February 1, 2023
Storytelling, Narrative who I am story, Shitty first Drafts
Week 2
When I was reading these stories I already knew we where gonna write about them or maybe the same type of story. The who I am story was actually very good because it was telling us about different narrators while in the same who I am story. I dont know if that made sense but its like the narrator in that story was showing us different ways each narrator would try and discribe themselves in there own ways. Each author has there very own story and each and one of them found ways to tell who they are. The story that stood out to me the most was In the "who I am story" it was talking about who the guy drawing the schematics for a boat. It talked about how he is arogant because he knows how well he does these things but talks about how having help from others is imporant even to just listen even if you know what you're doing. There can be the smallest mistake but having help from others can be very important. Basically in all these stories everyone has found a way to know who they are if its learning from real world problems or even putting ideas down on paper.
Week 3
This week In English we were assigned to read the story called "Murray Donald, The Markers Eye Revising Your Own". The main point of this story was to always review your own writings and take constructive criticism whether you really think you dont need it. Its important to even just look over your work even if you think you already did everything you can. One thing that really stood out to me was when he said, " When students complete a first draft, they consider the job done- and there teachers offten agree. When professional writters complete a first draft, they usually feel that they are at the start of a writting process. When a draft is completed, The job of writing can begin". This stood out to me beacause I used to be the same way I would just complete a draft and never open it again and just say im finished. But reading this whole thing It gave me a better understanding to revise over my own paper to be able to see whats wrong and take time to make corrections.
Week 4
In week 4 we were assigned to read an essay called, "Backpacks Vs Briefcases: steps toward Rhetorical analysis". What I thought the main point of this reading is that try to analyze most of the stuff happening. Take time to deeply analyze what's going on. During a bit more into the essay It talks about where we should be using these skills to analyze and It says on social media. Since there's so much going on online it would be really good to analyze. Basically throughout all this, there is a bunch of advertising involed in social media so it's very important to try and rhetorically and deeply analyze what is being said not just on social media but on other things happening.
Week 5
This week we were assigned to read 2 stories one was called "Navigating genres" and the other was called "The extent of influence that genre conventions have on Ted Talks". When I was reading both of these just right off the start I knew what this was about since my other English class talked about this. How there are so many genres in songs and movies that they compare the same with writing and reading. If you're writing an essay about a certain topic you have to understand what kind of genre it might be could be a sad story exciting one or even a calm and relaxed one. Almost the same as the ted talks but this time you have to get the attention of the audience by actually feeling what you say. In the tone of your voice and how you express what you are talking about. You have to really impact your audience and I feel like genre in ted talks are much harder to accomplish. During these readings it made me understand how important this topic of genre is because when apply a certain genre it makes your writing sound more real like you really mean the things you are writing about.
Week 6
For week 6 the essay we had to read was called "Murder! (rhetorically Speaking). During the first bit of the essay Janet said something important she said, "Every time you go to write anything (and every time you open your mouth), whether actively conscious of the purpose or not, you are making decisions about which words to use and what tone to establish as you order your thoughts based upon what is appropriate for your intended audience in that context". I feel like this is important because we can see how we think on a daily basis even if its just speaking or writing. After she started talking about how dectetives use tone in there questions. They try and make them as precise as possible to make them look very professional. She talked about how something they use slang I don't know if that also meant like code switching.
Week 8
This week we had two readings one was called "Walk, Talk, Cook, Eat" and "Stratagies for Reading scholarly Sources". This was actually way different for the walk, talk, cook ,eat article this isnt just like a regular reading it was going back in fourth with the people in the reading which was actually fun to read. But it was maily about finding sources and articles and stuff about certain topics and stuff. Also how you can use certain browsers to find stuff which is very helpful. Same thing with the other article. They talked about how writing is important and basically how finding the right sources make everything much easier to read and understand and add it to your writing.
week 10
For week 10 we were assigned to read a essay called, "Finding the good argument or why bother with logic". So this essay the first couple paragraphs was talking about how the media is filled with news that isnt true or real. And that there is counter arguments about these news some agreeing and some oposing. Some of these things can mislead the people reading certain news if it doesnt have any factual evidence not a good thing. Most of these news and other blogs and aticles use evidence that does matter and does prove a point and that is what is useful.
Week 11
This weeks reading was called "Annoying ways people use sources", Off the bat I like thw first example which was about the bad drivers. They used a example of how good drivers get mad at bad drivers for many reasons, they compared it to how readers can also see how sometimes writers fail. They refered to it as common knowleage but somepeople struggle with these things and i understand it because I struggle with writing. Also talks about certain qoutes in sources some that make sense and some that hook the reader and some that dont really make enough sense.
Week 12
This week we had to read a very intresting topic. It was called "Reflective Writitng and revision process: What were you thinking". Before reading this i already knew it was gonna be about something important just by the words. In this essay they talked about how every single one of them had a writting class and for that class each of them had to think of a writitng process, such as thinking of rhetoricals, audiance and purpose. Also talked about process notes I had a small idea of what it was until this essay, it explained a bit more on what it was. Almost like a draft. What I found most important was the idea of always finding who your audiance is.