HELLOOO FOR THE LAST TIMEEEEE EVERRRRRR !!!!!
The day has come that we will no longer have to pull up the syllabus because you've forgot the password, log onto this gmail account, and write/comment on blogs. WAAAAAAOOOOOO!
lol okay im being over dramatic and annoying.
But this semester came and left so fast. To be honest this is probably the only writing/english/RWS class I've enjoyed my entire life. Though i complained about these blogs or some other things i dont remember... This class was very bearable and fun.
Hmmm. The genre that I enjoyed the most was probably the blogs LOL. Just because they were short, super casual, and basically easy. I mean I'd choose any of the genres we wrote this semester over rhetorical writing any day so imma just say all of them were great.
Since the semester is winding down my brain has been slowly shutting down lol. SO i honestly can not increase the length of my last paragraph because i am currently not thinking in depth nor having the motivation to think in general.
hmmmmm. resumes.
I have 2 different resumes.. 1 that is food related and 1 that is specifically for the superior court. I adjust the superior court resume to accommodate a specific job im trying to go for whereas the food resume is used as is for all restaurants, boba places etc. They aren't great at all out of 10 i'd grade my resumes a 4.
My first resume is the food related resume i still use today but just tweaked. It got me my first job at subway when i was in 10th grade, surprisingly. I wrote it because everybody says "You must have a resume" lol. My interview wasn't great because i suck at public speaking and trying to think of answers to questions like "Why do you need this job" or "What makes you a great candidate" etc. was tragic. So it must have been my resume because it was a group interview and all the other candidates had great answers.
welp my brain is shutting down completely because im making plans to go get some dessert lol. OKAY bye guys this was nice! I hope you guys have a great teennksgiving, christmas, and a happy new years and a great rest of your years, semesters at SDSU. (:
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Blog 10 Discourse Community Paper
Honestly i have no idea what discourse community i want to research/write on.
The communicative practices and enculturation are acquired by playing the game and your aspiration to be a high rank player. lol Playing video games can become very addicting and i feel like it doesn't really take long for someone to become a member of this community.
The cost to take on this community... money, time, and attention. Those, if im not forgetting any others, are the biggest sacrifices or if you call them investments you put towards being in this community. You spend money on so many games, memberships, items in the game, consoles, accessories etc. So much money is spent on this you won't even realize until you add it up at the end of the year. Time, time, time. Like i said it becomes very addictive and people reach the point where they are extremely dedicated to playing that they prioritize playing before anything else. Attention, like time, people constantly think of their games about what they need/want to do, how to do things etc.
I was considering writing about computer science majors or something in that field but for one i'm not 100% sure thats a discourse community and 2 i just switched to the major and don't really know much. Then again it is a research paper and i could do research lol. But thinking about whether i could grind out 7+ pages about this topic.. and be interested idk.
Another community i was considering was video game players.
Hmmm lets see how would i break this down.
Their communication
- youtube videos
- twitch / live streams
- reddit
- over the mic while playing or Voice Chat
Meetings/Gatherings
Well at least the people i know don't really gather with other people to play. They usually just call/text each other and invite each other to play through the game. There is this convention called Twitch Con which is exactly like comic con but for this app/website for gamers.
(I'm just going to try and answer some of the questions on Professor Flewellings blog)
The communicative practices and enculturation are acquired by playing the game and your aspiration to be a high rank player. lol Playing video games can become very addicting and i feel like it doesn't really take long for someone to become a member of this community.
Values and norms of playing video games.. I would say superiority or dominance over others or the satisfaction of completing a game or quest or task.
As for literacy, I dont think there is much that needs to be acquired in order for you to be in the community. It's more like you pick up a game and play it and if you like it you continue to play, spend a lot of your time doing just that, and you start to pick up how to talk to other gamers.
The cost to take on this community... money, time, and attention. Those, if im not forgetting any others, are the biggest sacrifices or if you call them investments you put towards being in this community. You spend money on so many games, memberships, items in the game, consoles, accessories etc. So much money is spent on this you won't even realize until you add it up at the end of the year. Time, time, time. Like i said it becomes very addictive and people reach the point where they are extremely dedicated to playing that they prioritize playing before anything else. Attention, like time, people constantly think of their games about what they need/want to do, how to do things etc.
I think this would be a good discourse community to write about. I hope it's an acceptable one too. Other than this i got nothing and will have to brain storm super hard at my meeting to figure something out.
Okay bye bye.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Blog #9
LASTT BLOGGGG!!! I think... lol
hmmm I feel like the semester is flying by so fast but not fast enough because we're really only on our 8th week out of 16-17 weeks. Lol The feeling and excitement just died.. RIP. We're literally half way. 50%. 1/2. lol we have another 1/2 another 50%. another 8ish weeks left. danggg.
