Blogs

Blogs help communication not only for people in your community but it also helps people connect across the country and world.  Blogging lets us communicate ideas and beliefs that they may not have the courage to say out loud and this way the internet masks may masks their true identity but also provides the opportunity to find others that may agree with their way of thinking.  The composition 2 weekly writing allows us as students to discover and understand what is going on not only in our world but the provide a more complete understanding of the world and what is going on in it.  I have learned through my discussions with my classmates that the readings did expand our knowledge about what has been going on in the world and sometimes provide a deeper meaning and understanding to how somethings really do affect all of us and it is important to understand it.

Define the following

Define the Following:

Rhetorical Knowledge- understanding the overall purpose

Critical Thinking Reading/Critical Thinking Writing-evidence based method of writing and reading

Composing Processes- how a writer comes up with the ideas to write their paper

Multiple Draft

Writing Conventions-different writing conventions are different techniques people used to convey their message.  The different types of techniques such as punctuation

Different formats required for different types of texts

Practice appropriate for documenting your work 

Compelling articles

The articles that I found to be the most compelling was “Going off to College for Less”.  Traveling has always been something that I loved to do, I love going to new places and experiencing new things and I was shocked to find out that I could have gone off to another country for college and still for less.  Also to find out that is was Saint Andrew’s in Scotland also surprised me because I have always known that it was very prestige’s school but recently I know one person to decide to actually go through with leaving to go to that specific school for college. I did not know that there is more of an advantage with the government encouraging them to accept international students and in the end still paying for their tuition. So that really helped me relate to the article because I have known many people that after high school decided to travel internationally to go to school and it would surprise me as I always thought well how would they pay for it.  Especially now that  money is tight and knowing that governments are supporting a more international economy it really is the perfect time to travel and venture out for college.  I found it difficult to understand where exactly was cheaper sort of understood that it was with scholarships but did it really even out in the end? There were not many terms that i didnt understand in this article i wish the focused more on the actual cost than the helicopter parents.

Persuade

The last time I had to persuade someone was having to persuade my parents to let me move into the dorms instead of living at home.  I had to use to persuasion in a sense appeal to their sense of emotions and use the sense of presenting them with the facts.   By present the facts that living on campus presents the opportunity of a better education and helps a person become more diversified.  Not only do students on campus have easier access to the resources but the dorms create a better social environment.  This presents students with the opportunity of meeting new people experiencing new things, college is about expanding the mind and students also get to learn from each other.  Also the emotional appeal about my parents understanding that I am growing up and know matter how close we are I can not be living off of them for the rest of my life.  Life is hard we can not always live a sheltered one to become good adults sometimes we have to fall but the important thing is knowing we can always come back up. 

economic crisis

The economic crisis has affect many people that I know.  The truth be told it has affected me as well. My family is involved in the alternative energy and contrary to popular belief the grants that the government provides does not pay all that much to.  And although the long term benefit of alternative energy is more profitable for the consumers the initial cost is very expensive.  Because people are watching the money that they spend the initial cost may come as a shock to many and in the end they do not purchase the product.  So as a family we have had to make a lot of cut backs on spending and especially as a college student funds are hard to come by.  But we all make the effort to continue living in the way we have become accustomed to.

writing process

The first part of my writing process is first understanding the writing prompt as a whole.  After identifying my writing prompt I go on to come up with a rough draft of my paper then start with the revision process once the rough draft is completed.  The feedback that I have found to be most useful in my development as a writer is to understand the importance to have more than one draft of a paper there is never just one draft writing that is perfect everything can use revision and improvement.

ENC 1101 and 1102

The best writing assignments that I have found the most useful in becoming a better writer was one the one in ENC 1102 where the topic was to write about our major.  This forced me not only to use my knowledge on the topic learn and understand more thoroughly how to use research a topic for my papers.  Also the forced me to go into the library and check out a book instead of the normal  “Google” search.  The assignments that I had found less useful were in ENC 1101 where I wrote mainly on the topic of sustainability.  Although this is a very current and up to date topic I found that this topic had run the idea of the class, which presented a lack of interest for many of the students. 

Business Category

Out of the categories of writing of education, food, business and philosophy I would prefer to write about the Business aspect.  The business world is something that I can relate to I am a business major so understanding business is something important for me to understand.  Also business is major part of today’s society especially the because of today’s economy.  Our economy is bad right now but we can turn it around by understanding and making better business choices with our investments and maybe start making more money.  

Favorite Movie and why

Slumdog Millionaire was my favorite movie of all time.  The movie had capturing music that could entice an audience.  A R Rahman was the musical genius that had been behind the music and the song that captured the most people was the song Jai Ho.  Also the kids that acted in this movie were very believable and  their innocence was captured on camera making every ordeal that they had gone through extremely believable.  Also what the kids acted out with the hurting of the kids to get money is true they will in fact cut off kids hands or take their eyes out so that people would show them pity and give them more money.  And once the kids serve their purpose they get rid of them and find new kids.  This movie casted kids from the actual slums of india and now not only do the kids that acted in the movie get a chance to get an education but so do the other kids in their villages.  The movie set up a college fund for those little kids.  This movie should the truth and and at the same time portrayed the feeling of hope.

What were your most memorable experiences?

• The only way that I have been able to fully comprehend information is by reusing information over again because the way I never forget the information and it stays with me.
• I learned word processor in my computer class that I now use all the time.
• In high school the class that I learned a lot was my world history class because I have always been fascinated with religion, I wanted to fully comprehend people's belief's.
• Learning how to drive is very memorable because I use it very often.
• Also learning learning to play cricket because I am the only girls that plays in my family and I wanted to prove that girls can be just as good as boys.
• My coach teaching me to play tennis, it was a sport that I could play everyday.
• I completed all of my swimming classes and became a natural competitor.
• What I learned in English Composition 1 was a lot about sustainable environment and how to use the wiki, I also learned that writing is not learned through lecturing it is learned through practice and that reading is important when trying to increase your vocabulary.

Comparing Anne Bernays and Lance Morrow's writing style

Lance Morrows style differs from those of Anne Bernays.  Benarys uses a lot of metaphors and similes to fully show and help the reader comprehend the extent to which she is explaining and talking about.  While Morrow uses those of facts he takes statements from others and uses them to back up his claim.

My response to Morrows essay was shock because it is really true about the different types of evils that are located in this world, and it is really scary to see the truth about it is all evils are around the same kind and it depends on a persons morals to depend on whether the action was evil or not.  Also they way he writes seem very familiar though I cannot really figure out what his writing really reminds me of.