Structured paragraph writing (Irusta-Miranda)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cnc2BQm6U0PW1n9D37-oSp9OpmNYC94ol1-i8PhF8uQ/edit?usp=sharing

The danger of a single story

Each time a story is read or written there is a dangerous risk people are exposed to. On the one hand reading and writing are processes that indeed open people´s minds, stimulate their imagination and transport them to explore situations unseen by eyes. Nevertheless most people are not aware of the hidden aspects about them.  The moment a story is created power conditions it to become a “single one”. Single stories show only one perspective of the matter in concern. They are able to embody people as one thing and only one, over and over again. Subsequently stereotypes become representative of a whole society, which might not present untrue information about them but incomplete. Thus this partial view makes our human recognition more difficult to obtain, emphasizing our differences rather than our similarities. In order to equilibrate visions, readers and writers should be aware of the existence of many stories, reaffirming there is never a single one. Therefore if we can picture in our minds stories variety of societies, places or even humans, we will definitely gain a kind of paradise. 
                                                                                                        Chimamanda Adichie

Adichie, C. (2012). About the author. [ONLINE] Retrieved from: http://www.halfofayellowsun.com/content.php?page=book&n=2&f=2. [Last Accessed 05/22/13]

One single story

Across the lines, Tracy Chapman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YQeNIppTYw

Sources APA citation style

Sources: APA citation style

     Prepared by Cornell University Library PSEC Documentation Committee. November 2002; Revised April 2011. Citation Management. (2013, May 16)

http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa

      http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/APA07.html (inc bibliografy)

APA CITATION STYLE

APA Citation Style

Academic writing is presented in a clear and consistent way in order to ensure and achieve reliability to the audience.  APA citation style refers to the rules and conventions established by the American Psychological Association for documenting sources used in research papers which require both in-text citations and a reference list. For every in-text citation there should be a full citation in the reference list and vice versa. Within this blog you will find different formats of the most common types of sources used in academic research.

Books

Important Elements:

·         Author (last name, initials only for first & middle names)

·         Publication date

·         Title (in italics; capitalize only the first word of title and subtitle, and proper nouns)

·         Place of publication

·         Publisher

·          

Source	Example Citation
Book by a single author	Rollin, B. E. (2006). Science and ethics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Book by two authors	Sherman, C., & Price, G. (2001). The invisible web: Uncovering information sources search engines can’t see. Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books.
Book by three or more authors	Goodpaster, K. E., Nash, L. L., & de Bettignies, H. (2006). Business ethics: Policies and persons (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Book by a corporate author	American Medical Association. (2004). American Medical Association family medical guide (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Article or chapter within an edited book	Winne, P. H. (2001). Self-regulated learning viewed from models of information processing. In B.J. Zimmerman & D.H. Schunk (Eds.), Self-regulated learning and academic achievement (2nd ed., pp. 160-192). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Articles from Print Periodicals (magazines, journals, and newspapers)

Important Elements:

·         Author (last name, initials only for first & middle names)

·         Date of publication of article (year and month for monthly publications; year, month and day for daily or weekly publications)

·         Title of article (capitalize only the first word of title and subtitle, and proper nouns)

·         Title of publication in italics (i.e., Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Newsweek, New York Times)

·         Volume and issue number

·         Page numbers of article

·          

Source	Example Citation
Article in a monthly magazine (include volume # if given)	Swedin, E. G.  (2006, May/June). Designing babies: A eugenics race with China? The Futurist, 40, 18-21.
Article in a weekly magazine (include volume # if given)	Will, G. F. (2004, July 5). Waging war on Wal-Mart. Newsweek, 144, 64.
Article in a daily newspaper	Dougherty, R. (2006, January 11). Jury convicts man in drunk driving death. Centre Daily Times, p. 1A. Rimer, S. (2003, September 3). A campus fad that’s being copied: Internet plagiarism seems on the rise. New York Times, p. B7.
Article in a scholarly journal	Stock, C. D., & Fisher, P. A. (2006). Language delays among foster children: Implications for policy and practice. Child Welfare, 85(3), 445-462.

