Assignment Seven: Reflecting On Progress

             As I have mentioned before, I disliked the writing process, but as I learn more and more about ways to improve my writing, I feel that little by little I am starting to like the writing process. By taking this course Writing 101-2, I feel that, so far, I have learned the necessary components of an essay, even though we have only discussed two types of essays. I feel that Elise takes great time to explain how she wants the essay to be constructed, formatted, and ways to make our essays better. Also, I feel that I have improved my thinking because most of the assignments that are given to me make me think outside the box and make me look at my essay topics in a different perspective. Peer Review's are very helpful to me because I actually take the time to correct my own essay and improve many of my content. I can see myself making improvements to my vocabulary because I try to use extensive/college level vocabulary in most of my essays and blog posts, and this is going to help me out in this class and my future essays. Last, Blog posts are very helpful, creative, and fun way to do homework; I really enjoy having blogs to do homework, and it is a helpful way to help our peers see our ideas. By blogging I can see my own improvements

Assignment Six: Responding to Peers and Considering Rhetorical Situations

Comparing and Contrasting Analysis Essays and Literacy Narratives 

Both of these types of writings have a different form, genre, tone, purpose, and audience.

Analysis essay's purpose is to create an argument to express a certain idea about an issue, advertisement,  piece of writing or anything. The writer's purpose is to have a well understanding of their argument, then support his/her readers into believing the argument. Audience can be anyone who wants to see different perspectives of a certain issue. The tone is set to a serious type of tone because you want to fully explain your arguments for your analysis essay. Genre can vary depending on what type of ad the author of the essay has chosen. 

A literacy narrative is more of a  story which tells its readers about the authors experience with language, writing, reading or other struggles with any particular language. The purpose is to tell readers a story about an experience with any struggles in their academic life. The audience can be anyone who desires to read the essay, in our case our classmates and our instructor. The tone is set to tell readers a story and to entertain. The genre can vary, it can be set to what ever the author wants to set it as. 

Assignment # 5: Analyzing an Advertisement

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Purpose: The main idea of the advertisement appears to be that men should purchase and use "Axe" products, so that they attract women and not men. The argument this ad makes is simply by using two men with their arms over each other, so that men do not want to attract another men by being sweaty or dirty.  Men should use Axe so that they do not encounter these types of situations.

Audience: The two men in this ad are placing arms over the one another, their sweat stain creates a heart with a message. It reads in cursive words "Men's sweat only attracts other men. Is that all you want?", the audience this advertisement targets is obviously men because the ad advertises men products. 

Genre: Like many other Axe advertisements, similar ads feature reasons why men should buy Axe products, so that they attract women. The ads help convince men that personal hygiene is a way to attract the opposite sex. 

Tone: The heart sweat stain from the two men create is a humorous tone. It tells us that men should be clean, so that they don't attract men rather they should attracting women with a clean smell. Advertisers used this tone to create some sort of irony as I mentioned before so that men attract women, not men. 

Assignment # Four: 

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            My rough draft was a terrible mess; it was literally a shitty first draft. It had many grammatical errors like sentences fragments, tense shifts and misplaced modifiers. My rough draft's major error was the content's organization. It was a total mess because my ideas were scattered all over my paper. I realized that my rough draft, I put all my ideas together without organizing it. I was told by the tutor in the tutoring center that my paper seemed to be cohesive. My rough draft needed more description and relevance. I revised the paper myself a couple times and noticed some of these errors, but then I had classmates peer edit it they noticed the same things. The writing center also helped me peer edit my essay and improve my content's organization.

           Receiving all the help I was able to get I think that my final draft seems better than my rough draft. My final draft seems to be more organized and more descriptive. I believe that the strongest aspect of my essay would be the conclusion because I think that I wrapped up my story well. The weakest would be my introduction because I feel like something is missing to make it sound more interesting.