Petersen

It mentioned in the article that she started writing this in her College Writing II class. Why is that class so important? I am going to explain why it is important to learn college writing. College Writing is very important toward learning to succeed in a profession. A wide variety of career fields will require employees to frequently express their thoughts and information through writing. Tasks that may be required in the workplace include memos, reports and detailed reviews. Whether the aspiring professional knows it or not, most career fields will require writing as a form of communication, and if the skill of college writing is mastered, effectively expressing thoughts in an organized manner becomes much easier. Also important is having a broad vocabulary. A broad vocabulary is an essential component of writing fluidly and as a student learns college writing, he or she will inevitably expand his or her vocabulary. As follows, a stronger vocabulary equates with better communication skills and more confidence when speaking. Learning college writing is important to a career in more ways. Certain careers require students to learn different styles of writing and students will generally learn to write the various types of documents respective to the major they are studying. Learning college writing is important to a career in a variety of ways. College writing improves students ability to express themselves formally on paper and as a result, will often improve their ability to communicate their thoughts verbally. Writing and good writing skills are necessary in almost every career field, regardless of how thorough it may be. In college, students are equipped to write in the style necessary to their chosen professions. Refining the writing skills learned in college will set students up for success in the workforce as they gain confidence in writing and speaking. Learning college writing is important to a career in a variety of ways. College writing improves students ability to express themselves formally on paper and as a result, will often improve their ability to communicate their thoughts verbally. Writing and good writing skills are necessary in almost every career field, regardless of how thorough it may be. In college, students are equipped to write in the style necessary to their chosen professions. Refining the writing skills learned in college will set students up for success in the workforce as they gain confidence in writing and speaking.

Revisualizing Composition

to me sending text messages, emails, or comments is a type of writing. I mean you are just typing out what you want to say so of course that has to be a type of writing. any type of communicaton that deals with typing or writing anything out is definetly type of writing and it will also help you you. Text messaging is currently one of the more popular, with billions of estimated users worldwide. Given this popularity, many educators and parents have started to let there kids use it more often because it helps educate them and it also  benefits  any education to incorporating texting in the classroom. Texting and “text speak” can be used to help build foundational reading skills, such as word recognition and phonological awareness. It can also be used to generate discussions around formal and informal language  and writing for different tasks, audiences, and purposes, all of which are necessary skills for meeting College and Career Readiness Standards in reading, writing, language, and speaking and listening. Although it may not seem like it, texting is writing, and students who are frequent texters are therefore frequent writers. As such, it makes sense to harness all of this energy to help your students build their writing skill.

Writing and Technology

Technology really helps students these days. It helps the student research for their paper. It also helps people practice their writing skills. Good writing is a very important to your future if you want to be successful. Teens are motivated to do better if they have an interesting topic to write about. This article is giving information from a survey or interview about how teens and students write and using technology to do their writing. It is also saying that the internet is the number one primary source to use when writing a paper. They mention in the article that text messaging and communication over the internet is not in any way writing. In my mind i think it is because you are still writing but you are typing it out. It is just like writing a paper then getting on your lap top and writing it out. There is not a lot of differences to it. I mean i can see where there is a difference but it basically the same thing. Text messaging, i guess, has its own language. People have came up with different abbriviations for different words, such as you is "u" and to, too, and two is "2". That is where the author of the article is saying text messaging and internet communication is different. Students who learn how to write better in school, it will have a major improvement on future writing and will be extremely benefit anyone in their future. Parents encourage their kids to use the computer to do research when writing. It can help you find benefitual information.

