Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. In this blog, I will be writing about how my writing process improved within the course of one semester in my English Composition 1 class.
Beginning this course, I thought that the blogs were going to be such a waste of my time. I thought their main purpose was to keep me busy for that class when I had no other assignments. I definitely thought wrong. The blogs have tremendously helped my writing process, in more ways than one. Each blog had its own way to help the me write the required pieces for the course. Such as, all the "life choice" blogs, helped me with my decision on my Life-Choice Memoir. Also, the blog, Annotated Bibliography, helped organize my research paper with the sources and why I wanted to use the sources. This helped me because if I forgot why I was going to use that source, I could look back on that bibliography and know. I plan to do this again when I have more papers in the future. Not only did the blogs help me, but they also taught me a new way of writing. If I write down every thing I know about something, and why I thought that, or just anything that would help me with the paper, I could easily remember. This class inspired me to write more, and that no matter what I wrote, I could always revise it. It didn't have to be perfect for it to be finished. As my quote calendar said, "Strive for progress, not perfection".
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Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. This blog is a continuation of the blog, "Lets Talk!" Part One, as I am continuing to talk about the gameshow. The first game can be found in part one, linked above. In this blog, I am writing about the second game. In our groups, we had to piece together a writing called "The Art of Memoir", by Mary Karr. The pages were cut in half, and we had to find the other half to each page, and put them in order from the first page to the last page. To put the pages together, you just had to read a little and to see where the flow would be. By the flow, I mean how the words works with each other, as well as when she would talk about what she did. Mary Karr wrote about the three truths that she heard from every mouth. "(1) Writing is painful—it’s “fun” only for novices, the very young, and hacks; (2) other than a few instances of luck, good work only comes through revision; (3) the best revisers often have reading habits that stretch back before the current age, which lends them a sense of history and raises their standards for quality." The most important thing within those truths, is reflection. Reflection is the main point of the piece, yet she does go into other points. This game was fun and challenging, as it made you put together "puzzle pieces", but you also had to read to understand where they went. Using clues, you could easily put them together. Below I will be providing pictures of the writing put together. Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. In this blog, I get to choose a class-based topic to write about. In class on Thursday, we played in a game show, called "Lets Talk!" . There were two games we participated in as groups, and I am going to be talking about the first one in this blog. The second game will be in the blog, "Lets Talk!" Part Two.
The first game, we had to match a certain number of phrases/words to a category that was listed in bold. The four categories were, Rhetorical Mode, Rhetorical Purposes, Motives, and, Genres/Subgenres. This game was very beneficial to me, as I did not originally know the difference between a rhetorical mode and a rhetorical purpose. Now that I have participated in this game, I have a new understanding of the two. I have also learned two new acronyms for the rhetorical purposes and rhetorical mode. PIE and DEAN. PIE is for the purposes, standing for, Persuade, Inform, and Entertain. DEAN is for the modes, standing for, Description, Exposition, Argumentation, and Narration. The genres and subgenres category was the easier one of the four categories, as they are the categories for literature pieces. The ones listed were, creative nonfiction, reflective writing, and memoir. Memoir is a subgenre of creative nonfiction. The last category was motives, which were inspiring, and makes you understand the purpose of the class a little bit better. I'm not going to list them all, but some of them were, to travel to different places: past self, other countries, examine my life, make meaning. Get good grades was there too, yet, he didn't just want us to be motivated by grades. Below are pictures of the 4 categories and their answers. |
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