Blog #10

I didn't learn much more compared to my comp class over the summer. I did however refresh my memory on a lot of key information that would improve my writing. I was refreshed on transitions, TS/CD, and the proper way of citing.

All of which is extremely useful for any college student. In the future i plan on incorporating all of these tricks as best as i can, it would be stupid not to. As long as i use all of what ive learned or even half of it, my papers will be noticeably better than if i had never taken the class at all.

I don't plan on taking any more English classes after this since it is not in the same direction of my major (Advertising). I do need to write papers and marketing plans, but a majority of all the writing is a different format and wont need to be cited, it's all facts about a product or company.

Blog #7

Humor can be as simple as making someone happy. It usually ends up making people laugh. There is no exact definition to what humor is or isn't. It could be awkward moments in shows such as the office or funny one liners by Mitch Hedberg the comedian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IueXtzdC6kA . Some people can even find the yelling and repetitiveness of Dane Cook funny, I'm not one of them. Also the ironic story/situation is always funny.

The first thing that comes to mind when it comes to style is writing style. I really could care less what kind of style of clothes i have on, to the point of the name of the style. When it comes to writing style there is so much more things to know so you don't mess it up. Style is essentially making something look good, if its a paper or a person, that could also fit certain specifications to be related or similar to other pieces like it.

Blog #3

One thing i learned about me as a writer is that I'm good at piecing things together. My role in the group was to take two papers about one topic, proofread them, and then make it into one paper. My partners did very well on their part and i was able to organize their thoughts into paragraphs and have one start off where the other one left off.

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I am not active in sports anymore, in the past i have played football, soccer, basketball, baseball, competitive shooting, and most recently lacrosse, which I played in the MCLA. My last season at high school was the first time our team went undefeated in lacrosse. The last game had two undefeated teams playing each other, going into five overtimes until we scored the winning goal.

I looked into a Greek organization, but i realized that it would probably be less beneficial for me. I feel like it would be too demanding and each individual represents the whole, so if one person does something stupid the whole could be punished. So Id rather live on my own and not worry about making a bunch of frat guys happy.

Some things I talk about with my friends is movies, since i work at a movie theater. I also bring up topics related to guns, such as shooting and the current gun control laws. Like what I would change about them and which ones make sense. and i usually talk about music w friend like which genres are terrible and sound like the same thing, and songs id like to see more often.

Blog #6

The most important things I have learned in this class are easily the TS/CD paragraph structure and the transition method. The TS/CD structure makes my papers more informative and still get my opinions across. It also makes my papers run a lot smoother. And the best thing is that it fills the pages up nicely. The transition is another tool i have to fill the pages. The most important thing it does is make the paper have great and smooth transitions. I will use both of these tools in the future, and i really wish i knew this before i started high school.

The aspects of this class that made me feel better about my writing was the actual transition assignments. It is the concept I grasp the most and understand it very well. I know I am good at the transitions with using old information getting to new information, and i am more confident to put it in my writings i will have to do in the future.

I hope that i will eventually be able to write TS/CD without knowing that I'm doing it at all. that way i will feel like i am a better writer knowing that it comes naturally to me. One thing i know i should never forget is the OWL at Purdue resource. It is one of the greatest resources I have ever been told of. It makes citations a lot easier, and they wont be as time consuming anymore. Overall I thought it was a great class and I have already recommended it to some of my friends.

Blog #5

Of course I preferred writing about the advertisement and how it affects peoples emotions rather than filling out a resume that i have done numerous times in my lifetime. Like i have mentioned before, I prefer having freedom in my writing rather than writing with no room of creativity.
I enjoyed writing the 4th essay, because it was something relevant to my interest. it was not hard to find something to write about since we see hundreds of advertisements everyday, they are even in our own home. If i had more time to work on it i probably would have remembered to put a work cited, and go more into detail that would support my arguement. I would have kept the same arguements though, and kept the same commercial since it is one of my favorites playing today. OIne thing i learned from writing this, is how much a simple advertisment that seems to do nothing, can do a lot to effect several emotions and needs. Every so often I realize that im analyzing a commercial and seeing what exactly it is doing.
I would not use a different format for my resume, I used a template in word that makes it look very professional and stands out from other resumes that i have seen. The best thing about having all the information together is that I know i have one place to go that will have all my information I need to fill out, yet another, resume. The biggest pain for me was to get the references and all their information and also where i worked before and when I worked and all that useless information.

