Confusing Yes, Useless No

Throughout the semester i've had expectations of this class and a certain mindset to properly prepare me for class each day and the assignments received. My conclusion is thus, this class is confusing. However, i have become a better writer without a doubt on applying student goals as well as using the essay format or format for academic writing to help me write essays for other classes. That's it.

blog reflection

Writing a blog is like keeping a journal except this blog is designed for English class. The purpose of this blog is for students in the class to contribute thought and experiences about writing. Throughout this semester, I have participated in blog activities and learned from others through the blog. On the blog I have posted my experiences and my thoughts for the English. With my posts I have gotten various feedbacks which have helped me with my writing process. The pieces of writing in on the blogs vary in topic and sometimes focus on one topic. When all the posts are about one topic which usually is in-class exercise, I learn more about that topic from other people in class. Reading others’ posts, I can see many sides of one topic from different views. I sometimes use this blog as resources for my papers. People also share their writing experiences on the blog; therefore, I indirectly learn their experiences and apply them to my papers. Blogging forces me to think and reflect in order to write so my ideas become concrete. I think I can benefit more from the blog if everyone and I voluntarily contribute more in writing on the blog. Since many people in our class treat blog exercise as assignment that has to be done, the quality of blog is lessened. Because blog exercises just require bloggers to post something on blog, some bloggers just type random things which become irrelevant to the purpose of the blog. Another purpose for the blog is getting comment from other about your work. The assignment we did where we were asked to comment on others, I receive some useful comment about my post. However, if we are not asked, no one will make any comments. I myself think that the blog can be used as a helpful tool for writing if everyone participates enthusiastically. However, being a student, we spend more time doing homework and don’t have time to participate in blog. I personally would like the instructor to comment more about our post on the blog as a way of giving feedback about our writing.

Track Changes = Cool

After getting a helpful note of feedback on what i am doing and not doing in my portfolio writings really helped me hone in and focus on my writing assignments in English 101. The track change revision assignment was kind of an academic writing revolution for me. This new device helped so much and is exceptionally helpful for peer revision and so on. Track changes allows not only the writer to see what he is doing from paragraph changes to something as small as a period, while also keeping what you have writing and taking out and what you add in is all seen. This perception allows the writer to keep all unusable sentences in front of them to go back to or build off of. Using the track changes for me felt like i was not the one even writing my revised paper, what i mean is that instead of deleting irrelevant stuff and forgetting about it and shrinking your paper the entire paper stays intact. Track changes makes the writer look at the writing from a high viewpoint one that is more objective. Track changes gives the writer the perspective of the teacher and helps you "yell" at yourself for even thinking of submitting some sentences in the writing. Ms Track Changes is an advantage best used if the writer can be perceptive and really look at all the "red" that can appear after you get in the rhythm of revising. The best thing about track changes is that whatever you correct can always be undone.

Audience

Being in the class and doing assignments make me automatically assume that mine audiences will be the teacher or classmates who know assignments’ topic. However, English 101 is designed differently. The instructor and classmates could read mine papers but the purpose of the class is writing to anyone regardless sex, age, and religion. Determining audiences is very important because the aim of writing is towards audiences. Since I assume that mine audiences are within a class room, a paper might lack of explanation of what it is about because of assumption that audiences already knew the topic. Now, I am aware of my audiences are beyond the size of class room so I will have a different approach to my writing. It’s important that writers provide a good explanation about what they are writing about so I always make sure that readers can understand my points, in other way, I give explanation of my choices. However, it is hard to satisfy all readers since each has different views. It is normal that there are agreement and disagreement about a paper. If one try to satisfy readers by providing common sense to gain agreement, their paper will be boring. Therefore, a paper which creates argument might be interesting.

strategy?

A strategy is some sort of planing that will get you to your goal. I can usually recognize a by when you plan something like work you plan on who you can get the work done the fastest. If you play a game like in wrestling you try to get the best weight match up so you see if you can switch people that are about the same weight like if some wrestled 135 but weighed 130 usually if he is better at 130 maybe switch the 2 wrestlers and have the better wrestler face the better opponent. so strategy basically is a plan to get you the best possible way to achieve your goal.

What is A Strategy?

