Month: February 2021

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Seth Kahn. “Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context .” Writing Spaces: Readings in Writing, Volume 2, 2011, 192.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	In this article by Seth Kahn, Kahn teaches his audience about ethnographic writing. “Ethnographic writing challenges you to consider everything that’s interesting and difficult about writing; it pushes you to generate, collect, analyze, and synthesize more material than you’ve probably had to work with in one paper before.” Kahn lists and discusses the process of ethnographic writing. After discussing the process of ethnographic writing, Kahn tells a personal experience with his first ethnographic writing. He also talks about the risks and benefits of ethnographic writing given the fact one is writing about real people.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	Ethnographic- this writing challenges you to consider everything that’s interesting and difficult about writing; it pushes you to generate, collect, analyze, and synthesize more material than you’ve probably had to work on within one paper before.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	It connects to all the readings we have read that have taught us different tactics and ways to improve our writing skills.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	What backlash do you fear when ethnographic writing?

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Ann Friedman, The art of the interview, Columbia Journalism Review, May 30th, 2013. https://archives.cjr.org/realtalk/the_art_of_the_interview.php
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	Ann Friedman talks about the ways she can become a better interviewer that she discovered from fellow journalists and her own google research. She discusses seven ways ending with a quick eighth on tips to being the best interviewer. She talks about knowing your topic, going in with a plan, write questions ahead of time but focus on the conversation, just come out and say the hard stuff, embrace the silence, think soundbites, play dumb, and most importantly listen all the time.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	Write questions ahead of time, but prioritize conversation- “Only bring 15-20 questions to the interview. Only ask 10 of them. If you need to ask all 20, you’re not having a conversation.”
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	It relates to our major papers and helps prepare us for interviewing our chosen interviewees.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	What is your key takeaway from the eight-pointers that Friedman that you will use later this semester?

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Dana Lynn Driscoll. “Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys, and Interviews.” TWriting Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, a peer-reviewed open textbook series for the writing classroom, 2011, 153-173.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	Driscoll starts off by describing the primary research and discussing the overview of an essay and student examples. She also talks about the ethics to consider of primary research such as voluntary participation, researcher bias, confidentiality, and anonymity. She makes sure to talk about including a human in your research. Driscoll follows that by examining how to formulate research questions and plan your primary research project including a timeline. She discusses the writing of primary research, the introduction, describing what you did (methods), study finds (results), interpreting what you learned (discussion), and finally work cited or reference pages. Overall, Driscoll tells the reader the three most commonly used methods of research in primary writing.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	Pseudonym- a false name for a person so that their identity is protected.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	This connects to other readings we have read in class because they all discuss ways to improve your writing, or things you can utilize to help make you a better writer.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	How many times have you used a source that you believed was reliable but was not?

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Warrington, Kovalyova, King. “Assessing Source Credibility for Crafting a Well-Informed Argument.”  Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 3, 2020, pgs 189-203.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	This article “Assessing Source Credibility for Crafting a Well-Informed Argument” by Kate Warrington, Natasha Kovalyova, and Cindy King, demonstrates how to use “critical writing strategies” to help pick out credible sources for the purpose of one’s writing. The authors do this by explaining the use of critical thinking, logos, ethos, and pathos when deciding whether or not a source is credible. “To make that determination, it’s time to be as picky as possible, scrutinizing the structure of their argument (logos), their motives and agendas (ethos), and their fair use of emotional appeals (pathos). “ This article did a great job explaining things in a way that it was easy to understand and not have to read over and over to comprehend.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	Logos- Argument Ethos- Motives, and agendas Pathos- fair use of emotional appeals
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	It connects to other articles we have read because it explains how to improve your essay.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	How do you use ethos, pathos, and logos when deciding what sources to use when constructing your research paper?

