Blog #3

Writing the summary was probably one of the most challenging papers I have had to right yet. Not because it was a hard assignment, but maybe because I was trying to over think about how I was going to put all the information together in my own words, but still try to use quotes from the story. The one thing that I like about this kind of writing is that you have an article to base your essay on instead of writing about something that has a topic that you need to think about in order to write. What I don’t like about this kind of writing is that you need to have quotes. I don’t really care for having to use quotes because it seems like they can be a lot of work when trying to blend them into a paragraph and still make since.

I did like summarizing the article that I picked, because I think that it’s interesting to hear or read about different opinions about a person’s capability to multitask. Something that I would have done differently when writing the summary is not using the word “you” throughout the essay. What I Would keep the same are the examples that I used, because they are situations that people do every day. The only outside resource that I used to find some more information was Owl. The source help me to when I had to write my works cited page.

Blog #2

During the first week of class we had to write about an experience in life dealing with issues of learning how to read and write. Even though ever body has certain strengths when it comes to writing I am not really sure what my strengths are. I guess I would say that I am good at writing introductions and conclusions, and that do good with spelling words correctly. There are not too many things I can think of at the top of my head, as far as my strengths in writing. I can go on and on about what I am bad at doing when writing, but then that would make me sound like I’m not confident with the things I write… so I’m not going to list those.

I don’t think that it was hard to write the essay… it was a little bit of a challenge, because it made you think about things that happened years ago; but when you don’t think about things from the past with the essay topic like that obviously it would be a challenge to find something to write about. That’s really all that writing is, sometimes you have to think about things from the past or imagine the future, or just think outside the box to find that one thing that clicks in your mind to start writing.

If I had a chance to do over the essay I would probably state more positive things about my experience, because if someone was to read my essay the probably would not even want to try and learn a new language because they would say to themselves “well he had a bad experience while trying to learn this so I probably would too”. Which is not true, just because one person has a bad experience does not mean that everyone else will too because everybody is not the same. The things I would not change… well I don’t know what I would keep the same to be honest.

I do enjoy writing as long as there is a good topic I could choose from. The main reason why I think I enjoy writing is because when you write you have the chance to express yourself, and explain how you feel. Writing gives you the one chance to let people see what your world is like, and how you don’t feel the same as everybody else does. I also like it because it can take a lot off of some one’s mind.

I prefer to have time to write. When I have time to write it allows me to sit at my computer, turn on some music, and then think about all the things that I need to write about.

Blog #1

Ok… So first looking at the reading I see the word Rhetoric, and when seeing that word it makes me think of being in class and the teacher asks a rhetorical question. Reading through the section I start to realize that a Rhetorical Situation is not just about questions, but it’s also incorporated with writing. When writing, we express ourselves in many ways while trying to find different ways to grab the reader’s attention, and to keep them making a connection to the stories that we tell. That’s what I think the purpose of a Rhetorical Situation is.

I’m a person that’s really big into music, and I play a few instruments so when talking about Genres the first thing that comes to my mind is different kinds of music. I didn’t really think of there being different types of genres for writing… I guess I should have known because walking into a book store you see all the different Genres of books, so I should have figured if books have Genres writings can have them too.

As far as incorporating the two into my writing I’m not really sure how I will do that as of right now. To be honest sometimes I’m not even sure of the things that I put into my writing now. For all I know I could have both aspects in my writing and just not now it… I know that sounds sad but its true. The concepts weren’t really difficult; I think its jus that you just have to take your time to understand what you are reading. Reading the two sections I did find them both interesting, because they helped me to understand that there is more to writing than just a few words on a page. It was easy to read the sections but usually I feel more comfortable to have someone to explain everything to me so that I can ask questions.