Reflective Writing
Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection. Its crazy how fast things went and we got so much done in a matter of time. It was a lot to take in and kind of overwhelming if you were behind, but it was definitely useful too me. Some of things we were doing I've had experience with but sometimes I tend to forget. So it was good to refresh my memory and learn more stuff on top of that. All of the notes I took down in my book and all the information we had on sabatinomangini.com was great. If i didn't have that I probably would've failed this course. In this short time we had together, we talked about genre, theme, discourse community and a whole bunch of other things. These three stood out to me for a particular reason, like I said my memory was kind of foggy over the past few years and I think now learning about theme and genre I'm never gonna forget it. I know that in my memoir I had to write a narrative project which is one type of genre and in my research project I did an op-ed and tried to be persuasive in it so you could agree with what I was talking about. I've had the time to look in myself and figure out my identity as an author which was something I've never done before, but was a cool experience. Doing this, making a whole website is something I can cross off my bucket list. I use to think it was so complicated to do this, but now I feel like I could help somebody else out if they wanted to start one too. Another thing I wanna add is ,I was never a writer type of guy because I always thought it was too much but now from just being in the class its like I'm not even writing I'm just speaking on how I'm feeling and I think my author self is starting to come out more. I know that people don't like to read long paragraphs because I don't so in the future I know I'm a break it up into sections. But to conclude my reflection, we all are different with our own identity and I think Prof. Mangini helped us understand that fully. That there was no wrong answers because we all have different ideas.
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How does your narrative allow you to travel into your brain (mind) then and now? Then I couldn't even explain my situation because there was a lot going on. It was one of those types of incidents where you couldn't explain it now when I tell people it's kind of exciting. It would have me on the edge of my seat . It's not something that I would want to happen again because people could've died but since nobody got hurt expect the McDonald's I don't really have a problem telling the story. When I think about it now I feel like some people did get hurt when he crashed into the McDonald because the car was in the kitchen area and its hard to believe nobody got hit. Their was a lot of people in the restaurant that day. some of the people ran out of the McDonald's when it happen but i think some employees and customers got hurt How does your narrative allow you to travel into your heart (emotions) then and now? Back then I was experiencing all kinds of emotions that day because I felt happy/good that day because it was sunny and I wasn't worrying about anything, but then that driver made me mad because the way he was driving about to hit those little girls. I was scared for the mom and the girls because I didn't want to see those girls get hit by that car. At first I was happy coming out of the house. Then I was fearful almost getting hit by that blue Toyota and for the people that was around that nonsense and angry just because he almost took those girls life. It had me thinking if i was in that situation and it was one of my loved ones I wouldn't want to go through that. I was going through a lot in that whole two hours. How does your narrative meet the nerve (high-stakes) element of meaningful storytelling? How does your narrative enable you to re-examine the power (agency) you have in authoring your life-story? What shapes our sense of identity: Life events or the stories we tell ourselves about life events? Welcome back to my blog page! For this weeks assignment, this week we were tasked to tell use blog #5 and make it into a different story or different outcome. How things could’ve turned out different.
I could of went to go pick up a few things from the store at a different place instead of going on broad street to get things for the family. Everything we ran out of I could of got at the Poppies store or even hopped in my pops wheel and drove to the store. If I had gone to any other store that’s wasn’t on broad street that day I probably wouldn’t even have to tell u this story. If There wasn't a lot of traffic that Wednesday the person driving that Toyota could of got away with a hit and run . I think if I would of noticed this blue Toyota zooming down the street a little earlier I could of said something to people that was crossing the street to try and warn them. If the driver that was driving reckless was following the rules of the road nobody would've got hurt but he wasn't caring about the traffic lights, stop signs-or pedestrians. If I was any closer to that Toyota I would of probably got hit, but most likely I would have a big ass check to my name because I would of sued his dumb ass💯 Good thing I was on the pavement just standing there away from danger. When I did say “ Ayoo ! What the hell is he doing ?” I got a few people attention that wasn’t looking towards the reckless driver . I predicted he was most likely gonna hit someone's car or somebody. Which turned out to be true because you can’t do 80 in a 25. If the two brown-skinned little girls wearing skinny jeans, black and red retro Jordans were with their mom the whole time they wouldn’t have nothing to worry about. Instead They were playing tag crossing the street without paying attention to traffic. They could of been safe from harms way if they were just on the sidewalk I could of said something and told them to get out of the street but I guess I was just in awestruck and couldn’t believe what was going on. If that Toyota came down the street and made those girls into two flatscreens. All hell would of broke loose between the mom and the driver. The girls did notice the Toyota but they just stood there in fear unable to move which is understandable. I