comparing writing process

Me and Austin have some similarties and some differences. When he starts to write he likes to listen to music. I can not listen to music just because It really distrats me and I just can not stay focused at all. I have to be isolated and have to be very quite. We both just being to type away and just go with the flow when we begin to write our paper. He uses some thing called pages while I am over here using Microsoft word because I find it a lot better than the pages he uses. It comes with a lot of accessories. He starts on a paper the day before its due and I start on it about 3 days before its due so I know I have enough time to type it and get al my ideas together for the paper.  We both like to be in our room and do our paper cause we like to be isolated from everyone and everything so we do not get easily distracted by the little things. We both like to have the Tv on. We both preferred a sports. He wanted nascar on and I wanted baseball on just because it eases our minds when we write and it helps us concentrate. We both also like to take our time when we write a paper. He has three rough drafts that he does and I only have like 1 unless you count the final draft that would make it 2. We both are very good very good at using descriptive writing. we can takes peoples mind on a complete journey and they would be satisfied on what they had just read. We both like to eat a lot of junk food when we write because it helps us write a lot better when we are not hungry.

Murry

1. They were very impressive. They were also different, that is what I like about his writing process. It is totally different then a lot of people that write. I liked how he took his time. When people take there time on a writing process, there writing tend to be really good. Well he does a lot different then me, so there aren’t a lot of similarities between him and me. There are a lot of differences. I like to just start writing and just go with the flow.  It really helps me and  I write a lot better and my papers are very good.

3. He learns a better way of writing. He learned the ways of the writing process and helped him how to really be dedicated to his writings. Be devoted to what you are writing will always help you become a better writer.

5. It really confused me. I don’t understand why he did that. I mean I guess it helped him, but I just don’t agree with it. It did give a lot of helpful info though. They had really good comparing and contrast and that gave a lot of information. I mean some of it was very irrelvent. People do not need to know any of that. People do not care, so do not include that in anything. It did catch me by surprise because I did not know some of those things they talked about in that I did not know. It was a good idea to include those things.

My Writing Process

When I write I do a lot of weird things. I tend to just be in my own happy place, just like in the movie happy Gilmore. I always come up with a good thesis statement. I come up with great ideas and plug them into my writing. I like to be in my room all alone because when I am alone I come up with better ideas and my writings are a lot better. I also like to have a dictionary by my side so I can get better words in my writings. I like to just start writing away. After I do that I go back and see what I have repeated and I will begin to write something different. I like to have all my paper work by me so I know what exactly what to write. I normally just go start writing and never really plan out what I am going to write because I just do better that way and come up with everything else easier like that. It helps me to stay on point and not get off point. It also helps me by just going with the flow and I know exactly what I am writing. I always do a “shitty first draft” then I am off to my final paper. Rough draft helps me realize my mistakes that I have made and I go back and add or subtract anything that does not belong. I like to lay on my bed with baseball or basketball on, this really helps me write a lot better then just sitting in a room with nothing in it. I also like to have some music going because when I  have music going It is like waking up my brain and brain is on point with what I need to write. it helps me write a lot better then I would normally do. I also like to eat chips and dip when I write, it helps me come up with better facts.

Writing Process of Famous Author

Gillian Flynn is a very unusual writer. When people write, well at least me, I like to be alone and very isolated from people so I do not get distracted. She sits a computer and just starts typing what is on her mind. She then puts everything she types into a story. I do not know how people can just do that, especially her. To top that, she drinks coffee. If I drank coffee I would be trying to go to sleep because coffee works vise versa on me, so it would not help my writing process at all. She also just starts writing for a long time, such as hours and hours, and sometimes days. She likes to write a about dark things. I am not a horrid type individual, I just normally stick to sport and comedy and action books because they give me the most interest and I do not get bored with them at all. She listens to music to get ideas to write about. She comprehends the music writes down what the song is mainly about and turns that into one of her main ideas or a main plot. She also reads other books to get ideas, as if she was taking or cheating to get a better outlook on her book. In, all she is a very gifted writer, who takes very good time to do her writings. She is well dedicated and has achieved a lot from doing so. One last thing, she likes to play video games, so she can write really good action books. She plays like GTA or James Bond. She likes those kind of games, so she plays them so she can get some type of idea on what to write about.

Sommers

1.     understanding vocabulary is very important to the English society. Having a big understanding of vocabulary and advanced terms can get you far in life.  She is saying that if you understand vocabulary, reading will become more clear and comprehendible to the person that is trying to read. 

