Google Search Affected Engl 301 University Of De

Using the following attachments as guides for input, come up with two personal responses to the following discussion question

(that is the first two parts)

Here is the discussion question:

For today, you’ve read about grammar, usage, and mechanics in writing. Most people think that these are the only elements to tell if writing is good or not. As you will about more read tomorrow, the rules that we follow are often made up, not necessary, or up for debate. When we teach writing we say that grading for grammar only is easy…if you look for mistakes, you’ll find them. And when you only comment on grammar, you miss what the writer is trying to say (the more important part).

Let’s discuss here what YOU think. Has grammar rules impeded your writing? Do you agree with the chapters that you read? Remember, you can refer to the text from this week, from last, or from any of the work we’ve done thus far.

Next, respond to the following posts using the person’s name like Hello, _______

Colton’s Post

Grammar has gotten in the way of my writing before. Mostly as a way to throw me out of my rhythm. Writing for me works in a very sequence heavy manner, whereas I am writing the current sentence, I am already planning on what the next sentence will be/look like. This means that when I have to pause to google search “Affected VS Effected”, I completely lose track of both what I was typing and was going to type. Had I listened to the advice from out pieces this week, I would have decided to just let the draft be messy and unrefined and kept my rhythm going. Admittedly, I have actually heard that advice before today. I find that, as someone who attempts it regularly, it works about 70% of the time. The 30% where it doesn’t work is because I stress out too much about a final draft having that mistake and me not realizing it before I turn it in. Getting a paper back and having the mistake on it I thought about fixing but didn’t circled and getting points deducted for it is heartbreaking. So, the balance I find myself at now is to not stop for minor concerns. But for questions that are longer and will take greater research to solve, I will leave a large [FIX LATER] next to it. This keeps the rhythm going while also keeps me from missing that mistake.

Gregory’s post:

I definitely agree with the chapters that we just read. In the first reading about the ‘rules’ of writing, I related a lot to the example they gave of not fitting everything into a five-paragraph theme. This writing rule, that is drilled into the minds of children in the U.S. K-12 system, is part of the reason I struggled so much in my transition to college writing. Anushka and I explained in a previous discussion post how some of these practices and rules actively prevented us from growing as writers. We are not taught the exceptions to the rules, or told that it will depend on what we are specifically writing. I also really liked the TED talk about linguistics and grammar. I understand that I grew up on an American education, but I would have loved to learn some of the differences in sentence structure from different languages before college. I took multiple years of French which I enjoyed, but we focused more on vocabulary and practicing speech than actually analyzing sentence structure. I had never heard of either of them before watching the video, but I would love to learn more about the debate between prescriptivism and descriptivism. At first, I thought descriptivism sounded much better, but the example of how non-native speakers of a language benefit from consistent and standard rules (prescriptivism) really got me thinking about which one benefits the most people.

Felix’s post:

Good writing is developed through skill one develops in the course of daily practice. Grammar is essential in orderly arrangement of words where you would know in a sentence which order to follow to make a good sentence. However, such order as I now know is not the case in other countries and their languages. Good writing is meant to afford good communication. If most young writers are tied down by rules of writing, this will hinder or discourage their ability to follow good writing skills. Before I started taking this course, I did not know that writing in passive voice is not encouraged in writing although not discarded. It was a surprise but after seeing the reason behind this discouragement, indeed I realized that passive voice hides the identity of the first person speaker or doer of an action. In this case I agree that using direct active voice is writing is the right way to go. Another important point I now know is that good writing is an evolving repertoire meaning that it should be what is in the mind and not from what the bureaucratic need. In short good writing is discovery expedition and should be allowed to work freely but not going outside of the confines of clear grammatical communication.

So two personal discussion posts that are at least 150 words, and then three reactions (one for each post)