A strategy is a specific plan to achieve a specific goals. Whether it's community work, art work, or creating a literary work, it involves using some specific ideas and techniques to achieve some specific outcomes. For example, some writers may start off a paragraph by asking questions to raise the readers' curiosity and interest. The writer will decide at what point in the text to answer the questions.

Referring to Community work, a lot of organizations develop strategic plans to achieve specific goals for their organizations and for the community. These plans serve as road maps to direct the organization achieve specific goals.

Delores Green

What is strategy?

Strategy is a plan that people make in order to accomplish something. In writing, I think strategy is a tool, a way which writers use in order to achieve their goals. Strategies are used to make a paper effective. How to recognize strategy? At work, a strategy can be recognize when one make plan to improve their work. For example, a company changing the wage to stimulate workers which might increase productivity. In sports, strategy is way coach set up for the line-up, or way the team will play such as focusing on defend or offense depend on situation. In personally, I think strategy is the way or plan which person benefit by it to achieve his/her goals. Strategy differ from situations, from different people, and different aims.

Come up with a plan

Strategy is like a plan. To think something out before you do it. A way to recognize strategy in sports is when in basketball one of the coaches calls a timeout to reorganize his or her team so they will have a better chance of winning. A way to see strategy at work is if someone is doing something different from everyone else because they feel they are more productive that way. What it means for someone/something to b strategic is plan something out before they do it thinking that it will help them out in a good way, or planning something for the better.

What is a strategy?

A strategy is an organized plan to help you get something specific accomplished. There are many ways to see a strategy in action in everyday in life. When you are at work you can see a lot of strategies going on. One could be when you are in a meeting and someone is giving a presentation on how to make the company better. that is a strategy. you can also see some strategies in sports. take a basketball game for instance, the plays they are doing are strategies. Something/ someone is strategic when they have a well organized plan and they are good at sticking to that plan. Take, for example, Survivor. That game is all full of strategies. So basically a strategy is an organized plan and what makes people strategic is them just being good at sticking to the main plan.

Successful Planning...

A strategy is a plan that will ultimately lead you to success, this can be found in almost every part of everyday life. Everyone uses a strategy whether it be to decide on what to do, what to wear, to do their homework or even go to work or school. Its all plan that has positive and negative effects when this strategy is used or not used.

In sports a strategy is the game plan, it is usually well coached to achieve the highest level of success and hopefully the win. In football its a defense that stops plays, or an offense that executes perfect blocks. In basketball its the way the offense is ran or the style of defense that is played an example would be zone defense, where everyone is always switching and crashing the lane. In baseball its putting in a left handed pitcher against a right handed batter.

Someone who is being strategic is someone who is always planning out their next move, and trying to be as prepared as possible in case their plan doesn't work out like they think it will. It is being mentally prepared for almost any course of action. Whether you know it or not it is a use of everyday life, its planning and be prepared for whatever adventures you may encounter that day or week.

Strategic

Strategies are the calculated tactics and plans in thought and action. Strategy is a plan of action to execute and carry out, its away to get around or through something. However, strategies can be like controlled chaos sometimes. Freewheeling or freestyling strategies can be effective. This type of strategy relys on instinct and reactions. Strategies can be most commonly seen in a physical sense, in sports. The olympian Ben Askren, a wrestler from Wisconsin was seen as having a "Western Funk" strategy that he incorporated into his mathces. He knew what he was going to do everytime he stepped on the mat, win! However, Askren didn't know what crazy tangled moves he would use or a step by step playbook that he kept in his mind. He just let it flow. Their is a method to the madness of strategy that can be effective in getting both sides of perspective on whatever you want to strategize about. Someone who is strategic has a deep understanding on a personally conscious level of organization and his/her surroundings. Their is no question on what is right or wrong, its not a philosophical debate, strategy is an implementation to do something effectively. Personally my everyday strategys seem to get side tracked, daily goals get thrown out the window when my strategy isn't tight, or my wills not there. Strategy is a science and an art, a gift that somepeople are born with and others learn from hard lessons. Strategy is necessary.

Strategy...?

