Of the two readings that you were assigned for homework, what resonated with you? In other words, what did you take away from the readings and why? What part of the reading did you feel? Your response should be 4-5 sentences long.
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Out of all the readings, the part that stood out to me the most was from page 16 of the book. it was said that everyone has a different style of writing. the idea of finding your own style catches on to you when you think about it that what would be my writing style like. how would it look like? this type of thought usually guides or motivates a student or a person with writing in mind.
As I mentioned in class, this idea of everyone having their own style of writing is a simple thought, yet it is quite profound. If you take a moment to look back at some of your former writing, I am sure you would notice some patterns or some elements of your style. Hopefully, you’ll become more conscious of it in this class.
The resonance of these two books that resonates with me is that if you know the rules of this world, you have a very powerful force to break these rules or even to change them, but if you don’t know the rules of this world, then you forcefully violate or change, it will lose your honor(page 17).I learned from reading that if you want to do something, first you have to understand what you want to do, because when you decide to do it, you already have some knowledge or experience.So,it won’t be confused yourself.After reading the second half of the article, I feel that in this world, as long as you can find some survival rules in your life, your future life will be less difficult. As long as you face the difficulties bravely, all difficult things will be solved, and the way of solving them will change over by time.
I agree that it is important to understand the rules of the world if you want to change them. We discussed this a bit today in class, and I am glad that you mentioned it here. In the future, please tell me which article you are referencing when you reply to the blog posts.
Of what was able to be understood from Seth Graves, what resonated the most to me is when explaining, (Page 52) “Literacy is also shaped by our understanding of what is possible.” Our understanding leads to the extent of being to shape ideology where reading and writing can be more complex than they seem and can learn more about oneself, “You can learn about yourself by examining your own literacy practices and developing a metacognitive awareness of why you write, speak, and act within the context of your own life.” As this is what I had understood from the readings, what I had the most feeling towards what continues from this by Kim Liao in a literacy narrative where Tan shows an example of her mother’s “mother tongue,” her own translation into standard English, and the tension being placed in the middle “red faced and quiet. Since this type of literacy narrative shows many carry around multiple literacies in our lives, it also helps learning about yourself shaped by our understanding.
You make a number of excellent points here, Daniel. I love the first quote from Professor Graves that you shared. The more “literate” we become, the more we understand what is possible in this world. Increasing our level of literacy helps us to open our minds more. I also like that you made a connection between the Graves and Liao readings. Excellent work!
After completing both readings, there are two things that resonate with me. In “On Writing as Style and Entering a Conversation” the thing that resonate with me is everyone has different way of communicating with others because of their age, culture, and usage. After reading I feel learning and understanding language is important because with different backgrounds we might not be able to understand each other. What resonate with me in “Translingualism: Approaching Language from a Global Perspective” is that at different ages people learn different because it would be more easier for a kid to learn a new language than our parent. Kids just pick up what they learn, while parents have to study like coding and upload into their mind(kamal Belmihoub and Lucas Corcoran).
You picked up on a very important point here, Lei. As adults we surely approach literacy in a different way than children do. I also like that you made this connection of the role that age plays in these two texts. The mind thrives from making such connections. Great work!
From the first reading “On Writing as Style and Entering a Conversation”, I had learned that writing is a way to present yourself to the world or to your audience. People write differently, there is no such as “correct” or “incorrect” ways of writing, but the writing needs to be valuable to yourself. From the second reading “Translingualism: Approaching Language from a Global Perspective”, I had learned that language is a broad and profound knowledge, there is no specific way to explain “what a language is”. People learn in different ways as they’re in different groups of age. Adult learn in a systematic environment, but kids learn from their daily life and use it fluently without knowing the meaning of it. And also I like the sentence from the reading “No language belongs to anyone. Anyone can appropriate language for their own purposes”.
I love that you picked up on this point of writing needing to be valuable to yourself, Janie. This is quite important. I also like this last quote that you mentioned. People of all different backgrounds share all sorts of ideas. We move forward as a species by building on so many of these ideas that are shared through language.
The question about “Can we have different voices or styles in our writing just like we present ourselves differently…in the way we talk to our mother or grandmother versus how we communicate with our closest friends? (page 16)” in writing as styles part resonates with me. I noticed that writing is also a kind of communication. To have good communications, you need to use different methods to make your audiences understand. It is similar to how you talk with different ages or types of people daily. I learned that writing needs to make audiences and readers have a clear understanding of what you express. When the objects of narration are different, you may use different ways or styles of writing.
With two things I could resonate myself. The first is that there is a different way of communicating with different people. such as I don’t talk with my mom the same way I talk with my friends. So knowing your audience is very important. The second that I could resonate with is that when the author states “everyone has a different writing style”. My writing style is not the same as my friend’s writing style. I like to write with more common simple words.
You seemed to have learned an excellent lesson here, Bing Lin. Whether we are 100% conscious of it or not, we communicate with different groups of people in our lives differently, and we either unconsciously, subconsciously, or consciously take our audience into account when we communicate something. I really like this parallel that you shared about how we communicate with people of different ages differently just as we write differently depending on the audience (or on the type of assignment).
