The purpose of this research essay is to reveal to the reader the inner workings of OleVASA and how the executive plans and executes everything the club does. I think my readers are college students like myself, so them being able to see how a student lead organization can flourish is very beneficial. To gather information about my topic I am going to look into the different Vietnamese Student Associations around the nation, but more specifically the Gulf Coast region. I am also going to have an interview with OleVASA 2020-2021 president Brandy Truong. I am also going to be researching more specifically the organization’s meetings and GroupMe information, and may possibly be creating and sending out a survey to the executive board of my chosen discourse community. I write a lot about OleVASA since I am taking a leadership class that urges me to join and write about a specific organization and since I am an intern on the executive board, I already have a lot of knowledge on OleVASA. While planning this, I am still on the fence of whether or not I am actually going to be creating and sending out a survey, seeing as I do not know how much interaction it will get within the members. So in the future, I may or may not be going through with the survey plans. The comments from my peers gave me a lot of insight and showed me how my essay seems to the average person that does not have a lot of experience or knowledge about VSAs in general. Their comments revealed to me that I should add more background information in order to not keep my audience in the dark.
Exercise 1
Writing about anything that comes to mind. Since I just had to deal with this I will just retell what just happened to me. While reading Steven Lessner and Collin Craig, “Finding Your Way In’: Invention as Inquiry-Based Learning in First” my dad yelled from across the house “Facebook logged me out!” I don’t think I had ever heard him yell so helplessly. Needing a break from my schoolwork I decided to help him in retrieving his account. Feeling frantic, my dad tried to tell me all of his login information, but nothing worked. After getting him to calm down since his Facebook is like his life, I talked him through a Facebook recommended way to retrieve an account, but to much dismay, it didn’t work. Feeling defeat, my dad gave me his phone. Instead, I took matters into my own hands and tried logging into any email of his I could think of. I instantly got into an account! But it was an old account of his that was no longer in use. Not wanting to admit defeat, I tried again. Once again I got a hold of an account, but no one knew the password. So I had a code sent to his phone, this allowed us to reset his password. Having reset the password, I logged in and it was the correct account! Everyone in the house rejoiced as he logged back into his account on his phone. Funny enough, everyone else in the house also got logged out of their accounts because Facebook was down.
*This took ten minutes to type*
Merriam Webster defines a writer as “one that writes: such as an author or one who writes stock options.” Patricia Lee Gauch, a children’s book writer, writes that “The best writers understand how rhythm is one of the drivers of both prose and poetry.” Seeing that she is an author and an editor, she has read many different texts and has had a lot of experience in different writing styles. My personal definition of a writer is a person that can connect themselves into their writing and have that writing sound harmonious. I personally do not see myself as a writer. I never tend to write in my free time and my main reason for writing is schoolwork. I typically only write to the extent of prompts and never get personal with my writing, so I would not define myself as a writer.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/writer
http://patricialeegauch.com/what-makes-an-author/what-makes-an-author/