3.  to me, writing and speech are a like. The difference is the way you use words when you write and talk. People can have a excellent writing qualities, but when it comes to talking they use a lot of slang. When writing a paper or something they teach you not to use slang cause it is not correct.

5.   when people begin to write, they can lose focus on what they write about. They lose site on what the main focus is and what they are trying to explain or tell the reader.  People will begin to talk about different things as they write, such as they will get off topic or just completely change the subject.

7. revising is a big step in the writing process. You always want to go back and change what you have done incorrect. You want to improve on those mistakes and make it a lot better to gain the readers attention and make sure they have a great time reading the book.

Review of Literacty Narritive

I would change a lot to my paper. I mean I thought it was a very well prepared and written paper. It was very organize, but I wish I could have gave the reader more of an imagination wonder. I really did not put enough effort as I wanted because I really did not know what to say in my narrative. I would had taken my time on it a lot more and put more into it.  I would had made it a lot longer with a lot more words. I would had talked more about my life and how I learned how to read and write. I would had used more advanced vocabulary to get me to sound more of a professional write, so it would look like a legit paper. I also would had told the story about the time when I was learning big vocabulary words and we had to write a huge paper and we had to use every single one of them. It was not fun at all cause I barely knew what they meant so I really did not know where to correctly used them at.  I would have defiantly gotten the readers interest more. I do not know how I would, but I would have. I also would have been organized with my paper. I felt like it was all nasty as in It wasn’t very well organized. I do not know how to explain it. I also would have been more into it. I would have made it a lot more interesting then it was.

Murry and Strasser

2.  Donald Murry says an autobiography is all of which contain traces of their creators. There is autobiographical language. He also says that all writings, in different ways, is autobiographical. Autobiography’s are set down into our past. Autobiography is not always detailed or it does not have to be. Some autobiography’s do not have to be the truth. An autobiography can be just what you think about life itself.

5. My mindset would be a lot different then it is now. I would definitely have a bigger mindset about how the way I would write an autobiography. In some ways it would have an affect on the way I write, but it would not be a lot.

6. My last paper I just wrote would be consider an autobiography. I wrote about my life in school. I wrote about myself, it was basically about my childhood.

1. You must learn how to write good and be very good at it. I do agree with this. People can say they are a good persuasive writer, but are they really? You must prove to people you are by writing a well educated persuasive paper. You must practice by writing different types of papers on which the subject is what you really do not want to write about.

2. People have their own opinions. Strasser must clearly see something can change. If you decide to write about whatever you want, it could lead to pointless writing and the reader will get very bored and will not want to read anymore of the writing. It would also teach pointless papers for people to write about. Nobody wants to write a pointless paper that they actually took time to do.

3. Going to school can change a persons. The way they see things; they start to see things a lot differently. It can definitely change someone’s spirit. A person could be happy and joyful, then the next thing you know they are sad and depress. That will make a person write a paper totally different then the would at first. Now body, I have no idea. I mean, I guess it could in way, I just do not have a reason for it.

Childhood Reading

As a kid, I did not really have a favorite book. When I got into the 10^th grade is when I found my favorite book and it was The Hunger Games. I did not want to read this book at all because I have never really wanted to read. When we started reading it, it started off great and it caught my attention. This book was extraordinary good. It was about this country, who was divided into districts. The main character was Katniss and Peta. They were both chosen to fight for their district in the Hunger Games. I say they were both chosen, but Katniss volunteered for her sister because she got chosen, and Katniss did not want her sister to go. Katniss goes into the Hunger Games only knowing how to shoot a bow, and Peta is going in only knowing how to camoflaudge himself, and he is very strong. They go into the games as partners, they work together to stay alive. They put on a show for the whole country acting like they are in love with each other, but Peta becomes emotionally attached to Katniss while she has a fling going on with a guy back in district 11. They start fighting and what not, and Katniss becomes friends with this very small black girl from another district. Fast forwarding, the small black girl gets killed and Katniss holds up 3 fingers for “peace” and it starts a lot of chaos. Later in the book, it comes down to Katniss and Peta to win. They both do not want to kill each other, so they both decide that they were going to commit suicide until they stop the game and say they both win. This started a whole new complication. This book really motivated me to read more books. It also told me to judge a book by its cover, even If I do not want to read it. This is my favorite book that I have ever read, from kindergarten through out my middle and high school stages of my life. I highly recommend this book.

