Unit 9 Discussion: Most Beneficial Resources

I truly enjoyed visiting the various recommended websites during this week’s assignment. They were all helpful for me as one who has been absent from the classroom for a long time. Dr. Northcutt’s five hundred word theme was refreshing for me through the simple reminder of “transitioning” words and the use of topic sentences. The most helpful for me was the online guide for writing thesis statements. This site is valuable for a few reasons: it is user friendly; it uses clear and simple explanations and covers a lot of related topics. Equally beneficial as well was the owl English Perdue website. The suggestion for dividing projects into parts was helpful.

Hey Chad
Enjoyed reading your post. Although I did not include What do I have to do to get an 'A' as my most benefical I sure did make a mental note of what NOT to do when writing a a paper. That indeed is something to take notice of as you have pointed out. Thanks

Devon

[Alex Madincea]

All articles, presentations, and resources in this Unit provide me useful information about how to write and how to organize my writing work. I can say that what have benefited me the most is the PowerPoint presentation “Research Skills for Seminary”. I noticed that I am more receptive to a graphic, systematic and short presentation. Generally, in such presentations the information is made of basic ideas that transmit a wide concept in few words. On the other hand, I can tell that Dr. Northcutt’s “The Five-Hundred Word Theme” has the same importane for me since it reminds how must look the structure of a good essay.

Alex-Sebastian Madincea

[Pastor Don]

It is difficult to select any particular article that stands out from the others. I found great and helpful insight and direction from each one. Each article has specific instruction as to how to research and develop the paper. If I had to chose one particular article it would have to be the one on  titled "Reading, Research, and Writing Tools." I particularly found the questions they listed to be very helpful. These questions will greatli aid in the forming of and the developing of the paper. The links to other sites provided will greatly benefit in any theological research.
Pastor Don

[gkevin]

I found the "A Paper" and "500 Word Thesis" documents most helpful. I like short (heavy emphasis on this one - matches my attention span), to the point, and simple to apply...funny, I like my sermons the same way. I particularly appreciate the fact that these resources easily translated into visuals for me - it was simple to see where they fit into the structure of a paper and how using these techniques caused the paper to move from point to point. For me, it helps when I can see a solid paper as a really logical series of placeholders for information and binding links between them rather than just shaking a whole bunch of related information in a paper bag, hoping a good paper falls out. If you've ever sat down with 10 books, 5 articles, and a basic outline written in crayon on a napkin and tried to write a term paper sitting at a computer screen, you know what I mean by this last one...

Blessings - Kevin

[gkevin]

you and I keyed on the same things - short, graphical, to the point, easy to apply. First one I read was "A Papers" - like you, I thought that said it all. Although I'm not sure I buy the part about paper writing being "enjoyable" just yet...

Blessings - Kevin

[gkevin]

I agree about the web sites, particularly the ones that provide examples of each part of a good paper (e.g. thesis, primary paragraph thought, etc). If I can see it, I can typically imitate it...it's the way I learn.

Blessings - Kevin

[Brandie777]

The online guide was most beneficial for me because it was concise with various types of papers.  For example some professors ask for an expository paper, some exegetical this site clearly deciphered the requirements for each type of paper. So, I found this one most beneficial.  The Northcutt method was helpful as well.  The information has provided a lot of knowledge on formatting papers which I really needed.
brandy rainwater

[Brandie777]

Great idea placing a bookmark on this valuable info.  I believe we may even need this in our preaching and grant writing proposals as well.

[erichandem]

I enjoyed the power point like most of you all did.  The most important slide of that power point was the side entitled Time.  Papers and research are all about time: time to prepare, outline, research, write and edit.  She also discussed Primary, Secondary and Tertiary sources.  Sources are important to be considered because anyone can go to Google and find information but the problem is that, anyone can out information (correct or incorrect) information.  We need to cherish our library, the ATLA and ASP programs available to us!  It is easy to get a bad paper grade but also easier to get a good grade; we have been given the tools to do the latter!

Erich

[Hixford Allen]

The article on “Reading, Research, and Writing Tools” has proved to be most helpful to me.  Of particular interest to me was the information on sources (primary and secondary). The article provides useful information about the types of sources, and why and how they should be used in research work.  I think that this information is at the heart of a good research paper, and I would like to grow in this area of research work.  The article also discusses the basic steps in writing a research paper, which has also proved helpful.

Hixford Allen

[Lizzierod]

the article of Reading, Research and Writing Tools seemed to me to be the one that really gave me some great ideas. I really loved the point of Freewriting and Clustering. I never thought of doing freewriting, I know maybe some of you are sating "What are you crazy?", but really I never thought of just starting to write thingsdown of what I knew of the subject of the paper and then connecting the ideas. It opened my eyes into a new way of making the ordeal of writing papers easier. Of couse I agree also with the idea of making a time schedule for witing the paper. I am one of those who waits till the last minute and just struggles to get it done.
Thanks for all the wonderful tips and great resources.

[Lizzierod]

Hixford,
I too liked this article. I really thought it gave great ideas. Now all we need to do is produce great A papers

[Rob Deveney]

randyturpin wrote:

Which of the articles, presentations, or resources in Unit 9 has benefited you the most? Why?

The Online Guide for Writing Thesis Statements was the most informative for me.  I have always enjoyed writing but have found it difficult to stay in the correct person or the correct theme throughout the paper.  This web site simplified this for me and helped me to see the difference between argumentative, analytical, and expository papers.  This is something that I struggled with in my undergraduate degree and I am grateful for the simple explination of it.  

-Rob Deveney

[Hixford Allen]

Pentecostal Foundations Unit 9 Discussion
I find the article on Reading, Research and Writing tools to be very informative as it relates to information on sources and how to use them properly.  This information will prove very helpful I writing good quality research papers.  The section on the questions that I need to bear in mind during the reading of these sources is also very important in getting a handle on how to understand each writer.

Hixford Allen