Blog 1
I would describe myself as a more controversial writer. I like to question ideas and norms about the world around me. I believe it helps us to understand where ideas come from and why certain people might think the way they do if we are able to elaborate and question the world around us. Typically, writing is used for school, due to my profession outside of school is a trade; in which we don't need writing as much. I find that writing that challenges me the most would be some in-depth persuasive essays and papers I have done for school. They always seem to challenge me due to how they force a writer to pick a side and stand for it. Standing for an idea and then considering other counterfactuals that could hurt your argument always strike me with a sense of a challenge that fuels me as a writer. I also love writing that makes me feel free to speak my mind or share my ideas. I would argue free writing or maybe perceptual writing would be my favorite. The more factual, professional, and argumentative writing is what I would consider I am the most recently accustomed to doing inside a classroom agenda. Being that my major is political science, more often then not, we write about topics and issues occurring in our current day. When I hear the word writing, I think of ideas being shared by a script of writing. Writing in my day to day could vary depending on what field of work I choose to go to. Regardless, writing will be a very important way for me to communicate information of news to possibly a superior or network.
Blog 3
This paper has challenged me in so many different aspects. Research is extremely multilayered as each step plays a vital role in the finished research essay. I was intrigued to see how much preliminary research would be needed just simply to find valid sources that would help support the thesis presented. I definitely played around with the organization of my sources and evidence in the paper. This allowed me to find a style that best supported my thesis statement. I also had to take this paper in a few different drafts. They had to start out very choppy and then gradually improve as I felt my thesis was being proved and supported. Straying away from wording and tone that sounded very persuasive or like a personal argument paper was one of my struggles as I continue perfecting my voice as a writer. I believe that a good researcher should always create a strong style of wording and maintain sources that are relevant to the thesis. I would assume that research is something that requires a lot of time and effort placed into it. It’s super important that people are reading in the depth of their sources to make sure it supports the thesis. So often people just like to use a source because of one single phrase and then it will limit them later in their paragraphs on a topic that could have potentially been expanded on. Sometimes it can be hard to have sources that seem as they aid the thesis statement but in fact can provide a counter-argument or may just be lacking. I feel like this project has made me look more deeply into multiple drafts of a paper. I usually used to just writing a paper full out and that is my one and only polished draft, but I feel like a paper’s outcome seems to be much better when done in chunks. I also struggled with the minimum on sources because so often I feel like there are research papers that will overdo it. Sometimes the work given is perfect, polished work, but still lacking in sources and the addition of more sources into the paper can take away from the thesis itself as sounding like added wording. The paper was proven to be a tenuous project but overall showed some valuable lessons as a young writer and as a student hoping to progress further in my college and professional career.
Blog 4
This class has brought so many new concepts to the way I go about writing. I have seen a drastic change in even my preparation style for papers. I have taken even shitty first drafts into my normal writing agenda as a mandatory first step. I allow the ideas of brainstorming to last longer than the first 15 of writing the paper. A well-written argument or thesis needs time to evaluate what exactly I am writing about and time to concentrate on the validity and flow of my papers. I look for the rhetorical situations in papers I’m reading and evaluating. It has allowed me to become the editor for my peers that I need to be. I feel as although I can provide the feedback necessary now for my peers because it is more detailed and in-depth because I know now what I am looking for. I feel like I can find the reason and exigence for works much easier now because I am looking for what the writer has to offer us and what background the writer may have on the subject matter. I like that we have incorporated the genre of social media quite a bit and all the different genres that can even exist within a specific platform. I can understand that there is a sense of circulation that all the little aspects and thoughts put into a form of the genre can create for new types of rhetoric to exist. I feel like I can also analyze harder material faster because I can break it down into sections, that I feel like I didn’t have a skill of doing before without my knowledge on genres and rhetoric. Our second project tasked us with a very hard and well thought out end goal that took us quite some time to finish. I feel like because every moment was a teachable moment, where we dissected each step and made it into one huge project. The end goal was that we were able to create something so skillfully with ore tools at our disposal on how the genre works in a subject we may not be familiar with. I thoroughly enjoyed being challenged in such a new way. I can honestly say I have added new tools into my writer’s toolbox, that I can bring anywhere I go. Whether it be my future career of grooming where the rhetor can change at the drop of a hat, or even further in my academic career of grad school.