Anyways my future career. Jeez. I honestly do not know what to expect. But I'm eager to learn. I want to pursue a career in software developing. I want to design and develop new software for companies, test and modify existing software, I want to be the annoying update you always get on your iphone (that you always ignore). LOL well at least i ignore it.
What will I have to do in order to adapt to this career... SELF CONTROL.
A whole lot of brain power, an enormous amount of patience, meticulous attention to detail, and communication/planning skills. In order for me to work efficiently and not have to take my work home, I'd have to actually know what I'm doing AKA background knowledge AKA in the process of getting a degree in computer science. Like some jobs you learn how to do your job within the first weeks of getting hired. This job you have to already know your $h!t. Some of my friends that have graduated with degrees in computer science are struggling to find jobs because employers actually test you on whether or not you can program. I was like WAHHH. But it's understandable, you're going to get paid 40-50 dollars an hour.. You better know how to program and do the tasks your employer is hiring you to do.
Hmm i say patience and paying close attention to detail because if i have to write thousands and thousands of lines code, an extra space somewhere or a capitalized letter or a random character in my code could be the reason why my entire program doesn't work. And the first thing I would think is not that i mistyped somewhere but my logic is wrong.
Lastly (not really lastly but lastly on my list) communication and planning skills. There is going to be a lot of team work involved in this job. We are going to have to plan efficiently in order to have a well developed program and be able to meet deadlines. Talking to one another about what works and what doesn't work, helping each other solve problems, communicating altogether keeps everybody on the same page moving forward as a collective.
As for my identity kit... being professional is key. I can't talk to my coworkers or my boss like how i would talk to my friends. I want to show them that I am respectable, dependable, hard working and most importantly competent in programming. For me, first impressions are SOO important. If I dont enunciate and slur my words or if i casually talk to my boss I feel like i'm disrespecting their position of authority. If that makes sense... Though it would be cool to BE COOL with my boss there will always be that fine line between employee and employer that i don't want to cross. Unless im being promoted then wassuhhhhhhh C:
hmmm I feel like the semester is flying by so fast but not fast enough because we're really only on our 8th week out of 16-17 weeks. Lol The feeling and excitement just died.. RIP. We're literally half way. 50%. 1/2. lol we have another 1/2 another 50%. another 8ish weeks left. danggg.
Anyways my future career. Jeez. I honestly do not know what to expect. But I'm eager to learn. I want to pursue a career in software developing. I want to design and develop new software for companies, test and modify existing software, I want to be the annoying update you always get on your iphone (that you always ignore). LOL well at least i ignore it.
What will I have to do in order to adapt to this career... SELF CONTROL.
A whole lot of brain power, an enormous amount of patience, meticulous attention to detail, and communication/planning skills. In order for me to work efficiently and not have to take my work home, I'd have to actually know what I'm doing AKA background knowledge AKA in the process of getting a degree in computer science. Like some jobs you learn how to do your job within the first weeks of getting hired. This job you have to already know your $h!t. Some of my friends that have graduated with degrees in computer science are struggling to find jobs because employers actually test you on whether or not you can program. I was like WAHHH. But it's understandable, you're going to get paid 40-50 dollars an hour.. You better know how to program and do the tasks your employer is hiring you to do.
Hmm i say patience and paying close attention to detail because if i have to write thousands and thousands of lines code, an extra space somewhere or a capitalized letter or a random character in my code could be the reason why my entire program doesn't work. And the first thing I would think is not that i mistyped somewhere but my logic is wrong.Lastly (not really lastly but lastly on my list) communication and planning skills. There is going to be a lot of team work involved in this job. We are going to have to plan efficiently in order to have a well developed program and be able to meet deadlines. Talking to one another about what works and what doesn't work, helping each other solve problems, communicating altogether keeps everybody on the same page moving forward as a collective.
As for my identity kit... being professional is key. I can't talk to my coworkers or my boss like how i would talk to my friends. I want to show them that I am respectable, dependable, hard working and most importantly competent in programming. For me, first impressions are SOO important. If I dont enunciate and slur my words or if i casually talk to my boss I feel like i'm disrespecting their position of authority. If that makes sense... Though it would be cool to BE COOL with my boss there will always be that fine line between employee and employer that i don't want to cross. Unless im being promoted then wassuhhhhhhh C:
Monday, October 17, 2016
Blog 8: Work is work is work
WHY HELLOO DURRR c:
This semester is flying by so fast... It's greatttt! I hope you all are doing okay or great in terms of homework, midterms, grades in general.
Hmmmm. Work, specifically service jobs. Are they mindless jobs.. Do people that work service jobs lack the necessary education to be knowledgable workers??
OF COURSE NOT. Well at least in my opinion.. if that matters. I feel like regardless of what type of job it is you're going to learn something, you're going to use what you've learned and apply it to other jobs outside of your job, nothing is mindless and everything you do requires you to think.
To me the people that are degrading service jobs are people that have degrees or have jobs that are significantly higher paying. Wage plays a big role in judgement.
