Core Value I. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development.
I displayed core value one in my causal essay, “The Birth of Street Crime.” In this essay I marked stages of different events African Americans went through to be subjected to committing street crime. The causal assignment helped me to understand my history better. Before this assignment I never knew that the government is the reason why ghettos exist. My whole life I thought that the reason ghettos are populated with mostly Blacks and Latinos was because they couldn’t afford to live anywhere else. I soon discovered that there were Acts created by the government to make sure they were trapped in the ghettos. At the end of this assignment I’ve learned to dig deeper into research to find answers no matter what I’ve been taught.
Core Value II. My work demonstrates that I placed texts into conversation with one another to create meaning by synthesizing ideas from various discourse communities.
I displayed core value two in my definition essay, “Who’s Free in America?” In this essay I plucked a variety of statistics that African Americans are being mistreated in America. I tied the many statistics together to prove that people are being harassed everyday and being stripped of their rights. It was easy to make the correlation between the statistics and my view. I hope that these statistics change the views of many people who oppose my view. Bridging the gaps between the oppressors and the oppressed will make America a better country for everyone. America is a great country and hopefully I can start bringing the two oppressor and oppressed communities together.
Core Value III. My work demonstrates that I rhetorically analyzed the purpose, audience, and contexts of my own writing and other texts and visual arguments.
I displayed core value three in my visual rhetoric assignment, “Good Dad.” I crafted a accurate written version of a thirty-second visual commercial. I took all the information I could possibly gather from the one-second increment clips to predict what the commercial was about. I paid close attention to every detail possible. As I got deeper into the commercial I started to form an idea that the man was playing around in the house which was close to the theme of the commercial. I soon noticed that the man was hiding from something or someone. If I was to let someone read this assignment, I am sure they could vision the commercial simply from the words. I fulfilled the goal of the assignment by transforming words into a vision.
Core Value IV: My work demonstrates that I have met the expectations of academic writing by locating, evaluating, and incorporating illustrations and evidence to support my own ideas and interpretations.
I displayed core value four in my causal assignment, “The Birth of Street Crime.” I’ve met the expectations of academic writing in my causal assignment because I satisfied all the qualifications of core value four by pulling the information about slavery, poverty, and the effects of illiteracy. Each of these elements have a great impact on street crime. Professor Hodges asked me why I had to go all the way back to slavery to show why street crime is present in today’s time and I explained that I wanted to go all the way back to the beginning of the mistreatment of African Americans. According to all the evidence I’ve gathered there is a causal connection between street crime and slavery.
Core Value V. My work demonstrates that I respect my ethical responsibility to represent complex ideas fairly and to the sources of my information with appropriate citation.
I displayed core value five in my definition assignment, “Who’s Free in America?” I took on the ethical responsibility to represent my complex ideas by citing data I collected from my sources. I used many sources to prove that some people of color who are being mistreated by our government don’t feel like they are free and I gave them the credit for their research. Their research was very important to my assignment. The mistreatment of people of color has been going on since the beginning of slavery and even 397 years after the first slave ship landed in America, people of color are still being mistreated. Using Core value five I was able to cite all of my sources correctly. If I hadn’t cited them correctly I couldn’t claim this paper to be mine.
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