Blog assignment #15 will be my final blog. I think it is fitting for my final blog to be a final reflection on my growth as a writer throughout this past semester. I used the links Reflective Writing and Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection to help construct my reflection.
For my final reflection I will be responding to the following four questions. Your author identity. How has it changed in this course? My author identity has grown and changed immensely in this course. At the beginning of this course I just considered myself to be a writer. Now I can call myself a blogger, MLA composer, and memorous. Your theory of writing. How has this course impacted the way you define and value writing? Which composition concepts/terms do you most value? This course has greatly impacted the way in which I define and value writing. I previously thought of writing as a task that I just needed to accomplish. I would have a set question in which I needed to respond to and a list of objectives that needed to be completed in my writing. Now I value writer as more than a task that has to be completed, but as composing a meaningful scene that contains showing and telling. The composition term that I value most is discourse community. I never heard of this concept before the first day of my English composition course. Using a discourse community within our classroom allows for us to interact with our peers on our writing assignments. I really appreciated how we were able to view all of our classmates blogs and formal assignments. Whether it was to look for a sense of direction on an assignment or to write a response to one of our classmates blog posts. Your growth as a writer. How are your past academic writing experiences different from your present experiences with writing in this course? How are the past and present experiences the same? My past academic writing experiences were different then my present writing experiences in this course because I learned to value my writing more in this course. Like I mentioned in my response to the previous question I used to think of writing as a task that had a set of objectives that needed to be included to make the writing complete. But in this course I learned that writing contains a process, and the process does not begin with a perfect first draft. I learned that writing is more then just answering a question, writing is meant to show the reader what is happening and let the reader feel all of the emotions that were felt in the scene you are describing. My past academic writing experiences are the same as my present experiences because they are both writing. I had to put together around 1000 words to form a coherent essay that I could turn into my professor to get a grad on. Your knowledge transfer to future writing situations. How do you plan to use your growing writing knowledge to compose texts in future academic and non-academic contexts I plan to use my growing writing knowledge to compose texts in future academic and non-academic contexts by continuing to write and make meaning. I actually enjoyed writing blog posts each week. Maybe I’ll continue blogging. But I know that I will continue to use as much showing and emotions that I can in my writing.
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In this blog post number 9 I will be talking about discourse community and how these three texts speak to the identity of our discourse community. The three texts that I will be basing my information off of are Our Discourse Community Values, What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) and We Are Many (Pablo Neruda).
In my own words I would describe a discourse community as a group of people all working toward accomplishing the same goal. A discourse community also consists of open communication between others that allows for people to insert feedback to help better other people's work. The first reading titled Our Discourse Community Values, is about the values that we hold within our English composition course. The first value listed states "conceptualize discourse communities as social networks that frame the ethics, expectations, and exigencies of stakeholders who use situated languages to bond with others and to make meaning." I feel like this value helps to further the way that I describe a discourse community in my own words. This first value talks about how a discourse community is a group of people who work together to make meaning because they use situated language. Basically the first value is saying that people are able to connect and help each other because they understand what you are trying to say or difficulties you might be facing in a certain situation. While reading James Paul Gee's text What is Literacy? this quote really stuck out to me "think of discourse as an "identity kit" which come complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act and talk so as to take on a particular role that others will recognize." This quote stuck out to me because I feel like it relates to the discourse community within our classroom. Each week we are given a blog assignment with certain specifications that we are all to follow. After we complete authoring our own blog post for the week we are supposed to comment on our classmates posts. Being part of the discourse community and understanding what was expected to be in the blog posts allows for us to connect more easily to our peers and their writing. The last reading was We Are Many by Pablo Neruda. This reading was a poem. While reading this poem I felt like the final stanza helped speak to what a discourse community is. "While I am writing, I am far away; and when I come back, I have already left. I should like to see if the same thing happens to other people as it does to me, to see if as many people are as I am, and if they seem the same way to themselves. When this problem has been thoroughly explored, I am going to school myself so well in things that, when I try to explain my problems, I shall speak, not of self, but of geography." In this stanza he speaks about wanting to see if people are going through the same things as him when he writes. The discourse community within our classroom allows us to see challenges students within our class may be experiencing with their writing and blog posts each week. Home Page Well-Being Assessment: Functioning.
Why Assessment Summary: The spacing between my quote and header photo needs to be fixed. How Assessment Summary: I plan to fix it by 11:59pm on Tuesday, March 12th. About Page Well-Being Assessment: Functioning. Why Assessment Summary: My answers to the questions were not fully explained. How Assessment Summary: I plan to fix these answers by 11:59pm on Tuesday, March 12th. Contact Page Well-Being Assessment: Flourishing. Why Assessment Summary: I have all of the requirements. Header photo, quote, contact box. How Assessment Summary: Done. Blog Page Well-Being Assessment: Flourishing. Why Assessment Summary: I have 7 blog posts. I have all of T-T-C, header, quote, author bio, images, links. How Assessment Summary: Done. Narrative Project Page Well-Being Assessment: Functioning. Why Assessment Summary: I have what the page needs to be functioning. I do need to add more details about my blog posts and how they helped me prepare to write my narrative. My actual narrative needs work as well. How Assessment Summary: I will add details to my narrative page and correct the writing of my narrative essay by 11:59pm on Tuesday, March 12th. Research Project Page Well-Being Assessment: Flourishing. Why Assessment Summary: I have met all of the requirements for this page so far. How Assessment Summary: Done
For blog post #7 I will be talking about my midterm reflection. During the video I will reflect on how I have changed as a writer during this course so far. I will also talk about how I value writing. Another topic I will discuss is how my past and present writing experiences are different and similar. I used this reflective writing video to help me better understand how to do my reflection.
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