Scholarships and freedom..

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Mentoring, success in college…

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Amazing video lecture series, this one discusses mentoring. Currently the honor’s depart implemented a peer to peer mentoring program at Mesa Community College. Interested in being a mentor? Need a mentor? Or just looking for some sound advice check out Psi Beta’s latest in Evening Lecture series.

English 101 …. Topics!!

Here are some great topics with links to view the content for them.

Great for Argument Papers!!

Genetic Research

Intellectual Property and Privacy

Cybercrime and Piracy

Gay Marriage

Happy writing and dont forget to check those sources!!! Only academics people… !!

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Spring Enrollement!!

Welcome back Students!! Hoping you enjoyed your summer vacation!! Looking forward to the fall semester here at MCC. Stay tuned for some amazing events that you can cash in on!! Don’t forget to get your Fasfa in!!! See you on campus!!

Annotated bibli… WHAT? *&F*)… grrrr…

Welcome English 101 and 102 students… yayay you have an assignment, the Annotated Bibliography… absolutely wonderful

*ducks flying text*

Really? Its not that bad… welcome to the Doctor’s Rhetoric…

Here there are some helpful hints for your journey through the bibliography.

Annotation simply means, ….supplied with or containing explanatory notes, textual comments, etc.: an annotated edition of Milton’s poetry.

 

In other words, you get to describe the source that you picked for your topic/ issue.

Make sure to consult your course syllabus and professor for the format of your annotated bibliography.

here are a few links to help out:

http://www.easybib.com/ This site will automatically write your bibliography in MLA format and its free.

Microsoft Word 7 has a references tab that not only formats your bibliography but also formats citations!!

Great stuff.. Here is a video to also help explain it a bit.

Enjoy the journey!!

for fun and giggles check out this students perspective on Annotated bibliographies

Bon Voyage!

Ryan talks about English Writing

 

Rhetorical Knowledge

 

Focus on a purpose:  I chose this outcome because this was always an issue that I had.  I really struggled with finding a purpose in my writing.  On page five of the McGraw-Hill Guide, Writing for college, writing for life it talks about writing to explore.  This is the aspect that changed my writing.  Before, I just started writing with no sense of what I wanted to say.  I would come to find out that I knew very little about the topic I chose.  Free writing, or writing to explore really helped me focus on my purpose.

Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality:  Voice and tone are the most important parts of writing.  The greatest day for a writer is finding his or her own voice and style.  The voice can change with different topics.  Tone is important to remember because the reader will quickly find out ones attitude toward an issue and if it is not an appropriate attitude the audience will be lost.  I had to constantly check my tone in my writing to explore paper.  That was a real struggle but I found out why it is so important.  I wanted to show my opinion to the reader but that wasn’t what was needed at that point in my writing. 

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing:

Integrate their own ideas with ides of others:  This is very important in writing.  It is when we incorporate the ideas of others that we can truly understand a topics entirety.  Other points of view can add some great ideas to consider while writing.  Don’t be afraid to listen to others opinions out of fear of ones own opinion changing.  If the opinion does change then it’s no big deal.  Different perspectives are ok to have.  If one has a different perspective then it may be the new idea that will spark an entire avalanche of thoughts to collide with your brain.

The interactions among critical thinking, reading, and writing: This is impacted me the most out of everything.  I was never taught to think critically, read critically, and most of all write critically.  On p. 55 of our book it gives the solid points that I want to emphasize.  The book says that a writer must have a clear sense of purpose, significant point, a lively narrative, and an honest representation.  It didn’t matter what I wrote, if I wanted it to be a successfully written paper I remembered these key points.  I looked back at my first paper in this class when I didn’t have any idea about these points.  Looking at my papers now I can see the difference it has made.  I don’t want to discredit the importance of reading and thinking, however I found the most beneficial aspect of this section to be the writing.  Remember in order to be a persuasive writer one must be a critical reader and ask those pressing questions such as; who is the audience, why is the author writing this, what does the author mean by this?  Thinking critically is much more than just reading a paper over and over and understanding the moral.

Processes

Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text:  Can I start by just saying SHITTY FIRST DRAFTS!  These are ok to have while creating a text.  One thing that Dr. Vassett taught me that I would never forget is that writing is not linear.  When Dr. Vassett writes on the board she will literally write in circles.  I don’t mean to say that she wrote nonsense on the board, but she wrote and re-wrote and added and took away.  That’s okay.  I really discovered my writing process and tried to incorporate the circular writing style of Dr. Vassett’s.  Draft after draft, I saw my papers take shape and become great texts.  Writing is something that can be so simple yet so thorough.  I have grown to love writing and reading documents this semester.

