USF Writing Community Server

How do wikis and MS Word's track change tools enable writers to improve drafts? How can schools better prepare students for the collaborative work they will conduct in professional settings? What skills do student readers need to provide helpful feedback?

C

In the wiki when you make a change it is recorded in the history on the side and if you click show changes it can show you the last thing you edited. I think schools can better prepare students by giving students more times to do blogs. If you are in a professional setting you would be looking for someone to proof read or edit and that will help the writer of better understanding of what the reader would like to see.To provide heplful feedback students need computer skills and grammar to help edit an writers paper. It helps writers alot when they collaborate and see other writers views. It makes the writer think more about their writing. The wiki also helped me organize most of my composition two work. It is a good place for storage for your papers. And give you an easy version of how create your own page. The wiki is tricky at first then once you get a hang of the process and how it works you can always use the wiki site and come back to it. Inside the wiki you can easily upload your documents and pictures. The tracking is neat because you can see how you the writer progress and how far you came from start to finish.This is very helpful to writers that like to blurb stuff out on paper it is an easier process to get to for revision and editing. I will continue to use the wiki in my writing of papers because it helped me organize my papers inside of class without bringing in a hard copy.

Critique on Rhetorical Strategies On Two Contrasting Arguments this article was about a Andrea Yates and how she drowned her children. The article was written by E. Alycia Eggers.It was basciacally an explanation of both sides for argument whether Yates should be punished or not for her acts. One side believed she should be punished and the other thought she was mentally ill. It was excellently researched by Eggers......

malapropism......A humorously misapplied word.............An advertisment i like is Geico........the one with the geico the lizard talkin about an in surance company. The advertisment is for car insurance but it has an funny word apllied with the character....A good peron or example of it is Yogi Berra a baseball player.......he would come up with things like."if you dont know where your going you'll end up somewhere else"