rayan’s world

Looking back, i definitely want to revise my literary narrative. I have a few great ideas of turning this essay into a movie. I found that the literacy narrative gives me the most creative freedom, which means I can take these liberties of branching out into new ideas. As a writer, I find that it’s important to delve into other forms of media to get a message out because being a writer is more than just writing; it’s a form of communication and being able to convey a message.

Upon lookin at my literacy narrative I found it’s the most relatable to me, as a student and the audience, who are likely to be students themselves or a teacher. With that in mind, it’s important that I make my movie in accordance to my audience, being my teacher, by making it mostly informative while getting to the point, with bits of comedy because comedy is great. Overall, this is looking to be the most fun I’ve had in terms of a writing project so far.

1. Parrott writes about metacognition and the idea that writers aren’t necessarily prolific and definitely aren’t just lucky or naturally gifted, but are instead persistent. How would you define and describe persistence in this course and in your writing experiences? Do you consider yourself a writer?

 

SO, in regards to this course, those who are more persistent are destined to perform better. Since our essays can have multiple drafts to them, those who take advantage of that and write consistently would naturally do better. I find that in my writing experiences, I am far from persistent. I do the work how I see fit and only make changes when necessary (as directed by my teacher) so I would have to say I am not a writer by any means. My writing skills are simply lacking and that’s that. i hope to change that next semester by putting more attention to my writing, however.

• When you first read the assignment or realized we would be doing a Research project, what were your expectations? What were you concerned about? Excited about? What did you think it would be like?

I considered myself good at research projects until this point. I found that very specific details should be backed up with credible sourcing and it was fairly difficult to do in its fullest extent. Furthermore, I expected to be given a research topic as opposed to making my own, even though I was given several examples of sample research topics which was interesting. I was excited to learn about my research topic since it was something I’ve wondered about in my senior year of high school. While the overall essay was enjoyable, I was more-so concerned about how I was going to structure it. In the end, I was fairly disappointed in my lack of proper researching skills.

After looking at my rough draft along with the comments made, I found that my essay is lacking in a few parts. My thesis is weak but is fairly clear, just not right at the beginning of my essay. However, my content distribution is not that bad. While it seems a bit too anecdotal for a research essay, the material I used was really good and relevant to my main point.

Using the MEAL method, I analyzed my paragraph about Rylan Hefner, and found that it could use polishing. Starting with M, I did state a main point, but it followed with the end of my previous paragraph so on its own, it seems too vague. Next for E, I found that my evidence was excellent in that I backed up my claim using his article. A stands for analyzing evidence, which I did good as well. Although, I didn’t differentiate enough that this was a personal blog as opposed to a formal article. Finally, L. L stands for linking back to the main point, which I did vaguely since I didn’t properly form my main point until later.

Overall, I didn’t do as good as I hoped

to synthesize information is to pull information from a range of various sources in order to respond to an argument or to answer a question. In regards to doing it beyond school assignments, I am an artist. Not a great one, of course but I have familiarity over art styles and how to draw and along with knowing how to spray paint. When picking out supplies, I look all over and with that, I look at reviews and substitutes for what I’ve seen or considered to be the best in the art industry. I had to first find what I’m looking for and then determine how it suits my needs of what I’m doing. For instance, with spray painting, I found that for my canvas art, Rustoleum works best. While Montana Colors would be considered better spray paint, it’s more suited towards graffiti art as opposed to canvas art.

Question I am answering: Should high school writing courses  put more focus on grammar and structure?

1. high school writing
2. high school writing courses
3. high school writing classes
4. writing structure
5. writing grammar
6. “grammar” and “structure”
7. structure in writing
8. high school grammar
9. grammar in writing
10. “grammar” and “language”
11. “grammar” and “punctuation”

The source I chose for now is an article titled “Teaching Writing to High School Students: A National Survey” and it has several authors to it. Each author works in different universities working the same department “Department of Special Education”. The article aims to tell how schools aren’t doing that good of a job in teaching proper writing skills and they need to improve on it. More or less, this article relates to my research question in that it puts emphasis on saying that schools should be focusing on grammar and structure even in high school.

 

I feel like I excel at research assignments (as opposed to analytical ones) and I feel there’s several ways to go about researching ideas. I always check several websites to gather basic information and go into specific information by using public forums such as twitter or reddit or anything that has an easy search function. Looking at the list of invention strategies, I find that using the stasis theory would be one of the more easier, beneficial strategy to use.

Why do high school writing courses focus on grammar and structure? This question is to be thoroughly answered in my research assignment using Bad Ideas About Writing.

The last section of “Bad Ideas About Writing” pertains to digital technology and its effect on writing habits. I do discuss this section a lot but I feel it holds the most importance to us in understanding modern writing skills. One chapter in is titled “Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants” and it was written by a mixed-blood Cherokee who goes by the name Phill Michael Alexander. Now, Alexander wrote this chapter to discuss these terms and their impact on society. Digital natives are those born into technology, while digital immigrants refer to those not born in it and have to learn it. The rise of digital technology gives both parties a chance to develop different writing skills, with those born into the technology having to learn old methods to apply while the immigrants have to just learn with the growing tech. I notice that some issues lie in the fact that digital immigrants have to teach the natives the basics before they can learn for themselves which in that case means the terms have no value. I do still wonder what the future of technology holds with writing because writing constantly changes with technology, what with new ways of communicating.

Rhetoric is in several examples of writing. It’s present  in Bad Ideas About Writing as well. I want to target a specific section regarding writing and digital technology. Author Scott Warnock discusses the importance of how people have a misconception of how texting ruins writing when in fact it doesn’t. He talks about how people don’t know what true grammar is and I believe that is the purpose of his entire chapter. He wants to emphasize how people are simply ignorant in what writing is and simply chalk up all digital technology to be bad.

In the context of everyday life, rhetoric can be seen just about everywhere. Ads you see on billboards or the internet, or crazy people in the city are both examples of rhetoric. I, myself, have used the rhetoric of advertising. I sell skateboards with intricate, non-skateboard like designs (such as a gameboy advance or Bold and Brash from Spongebob). You don’t find things like that on the internet and if you do, you’d have to pay a hefty price for it. You’re better off buying something like that from me considering I sell at a cheaper prices even though there’s a wood shortage going on currently. I try to target mostly anime fans who skate but as i grow, i will be branching out my target audience with my boards.