...The visual images I had selected and analyzed for this unit reflects an understanding of audience, genre, social and cultural contexts, and purposes in several ways. One main thing is that each visual image can incite different reactions from people who come from different backgrounds, experiences, etc. People won’t necessarily carry the same views as you when viewing different visual images (i.e.memes). So in this way, that is is how an understanding of audience and social and cultural contexts is reflected. What I find interesting is how this relates to a concept I’ve learned from the Dorothy Bland article called the Rashomon Effect. This is a concept where people have different interpretations of the same event, but in this case, visual images. So perhaps I could look at something that gives me positive vibes, while another could potentially see it as negative. As for the genres and purposes of these images is that they do their own part of spreading an important message or issue (i.e. Black Lives Matter). But as far as visual images go, they have the freedom to represent themselves in their own unique ways stemming from messages that can be displayed in a positive, clever, or...
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...When I first thought about my English 11 class I was thinking about how I wanted to better myself in the future. I was hoping that I would get a teacher that would help me improve my writing skills and help me improve my SAT score and I received my wish. I ended up getting Mrs. Miles as a my English teacher and I was very excited to get her as a teacher because I wanted to see how fun she makes English and it was a lot of fun.Writing is like cooking you can only have a few ingredients but, you can make something actually mouth-watering out of it. Overall, I have greatly improved my writing skills for the future. The first essay that I would like to talk about is my Romanticism Fictional Narrative that I made in my 10th grade English class. The reason why I chose to talk about this essay is because it shows how creative I can without an outline. What I liked about this essay is how creative and descriptive it is. I made this essay by basically going off what my brain imagined. What I learned from this essay is when I do not use an an outline my ideas are more artistic....
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...are methods for effectively communicating through language and writing. Complete the following chart to identify the purpose and structure of the various rhetorical modes used in academic writing. Provide at least two tips for writing each type of rhetorical device. NOTE: You may not copy and paste anything directly from the textbook or a web site. All information included in this assignment must be written in your own words. Rhetorical Mode | * Purpose – Explain when or why each rhetorical mode is used. | Structure – Identify the organizational method that works best with each rhetorical mode. | Tips – Provide two tips for writing in each rhetorical mode. | Narration | The purpose is to tell the reader a story. | You need to understand the four basic components to all narratives which are the plot, character, conflict, and theme. | -It must be fact or fiction.-You are telling the reader a series of events in an exciting way. | Illustration | The purpose is to show the reader a clear picture. | You need to use specific details. | -You want to keep your introduction very interesting to the reader is excited.-Make sure to use clear supporting details so the reader is able to visualize what you are saying. | Description | The purpose is to be able to understand a person, place, or object using sensory details. | Using description you will set the tone and point of your essay. | -You must first chose a subject.-Give a full impression of the chosen subject. | Classification...
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...Composition I Assignment – Final Project My personal writing style is invention. When I generate information about a particular subject, I like to leave the reader wanting more. Most often, I write from the vantage point of expressive aim; indeed, I write about personal issues that affect all people on a daily basis. I usually map my rhetorical situation according to the subject matter; interestingly enough, from the perspectives of knowledge by observation and participation. My core audience ranges from high school and college graduates to both, male and female older adults of all persuasions. The content of my writings are geared towards individuals who are further advanced in life than others who haven’t experienced working to support a family, being responsible for one’s family’s expenses, or career specific employment. I have chosen written assignments 2, 3 and 4 as the essays I want entered into my writing portfolio. I chose these essays because they stem from my life’s experiences, and are all addressed to my core audience. They utilize the expressive aim of writing, and for the most part, have similar deficiencies. My writings need stronger sentence structure at times, in addition to, crafting more concise conclusions. When I frame my conclusions, I need to sum things up with less verbiage and more content. I have to learn to touch the major points of my writings without introducing new information into my conclusions. As I reviewed my essays, I recognized where I kept...
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...Growing up I have always enjoyed writing. I have always been an emotional writer. I liked writing on how I feel. Even though I considered my writing “good” I was just never the one for presenting. I had friends and teachers to tell me my writing was great. I considered my writings personal reflections. I like writing and reflecting on them to see how I have grown as a person. Though I didn’t like sharing, my English teacher of my freshman year help change that. We were assigned to pick a theme song. The theme was our life. When we were first assigned I was pleased but when she said we were presenting I became apprehensive. Now that I have actually did it I consider that assignment the door to a new experience. I walked into my English class...
