{"id":82,"date":"2017-06-05T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T05:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/maguireenglish1a\/?p=82"},"modified":"2018-02-20T23:19:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T07:19:28","slug":"and-now-we-look-towards-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/maguireenglish1a\/2017\/06\/05\/and-now-we-look-towards-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now We Look Towards the Future&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who likes writing, just not in a school setting, the information that we&#8217;ve learned in CTW, both 1 and 2, is indispensable. I&#8217;ve found myself using some of the methods and examples in completely different classes, like Anthropology and Religion. Unlike other subjects, writing is a useful skill for any major.<\/p>\n<p>So, what have I learned? I&#8217;ll give you a list since you asked so nicely.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Picking sources that support your chosen topic.<\/li>\n<li>Using sources effectively.<\/li>\n<li>Actively reading works and understanding what role a sentence plays in supporting the argument.<\/li>\n<li>Translating works from different formats, such as from a research paper to a blog post.<\/li>\n<li>Using the archives effectively.<\/li>\n<li>Crafting topics based on what we found interesting in our research.<\/li>\n<li>Using databases effectively (thank you, Gail)<\/li>\n<li>Creating an annotated bibliography.<\/li>\n<li>Peer reviewing for the other person&#8217;s benefit and your own; (editing their paper and learning from what they&#8217;ve written)<\/li>\n<li>Using different modes of media to describe what we learned from our research.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This is obviously not all we have learned, but it does cover quite a bit. I&#8217;ve used the skills we learned in CTW 2 to create an annotated bibliography in my Anthropology class, I&#8217;ve used the reading techniques in Biology, and I&#8217;ve even used the archive skills outside of class out of curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>Blog posts are not necessarily hard, as my fifth-grade self can attest to, but they do take time and effort. You can talk as you want, but you still have to have a point to get across. You can have short posts, but there still has to be substance to the contents. Thankfully, I think I&#8217;m starting to understand<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I think I&#8217;m beginning to understand how to use these posts to reflect on my previous works and even learn from them. Who knows, maybe bloggers are on to something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who likes writing, just not in a school setting, the information that we&#8217;ve learned in CTW, both 1 and 2, is indispensable. 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