I am going to reflect on what I have learn in my English 100 class in this blog post. Using blog post #7 and the Reflective Writing video as my guide. I will focus on the following as a writer. My author identity. How has it changed in this course? My theory of writing. How has this course impacted the way I define and value writing? Which composition concepts/ terms do I most value? My growth as a writer. How are my past academic writing experiences different from my present experiences with writing in this course? How are the past and present experiences the same? And my knowledge transfer to future writing situations.
English 100 has been one of the best class so far, I have taken in DCCC. Why? There are things that I never knew or had no idea off before coming this class. For examples, Weebly Website and Blogging , Meaning-Making Processes ,Our Discourse Community Values ,What is Rhetoric? Exigence in Rhetoric (ThoughtCo.) ,Aristotle's Rhetorical Situation (Purdue OWL) ,How to Create a Weebly Website (Video Tutorial), All Writing is Multimodal (Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton), It's All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design (Think Around Corners), Assessing Multimodal Student Work (Kent State University), Weebly Help Center, Edit the Header on your Weebly Site (add your personal photo), How to Upload a Word Document or PDF File on a Weebly Webpage, How to Post a Google Doc on a Weebly Web Page , Weebly Blog Tutorial , Create a Blog Post, How to Embed a YouTube Video on Weebly Blog, How to Upload a YouTube Video, How to Upload a YouTube Video From your Phone and YouTube Video Editor. Are some of the new things I learn while in this class. Digital Portfolio Project and Well-Being Assessment of Digital Portfolio are the most important tools I had to work with during the semester. This was very strange to me at the beginning, knowing that I had registered for English class and not digital or computer class. However, as the class went along it became clear that I was in the right class and I had to learn a new way of composing and to make meaning through my digital portfolio. I have learned a lot when it comes to vlogging, blogging, uploading videos, pictures, documents, arranging, creating, editing and adding likes to my digital portfolio using Weebly website. With this knowledge, I can now make meaning by composing and creating my digital portfolio. I am so happy that I was given the opportunity to be creative in this class and I look forward to applying my skill acquired on the outside world.
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At the start of my research project, I felt completely lost! I had this thought deep down inside me of fear. Fear of me not going to meet the deadline, what am going to research on, it was going be difficult for me in compiling my sources and most of all fear of making mistakes or doing the wrong thing. But all those feelings, and thoughts were all for nothing. I was joined by 2 of my class mates Florence Jossy and Zahedul Islam to work on our research project, something I have never done before. At the beginning, we struggled with finding our topic, we argued on what our thesis statement should look like and what question we as a team should answer.
With the guidance of our amazing instructor Sabatino, we established our identity and begun to work on our project. A thesis topic and a question were agreed upon and we started to work. We worked tirelessly to produce our first draft; it wasn’t easy as we thought it would have been. We spent hours together working, texting and calling each other to make sure we complete our first draft and for us to meet the deadline and we were successful in meeting our benchmark for the project. To my group members Florence Jossy and Zahedul Islam, let me use this medium to express my gratitude and appreciation to you guys for co-authoring with me. It was awesome working with you guys especially with times that we disagreed on issues and views, we came together and found common ground as a group to move our project forward. We contributed our individual skills, experiences and cultures to our work. I learned a lot from both of you and I have developed a different mind set when it comes to co-authoring. I have become more open and ready to share my ideas in co-authoring any project in respective of the persons or groups involves. Let’s go into the world and make meaning. This blog will give an insight of our group research project from our English 100 class. Our group is made of 3 persons and we've agreed to research on the above topic. With the aide of our professor, we'll do our best. I am going to post what we've written so far (Introduction Page) and more to be published soon.
