Good Enough

While reading the article, I learned much about methods to write my paper. One important technique is to not expect to write the perfect paper on the first try. You need to take time and continually revise your paper. It is smart to jot down your thoughts when ever you think of them; even if your thoughts are simple and not as elaborate as you want. Once you have your thoughts down, you can continue to look over and rewrite your paper. If you do what Heidi did and explect her first draft to be her final draft, then you will not make any progress. That is why Heidi titled the essay as "Good Enough," because starting your paper with something that is just good enough, then you can continue to write a much better paper.

Living Sources

While reading, there were many ideas that popped up for me to use. One important factor that I took away from it was that when you conduct interviews, you need to make sure that the person you are interviewing is very smart in the subject you are researching. You can look up author names and different Internet sources. Another good idea during an interview is to make sure that you carry it out like a conversation. That way you can get the "most real" answers from a subject. Finally, if you are using surveys, you must make sure that they can reach your targeted audience. If that means you must go out and hand them out individually, then that's what you must do. If an elderly person takes a survey about new technology, it probably will not be that reliable of a survey. That is why you need to distribute your surveys appropriately.

Lit. Review --- First Draft

When reviewing my first draft for my lit review, I learned that some aspects are good and some need work. The things that are good about my part are the introductions into the quotations. Something that needs work is the discussion part in the essay.The reason my topic needs a literature review is because obesity is something that needs to be brought up to people. It is getting out of hand not many people are doing anything about it. The research that I have gathered came alot from prior knowledge. Much of it is basically talking about how fast food restaurants are around every corner and offer fat foods for cheap prices. Most people know this about fast food, so I need to include more research into it, too. Something that I would hope to include in the article would be aspects of restaurant owners and what they thing about people eating their food. It would be a good way to get both sides of the story.

Chapter 3 Kevin Fisch

In this chapter, Graff talks primarily about the amount of quoting writers need to use. The more quotations someone uses, the better that person sounds. Graff made sure the reader (me) knew this by saying, "Quoting someone else's words gives a tremendous amount of credibility to your summary and helps ensure that it fair and accurate." The reason I believe this is a good point is because I believe the same thing. I do not know everything, so if I am writing about an unfamiliar topic, it would be smart of me to quote someone who is very smart on that topic. It will make my work look more professional and legitimate.

Chapter 3 & 5

In chapter 3, the author talks alot about quotations in an essay. They can be a good thing or a bad thing for the paper. The best reason that a writer could quote someone is because that means that the writer is deffinetly not making anything up. It tell that reader that "Here it is. This is what (someone) said themselves." Now quoting people can also back fire on someone. If a writer just fills up their paper quotations, then 1) there is not much of their own thought going into the paper, and 2) alot of time, the writer does not even know what they are quoting. That's why qutoing needs to be selective when putting it into a paper.
While reading chapter 5, it discussed more about making ure the reader can understand the difference between your point-of-view and person who you took the quote from. There are suttle words that will let you know who's ideas you are reading. If the reader can not distiguish who's thoughts are who's, then there is really no point for them to read the paper. That is why it is important for writer's to make it clear when they are talking about THEIR thoughts, and when they are talking about their QUOTES.

All dem crazy crocs shoes!

So I was looking through the list of topics and one really caught my attention. It was about all the "Crocs" shoes in America now. This caught my attention because my family and I would always enjoy laughing at them. They really do look awfully silly when people wear them. Despite the looks, I will have to admit they extremely comfortable to put on your feet. This is why I would like researching this topic because they look horrible and it is fun to make fun of them, but once I wear them I completely understand why peolpe actually buy them. So questions that I would want to research would include: what the material are crocs actually made of, are they creators going to produce any types of new looks, and will they ever create any types of crocs for basketball players?

1 in 6000000!

This article was certainly a surprise to me. I enjoyed it very much because of the determination to find information about her grandmother's history. She was faced with many obstacles such as simply not knowing where to begin, but she did not let that push her down. I have that same feeling many times I start research projects. It would have been nice to read more about Hilary's experience with her grandma, but learning about her adventure was an exciting one.

Post it notes and Researching

The article talked much about different strategies for research. Susana made it clear that there are important steps that should be taken when gathering research. She shares with us how the steps should go. First, you need to find what ever you can use like articles and documents. Second, you need to annalyze what is in your materials and make critical notes; she highly recommends the use of post-it notes. Susana then says you should actually take a break from your research for some time and then start it back up after a while. Steps like these are very helpful and will even aide me in my research.

Linguistic Landscape Paper

For my linguistic landscape paper, I have decided to use a mailing pamphlet type of genre. It would be the genre that includes papers sent through the mail to people. The hope would be that these pamphlets contained the information needed to pursuade people to agree with something I wish to change. The topic I would like the raise to the community is that issue of bus service on campus. The busses that travel between Tri Towers and Waterson are very limmited. There have been time I was forced to walk to class all because there was no room on the bus. My genre would include features such as pictures, bullet points, and further information (internet site, phone number, etc.). Most people typically follow my same type of example by putting inofrmation and visual details on their paper. The best place to display this is to just mail it to everyone's mail boxes. If it is in their mail, they are certain to recieve it. That is why I believe this genre would be the best idea to use.