What is a strategy?
Planned out action to make, or possibly make, a situation easier or work to ones advantage.
How can you recognize one in action?
*at work?
I work at the journal times newspaper in the packaging center, putting the ads into the middle of the paper. The supervisors plan out which ads will drop first so that the line will run smoother and the paper wont look like shit. They also plan who will drive and help drivers depending on number of bundles and time between each load. Its basic planning, but strategy non the least.
*in sports?
When I was on the swim team, the coach had to plan out who to put in what races based on our opposing team. Due to the fact that we weren't the best, we had to know which swimmer was kick ass on the other team and what races they were most likely going to swim, then we put all of our good people in other races to avoid that hassle and get more points.
*personally?
I lie a lot, probably boarding complusive liar actually. Point being, I lie because I am good at it. I make sure I have a lie set out before I need it. I make a background story based on true facts that are happening, most of the time it is just the time period that they are happening in that is off. I also have a believable excuse/activity that I have done before and isn't completely pulled out of the blue. Everything is believable, and I have this strategy down so well, that I don't have to plan them out and go off the top of my head when need to.
What does it mean that something/someone is strategic?
Basically, they are able to plan out crap easily and efficently. They are good at making plans and following through, thinking two steps a head and all that other non sense. Like a chess player or a Risk player person.

Strategy for Strategies.

At strategy is an organized plan of what you are intending to accomplish. You can recognize strategies at work when you see people are organized and accomplish there goals on time. In sports strategies are very common and the majority of coaches ad teams have a strategy of how the intend to accomplish there goals of winning. Personally strategies help me to stay organized and help me to set goals for large projects and homework assignments so they are finished by the given dates. When someone is strategic it meas that have a plan of what they want to accomplish, there thought process consists of planning and thinking out what they want to accomplish.

War Tactics for English 101 (Strategy)

Given the realm of possibilities in this class I believe that there are many things that have brought me to a halt in terms of this English course. For instance, the pressure of knowing that my entire grade is based on some one else reading my essays at the end of the semester which is now less than 7 short weeks away... My point being, the thing that I struggle with the most was the huge reality check that came into play. I anticipated to ace this particular class only to discover that in fact, I can write, however, I cannot write for anyone else but myself. Nor have I ever had the desire to.

My biggest problem when it comes to writing the essays for this course is trying to figure out what the hell the assignment is asking for. Until just recently when we all truly discovered that it doesn't make a bit of difference what the assignment is, the true goal is communicate our point while trying to reach the goals stated in the student handbook. With that said, I intend to focus more on the writing aspect, such as making a paper long enough that is worth reading. However, in the classroom handouts I will be the first to admit that I do not read the long essays, because I hate reading things that simply do not interest me. I am certain I'm not alone on this one. It may however be in my best interest to start taking this class more seriously since I had an ego about my wiriting and now I realize that writing is not just about putting nice words into a nice order. The writings for this class should have a point. The point I'm trying to make right now is that I seriously need to re-consider what I thought I knew...

So it is that I must learn to discover for myself exactly what I am trying to say, because if I don't know what I'm trying to say, how could anyone else know what I'm trying to say? I am able to follow the structure of the assignment however I dread going into details about things that I feel a certain apathy toward, which happens to be a considerable amount of things these days. Truly, if you wanted to know, I could go into why my essays have not been what I know they could be. I could tell you how it's because of the things I do outside of school and working and troubles with everything else, and I know that I'm not even getting off topic right now because there really is no specific question we were asked to answer for this assignment. It is safe to say however that my writings would be much better if my outside life were not so frantic and unbearable some days. So perhaps if I really wanted to fix my essays, I could just go ahead and fix my life.

For the sake of passing this class and working toward a degree I'm not even 50% sure that I want and making my family proud of me, I will state that I intend to write my next essay using all of the skills we have learned in class, and that I will make it at least 3 pages long and five paragraphs consisting of a striking introduction, 3 body paragraphs full of knowledge I hope you didn't already know, and a conclusion that will summarize yet add to the body of the text. Much like this blog entry, I will find a way to make that paper my own in hopes that if I am interested in what I am saying it is much more likely that someone else will be too.

