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Week 5
Blog Assignment #5
For this blog post, I was tasked with reading and annotating pieces by Don Murray, Mary Karr, and Anne Lamott. Following this, I gathered 9 quotes (3 from each reading) to create a round table discussion scene revolving around the writing process.
For this blog post, I read A Fable for the Living. It is a beautiful story that revolves around love, loss, and connection. In the story, a woman writes letters and places them into a rift in the ground to speak to her dead fiancé. She continues to communicate with her fiancé to connect with her loved one. This continues until she jumps into the ridge and fulfills her desire, to be with her fiancé. Following this reading, I'm writing a letter to my author-self in order to connect with them and make something they can look back at for future inspiration.
Dear Andreas, Outside of working on writing assignments, we don’t really connect and work together that often. I thought of you as someone who I could avoid in my life and succeed without. I treated you wrong. It’s like you’re a calculator and I’m a math student who’s in the middle of taking a test. You’re sitting there on the desk, but the only time I actually use you is when the equation is too difficult to do in my head. I only used you when I believed that you were needed most. I don’t think this put us in the best terms, and I’m sorry. In the grand scheme of things, I should’ve relied on you more often. You’re the only person that can help put my emotions into words and properly portray the message I want to give. The absence of our bond has been very evident in my recent works. This semester, we’re going to strive to use our bond to its full potential. To strengthen our bond, I’ve created a three-step plan to communicate on a regular basis. First, we should focus on class. This includes: reading the email, taking notes in class, and doing the classwork. I feel like these things would allow us to better understand our writing and how to go about our tasks together. Second, we should work together in finding a way of writing that we find natural and comfortable both physically and mentally. Finding the most comfortable way of writing for us can allow for an easier time writing and connecting more often. Finally, we should work on starting assignments at reasonable times and completing them at reasonable times. We both know that our weakness is starting assignments. The best way for us to counter this would be for us to start our assignments earlier so we have time to think discuss and decide how to go about the assignment. I feel like with these three steps, we will be able to have a much stronger connection and use it to our advantage. I hope we can begin and continue to get along as the years go on. Sincerely, Andrew Welcome to my Second blog post. In this post I will learn the multimodal nature of website design and how to apply multiple modes when creating posts. I will also answer eight questions based off the reading and about multimodal work. The links below are connected to the readings and video I analysed for this post.
Here are the questions I am responding to in this post: 1. Why are we creating a website for our English Composition I course? We are creating a website to be used as our digital portfolio for our English Composition 1 course and to have a writing platform we can carry with us beyond our English course. 2. How do Ball and Charlton define "multimodal" writing? Ball and Charlton state that multimodal means multiple modes. Modes being communicative acts or techniques that help make meaning. In Ball and Charlton’s article, they list five modes that assist in making meaning. Those are: linguistic, aural, visual, gestural, and spatial. 3. Do you agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim "all writing is multimodal"? I agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim that “all writing is multimodal”. Since mode consist of being the communicative factors that assist in making meaning, it makes sense that all writing would have multiple modes in order to make meaning. An example of this would be a any horror writing. In horror, Spacing between wording and phrases can assist in adding suspense to the text. When describing something in any piece of writing it gives it a visual and plants an image in the reader, the font of the text also adds meaning to how a reader interprets the writing. Another way to look at visual would be if the writing had photos to go along with it. Overall, it’d be harder to not see all writing as multimodal. 4. As a website author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the five modes on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each mode ranking. I would deem all modes except gestural as 5’s. I feel that in making a web page, visuals hold a high importance due to their impact on the viewer. If someone was to make a page that consisted of information about flowers, but the page was filled with images of lava, that would be counterintuitive to the flowers. The spatial mode holds an importance for organization. Too much empty space can cause the page to look incomplete while too little of empty space can ward of viewers rather than attract them. Linguistic and Aural modes are of equal importance because of how they intertwine. You have to take into account what you are trying to say to the viewer and how they will hear your text when they view it. I give the gestural mode a 3. This is because the mode alone is unable to really make meaning on a web page unless you make a video. Gestures can be used with linguistics and space to assist in making meaning, but will usually not be seen on a web page. 5. What does the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for? The acronym, C.R.A.P. stands for contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. Contrast means to make the elements of the writing stick out from each other. Repetition means to repeat organizational patterns (shapes and colors). Alignment means to align the different elements to make things easier to read. Proximity means if things are associated with each other or not. 6. As a website author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the four C.R.A.P. principles of design on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each design principle ranking. All 4 parts of C.R.A.P. are 5’s. When creating a web page, the more organized it is, the easier it will be to navigate and appeal to the audience. Ignoring any one of the 4 parts could result in a webpage that is visually straining on the audience and the website author. 7. What are the seven sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition? The seven sample criteria that Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition are purpose, audience, tone, organization, transitions, synthesizing, and detail. 8. Do the Borton-and-Huot criteria seem similar or different from the criteria we would use to assess a traditional print essay? Why or why not? Borton and Huot’s criteria are similar from the criteria used to assess a traditional print essay. When writing a traditional print essay, you would first look for a specific purpose being conveyed in the thesis of the essay and a way in which the essay identifies its specific audience. This parallels Borton and Huot’s first 2 criteria, purpose and audience. Following this, a traditional essay will set a tone which assist in the theme of the essay. The theme in a traditional written essay seems to be the organization and tone part of Borton and Huot’s criteria. The use of transitions is found in both criteria. The use of sources, references, quotes and citations resembles the synthesize criteria. Meanwhile, it’s very evident that both criteria require the usage of detail. Hello there. This is my first blog post for my English Composition class. For this post, I was asked to answer the Proust Questionnaire, a list of 35 questions popularized by French writer Marcel Proust. It is said that Proust believed a person’s true nature is revealed by answering all of these questions. These questions were very fun to answer and gave me something to do in my spare time. If you want to see and answer all of the questions on your own, you can access the questionnaire through the link below:
