Summary: The Joy Of Boredom

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Using proper English and writing skills is a lifelong skill that will constantly need to be refreshed and used effectively. Practicing different writing habits is a great way to help improve the mind and success a student will have in their writings. Using these different styles of writing such as a narrative, summary analysis, informational report, or even a personal profile will better a student throughout their education. To ensure that one has the proper techniques to write one must use proper writing practices, credible research and information, critical thinking skills, conveying a theme, and responsibility for ones success.
Writing Practices When writing it is important to be as efficient as possible and I learned this …show more content…
Keeping an open mind for an audience will guarantee that the message will be understood more clearly. One part that I noticed about myself was in my writings I knew the information beforehand and I often left out important information. When I had someone proofread my paper they would be confused because such information was missing. I was not properly using all of my information to get the main idea across properly. I needed to put myself in the shoes of an outsider and get them to understand the idea. A great way that I was able to learn more about this was through the summary analysis because I did argue with writing strategies Carolyn Y. Johnson’s used in her article “The Joy of Boredom.” Her article often led me to boredom because her organizational structure had a different focus that what she proposed. I concluded a paragraph in that paper by saying, “The topic and organization does not lead the reader towards how crucial boredom can be to humans, but instead how humans became lazy from the overuse of cell phones.” Being able to ask questions and attempt to understand at a deeper level will engage you more into the text and that’s what I had to do to be successful. Besides an analysis, I learned that it is best to keep my opinion and influence out of papers because it can lose credibility and change the focus. Not only will my opinion stay out but also leads to “meat of the …show more content…
I try to stay away from adding extra information that may mislead from the main theme. I found that when I researched for information I would end up getting a wide variety of information because I was continually asking questions. The bad part of that was I would try to broaden the topic, which was the opposite of what I needed to do. Staying direct was what I needed so narrowing down on a topic helped with staying away from the fluff or information that was a misfit. The paper that I had the biggest problem in narrowing the topic was on my report. At first I thought it would be a great idea to take the approach of talking about an online class similar to this one. I think that could be an entirely different paper and would take away from the focus I wanted. Communicating my point across was something that I think comes easier to me because I can understand a topic fairly quickly but sometimes I will leave that extra detail out. Again, I think it is very important to put yourself in a different perspective because you will be able to ask different questions that you may not have thought of beforehand. During the profile I was having difficulty coming up with the questions I thought were necessary to know. Once I started to ask her the questions the conversation just continued and just led to further questions that anybody would ask about her situations. I found that I like to have that verbal communication
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