Strategies for Writing Assignments

I think the two most challenging Goals and Outcomes for me to achieve in my writing are:

1.) Articulating and maintaining a controlling purpose that refelcts not only what matters to the writer but alsowhat matters to those who are addressed in my writings and what matters to those who are being responded to.

2.) Situating my writing and perspectives in relation to the arguments, interests, and concerns of other writers, readers, and texts.

Both of these Goals and Outcomes seem to require a thorough understanding of my audience's interests, and needs from me as a writer. This requires giving equal, and maybe more, weight to what my audience's interests and needs are, opposed to solely writing from the position of what I think, feel, and want.

My strategy for writing my papers will be to:

• Give careful thought and consideration to who I think my audience are and their interests; for example, what would they really like to know?
• Stay focused on the arguments I make, and provide only relevant information, and good examples.

Strategies for paper

In class, we discussed some of the strategies that can be used in paper. Based on the list of goals in the Student’s Guide, there are some strategies which I think will be useful for the portfolio. The paper first has to meet the basic requirement such as format which is MLA guidelines and grammar. One paper can’t be good if there are grammar errors which might leads to confusion. Furthermore, using correct grammar and word choices will help writer meet the goal of creating coherence and clarity. Thus using correct grammar is one of the strategies which I think should be used in portfolio. Key terms are very important and should be repeated throughout the composition. Strategies which can be used to take advantage of key terms are title and first sentence. Addressing key terms in the title and first sentence will inform audiences what an essay is about. If writer succeeds in getting audiences’ attention by creating interesting title or first sentence, it will be easier to draw audiences’ interest to your paper. Controlling purpose is also very important. However, maintain controlling purpose throughout a paper is not easy. One way to do it is repeating key terms and using pronouns to refer back to the key nouns in order to avoid repeat. Although most of the goals in student’s guide are necessary for a qualified paper, there are some goals that writer might not necessarily use such as “use key terms, distinctions, questions, and strategies from one or more texts to understand, question, critique and/or frame other texts”. Writer will provide a better explanation and better information to readers by using more than one text. However, it is not always possible to use more than one text.

My Plan...

Well after think about this for quite some time, I have decided that my plan is going to be to get as much information as I can. To ultimately support my arguments in my papers and build from their during the revision process for my final portfolio papers.

This way I can have much more content to work with and make my arguments flow from paragraph to paragraph. I also want to get as much feedback as I can from as many people as possible to try and weed out and problems that could happen when my portfolio is read by this group of unknown people.

After that I can revise once again and have a pretty good feeling of what I am going to submit for this portfolio review.

for me the hardest goal to acheive in every essay would be to intergrate and document all summariies, paraphrases and direct quotations, and and include a works cited page correctly, i chose this one because putting it all together in MLA format is not hard, but doin it correctly is.,

and articulate and maintain controlling purposes that reflect not only what matters to those who read it but me as a writer. this all seems difficult because i will never know who my true audience is.

My Strategy

The two goals I need to work on is maintain a controlling purpose and maintain clarity throughout my paper. To help me maintain a controlling purpose I could ask people to help me. Maybe I could go to the Writing Center and get some pointers from them. That goes to the second goal as well. I believe that if I just ask for help I will do better on my papers.

Working harder

The two goals i need to incorperate unto my future work for the final portfolios are to put more of my opinion into my work, and also use the key concepts and terms into my work. I can do these things by reading the student guide, and using it as the basis of my paper. I can also use the key terms and concepts and study them, and use them into my work. If i do these 2 things i think my papers will be a lot better and will certainly be good enough for the final portfolios assesments. I also need to get my work turned in on time, still workin on it!

Goals Are Hard (ouch!!)

The two goals hardest for me to depict and describe would be, firstly, situate the writing and perspective in relation to arguments, interests and concerns of other writers, readers and text, because i sometimes am melodramatic and a bit sarcastic in my writing. The way i articulate and raise or not raise questions is discernible. Basically i have to make the assignment fit me and set goals once the main idea is out and set-up. Secondly, describing how design, arrangements and other material conditions of text shape a readers understanding. I am some what sloppy and confusing with my lack of double spacing and inadequate knowledge of MLA format. Also, i can be choppy and unorganized in how i separate a paper. This is important because all good writing has proper breaks like poetry that can really add or detract from a good piece of writing. As for appearance and arangement; i just do what feels right and what i remeber from rigid formality in school. Therefore, i need to improve.