www.vanityfair.com/proust-questionnaire __1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? A world without worries where I can do what I want when I want, without any limitations, money or otherwise. I don’t like the fact that people are unable to reach what they truly wish to look like or wear due to the limitations of money. __2.__What is your greatest fear? I don’t know. I guess I don’t like jump scares, I get easily startled. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My lack of empathy for other people. If someone betrays me or gets hurt, I frankly don’t care. As long as it does not interfere with my internal schedules I don’t care who or what goes in and out of my life. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? Paranoia. I hate when people overthink situations or what other people are thinking then decide to bother me with their drama. Sure, I don’t mind giving you advice, but if you don’t take it and have the audacity to come back to me for the same advice you are wasting my time. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? I do not admire anyone more than others. In my opinion, everyone has traits you can respect and traits you despise and overall, everyone is equally bad. Including myself. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? Everything! My friends always say I’m the hardest to buy gifts for because if I say I want something, It’s already being delivered to my house. I proudly spend way too much money at the King of Prussia Mall. The employees know me by name now. __7.__What is your current state of mind? I don’t know. I don’t tend to look at my state of my mind because it’s never good so I just kind of ignore it. The easiest way to describe it is “I’m just kinda here.” __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? I honestly don’t know. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? I don’t lie unless I’m manipulating people into doing my bidding. Otherwise, I just leave out minor details that don’t change the overall message I'm sending. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? All of it. I don’t know how to explain this any better than that. __11.__Which living person do you most despise? Natalie. Don’t worry about who she is, just know that I hate her with every fiber in my body. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? Humor. If they can’t take a joke, they will quickly grow to hate me. __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? Also humor. I have a very dark sense of humor. __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? I say “dawg,” “bet,” “ard,” and “yuh” way too much. At this point, most people cannot understand what my friends and I are saying. __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? The greatest love of my life has to be music. If I cannot listen to music almost 24/7 I’m leaving with the music. I listen to music a concerning amount. And if it doesn’t look like I'm listening to music. It’s still playing, just very silently. __16.__When and where were you happiest? 9th to 11th-grade high school. It was my peak when it comes to my whole life. What most people dreaming of doing in their adulthood I accomplished within those three years. I became popular at school, traveled to every continent, performed for world leaders, performed on Broadway, and attempted to assist in world peace through music. __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? Dance. I would love to be able to diss someone and then just moonwalk away. They wouldn’t know how to feel after that. __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My entire appearance. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? Most likely performing for the Pope during his visit to PA, not many people can flex that. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I would come back as a sloth so I would be forced to be lazy by my own body. If I move too much i’d die. __21.__Where would you most like to live? Anywhere warmer than here and has fewer potholes. Most likely I would choose California for the weather and forest fires. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? Right now it’s a Joji skate deck I have that was released alongside his debut studio album, BALLADS 1. I have it mounted above my TV and I refuse to set it up or skate on it. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? When you’re breaking down crying in an Arby’s bathroom thinking that you have no future, the only thoughts being that you should and will die young. First off, you know you messed when the place you’re in is Arby’s. Second off if you think you have no future then you’re either very depressed, experienced misfortune or your life has led up to nothing but a big fat “L.” __24.__What is your favorite occupation? Being unemployed yet well off. I hate working unless it’s something I woke up and wanted to do that day. I honestly have no clue where my money comes from though. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? I’m logical. I could care less if it will hurt your opinion if it is a fact, it is a fact. I will rarely argue something I don’t know about. I hate arguing opinions unless they are fact-based. __26.__What do you most value in your friends? They are as equally as idiotic and chaotic as I am. When we all go to a store together, we are getting kicked out of that store. We also scare the mass public with our satirical actions. __27.__Who are your favorite writers? Robert Louis Stevenson because he wrote Treasure Island and that was one of the few books I enjoyed reading. It was good enough for me to read it on my own without it being an assigned reading book. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? Any antihero. I love the idea of a hero saving the world, but in the same instance destroying an innocent bystander because their cell phone was better than his. __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? I’m not sure. My friends compare me to Machiavelli, I kind of see it but I also think that he could do better at making himself seem like the good guy rather than primarily using fear to rule because fear can backfire. __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? Nobody in particular. I don’t deem many people heroes so I guess I’d say the people who make it their goal to leave zero impact on this world when they pass. __31.__What are your favorite names? Bartholomew or Constantine. Nobody ever expects a Bartholomew and Constantine is just a cool name in general. __32.__What is it that you most dislike? People. I enjoy being alone, too many people can cause nothing but problems. __33.__What is your greatest regret? Staying in my old school system for as long as I did. It was god awful and I’ve mostly erased it from part of my own life. I just act like it never happened. __34.__How would you like to die? Suicide through either overdosing or a bullet through my head. I would want the rest of the world to not about the fact I killed myself until a week later to see how people close would react knowing there was nothing in there power to save me and that death is just something common and should be lived with. Another great answer would be in a way that would win me a Darwin Award. __35.__What is your motto? I've been known to have a few mottoes. It's either "give up," "don't try. Succeed," or "People suck, don't trust them." |
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