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Sandra L. Giles, “Reflective Writing and the Revisions Process: What were you thinking,” “Writing spaces: Readings of Writing,” Volume 1, pages (191-204), 2010.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	Sandra L. Giles starts her article “Reflective Writing and the Revisions Process: What were you thinking” by defining the word reflection. ‘“Reflection” and “reflective writing” are umbrella terms that refer to any activity that asks you to think about your own thinking.” She then goes into details about the process of how to reflect. Giles also tells us about cover letters. These cover letters give the reader an overview of the author’s intentions for the essay, their process, things that helped them, and once finished, it helps them make sure their essay accomplishes what they intended it to. If it does not, they use it as a revising tool to revise their essay to make it meet their intentions. This benefits her students by helping them reflect on their writing and use their reflection as a revision tool.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	‘“Reflection” and “reflective writing” are umbrella terms that refer to any activity that asks you to think about your own thinking.”  “Revision isn’t just in writing”
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	This connects to something I have been working on in my personal life which is reflecting on all levels of my life. I think I might incorporate “cover letters” as part of my monthly if not a weekly reflection in a slightly different way though. I think making an initial cover letter for my goals throughout the week will help me reflect easier at the end of the week.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	Do you think reflective writing beneficial? Why or why not?

 

When doing a research paper, I have realized it is thought more thoroughly than I previously realized. I do not just look up information on the internet, read articles, and decide if I am going to use it or not. I dig deeper than that every time. When using research it is always important to make sure you are using a reliable source. I personally like to look at web addresses before I even read the article if it is a .org, I automatically know it is most likely a very reliable source. I also always try to do research with a nonbias view so I do not conflict my research with my own views.

The first essay “You Better Think Before You Spit” does not have a proper format such as MLA or APA. This essay has strong points throughout, however, I think the bold titles such as “Introduction”  are unnecessary.  It also seems to improperly cite four sources:

Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Reading on Writing, vol.1, 2010, pp. 249-
262.

Glatch, Sean. Personal interview. 29 Mar. 2019.

Johns, Ann M. “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict, and Diversity.” Text, Role, and Context: Developing Academic Literacies, 1997, pp. 498-510.

Project: Spit. “About.” Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/pg/ProjectSPITUCF/about/?ref=page_internal. Accessed 8 Apr. 2019.

The second essay “The Puerto Rican Student Association: A Community Identity Analysis” has a good title for the paper, however, it also does not have a proper format such as MLA or APA. The author of this paper had a person from their University Writing Center help them out with improving their paper which is a great way to use your resources. This paper also included four citations, all of which seem to be in the proper citation.

Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, vol. 1, 2010, pp. 249-
262.

Johns, Ann M. “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict,
and Diversity.” Text, Role, and Context: Developing Academic Literacies. 1997, pp. 498-
510.

Puerto Rican Student Association. “Constitution of Puerto Rican Student Association.” PRSA at
UCF, 25 Oct. 2017.

Swales, John. “The Concept of Discourse Community.” Genre Analysis: English in Academic
and Research Settings. Boston, Cambridge: UP, 1990, pp. 466-473.

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Melzer, Dan. “Understanding Discourse Communities.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Creative Commons, 2011, writingspaces.org/sites/default/files/writing-spaces-readings-on-writing-vol-2.pdf.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	Melzer explains what a discourse community is, as well as the six aspects of a discourse community. Melzer paraphrases the six aspects as follows: 1. A broadly agreed-upon set of common public goals 2. Mechanisms of intercommunication among members 3. Use of these communication mechanisms to provide information and feedback 4. One or more genres that help further the goals of the discourse community 5. A specific lexis (specialized language) 6. A threshold level of expert members (24-26). While he focuses on these six aspects, Melzer clarifies that these are not the only aspects but the main ones. After going into detail about the six aspects individually, Melzer explains why the concept of discourse communities matters in college writing. Every course has its own discourse community which distributes a lot to the course and content.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	Discourse: any form of communication Specific Lexis: specialized language
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	It relates to the article we recently read about genres. Knowing the discourse community helps you know the genre.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	What discourse course communities are you apart of? (Elaborate with the six aspects.)