Let's take being a waiter or waitress for example. You have to learn how to take orders, speak to customers, give excellent customer service, critically think when solving problems i.e. when a customer is unhappy or when you run out of something. There is a lot more to serving people than repetitive actions.
If you told a software engineer to be a waiter for a day that person would have to listen, learn, and observe. It won't come to them naturally because it isn't a mindless job. Just like any other job you have to learn and adapt. It may not be knowledge that you gain from going to college but never the less it's knowledge.
Education is acquiring skills, values, reasoning, judgement and the list goes on. Waiters and waitresses or anyone working any service job learns these things. They learn it in relation to their field of work. The things they learn and find useful may not be useful to someone that's working as an architect or a pharmacy technician but it's again still KNOWLEDGE.
I don't know if anything I said made sense. To be honest when I read my writing, in any scenario, I feel like it sounds good, like there are minor tweaks but it's overall OK... but then i get feedback and it's like damn I suck. LOL It's okay one day I'll learn to love writing. Hopefully.. or not.
These blogs doeee... I kind of like them. But i feel like I've taken advantage of the fact that I can freely speak in my own voice and disregard grammer, spelling, details, and basically literacy that I've taken this form of writing into my Op-ed and Memoir and probably my ethnography. Which is tragically ripping me apart. oops.
Lol i say i feel a lot. haha Just waiting for someone to comment on my blog saying NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL hahahah. okay imma go now.
This semester is flying by so fast... It's greatttt! I hope you all are doing okay or great in terms of homework, midterms, grades in general.
Hmmmm. Work, specifically service jobs. Are they mindless jobs.. Do people that work service jobs lack the necessary education to be knowledgable workers??
OF COURSE NOT. Well at least in my opinion.. if that matters. I feel like regardless of what type of job it is you're going to learn something, you're going to use what you've learned and apply it to other jobs outside of your job, nothing is mindless and everything you do requires you to think.
To me the people that are degrading service jobs are people that have degrees or have jobs that are significantly higher paying. Wage plays a big role in judgement.
Let's take being a waiter or waitress for example. You have to learn how to take orders, speak to customers, give excellent customer service, critically think when solving problems i.e. when a customer is unhappy or when you run out of something. There is a lot more to serving people than repetitive actions.
If you told a software engineer to be a waiter for a day that person would have to listen, learn, and observe. It won't come to them naturally because it isn't a mindless job. Just like any other job you have to learn and adapt. It may not be knowledge that you gain from going to college but never the less it's knowledge.
Education is acquiring skills, values, reasoning, judgement and the list goes on. Waiters and waitresses or anyone working any service job learns these things. They learn it in relation to their field of work. The things they learn and find useful may not be useful to someone that's working as an architect or a pharmacy technician but it's again still KNOWLEDGE.
I don't know if anything I said made sense. To be honest when I read my writing, in any scenario, I feel like it sounds good, like there are minor tweaks but it's overall OK... but then i get feedback and it's like damn I suck. LOL It's okay one day I'll learn to love writing. Hopefully.. or not.
These blogs doeee... I kind of like them. But i feel like I've taken advantage of the fact that I can freely speak in my own voice and disregard grammer, spelling, details, and basically literacy that I've taken this form of writing into my Op-ed and Memoir and probably my ethnography. Which is tragically ripping me apart. oops.
Lol i say i feel a lot. haha Just waiting for someone to comment on my blog saying NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL hahahah. okay imma go now.
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Blog 7: I'm Fake AF
So lemme tell you at work, you won't even tell its me aside from my physical appearance... I work at the Superior Court where you have to dress strictly business casual, talk professionally and all that business stuff. I talk proper, dress proper, and type in court code. My coworkers perceive me as an introvert basically. Because I'm so scared that if i talk a lot I'll say something wrong or bad, so I keep to myself and just get my work done. At first it was really hard taking everything seriously all the time but I've adapted to the environment and my coworkers enough to sort of feel comfortable, but sometimes my normal self slips out. When that happens I freak out and just walk back to my cubicle lol. Most of the time my coworkers ask me about school and what i do on the weekend.. and i start complaining about how tired i am and how i just stay home on the weekends... and then i stop and chang the subject because im complaining and i dont want them to see me as a complainer. (lol @ me complaining about these blogs.. ) so yeah im a studious, quite student that never goes out and i think they probably think i have barley any friends but its okay its part of my identity kit right?.
For the look that goes along with my identity kit is no makeup and mix matching HAHAHAH. Seriously I work 7:30am every morning, i DO NOT care about how i look at work. Also i only have so many business casual clothing that i honestly just throw on whatever and go. I mean all the ladies at my work come in with heels and stuff looking all business-y for like 10 minutes and then they change out of their heels and into sneakers for the rest of the day. lol imagine like 20 women walking around wearing business skirts and a blazer or a nice blouse with sneakers. Thats like the go to look at my job. lol so we all blend in when it comes to dress code.
