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.
As I previously learned through my years of writing, Professor Hodges restated that writing requires more than one draft and that there is always room for improvement. If all of this is done properly it will be a successful well-written paper. When it comes to changing my work, I find there are times when I feel like what I have written is good enough, even though I know there are things I could change. I know that I could honestly have done a more thorough job at achieving this core value throughout the semester. The best example of this is my Stone Money paper. Even though this is not going to be in the portfolio, this essay was a good stepping stone to the expectations of this class. It showed the evolution of drafts and corrections that need to be made for a well written college essay.
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.
For every writer, the most important stage in the writing process is to grasp an understanding and collect information on their topic. This entire class is based on our research. Every assignment we have is one that involves a necessarily large amount of the knowledge of our subject. The more sources that we read helps us to make our argument become more professional. Another thing is that you have to make sure that your sources are reliable. This goal is shown in the process of our research papers. My paper on Vancouver’s free heroin involves a lot of medical information so I could present a good background of heroin.
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.
Throughout this course, I have been refreshed about everything that essays embody. We must remember that every piece of writhing has a purpose as well as an audience. In my Visual Rewrite, I presented this value by studying the motive of the 30 second ad “A Kid Again | Father Involvement.” This assignment was given to us as a way to show that every second of this ad was placed there for a specific reason. In this ad, even the man and woman’s clothes were placed for a purpose. For the first 15 seconds, the audience is shown 3 men of different ethnicities doing child-like activities. We as the audience, watch as others react to the men with pondering expressions. In the remain 15 seconds, we are shown the men engaging in these actives with their children. We as an audience are lead to believe that the way to be a good dad, is remembering to be a kid again.
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.
Authors must realize that certain writings can not just be stated. With the work that has been done in class, it has been extremely important to analyze as many writings from as you can. Thankfully our school offers us different places to be able to search for information other than google and yahoo. Our library offers resources including ProfSearch, Gale Virtual Reference Library and Academic Search Premier. The assignment that would best represent this Core Value IV would be my Bibliography where I cited ten sources that were used in my Research Paper.
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.
An authors audience in never the same. Some topics can be sensitive to some so, we have to be careful of how things were said and what words were used to say what was written. At the same time, we as authors need to be true to ourselves and voice our own ideas in a careful manner. Our own thought are a combinations of our own creation as well as the ideas of others so in a way, we need to represent those writings in a proper fashion.
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