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Mid-Term Sam R

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When I stepped into Trey's class for the first time I was sure what was going to happen. I took my seat and looked around noticed a few people, then this character strolls into class hunched over from the large backpack he was carrying, he resembled my little brother with all his books that he brought home from school. As the class started I was lost from the beginning Trey went off in a thousand different directions and the first thought I had was "what a new age hippie". The idea I had first of a comp class was that it was going to be like all other english course I had taken through high school, but when he started in on this Wiki, I wasnt sure what to think. After a few days on the wiki it got kind of easy and turned into another natural thing I could do without thinking. Blogging was one of the biggest things on the wiki, it was basically it my first essay was just me blogging and thats how I saw my writing from there on, just find something and just throw a bunch of shit togeather and make it work. When we first stepped into the process of casual arugement I thought it was going to just be a simple assingment till we took it a step further and a disagreement arouse. It was carried to the wiki in the form of Rhetorical analysis of visual rhetoric, just between two or three people it grew and grew from research to what way to enter the arguement was dragging me deeper and deeper in the abyss of the wiki. As I sat there reading over I noticed that the wiki was not only allowing me to put of my opinions but also to hear the opionions of others, it taught me how to learn if that makes any sense. One of the scariest things I have to face is peer-reflection, I never liked passing my paper around to hear what the other students had to say in high school, just because I was just afraid my work wasnt good enough, but after some times I got out of my shell and got used to the fact of peer-reflection and opened up to the ideas of other and was ready to put them in play in my work, blog, or other forms of assingments that Trey is ready to throw at us. In the end I have learned that the wiki is not a place to get trapped in fear of not knowing what to do or write about, just write to an audience as i have heard Trey say so many times before, and thats what I plan to do.

 

Visual guide

 

 

Rhetorical Knowledge

 

Audience: What have you learned about addressing an audience in _____ writing?

The audience really makes or breaks your paper, it all comes down to who you are writing to. The writer decides who the audience is in the process of brainstorming, you have to see who is going to connect with you. When I began to brainstorm my idea for my first essay of this class I thought deep to figure out who I was going to address about my passion for comics. My audience was broken down into two parts the person who knows nothing about comics, and the person who can make the connection with me who has the same feeling.

 

Purpose: What have you learned about the purposes of ___ writing?

The purpose of the writing for me isnt to make the reader happy, I have tried that and I have failed. My purpose for writing is to inform the audience of my views and possible dislikes. The reader may disagree with my views but I feel that this is a plus for me becuase the reader is making a connection to my work and is able to get in touch with the veiws and possible be able to learn from me.

 

Rhetorical Situation: How did the writing context affect your ____ text? How did your choice of topic affect the research you conducted and how you presented your exploration to your readers?

The topic I chose was a product of my writers block, at the begining of the essay topic Trey told us to just write to an audience, so I did. I threw everything I had into a childhood passion that spread to a more darker and mature desire of comics and superheros/villians.

 

Voice and Tone: How would you describe your voice in this project? Your tone? How do they contribute to the effectiveness of your essay?

The voice of the project changes from a some what childish voice to a more adult voice. The tone I used on my essay was very similar to the voice I started out with a good, smartass type tone that involved me saying what I felt. As my essay went deeper into my veiws it got darker just as my thoughts of comics did, from that good, childish tone to a dark, hardned, more badass tone. The tone change contributes to the effectiveness by showing the audience that I have changed in the essay just as I did in the years following my discovery of comics.

 

Context, Medium, and Genre: How did your context determine the medium and genre you chose, and how did those decisions affect your writing?

As I stated with the topic I struggled with deciding the topic till I just sat back and let it happen. It came to me when I thought about something that has changed my life, the genre was a informing genre and this derected me to telling the audience about my passion.

 

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

 

Learning/ Inquiry: How did you decide what to focus on in your writing? Describe the process you went through to focus on a main idea, or thesis. How did you judge what was most and least important in your exploratory writing?

