January 2021

Dasbender Journal

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Gita DasBender. “Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2 2011
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words This article focuses mostly on the concept of critical thinking. Critical thinking is used in many activities and disciplines. According to DasBender, “critical thinking is also a process that is fundamental to all disciplines.” (38) A critical thinker is a person who can read and understand text well with an open mind and creating ideas of their own based on the text they just read. A critical thinker asks him or herself important questions and evaluates the given texts while asking those questions. A critical thinker analyzes texts with an open mind and creates broad questions from an unbiased approach.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. “Critical thinking is also a process that is fundamental to all disciplines.”

“To be a critical thinker you not only have to have an informed opinion about the text but also a thoughtful response to it.”
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 This connects with most of my high school and middle school english classes where they taught critical thinking frequently.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Why does a critical thinker have to have an unbiased and open approach to a subject?

 

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Kerry Dirk. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1, 2010  
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words The author explores different ways to define a genre or create a work of art that is in the given genre. Kerry Dirk uses the Country genre in music as a main example in this essay. He asks the question- “ But what would happen if I wanted to write a country song that didn’t do any of the [aforementioned characteristics of a country song]? Would it still be a country song?” (250). The goal of this essay is to show the audience what a genre truly is and expand the meaning of the word and show how genres function in art.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.   “genres are now viewed as even more than repeating rhetorical situations”
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 We will probably be analyzing genres in the future of this class.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Why does the author believe that the definition of Genre should be expanded?

Blog Post 1/22/21

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Exercise 1: freewrite without stopping

So I am sitting here in my room writing some blog post for Mr. G and his writing class and I have been tasked to write for 10 minutes without stopping. I’m really hungry. I want to go eat somewhere, probably the cafeteria after I finish writing this. After that, I’m done with all my work and i am going to go to the square with my friends and its going to be a good time. been thinking about getting a haircut cause man, my hair sucks right now. My car is supposed to be shipping right now from california and the car shipping people are really bad at their jobs. It was supposed to be picked up on the 15th and they still havent done it yet. I cant drive to get my hair cut so either im gonna go with a friend or walk there cause theres no way im getting an uber there. Anyways, that concludes my terrible free write. Im hungry, thats my excuse. I can’t write when im hungry. My bad.