Learn to critique their own work and others’ works:  This part of the writing process is so crucial to becoming successful in all aspects of composition.  In this part of the process writers get to see others perspectives.  This is the first interaction with the audience.  It is here and only here writers can receive and give feedback and have time to make revisions before any work is published or finished.  I like to think of it as an inspection.  Often times the reader may give feedback that a writer disagrees with, it is during these times writers must respect thoughts and be open to any suggestions outside sources may have.  There were many times that a peer reviewer saved my paper before turning it in.  This is beneficial and will save any writer.

Knowledge of Conventions

Practice appropriate means of documenting their work:  What’s the point of spending countless hours on research to leave work undocumented in ones work.  It doesn’t just count for writing.  It encompasses speeches as well.  The key point to remember is in order to establish ethos for an audience citing appropriately is crucial.  Give credit where credit is due.  I relied heavily on Purdue Owl for helping me cite properly.  At the end of every chapter the books asks questions such as, what documentation style did you use?  What problems, if any, did you have with it? (McGraw-Hill, p.265)  Without citing a source properly a composer will loose their audience.  This does not weaken the text, it enhances its validity.

Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling:  I chose this section because I felt this is something I did very well.  The only problems I ran into were tenses.  I wouldn’t doubt that there are issues with tense in this very document.  I would have liked to spend a little ore time going over the rules of past, present, and future tenses.  Plainly said, if a composer creates an amazing document but spells everything wrong and has odd punctuation and grammar, it wont be considered successful.  I like to call it noise for the reader.  It distracts from the work. 

 

 

Composing in Electronic Environments

Use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, editing, and sharing texts:  I like to admit that those who are alive in America in 2010 are in a society that relies heavily on electronics and technology to survive.  I didn’t think I felt this way until the day I lost my cell phone and had no way to get into contact with anyone, sadly, not even my wife.  This is in no way a negative environment.  Think of all the wonderful inventions (technologically speaking) that have evolved to assist students and young composers in their education.  Libraries are great edifices to learn and to accomplish great works.  Use what is at our fingertips, because it’s faster and more helpful to the learner.  Email has been a wonderful invention that has really blessed the world.  The ability to send a document in progress to a professor to be critiqued and revised has saved my life a couple times. 

Locate, evaluate, organize, and use research material collected from electronic sources, including scholarly library databases; other official databases (e.g. federal government databases); and informal electronic networks and Internet sources:  The first thing I think of is my annotated bibliography.  I will be honest, while completing that I hated it.  However I found a new process to add to my ever-changing writing process. It involves the aspect of critical thinking, and reading.  Continue asking who the author is, why are they writing this, when was the text last updated, and more importantly, what’s the text about?  One can even ask, where this published and how accurate is the information?   This helped me to find sources that would support my words and organized my thoughts into a smooth transitional process.  Research material is key.  It shows the audience that the writer is knowledgeable

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 concerning the topic and builds that ethos.  Books, academic journals, and peer-reviewed sources are best to use while constructing a document and establishing ethos. (McGraw-Hill, p. 546-551)

Emily contemplates her Experience in English 102

 

 

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Rhetorical Knowledge

Focus on a purpose: The first few weeks of this class proved that this would be unlike any other reading class I’d ever taken. Our second writing assignment was to write a paper on the syllabus. First reaction by the class: HUH?? This assignment was my first introduction to really needing to focus on a purpose for writing. Should I compliment the syllabus so my new teacher likes me? Do I complain about assignments with a chance she may change them? Should I use this paper as a disclaimer, illustrating my heavy workload with other classes and a near full-time job? I decided to focus on starting an honest relationship with my teacher and told Dr. Vassett exactly how I felt about all of these questions swirling in my head. First sentence: “After reviewing the syllabus at length, I expect this class to be challenging.” (I was right.) The syllabus outlined an extensive list of assignments, with writing due almost every class period. So I let Dr. Vassett know, “There is definitely going to be more writing required in this course than any other I have taken in college so far.” (Right, again!) My last comment was my hope for this class. “I hope my writing process will be revamped and greatly improved.” I believe that starting this class with a paper focused on honest questions and concerns, I set the foundation for a successful a great semester and a new, more effective writing process.