Learning exercise

I think that the feedback from the exercise was good. it helped me read over one of my essays and see alot of the mistakes that I made in grammar. The best thing was seeing how I summarized things and make them shorter than needed. I saw that I can expand on my ideas and make thing more off of just one word. I didn't really even know you could even do this track changes on word. So I had to learn how to do that. the track changes really made me look over my essay and figure out why I write the things that I do that was nice. It was a good experience

Working Strategy

I would say working strategy's depends on who you are. If it is me I like to read through a essay first and go through each paragraph to make up a thesis as I read each and get the points I like to come out of my essay. then I work on the into and conclusion and that usually helps me find the main purpose of my essay that I usually make the title. When revising I read it over, but I notice how stupid I sound with some of my grammar and can't believe some of the stuff I wrote on there. the mistakes are only human so o well. this past time we had a work group so I used the notes they wrote mostly on the goals that they wrote. I did expand a lot and it was a good strategy to do it made my paper a page longer so that helped. it all depends on working strategy I guess to get it done.

idea vs. belief

To be able to write on any topic, first a belief in the subject has to be established. To be able to write on a topic and make it good, knowledge is needed. Anyone can easily push what they know is true, their belief, on someone. With or without substantial evidence on their belief, they can make their point and still sound smart. In the end though, those who are truly able to write, take time to find the facts, whether it disagrees with what they are talking about.
Most people fall into the category of those with beliefs, practically we all do. We all have something that we feel strongly about and know for a fact that it is true. But once that belief is there in our mind, it is not an easy task to change. That is the one subject that someone will either put up or shut up when around you. In the end those with nothing but belief, are confined to the truth that they will never grow. They will be stuck to their belief and never venture out of their protected establishment.
Those with faith, have belief in that faith and all its teachings. In turn, they are influenced heavily by their faith because they know it as true. When presented by an opposing view, they take the offensive and defensive to defend their belief and change the belief of the contradicting view. So imbedded by their belief, they give no other idea the chance to let them make an impression. Disregarding and tossing aside any outside knowledge that does not agree, leaves those so blinded by their own belief that they never have the chance to gain knowledge.
Knowledge is more than having the truth, because the truth can always be contradicted. The truth is never true; it is only true to those who believe it is true. Knowledge is about having both sides, having the views of both truths. To be able to see from inside looking out and the outside looking in allows the vision of true knowledge. To gain the insight of not only your side, but the opposing side gives you the advantage to both agree and disagree with anyone's belief.
"I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant." (Dogma) Summing up everything, have beliefs, yet be open to ideas. Continually gain knowledge to maybe even help establish a better understanding of your own belief.

feedback

well as far as past experiences go with feedback im generally used to getting more feedback relating to spelling and grammer im not really used to getting feedback relating to the content of my work. im really looking for the kind of feedback i can grow from and use later in my work such as what i could have done better and does my paper make sense to the reader so on and so on....

Feedback

The type of feedback I'm used to getting back is the feedback that corrects my essays or stories. This type of feedback was from high school when i would turn in an essay or story, as a rough draft most of the time. Then i would have to correct and and turn it in, and even when i turned in the final draft i still got feedback of how my paper could've been better wrote.

This feedback is effective because it gives me guidelines and opinions from people explaining how my paper could be better.

The type of feedback i want back is feedback that helps me write my paper better, gives me some pointers, and opinions that will make my paper better. It would look something like, "I think this idea should have quotes or a fact supporting this idea or opinion"

what could help

The kind of feedback im used to getting are usually things about not explaining all the way and typos. The type of feedback I would like to get would be if what I'm saying is making sense. Trying to not lose the reader in anyway and keep them tuned into what I'm saying. So maybe I can recieve feedback on if I'm giving enough examples or details.