could of came to the rescue on some black spider man shit and pushed them out way but then I would of probably got hit. If the driver in the Toyota didn’t see the girls in the street at the last minute most likely the girls would be badly injured and the new McDonald’s would have still been fixed and remodeled. People wouldnt of been screaming and running out of the restaurant with their Big Macs and ten piece McNuggets. Instead they would’ve been eating their fast food in peace without a car interrupting. The police and ambulance still would of came to help the girls get to the hospital but the driver could of got away. So they would probably ask questions to witnesses like me to see if I had seen the driver face or what car he was driving. I wouldn’t take anything back from that day because I know that mom would be going though a whole lot of pain if her girls got injured or even died from something so bad. Yeah, the McDonald’s wouldn’t of got hit but I would rather let it get hit by a car if I knew it was gonna save someone’s life. Welcome once again to my blog page! For this weeks assignment, we were tasked with creating another emotional scene. This happened about a few years back it was a pretty scary experience I had to witness but I thought I would share it and try to make it relate. We are basing our blogs off of a story called Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) and My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou)
I was on my way out of the house feeling good. It was a nice sunny day and I had to go pick up a few things from the store for the family. We ran out of the things that most homes need to have throughout the day. We didn't have any toilet paper, toothpaste or anything to eat in the refrigerator. It was a bad week for us but anyway I was going to the store walking down Broad Street in Philly. There was a lot of traffic this Wednesday afternoon. Suddenly I noticed this blue Toyota zooming down the street not caring about the traffic lights,stop signs or pedestrians .I had to keep my distance so I was on the pavement just standing there like, “ Ayoo ! What the hell is he doing ?” I knew he was most likely gonna hit someone's car or somebody. There were two brown-skinned little girls wearing skinny jeans, black and red retro Jordans leaving out the store with their mom. Their mom ended up going back in the store because she forgot a bag that she paid for. Leaving the two girls outside. The one little girl had a sky blue hoodie and the other had a pink polo hoodie on. They were playing Tag on the side walk at first but ended up trying to run away from one another by going in the street not paying attention to traffic. The Toyota came down the street fast and was about to make those girls into two pancakes. The mom came back out the store thinking her girls were behind her for some reason And finally noticed them in the street. All you hear is ”VROOOMMM” the car racing down the street The mom see’s the car coming about to hit her daughter She runs to try and move them out the way but end up falling and there’s no time the girls just stand there in fear unable to move. The driver in the Toyota saw the girls in the street at the last minute and swerved right into the new Mcdonalds that just got fixed and remodeled. People were screaming and running out of the restaurant with their Big Macs and ten piece Mcnuggets. The police came five minutes later and arrested the driver. Another cop offered to take the little girls home but by the way they looked they were still struck with fear in their heart. Eventually they snapped out of it and took the offer from the police officer and got a ride home. I was standing there like “Wowwwww, did that really just happen? I almost started to forget what I was doing outside but it came back to me. I noticed that I hadn’t even gone to the store yet to get my little brother some tissue knowing he was most likely still on the toilet after all of this. So I proceeded with the rest of my day with caution. Even though everything seemed like it was gonna be a good day it turned out to be a crazy day.
It was another day in Philly and I had just finished playing basketball with my friend down at the rec center. Me and my bro were tired and decided we were going to go to a store and get something to drink and something to eat. As we were making our way down the street, my homie was going on running his mouth saying “since I’m the best baller out of me and you, you gotta do my homework assignments for a week and you gotta comb my chest hair since I’m JORDAN”. I looked at him like “boyyy ya name Bobby u ain’t no damn Jordan u alright in ball but u tweaking if u think I’m doing anything you talking about. I ain’t even do my own damn work ”. He said “okay forget the chest hairs we still got homework to finish and I ain’t start you know what to do ?” I told him “I know what to do but the problem is I just don’t feel like doing it”. He said “I’m going through the same thing bruh”. My friend Bobby was tryna go to the Poppie store to get something to eat and drink but I was tryna slide to the new Wawa they just built in Collingdale. He told me “you tripping bro Wawa expensive I’m on a budget”. I said “damn bro you outta luck I want a warm cookie and a smoothie”. He snapped me up and told me he was gonna see me later I told him rd bro be safe. As I proceeded with my day heading to Wawa I noticed all these people crowded around these three old heads in the park asking them questions about writing and reading. I was thinking to myself like “hmmm Philly moving up when they start doing stuff like this”. The one old head was Don Murray I’ve never heard of him before but as I was walking closer to the crowd I started to pick up on the conversation the crowd was having with the old heads. He was saying “Writing is the act of producing a first draft. It is the fastest part of the process, and the most frightening, for it is a commitment.” It took me a while to understand what he meant but I started to realize that everything they were talking about could help me with my assignment. I got three human answer keys right in front of me to help me with my homework. I decided to ask Mr. Murray a question after he was done answering a girl question in the