1. Writing for different audiences, purposes
These two pieces of writing have different purposes as well as were written for different audiences. The first piece of writing was one of our first writing assignments of the semester. The idea was to rethink the events of your day and write about them using the phrase “Today I saw” for 10 minutes. It was meant for a audience of only me which changes the writing. The purpose was to get us to think outside the box and show us how important the small details are. In other words the purpose of this assignment was to get us to not give broad information and realize we can go much more in depth in our writing and eliminate the broad information. The second form of writing I picked was our chart we had to create for our wild card essay. The audience in this case was our entire class as we shared this chart and a voice over of us talking about the information on the charts. The real purpose of this chart was to get us to learn more about our sources and make sure they were our 5 most credible sources that we had.
2. Reading critically
These two assignments are great examples of reading critically. The first assignment required us to watch 3 commercials and look at them critically. There were three ordinary commercials but the idea of the assignment was to look past the obvious point of the commercial and find out what it was really about. So for example one of the commercials was Turbotax and it was about a fisherman who gets stabbed in the chest with a marlin. When the man gets stabbed the friend talks about turbotax and how atleast his taxes are free. Now this is what happens in the commercial but what some viewers don’t catch is the company's true intentions of the commercial. The real point is that turbotax is free so no matter how bad of a situation you are in financially that turbotax will be there for you. The second article of writing is double column notes. We utilized these when we read articles all throughout the semester. My article was on Helicopter parents and how they are affecting our adolescence. So this is what the article is about however what it is really about is how these parents are affecting college students currently and the result is a lack of independence in these young adults.
3. Reading and responding to another's work, and responding to another's comments on your work
The first screen shot was a 200 word response to my group member on the personal experience essay she wrote. The ability to edit and make changes to another person's work is a very valuable skill that I gathered from this response. The second screen shot was a comment that Barbara left to me on my perspectives essay. The response she left me was very valuable and I was able to use it while writing my final copy of my essay. She highlights what specifically I may of not realized that I missed. Being able to take minor criticism and use it is a skill I believe that this class has taught me extremely well. All throughout the semester we have been editing and getting our essays edited and it has been very helpful.
4. Writing multiple drafts
The first screen shot was a sheet of paper we passed around in our round table discussions regarding the wild card investigation. We wrote down our question we were going to use on the research paper and it was passed around the class were each student left a comment or question that stemmed from our question. This gave us the perspective that others had on the topic and was helpful when thinking of search topics regarding our research. This stage of writing was at the very beginning of our assignment before we even started to do research. The second assignment is at the very beginning of my perspectives essay and coming up with the essential question I would be picking. We came into class and wrote down six possible questions that we would be interested in and were told to star the three we were most intrigued by. This stage of writing is important because it makes us think outside the box and what truly grabs our attention. So when we went to write the essay it came easier because we were intrigued by the results.
5. Reflecting
As a result of this reflection I realized how effective that this studio was and how effective multiple people editing a essay can be. In this studio, as a group, we edited a essay together and attempted to pick out the good and keep it and locate the negatives and fix them. As a group we found that editing was much easier and we missed very little. Which made me come to the conclusion that groups or pairs should always edit a paper as it would be most beneficial for the student or author. As you write a reflection you are forced to look back and look at the positives and negatives of what you did and are able to give insight on what was good or bad about the assignment. A big part of becoming a better writer is being able to look back at what you did and see what you could do better next time and what you don't need to change.
6. Writing creatively
I loved this studio for the creativity that it implemented. The idea of creating a meme seems like a simple assignment but it is quite the contrary. You have to attempt to find something creative out of thin air. You have to think outside the box and put it all together in a picture and few words. My idea for the meme stemmed from at the time paying for textbooks and how outrageous the prices were per book. So now I had created the main idea but had to figure out the right picture. Thankfully I randomly remembered one of my favorite televisions shows and how the main character had a stare that would be perfect for my idea. Then I was just able to create the image and just had to come up with a short expression that conveyed what I was trying to get across. As you can although all you see in a meme is not much information the fact that you have to compress a big idea in one picture and short phrase does cause you to have to be creative.