Blog #4

Out of all the essays I have done so far my favorite is definitely the third essay. It was not the most specific essay and I could really go into depth about something I actually take to heart. On all the essays I think I should get about a B on all of them, because I didn't give myself enough time to perfect my paper. I have a bad tendency to wait for the last minute to do anything like a paper or project, unless its a group project. I wouldnt say I work well under the pressure and speed of summer school, I would say I survive well under the speed and pressure. I don't plan on falling behind, but I'm not going to focus my entire summer on school. If I had more time I would work on my papers more and earlier so that I feel more confident about getting a good grade.

blog #3

The second blog was the easier to write, because it is more personal. It was easier because I wasn't reflecting on information I read, but information I experienced throughout my life. Obviously I enjoy writing the more personal blogs over the non-personal blogs, simply because they are more interesting for me to write. The hardest thing for me out of both of the blogs was going back and trying to remember all the information for the first blog. The second blog I got through with ease. If I could redo my blogs I would improve them just by making it flow better, and making what I'm trying to say a lot easier. I have no reason not to use any of the strategies, I've learned in the this class for other classes. It depends on the situation, if its another blog, then i won't use it. If it's a formal paper then I would definitely use the strategies.

Blog #2

One of the main strengths I have as a writer is ,the fact that, once I get going, I keep going. I tend to start ranting with what i know on the topic, but it works. And if it is too sloppy i can go back and make it look cleaner with ease. Once I have the information down, making it look pretty is easy. I've also been good at making a good title for a paper. I make it relative to the paper, of course. But I don't make it too obvious on the what exactly it's all about.

Some weaknesses I have is getting started, not just getting the first paragraph down, but also getting me to start writing the paper. I have a problem with procrastination. I also have trouble making the cut on page length on occasion, so i have to go through the paper over and over and find what i can add more onto. Also I can easily get side tracked and it will be awhile for me to realize it, so i have to go back and delete everything that has nothing to do with the topic.

This essay was pretty simple for me to write, the only problem I had was that I realized i had a better example for the topic of communication barriers, since my uncle's family all are bilingual and speak German around us, but i am still being surrounded by the Polish language. If I had the chance to do the essay again I would definitely change the topic to my family, I would also pay more attention to grammar, since I made a few simple mistakes. Changing the entire topic it would be hard to keep things the same, other than the structure of the essay. I suppose I could also use the same formality and style.

I enjoy writing, as long as it's something I'm passionate about. Usually if the subject that I have to write on is very narrow and strict I won't enjoy writing it, but if the subject to write on is broad then I can write a lot more on it with a lot more ease. I like to write because I can throw my thoughts down into print and expand on the thoughts there and come up with an entire idea that makes a lot of sense to me.

Blog #1

Before i knew very little on specifically what rhetoric is. all i could refer to is from the term "Rhetorical Question," where you ask a question and do not expect an answer. What I learned about is that it Rhetoric allows a writer or speaker to expect what answer they can receive. This way they can sort of guide the audience to where they want them to go very effectively.
And when it came to genres, I am pretty sure i have a good understanding of it. There are various movie genres like horror, comedy, romance, and many others. With music there is punk, rock, metal, techno, and a lot more including many more. Basically a genre allows a piece to be grouped to other pieces that are similar, so you wont end up finding the Saw series in with Sesame Street. What I learned about genres is that what defines what genre it belongs to is for detailed than i expected, let it be the language used, the design of it, tone of it, and just so many other factors.
In my writing I will try my best to use rhetoric wisely so that my writing will have more of an effect on the reader and the flow of the piece will be a lot smoother. When it comes to genre I will make sure what I'm writing falls under exactly what I want it to so that there is no doubt that it is the genre i want it to be.
These concepts where fairly easy to grasp, the extent of how deep a genre would go was probably the hardest thing to grasp, because I thought what I thought about genres was just how it was, and with rhetoric I really had no previous knowledge so it was all new to me and didnt interfere with any ideas i had already about it.
These sections where pretty interesting, because all though i learned something new and i've always been interested in how i could write something differently or better, and this helped a bit. the read wasn't so easy, because it was just facts. In the beginning it was not so bad but then it was fact after fact and that doesn't excite me at all. Like i've mentioned before the reading was informative, I learned more about genres, more than i thought would be neccasary about genres in fact. and i have a good idea about what rhetoric means.

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