Reading Journals

Reading Journal: Kahn

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Seth Kahn, “Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context”
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words This article was interesting to read because I have never heard the term of ethnographic writing. What I took it to mean was literary analysis on a whole new level. We are considering every little detail that we are putting in our writing rather than vague or mediocre information. Also, I believe ethnographic writing is important for our research papers, because we have to cover all basis of our research to make a clear and concise paper. We have to draw connections and deeply analyze our own research to possibly put in an argumentative paper later on. But more importantly, it can be used for our own personal gain as we come to better terms with what we are researching.  
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. Ethnography: anthropologists do this when they are living in a new place for a long period of time; they try to adapt to their living circumstances.  
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 I have not read anything to connect this to. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Have you done ethnographic writing before? How is it different from normal writing?

 

Reading Journal: Driscoll

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Dana Lynn Driscoll, “Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys, and Interviews
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words This article talks about three steps in primary research which are observing, surveys, and interviews. For our semester long project. I have done both observations and I am preparing for the interview portion. I think however surveys are done for more extreme cases like for a large group of people. I do think these steps are important. You want to observe your target audience or study. Then if it is a large group, you can conduct a survey to ask a certain amount of people. Then the big one is the interviews in my opinion, it is a chance to sit down with someone from the organization you are researching to get further details from what you observed. 
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. There were no terms I did not recognize.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 I have not read other articles like this
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Do you follow the steps for primary research? And if so, which step do you think is the most important?

 

Reading Journal: Warrington, Kovalyova, King

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Kate Warrington, Natasha Kovalyova, and Cindy King, “Assessing Source Credibility for Crafting a Well-Informed Argument”
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words This was an easy article to read, because once again I can relate to it and I could really take pointers from it. Writers, when writing essays or analysis or research papers, have to use important credible sources to back up their evidence. We want to use sources that also use other sources for their writing. Sources that have a date, an author, and credible evidence. I have always double checked to make sure that the sources that I used were not in any way questionable. I usually get most of my sources from new sites and professional sites rather than makeshift websites.  
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. I did not find any words I did not recognize.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 I can connect this to lectures from high school about credible sources.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. How do you determine when a source is credible or not?

 

Reading Journal: Giles

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Sandra L. Giles, “Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?”
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words This is something that I read easily with no problem, because I could understand the process of it. As writers, we are often criticizing our work and other work, and we ask ourselves: “what are we thinking?” What was going through our mind through writing and reading, and what is going through our mind when we reflect on writing? There are many questions we ask ourselves and each individual has their own process of reflection and revision. As i said, this was simple to read, because I could relate to reflection, but also I learned new methods for the revision process.  
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. I did not see any terms that I did not recognize. 
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 I have read other articles about the revision process and reflecting. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Do you reflect on your own paper before or after someone else reflects on it?

 

Reading Journal: Melzer

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Dan Melzer, Understanding Discourse Communities
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words With this reading, I understand it a lot better than I did the other reading about discourse communities. I understand the goals and accomplishments and the things that these types of communities share with each other. In a way, these communities act more like family with each other rather than people who just share a common interest. Discourse communities in a way look out for each other no matter the size of the community. And it is almost like a safe space for someone because they share so many common interests but also because they want to achieve the same things, so they help each other out with it.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. There weren’t any new words that I did not recognize. 
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 I can connect this to the previous article that we read about discourse communities.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. If you are a part of more than one discourse community, what is the community you are the most active in. 

 

Reading Journal: Dirk

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Kerry Dirk, Navigating Genres
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words This was another hard article for me to read because I never really understood “genre” in the writing aspect. It was a lot of information to take in, but this is what I got from it. When it comes to writing, there are more than one genres that occur as opposed to music. With writing there are many different factors that go into it like personal devices, rhetorical devices, etc. to make the audience understand the essay. I didn’t even really know the definition of genre before I read this; it was really a word that I kind of just settled in my mind that genre meant music. I did not know genre could apply to writing. But now that I think about it: fiction, nonfiction, biographies, those could be genres of writing. 
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. Genre- a category of literature
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 I cannot connect this with anything I have read. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Do you have a genre of writing you enjoy?

 

Reading Journal: DasBender

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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”
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words Critical thinking is something most writers have to do when writing an academic paper. I know that I have a hard time with critical thinking sometimes because it is a little bit like comprehending. However, Dabner well explains the process of critical thinking. I think the criticism part would be the easiest part of the process because it seems easier to find something to rebuttal or to agree with in the writing. Now when I do critical thinking, I am going to remember that I just have to analyze and find valid points in the argument that I can discuss and do my own research on.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. I did not see any words I did not recognize.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 I cannot connect it to any articles but I can connect it to previous teachers who talked about critical thinking.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. What is your critical thinking process?

 

Ann Johns

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As I have mentioned before, reading comprehension is not my strong suit. But this is what I gathered from the reading. There are different type of communities that we are a part of: discourse communities and communities of practice. The discourse communities are communities that we are born in or communities that we join. Communities of practice are communities that we actively participate in. We can be a part of many different communities but it could be just another notch in our belts rather than something that we are active in whether it is religious, economic, or academic. Different communities that I am in are Christian community, LGBTQ+ community, black community, mental health community, and the plus size community. The communities that I am most involved in are the LGBTQ+ community and the mental health community. They both mean a lot to me and I know many people who are a part of either or or both communities. My religion is Christianity and I pray and worship my God, but I am not active in a church setting or mission trips, etc. My black community means a lot to me as well, but I do not participate in active Black practices as much as I would like to. And the same for the plus size community, it is just what I am and I tend to surround myself with people of that nature.

Reading Journal for Grant-Davie

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page  Grant-Davie, Keith. “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.” Rhetoric Review, Volume 15,1997, 264-277.  
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words  I am not going to lie, this was one of the hardest readings I have had to read before. It took me a long time to read this, but eventually I got it done. However, here is what I gathered from it. Grant-Davie said that a rhetorical situation is “a situation where the writer or speaker sees a need to change reality and sees that it may be affected through rhetorical discourse” (265). He then goes on to explain rhetorical exigence and rhetorical constraints, which I like to call the pros and cons of a rhetorical situation. As I have said before, it was really difficult for me to read this, and I am unsure if I fully processed and comprehended this article.  
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. 

 

 I did not see any words that I did not recognize. 
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? 

  

 The only thing I can connect it to is talking about rhetorical situations in my AP English class. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.  What rhetorical situation have you been in if it has happened to you? 

 

Reading Journal Jones

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page  Jones, Rebecca. “ Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother with Logic?” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1, 2010,156-159 & 166-168.  
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words  What I got from this article is Rebecca Jones is trying to find a good phrase for arguing that does not sound like all arguing is doing is trying to defeat your opponent. She goes into detail of what a four-way argument could be and also states that there has to be primary line in your argument that everyone can agree on. I always thought arguing was indeed trying to prove your point and to defeat your opponent, so this article was very eye opening for me. However, I believe that the statement about arguing being like war was also relatable to others because many of us generally have the same idea of arguing. 
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. 

 

 There were not any words that I could not recognize. 
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? 

  

  I can connect it to what I learned about ethos, pathos, and logos when it comes to writing rhetorical essays. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.  What can you compare arguing to?