Miluska's journey through Academic Writing

The learning goal for this week is writing a good essay, using the appropiate structure: introduction, body and conclusion. Furthermore, it is important to do a previous outline and make a draft of your essay. One of the most important parts of an essay is the thesis statement. An effective thesis statement explains what your are going to write about and how you are going to make it.                      During class, we did exercises to understand better about making a good thesis statement. Honestly, the exercises in groups allowed to enhance my knowledge about essay and to be able to see many points of view of each classmate. First, we were asigned to write an argumentative essay. There were two parts, the first one was to write a draft of an argumentative essay. I chose the topic "Online learing" because since the pandemic of Covida-19, university students had to take online courses in order to continue with their studies and

The goal for this unit was learning more about plagiarism and how to support the arguments with evidence using APA style. The ppts and documents on blackboard helped me understand better about academic sources. We started the unit watching a video about plagiarism. This video helped a lot because it solved my doubts. According to the APA style, the hand outs were useful. In the past, I have always had trouble with appropriate citation; however, I will keep these two documents on blackboard for my personal use due to its concise information. Moreover, the exercises in class allowed me to practice harder and differentiate paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting. I found the chart below particularly interesting because it is very clear and easy to understand. Besides, we did many exercises about paraphrasing and summarizing. Since they are very similar, I really got a little bit confused; however, I could practice better in padlet during class. Personally, I bel