 

Respond appropriately to different kinds of rhetorical situations: In the past, I have just sat down at the computer and started writing. I never took into consideration the main six questions that need to be answered in any document: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? I learned that these questions are mostly the basis for addressing rhetorical situations. The very first chapter of The McGraw-Hill Guide addresses this very thing. As I writer, I must adopt the tone that will be most effective in addressing my audience. Choosing an audience is of utmost importance in itself. Then I must know why I’m writing and what my purpose is. I must have a clear understanding of the topic and know whether I am writing an academic, professional, civic, or personal paper. The annotated bibliography I did for paper one helped me to focus on these five elements of rhetorical situations. They carried through to the rest of my papers as well. My “Writing to Convince” paper focused on Adderall Abuse by College Students in America. I convinced my audience, college students, that Adderall abuse was harmful to their well-being and took a more formal tone to get my serious point across. This was different from my “Writing to Solve Problems” paper where I wrote to the Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of Phoenix. In that instance, the rhetorical situation required me to appeal to her background of Christianity and nurturing tendencies. This, while formal in addressing an authority, called for a friendlier, “I’m on your side” – voice.

 

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

Understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluation, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources: We jumped right into finding sources for our first paper. We had to find not only 15 sources, but 15 scholarly sources. Not an easy task! This was eventually lowered to ten but was still a struggle. I believe having to buckle down and learn the difference between legitimate sources helped me throughout the rest of the semester. I learned what exactly a scholarly source was. It must be a peer-reviewed, thoroughly researched document.  I found that the majority of these sources came from scholarly journals and took some work to dissect and digest. I learned how to find these types of sources in our online Library catalog and was then able to differentiate between scholarly and popular sources for the rest of the papers in this class, boosting my credibility as a writer.

Integrate their own ideas with those of others: The first experience I had of integrating my ideas with others was during my first one-on-one meeting with Dr. Vassett. We were able to go over my ideas and work up to that point and bounce ideas off of one another. She helped me to focus on exactly what group and issue I would address, resulting in my paper “Adderall Abuse Among College Students in the United States.” This is the most detailed title to a paper I’ve ever had. I continued to use the ideas of my classmates through peer reviews of each draft and paper we all struggled through together. I value the opinions and points of view of others more now than ever.

 

Processes

Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text: In the past, my writing process was this: sit down at the computer, stare at a digital blank piece of paper for an hour, drink some coffee, stress, then throw some words on the screen and call it a day. I felt that my first draft needed to be “the one.” It had to be perfect, smoothly flowing, and good enough to turn in. The article “Shitty First Drafts” was my savior! I learned that it’s ok to write a ridiculous, twisting, turning, awkward first draft. It’s also ok that much of this writing won’t even make my final draft. I now use my first draft to get my creative juices flowing and to put out some ideas that I may have. In our second paper “Writing to Convince,” my first draft was loaded with information on chemicals in marijuana and how they affect the body. These facts never saw the light of day in my final draft, but they didn’t need to. My second draft allows some information to move forward with me and leaves other sentences behind. My third draft brings in the opinions of others, where they can see mistakes I have overlooked as well as bring in an outsiders point of view. My final draft ends up being a well-crafted, rhetorical masterpiece. (I like to think so, at least.) I proved this new process was effective when my grade from paper one to paper two increased by 16 points. It also makes writing much less stressful and even enjoyable at times.

Learn to critique their own and others’ works: We did a great deal of peer reviewing over the course of this semester. I learned how to be an effective reviewer and how to handle the critiques of others. Dr. Vassett went over proper language to use like “This part is really great, but you might think about tweaking this…” and “You have great ideas but maybe if you back them with more sources the reader will be more apt to buy into your work.” Using peer review sheets, I was able to answer the questions that each writer needs to have addressed when looking for input from others. I found that our class collaborated well and helped each other to produce the best document possible for each paper.

Knowledge of Conventions

 

From primary source librarian

Practice appropriate means of documenting their work: I learned that I had been documenting my work entirely wrong for my entire learning career. I had never had a teacher be so clear as to how information from others must be cited. It is imperative to give credit to the writers we get our information from. As the saying goes, “Give credit where credit is due.” I did not put in the long hours to gather statistics and information that I find in my research, so I must pay a tribute to those who did. I learned that I must put a citation after EVERY SENTENCE if the information did not come from my own thinking. Citations have always been intimidating to me because I never knew exactly how to do it. There’s no such thing as over-citing, and this helped take pressure off me in choosing where to place citations and when.

Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling: I have always been a language-oriented learner. I love to read and write and have been doing so since I was a kid. I feel that I have a great understanding of syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. My mom always said it’s from reading so many books from a wide range of authors with a wide range of writing styles. I believe controlling these aspects of a paper can be a simple task. With technology these days, word programs often times point out mistakes in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Help with syntax can come from peer reviews and simply allowing a large range of people read your work. Often times, others can point out unclear sentences, helping to clarify something that you may have thought was fine. The most important part of controlling syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling comes merely from reviewing your own work, reading through it multiple times, and editing anything that is incorrect.

Composing in electronic environments

Use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, revising, editing, and sharing texts: I find technology these days to be one of the most helpful resources available to writers. Throughout this semester, I exchanged emails about my paper with classmates and Dr. Vassett. I was able to get a quick, personalized response without needing to schedule meetings that interrupt everyone’s busy lives outside of class. Not only can we communicate through emails, but I have been able to revise and input information to other students’ actual documents, highlighting what areas I though needed improvement. My classmates were able to do the same for me. I also used text messaging with my peers to keep up to date on assignments and to ask questions about anything that was unclear to me.

Locate, evaluate, organize, and use research material collected from electronic sources: Our class had multiple class periods dedicated to located resource from our school library’s online resource catalog. Dr. Vassett and the library technicians taught us how to access the loads of articles covering any topic we wanted to write about. I combined this source with articles found on Google Scholar as well as “.gov” and “.org” websites to give my papers the credibility they needed to convince my readers that I knew what I was talking about. The internet is a rich source of information that should be used to a writer’s advantage.

-Emily R.

 

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Jose B. Raps on the WPA Outcomes

 

Rhetorical Knowledge

The main Uses of writing in their fields

Coming into English 102 I did not know what to expect from the class and from the work I had ahead of me, I was more nervous than excited I must say mainly because I did not know what was to come. Right after we started to put our minds to work and we started to focus more on writing I really started to open my mind and ears to what Dr. Vassett had to say, but what really caught my attention was that writing is all around us from the moment we wake up and as the day progressive it is only used more and more. This is when I learned that writing has a purpose and there is several  fields to it from wring as a student, writing as a professional, as a citizen or as a family member or friend this really help to understand that writing has its own langue depending on the circumstance and intentions of what is being written.

Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality

As we started to learn about tone and voice and the different levels of formality I learned that the voice to writing has to have a personality or else it’s just a lot of words that where written down it ads corrector to the reader and it helps set a tone by giving it a certain attitude which helps the reader by grasping their attention and keeping the interest level till the end.

 Critical thinking, reading, and writing

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   Use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating-

Before this class I never really saw the purpose of people that are constantly reading or just researching things online but I can see why they are always trying to learn something besides the fact that the act of reading and writing keeps your mind busy and helps to build good communication skills and keeps you constantly thinking. I understand that learning and thinking come hand in hand and it is always important to not believe what people say or just read of from Google, I started to pay more attention to what people talk about and I am constantly questioning what other tell me. I would guess that it all comes from doing all the research and reading from all this semester.  

            Integrate their own ideas with those of others-

Doing a research paper was one of the hardest tasks I encountered this semester. It was hard to put my ideas in others perspective so they would understand what I was trying to communicate across my papers. But once I started to get the point of the actual process of researching, it also helped to clear out what others were trying to tell me, others work started to become a tool that I can use to prove my purpose and to back up what my ideas had to say and at the same time it helps to educate by giving credit to others work.

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Process

            Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text-

Starting out the semester reading “Shitty Draft” really helped to be aware that we all have a writing process and it is all different for others not one is the same. Writing takes time and it is not heaven sent, you don’t just sit down and start writing an “A “ paper, one must work hard and do the research and  still work on multiple drafts to create and complete a successful draft, I can see the difference from the beginning of the semester to today, I started to also learn that it takes me a good 1 hours just free writing before I can sit down and attempt to do my first draft and it really helps to know that it will only get better after the it has been revised by a friend or family member before I can start my second draft , it really is up to the writer to decide when the work is done and having multiple drafts is no surprise to my writing process.

            Understand writing as an open process that permits writers to use later invention and re-thinking to revise their work- writing is really never personal if you think about it , at the begging I really did not want people reading what I had to say in my papers I know it sounds silly but I thought that only Dr. Vassett would be the only one reading our work but I started to see why it was so important to share what I had to say specially if I wanted to get a good grade on the paper, the more let others revise my work and give me feedback the more ideas I would get and the better it help structure my paper. It also helped to break down my writing and use invention time to really work hard on my audience and sometimes bringing back old ideas to help with the new.

