May 11

“Sometimes getting through the introduction of a research article can be the most difficult part of reading it. I believe this is very true. Research h articles have so much information that you may not know where to begin and you may not know what you are looking for or what is relevant for your topic. The introduction is very critical to your writing because it is like a pathway. It starts your audience down the path to know what you are writing about. If your introduction is unclear, your audience may not know what your paper will be about and leave them hanging or having uncertainties about your paper.

Making sure your argument is clear is also very important. This gives the reader further direction as to where you are going and what the purpose of your paper is. Without having your argument clearly stated confusion and the point of your paper will be unknown. This will make people not understand why you have information placed as you do. Along with that, your evidence needs to back your argument up. If your evidence has nothing to do with your argument then you are truly causing confusion and that is not always good.

May 9

The reading Annoying ways people use sources objective is to show that people use sources the wrong way. To be honest the only issue that I remember that I was told not to do was, “armadillo roadkill. My teachers always so do not introduce a sources or quote without giving some background feedback or your interpretation on how it relates to what you are writing about. My teachers express this clearly and that they would dock points because they feel when you do this you are just trying to fill the paper with fluff. I was always told when I write each paragraph should explain why it is relevant on its own.

I believe this reading was very insightful. I learned many things about quoting that would have never been expressed in my classes. I feel as though students do something wrong for  so long that wrong becomes the norm and then teachers make comments on your paper or maybe dock a few points but do not go over the in corrections because of the sake of time.  

Stedman says, “…slow driving is like sloppy writing” and gives two general reasons that people break conventions, both in driving and in writing, those being that they do not know the conventions or that they know them but do not care (242). I believe this to be true because there is nothing like someone driving 60 in the fast lane. Some people just do not know the rules, as for me going into a big city it seems that all of their lanes are fast lanes and in that case I am ignorant to their driving rules. As with writing, I have been trained to use sources because they provide proof but I have not been provided with all the rules and guidelines to make my sources stronger and use them correctly.

Honestly, I believe time is the real reason why quotes are not used properly. Because of time, you are not taught correctly how to use them and when you are taught correctly incorporating the perfect quote takes time that I believe us as students do not want to take. In addition, along with that we see the logic for quotes in the class and for the specific writing, but when we have our careers what are the odds that we will quote things. Zero to none, so it is not something that we care to spend a tremendous time on.  

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April 27

            I believe the genre analysis were very helpful to us. I believe it was very helpful because we got the opportunity to see how someone in our position analyses a genre. Taking us through each process step by step was very helpful. It gave me an idea as to how to start my analysis and gave me a guideline. With Magee I was interested in the female prejudice. I was interested in this topic because I am a women and I do know that some things that I say or my ideas are over looked.  She did a good job explain this topic and doing an analysis of the genre. I will definitely refer back to her when I do my analysis.

            With Allen being in the science field mad his writing style totally different. The way that he had to establish is credibility and authority had to have a more structured tone for his field. I think that we had to read to two articles together because it shows how the genre determines how you approach the analysis. Education majors will not analysis the genre the same as a engineer major. I think the two reading gave us a diverse look on how to analysis our genre.

I think the Bawarshi reading was similar to the other readings we have been reading. I think we still had to read this reading because sometimes with genres you have to change how you will analysis depending on your major and what your interest is. The quote that stuck with me was

“Communicants and their social environments are constantly in the process of reproducing one another, in much the same way that biologic ecosystems sustain, and are sustained by their organisms.”---- This quote was important to me because communication is the most important key. Also your communication revolves around your social environments. For example I do not speak the same way when I talk to a teacher as I would my friends and that is because my teachers will not speak to me the same way they do their friends. Overall I believe this was a good reading. I really liked the readings on the genre analysis the most. 

April 25

These articles have opened my mind up to genre. When I used to think of genre I used to think of a style or the way to write. Dirk has really opened my mind up to genre with the rules of country. This has made me think of how I would write a country song if I only had the rules displayed and would it be country. According to Dirk “think of genres as tools to help people get things done.” This is so true because genre provides structure and guidance to what ever it is you may do, not only for writing but also for dance. There are differences genres of dance for example you have contemporary or you have hip hop dance. There are certain styles and rules that need to be followed within each genre that makes the genre a genre. A rhetorically sound definition has to be centered…. On the action it is used to accomplish.” Genre also provides structure for the action. Back to writing country, the genre gives rules for what entails country music. So yes after hearing the rules for the genre of country I could write a country song. I like thinking of genre as tools.