As I brainstormed I came to the decision that I was going to write something that has progressed me into the person I am today. I thought back through my life and searched for some of the most influential things that has changed me and the first thing to hit me was the idea of being a superhero from comics and how I had changed from that to some what of a villian. I decided that the information that was just bullshit was the experience that the heros where put in, I stated that some superheros put their lives on the line to save people, but I never went on to say that Batman saved someone even when he was being shot at, I did not think it was important.

 

Responsibility: How did you fulfill your responsibilities to your readers?

I fulfilled everything I could about me to the reader, I set out on a journey to describe my life and how I had changed from loving the superheros and then growing a want to be a villian.

 

Reading and Research: What research did you conduct? How sufficient was the research you did? Why? What additional research might you have done?

The research I did was very small but it was still research, I went back to my collection which I had moved from my house to my cousins. I went back to the few comics that still after a 100 times of reading gave me chills and excited me. The research was solid it showed me what I looked for in both a hero and a villian. If I had a chance I would of liked to meet a comic creator legend possibly Stan Lee.

 

Overall: As a result of writing this _________, how have you become a more critical thinker, reader, and writer? What critical thinking, reading, and writing skills do you hope to develop further in your next writing project? How will you work on them?

The writing made me more of a thinker because I had to think deeply on how I had changed in my life, I have also changed as a reader because as I read my work I could see myself grow and become more and more of what I am now. I hope to develop a more of a research idea to help me in my next writing project. The next project I have I will brain storm and spend more times researching some of the topics.

 

Composing Processes

 

Invention: What invention strategies were most useful to you? Why?

The brainstorm/looking inside myself, it helped me decide my topic what else is there to say, If I went off and stole a topic from someone else it would not of been my innerself putting out.

 

Organizing Your Ideas and Details: What organization strategies have you used and learned? How successful was have they been?

I have learned to use the web more then anything, in high school I just threw stuff down on the paper and did not plan out anything. Also I took many notes as I researched and went back and researched as I wrote the essay as I looked back and proof read the work. It has helped me out serverly it has put me over the top.

 

Revising: What one revision did you make that you are most satisfied with? What are the strongest and the weakest parts of the paper or other piece of writing you wrote for this chapter? Why? If you could go back and make an additional revision, what would it be?

The one revision that I made that was the biggest was from the rough draft to the final, I started out just telling the audience about why I love comics. I switched it around and stated that ever since I feel in love with comics I wanted to be a hero and over time it had evolved into a more of a hatred of the hero and become a villian. The strongest part of the paper was me stating how I had become a villian, the weaks was the ending, I would really like to revise the ending.

 

Graphic/visual in essay

Villian Hero

 

Becoming a Writer: What writerly habits have you developed, modified, or improved on as you constructed the assignments for this class? How will you change your future writing activities, based on what you have learned about yourself?

The habbit that I have developed was that I write what is on my mind and I feel that I am more of an agressive writer. I do not see myself changing that much from my curent structer that I have, I would like to tap into my more insipring writing.

 

Conventions

Editing: What sentence-level problems did you find most frequently in your writing? How will you avoid that problem in future assignments?

I am not sure what problem I had, it was easy to write this essay

 

Genre: What conventions of the genre, if any, gave you problems?

The jump from being a hero to a villian. It stepped into a darker part of my life (if that makes anysense) from a lighter part.

 

Documentation: If you used sources for your paper, what documentation style did you use? What problems, if any, did you have with it?

None

 

Writing Technologies

Think about the ways that you have used digital technologies over the course of the semester. What technologies are you using to facilitate the act of writing? How are you using them? What have been the benefits and drawbacks of the writing technologies you use specific to the rhetorical situation you have used them in?

Some technologies that I have used in my act of writing has been the word processor, spell check, and a printer. The word processor is alot easier then writing with a pen you hand doesnt cramp up as easy, spell check makes it easy to correct mispelled words, finally the printer makes the final copy clean. The drawbacks of using spellcheck has to be that I am mispelling words and my spelling has become pretty bad.

 

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