The Mask You Live In is a documentary produced and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom that explores the negativities of masculinity with in the American culture. Newsom’s inspiration for the documentary originated from her getting pregnant with her son. She was quoted during an interview when she said, “It was really important to me that I could nurture a son who could be true to his authentic self, who wouldn’t always feel like he had to prove his masculinity. There’s so much loneliness, pain, and suffering when one is pretending to be someone that they’re not.” We imagine the mixed view this documentary had. Some saw it as gender bias against men and some saw it as the wrong view of masculinity by female. This research paper will traverse masculinity and redefine masculinity as it relates to how American parents raise their sons. Newsom argues that we’ve constructed an idea of masculinity (05:33) in the United States that doesn’t give young boys (05:36) a way to feel secure in their masculinity, (05:39) so we make them go prove it at all time. She went on to say that masculinity is not organic, it’s reactive. (05:50) It’s not something that just develops. (05:52) It’s a rejection of everything that feminine. (05:54) We believe that Newsom’s definitions toward boys and their parents are harmful to society and has the propensity to initial violent boy, we differ with her on those issues. We’ll as a team redefine how American Parents define masculinity for their sons and we are going reconstruct the I deal that masculinity is not organic, it’s reactive. (05:50) It’s not something that just develops. (05:52) It’s a rejection of everything that feminine think that It’s the society that’s unfair masculinity with in the American culture. Let me start by first given an historical over view of masculinity to give the basic to my argument. Our last week section was full of creativities, we drew capturing images along with a quote from each documentary Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In in class and we displayed them on the board.
Miss Representation “It’s all about the body and not the brain” This quote to me is one of the most powerful quotes in the documentary. Women are more then just an object in our society, they are like a bridge to me. We need them to us through almost everything our society calls for. Example: We need them to give their views on things that will ship our world in a positive way, like in the educational sector, political or policy making decisions etc. The Mask You Live In In the mask you live in, there’s a part where group of boys from different age rang was given a paper to write what ever they felt inside. They all wrote down “pain”, “anger” and on and on. Their faces could not tell what they felt inside of them. I think we as human regardless of who we’re, we all wear different kinds of masks. I look forward for another excited week come Tuesday. After watching the assigned films Miss Representation, Miss Representation Discussion Guide, Miss Representation Script , The Mask You Live In and The Mask You Live In Discussion Guide . I am going to answer the following questions for blog post #10 and blog post #11: How does the argument in the film make you feel (impact on your being)?
How does the argument in the film make you think (impact on your knowing)? How does the argument in the film make you want to make change (impact on your doing)? Miss Representation How does the argument in the film make you feel (impact on your being)? As a member of our discourse community English 100 class, I totally felt bad. For the fact that professional women are not respected for what they can do but they are look down upon and marginalize by the media. How does the argument in the film make you think (impact on your knowing)? The film has given me a clear understanding of media and how they treat women. I think it’s not a good way the media portrait women, they should be treated with more respect as their male counterpart because they are able to contribute equally to our society. How does the argument in the film make you want to make change (impact on your doing)? The argument in the film want our discourse community to make changes to the way the media sees and treats women. They’re part of our community and should be given the opportunity to serve in every capacity like men as long as they are qualify. The Mask You Live In How does the argument in the film make you feel (impact on your being)? The film made me to sad and as part of this discourse community, it’s a good thing to be aware of the problems that our society faces and how we can have an impact in improving those ills that cause problem for our community. How does the argument in the film make you think (impact on your knowing)? This film has impacted me in so many ways and I have learn a lot. I have the knowledge of how it’s good to allow you child to be emotionally open. We as mentors need to be positively challenged and to stay true to our children in respective of their gender, how we need to give them support and keep them engage with things that will help them in life to make better decision. How does the argument in the film make you want to make change (impact on your doing)? Lesson learn from the film will be transformed to my community and I’ll make it a part of me, that teens or children should be mentor, how a good father should care for his son and teach him the right things to do, like treating everyone with respecting, no matter what gender or age that person is. Hello everyone and welcome to my blog, as we begin the second half of the semester, I am excited and ready to work hard. For my blog post today, I am going found poem (s) Our Discourse Community Values, What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) and We Are Many (Pablo Neruda) . We were give options to complete this blog post and I consider found poem as my genre to show how the three texts speak to the identity of our discourse community.
