Cornell James Walker
Professor McLaughlin
English 2089
04-24-2020
Final Reflection/ Theory of Writing
Starting from the core of my heart I knew writing was something I know I can do and I understand it very well. This idea for me about know how to write and what to write about always seems to be a misguided idea that I have about how I know what I am doing and how I don’t know what I am doing at all. Not in the sense that I don’t know how to write a paper (obviously) but more the ideas about what makes a writing good vs bad. I see now how there is more about the audience that you’re talking to pick and choose if your wring is any good. Appealing to the audience is how you become a good writer. Like you were saying in the second video. From my video 2 notes I remember taking this as very important information is that a good writing is something that gets the reader’s attention and appeals to the audience. It does not have to be something they agree with but more something that can be followed along with to get an understanding about the opinion or side that the write has chosen to write about. This is very important to think about because genres come from good writing to the audience that you are writing to reach to. New genre will continue to form when more discourse communities are getting together and sharing more and more of their similar interest.
Genre has had a huge shaping on the writing world as it has shaped different forms of communication and lead to how discourse communities are today and what they are. Genre has related writing from groups to subgroups and to categories. This shows how writing is done differently and connected still to the same original topic. With the writer and the readers forming these new genres. With different genres presuming to evoke different emotions and ideas thus is needed to write and use words in different context to get across to the reader and have them understanding how you’re trying to tell the story or share the information you have. With genre leading to the context that you’re reading about. When reading a scholarly article, you aren’t expected to come across wrong information or unclear short statements. But if you’re reading a novel with drama and suspense, they will purposely leave out details or change how each character reacts to the same informant and edits it for the sake of the story to have the reader have certain feelings about how the story is unfolding. This is all in context about how with each genre you adapt how you write to the audience. This is really something I learned when I was writing about my second profile and we reinforced in the photo caption list.
Starting from the beginning of the semester we learned about what discourse communities and how they relate to the campus, community, and city. Discourse communities are groups of people or members of a community sharing a common interest. Discourse communities use the same language as they would talk and or write about what they are sharing. This was important to the start of the semester because it gauged us for what we would be getting deep into how they communities are important and the relation we have to our own discourse communities. Once we got a hold of what the discourse communities are, we put our knowledge into play by making our own profile for our own audience that we want to reach. This led us to the profile portion of the semester.
The project opened about how to communicate to a certain audience that we wanted to reach or talk about specifically. This was good way to see how to relate to our own discord community of choice. This was a good steppingstone to open how the find out what discourse communities we really belong to or have good interest in. I wasn’t a huge fan of the profile but that’s mainly because I felt like I wasn’t understanding how to do it properly. But with result I did understand more about what it means and how this are so popular. After the profile we went to another form of communication the photo caption list.
The photo caption list was my favorite because it related to the world and connecting more favorably for me. Photo caption list are more relevant and commonly used on websites today. Photo caption list a favorable because it covers the bases that we the people want to see when we are looking something up on the internet. They are brief to the point and have an image to give us an idea about what are dealing with. The most important part about the photo captions list are the ways they give users a way to connect to the post. We did this in our a few ways, the first was by using number rank them from the best/ more fun thing to do to the lesser ones. Doing this was effective in having the people reading the list get that idea of they agreed or disagreed with us. When the reader is doing that, they now they are more invested in the piece because they have joined a side. The other thing we did to have people connect to the post was by list how far it was away from Cincinnati downtown or overall. This was tricky because when marking the distance, we don’t know the readers location to say how away it is. This was supposed to be a discourse community for broke college students but that’s not just at UCBA that relates to wider audience. To combat that we just had to be vaguer and just give the locations of the places but also keep it close to Cincinnati, so it was my available to everyone. With all that information we had a way to put our photo caption list together. These first 2 projects really helped me get an understanding about what was discourse community and how to relate to them.
The way that genre and discourse community relate to each other is so similar to how math and science relate to each other or how when using one leads the use of another. There is a crazy math theory called the Banach-Tarski Paradox where it goes so far into math it starts to overlap in the science of if it’s possible to duplicate an item into another identical one that has the same weight and density but that’s another topic for another day. The important things I took away from this semester was the different way that makes writing good in its own since and not just about grammar but to know how to get to the audience you are talking to. Also, the importance of making sure you are communicating with the right discourse community to have the full effect on your audience.
Works Cited
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsrElz4_tdQ&feature=emb_title
- https://madisonenglish.school.blog/
- https://abbyj.design.blog/
- https://cjwalker.music.blog/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA
Final Draft
Cornell Walker
Professor McLaughlin
English 2089
02/26/2020
Midterm Check In
For this half of the semester we have dove into new projects and new ways be more critical thinkers to the audience we are writing for. I have learned a slew of new information about the better ways to convey a certain message to a targeted audience or the different ways to trigger the readers into having a certain opinion about my writing. This is very critical in how to be a better writer and communicator.