I don't mind my identity kit at work, i mean its work and the identity kit i put forth is manageable . Even though i feel fake and i cant talk to anyone there regularly, it's work.
If you want da monies you gotta do what you gotta do.
Monday, October 3, 2016
Blog 6: C0llEgE $tUdENt LyFeee
So i started cooking and prepping for my week of healthy eating and i have to say im excited. I know how to cook but i rarely cook because when you a college student YOU AINT GOTT TIMEEEEE. But tonight i think was probably the best chicken breast i've made so far. I made brown butter chicken breast with thyme, sage and shallots. HMMMMM it was so good when i tasted it so im bout to eat goooood this week. The reason why im so excited because this semester i havent had time to eat breakfast lunch and dinner. This is because i work 7:30am till class and then i have a small lunch after my classes then im studying and doing homework until like 12am and then the next day comes and it happens all over again for 5 days. So yeah i havent been eating very well. So hopefully this week is successful.
Adapting to the college life.. WAS THE WORSE. I came into college thinking GPA didnt matter, and i was SOOO WRONG. I went to mesa college my last semester of senior year so i picked up super bad habits. Like skipping class.. not studying.. not taking it serious. So coming into SDSU wasnt so hot. It also didn't help that all of my friends didn't go to college so I chose friends over school my first semester as a freshman. They would hit me up to hang out, eat, and go out at night so my mind was in a completely different place. Though i barley passed all my classes it was full of regret. I had a lot of freedom regarding my parents because i basically did what they wanted my older sister to do and that was (typical asian parents) honors, A's, blah blah and also because i am the first in my family to go to college so they know im serious about school but i took that for granted. I reconsidered and reevaluated my life coming second semester of freshman year. I met a lot of people that actually went to state, which helped me stay focused in school but even then i failed a class.... Which caused me to find balance between school work and having a social life. In the end i found my balance, maybe its because i ended up in a relationship and i couldnt go out as much as i did but it was for the better. My grades started going up but not as much as i wanted it too. Come to find out it was my majorrr. Biochemistry is just not my thing. I chose this major because i thought i wanted to become a pharmacist but i really didnt. I did it because my parents wanted me to and it sucks that i figured this out coming into my third year but better now than later. SO Chemistry --> Biochemistry --> Computer Science... i think i've figured it out. Im enjoying my classes, actually paying attention, going to every class. Its a satisfying feeling to know that im interested in what im learning. All in this roller coaster i've dropped my procrastination habit, being responsible and EATING HEALTHY (hopefully). Life is honestly great right now.
Side note i need to make new friends. LOL all my friends are greek affiliated asians and im honestly tired of hearing and talking about all of that stuff. Everyone is in everyones business and this and that and you get what i mean. Thats why this semester i openly talk to random people in my class to find new friends. not trying to replace my old ones but expand my network sort of speak. So if you
LOL. Okay well im end it here because i basically told my college life story and im sorry for whoever reads this :) I also did not care for capitalizing and grammer errors because that reflection MESSED ME UP. im tellin you there are a lot of errors in that paper. Thats why im planning to do blog 7 for some extra points because im going to need it hahaha. okay goodnight!
Monday, September 26, 2016
Blog #5 Discourse Community
Anyways Discourse Community, genres, sweet ol' Devitt with the 15 PAGE writing, I don't know where to starttt. SO many great choices. -.-
Based on today's lecture and my very brief scanning of this 8 page beauty...... I would like to convince you that the meaning behind this Discourse Community is that it is a type genre, vocabulary, goals that a certain group of people choose to speak/share with each other. Genre meaning a specific type of communication that has a certain form, technique, you know what I mean. And if you don't know what I mean let please refer back to our great dear friend Devitt. Because I would like to refrain from going back to that good stuff. But what i will say is that genre awareness is key to this discourse community. Just like writing assignments in class, speaking a certain genre requires you to know the structure of the language. If you don't know how to write/speak the genre of the language you aren't in the community.
Let's touch on same examples. Hmmmm... Servers (obviously the one we've been referring back to in class) are a discourse community because they write in a certain way when taking orders, that no one else really writes other than other servers. Another example is are PT's (another example we went over haha) they write their SOAP notes which depict a discourse community. Lastly software engineers or computer science majors are another discourse community. All of these examples have a specific form of writing that has different goals within their setting of work.
Since I'm already throwing out examples, lets see how computer science majors/software engineers are a discourse community. Now i'm telling you now I'm probably 90% wrong but this is my attempt. Swales first characteristic starts that the community has a common public goal. The goal of software engineers are to create programs that perform certain "tasks" by putting together different computer languages i.e java, c++ etc. The second characteristic is intercommunication which they talk, email etc. The third characteristic is "participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information or feedback, in this" in this case it is to provide information. The fourth characteristic is possessing one or more genres, which refers to the different computer languages used when programming. The fifth characteristic is lexis, which is like coding to programming. Lastly the sixth characteristic is the membership threshold, which i feel like in terms of software engineers, is that they will always be software engineers and be part of that specific community.