Feedback and its help

The feedback which i expect for a paper is usually a comment about the paper's content, if the reader like or dislike ideas in the paper. Moreover, sometimes, I would like to have feedback about my writing skills which are the use of words, grammar, phrases. In high school, my teacher usually gave me feedback about what I could improve to make my paper better such as: cut off redundancies, develop good ideas. I found feedback like this are really useful because then I can have any idea of what reader want or dont from my paper then make it better.
I would like to have the same type of feedback that I used to get. I would like feedback about what I am weak in and need to put more effort into it and what I already had. Sometimes, I want feedback about the choice of ideas, which ideas should I use, which one I shouldn't. I would like feedback be as specific as possible.

Soul Sonic Force, and feed back

The type of feed back that i am accustomed to is the one by teachers, students and peers usually do not take these group assignment seriousness (at least in high school they did). Teachers were always strait forward in what they wanted to say they did not let there personal opinions get in the way of there professional ones. The teacher feedback is really the only effective one, you are able to look at what you id wrong and then correct those mistakes before your next draft.
The type of feedback that i am looking for is an unbiased look at the technical terms of my writings. When peoples personal opinions get mixed into writing there feedback can be mixed and confusing. When you have and unbiased opinion about something you put aside your feelings and opinions and just look at the work at hand. when you do this it allows you to create the best feedback possible

Feedback, What im used to and what i want

To be quite honest the only feedback that i have ever received in my life was from kids in high school who were reading my high school writings. People know that kids in high school don't really give you all the feedback you need, or any feedback for that matter. So, the effectiveness was really irrelevant for me because i never really got any real feedback. Now, if i was to sit here today and say what kind of feedback i would want it would have to be mostly about grammar, mechanics, and punctuation because those are things that i struggle with sometimes. So if i could get feedback obviously about the things that i am struggling with it could help me understand it better and help me not to screw it up the next time i write. The only thing i don't want when it comes to feedback are people who find the tiniest little thing that you forgot to do and make it a large deal. I just want feedback on the really important things that i may have forgot to do or didn't exactly do the right way, so then i know if i can fix what they are giving me feedback on i will be on my way to being a better writer.

Feedback and whatnot.....

I am not used to getting back feedback and if it is, It is usually feedback the other person cannot really say very well they are lost at a choice of words for it. Feedback is something though I could do with or without it really matter to some people and not for some people, although it does help it is not needed all the time. I usually get feed back on how to change my writing but they never gave any detail on how it was wrong or what should I add or take out, which made it even confusing to fix something that was "broken". When It comes to the feedback I would like to get some feedback on if the paper's topic was good, how the writing flowed or, spelling and grammar just alot of detail and not just a sentence saying, "Oh, your paper lacked the requirements".

The type of feedback that I'm used to is the usual revising. For instance, correcting grammatical errors, correcting fragments, putting in suggestive ideas, and etc, etc, etc. Even though this is just the basic revising I find it really useful b/c it lets the writer know what is suggested to be corrected and by putting in some suggestive ideas it can also benefit the writer, for example, the writing can be more interesting or it can help give the writer more evidence to help support what the writer is writing about. The type of feed back that I'm looking for are of course the usual revising, and for the reader to let me know if my paper is interesting or boring, and if I should change some of the statements that I wrote.

Feedback

The type of feedback I'm used to is usually feedback that is really generic. The person giving the feedback usually asks way to broad of questions and really don't give that good of feedback. My last English teacher gave the worst feedback ever. She would ask questions like, "So what does that mean" after i just explained what it meant in my paper. She was just very confusing and plus i couldn't even read her handwriting sometimes. So in the end my paper never got better because i had no clue what she was asking. That's how a lot of my feedback was.

The type of feedback I want is very simple. I would like it if the person has a question to evaluate on the question. Tell me what you mean or give me an example of what you mean. Also i like feedback that is clear and straight to the point. Just tell me what I'm doing wrong and give an example of how I can do better. The key thing for me is examples. Some people speak in different ways so by giving an example of what you mean you can be sure the person you are giving feedback to will understand.

