Month: September 2021

• 1. What I did this week?
• Analysis ideas
• Fixed up my schedule
• 2. What went well
• The fact that I had set up a proper schedule.
• 3. What I had trouble with
• Making time for my work because of the holidays and helping around the house.
• 4. To do list
  • Create a rough draft for my Analysis Assignment
• 5. Left off
  • Creating an outline.

   

• 6. This week was a bit challenging as well during the holidays because I cannot complete work certain days. I am writing this during my long car-ride home.
• Roberts-Miller describes the extreme consequences of negative rhetoric or rhetoric that intentionally misleads an audience (11). Think of a time you have seen rhetoric in action. Was it positive or negative? Was it used to get at the truth or to mislead? What were the consequences?
• So often our words and writings influence others.
  Roberts-Miller stresses that rhetoric isn’t bad or good, but it’s almost never neutral. I recall reading an article about the famous gorilla, Harambe, when a youth fell into his pit was shot as the friendly gorilla only was helping the kid. This article was an example of negative rhetoric because of the image they gave the gorilla. They claimed it to be a beast and attacking. Many used this excuse that it was okay to kill an animal. If they simply tranquilized him we might have saved it’s life. We can face consequences based on our writing. Creating rhetoric which negatively influences, can backfire because of the ideas it’s brings to people. Creating reasons for killing doesn’t negate the fact of the death. I’m not saying it was right or wrong to do, but I will say that rhetoric definitely helped create your and my opinion on this topic.

• 1. What I did this week?
  • Polished Literacy narrative
  • Figured out how to improve my blogs@baruch writing logs by including this writing log.

   

• 2. What went well
  • Creating a set timer for myself so I don’t get distracted while writing.

   

• 3. What I had trouble with
  • Ideas to improve my narrative

   

• 4. To do list
  • Start week 5 work
  • Microeconomics unit

   

• 5. Left off
  • Reading the ‘Framework for success in postsecondary writing’ document.

   

• 6. This week was a bit challenging adapting to the holidays, next week as well will be difficult finding time to do work. I think I should set times on the days where I can work to do all my work on time.

 

Framework for success in postsecondary writing

• What you notice about the document? What do you wonder?

I noticed that the document “Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing” mentions habits of mind. These habits help position readers and writers to succeed. I enjoy using habits such as Creativity, Curiosity, and Responsibility while I write in order to create a framework of my task. With all the listed habits of mind, it makes me wonder how I can improve to gain all these habits such as Open mindedness, Persistence, and Metacognition.

 

1. What I did this week?

• Completed writing assignments
• Learnt how to utilize google docs

2. What went well

• I started taking better notes in my classes, I started to understand the material better.

3. What I had trouble with

• Planning a schedule around the days I can’t work

4. To do list

• Finish up my literacy narrative

5. Left off

• Thinking about how to continue my narrative

6. I feel this week I am getting the hang of how to properly submit my work. Although I still have some trouble I am feeling less stressed about my work.

• Write about what seems challenging in the Literacy Narrative assignment. What strategies can you employ to tackle these challenges? What questions remain or things are still unknown about this assignment?

I am a little troubled while writing my literacy narrative assignment where sometimes I drift off of my main idea while I’m in the ‘writing mode.’ Often when I write, I just write what comes to my head and sometimes it takes the focus off of my topic. I think in order to tackle this challenge, I need to reread each paragraph and see how it fits until I can move on in order to assess how it can strengthen my topic and not take away. I am still wondering where I should end my narrative and how I could further write about my central idea.

 

 

Hi all,

Let’s talk about stories!

Maxwell and Dickman believe that “a story is a fact, wrapped in an emotion that compels us to take an action that transforms our world.”

First, let’s define the term ‘story.’ Stories are an account of events told for entertainment. I think a story tells more than just events, they tell us the speakers emotions as well. Often when a speaker says or writes about an accomplishing moment, they use language to bring their readers the joyous emotions that were felt. I believe Maxwell and Dickman are correct by saying “a story is a fact wrapped in an emotion.” More-so, they believe that a story “compels us to take an action that transforms our world.” This is also true because by feeling the emotions of the author, the reader is engaged to act using these emotions.

A ‘good’ story must include a theme, conflict, and resolution. Every good story needs these three elements. How else would you be a good storyteller if the story doesn’t have some sort of conflict and resolution?!

We see examples of stories like the book ‘Green eggs and Ham’ by Dr. Suess. The theme is ‘trying something new.’ The conflict– Sam-I-am wants his friend to try the Green Eggs and Ham, his friend refuses. The story is resolved where the friend finally tries the Green Eggs and Ham and ends up loving it. We even see the emotion in the story where Sam-I-am is determined to do anything in his power to get his friend to try the food. This emotion, I think, is what made Dr. Suess successful. As we know Dr. Suess failed over and over trying to get his novels published, everyone refused (like Sam’s friend).  His relentlessness to get himself published never stopped much like Sam-I-am who did anything and everything to get his friend to try the Green Eggs.

I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did, it was extremely fun to think out loud!

Best Regards,

Isaac Abed