 

Web Sites

Important Elements:

·         Author (if known)

·         Date of publication, copyright date, or date of last update

·         Title of Web site

·         Date you accessed the information (APA recommends including this if the information is likely to change)

·         URL (Web address) of the site

Source	Example Citation
Web site with author	Kraizer, S. (2005). Safe child. Retrieved February 29, 2008, from http://www.safechild.org/
Web site with corporate author	Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). (2008, February 15). Stop underage drinking. Retrieved February 29, 2008, from http://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov
Web site with unknown author	Penn State myths. (2006). Retrieved December 6, 2011, from http://www.psu.edu/ur/about/myths.html
Page within a Web site (unknown author)	Global warming 101. (2012). In Union of Concerned Scientists. Retrieved December 14, 2012, from http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/global_warming_101/

I am a writer

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At the moment I consider myself a writer, though I was not until the day I first met a special person who had modified radically my view point about it. I had spent my entire life without caring much about “writing matters” because they resulted senseless and bored to me. However, there was something inside this special person that moved my soul and mind leading me to experience writing from a different perspective. I believe that some people have an ability to change other people´s lives without any logical reason in the same way this friend changed mine. One of the most crucial aspects he taught me is to explore author’s words and feelings beyond lines which guided me to begin my own way into the writing world. Therefore writing has enabled me to express my ideas, desires, feelings and transformed me a complete free woman.

Above all, I must admit that I am just an amateur who is far away from being a professional or famous writer. Though I still consider myself a “writer” because during a short period of time I was able to build a solid confidence with no pressure at all to write whatever came to my mind. Little by little writing tasks stopped being slow and tedious to become some powerful energy that captured my attention.

At first I became a “reader”. Each time I read a text I concern every detail, such as the appropriate combination of words, the meaning beyond them, the effect the author intends to cause, and of course I always evaluate the possibility to apply similar sources or phrases in my productions. I believe reading is a necessary tool to get into the writing world because it gives us the possibility to be in the other side, to become “audience”. Thus being audience we are able to interpret someone else´s words, as well as the feelings these words could generate inside us which is closely related to my responsibility as a writer.

Then I realized that so as not to enclose myself within the writing matter, I needed to find a motivation, the one I had lost. This lost motivation came from my classmates who taught and showed me we all belonged to the same learning process where we had fun and learned from others, with no prejudge at all. I think this motivation indeed helped all of us to build a better relationship and create a good climate and atmosphere during the lessons we shared.

All in all I decided to leave aside any judgment or insecurity, relay on my feelings, and write whatever I wanted taking into consideration my pears opinions about it, which their absence  had prevented me to succeed in to becoming a good writer.

Academic writing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O_78nEP9TiGIHHFJ0VNJgdjb40WWx4ZN0AQLz_g8SpU/edit

Academic writing

://docs.google.com/document/d/1O_78nEP9TiGIHHFJ0VNJgdjb40WWx4ZN0AQLz_g8SpU/edit

I am a writer (first draft)

I would say I am a writer at the moment, though I indeed was not until the day I first met a special person. I had spent my entire life without caring at all about writing matters. However, there was something inside him that in some way moved my soul and mind so as to experience writing from a different perspective. I believe that some people have an ability to change other´s lives without any logical reason in the same way this friend changed mine. From then on I made my own way into the writing world thus writing has enabled me to express my ideas, desires and feelings. Writing indeed made me free.

Above all, I must admit that I am just an amateur quite far away from being a professional or famous writer. Though I do consider myself a “writer” because during a short period of time I was able to build a solid confidence in writing whatever came to my mind. Therefore writing tasks stopped being slow and tedious to become some powerful energy that captured my attention.

At first I became a “reader”. Each time I read a text I did it completely aware of the appropriate combination of words, the meaning beyond them, the effect they caused me, and of course the way I could apply a similar source or phrase in one of my productions. Reading is a necessary tool to get into the writing world because it provides a specific frame work to beginners that any other does.

Then I realized that so as not to enclose myself, I needed to find the motivation I had lost. This lost motivation came from my classmates who taught and showed me we belonged to the same learning process where we could all have fun and learn from others with any prejudge at all. Moreover this motivation helped us to build a good relationship and create a better climate and atmosphere during lessons.

All in all I decided to leave aside any judgment or insecurity that had prevented me to succeed and in the end become a writer. 

Reflection

The moment I was asked to write the composition “I am a writer” I indeed did not know where to begin with. Despite I had learned that writing a composition during a lesson was something not convenient, I was being asked to do so.  Moreover I had become completely not accustomed to it and I was supposed to right something properly in a very short time.  Having only that fact in mind, I did not consider any of the theories we had explored the previous year about “academic writing” thus I just tried to do my best.   

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