Bansky Paintings

In the picture above, Bansky has created graffiti on the wall in Isrial that is more of a comical painting. He puts an image of "cut here" on the wall to motivate people to want to get through the wall. The reason he may have put it here is because the wall is a symbol of denial, and people should want to "cut" through the wall and get to the other side. Another reason the location was a good for his art is because the large amount of people that gather by it. In this picture alone, you can that there is least a hundred people who are gathered already. Everyone will see his work and remember it now.

In the picture, Bansky has taken WILL FINISH LATER.

Mona the multi-speaker

In the interview, I got the opportunity to ask Mona different questions about her language. Mona was originally from Egypt. Growing up, her common language spolek in her family was Egyptian. When her family and her moved to the states, her father picked up English with his Egyptian. As for her mother, she was more fluent in Spanish and Egyptian. Over time her mother picked up English just by daily living. Mona continued to grow up speaking English because it is the standard language in America, but she could always communicate to her parents in Egyptian whenever she wanted to. As for her parents, they too speak English in the workplace, but when they were back in Egypt, finish later......

It's a Wedding!

Now let’s take a good look at this engagement invitation. It is obvious that flowers are the most obvious graphic on the card. To add to the flowers, the couple decided to use a pink font for the print. There is a good chance that the woman was the creator of this card and wanted it to appeal more towards her girlfriends. The man obviously wants everyone he knows to come, but the point of the card for guys is to inform them. In a woman’s eyes, she will clearly get the message of the wedding, but she is going to go the extra mile too. She would look the invite over numerous time and “grade it.” She will be the one to determine if the pink flowers and butterflies was a good idea or not. That is why most wedding invitations and accessories are created to appeal to the woman’s likes.

Getting Personal

In “Getting Personal,” Irene Taylor discusses how the personal essay comes from one’s true feelings. The real events in a person’s life can be talked about in one’s essay so readers can relate or compare their own lives to the writer’s. Irene makes a good point at doing this when she says,

                “I finally let go of the job I had struggled so long to keep. There’s something

about being a member of the working class and finding yourself

among the working poor that puts your life in perspective. You have

little time to recognize or even cope with the loss of a job. Your first

priority is to meet your financial responsibilities in any manner available

to you. When I left my job I had no options for work save the world

of temp services—minimum wage, no benefits, and no long-term

security.”  (Irene, Getting Personal, Pg. 22)

The reason I see this as a good point is because I can relate to her writing now. She writes about how she lost her job, but instead of grieving and feeling sorrow, she gains a level-head and understands her priorities in her life. I have never lost a job and had to worry about finances, but there have been situations where I had no choice but to cut my luck and start fresh. This is similar to what Irene talks about, she understands her present dilemma and buckles down and gets to work.

Different Languages

In my family, we speech (as far as I know) standard English. We always have spoke the same way. Both my parents grew up in the same area that I lived in, so it seemed like it was just passed on from them to me. Speaking standard English my entire life has made it grow on me. At this point, even if I tried, I do not think I could gain a different dialect or accent in my speech. Any subtle phrases or traits in my speech could be from an Irish heritage/background. When ever I leave the state, someone does tend to tell me, "you have a Chicago accent!" Obviously I never noticed this, but someone always tells me of how I same certain words differently. I then share with them some differences I hear in their speech too. Though, at school, I never hear much of a difference between students. Many speak standard English too, but even the textbooks and stories are written in standard English also.

Dave Bagger's Wakeboarding Bananzza

    Dave Bagger is one of my oldest cousins, and he is one of the best people to be around. At any time he can make you feel stupid or feel like a champion. Everyone knows it is just how he talks to other people, but his whitey ways are very enjoyable. Many times, he'll be at our lake house on Lake Delavan and tellme how I better not screw my entire life up by knocking a girl up or robbing a bank. I'm not too worried about that, but I guess it comes from the heart.
    While at Delavan, the number one thing we enjoy together is wakeboarding on the lake. Dave has always been great at it, and now he wants me to be even better. Every time we are out riding, I enjoy every second of it, and if I fall, all he typically tells me is, "Stop sucking" or "Be a man and don't fall so much." Again, it would be mean to anyone else, but I love the critisism.
    He will turn the boat around and get me back up on the board and we are off again. I will sit behind the boat....... WILL BE CONTINUED

The Spanish Ways

In the reading, Myriam Marquez talks about how keeping one's native luanguage is important for someone and their family. Just because someone immigrates into America shouldn't mean they aren't allowed speak their original luanguage anymore. That seems silly that Myriam would be looked down apon due to the reason that her mother and her speak spanish in public. It, also, seems rediculous that Americans are so rude and make the assumption that spanish speakers are instantly talking about them. We need to understand that most can speak English, it is just easier and more respectable go continue speaking in their naturally tongue.

You cerial and text book...... Science Fiction for Lunch

When you see Captain Crunch of the back of a box, the last thing you want to do is anylize his mustache or what he says. Instead you want to get to the good stuff and read how to get to the end of the maze or how to get your TRIX back from that damnbunny. In an essay, you may read the text three or four times to get the full meaning of it. This is what the aurthor of the essay wants from you. The creators of cerial boxs want to see something visually attractive that you only need to read/see once to enjoy.

Two others genres that differ from one another are Science Fiction and the Lucnh Menu. When one reads about science fiction, the first thing they would think about is aliens and teleporting. Then again, if you ask someone what is on the menu for lunch, you would not expect to get a responce back like, "Just some reactive slime."

This is the stuff!

I had to sprint to class. Advise, wake up earlier!