Well that last paragraph was super repetitive but it's a blog so OH WELLLLLL:) I honestly don't feel confident about the accuracy of that last paragraph but Im going to just go with it. Correct my if I'm wrong though because I'll keep thinking that everything i wrote was correct if no tells me I'm wrong.
Anyways I'm super stressed. It's crazy how I have yet to procrastinate this semester and yet I have so much work to get done. I've done all my assignments and studying the same day it's assigned or right after class and yet I have so much to do. HOWWWW. I guess it's inevitable. At least I got this assignment over with, so I can focus on the other 942 things I have to do.
Also I am trying to eat healthy starting next week. Not necessarily the meal prep stuff like counting macros etc. but I want to start eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner with some snacks in between rather than just having just lunch everyday. (No time to eat when you a college student that works at the superior court) I go to the gym but what's going to the gym if you aren't eating the right foods. So hopefully I can stay committed to eating healthy like how i'm committed to hitting 750 words because I don't want to risk losing points for not grinding out the minimum amount of words. haha If you guys have any HEALTHY recipes you would like to share I would love to hear/try them :)
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Blog #4: JSTOR
Imma just leave this right here so you guys can let it soak in while I read these articles.. BRB.
Okay I'm back... I choose to talk about the articles Viral Black Death, Donald Trumps Bet: We are all Chumps, and Why this Election Feels Never-Ending. All 3 articles are of predominant topics, not necessarily worldwide (maybe) but specifically in the United States.
Before I continue, I just want to let you guys know I always misinterpret ethos, pathos and logos even though I know its credibility, emotions and logic. So disregard all of the misinterpretations I might say. On the WPA I said ethos was pathos and pathos was ethos and argued the wrong things for the wrong word but I still got a 8 so WE GOOD. Anyways..
Viral Black Deaths was the first because it is everywhere on social media. I'm the type of person to see things on social media and actually research about them to both verify the accuracy and learn about the situation. And this is one that I find myself looking up very often. I'm assuming the author is Kimberly Fain based on the fact that there is a little section that describes who she is at the bottom, but that's because I'm so used to seeing "by (the authors name)" right under the header or at the end of the article. She argues that it's our choice to read/look at these videos but it should be our responsibility to educate ourselves on these problems. Fain utilizes multiple activists, scholars to solidify all of her claims or as she says to #staywoke. She uses W.E.B Du Bois to depict (ongoing) stereotypes that once supported white supremacy, which is a huge factor in this war against law enforcers and the public (specifically African Americans). She also reminds readers of the repulsive acts of lynching to show the extent a minority will go when they truly believe in something, in this case white supremacy. Not sure if she uses any logos in this article, correct me if I missed it!! But I feel like Fain's methodology was to ensure that though its voluntary people should want to know what is going on, remind readers of the historical events stereotyping once caused, why the events that are happening today align with those in the past, and that people are reposting, voicing their opinions and making headline stories about it everyday because nothing has really changed. At this point, African Americans don't feel like there is actually equality. Not only African Americans, but everyone that supports the claim that equality is only preached but never truly practiced, feel that they have only one outlet to solving this problem and thats SPEAKING UP.
Donald Trump.... Hilary Clinton... Oh how Imma miss the Obamas.
Donald Trumps Bet: We are all Chumps was a shorter article compared to the last one and the one I will be speaking about after this one but it was to the point. The Editorial Board used Trumps' son Eric as a credible source, they use the things Trumps didn't show or do compared to all other candidates in both this election and prior elections, and not sure if any logos was used in this article either, again correct me if I'm just blind to logos. I felt like this article was just a gun unloading bullets at the target on Trumps back. I don't blame them, or maybe I'm just opinionated, or maybe they just did a really good job persuading readers. Running for office, I'd expect the candidate would do anything they can to lie. Just kidding, not really, but they would try to do anything they can to gain trust. For Trump not to release tax forms, have no policy proposals, and have no prior public office experience, it's like drawing his name blindly from a hat. From what I have seen on the news, for someone that doesn't really have any good reasons to win, except for the fact that he uses "I'm a business man" and he always yells obnoxiously at events to keep him, his image doesn't really scream I'm going to be a good president, at least from my opinion.
Why this Election Feels Never-Ending, now this article was more lengthy. Not going to lie after reading the other two than seeing this one, I went back and tried to find another shorter article but then realized I would have to go back and change my first paragraph so I stuck with it. This article talks about what the title says and I couldn't agree more. Emma Roller people from Brandon Silverman, a co-founder of CrowdTangle to Thomas Patterson, a Harvard political scientist to explain why the election has been dragging on, instead of just voicing her own opinion. This article DOES HAVE logos. Finally. She includes CrowdTrangle's research on how interactions on social media has quadrupled compared to the 2012 election. This ultimately is like super glue to Roller's whole argument because if people are more active and more prone to intervene in the candidate election there is something significantly different this election year. Whether it's good or bad (it's bad) it makes me and maybe even some of you feel like, dang it's really between these two people. Someone that is plastered all over the news about how she handles confidential information poorly and someone that is also plastered all over the news about how obnoxious and mistrusting he is.