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...English 1101 9 October 2013 Midterm Reflection I have done a variety of different assignments throughout my English 1101 class this semester. The assignments that have had the most influence on me include select chapters from J.M. Bohannon’s I Hate Writing, Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts”, Stephen King’s On Writing, and my practice with rhetorical analysis. Each of these assignments have significantly impacted me and caused me to view my own writing differently. They have helped me grow as a writer as well as come closer to finding my own writer’s “voice”. I have really enjoyed and learned from the chapters that I have read so far in I Hate Writing. My favorite chapter is chapter seven because Bohannon discusses many different ways to introduce a paper. I found her methods very helpful because I have a tendency to struggle when writing my introductions; I simply have no idea where to begin. Bohannon suggestions in chapter seven include telling a story, using a quotation, defining an unfamiliar term, directly stating an argument, writing in the reader, and being creative. After trying each of the options presented by Bohannon in this particular chapter, I found that using a quotation is my favorite technique. I feel it is the easiest way to start a paper off since I have something to base my paper off of. I also feel it is a good way to draw the reader in since a quote is simple, yet sets the theme and mood of a paper. I also appreciated the advice Bohannon gave in chapter...
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... 5 Appendix 6 Introduction This is my personal development report and within the content of this I will show how I have identified weaknesses that I need to work on and how I can monitor the progression of improvement within these chosen areas. I will also look at how I can implement changes to my personal, academic & personal skills to help me develop them too. Assessment of Self At the start of my journey of personal development I undertook a simple ‘Assessment of Self’ task to briefly establish what and why I wanted to improve my skills. This was in the way of a few questions…..Goals, Barriers etc. (Appendix 1). I then moved on to a more in depth way of assessment through a skills audit which helped me to identify my strengths and weaknesses and what I could improve on. Skills Audit The skills audit (Appendix 2) was a process of questions around different communication techniques, teamwork and IT Skills. The answers I gave, in my opinion, felt most appropriate to my current skill set. Upon finishing the audit I chose 2 weaknesses and strengths evidently shown in the results. Weaknesses * Academic Reading * Academic Writing Strengths * Teamwork * Numbers With these results I then moved on to a SWOT analysis. SWOT Swot analysis is a...
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...rest of your writing. A research question, which is more specific and focused than a general topic, is the question that your research paper will answer. For example, if your general area of interest is social security, a possible research question might ask, “How can low-income families save more money if the United States had a reformed social security plan that includes personal retirement accounts?” As you develop a research question, remember that you need to research sources to support your topic. Do not pick a one-sided question that will limit your research. Instead, develop a research question that lends itself to further exploration and debate—a question you genuinely want to know the answer to. Try to pick a research question that is neither too broad (covering too much) or too narrow (covering too little). It should be broad enough to be discussed in a short research paper. Part 1: Complete the Research Plan What is your general topic or area of interest? Eating all organic What is it about your general topic that interests you? It is controversial all around. What questions do you have about the topic that you would like to investigate? List them. What are the health risks for and against. Why should one choose this way of life. How does one go about eating all organic. Would any of the questions you listed make a good subject for a research paper? Pick or adapt one question and make it into a research question. Yes, I think all...
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... we must analyze the past to ensure we don’t make the same mistakes previously undertaken. My favorite subject is science, however everything that happens in the world falls under history at some point in time, based simply on the fact that everything we do or say will become history after it’s done or said. I want to study history and find more about my families’ history, and my culture in parts of the world where my descendants come from. It is extremely important to know where I come from and who my people are, as one day I will marry and settle down with my own family. I would like very much to be able to tell them about our families’ history and from where they come from. Most important is not letting my families’ history die with my elders. The only way I know of doing this is to research, talk, and spend more time with them and let them tell me everything they know so that I can research further and find more information out than previously known. To me, history is more than linking our past. It offers a small glimpse of the future. Not all, but most families way of doing things, professions, hobbies, etc., all come from learned behavior that may have been passed down from generation to generation. In order to progress forward, I feel that you must know where you’ve been. To me history is exciting, because you can learn from peoples past and dissect how and why events unfolded the way it did. Understanding people’s mindset can be difficult and many obstacles...
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...a child’s starting point is essential for a teacher so they can plan the right way to help move the child through their zone of proximal development. It is a teacher’s job to promote thinking abilities in their students. By asking higher order questions a teacher will help in their cognitive development. A child’s development of personality and self-esteem is important to not only their schooling, but in their whole life. A teacher can help their students establish this personality and give them multiple ways to develop their sense of self. My purpose in this child study is to be able to analyze an individual child’s physical, emotional, and cognitive development and determine how the changes she is going through will affect her learning and behavior. Making my decision on which child to study was not an easy one. I sat with Kimberly Mach, a sixth grade language arts teacher at Memorial Middle School who has become a mentor for me in my internship. We discussed the child study project and the specifics it would entail. We discussed several students that could be used in this study; all of the choices were middle-level, average students, that...