On the first reading, what have resonated with me is the fact that we have different types of writing based on what we are writing to and for. The more I think about it, the more I agree with it. Or I should say, “we should know our audiences before we write”. Since we use different languages/strategies/communication styles to express our ideas to certain groups. On the second reading, what have stood out to me is that the author points out that adults and children learn languages differently than each other. The author point of view was adults learn language in a systematic way and children learn language by simply picking it up naturally. I would say it is not quite like that. I would say the main factor that is causing this situation to happen is the environment. Think of it in this way. children go to school, where they can learn and practice their targeted language. While adults, they do not got a place like school. Which it is forcing them (adults) to learn a language by reading books (systematic).
I very much like the thought process that you’ve shared here, Pin Yuan. I especially like the last few lines of this response. However, please keep in mind that you are an adult and you are in school. I assume that when you use the word “adult” here, you are referencing adults who are no longer in school. If this is the case, you are right; much language development as an adult stems from reading books.
Something that I take from the reading is that language actually means something that could bring people together and form a discourse community, and there are also many ways to express language. As stated “an image, a gesture, a line of computer code, or even an emoji can all function as language…”pg 51. In this reading I would totally agree with the writer because in todays society people don’t just use word to express their language, a emoji or image could have replace with word during the chat just to express our feelings or thoughts based on our understanding of what the emoji or image means in language.
Well said, Kelly. I particularly like how you reiterated the process by which a discourse community is formed. It seems to be quite organic, no? I think in the age of the Internet – the information age – it’s easier than ever to find discourse communities to associate with. Sometimes this has negative effects, though, as the different discourse communities with which we engage can form an “echo chamber” (look up this term if you don’t know it), which can actually simply reinforce our existing beliefs as opposed to helping us to open our minds to new ones.
Something I like about the reading is “everyone has a different writing style” (pg-16) because it clearly states that it does not matter how bad we are at writing, can be improved by focusing on phrases and sentence structure, etc. The author has also included two writing styles MLA and APA which show us the values of Leader for the discipline of the writing.
I very much like this point you made about the fact that we can have a writing style even if maybe we struggle with grammatical elements. We can learn better sentence structure to help us to better and more accurately express the thoughts that we have.
From the reading “On Writing as Style and Entering a Conversation”, I resonated that with the different people, we talk differently. When it comes to writing, it is the same as we are talking with people. It is important to know who your audience is before you start the writing, which will makes you to think of what you want to the target audience. In the second reading, I exteremly agree with “No language belongs to anyone. Anyone can appropriate language for their own purposes.” I think language is something that everyone is still trying learn everyday. Language is powerful and it is a tool to our daily life to communite with people.
I surely agree that it essential to understand your audience before we start writing, May. I also agree that “anyone can appropriate language.” I think language appropriation occurs more and more as societies around the world become more and more diverse.
out of the two readings, the part that resonates with me the most is the author talking about how children were capable to learn a language faster. I came to America when I am very young, at that time I could speak my native language mandarin. But I am still able to learn how to spell and read mandarin. I believe it was because I am very young at that time, and I like to watch Chinese television shows. Through looking at the subtitle of the shows and finding the tricks of pinyin, I learn to read and spell mandarin without anyone teaching me.
Thank you for sharing, Roulin. Please remember that blogs posts are due by 9:00pm the evening before class. I cannot give credit for late blog posts.
Of the two assigned readings, the reading that stood out to me the most is “On Writing as Style and Entering a Conversation.” The first reading talks about people having different writing styles and compares writing to conversations with various people. When we send a message to our grandparents, we would usually not message them the same way we would to a friend. Writing is a way of presentation. This reading resonates with me because I believe writing is a way of presenting myself. People can perceive you a certain way from the way you write. For instance, when I message or write to a professor, I would be more formal and polite compared to a friend. It is like going on a job interview where you want to present yourself as respectful and professional. My main takeaway from this reading is everyone has a different writing style and may write differently depending on the situation.
Thank you for sharing, Sandy. Please remember that blogs posts are due by 9:00pm the evening before class. I cannot give credit for late blog posts.
From the two assigned readings the one that resonated with me was the “On Writing as Style and Entering a Conversation”. The reason for this is because I didn’t really realize writers have their own style. While I read I really don’t pay attention if the writer has a different styler than another. By reading this for hw it made me realize when I read I have to pay attention to more details so it can help me in my writer. In addition while I was reading the this it made me come to a realization ,when I write an essay in the future I should come up with my own style so I can develop an identity when it comes to writing.
Thank you for sharing, Adonis. Please remember that blogs posts are due by 9:00pm the evening before class. I cannot give credit for late blog posts.
Out of both reading assignments, the writing that resonated to me the most is “On Writing as Style and Entering a Conversation”. It was surprising that I didn’t realize how people talks differently when facing different people, this also happens to writing style. People have their own writing styles as a way of expressing themselves to their audiences. I came to the realization that when I’m talking to different people I tend to use the language that the person I talked are more comfortable with.
Thank you for sharing, Yu. Please remember that blogs posts are due by 9:00pm the evening before class. I cannot give credit for late blog posts.