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.
This semester was a very challenging time than my previous years. Mr. Hodge’s teaching approach is really tough and the work that he criticizes was difficult as well. He introduced me to new methods of the writing process that expanded my knowledge of the craft. He still manages to find errors in my work however; I can still be proud of my writing because I come to him with new ideas that allow him to better understand my writing style. He commented and gave me a lot of feedback on one piece of writing that was the Stone Money Rewrite. In the Stone Money Rewrite I made a lot of changes to make my piece more analytic. Mr. Hodge recommended that I should be more transparent and add details to make my point valid; also he suggested that I use abstract ideas and concepts to widen my range of my writing flexibility. I now understand why Mr Hodges kept pushing me to rewrite my material. In my previous experience I would rewrite my piece of work just 2-3 times. But David Hodges made me go further depth in my writing.
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.
Second, I demonstrated the Core Value II by using a technique for concrete examples to illustrate abstract concepts, just like how Cows and Chips were assigned in my Stone Money Rewrite. I used this example of “how friend play poker with a set number of poker chips, you can only play until one of you loses all their chips. By adding fake chips to your lot, you can draw more hands until you break even or win. Edman allowed Brazil to continue their economic game by creating more opportunities for his country to be active in the business world.” I am very content of my work on this piece because the poker analogy made sense to of how Brazil used fake money. Now I realized of how to concrete examples to illustrate abstract concepts can help my writing. My writing will be more creative, not boring. Readers will actually enjoy it and think about of what abstract ideas that I came up with.
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 had trouble of picking a topic that I can truly write about. Later, I found that I should write about of how smart phones are distracting. However, when I proposed this idea to Mr. Hodges he insisted that my topic is not bad or good it’s in the middle. I took that advice and I thought of a new topic which is about should the government have the control to override someone privacy. In this piece of writing Definition Argument shows my stance on how the government should not have control of accessing privacy. I knew that if I can pick a write topic I can write about it because I am capable of doing that.
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 the Definition Argument Rewrite, “Defintion Rewrite” I’ve met the some expectations of academic writing in my Definition Argument because I stated my position of this topic and presented of my stance in the thesis. I should’ve asked Professor Hodges on this this topic whether if this a valid input or not. I should have listed more sources to show where I got the information. But overall, the content that I have I am satisfied. I felt like I explained thoroughly and get to the reader’s attention.
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 feel I did the best job for this core value because I properly citing my sources and trying to interpret the text critically. In class, when Mr. Hodges taught one class on how appropriately to cite sources in the text. I took that time wisely so then for the future I will have the knowledge to cite properly. In the text that I manage to cite well is in Stone Money Rewrite. In this I took the sources that were given and talk about it. I gave credit on who wrote the material and then I interrupt on my own way. I am fully satisfied with this Core value than the others ones.
Rowan Counterintuitive 