Characterize

Characterize your improvement in the dialect of Standardized Written American English at the level of the sentence, paragraph, and document.

Project 1 requires a definite structure to be effective. Starting from the document scale, it is clear how I was able to use a structure appropriate for the rhetorical analysis genre. I did this with the help of information found in Chapter 8 of Writing Today. In my rough draft submitted to my peers and Instructional Assistant, I did receive feedback on my use of paragraphs and sentences. For example, the Instructional Assistant asked, "What would you like to add to

the paper with this paragraph? " in reference to facts and figures I present. After review I knew that I had not made clear what the paragraph was about. I was able to add a sentence at the beginning stating that the following paragraph showed examples of the use of logos. Earlier in the draft I had a sentence that seemed to never end. I was able to take the sentence and split it into two separate sentences to more improve the flow of the paragraph. With the help of the text book, peers and Instructional Assistant I was able to make improvements to my written English.

For Project 2, I chose a blog format to complete the assignment. I feel at the document level, my project correctly fits an acceptable form that you would find on a blog. I have included 3 images. Blogs are generally multimodal and to take advantage of that I used a few graphics to help add some flavor to the document. Evidence of my correct usage of the multimodal component can be seen in the Instructional Assistant response I recieved, "You've done an excellent job with not only the text based portion but the mutlimodal aspect as well. Each of your photos is relevant to the discourse community of Nuclear Engineers." I feel I have improved my writing at the sentence and paragraph level as well because I received no feedback as to grammatical or spelling errors evident within my submitted drafts.

Project 3 I wrote a topic that seemed to correspond with the dialect of Standardized Written American English being destroyed and weakened by text speak. I text plenty and use SOME of the common acronyms (omg, wtf, lol, etc) but have never been one to use abbreviations like sry for sorry. So I think my proficiency in SWAE has not been affected by text speak. As far as improvement then, I think I have been able to learn from the feedback I've received and apply proper rules and standards to my projects. I'm still not perfect but examples of my proficiency should be seen while reading the projects submitted this semester.