Annotation: Ethnography in the Writing Classroom

Annotation: Ethnography in the Writing Classroom

"Their job is inscribe and read the language of a ritual as well as of a speech situation, that is, to scan the full range of a culture's texts."p(80)

Ethnography is a study of the different people's cultures and analyze based on the observation about how people interact and why their dialect or culture represent about them. For example, nowadays we can easily observe in school or class because they have different ethnicity of background and culture of students.

"The focus of ethnography in the writing classroom ought to be "language". p(79)

The example in the article, Poussaint is not used to call him as a "boy" because he is a doctor so he prefers "sir" or "Doc". However, the police did not know and call him carelessly even though he did not intend to mean anything. In the other hands, Poussaint feels so irritated about how he was being called. Therefore, people are acting and feeling based on what other people said and the way they act. Dialect is important and complex because different culture has different dialect. So that we need to know or analyze the differences. Language that we express, sometimes other people harm because of our dialect.

"It is important to emphasize that in "doing ethnography" students like Veronica are actively and genuinely doing research and that they are connected to the research they do."p(82)

To study of ethnography, we need to interview someone about something we can relate or connect with. Interviewing people is really important in this study because we want to know how people think based on their culture beliefs, environment that they grew up, social and so on.

Pre Write: 09/21/17

Pre Write: 09/21/17
 
I think that the proofreading is responsible to the reader because the writer can not see their mistakes so the reader should point out to that.  Writer cannot see those mistakes because they wrote the paper so they might think that it sounded right but other people like reader can see the mistakes. Proofreading is like the final stage of editing so look carefully on the grammar, writing structures and styles. Like looking at the text alone and finding the mistakes. In my essay 1, after the first draft, I only did proofreading. I did not change my focus and I just only looked the text alone and edited it.

Annotation for Blog #5: From Inquiry on Visual Analysis

Annotation for Blog #5: From Inquiry on Visual Analysis

  " Our main point, though, is that visual images make claims on us as viewers in much the same ways as any written text does." p(240) 

" Everywhere we are confronted by visual images that aim to persuade us." p(237)

       The article is trying to say like even the visual images give same messages as the written text. So, the visual images and written text are trying to persuade the reader. There is an advertisement as an example show that what is the message and how the location can affect on the viewer.  It is saying that location can also affect to the viewer of how they get the message and think about the poster. There are steps to examine the visual images. First, think about what is the first thing you saw or notice when you look at it.  Second, think about why you notice it and make your attention. Third, think about pathos, ethos and logos.  Pathos is how the visual images make you feel? Logos is what is the message of the visual text? Ethos is like what the author is aiming for?

Reading as a Writer

   When we are reading the book or articles, we need to annotate which means we are analyzing of the writer's main point. From there, finding the main point and making arguments as a feedback to see how well we are understanding of the writer's text. So every time when we read, first identify what the author is talking about. Second, identify the main point of what the author's statement. Third, identify the evidence that author provide.

Annotation for Blog #4 From Inquiry on Revision vs Editing

Annotation for Blog #4 From Inquiry on Revision vs Editing

    In this article, it talks about the differences between revising and editing. Revising means that when the writer needs to come out with new ideas when he or she is missing evidences or not directly answering the prompt. Editing means like fixing grammar, changing the sentences structures or reword the sentences to sound more make sense but the ideas should be remain. Editing should be done for the final draft because if we are still struggling with making the new ideas, and we did editing first then the essay should not be strengthen. Revising focus on questioning the writer 's purpose and what can they do better. Editing focus on the text alone and style. The article is basically showing you how to revise it and edit it step by step using the composition pyramid.
    The pyramid has three different parts in editing process. First, find out what the writer's thesis like what they are trying to say. Second, find out what are the evidences to support writer's thesis. Like the evidences is support to the thesis or not. Also, the evidence is relevant or reliable to the topic. Lastly, in drafting the writer will focus on the structure of the writing style and make the last product.

"The best writing will happen in the context of real readers' responding to your drafts." p(274)

" A peer group can also ask questions to help a writer set new goals" p(279)

 -Those two quotes are saying that to become a well done product, we need peers to show our products and see what we are missing and what should we add based on peers' suggestions and comments.

Essay Reflection

Essay Reflection

In this past 4 weeks, we had assignments to read and based on that then we wrote the essays.  In this essay, I just wrote based on my experiences so I did not really follow the rules (TEA). It is because after my first draft, I feel like  the way I wrote for my essay seems smooth because I wrote like from my childhood through teenagers experiences. I did use some starting sentences to explain the quote based on reading from They say, I say. It is helpful because I did not know how to explain it first. I feel like this essay I can reflect my own experiences and connect with author. Also, Professor Dan knows more about me where I come from so it is good thing.

So as a definition of academic writing for my essay 1, I feel like I still have a lot more to accomplish a goal. It is because I feel like my essay 1 is simple. I mean the structure of writing is simple, implicit and repetitive vocabularies  So my goal for the next essay is following the TEA and using more academic vocabularies to stronger my essay.

Pre Write: Draft (09/13/2017)

How do I feel about my draft?
  I think my draft should be okay for today because it's just only looking for the ideas and responses to the prompt. But I feel like I still need to fix my grammar and the structure of the paragraphs for my final draft. It's because my essay is spreading out the ideas all over so I need to rearrange in order and develop the good thesis. The last thing is my conclusion. I still need to think how to conclude and connect back with my body paragraphs or maybe talk more about future experiences.

Pre Write 09/12/2017

Pre Write

The challenges I might be faced for the book club

• Finding the main points
• What the author trying to say?
• Finding Symbols 
• Author's writing strategies 

Something Forward to about my book club

• Interesting to me
• Good Plot
• Some kind of stories which can relate to me