Villanueva

1.      1. I have been taught, when writing a paper never to change point of views. The shifting of this causes the reader to see different viewpoints on what the writer is writing about. Going back and forth on viewpoints can be very confusing also to the reader. It also shows different types of writing points of view also. I have also been taught to not use “I” all the time because it does not sound good and it is too much repetition. When writing a paper you should stick with only one type of point of view and you should not use multiple point of views.

2.      2. Villanueva defines rhetoric as persuasive way of speaking and/or writing. He also says studying rhetoric is also the way of studying humans. He says “studying rhetoric is complete study of language”.  Villanueva also defines rhetoric as the conscious use of language. If you want to learn about how humans function and how they socialize with people and other things, learning rhetoric is the way of doing that, as in psychology, history, philosophy, and much more. Language is a huge key in learning and understanding rhetoric. If you want to learn how to write and read language is the one of the main factors of accomplishing that.

3. I have always tried to look at someone else’s writing and try into making it into my own words. It is not an easy process of doing. If you want to imitate someone’s writing you must know how to put it into your own words. That being said, it is not easy at all putting it into your own words. You have to really sit down and think how you are going to re-word it. Just like Villanueva did, he would watch “I Love Lucy” and stare (which in my mind he was brainstorming).  He was thinking of what and how he was going to write his paper.

4. When he stops doing what he is doing and just stares, I feel like he is thinking of what he wants to write about. In my mind, he is doing some type of brainstorming. I will sit there and think, think about all the things I can write about then I will go watch TV. It wouldn’t all come to me right at the time. I would have to do homework or go shoot basketball and just think about what I want to write about. Thinking about what you want to write does not come to you all at once. You have to sit down and actually put things together and think about for a good time. That is only if you want a good paper.  Mentally thinking is the key of writing a very good paper.

Skills to be Learned

There are a lot of skills that I am not very good at. There are some on the list that I am very unfamiliar with too. I need to improve on some of the skills on the list as well as get better at using them too.

Writing longer papers is an issue I have today. I can never think about a lot to write about. I always tend to repeat myself when I start to run out of things to say, to make my paragraph longer. I would like to start writing long papers, so I can look really professional because to me people, who can write long papers, are very successful in life.

I want to get better at knowing what to do when I get stuck. I always get stuck at writing a paper. Its like I forget what I am writing about or I just simply do not have anything else to write about. It gets really annoying when you are writing such a good paper and you simply just run out of things to talk about. I waste precious time thinking what to I am going to write next when I am stuck. I would like to get better at this, so I can save time and not get stuck in the middle of my paper.

I’m good at understand the difference between revising and editing, but I want to get a better understanding of the two. I always used to say they are the same meaning, but now I found out they are not. If I get a understanding of the two, I will be able to go back and fix my mistakes better, and also have a better organized and understandable paper.  If I know how to do both of these skills, this will help me a lot with editing my papers.

Understanding plagiarism has to be at the top of becoming better at. If I learn to read something of the internet and be able to turn it into my own words it would become more helpful to me. I tend to just copy and paste cause the teacher never really checks for it, but I want to be able to write something from my own thoughts and what not. It would not only help me a lot but also make me feel more confident in my writing skills.                                        

Learning how to use different tones and voices would be a major increase of my writing skills. I really do not know how to write in different tones or voices, but I feel like if I learned how to do that, it would make my papers sound a lot better and more interesting. It would a skillful thing to learn how to do.

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