what things to look at when you are editing.

How and why is this resource credible? This site is credible in the since that its from a educational website and used by colleges for there curriculum.

Citation: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Write Place

Summary: Proofreading is another very important part in having a good paper. Before you proofread take a second and have nothing on your mind so thing in the first revision that slipped your mind wont pass your mind this time

How and why is this resource useful? It is useful because it gives you definition, examples and some tips on how to proofread the paper better.

How and why is this resource credible? Its credible because it is a education site and also because its from a skills book

Citation: Fog City Fundamentals: A Proofreading Skills Book, SFSU English Department

Rhetorical Situations\n\nSummary: In reading the information found on this website I found that rhetorical situations is best described as features of audience, purpose, and exigency that create moments for a response. Basically in blatant terms it allows the reader to highlight or pull out the message the writer is trying to get across and why the writer wanted to make the statement in the first place or even who the author is or maybe the modality of the passage.\n\nHow and why resource useful? This site is useful in many ways. First is that it gives the reader a great definition of what rhetorical situations is. Secondly the passage also give some sort of examples for what the definition is like, as I said above where it may tell you a little bit about the author or, what the goal is or maybe just what makes the writer want to write the passage.\n\nHow and why is resource credible? The reason why I picked this website is not only because it had good information that I could use but it had great credibility on the site. The one major credibility is that it comes from an education website as you can tell the URL is .edu.\n\nCitation: \n* The Pennsylvania State University | Privacy and Legal Statements \nContact the Composition Program | Last modified Aug 13, 2008\n

Goal

Summary: This website isn’t really a big website with that much information on it but it covered what I needed it to cover. And what it covers it goal, for goal it gives you a little brief definition that goal is what the world looks like after an achievement.

How and why is this resource useful? This website like I said is short but covers goal very well in that with the definition it gives you examples on how it is used for instance one of the examples is they wanted to speak to people and recruit 300 students so what there goal was was to recruit 300 students. See it not only gives you a definition but it gives you examples to help you understand what goal is a little better.

How and why is this resource credible? I found this site was very credible in that it is another educational website and it has all the information one needs and doesn’t leave anything out.

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Summary: When I first read this website I didn’t think that it was that useful but then I really thought about it ad for as little of info it covers it all. This site basically gives you the definition of author and also some examples.
How and why is this resource useful? This site is useful because it tell the reader everything they need to know about author.
How and why is this resource credible? The reason I picked this cite was because its credibility is fairly decent and I have used this site many times in the past and have not had any problems with it. Also the major ne it that it a .org site which mean a educational site.
Citation: this website was last modified on 20 October 2009 by author unknown.

Summary: Exigency is described as what made the author want to write something, what motivated him as far as if it was something sad, beautiful, terrible, life change anything that impacted the writer into writing a novel poem note or whatever they wanted.
How and why is this resource useful? This is a very useful site in that in puts it in a form that shows you what each step actually is and it starts each section telling you what the definition for each one is ad along with that it refers it back to a example to show you exactly how it’s used.
How and why is this site credible? This site is credible by where it came from and also that its marked as a educational site
Citation: written in 2006 by New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commission's e-learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF)

Summary: audience can be broken down into three genres as far as primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary- is the group that the passage is meant for. Secondary is the group that might see it but not really meant for. Tertiary is the group that stumbles upon it on accident.
How and why is this resource useful? The site is useful in that it gives you the reader everything you need to know about what audience is and the different type as well. Also it refers to some examples.
How and why is this site credible? This site is credible on again for its educational background in that it url is .edu
Citation: the site was written by The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998-2007

Summary: context is what is making the person writing the passage write what he or she is writing as far as what made them speak out and write what they wrote. For example say a man and a woman both went out for lunch to a restraint they go to Farley often and they got bad customer service so when they left they decided to write and complain to the restraint to try to get some compensation for the poor service they received.

How and why is this resource useful? This website is useful in that it gives you a awesome definition of what context is along with good examples to further your information on the definition.

How and why is this resource credible? The website is creditable because it is a dictionary webpage that has all the definitions on that one page that you can choose from

Citation: Dictionary.com (2009)

Summary: Genre is basically a category that something falls into. For example music there is country, rock, pop, rap, hip hop, ect. Also in movies there is romantic, horror, comedy, ect.

How and why is this resource useful? This site is useful in that it give you a breakdown on genre in that it first tells you what it is then goes along telling you what kind of genres or categories it can be broken down into.

How and why is this resource credible? This website is as a PDF that came out of a classroom book that they use for teacher student in school what genre is and that’s how it is credible.

Citations: Knowledge books and software (2009)

Summary: Modality is best descried as basically what is the outcome from one thing that you do.

How and why is this resource useful? when reading this website I wasn’t sure if it was exactly the right one to use at first but furthering my reading I found out that it is really useful in that it not only describes to you what modality is but it gives you some example on how to identify modality and what to think of do identify it.

How and why is this source credible? This site is credible because it is another .edu site and it gives you everything you need to know.

Citations: Colin Rose (1987) from Accelerated Learning.