Chelsea's Composition Blog

I will be the first to admit that blogging was most definitely not something I had done before. I mean to be completely honest I never even saw it as something I would have even attempted. Although I will have to say that I am glad this class required me to do it. Blogging is something that has helped me in ways I never expected. It did help me with learning some of the do’s and don'ts with writing but the biggest aspect of it was learning that writing is not a one-way street or one-sided discussion. It is a two-sided conversation between the writer and reader. Writing goes far beyond just slapping some words on a piece of paper or typing some words with no meaning. Using the blogging platform to produce our own postings and then reading others to comment back helped me realize that. Not only did it help me realize that, but it also helped me gain more confidence with writing while helping me break out of my confined anxiety shell I tend to keep myself in. After seeing where my fel...

Original Post:  Hello to you all! My name is Chelsea Evans. I'm 26 years old. Next month I will have been married for 5 years to my husband. I work at a local eye doctor office in my hometown as the office manager for about 6 1/2 years now. I am starting my first semester of college with this class on my journey to becoming a R.N. in the future. I would describe myself as a sincere, thoughtful, and very adventurous person. I enjoy traveling to new places with my family. One of my favorite places to go would be Universal Studios in Orlando. I currently have a trip countdown going for another trip to Universal Studios in the next few weeks! Traveling to new places and meeting new people gives me something to look forward to and forever memories! I look forward to reading all of your Intro's and all of the knowledge to learning to write in this English Composition class we will gain. So here's to the start of our semester together! Revised Post: Hello my fellow classmates! My ...

Although peer reviews have advantages and disadvantages, in my opinion the good outweighs the bad. While peer reviews may give you fear of other writers' judgment. That fear can also be used to push yourself to apply your all and to not procrastinate when it comes to your deadlines for writing assignments. If you know that you have a peer review coming, then you're going to want to make sure you at least attempted the assignment. Afterall, can a peer review be done if you give them nothing to review? Would you rather look like a slacker with nothing? For myself that answer would be no. I rather give my peer a written rough draft to actually provide me some useful feedback. You just have to remember that your first draft is never your final draft. Peer reviews are a useful tool in writing for both the writers and readers. The point of a peer review is meant to help you, not hurt you. Learn to accept that feedback and embrace it.  

In reading Josh Bernoff's post the following quote really stuck out to me "If you’re writing something that has to fit in a box, forget the box. Think about the reader. What does she want to know? What would thrill her and get her thinking? What research would it take to convince her? Concentrate on that. If you’ve got something interesting to say, you can probably figure out a way to fit it in the box. But you won’t write something brilliant if you worry about the box, rather than the goodies inside." This really is some good advice that I could have used when writing my Doc 2 and any of my writing for that matter. When assigned a writing assignment and you get that standardized format you must adhere to, I tend to focus on making sure I have that as I go along. If I focused more on gathering useful information and using the outline method, I could help my writing process with valuable researched information. In Lynch's essay it is said "Third of all—damn . . . ...

We see in the article Navigating Genres by Kerry Dirk the statement of "Let’s consider a genre with which you are surely familiar: the thesis statement." So, to start let us identify if there even is a thesis statement of the professional blog article post. If so, what is the thesis statement? We in the blog post by Sarah Cruzan "It would be nearly impossible to write about the many things I do during my 12-hour shift, but I will try to describe a typical day as a postpartum nurse:" Clearly the blog post does have a thesis statement. It explicitly states that she will be describing a typical day as a postpartum nurse. We also see in the article from Dirk "When approaching a genre for the first time, you likely view it as more than a simple form: “Picking up a text, readers not only classify it and expect a certain form, but also make assumptions about the text’s purposes, its subject matter, its writer, and its expected reader” (Devitt, Writing 12). With the bl...

Title:  A Day in the Life of a Postpartum Nurse Thesis: "It would be nearly impossible to write about the many things I do during my 12-hour shift, but I will try to describe a typical day as a postpartum nurse:" I. Introduction      A. "My name is Sarah and I have been a postpartum nurse for about a year."      B. "We take care of a variety of postpartum patients and babies on our unit, and see gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, small- and large-for-gestational-age babies, late pre-term babies, etc."     C. "I work three 12-hour shifts per week, and I am currently working night shift."     D. "Typically, I have three to four couplets each night, all needing vital signs, assessments, medications, 24-hour newborn screenings and much more. I am lucky enough to work at a baby-friendly hospital where we encourage breastfeeding, so I spend about 30% of my time as a postpartum nurse educating and assisting my patients with breastfeeding....