11B Good Questions, Great Answers

Creating questions that are in depth and detailed is a whole new world to first year students such as myself. As I read though some of my classmate's blogs I found some really well written questions and answers. On Karla Franchesca Nowak’s blog (http://fnowak30.blogspot.com/), she created a perfect example of how to create a question and how to answer it thoroughly. Her question was, How do people expect us to become creative, if we are raised under circumstances that hold us back from creativity? She starts by giving her opinion on the question which is very important. Professors don’t want you to just summarize what the articles were about, they want you to think and relate to the question and the articles to answer the questions fully. She goes into more detail to talk about why creativity is so important especially to younger children who may not excel in school but excel in the arts or dance. She does an excellent job of putting everything in her own words and not summarizing from the readings. The only thing I would suggest if she were to rewrite this blog is to add a quote or a specific idea directly from an article to back up her opinions. All good writing includes supporting details to their own ideas.

Creating strong questions that may appear on a test was very helpful. This assignment put me into the seat of a college professor when they are creating questions for an exam. Now that I know how to create questions just like one of my professors might do, I can create my own questions which I think would appear on an upcoming exam and test my knowledge to answer the question. This is a good technique to use because it prepares you for a vast amount of questions you may encounter on a test, it helps you study and it helps you practice creating well written answers that would get you a good grade. Know that I learned how to create good question, I will use this to study for exams that I will have in the future!