Knowledge of Conventions

            Learn common formats for different kinds or texts-

It sounds very simple but I have always had problems with format, I learned that for different types of work there is going to be different types of guide lines one must fallow for example one must fallow different genres for each different texts and from a letter, to a blog and also knowing the limitations of the work that you are producing and knowing the difference of writing style helps to separate audience from professional, civil and personal.

            Practice appropriate means of documenting their work-

At first I really did not think that plagiarizing was such a big deal but then I really learned why it is so important to use proper documentation on all my work and to give proper created to other work. It’s important to give credit to the different sources by fallowing proper use of documentation styles that we must fallow to credit work properly , I had problems with this in my first paper but saw that it was more easy as I got used to credit others work, I started to send myself emails with of the source and would put all of the emails in the different folder and when it came time to work cite my paper I would have all of the information ready to be set on MLA format, it helps to have a nice guide line to fallow and know that it is in the correct format.

Composing in Electronic Environments

            Use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, revising, editing, and sharing texts-

After the first paper we did I started to see that the computer lab was going to be my best friend for the remaining of my semester. At first it was difficult to adjust to doing a lot my work on a computer, I don’t have a computer at home so I found it hard to sit down and write for three hours, it’s easy to see why we have all of the technology and by using the electronic means of communication I found myself working faster and getting used to using my email a lot more from sending a pear review by email to writing and researching information for my papers.

            How to engage in the electronic research and composing process common in their fields-

When working on a paper and doing research I found it to be more fun and interesting to look up research and put it to the side as I would write about it and then use the source and to back up my information. i quickly found out that doing research was its own section when it comes to my writing process, I found out that doing the research and looking for the best quotes or even the source is hard work but at the end it pays off the see the words flow on the paper.

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Rhetorical Knowledge –

–          Respond to the needs of different audiences: This was an important lesson for me to learn. Throughout my college career, I’ve always just assumed that my audience was my teacher. This carried over into all of my writing. I would assume the reader was a certain way, most commonly, the same as me. But during this course I have realized that it is impossible to create a very good paper without narrowing down my audience a great deal.

–          Respond appropriately to different kinds of rhetorical situation: This was a harder lesson for me to learn. Since we wrote three distinctively different types of papers, my second paper suffered because I was still stuck writing the same way I did the first paper. But because of this, I believe my third paper was even better. Some lessons have to be learned the hard way, so to speak.

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing –

–          Integrating their own ideas with those of others: To me, evidencing my writing, and citing sources always seemed somewhat unnecessary. But having realized that citing sources effectively actually makes my paper more credible, I have learned how to make any paper I write better. Likewise, the only way to integrate ideas from other authors is to credit them with the work they have done, thus avoiding plagiarism. Also, it helped me create more of my own ideas after reading some of other writer’s ideas.

–          Use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating:  This outcome is pretty automatic if you actually put in the work you are supposed to. It’s impossible to learn if you do not read. Moreover, if you write down what you learned from reading, you will more likely retain the information. Written words are probably the biggest proponent of communication. Therefore, learning to use them correctly can only help in the communication process.

Processes –

–          Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text: This was evident from the very first assigned reading, Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott. Personally, I never created more than one or two drafts. I thought that I knew what I wanted to say and could communicate it well enough the first time. But after spending much time recreating the same assignment in a different manner, I began to realize the end result was much richer, and contained things I hadn’t even thought of at the beginning.

–          Learn to critique their own and others’ works: I had never done peer reviews in any course. I was usually pretty skeptical of the ability of my classmates to review my work, as the teacher was the expert and my peers were on my level. But I realized during the course that hearing another classmate’s ideas can only be beneficial. In multiple instances it helped me see a different perspective. Also, the positive feedback helped keep me motivated to continue with the project.

Knowledge of Conventions –

–          Learn common formats for different kinds of texts: This seemed to combine a few other topics that I have already discussed, such as peer editing, and citing sources. It also helped having to write multiple drafts because instead of editing one draft, I found myself checking over my work constantly to not get bogged down at the end.

–          Practice appropriate means of documenting their work: During the class we spent a lot of time in the library. Luckily we were able to have a librarian teach a workshop on how to do research more effectively and help us learn how to document our sources. Learning what the difference between a regular source and peer reviewed source was very valuable. This even helped me in another class that required peer reviewed sources. Had I not gotten this knowledge, I would have definitely failed.