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.
What I really established from Comp II is one of the most important parts of writing is the ability to take feedback or criticism and understand how to use that criticism to improve what you have written. looking back on past assignments I realized that I had only gotten feedback on one assignment. The one assignment was my Stone Money rewrite. I was not custom to the idea of requesting feedback as professors would normally automatically give feedback in my past courses. But from getting feedback on only one assignment substantially changed the way I took on future assignments. For example in my “causal argument rewrite” I attempted to find strong supporting evidence to the points I was making. Citing media interviews of eSport franchise owner Rick Fox that helped support the idea that the media has a very biased outlook on video games. Just one piece of feedback helped me realize that one; asking for feedback would be an optimal decision in a class surrounded by writing and two; having supporting evidence behind my judgments add to the credibility of 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.
Having a purpose and searching for that underlying message in a text and using critical thinking to find said underlying meaning is key in writing. After reading and watching several argumentative articles and videos on my topic of eSports. I came to the conclusion in my research position paper, that sports in our culture were not popularized because of the physical aspect in which sports are played, but more so the social aspect of them is what makes it so enjoyable to the public. Which then helped my stance on eSports and how it should be considered a sport. Having purpose leads to deeper and more critical thinking.
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.
When writing I have a set goal. The goal is to attempt and place a new form or style of rhetoric into my pieces. So to obtain these new and original forms I search and analyse other texts to form my own original format. Whether it is reading articles on my topic about eSports or analyzing other students work. For example coming from my “visual rewrite” I wanted to see how other students were attempting the task at hand. I noticed many were giving very simplistic and vague details when explaining their images. I realized that I could easily use my knowledge of film terminology to explain the images in the PSA much more effectively and efficiently. Terms I used for example were Waste shot, Extreme close ups and tracking
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.
Applying supporting evidence to ones claim is key piece to writing useful and informative observations. Without evidence ones claims or theories are thrown out the window. As discussed earlier an example where I show my use of supporting evidence is in my “causal rewrite” where my point that I am making is that the media is heavily involved in the creation of the false image that was given to video games. I then went onto citing evidence of a TMZ video interview with Rick Fox that show the bias TMZ holds on competetive gaming.
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.
Going through this course time and time again, it has been noted that properly citing sources and honestly using them to support arguments is the ethical approach to writing persuasively. Which is why I attempted my hardest to not fall into the trap that is plagiarism, and coming up with my own original conceptualizations using evidence to support those conceptualizations was my objective. An example would be in my “Research paper”. where I got the idea that our society has been hindering the growth of eSports because of its set image of video games, and Ben Casselman the author of the article I cited had a great title that supported my idea which was “Resistance is Futile”, and helped progress my claims.
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