Dana+Nordyke


 * Dana's** ** Resources, **** Thoughts, and Reflections **

//__**Resources**__// []
 * Web Guide:**

Portland State University has a great editorial style guide that we use often in my office for professional writing. I love that it provides specific examples to abbreviations, capitalization, Titles, Numbers, punctuation, word usage, etc.

1. They Say/ I Say: The moves that matter in academic writing: []
 * Book:**

Recommended to me by a colleague who has a Master's in Counseling & Student Development with an English undergrad. Said it really simplifies academic writing and she used it a ton in her undergrad program. I ordered a used copy (will be here Thursday).

2. Dissertations from Start to Finish (Cone and Foster, 2006) Recommended to me by my director who used it in her own dissertation writing.

//__**Grammar**__//

1. Is it "Rob and I" or "Rob and me"? Well, here's a fun tip I've never heard before:

If you can replace the whole phrase with "us" then you use "me" (it's now an object) If you can replace the whole phrase with "we" then you use "I" (it's now a subject)

2. Is it affect or effect?

Doing an action = affect Action is happening to me = effect

//__**Reflections**__//
 * Class**:
 * It is super helpful for me to hear that others "don't know" some of the specifics of academic writing. Moreover, knowing this is a learned process that I haven't really been taught (up until now) is helpful because I always felt like the one person who didn't know.
 * Understanding all of the pieces in the dissertation and how those fit with what we are currently working on has been eye-opening.
 * Oct. 9 class- Going through the elements of what we didn't do right with our papers as a group was the first time I had experienced that and it was so so helpful. Sometimes I just need some honest feedback to help move my work forward.
 * Nov. 13 class- Learning how to "un-pack" quotes was some of the best advice I have ever received for academic writing. A couple of take-homes follow:
 * Don't start a paragraph with a quote and don't end with a quote. You should lead with a thesis sentence then include your quote or paraphrase with a citation and then unpack the quote.
 * Un-packing the quote means giving the reason why you are citing it:
 * Putting it in plain language
 * Writing what it's not
 * Bridging it to the initial thesis of the paragraph
 * Connecting it to another quote
 * Contrast it with something else you've said
 * Explain to the reader what it means
 * therefore...
 * simply put...
 * focuses on this, while someone else focuses on this...
 * So Chow's reminder is particularly helpful because...