Feedback

Honestly, I can remember one instance where I received feedback that I actually utilized. It was last the semester, the first time I attempted this class, I was told by the reader about my word usage, and how I tend to say things without a direct focus, for instance, saying something along the lines of "times such as these" as opposed to "this time." My interpretation pieces tend to be poetic and opinionated as opposed to thought-provoking and factual. Also he stated that my sentences were often too short, and I should look into the usage of commas and semi-colons. And since then I have taken more care toward my writing and notice how it would sound to the reader and not just myself. So essentially the feedback was effective, once. I would prefer feedback that states how my essay was a brilliant masterpiece, but who wouldn't?? As far as effectual feedback, specific details and examples throughout the paper are the most helpful. When someone can circle and add words in pen to your typed up piece, so that you can physically see what the evaluator is trying to tell you, is much more helpful than reading a list through a questionnaire.

Critical Critiques

Throughout my writing career I've always had someone check over or read my writing. In high school there was a time of immense critiquing on all assignments freshman year. My papers mainly were grammatically checked for spelling mistakes and punctuation errors. Also, in my sophomore writing class's there was group and peer editing and revisions. Basically, we went through the universal writing cycle of revision which is, rough draft, grammar, revise, edit and type it again. The only good insight came from the teacher and that was to correct your papers subject if it was way off basis or didn't make sense, other wise you were on your own. This style of writing is effective but not necessarily good for growth as a writer. It was effective because your papers were neat and organized and didn't have any spelling mistakes. However there was no judgement on sentence structure, flow and things of that nature until you received your grade. Which by the time you received your grade you were over it and on to the next assignment.
What i would like to see from feedback in groups is solid writing revisions (grammar, sentence structure, punctuation) and mainly feedback that will help me get an A on my portfolio. I would like to see ruthless efficiency in my peer editors and hope they hold nothing back when critiquing my paper. I would like them to treat my paper as if it were their own and help me out with any structural mistakes, word choices, or irrelevant statements.

Feedback

I'm used to getting feedback, not as much about punctuality, as much as adding more details to make it interesting.  You got to get creative and get your reader into what you're saying, not just using big words, but maybe be funny or use good examples of your point.  Also, you have to use more technical terms. The key is to not overdue it, though.  Improving in these areas is the type of feedback I desire to receive to help make me a better overall writer.  Show me where I could use more detail and where it was overdone.

Feedback

Over the years i have received many different types off feed back but normally its all the same, i guess you could say that feed back is a genre. Usually when i look for feedback on my papers i get short brief responses unless its from a teacher. This type of feed back is normally blunt, right to the point and somewhat generalized. The feed back i get is more about little things as opposed to a main idea. The effectiveness of this type of feedback is its not too effective at all. Since the responses you get to your paper are brief and somewhat blunt that translates to the effectiveness of the feedback. The more feed back you get and the more in depth it goes has a direct tie to the quality of the feed back. When looking for the feedback i would like on my own papers it would have to be a type of feedback which is in depth and looking at the over all paper as opposed to just little points. The feedback would have to be from someone who isn't trying to fly though the paper to get corrections made it would be from someone who is taking their time to find the most mistakes they could. Also a main point i would like in my feedback is more ideas to add to the paper which i normally don't get when receiving feedback. Along with this i would like to see feedback which gives me ideas about how to arrange my points. If i got feedback of this nature i feel my papers and overall writing would improve.

feedback

I guess the type of feedback I am use to getting is correcting sentences that don't make sense. Sentences that I probably stopped on to think about and just wrote again. The experience of the feedback is usually good, because then I think back to what I was thinking and rewrite the sentence. Usually that is the kind of feedback that I like to get, but there are somethings like I like to see if they agree or disagree with my interpretation and they can give me ideas. They sort of give me a different perspective on the interpretation, that I can add to my essay.

Helpful Feedback

The type of feedback I am used to is feedback on papers and whether or not if it is a good paper and pushes across the correct message to the reader and the get what I am talking about. Now in the classroom setting feedback is never as good as it should be, because people are usually afraid to criticise other peoples papers to their faces. So you may not get the important feedback that you are looking for from your fellow classmates. Feedback should not be looked at as a bad thing, even though it could possibly come across as harsh, you will only benefit from it in the end.

I would like clear, honest feedback on my papers no matter how good or bad the paper can be. If it works out that way you will be able to refine your paper that much better because you will know the problems that other readers come across in your paper and be able to fix these issues.

