Core Value 1. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development.
During this class I was taught many ways to revise and work in many stages so that it is the best that it can be. During this process interacting with others to receive feedback on your piece is essential to getting everything just right. This made me come to the realization of how much feedback is needed to construct a well developed writing piece. This helped develop my White Paper which progressed throughout the semester. After receiving feedback from my professor in my conference, he really got me in the right direction which really made me focus on the sources needed for my research.
Core Value 2. My work demonstrates that I read critically, and that I placed texts into conversation with one another to create meaning by synthesizing ideas from various discourse communities.
Using citations in your writing pieces really help strengthen your argument by giving outside sources of information to backup your claims. In my definition rewrite, I used a research study to show that there is a direct relationship between social media and violence with law enforcement. The results from the study were clearly in favor and my argument and by incorporating it into my writing piece, it strengthens it even more. Also, by doing this you create the general idea based off the ideas and how you formulate them into your essay. By reading critically and using the evidence to back up my claims, it made for a better argument.
Core Value 3. My work demonstrates that I rhetorically analyzed the purpose, audience, and contexts of my own writing and other texts and visual arguments.
When writing my rebuttal rewrite, I decided that I really need to understand the audience that I was trying to get across to and who I was trying to prove wrong. After analyzing the purpose for their argument, I understood where they were coming from which helped me formulate my rebuttal. Comprehending who you are trying to prove wrong is essential because if you don’t even have an understand of what they are trying to say then your own arguments are probably not going to disprove them. During my rebuttal I analyzed why people think police officers are supposed to be perfect but they are in fact protected for when they make mistakes.
Core Value 4: 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.
Being able to evaluate and describe illustrations in your own writing piece was a skill that was taught in this class and really helped me write my visual rhetoric. It was very difficult to describe a 30 second video without any audio, just based off of what I can see on the screen. This core value relates directly to when you must evaluate the ideas and then get them to the paper so that it is incorporated into your own piece correctly. The visual rhetoric helped me exercise this core value and will definitely help in future assignments with illustrations.
Core Value 5. My work demonstrates that I respect my ethical responsibility to represent complex ideas fairly and to the sources of my information with appropriate citation.
My annotated bibliography is a list of every source that I used in my research on this topic. By fulfilling my responsibilities I give credit to the authors in my bibliography and make sure that is properly cited. You must always give credit to the author if you incorporate their work into yours. This semester we were required to use citations in all of our writing pieces and must incorporate them into our writing pieces effectively. A reference list is at the bottom of each assignment citing where we got the information from, because if not it is not fair to the original author who actually did the work.
Rowan Counterintuitive 