This new information that I have learned started from our first real discussion about discourse community. From my understanding a discourse community is in a way like an onion. When I say onion, I mean that as in it’ll make you cry trying to understand it; not really but the number of layers there is to it. A discourse community can always be narrowed down smaller and smaller group. For example, they can go from talking to a whole community of Blue Ash, Ohio. Which would be something that everyone in Blue Ash would be interested in knowing like the addition of new roads or adding a new horrible round about. Or it can be very specific down to the marketing majors in the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash branch in Blue Ash Ohio. Discourse community are also branched out to the whole world. We see them in areas like people talking on reddit or even people talking about music genres. Just the gathering of people to share their common likes which we all look for when we are googling stuff already. That’s why they are so amazing and why I see now the importance of them. They are very unique because how commonly used around us they are but the lack of there name being shared.
With adding onto our new knowledge about discourse community we were expanding to our profile project. The profile project opened up about how to communicate to a certain audience that we wanted to reach or talk about specifically. This was good way to see how to relate to our own discord community of choice. This was not my “cup of tea”. I felt like this because it was hard for me to relate to a certain group or find a group that I felt I could write a profile about and keep it accurate and not to opinionated about why I that felt what had made that group into the group that it was. It just wasn’t something I felt that I did good on. The profile was a good experience to learn how to convey a message without be biased about the information you’re taking about. I just didn’t like it be I feel everyone when they write are more opinionated and it was hard for me to write without having strong influenced about what I’m saying.
After learning more about how to make or profiles and how they turned out we moved onto my favorite so far, the photo caption list. This was the best in my opinion because it was something, I see all the time and didn’t even know what it was. It was the most captivating, convincing, & interesting form of writing to me. Photo caption list are so common and used that they were easy for me to understand. I believe they are great because they give a reader that connecting through the photo to show them how they are viewing the subject. This connecting through reading helps build the connection on how they are reaching out to the audience. Then also it is more about opinion so that also gives the reader a way to latch the reading and choosing a side so they can feel more invested in the reading and want to finish it. Also, it’s big on catching attentions of the audience. This is important because we know that the average time a reader spends on an internet page is about 2 seconds before they back out. With this understanding we know the importance of capturing the readers initial attention so they would be more personally invested in the piece. This really helped to know so we had a more direct idea on how we should approach this project and how we should think about our writing when we are trying to talk to an audience. This was a good way to explore the different ways to put together the last 3 topics that we learned about into use.
All the things we have learned so far have grouped itself together in the different aspects of the attention and detailed of the readers. This is very important when writing to know how to not just write something and put it out there. To also be a better writer that someone will want to read what you have to say and see the importance of it. We are moving onto genres next and this seems to be really interesting on how they have changed over time. I’m excited for my groups outlook on the horror genre and the other groups about how slang has changed over time.
Draft #1
Cornell Walker
Professor McLaughlin
English 2089
02/26/2020
Midterm Check In
For the start of this half of the semester we have dove into new projects and new ways be critical thinkers to the people we are talking to. I have learned a slew of information about the better ways to convey a certain message to a targeted audience or the different ways to trigger the readers into having a certain opinion about my writing. This is very critical in how to be a better writer and communicator.
This new information that I have learned started from our first real discussion about discourse community. From my understanding a discourse community is in a way like an onion. When I say onion, I mean that as in it’ll make you cry trying to understand it; not really but the number of layers there is to it. A discourse community can always be narrowed down smaller and smaller to a specific group. For example, they can go from talking to a whole community of Blue Ash, Ohio. So, something that everyone would be interested in knowing like the addition of new roads or adding a new horrible round about on Plainsfield Rd so now I can’t speed down the road ruining my fun. Or it can be very specific down to the marketing majors in the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash branch. Discourse community are also branched out to the whole world. We see them in areas like people talking on reddit or even people talking about music genres. Just the gathering of people to share their common likes which we all look for when we are googling stuff already. That’s why they are so amazing and why I see now the importance of them. They are very unique because how commonly used around us they are but the lack of there name being shared.
With adding onto our new knowledge about discourse community we were expanding to our profile project. The profile project opened up about how to communicate to a certain audience that we wanted to reach. This was good way to see how to relate to our own discord community of choice. This was not one of string suits I felt because it was hard for me to relate to a certain group or find a group that I felt I could write a profile about and keep it accurate and not to opinionated about why I that felt I liked that group. It just wasn’t something I felt that I did good on. The profile was a good experience to learn how to convey a message that is for a group of people that you want to pass information to it was just more difficult for me to understand how to write one myself.
After learning more about how to make or profiles and how the turned out we moved onto my favorite so far, the photo caption list. This was the best in my opinion because it was something, I see all the time and didn’t even know it but it was the most captivating, convincing, & interesting form of writing to me. Photo caption list are so common and used that they were easy for me to understand. I believe they are great because they give a reader that connecting through the photo to show them how they are viewing the subject. This connecting through reading helps build the connection on how they are reaching out to the audience. But then also it is more about opinion so that also gives the reader a way to latch the reading and choosing a side so they can feel more invested in the reading and want to finish it. But it also if big on catching attentions of the audience. This is important because we know that the average time a reader spends on an internet page is about 2 seconds before they back out.
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