Bryson and Dawkins

Bryson

Lisa McClain

            QD

The writing construct Bryson challenges is grammar. I see this in how he shows our language changing as in how he points out how now its “complex and confusing” instead of “fluid and democratic language.

            Applying and Explain

He means how language today is different then before. I think he’s meaning what’s “good English” when our language always changes. Actually in my life grammar isn’t something I really stress about because computers most of the time fix it and I care about how it sound.

 

Dawkins

            QD

My point of view on punctuation is kind of loose, as in I do worry on it or anything on it. Even after reading this I feel the same, to me what’s most important is getting your point across. I still think if you spend you time fixating on your punctuation you can end up missing a great idea or the very golden point you were go for.

Meta Moment

I think were having to read this because our teacher wants us to realize there is other perceptions and views. From reading this we get that its not just black and white, rule are sometime bent for certain reasons.

           

Project 1

Project 1

Lisa McClain

9/22

            Porter talks about how there is no “original” anymore in this world.  Just as Green pointed out how arguments happened before someone ever gets there because the argument went on way longer before then, and the same goes for Porters view on writing. Plagiarism is a serious matter, but when you think of it were all plagiarizing then. But when someone does seriously plagiarism you got to look more deeply into the reasoning why and why more in this day and age people think is more exactable.

 This would be the exact point Emma Gross is thinking though in her writing Clashing Values: Contemporary views about cheating and plagiarism compared to traditional beliefs and practices. One of the reasons she thinks plagiarism is now accepted in todays society is because, “along with the values for personal growth they are pursuing they are also affected by society's current values for productivity, performance and speed”. Also Susan Blum says how people been "groomed to be successful, clever, and above all calculating”. There saying that were always hurrying and trying to get ahead to succeed all at the same time because that was the world were growing up in.

-Clashing Values: Contemporary views about cheating and plagiarism compared to traditional beliefs and practices/Emma R. Gross

-My word! : plagiarism and college culture / Susan D. Blum.

-Plagiarism as the moral problem of the information society/Elena Belyacya

Porter

Porter

Lisa McClain

9/16

            Before you read

-When I need “help” in writing, as in ideas and I can’t think of anything ill stop for a wile to take a break, then after that I go back and try writing again from that point.

            QD

-I thought that writing was more or less your thoughts down on paper. My own work in the past was more that a friend or relative would look over it for me.

-His work by in his view was “original” because he purposely used others own writings in his own paper.

            Applying and exploring ideas

-Plagiarism is where you’ve clearly looked for information on purpose and happens about three times in one paper and it’s clearly plagiarism, as in exact text or a few switched words. This is the same to prevent cheating but not suspect then of doing when they didn’t mean to.

            Meta Moment

-It has changed my point on writers and writing some because I never really thought about how some writing will be reused on accident. Kind of like how Green pointed out all arguments happen before we were there, same goes for writing we weren’t the first to come up with that amazing line or awesome point, so in some aspect that means were all plagiarizing. It changes my view on writing by now I’m going think how there were people before me that have tried to prove the same point.

Lamott, King, and Diaz

Lamott, King, and Diaz

Lisa McClain

9/13

-Lamott wrote about how you need to write a “shitty” first draft before you can get a good draft. She says how have to let you thoughts go crazy on papers, then sort it all out later, And when you have a lot of voices in you head try and get rid of them, get rid of the doubts and negativity and try and get to your own voice.

-King talks about “telepathy”. How, not that fake stuff but how your read writing and see the same image as the writer sees and projects, but with a little different details. He uses an example to get us to understand, a loosely description, but if it was detailed anymore it wouldn’t be the same.

-Diaz basically wrote about how hard it was for him to become a writer, just like most writers and how it went for them. He talked about almost giving up and going back to school then realized how it wasn’t what he wanted. In the end his dream came true.

Elbow

Elbow

Lisa McClain

9/13

            Summary

-Elbow writes about the “voice”, if it should or shouldn’t be used in writing. But he goes back and forth with the argument, using his input as it should go both ways and not one, as if not sure of his own decision or getting both points through. He also gets different strategies and other methods down.

           

            Before Reading

-If I could use the word “I” in our writing then I can put ore of your personality into it. If “I” was aloud to be used then I’m able to put my own personal stories into it, which could make the writing better. The paper then would get stronger and have a better impact on the readers.

            QD

-Yes I do think he’s playing the “doubting and believing game”. Which what happens when you give an input to both sides to the argument. Because then it seams that you are confused on your point and playing “the game”, on the grounds of giving good input on both sides of the argument.

            Applying and exploring ideas

-I think it is easier to listen to a passage then to read it silently. I think you should apply this method, mostly if you don’t understand wh

Berkenkotter and Murray

Berkenkotter and Murray

Lisa McClain

9/11/12

            Summery

-Berkenkotter wanted to do research on how writers think during there writing, what gets them going, what situations they do best in, and all that sort. But when Berkenkotter bit his research on Murray he found out that she didn’t really have a set way. She does best at home or in her office on her free time, and when put in a new environment with precise material she had to follow she did do so well. Also she never revises her writings she fixes as she goes which shocked Berkenkotter.

Before you read

-When someone dies; they never really “die because they live within us, in our memories and in our hearts. When they go they leave our world and go with God to heaven, were they never stop looking after us and watching over us. And one day we will join our loved once in heaven. At first I thought it would be easy then I realized and took into thought about what might confuse a child or scare them and that went into play.