I'd have to say the JSTOR (Viral Black Death) held my attention more than the two Op-ed. But regardless, I feel like depending on the topic and how the author writes about it, dictates whether I'll keep reading or just move on to the next.
I was motivated to write, but as I got more into the Donald Trump articles, I lost motivation. Bye.
Before I continue, I just want to let you guys know I always misinterpret ethos, pathos and logos even though I know its credibility, emotions and logic. So disregard all of the misinterpretations I might say. On the WPA I said ethos was pathos and pathos was ethos and argued the wrong things for the wrong word but I still got a 8 so WE GOOD. Anyways..
Viral Black Deaths was the first because it is everywhere on social media. I'm the type of person to see things on social media and actually research about them to both verify the accuracy and learn about the situation. And this is one that I find myself looking up very often. I'm assuming the author is Kimberly Fain based on the fact that there is a little section that describes who she is at the bottom, but that's because I'm so used to seeing "by (the authors name)" right under the header or at the end of the article. She argues that it's our choice to read/look at these videos but it should be our responsibility to educate ourselves on these problems. Fain utilizes multiple activists, scholars to solidify all of her claims or as she says to #staywoke. She uses W.E.B Du Bois to depict (ongoing) stereotypes that once supported white supremacy, which is a huge factor in this war against law enforcers and the public (specifically African Americans). She also reminds readers of the repulsive acts of lynching to show the extent a minority will go when they truly believe in something, in this case white supremacy. Not sure if she uses any logos in this article, correct me if I missed it!! But I feel like Fain's methodology was to ensure that though its voluntary people should want to know what is going on, remind readers of the historical events stereotyping once caused, why the events that are happening today align with those in the past, and that people are reposting, voicing their opinions and making headline stories about it everyday because nothing has really changed. At this point, African Americans don't feel like there is actually equality. Not only African Americans, but everyone that supports the claim that equality is only preached but never truly practiced, feel that they have only one outlet to solving this problem and thats SPEAKING UP.
Donald Trump.... Hilary Clinton... Oh how Imma miss the Obamas.
Donald Trumps Bet: We are all Chumps was a shorter article compared to the last one and the one I will be speaking about after this one but it was to the point. The Editorial Board used Trumps' son Eric as a credible source, they use the things Trumps didn't show or do compared to all other candidates in both this election and prior elections, and not sure if any logos was used in this article either, again correct me if I'm just blind to logos. I felt like this article was just a gun unloading bullets at the target on Trumps back. I don't blame them, or maybe I'm just opinionated, or maybe they just did a really good job persuading readers. Running for office, I'd expect the candidate would do anything they can to lie. Just kidding, not really, but they would try to do anything they can to gain trust. For Trump not to release tax forms, have no policy proposals, and have no prior public office experience, it's like drawing his name blindly from a hat. From what I have seen on the news, for someone that doesn't really have any good reasons to win, except for the fact that he uses "I'm a business man" and he always yells obnoxiously at events to keep him, his image doesn't really scream I'm going to be a good president, at least from my opinion.
Why this Election Feels Never-Ending, now this article was more lengthy. Not going to lie after reading the other two than seeing this one, I went back and tried to find another shorter article but then realized I would have to go back and change my first paragraph so I stuck with it. This article talks about what the title says and I couldn't agree more. Emma Roller people from Brandon Silverman, a co-founder of CrowdTangle to Thomas Patterson, a Harvard political scientist to explain why the election has been dragging on, instead of just voicing her own opinion. This article DOES HAVE logos. Finally. She includes CrowdTrangle's research on how interactions on social media has quadrupled compared to the 2012 election. This ultimately is like super glue to Roller's whole argument because if people are more active and more prone to intervene in the candidate election there is something significantly different this election year. Whether it's good or bad (it's bad) it makes me and maybe even some of you feel like, dang it's really between these two people. Someone that is plastered all over the news about how she handles confidential information poorly and someone that is also plastered all over the news about how obnoxious and mistrusting he is.
I'd have to say the JSTOR (Viral Black Death) held my attention more than the two Op-ed. But regardless, I feel like depending on the topic and how the author writes about it, dictates whether I'll keep reading or just move on to the next.
I was motivated to write, but as I got more into the Donald Trump articles, I lost motivation. Bye.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Blog #2 Genres Genres Genres
Welpp..
After only taking 1 RWS class and 0 English
classes at state, it was a STRUGGLE to read through that 15 page reading. Not
going to lie, I read at least 40 of those sentences 4 times due to the fact
that my mind drifted midway through the first word. Don't get me wrong though I
like reading, just I tend to be more attentive when it is my GENRE of my
choosing.
