Reflecting on progress

Looking back at my first blog post, I think that I’ve been making progress when it comes to being able to write and come with ideas to whichever topic I am given. Some aspects of the class that I’ve found the most helpful is peer review, and the recently assigned blogs. I think the blogs are very helpful due to the fact that before each essay, we are assigned to write some ideas in our blogs to help us later on write the essay. Something that I would like to change in the class is for example to be given some directions on the best way to organize our essays. And also to be able to write sometimes less than three pages for some essays. For the reason that sometimes there is not that much to write about on some topics, and I tend to repeat the same info over and over again in order to be able to finish the three pages. Like I said peer review has helped me improve in my writing process. As well as the teacher’s advice on including lots of details of the topic of each essay, in order to give the reader a better understanding of what is being talked about. My writing has changed since the semester started, because I know that giving better details and more organized info makes a better essay. I haven’t had trouble understanding the assignments, and I’m looking forward to go through the rest of the semester.

Rhetorical situations of both essays

   The purpose of the ad analysis is to be able to analyze an ad, and describe how it tries to appeal to its audience or what message it tries to send. The audience at who this essay is directed is those who want to learn the aspects of an ad.  The purpose of my literacy narrative essay is to explain the way an important event in your life has impacted your thoughts about writing. The audience of this essay would be people interested in reading about this topic. The tone for both essay would be informative and/or a serious tone. The genre would as well be informative for both.  The way, in which the rhetorical situations could affect the choices I make when writing another paper is that, I could be able to know the difference between telling a story and analyzing something.

Advertisement Analysis

Purpose: The action/advertisement is named "None of us would like to end up like this.. neither would other-than-human animals". And it consisted of four large foam plates, containing four naked activists inside, covered in plastic and with a human meat sticker on them. And the whole idea of this was to imitate the meat trays found in supermarkets. Their objective was to tell people to give the idea of becoming a vegeterian, a second thought, before saying no. As well as to make them think about how wrong is the fact that millions of animals are killed each year for food.  And to show that like any other than human animals, we are also animals, and we neither would like to end up like that.

Audience: The adverstisement is mostly aimed at those that consume lots of meat, to the general public, as well as to every other person that is not aware of the fact. It tries to put the idea in peoples minds about that like any animal, we as well wouln't like to end up like that.

Genre: This ad takes the idea of convinsing and persuading, people to contribute to the fight against animal cruelty and killings, to another level. By them getting naked and wrapping themselves in plastic on top of a foam plate, they try to tell people they are being serious about this situation.

Tone: The nudity, akward, surprising, weird way they tried to deliver this message creates a serious tone. And shows how serious they are, that they decided to make this action.

Revisions

 My final draft doesn’t look that different from my rough draft, changes were made, but not to the point that it makes it look very different than how it was. I did fix some fragments, grammar, and run-on sentences, but not enough to be able to spot any major differences. After revising my essay I did identify some errors, which I tend to make very often when writing essays. Some of them are that I tend to repeat myself a lot, and also I made the mistake of making my sentences too long.

 While I read my paper it did sort of help because, it helped me spot some errors along the way. But after all peer review did also help me make revisions and noticed some errors that I wouldn’t have noticed. After all, peer review helped a lot, because they helped me better my essay and I was able to hear someone else’s opinion about it, before turning it in. Some weak aspects of my paper were mistakes like run-on sentences, as well as some grammar mistakes. Some good aspects of my paper were that I was able to catch reader’s attention, and was able to not to fall off topic and end my essay with a sort of good conclusion.

"Qualities of a good paper" -10

During my high school years, the good feedback I received from my teachers when turning in essays and such is what helped me define the specific features a good paper should contain. To me a good quality that separates an A paper from a C paper is the intro or the hook. That has to be a major feature that can help get a good grade, because it shows you have an understanding of the outline of how to make a good essay, and because it is a way to catch your readers attention. A good thesis is also a must if you want your paper to be an A paper, because it informs the reader about what they’re about to read. Another quality is that your paper needs to make sense; your sentences need to make sense. Readers tend to lose interest in reading your paper if they see that you didn’t put that much thought and work in your paper.
  
       Lastly, another quality is that your paper doesn’t contain repetition of info or sentences. This is one problem that students tend to encounter more often, sometimes due to the lack of info you could put in your paper or simply running out of ideas. For me the most difficult quality to use is to avoid repetition. Whenever I run out of ideas or info to provide in a paper, I sometimes make the mistake of repeating things already said. The easiest to me is to provide a good hook and thesis, because you basically inform the reader about what they’re about to read, and just to find a good sentence which could catch the reader’s attention.

possible narrative essay topics

For my narrative essay I have not quite decided on what it is going to be about, but I have some topics in mind I’ve wrote about in last semester’s writing class. A topic I may write about which of I also wrote last semester, may be about my position on whether should the U.S. censor the publication of intelligence secrets in the media, like for example in wiki leaks and such. I was really proud about the paper I wrote dealing with this topic, because I was able to show my writing skills. For this paper I was able to support my thesis, due to the variety of reasons of my opinion on this topic. Although there were very good reasons of why not to censor the publication of government secrets, I was able to support my opinion of why government secrets should be censored in the media, and I was able to earn a good grade in this paper.
  
    Another topic I may write about would be about drug abuse or alcohol abuse. When I was in high school these have been some topics I’ve found more interesting to write about. I like to write about these topics a lot because of all the info and reasons you could use to support your position on these topics. I have also developed an interest in these topics because I’ve had friends and family members who have gone through or had these addictions to either alcohol or drugs. I’ve learned a lot about these topics, and somehow I like to write essays about them because, I like to make other people aware of the consequences of drug abuse or alcoholism.
   
      My last topic I may write about would be about second hand smoke, and how it harms others. I am interested in this topic, although I don’t know a lot of information about this topic; I think it would be a good topic. Some pros and cons about censoring the publication of U.S. secrets topic could be that there are good reasons to be for it or against it, but if either way if you are for or against it; you are going to be able to support your argument due to a lot of info and reasons. For the drug abuse/ alcohol topic some good reasons to write about this topic is that there is a lot of info you could provide to support your argument. And for my last topic some cons about the topic could be the lack of knowledge I have about this topic, but some positive aspects could be the chance to learn about a new topic.

My Reason for taking English 101-10

The reason why I'm taking this class is because it is required, but also because I would like to learn how to write better, have better skills and acquire more experience for when writing my papers, essays,etc. Since elementary, writing essays and research papers was a every day thing, and something I didn't like to do. Whenever an essay was assigned for homework I would always write whatever on my papers without putting to much thought in it, as long as I finished my h.w quick and be able to go outside and play or play video games. In high school I gained more experience and learned a lot in ways to improve my writing, but not as much as I would of liked to, writing essays, research papers, reports, etc. was also something we did every week in high school. I have improved a lot in writing and developing better skills for writing. But what I would like to learn from this class is how catch my readers attention, I would like to improve my writing skills more , and be able to write well written papers. At the end of this class I want to be able to write college level papers, with less errors, and be able to write papers with more complex vocabulary. I want to be able to write well written interesting papers that catch the readers attention, and be able to get straight to the point of what my paper is about, but at the same time keep the reader interested. Developing better writing skills is very important for the future no matter what proffesion or planned carrer, if you have good writing skills it could bring a lot of success to you in the future.