From+Topic+to+Presentation+Forum

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Larissa Monteiro
Valentina Sorti Marcela de Oliveira **Carolina Rocha** **Thais El Malih**

Questions Suggested

 * ===Considering the processes mentioned by the author to write a good essay, which ones can be used in other writing styles? Why?===

I think brainstorming can be used in all writing styles, since it is a good way to organize one's ideas before getting to work, one necessity that all authors have.
 * ===How can peer editing help you improve your text?===

I think that this technique is very useful because another person will read carefully your text and will make some comments, in order to help you. After that, you will have to read your text once more and see if you agree with the comments, suggestions or corrections that your peer has made. Besides, you can start replying with your opinions. It helps me to improve my text, because I will always return to my text, read it a lot of times, make corrections. My peer and I will share knowledge and I can learn things, words, expressions with the peer that I did not know before. Exchanging knowledge and experiences are good ways to improve a person's writing skills.

I agree with Larissa and I think that peer editing can be useful in writing. In fact, after a collegue`s revision, I can think and reason about my mistakes, see if the way I expressed my opinion is clear and effective (or not). I can also learn more in terms of grammar and vocabulary and share knowledge with him/her.

I agree with Larissa and Valentina that peer-editing is extremely useful in the writing process, once there are several characteristics of a text that its own author may not realize. This way, the help of a peer comes to "open our eyes" and make us see what might be hidden, not only structurally, but also relatively to ideas and argumentation. Peer-editing is like knowing your readers' opinions about your text beforehand, in a way that you can make it better.

Peer editing is very useful if done the right way. During the process of peer editing one's text, a student can learn from the other person's mistakes and bad- writing choices. Once you have spotted any mistakes, you have make sure that you do not make the same thing in your own work. While correcting another text, you can also find good aspects that you think will be useful to write your own text. It takes a big deal of effort and commitment from both students, but the results can be great.
 * ===Which tools can be used to make the reading process easier for the reader?===

Some possible tools are highlighting the important parts, making comments, taking notes, writing summaries and asking yourself questions while you read. Those tools can be useful for many kinds of reading, you can use those same strategies differently, depending on your focus. If your purpose is reading to obtain information, peer-edit the text or even perceive the writer's choices and strategies, your highlight parts, notes, comments and questions are going to be different, but the techniques used could easily be the same.

In order to make the reading process easier, the reader can scan the text to find the most important words. After that, you can highlight the most important parts and if there is any words that you do not know the meaning, you can look it up in a dictionary. An additional step would be taking notes of the highlighted parts, focusing on the information that you are trying to achieve by reading the text. Then, you can read the text again, carefully, to extract new information that you were not able to understand by the first reading.
 * ===How can an anecdote help you supporting your argument thesis?===

I believe there are some arguments that are not convincing enough by themselves, therefore an anecdote could be a very useful technique to help you convince the readers that your argument is valid. An anecdote is actually a short story, chosen to be in your text to show some aspect of your argument that many times can not be proved by you. That way, if you tell a short story that contains a fact in the past that exemplifies what you are implying in your text, readers tend to assume that what happened in the past, at least once, may also happen in the present or future, therefore they will be more likely to believe in your argument.
 * === According to the article how could brainstorming help in the writing process? ===

Brainstorming can be consider the skeleton of the body-text. in fact, it helps in organizing the main ideas that we want to develop. In this way, we can list ideas, write notes and do an inicial research to understand the basic points of the topic that we need to present. Hence, we form the inicial "informed opinion", which will be the base to create the text.


 * === What should be the process behind research ? ===


 * What type of argumentation do you think that can be stronger/harder to disagree wit?

I think that a proved argumentation is harder to desagree with.Hence, experts` quotations, documented facts and everyday life experiences are effective argumentations beacause they present reasonable evidence. For this reason it is more difficult to prove the countrary and disagree with them.