Tools is a good word to describe genre because the tools help construct the meaning that the genre is trying to achieve. Without have the proper tools to explain to you what something is or how it can be achieved, if you do not know how to achieve it you will be lost and genre gives you direction. If I had to define genre in my own words I would describe genre as guidance and structure to a style. It does not have to be a style of writing it can be any style, from style of dress to style of writing or style of dance.

April 20

John Harris has an interesting take on discourse communities. His take on discourse makes it seem as though you were forced or born into your certain discourse. For example, being in a cultural discourse. It makes me think of being in a legacy discourse. For example if you were born into that particular discourse you have the privilege of knowing that particular discourse.        

            Your legacy plays a large part in discourse communities to me. There are many discourses that you were born into that you have no control over. There are more discourses that you were born in that you have no control over than the discourse communities that you chose. For example, where you grew up is a discourse community along with your family and the family activities that your family chooses to part take in for you.

            I have realize that there are some discourse communities that I can never or will never be apart of and will not be accepted into. Since I will not be accepted I may never learn that particular discourse. I know that thee are some discourses that will accept me with open arms and others that will reject me without a second thought.

            I believe we are spending so much time on discourse communities are to understand who you are as a writer which will also help you understand who the readers are and what they want.

April 18

Wardle relates to ecologies because it deals with communication and wringing in a specific community. Wardle talks about writing in engineering. People that are in that community will be very familiar with the writing and be able to understand the discourse. The formulas and the jargon used will be familiar and they will be able to understand what is going on. That holds true for math majors. The formulas that are used are good for people that in the math discipline because they are able to understand what is going on and what is being talked about. As for me understanding the formulas and how to manipulate them would be very hard and possibly a discourse that I couldn’t join because I am not from that community. Wardle also deals with people in their workplace and how they communicate. “Joining a new workplace community is not simply a matter of learning new skills but also fielding new calls for identity construction.” A new work place becomes the way of your culture. If you do not fit in with the work place you may be fired or you may not like the culture of the workplace and quit. Either way you need to make an adjustment for yourself and in a way that it will fit for you.

There is definitely a difference between Windsor and the other article. Windsor had a more professional approach to the writing and it was more formal. The other article was more for peers and not as in depth as the other articles were. This article was easier to read. It was also directed to its peers so you can tell that it was easier to relate to. "To analyze how consultants interact with engineering and English students we recorded and transcribed four half-hour consultations." They give a mental roadmap of the direction that they are going on to make sure it is easier to follow. Windsor on the other hand had more authority and spoke in a more professional manner. You can tell there was a knowledge and authority gap between the two.

April 13

            There are various reasons why I believe we had to read the readings. The most important reason I believe we had to read the reading was to get us to understand how to write with more detail and more understanding.  It was to get us how to understand the rhetorical situation. Also to write in a way that it displays a picture. When you read our writing you can get a mental understanding of what is going on.

            Rhetoric is a large part of my major. I am a communication studies major so I study the way people speak and present their argument.” Rhetoric is what allows you to write (and speak) appropriately for a given situation, one that is determined by the expectations of your audience, implied or acknowledged, whether you are texting, writing a love letter, or bleeding a term paper.” This quote stood out to me because to me rhetoric is the art of persuasion. Your rhetorical situation will allow you to figure out what cues you need to persuade your audience. Rhetoric is not only what you say, write, it is also what you do. For example, when we were in high school and we wanted to attend a party or use the car, we would clean the house first, butter up our parents, clean our room, then we would pop the question. Hoping that are strategies would get us the answer we wanted we played on the rhetorical situation and used rhetoric for persuasion. If we wanted to get a piece of gun form a friend the rhetorical situation would have been different. The rhetoric and the rhetorical situation depend on our audience.

            I do not believe that discourses are hard to join. I believe that we are very observant people. We notice when discourse is different and we put that in our minds and we try to adapt. We know there are certain scripts for certain discourse. For example a college student wouldn’t email a professor the same way they would text a friend. We have learned that those are two different discourses and they both call for very different rules.

April 11

There were not very many passages that caught my eye or that I would agree with. The one that I did have some interest in was “Rules, in other words, can seem to make life and writing situations easier to navigate”.  I would say this because rules make constraints. When you have rules you are not free to roam and think broadly. You have to think along simply lines so they your writing will be easy to navigate. I do agree rules make easier to navigate but it doesn’t allow them to be creative. Rules make your writing seem formatted and no different from other people. I can guarantee that many resumes will follow the similar format and so will cover letters. There is no variation to make you stand out. What makes you mostly stand out on a resume is your information not how you format it because many people format them the same. I strongly believe that rules make you lack creativity.