Project #2 Unit Reflection

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My writing skills have improved from completing this project by focusing more on the different ways people use film and writing to affect the audience. It has improved my way of viewing films and helped to look deeper into different emotions represented and different ways of thinking.

This project highlighted my weakness of being able to focus on multiple areas throughout one paper. I focused mainly on one appeal when I needed to focus on all three appeals.

The most stressful part of this project was choosing which Op-Doc to choose and I overcame things stress by choosing which video I could not necessarily relate to the most but I could find the most details about.

I want to be sure to remember to focus on looking at all topics of an essay instead of just focusing on one topic and being able to combine it all together to work.

Calorie Detective Response

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The filmmakers purpose for making this “Calorie Detective” video is to inform people about what they are actually eating and that food places really just put any calorie count up there because it is by law, but they don’t have the completely exact count for each thing on the menu. The filmmakers audience is anyone who will watch, anyone who goes to the store and buys pre-made meals, anyone who eats fast food and anyone who eats food in general. Casey Neistat uses ethos in his film making because he shows his trustworthiness through going to actual food researchers and finding out the exact calories found in everything that is eaten by people and he also shows this through his tone. He sounds excited to inform people and show more about what is actually in our food and that food places do not always have the right calorie count. This Op-Doc is different from “Toys of War” because that filmmaker used a pathos appeal. “Toys of War” was shown as a way to get to peoples hearts and show the effects of war and how bad their country has it, while “Calorie Detective” is an informing video about the food in our country.

Project #1 Unit Reflection

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My writing skills have improved as a result to completing this first assignment because I never used to try to incorporate any actual evidence into my papers I would mostly just paraphrase the text.

This paper reflected my weakness in writing a thesis statement because I do not know how to come up with a strong thesis and when I think and think and think about it I just don’t seem to ever come up with a good strong thesis. I also think that I babble in my work and say the same things over, but say them in a different way or draw them out t0o long.

The most stressful part of this writing assignment I think was creating the thesis statement which I do no think I ended successfully and also just trying to figure out the wording and how I wanted my words to be relayed in the writing piece.Also trying to set up how to write the essay.

I want to be sure to remember the different styles of writing pieces and how to write a strong thesis statement.

 

Common Read Thoughts

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It is important for college students to read, discuss and write about books like What the Eyes don’t See because it shows students overcoming problems and not giving up. The book talks about the Flint water crisis and how people did not give up and they fought for what was being over looked and how they were being treated from the government. It is also good for students to read this book so that we do not repeat history and make the same mistakes that sadly do happen over and over sometimes. Most importantly it shows how all kinds of people can come together to find solutions to huge problems and people do not always have to be divided.

Willingham Response

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Willingham’s purpose is to bring awareness to the fact that people may think they multi-task well, but they will still be distracted and miss important details.

Willingham’s audience is people who can drive, study or multi-taskers.

I would say that Willingham’s stance would be more towards the side of not agreeing with multi-tasking, but he does not completely cancel out people who may believe that it works in some situations, such as, say listening to music while studying.

I believe that this op-ed is convincing and persuasive because Willingham uses many surveys and other evidence to show the audience real life forms of how people feel when trying to multi-task  and if they are successful or not.

Initialize Reflective Blog

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I would consider one of my greatest strengths as a writer to be being able to get very deep into a thought and become very detailed.

My greatest weaknesses in writing would have to be getting a thought out and finding a good way to say what I want to without falling into tangents or loosing tract of what the actual point is.

Some parts of writing projects that cause me the most stress would have to be coming up with an idea for a paper. Other parts that cause me the most stress would have to be writing thesis statements, introductions and conclusions.

Unit Reflections

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For each major essay assignment, you will complete a long-form reflection about your experience writing the paper. Your teacher will provide specific instructions for these reflections.

Weekly Reflections

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Weekly Reflections are longer, more thoughtful posts that you will complete about every week of the semester. Topics for these posts will vary by instructor, but they will usually be completed outside of class and have a specific word-count requirement.

Daily Writes

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These are 5 minute or less quick writes that we’ll complete in class most days. This will also include any in-class writing about the readings that we do. If you don’t bring your tablet/laptop to class every day or if you prefer writing on paper during class, you’ll need to type up and post these after class.