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...Transferability Writing is something that everyone does. Whether one likes it or not, they end up using their words. People tend to write about subjects that interest or relate to them. Everyone has their own way of writing, but their way was influenced by another source whether they know it or not. Individuality in writing is influenced through transferability. Technical writing is something that is learned. In school everyone was taught how to format an essay or different types of writing like poems or stories. Anything that I did in class I was always given a template of how the instructor wanted the paper to be written. This would have word count, the format, and what the paper should be about. All throughout school we learned the fundamentals of writing starting with letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, to structures of writing like essays and poems. The thing that is learned from writing is technical. As my English education grows the technical side is less focused on while the content is the most important thing. Content is the writing that I am doing now. The content portion of writing is not learned but influenced by others. My writing becomes influenced through examples like essays. In this English class, I believe that that’s how these three previous essays worked out. The Scholarly Discourse Unit paper was a paper that had us synthesize how we thought the writers Gee, Swales, and Porter connected to each other. I used transferability to apply the knowledge that I got from...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix C Final Exam • Access the Electronic Reserve Readings link in the Week Five section of your student Web site. • Select one of the following topics and read both articles that present opposing sides of the argument surrounding that topic. o Animal experimentation o Outsourcing o Media violence • Answer the following questions in paragraphs of approximately 100 words demonstrating your critical and creative thinking skills. 1. Identify if the topic you chose—as presented by both articles—is a problem or an issue, and explain what makes it a problem or an issue. If you believe the articles present both problems and issues, identify and explain what the problems are and what the issues are. Iii It is an issue because they have different opinion about it. The issues are that no one benefits and it is needless, costly, unreliable, and sometimes misleading research investigation and experiments. It is express that financially it is a waste and financial resources should allocate the monies to do clinical, preventive medicine, health programs and other studies. It is also believed that animal research does not have a sufficient role in improving people’s lives. Medical researchers believe that they are improving people’s lives, without the use of animal experimentation such as; AIDS, penicillin, anesthetics, and the human blood type were done through medical research. ...
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...ENG 215- Research and Writing Assignment: Research topics with explanation Name and Surname Professors Name Date: 01.15.2013 My first topic is should citizens be permitted to carry a concealed weapon to their workplace (e.g., office, school, construction site)? The reason I chose this topic is to express my ideas and explain the advantages and disadvantages of carrying guns while studying, working, etc. The audience I especially want to focus on is young teenagers and young adults. There are several reasons why citizens should be permitted to carry weapons to their workplace: uses in fights, uses while nervous, and uses when filthy language said, mockeries. My second topic is should the government offer tax credits for the purchase of hybrid or alternative energy vehicles? The reason I chose this topic is to let people know that regarding our own benefits or favorite cars we also have to think about the society and the air pollution that each car pollutes till the maximum. Each Americans spend an average of 800 gallons of gas annually, and they expect the air to be totally clear. The audiences in this paper are the government officials that government has to offer credits to encourage people buy hybrid or electronic cars to keep ecology in process. There are several reason why government should offer tax credits for the purchase...
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...Strategy Recommendation Pre-Writing Lutricia Hunter Capella University ABSTRACT A strategy recommendation is a business plan that is use to make a business more profitable and efficient. A business uses strategy recommendations to create goals and strategies for the company. Strategy recommendations help a business to better understand what a customer wants. The presented assignment I will discuss the strategy recommendation for JcPenney. This assignment will identify the specific business that I will use for the recommendation, the reason why I chose that particular business, and two academic resources from the Capella University’s Library. A strategy recommendation is a business plan that is use to make a business more profitable and efficient. A business uses strategy recommendations to create goals and strategies for the company. Strategy recommendations help a business to better understand what a customer wants. The presented assignment will discuss the strategy recommendation for JC Penney. This assignment will identify the specific business that I will use for the recommendation, the reason why I chose that particular business, and two academic resources from the Capella University’s Library. Identity of the Specific Business That I Will Use For Strategy Recommendation The business that I will be using for my strategy recommendation is JC Penney. JcPenney was created in Kemmerer, WY in 1902 by James Cash Penney. Penney called his first store the “Golden...
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...The five steps of the writing to me are first prewriting, which is simply jotting your ideas down on paper so you can remember them and keep them in somewhat of an order. Second is outlining, I see that as a way to get all of your ideas in order so it will make better sense to you and the reader. Writing a rough draft is simply writing your essay out on paper or notepad so you can re-read it to check for any errors. Revising is reading your essay in the hopes to catch anything that is out of order and would need to be put somewhere else in your essay. Last is editing simply checking for any spelling errors, grammar and sentence structure then submitting it. I have chosen two methods of losing weight, the reason I have chosen that is because I’m a bigger guy and I’m currently trying to lose weight. I figured if I chose this as my final assignment I will actually look up the information that I will need, also while being able to help myself on what works better and why. Also I don’t see why it would hurt anyone not to know the pros and cons of weight lose methods, once I’m better able to understand the information I will be able to assist others as well. In my SCI162 class I believe it will help me as well for our weekly challenges we have so I can be a leader for my team by giving them better...
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