Reflecting on Your Writing: Scholarly Voice AND Order and Transitions
Discussion: Reflecting on Your Writing: Scholarly Voice
As a scholar, you want to write with objectivity and an appropriate tone. Once you have your first draft and have revised for strong paragraph development, you will want to take a further look at your writing, to ensure you are communicating in a scholarly voice. In addition, you will begin to examine how you are linking main ideas (also known as transitions).
This week’s Learning Resources will help you examine your work for effective transitions and achieving scholarly voice. For this Discussion, you will reflect on your own writing in relation to scholarly voice Based on what you have learned from the week’s Learning Resources, you will share your thoughts and experiences on achieving scholarly voice. You may also choose to reflect on your practice of transitioning.
To prepare for this Discussion
- Review the Learning Resources on scholarly voice and transitions.
- Reflect on your writing process in relation to scholarly voice and transitions. You may even choose to consider how you approached this specific Assignment in relation to scholarly voice and transitions.
*********Post a 1- to 2-paragraph reflection on your use of scholarly voice. (Note: You may choose to reflect specifically on how you will apply scholarly voice concepts in this week’s Assignment.) You may also choose to address your practice of applying transitions.
Resources:
Basics of Scholarly Voice
Formal language and tone are expected in scholarly writing, although the definition of formal varies over time and by field. Most current fields agree, however, that colloquialisms, slang, contractions, biased language, rhetorical questions, and second person pronouns should be avoided.
In formal writing, you must be cautious in your selection of scholarly language. Be aware that not all texts demonstrate good scholarly tone, even those that may be peer-reviewed.
Watch out for these writing temptations:
- Using overly long or complex sentences: longer is not necessarily better. Instead, simplicity and directness should be the highest priority.
- Using compound sentences that try to stretch themselves too far (e.g., run-on sentences)
- Writing sentences that carry little information or structural purpose or those that point out the obvious.
- Writing in an indirect fashion to sound more scholarly or formal (e.g., using passive voice)
- Using “nice-sounding” words or phrases without fully understanding their specific meaning. (If you are unsure of a word’s or phrase’s definition or meaning, look it up in a dictionary or thesaurus, or find another word to use in its place.)
- Using unneeded words to make a point.
- Adding unnecessary ideas or phrases to lengthen your paragraphs and sentences.
2- Assignment: Order and Transitions
How are you linking main ideas in your writing? Might changing your paragraph’s order of content improve cohesion or flow of ideas? Are you writing in an objective, scholarly tone?
For this Assignment, you will review the Learning Resources on scholarly tone and transitions. With the principle outlined in the Learning Resources in mind, try your hand at further revising your paragraph from Week 4 Assignment. You will also submit a first-draft second paragraph, focusing on a different main point from Week 2 Assignment Critical Reading and Outlining
To prepare for this Assignment
- Review the Learning Resources on scholarly voice, transitions and, if necessary, the MEAL plan from Week 4.
- Review the content of your selected journal article.
- Choose another main point from Week 2 Assignment Critical Reading and Outlining.
The Assignment
Revise your paragraph from Week 4’s Assignment, ensuring you are effectively linking ideas and writing in a scholarly tone.
Additionally, compose a first-draft paragraph summarizing another one of the article’s main points that you identified in Week 2 Assignment Critical Reading and Outlining.
*******SUBMIT YOUR ASSIGNMENT USING WALDEN’S APA COURSE PAPER TEMPLATE. YOUR SUBMISSION SHOULD BE 2 PARAGRAPHS LONG. ASSIGNMENTS THAT ARE SUBMITTED WITHOUT USING WALDEN’S APA COURSE PAPER TEMPLATE WILL NOT BE REVIEWED BY YOUR INSTRUCTOR.
SEE THE ATTACHMENT PLEASE!!!!!!
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Reflections
Reflection: Scholarly Voice
From the week’s learning, there are many concepts that were studied on the need to develop a scholarly voice that helps a scholar to easily communicate their ideas to the various audiences. In my past writing, I have often written overly complex sentences that carry a lot of information. Such writing can at times be very confusing to the readers since the message or information being relayed could be lost within the long sentences. To avoid this, I learned that the best strategy to adopt is the meal plan for paragraph development. The strategy ensures that the main idea, evidence, analysis, and lead-out are contained within a paragraph thereby enabling the readers to easily understand the information that is being communicated.