crowd. The girl must’ve been a teacher because she asked him “What is the process we should teach? He said “It is the process of dis- covery through language. It is the process of exploration of what we should know and what we feel about what we know through language. It is the process of using language to learn about our world, to evaluate what we learn about our world, to communicate what we learn about our world. I started to ask him “How do you motivate us students to pass through this process, perhaps even pass through it again and again on the same piece of writing?First by shutting up. When you are talking you aren’t writing. And you don’t learn a process by talking about it, but by doing it. I said “okay so do you want me to shut up when I’m writing from now on but they ended up moving on to the next question so I told him thank you” I thought Don Murray was a little harsh to begin with so I started to focus my attention to the next old head right next to Mr. Murray to ask her sum questions. Her name was Mary Karr. She started saying to the crowd and me “In fact, after a lifetime of hounding authors for advice, I’ve heard three truths from every mouth:(1) Writing is painful—it’s “fun” only for novices, the very young, and hacks; (2) other than a few instances of luck, good work only comes through revision; (3) the best revisers often have reading habits that stretch back before the current age, which lends them a sense of history and raises their standards for quality.” So I started to ask her, do you think revision is the best thing to do when writing ? She said “Revision is the secret to their troubles—and yours. That, and a sense of quality that exceeds what you can do—that gives you something to strive for. Actually, every writer needs two selves—the generative self and the editor self.” I asked her do you think you can have your generative self to write without your editor ? She said “the generative self shakes pom-poms at every pen stroke and cheers every crossed t.The editor self then shows up to heft the pages, give a sniff, and say: Yeah, but . . . The editor condenses two hundred pages down to about thirty. I don’t mean she cuts the rest; she may well boil the whole thing down so the same amount of stuff happens more economically. “ I told her okay last question is it harder for you to edit your work or to get it started ? She said “I find generative me harder to get going. But through sheer hardheadedness, even I can grant myself permission to run buck-wild down the page with sentences dumb as stumps and few glimpses of anything pretty. The idea is to get some scenes down. Let your mind roam down some alleys that may land in dead ends—that’s the nature of the process. The security started to let other people ask questions besides me so I thanked Mary and went to the next old head next to her. This lady's name was Anne Lamont a lot of people weren’t surrounded by her so I was happy I could actually have a conversation with her one on one without everybody trying to hassle her for answers. I first told her my name and told her I know that you are all great writers and good teachers to some extent but was there ever a time in your life where you had shitty material when you was trying write ? She told me “For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.” I asked her “ So basically as students when writing we should revise and make our shitty drafts our final draft ? She told me “The first draft is the child’s draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later. You just let this childlike part of you channel whatever voices and visions come through and onto the page. I started to understand more about how writing is and what I should do when I’m writing. Everybody has their mistakes especially when it comes to writing. It's about revising and correcting your errors . I asked her one more question before I headed to Wawa “I asked her, do you think there’s such a thing as a perfect piece of writing or can u write a perfect draft ?” She told me “I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it.” That made me look at things differently in my head now when I’m writing and looking at other people's material. I told her I had to go but thank you for helping me by answering my questions. It was a big help. I thanked the other two old heads for looking out and helping me. I realized that you don’t have to take the easy way out to get thing done. In this blog post, I read A Fable for the Living Dear Taylor-Crews I know that I don’t usually talk to myself like this but I wanted to make things right. I’m glad I made it this far by graduating from high school and attending college. I’m glad that you didn't give up on anything and stuck to being a young role model for your family by not letting them down. I’m glad your setting an example for your younger ones to never giving up. Never stay down even if we faIl because we can overcome anything that comes in our way. I know over the years I have been on this crazy roller coaster going up and down through life but I wanted say even though I had my lows and highs I’m glad I’m still fighting and pushing through obstacles that stand in my way. You came a long way from ugly handwriting writing, bad grammar, boring material and sometimes not even feeling like writing at all but now I feel like we’ve gotten better and still growing . You tend to write when your down or inspired by something so you like to write lyrics in your book at home or in your phone so you won’t forget it. But I think It’s time that you get out of your comfort zone and expand your horizons with writing. I don’t think it’s bad that you look too music to express your feelings when you wanna write but everything isn’t about music through life. People will always need music to be productive with anything they wanna do. I understand that you want to help that but I feel like you should help yourself first so you can help others. You are going to get better at not being concerned or afraid that you have a paper or essay coming up, you are going to put as much time as you do in music in everything you do with writing assignments. I know that if you can make a song you can write an essay, it's all about planning and what your trying to stay to your audience. I feel like I just have to put the time in and say that i really want to do this by not procrastinating and not trying to do it at the last minute. I’m a start early and get it done. We have ups and downs on this roller coaster of life but I think he’ll be just fine if we work together and try our best because I see good things coming towards him in the future. Sincerely Taylor-Crews
