SLO

what i have learned from this class is to create a argument. And to create a argument, one must read through the information carefully. a student must achieve the goals of close reading. close reading helps one to focus on the rhetorical questions rather than just general thesis driven essays. while having a close reading on a certain paper, audience will be able to locate the literature devices and find out how the author have been trying to convey the readers through the process of giving imageries. a great example would be argumentative analysis essay, the author will trying to create a argument and analyze the pros and cons in different position, which will help the audience to see in different perspective. a great essay must not only covers a single view point, but also multiple view points, thus become a convincing paper.

Performance, feedback, revision

I think that being able to do revisions on certain ideas are important. this makes human able to correct himself from mistakes. mistakes are from wrong decisions and decisions are made through process of thoughts. the process of human thoughts are not computers, we human often make mistakes. for example, the essays we write in class, one often mistakenly write something that means the other unintended, sentence structure, grammar, misspell, or sentences that just doesn't make sense at all.  

in class, we make revisions from our drafts, this is a good way to find out that if there can be a improvement on the paper. through the work done on the paper, the student will be able to revision and learn a better way of writing. 

Essay 2

When I first finished the second research essay, i realize that i'm not actually touching the points that i was aiming for. I found a lot not grammar errors and structure errors, but also miss use of vocabularies that would throw off the readers. through the process, i only compared my own idea to wests article, i wasn't sure if we need to put the comparison to another article in the paper; which might be a mistake too. Over all, i would give myself a 3 out of 4, I'll need more time to work on this. For the peer readers, i wish it can be focused editing on the idea and sentence structure errors. I probably will have to set up a meeting at the TLC that will help me on this essay.

Where do you plan to go with your essay? What are you struggling with?

At first I was really confused about the topic of the essay, after reading some research paper; I'm deciding to analyze my own blog that will reveal my personality. I'll first list what I think my personality is like, and prove these identities from the examples. Learning from Wests Article, I'll be using a data table to help organize ideas that comes from close reading my own writing. Listing the tones and emotions of the writer, myself, and relate them to the ideas. Later I’ll be integrating my blog not only with West article, but also Rak's article. Rak, Julie. "The Digital Queer: Weblogs and Internet Identity." Biography 28.1 (2005): 166-82. Print. "The rhetorical strategies in this segment of the blogging community do not differ much from those of other bloggers, because blogging as a genre tends to consolidate its own practices and subjects as one of its effects."(RaK). Using Raks idea, I can show how one writer is creating his/her own environment with blog. What troubles me the most is finding the right article to integrate into my blog. I spent long time reading over articles until realizing that the article I’m reading isn't the one that i needed. Finding the topic to analyze upon has given me the difficulty while coming up with a plan on the essay.

West's connection with my essay

West's research paper indicates how one new technology can impact in a class room. A teacher is able to view more in depth of student's life. She analyzes couple examples to relate her answer to the research question. In my essay, i might come up with similar process, but with my own paper. i'm going to look at my own paper and see how it is identifying my own characteristic. After writing for class over almost a quarter, we are actually creating a self image online. I'm going to analyze my own level of literary and viewing my own posts from a third person view. A third person view allows the writer to rearrange the meaning of his own articles; rethink the meaning of the composed writing and reanalyze the insight of the author himself. We, as students, will be more able to rethink possible ways of creating better image of him/herself through composing art.

How will you apply West's essay to your essay?

From what i have read from West's article, the author uses several tools to analyze a blog. For example, a table that labels the elements of the literary devices that can be defining a writer's identity. Cathleen uses the tables to clearly label out the characteristics in a person's writing and rationally relate them to one identity. My essay will be using the second topic choice, "Apply West’s framework to examine any blog of your choice to make an argument about how identity is expressed online".  I will be analyzing other's essay, put them in a form of table and relating the elements. Separating the topics that will help me organize the subjects, and explaining how this would answer my question. 

Engage with the West's article and talk about what you find to be significant.

In the article by West, he questions himself with blogging, "What is the nature of literary response
as communicated via weblog?", he answers himself with responses like Theoretical framework and
research methods, and “Serious literature students” meet “Web-literate communicators”. He compares the Theoretical framework and methods. He made tables for different blogs. I find it organized and clear to make these tables. He compares Situated meanings, Social languages, Discourse models, and Situated identities; he puts examples under the categories. "Although the social languages involved in being a serious literature student and a Webliterate communicator are certainly inter-textual in themselves", the author relates the importance relation between of literature and blogging. He conclude the article by stating the pros and cons of blogging, being able to understand the students more.