            QD

-His writing process is talk into a recorder then he also has a notebook. My same is writing in a notebook and difference is I don’t talk in a record but I type it up instead.

-His revising was changed to reading out loud and scans his writing as he wrote to fix it.

            MM

-I think the best thing I can take away from this reading is to, carry a journal around with me to write down ideas. Then I would wait till I’m in my own writing environment where the ideas would transform into a story.

            Reflection

-I thought it was interesting how Murray didn’t take a lot of steps for his work, but got right to the core of it and edited as he went.

            Synthesis

-Berkenkotter and Kline were a lot alike because they did research on writers and there writing technique. They were both shocked by the results they came across in there research.

Berger

Berger

Lisa McClain

9/9/12

            Summary

-Berger talks about surveyor and surveyed, how woman are both. He shows through the painting that women were showed as just object, how they there just used in painting for the surveyor (men). They did this by how they positioned the women in the painting, when they even put a male in the painting they had her looking away from him as in daring someone better to come along. They mostly had them positioned to look at there surveyor and have themselves lay or sit openly to them, unless the painter himself feels he cant even pretend she is wanting him and have her looking away wanting another person, with a light hitting her.

            Questions for Discussion and Journaling

     

-Iv seen women advertising in perfume ads and clothing magazines mostly. The images iv seen and Berger talks about are similar by how the women look at the “surveyor” and turned towards you so you can see what there trying to sell. But with perfume ads if its men cologne then the women mostly look towards the man in the advertising with them with adoring stairs. I think the images have changed over time, the poses the women are in have changed and they seam a little more covered.

            Applying and Exploring Ideas

- I don’t think that in modern day the women are positioned the same because there more loss and not so stiffly looking and not just laying or sitting, now the women or taken in motion or with other things. There just not in a bed naked to be used for just purely seduction, and photos meant for that the girls have a lighter background and not all dark.

           

Meta Moment

-I feel like it was meant to challenge us, its suppose to make us think and analyzed how society use to have perspective of women. Also how things are positioned for use to get certain thoughts or prospects. I think we were reading this so we get the idea of how if you put something a certain way can make all the difference.

McCloud

McCloud

            Lisa McClain

9/9/12

           

            Summery

-McCloud was trying to get people to think outside the box and really challenge you. McCloud shows you how our mind has you think and see something that really is there, we mostly try to always make thinks look like face. Also how we get sucked into cartoons because the leaser details of them attract us.

            Before Reading

-When I was younger I liked the cartoon Aladdin, I think I connected with it because the simple face that he became more then what he was, he became more then what others thought he would amount to.

            QA

-By McCloud using the comic book way, he showed exactly what he wanted the readers to get. And his point would have suffered if he didn’t do it this way because then the reader wouldn’t got what McCloud meant other wise, because then you wouldn’t got to see the step by step motion of it.

-I believe it is true that we wouldn’t get the message if he were more realistic. But I don’t believe that we fill the cartoon people with our own personality, because of the lighting bolt on his shirt and his big-rimed glasses I took him to be a nerd like characters off Big Bang Theory. So I don’t believe we make them out own personality.

            Applying and Exploring Ideas

-I think it can go either way with using visual images more, because some lessens can go well with it and others it wouldn’t it all depends on the subject at matter pretty much. And I think a lesson that would benefit from it would be for one, it would help some people understand better then others because of there learning methods. And two, certain areas like what McCloud wrote on needed it to have visual or you more likely couldn’t understand it other wise.

            Reflection

I feel like as in Greene McCloud is challenging people to think about thinks that they never realized before even though its part of our everyday life’s. We never think how an argument is going to continue even though were gone or that our brains automatically see things certain ways.

            Synthesis

Iv never broken it down and thought about all of it that way till now, it makes you really think and wonder. He has some good points but certain aspects of his thoughts I didn’t agree so much on, because I don’t believe that we reflect the cartoons as ourselves.

            

Summary

Summary

Lisa McClain

9/6/12

                  ●ArticlesPlus-Finding Scholarship

- ArticlesPlus-Finding Scholarship is about how to use the search bar to find scholar’s writings. You can get them as a PDF or other ways to find the papers itself. You also can select certain things to even make you results more precise.

                  ● Finding Full Text from Citation

- Finding Full Text from Citation is about how you take a title, date, or name of writing and search it trhough Alice. Then you search through the info. Choose the one that’s yours and get the PDF for it that’s “hovering” there.

● How to get a book from OhioLINK

- How to get a book from OhioLINK is about getting books off campus if the Alden library is out of it you go on the site and you will need to order it from another school.

                  ● How to Find a Book

- How to Find a Book is literally about the title. You look up you book see if its available before you check it out.  You will look up its number and floor then go there. After you get there you follow the signs basically.

Project Proposal 1

Lisa McClain

English 1510

September 4^th, 2012

Project Proposal 1

The writing construct that I’m most interested in is All Writing Is Autobiography, because I feel like that’s exactly true. When someone is writing anything, from a poem to a political article, they show who they are in it. Its like they breathe their own life into there writing, their own thoughts and aspects go into their papers. When people write they write on what they know, thought, feelings, memories, ext. Even when they try writing something on the opposite view then what they actually believe in they show there own personality in it, showing points they’re scared someone else would bring up in the debate or view points that makes the writer themselves think. When people write papers just to write something it will show who they are: if it a research paper it has to interests them, poems show enlightenment into the person themselves, ext. This is why I choose All Writing Is Autobiography as the construct that interests me most.