Our Discourse Community Values inform your participation in our community, contribute suggestions to revise or add to these values, enact your own meaning-making processes, Conceptualize discourse communities social networks frame ethics, expectations, and exigencies stakeholders use situated languages to bond others and make meaning, Cultivate joy writing learning Connect past, present, future writing histories knowledges Clarify meaning oneself, Communicate ideas specific audiences Compose multiple genres, modes, and media meet moments of 21st century rhetorical situations Create reiterative writing processes generate and revise ideas Construct writer’s identity interact with the authorial choices others and of self, Each enacted values evoke "writing-as-travel" experiences manifest author-self interactions material immaterial writing activities. Curious learn discourse communities, writing-as-travel, and author-self interactions shape learning in course? Curiosity good place to start. We Are Many (Pablo Neruda) many men I am, we are, I cannot settle single one, me under cover clothing, departed another city. everything seems set, to show me off as a man of intelligence, keep concealed person takes over and occupies my mouth, other occasions, am dozing midst of people some distinction, and when I summon my courageous self, coward completely unknown me, swaddles poor skeleton thousand tiny reservations, stately home bursts into flames, instead fireman summon, arsonist bursts on the scene, he is I. is nothing I can do. must distinguish myself? I put myself together? All books I read, lionize dazzling hero figures, brimming self-assurance, die with envy of them; films bullets fly on wind, I am left in envy of the cowboys, admiring even the horses. I call upon my DASHING BEING, out comes same OLD LAZY SELF, I never know just WHO I AM, nor WHO WE WILL BE BEING, I would like to be able to touch a bell, my real self, truly me, I need my proper self, I must not allow myself to disappear, While I am writing, I am far away; when I come back, I have already left, I should like to see if the same thing happens, other people as it does to me, see if as many people are as I am, if they seem the same way to themselves, this problem has been thoroughly explored, I going to school myself so well in things, when I try to explain my problems, I shall speak, not of self, but of geography. What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) Piece of folk wisdom part what linguists define words technical meaning to old term "discourse" A socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or "social network" "Identity kit" costume and instructions to act and talk to take a particular role other recognize, "trained" learned to speak, think and act like linguist and recognize others when they do, large discourse of linguistics contains sub- discourses, different socially accepted ways of being a linguist, But master discourse is not just sum of it parts, it's something over and above them, every act of speaking, writing and behaving linguist does as a linguist is meaningful against background of social institution of linguistic, made of concrete things like people, books, and buildings; abstract things like universities, journals and publishers; a shared history and story. Being an American, being man or woman. 1. Discourses are inherently "Ideological" crucially involve a set of values and viewpoints while being in the discourse otherwise one doesn't count as being in it. 2. Discourses are resistant to internal criticism and self-scrutiny. 3. Discourses defined positions from which to speak and behave are not, however, just defined by internal to a discourse, but also a standpoints taken up by the discourse in its relation to other, ultimately opposing discourses. 4. Any discourse concerns itself with certain objects and put forward certain concepts, viewpoints and values at the expense of other. 5. Discourses are intimately related to the distribution of social power and hierarchical structure in society. Acquisition of social goods (Money, Power, status) social goods in a society "dominant discourse" Acquisition is a process of acquiring something subconsciously by exposure to models and a process of trial and error, without a process of formal teaching, Learning is a process that involved conscious knowledge gained through teaching meta-knowledge There is an up side and a down side to both that can be expressed as follows "we are better at what we acquire, but we consciously know more about what we learned " acquisition is good for performing, learning is good for meta-level knowledge, oral mode birthright primary socialization within the family culture function like extended families, secondary discourses institutions (workplace, schools businesses, churches) . Literacy is control of secondary uses of language, Dominant literacy is a control of secondary use language used in what called a dominant discourse. In this digital post, I am going to reflect on what I have learn from the first day end to the of the first half of the English 100 class as it relates to my blog. Indicating what page of my blog posts, and drafts of my narrative that are suffering, functioning or flourishing and provide reason why it’s suffering, functioning or flourishing. I will on the other hand summarize how and when I am expected to improve the well-being of each page.
Home page well-being assessment: Flourishing I provided a welcome, photo, a quote, my three intrinsic goals and it well formed. I am going keep reviewing and editing it as needed. About page assessment: Suffering I provided photo, quote and have not answered the questions or said anything about myself. Before the end of the semester, I am going update it. Narrative project page: Functioning I have a picture, a quote, a first drift, reversed draft and was advice to improve few parts of it, especially the conclusion. I am going revise my conclusion before the second half of the semester starts. Research Project Page: Suffering It is still undergoing construction, we will be working on it the next half of the semester. Contact page: Flourishing My contact page has picture, quote and all the necessary fields that are require. Blog post page. Flourishing My blog page has picture, quote and I have completed all the given assignment for the first half of the semester. I look forward to completing the next half of the semester. In this Vlog post Reflective Writing, I am going to talk about my past writing experience, present experience and my future as it relates to the writing process.
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