Amy Devitt.. she was sent from heaven to bless us with some
knowledge. As students, I know we ALL have asked ourselves "When are we
EVER going to use "(insert subject/concepts here)" in our
field of work". Amy is here to shed a little light on how we have been
brainwashed to believe that writing is just a blueprint we must follow in all
of our writing, rather than seeing it as a way to expand our creativity as
writers through other genres of writing. Devitt defines genre as
"social and rhetorical actions" that enables
creativity and originality. Though due to the lack of "critical genre
awareness", teaching genres has become more of a barrier.
SDSU has had an honor of blessing me with this
thing I'd like to call "The 5 annoying paragraphs of death" papers or
the 5 paragraph papers for short. Either one, it's very dreadful to say/hear. However,
I have to admit it has taught me how to formally argue an opinion and then
counter argue it then counter the counter argument, regardless of how I really
feel about the original argument. At my job, everything I write on are
pre-made court documents so I guess you can say it's fill in the blank type
stuff. Nothing really unique except for the fact that it doesn't require much
thought when because it isn't what I want, it's what the city wants. As for my
life... Resumes, Emails and Texting are the big 3. Resumes and emails are
always written in a professional manner, unless you don't actually want the job
your applying for or you want your professor to hate you. Texting on the other
hand is my paradise of illiteracy and improper grammar (though I'm pretty sure
my grammar isn't so hot writing these blogs).
Back to the 5 paragraph essays, we have learned, written, and been critiqued on that genre of writing so many times that it should be a tool for all of us to use in the future. But this isn't the case for most of us. Am I right? It's understandable if we learned about it once or twice but a majority of the time? It has left us uneducated about other genres of writing we encounter now and are likely to encounter later.
Critical genre awareness, Devitt
emphasizes, is teaching the background of genres rather than just giving
students templates to follow. Make available the culture and history of the genre
without giving us exact instructions we must follow in order for our writing to
be deemed that specific genre. It allows
us to depict what we think the genre is in our words, in our way. If we
can't take genres that we learn and make our own versions of it can we really
call it our writing? or can we really say we are growing as writers? We are
just filling in the blanks of a template. So every time we think of english classes or
writing classes we have it engraved in our heads that it's the 5 paragraph
structured essays and nothing else. Which is what Devitt is trying to
argue when she states "Without developing
their genre awareness, people are more at the mercy of existing genres and
existing power structures and dynamics" (347). If we don't know anything
but the structure of a genre we are prone to follow/write in that form.
And that’s what we have been doing for the past
years. Teachers have just been choosing
the genres they want to teach, skipping the in between, and going straight into
the paragraph structure. And now here we are 1 genre smarter, 50 more to go. I
wonder why so many teachers choose to teach this type of writing and why they
decided not to branch out into other genres that may help students in the real
world.
I find it weird that the whole time I was
writing this blog, I kept forgetting it’s a blog and that I didn’t need to
answer and follow the format of Professor Flewelling’s blog. But I tried to but
then I drifted off into my own thought, so I had to go back and erase and try
to answer them. And at the same time I felt like I NEEDED to put quotes and
argue why she said what. Again this is just me lacking critical awareness and
trying to format my writing according to the 5 paragraph writing. The most frustrating
feeling when you have the freedom to write in your own way but you’re habits
eat away at you but you end up feeling like you just wrote a whole lot of something everywhere. GREAT.
Till next timeeee....
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Introductory Blog: Brenda Tran
Jelloooo fellow classmates :)
My name is Brenda Tran and I am currently a 3rd year biochem major. I'm teetering on whether I want to start all over and switch to computer science because after being mentally mind $%#*&! by O chem, I refused to take Analytical chem.
Like everyone else I am forced to take this class because I passed the WPA but not with flying colors but it's okay #teamIGOTTA8ONTHEWPA for the win, WE GOT THIS GUYS. People that blog on the same gmail account together, get good grades together! Now I say "forced" because I honestly HATE writing essays. For some people it's second nature but for me I will literally take hours on 1 sentence. An hour to jot down the first 4 words, another hour to revise those 4 words, another hour to realize what I spent 2 hours writing and revising was idiotic and deleting it all, than settling for whatever comes to mind next. I have the most severe case of writers block out there. But after hearing that we will be branching out into other genres of writing I feel at ease, finally some change in our writing!!!
Aside from school I would like to share some things about myself, to give you all (well whoever decides to read this) a feel for who Btran is (LOL just kidding). I am the middle child, I have an older sister and younger half brother. I have a beautiful baby named lucky, he's super smart but is stingy with his food. My parents are divorced and my dad remarried. I have a boyfriend as well, he's cool.