This would look like someone noting paragraph structure, word choice, topics covered and where your paper ultimately leads the reader. It could be in the form of notes taken on the paper, to show that you really did read the persons work. So you could give them back to the writer so he/she has plenty to work from when revising.

disagreement on genre

Sometimes, certain people may want to disagree or not but I just think that it just really depends on who has the interest in art or music. Like certain people like to listen to certain songs and some people may not like it like their parents. Some parents rather perfer their teen or child listen to something apporiate then not apporiate. So i guess the majority of painters and musician out there is better because if there is not paint and music what whould you have to look at or listen too...

Arguing For A Genre

Arguing for Genre Title

Employing genre to categorize ideas is very useful. It helps us to better understand the style, tone or flavor of a piece of work, be it music, art, clothes, books, foods, and other products. On the other hand, creating a genre and labeling it is a somewhat more challenging task. For Assignment 4, my English 101 Class was instructed to identify a text or a piece of work and create a new genre title for it. For Assignment 5, the students were instructed to make an argument for the genre title he/she created in Assignment 4. For my text, I chose my own personal art designs. My designs consist of images of the universe that include planets such as the earth, moon, sun and stars. The planets are positioned to reflect balance and symmetry among the planets. The designs are actually clocks. The planets and stars are used as a back-ground for the clocks, and in some of the designs the planets (like Earth and Mars) are used as the face of the clocks. The message in the design is that time and the universe are intricately connected, to a degree, synonymous – you can’t have one without the other. The designs are pretty and intriguing. They cause the viewer to think about time, space, and being consciously a part of it. They also cause the viewer to think about where we (the human race) are physically in the universe and on Earth. This is important because, as far back as we have historically documented, mankind has questioned: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? What’s is the purpose of our existence on this planet? When and where did this awesome creation of the universe begin, and will it every end?

The genre title that I chose for my designs is Universal Text. But, in retrospect, I think a better title would be Universal Art Clocks. This title for a genre categorizes the designs as art and clocks, each having something to do with the universe. In my search for art and texts that I could compare my designs to, I found very different types art and texts with universal themes, such as: books, t-shirts, posters and some clocks. My designs were similar to some of the posters that included images of planets and stars. Two major differences that I noticed were: 1.) A lot of the posters seem to be photographs of real planets and galaxies in the universe; where as my art is created using a software program like Micro Soft Word. 2.) I lot of the posters had images of people or other earthly items in the picture; where as I don’t use people or earthly items in my designs.

I argue that the best genre title for my designs is Universal Art Clocks. This genre title classifies and categorizes the text of my designs perfectly. If one was searching for art designs with clocks and a universal theme, using the search words Universal Art Clocks, it would take them to sites where my designs would be located.

Debating Genre


My genre is a very debated genre. My songs I chose to represent my genre are all rap and hip songs, which are genre in their own particular categories. Rap is highly debated. Parents don’t let their kids listen to it, because they feel it’s not appropriate for kids at a young age. Some older people don’t listen to it because they despise of it. Hip hop is a very wide range of music that isn’t as highly debated as pure rap, but it stills has it’s issues.

Rap and hip hop are both stereotypical because the majority of singers and rappers in that genre are African American. People in politics, government, and capital all look down at this type of genre, but the controversy is gradually decreasing. Why? It might well be that rappers and singers are becoming more positive in their songs, and sending out better messages to our country than say it did in the late 80’s early 90’s.

The three songs I chose all represent and support this idea. They talk about our African American president. The first black president in America ever. He’s a fan of rap, hip hop, as well as a lot of different kinds of music. These three songs represent change in America, and a change that will get our country back to where it was at its peak. Whites and blacks will be looked at equally, as well as the lower class and upper class will become closer. No longer will there be poor people paying the sane amount of taxes and the higher class.

So what is my genre based on? I could say racism, change, or history. Racism is still going on. We have a black president, and everyone is not happy. Change represents the first black president, as well as a democratic party wining the election after overwhelming odds. I could choose history, because like I stated before, it’s the first black president to be elected in the history of our country.

I think I am going to choose the genre of history because I think I will have the most to say about the subject. Although in my last assignment, I titled it change, because at that time I thought it was the best genre to conclude. In class and on the blog, I hope my classmates and teacher will better help my “move” in what to call my genre.