1/9/13:
Learning “how to write” is different from learning “about writing” in that learning “how to write,” you
are merely rewriting someone else’s thoughts and ideas. Learning “about writing” is how you formulate
your own thoughts and voice.
Quiz/Journal Entry 1/9/13:
One very useful strategy given by Lamott is “The first draft is the child’s draft, where you let it all pour
out and then let it romp all over the place knowing no one is going to see it and that you can shape it
later” (302). This strategy given by Lamott is very helpful for those, like me, to get a paper started when
stuck at the beginning.
1/11/13:
Kara read the presented text with a high school analytical level and did not fully understand what was
presented to her. Bob read the presented text with some advanced analytical styles such as
incorporating a hypothesis to help understand the text. The most experienced reader, Seth, fully uses a
hypothesis and adds inferences about the text and what is occurring within the text. I would associate
more with Bob.
1/16/13:
How does Burke’s quote relate to what Haas and Flower said about reading as a “transaction” rather
than consumption?
“Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric. And wherever there is “meaning,” there is
“persuasion.”
-Burke
The quote relates to what Haas and Flower said about reading being a “transaction” rather than
“consumption” in that in the quote it says that there is rhetoric in persuasion so you in a sense take in a
bit of rhetoric and leave a bit of persuasion behind. And that meaning has rhetoric to it so someone is
taking in a bit of persuasion and leaving a bit of meaning (rhetoric) behind.
1/25/13:
The exigence of the project is to help us to become more skilled writers (The need to analyze text
rhetorically.). In doing this project we are addressing our audience, the class and other possible classes
to come. The purpose of the project is to have us using the terms of exigence, audience, purpose,
rhetors, and constraints so that we will better understand the way they are used much better. The
rhetors of this project are students, professor, and author of texts. Constraints of this project are it
cannot be an essay, cannot use logos, time,
Notes:
Notes: 1/14/13
Rhetorical Reading:
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Ask questions
Analyze past the text
Look for the author’s purpose and effect on audience
Predict and interpret
Context
Words to pay attention to while reading:
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Constraints
Rhetor
Audience
Exigence
Commercial Notes:
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Younger generation is becoming more anti-social
Younger generation only cares about how many friends they have on social networks
Commentary on the effect of facebook and the young generation
Young people are lazy
Older generations don’t rely as heavily on technology as the younger generation
1/16/13:
Exigence – Invites a response
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Purpose and need
Audience – Receivers of the message
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Intended and unintended
Constraints – Hold back text in a negative or positive way
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Time can be a positive or negative constraint
Logos – Logical approach to an argument
Pathos – Emotional approach to an argument
Ethos – using your own reputation in an argument
Notes: 1/25/13:
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Appropriate length for audience
Explain things in your own words
Research for backup
Clean design – not cluttered
Not boring
Sufficient quotes to show you read and understood material
Organization
NO CLASS MONDAY
Notes: 1/30/13:
Think about the following questions while reading “Rigid Rules…”
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What are the differences between algorithms and
2/1/13:
According to Rose, why does writers block happen?
Writers block happens because of the lack of creative thought that has been caused from modern school
curriculums that do not bring about creativeness through middle and high school. With no
“That frustrating, self-defeating inability to generate the next line of text…”
2/6/13:
Homework: Choose one of the following essays and write a reflection about it in your journal
Four differences between Tony and Donald are:
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Donald writes in a daybook to keep track of thoughts and ideas, Tony has no such thing.
Donald sends out his drafts to trusted friends and colleagues for revisions and opinions on the
draft.
Donald spent more time in the planning and editing process while Tony spent the majority of his
time in the editing process.
Donald would revise his paper multiple times, having up to eight drafts, while Tony would revise
his paper maybe two times in whole and would have possibly one or two drafts.
Donald spent hours thinking of titles for his papers, making a four page list that would then let
him take his paper the way he wanted it to.
2/11/13:
Perl developed the code by making labels encompass exactly what she wants and making it precise
enough to put certain sub topics in the category. For example General Planning the definition is
“organizing one’s thoughts for writing, discussing how one will proceed.
3/11/13:
Read James Pail Gee, Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics in WAW book. Answer discussion post on
Webcourses by class time on Wednesday. Reply to at least two other posts.
What communities are you considering?
At this moment I have no idea as to what discourse communities I am going to consider for this project.
3/20/13:
You walk into your favorite restaurant. What do you see? Write down everything you can think of.
When I walk into my favorite restaurant I can see the hostesses looking around and trying to see if tables
are open. I can see wait staff going back and forth between tables and the kitchen bringing out food and
drinks, asking tables how their meal was and if they can get them anything else. The wait staff
interacting with each other and guests. I can see meat being cooked right in front of all the guests and
the smell of the fresh cooked meat protruding through the restaurant. Lots of wood decoration with
detailed carvings on pillars. Tables very close to one another.
3/25/13:
One argument that I could make about UCF and the students of UCF is that it is a very technology
dependent school and population. 90% of people were using computers, laptops, phones, and music
playing devices. There were also numerous computers strewn throughout the library being used or
waiting to be used by someone. There were some people that were using the online resources of UCF,
such as myUCF, Webcourses, and MyLabsPLus.
3/28/13:
On the day that I did my first observation, I walked in the door and saw a group of four people sitting
around chatting to each other about random things. The atmosphere seemed warm and welcome to
anyone and everyone. As I sat down and began to write down what I saw, I heard a voice from a room
talking to everyone in the front of the office about things that needed to be done before the upcoming
week. As I sat there just watching there was a big storm that was coming in, the sky was beginning to get
dark and talk began to shift to how bad it was getting and whether it would last long or not. After twenty
to twenty-five minutes later there was an alert given by UCF that there was a tornado and that everyone
should get into shelter, no more than 30 seconds later everyone in the office went to their buildings to
get everyone on to the first floor of their buildings. The entire ordeal lasted roughly twenty minutes,
then everyone returned to what they were doing.
4/15/13:
The three units that were covered over the spring semester were (insert), a self-study of our own
writing, and the study of a discourse community. (insert), in the self-study were to learn how we write
and what we do while writing then how to improve our writing through the study. In the discourse
community study we were to go into a foreign setting and study an established group by examining every
aspect of it, interviewing a member, then talk about your findings and present it as a formal study.
Rhetorical Analysis:
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Think on a high level, not just the surface of something
Ability to analyze text and find a deeper meaning
Ethos, pathos, logos, audience
To find a deeper meaning within the text
Writing Self-Study:
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To observe and understand your writing process
To know why you write a certain way
Overcoming writers block and anxiety about writing
Discourse Communities:
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To analyze people or groups that are foreign to you
Learn how people work and interact
Know how to analyze communication: verbal, non-verbal, written (multiliteracies)
What have you learned in he course
How/ when will, you use this in the future
Why is the course helpful
How have you grown as a writer
What evidence can you provide to demonstrate your improvement
What grade have you *earned* and why/ how
Notes:
Petraglia:
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Writing is not a well-structured problem, it is an ill-structured problem
Heuristics:
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Rule of thumb guidelines
Allow flexibility
It is not a guaranteed solution but it is a solution that is good enough