Well I am very boring. If I didn't go to school I'd probably die from boredom. I'm like a super grandma for my age. I've grown to hate alcohol, staying out later than 11pm and anything else college people do now a days. Im weird, I don't know how or why but something about hangovers and walking in the subzero weather early in the morning just isn't fun. One thing I know for sure about me is that I prefer change. I lose interest in things quick so new is good! Regardless if I'm at school, work, or at home I can't do the same thing day in and day out. Like at school, since you can't change classes throughout the semester :(, I change seats every now and then. Everyone basically designates their own assigned spot on the first day of school but I sometimes sit in other seats to change it up for myself. Regardless if i get a weird look from the person that usually sits in the seat I just sat in. At work I can't really change anything because I work at the superior court and everything has it's own specific procedure, so I find different ways to hide and kill time. Don't get me wrong I finish all my work, I just hide and kill time during my down time, which happens to be all the time.
I love talking and meeting new people but I'm super random and all over the place but if the professor calls me out to speak upon something I will freeze up. I also slur my words like there's no tomorrow because I unknowingly speak fast. So if you here some girl speaking gibberish during class... it's me.
Other then all of that good stuff, this semester is actually a game changer in my life. I've set goals for myself to help me succeed and hopefully help me pick up good habits for the next coming semesters. I'm trying to pick up reading as a hobby (so if there are any good recommendations, I'm all ears!). I am also trying to attend every single one of my classes this semester and cure that virus everyone seems to get called PROCRASTINATION! I honestly can't think of any good excuse, that I've convinced myself the pass 2 years, that resulted in me ditching class. As for procrastination, well that's just something that takes a lot of will power.
I am also hoping to network more these upcoming semesters because I feel like thats one of the major keys in life. Even with a degree, I feel like having connections will make it easier to get your "dream" job or reach whatever goals you have set for your future. But thats just me, I'm not trying to convince you that you need to talk to everybody that crosses your path with intentions to like start a business in the future or anything, though that would be nice.
Well this was my first blog ever so if you made it this far i applaud you for listening to me ramble and talk about I don't even know what. I'm skimming what I wrote and it's just a whole lot of things everywhere. I don't feel like blogging will be a hobby I'll ever pick up but 1 down 9 more to go!
Praying this semester will be good to all of us!
Brenda.
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| Herrooo :) |
Like everyone else I am forced to take this class because I passed the WPA but not with flying colors but it's okay #teamIGOTTA8ONTHEWPA for the win, WE GOT THIS GUYS. People that blog on the same gmail account together, get good grades together! Now I say "forced" because I honestly HATE writing essays. For some people it's second nature but for me I will literally take hours on 1 sentence. An hour to jot down the first 4 words, another hour to revise those 4 words, another hour to realize what I spent 2 hours writing and revising was idiotic and deleting it all, than settling for whatever comes to mind next. I have the most severe case of writers block out there. But after hearing that we will be branching out into other genres of writing I feel at ease, finally some change in our writing!!!
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| Lucky butts :D |
Well I am very boring. If I didn't go to school I'd probably die from boredom. I'm like a super grandma for my age. I've grown to hate alcohol, staying out later than 11pm and anything else college people do now a days. Im weird, I don't know how or why but something about hangovers and walking in the subzero weather early in the morning just isn't fun. One thing I know for sure about me is that I prefer change. I lose interest in things quick so new is good! Regardless if I'm at school, work, or at home I can't do the same thing day in and day out. Like at school, since you can't change classes throughout the semester :(, I change seats every now and then. Everyone basically designates their own assigned spot on the first day of school but I sometimes sit in other seats to change it up for myself. Regardless if i get a weird look from the person that usually sits in the seat I just sat in. At work I can't really change anything because I work at the superior court and everything has it's own specific procedure, so I find different ways to hide and kill time. Don't get me wrong I finish all my work, I just hide and kill time during my down time, which happens to be all the time.
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| Darren (heart eyes emojii) |
Other then all of that good stuff, this semester is actually a game changer in my life. I've set goals for myself to help me succeed and hopefully help me pick up good habits for the next coming semesters. I'm trying to pick up reading as a hobby (so if there are any good recommendations, I'm all ears!). I am also trying to attend every single one of my classes this semester and cure that virus everyone seems to get called PROCRASTINATION! I honestly can't think of any good excuse, that I've convinced myself the pass 2 years, that resulted in me ditching class. As for procrastination, well that's just something that takes a lot of will power.
I am also hoping to network more these upcoming semesters because I feel like thats one of the major keys in life. Even with a degree, I feel like having connections will make it easier to get your "dream" job or reach whatever goals you have set for your future. But thats just me, I'm not trying to convince you that you need to talk to everybody that crosses your path with intentions to like start a business in the future or anything, though that would be nice.
Well this was my first blog ever so if you made it this far i applaud you for listening to me ramble and talk about I don't even know what. I'm skimming what I wrote and it's just a whole lot of things everywhere. I don't feel like blogging will be a hobby I'll ever pick up but 1 down 9 more to go!
Praying this semester will be good to all of us!
Brenda.
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