Why are we creating a website for our English Composition I course? So we can connect with each other and hear each other's ideas from different topics and assignments. 2). How do Ball and Charlton define "multimodal" writing?Any combinations of modes makes a multimodal text. Every piece I communication that a human composed use more than one mode. 3). Do you agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim "all writing is multimodal"? I agree that most writing is multimodal the way it’s presented to us in books websites newspapers tv or even music is beneficial because it helps us understand it more. 4). As a website author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the five modes on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each mode ranking. Linguistic, Aural, Visual, Gestural, and Spatial. Meaning is made through 5 modes that are important in life I think they are the most important because it lets you understand it more when you see it, hear it, remember it ,express it or saying something in a different language. 5). What does the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for?Contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity 6). What are the seven sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition? Conveys a specific purpose.The composition identifies a specific audience,The composition employs a tone ,The composition is organized around an appropriate controlling idea.The composition uses transitions to guide the audience effectively from one set of ideas to another.The composition synthesizes relevant information from research efforts with composer’s own ideas and arguments, The composition uses detailed description, examples, sound, music, color. 7). As a website author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the four C.R.A.P. principles of design on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each design principle ranking.the concept is important to make things stand out and have their own unique way of writing. Repetition is good too, making things easier for people to read so they won’t get tired or bored of reading whatever you wrote. Alignment is a good way to keep your website organized and look nice when people want to read your text easily. Proximity is good too, making sure everything is connected with each other. On a scale of 1-5 I think all of these principles are important so I’m a have to say a 5. 8). Do the Borton-and-Huot criteria seem similar or different from the criteria we would use to assess a traditional print essay? Why or why not? It seems similar to the way you would follow to make an essay. Having a purpose on what your writing. Knowing who your audience is and having a tone in your essay. Making sure everything is organized well from paragraph to paragraph. In this post, I am responding to the The Proust Questionnaire. 1).My idea of perfect happiness is not stressing about anything or worrying about problems that can hurt you.
2).My greatest fear would probably be drowning or losing someone in my life. 3).I don’t like dishonesty between people I know 4).The one thing I deplore about myself is my face I don’t like how I’m 19 and look like I’m 14 every time I go sum where I get carded or they be like “young look like your in middle school”. Your telling me the obvious I’m aware of what it looks like but it isn't what it seems. 5).I admire J Cole and Kendrick Lamar as artist in the industry giving a message to us through music. 6). I admire my mom for being able to take care of me my brothers and sister when time was hard. 7).My greatest extravagance is prolly food or my brothers and sister because they always need money for school clothes snacks and etc. 8).my current state of mind is usually rational or anxious to try new things and have new experiences with people. 9).The most overrated virtue to me is kindness people take it for granted like everybody deserves kindness when they don’t. 10).A time I would lie is to keep my family safe and out of trouble. 11).I dislike that I look like a young bull but I’m older than I look. 12).I despise people that don't have goals and have no want to do nothing. 13). What is the quality you most like in a man?I ain’t gay but I like honesty when I talk to my bro’s and learning new things from them 14).The quality I like in a woman is she cool, smart, cute, good listener and she loyal. 15).I’ve been saying the word "sturdy" and "ohh ard" a lot 16).India love is probably my greatest love 17).I was happiest when I graduated and all of my family was there for me in 2018 at Temple. 18).The talent I would want to have is be a good artist 19).What do you consider your greatest achievement? My greatest achievement right now was finishing high school and now being in college. 20). If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?I would come back as a cheetah or a dinosaur. 21). Where would you most like to live? I would like to live in North Carolina or New York city for right now 22). What is your most treasured possession? My most treasured possession is my high school diploma and my dog tag that my grandma gave me. 24). What is your favorite occupation? My favorite occupation is an astronaut or an actor. 26. What do you most value in your friends? loyalty and honesty 27). Who are your favorite writers? Stephen king 28). Who is your hero of fiction?Spider man or the flash 29). Which historical figure do you most identify ? MLK and Biggie smalls 31).What are your favorite names? Berlin and sentimental 32).What is it that you most dislike? I hate coleslaw spinach and people that hate on you when they don’t know you 33).What is your greatest regret? My greatest regret would probably be leaving my family. 34).How would you like to die? While I’m sleeping 35). My motto is “Stay on ya ten because it’s a cold world out here” |
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