Feed Back on Clinton’s Letter.
I would just like to begin by saying that this was one of my favorite assignments so far in this class. Despite the fact that I was dissapointed in my grade, I did enjoy the topic. The benefits of being an average writer is that you can only improve. There is not set standards for you to be perfect so it is only fair to say that you are getting better. Positive feedback that I recieved about my letter was who I wrote it to, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager. Not an everyday person that we all know. The question that I was asking was also important and relevant to today’s public. I displayed political writing correctly. As well as I was polite and explicit. This will help me when I begin to write my research paper. It will be easier for me to pick a unique idea such as red sox reporting. Be able to be unique will help me find information that will be intriguing to my readers. I know alot about what I see in reporting being a huge red sox fan since birth, but i do not know what goes on behind the scences, an interest in women’s rights I have noticed that with the Boston Red Sox many reporters are now women! This bringing challenges to the men of the profession. I hope this will be of interest to all of Red Sox Nation including my teacher. With my writing I am hoping to improve on organization and flow before the end of the semester.
Add a comment November 14, 2007
Writing COM as Culture!
When I explain to outsiders who are not in Com 375 about how this class can possibly be english as well as Communications I always define it as this, The english class we take with in the communications major is not based on normal ablilties to write like other english class do, this english class uses the idea of semiotic analysis (a mode of comm) expressed through writing by its other. The title of our class Writing as a Communication, is because most believe that writing is a form of communication, which it is, but it’s the message that comes across in the writing that makes it communication. However vs. Carey’s revolutionary communication theory “Communication as Culture” explores the idea that communication is a culture of its own. Not only in the forms that are used to communicate but with in the differences of culture background that they come from. I believe that the model that is used to describe phrasing and precise diction is between the sender and reciever. The babel of the the learning process and curricular goals of the Junior writing class can helped to be defined by ritual and transmission. The transmission coming in to a course like this is we as the recievers understand steph the speaker and interperet her meaning. However, as students we assume this as easy and an indivdual process when in fact due to our ritual traditions the interperatations can vary among students leading to different outcomes. This babel with our class is the interperatations that each student idetifies each project with. In the end it leads to a great group of work from many different authors.
Add a comment November 14, 2007
Red Sox Reporting for Duty :)
Originally my idea was to look at newsreporting for sports, dealing with the red sox in particular. After researching a little about my topic, I realized that it is very hard to find certain research dealing with newsreporting and the red sox. However newsreporting dealing with sports is a little bit more of a narrow outlook but I have been finding more information to go along with this as a research topic. New questions that have arose is gender with in the industry of media relating to sports. Different medias that deal with newspreporting and sports react differently to the public, for ex. talkshows, news desk, flash formation etc. There are many implications for my topic, as the author recognizing these question allows me to ask other questions that relate to this topic. I belive that these questions have been allowing me to narrow my topic to a more concrete final essay topic. I find that when a topic is complicated it tends to me hard for a reader to be interested. By continuing to refine this, I believe that not only will newsreporting in sports go over well with my readers, but for more male or female, the controversey around gender reporting will fair well and hit home to most.
Add a comment November 8, 2007
i LiKe YoUr StYlE…
There where many themes that were displayed between Steph and her Eng 112 class. The students wrote a reflection on biographical introductions written by there peers and the responses that the students received from Steph. When commenting on Steph’s opinions many comments where there use of rhetorical information based on the backgrounds of the individuals the students where talking about. Some students understood the paper as more political then biographical and seemed to get confused when they began to write. Students commented that they seemed to only touch the surface and there could be more depth in the writing. Students understood that when editing others papers they lacked in depth enough to help the other reader in understanding there mistakes. The students all understood the mistakes they made, and realized that this commentary from Steph will help them in there future writings. By using blogging to write in Steph’s two classes, the idea of the work being anonymous allows students to write freely with out feeling critized.
To analyze these comments deeper. Steph’s connection with the students seems to be on a level as an advisor and friend. She was able to relate her feedback in a way the students were able to understand. When she spoke of a fault that one of the students made it was because she truly believed they could have dug deeper in there work. Because the feed back was given on the blog and or wiki the students where seemed to feel more free to talk back with out degrading an individual.
In my own political stance relating to these themes I tend to concur on the side with steph. I find rhetorical writing difficult but depth is a must, with out examples and details there is a lack of interest in the piece. Allocation is at it’s most necessary.
GOOD JOB STEPH AND FRESHMAN!!
2 comments October 24, 2007
Whats the relation’s of the definitions?
In class today Steph asked us to look at a group of definitions she had taken from many different places and try to understand the relation about all of them in an Argument Analysis. We were given this definition
“A relatively permanent change in cognition, resulting from experience and directly influencing behavior.” Glossary by Dr. Diane Ehrlich, NorthEastern Illinois University; with highlited terms and try to understand how we found this woman to be the other, and in her statement how does it relate to the other definitions that deal with cognitive function. My partner and I used this question
What is the link that combines all of these definitions into one idea?
to look at the text.
1 comment October 18, 2007
Babel vs. COM375
What relationships are there between the movie, Babel and the subject matter of this course? : After revisiting the web blogs’ of my fellow students dealing with the movie Babel and its relationship to our COM 375 writing class I have come to a conclusive answer. Most of the comments labeled by the students are easily defined as semiotic analysis comments. Hippo 86 saying, “The shooting of the American woman is communicated on a global level as a terrorist attack despite the lack of evidence”. Communication on a global level was brought up many times by students as a relation to our class ethics. We as students are asked to not only look at our own written work but have it be relatable to others. Whether our readers speak or read English or not, it is important that our work makes an impression on others. This can easily be understood by looking at semiotic analysis, dealing with past and present material. These political ideas do reflect a personal or group interest as each character in the movie related to one another depending on there personal knowledge and understanding. AisforAstronaut says, “The context affects communication and what it means”. Not only is Babel’s story somewhat confusing, but it is the underlying tones that we are concerned with. As in our English class the context of our communications skills have an underlying motive that we use to produce our general idea from. It’s not the questions that we are trying to answer, but the underlying motive. How can we answer this question thoroughly? This is not only the idea we have when dealing with the movie Babel, but with our own artistic work.
Add a comment October 10, 2007
What does the movie Babel have to do with COMM 375?
In our first session of COMM 375 class we watched an excerpt from the movie Babel. Our teacher asked us to think about how this movie relates to our class. Comm was defined to us as the process of making meaning. From what I saw of Babel that was also something the characters where also looking for. Cultures trying to understand different cultures seemed to be a common characteristic of this movie. Arab children learning to relate to their father while learning that their actions have consequenses. Young American children learning the culture of Mexico and being able to look at the culture in a positive light. A couple in a foreign and unforgiving culture learning that the security blanket they are use to is not going to save them where they are. The wife trying to understand why she is in this country and what is this suppose to do for them as a couple in the future. The differences in the cultures seemed to be crossing as to showhow humans have a very hard time relating to what is unfamiliar to them. So going back to my original thought was that in this class we need to understand the process of language and what it means to others and ourselves when we use it. This I believe was the point to having us view this movie.
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