Chelsea's Composition Blog

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....