Excercise 4.m

Writing has always been my greatest challenge in the years of my schooling. It took 4 years of hardcore high school english classes to finally get the backbone of grammar down, and the process of writing a large research paper. Senior year in high school in AP English is when I finally figured out my writing process that would help me get through one of the toughest classes I have ever taken. It all starts with the topic. I generally sit at my desk with my computer in front of me and begin to write my Introductory paragraph on the fly, thinking and writing my ideas in sentance form as they come into my head. In order for me to write well I need to not have distractions, which makes writing on the computer a very bad habit for me. Once I have a couple ideas in my head about where I want to go with my topic and I have some ideas written in the form of a paragraph, it makes me feel very comfortable just seeing words on the screen. I now rewrite my introductory paragraph to form my thesis which I like to follow throughout the rest of my paper and keep essay in some kind of order in my head. Once I have my introductory paragraph and my thesis down, it becomes smooth sailing for me because my body paragraphs are always my strongest sections of the essay. Once I hit the conclusion though my brain goes into overdrive thinking how I am going to finish it off without taking the easy way out by just restating what was in the paper. Usually I like giving the conclusion a twist but if I am tired then I generally take the easy way out on it, and unfortunately for me it ends up being sub par compared to the rest of my paper. Now for the revising process, I generally give my papers up to my father who was the editor of the Collegiate Times here at Virginia Tech in his time and knows the ins and outs of editing a paper. After he is finished with it though I generally go back and correct the mistakes and the suggestions he made and look it over once more. Workshopping has never really been introduced to me until now, but I feel like it would not only help me help others in their papers but by looking at another person's paper and making corrections it would help my mind gather more information about writing and will help me make fewer mistakes in the future.

Workshop Hw 1/27

In my opinion a workshop genre is suppose to look like a bunch of jumbled ideas and sentances that the writer thought of in an extremely rough paragraph paper form. The writer is suppose to be thinking of ideas that come to his mind and writing them as they come. I feel the workshop should have arrows pointing from one idea to another in the paper if they go together or would fit in the same paragraph in the final. It's purpose is to brainstorm and get ideas together so that it will be easier to form ideas in the drafts to come. It's audience should be to editors and peer's that will help with other ideas. It's purpose and audience differs from the final draft in it should not be taken or read seriously and should be looked at as a draft not a true presentable document.



For Essay R, I would first tell the writer to get more information to make it a plausable and trustable essay. Next I would tell him to go over and look at each of his paragraphs and look for the multiple grammatical errors, and punctuational mistakes, followed by a look at how the paragraph is able to be used as a compare contrast. If it is not able to be used than more facts need to be gained to aid in the actual comparison of the two periods and not just an informative essay.

Essay

Honestly, throughout the first three fourths of the essay i was mildly impressed by his topic and the information he presented. It was not until the line 59 where he uses "But some other wrestling fans that know the business just as good as me" that i began to see how horribly written this paper was. He had several cases of missing comma's and incorrect tenses, and he had no direct thesis to follow which i believe is a must in a good essay or paper. Because of all these things i award him a C- because im sure he tried really hard. NOT. I liked the topic as it was interesting to read and learn from but he should have found more sources and possibly should have proofread it before he submitted it, because many of the mistakes were obvious.

Excercise 2.h

1.In the article done by Bryan West he writes in response to a newspaper article written about the Clinton family and there pursuit to take the White House again. This is the rhetorical situation that it is being written on, as a response essay to the editorial article written in the Collegiate Times. Bryan West, the author, was very clear showing the purpose of his article, which was to examine and pick apart how the author uses certain things as a means of persuasion for the minds of readers. His audience is to other students and readers of the Collegiate Times, and I know this because he is showing the readers all the tricks of persuasion that the writer of the Collegiate Times article has used.
2.The genre conventions used in this article conists of an informative essay, a persuasive essay used to show people a truth, and is also an analysis of the author of the Collegiate Times article. I have had to write several persuasive essays in my past, generally involving an issue or law, whereas in this it involved a persuasion tool used in writing. I have also read some essays written by Mark Twain who was criticizing other authors of the 19th Century and making fun of them through his verse. Overall I feel I am most familiar with the persuasive essay as it seems most things written these days use persuasion as he did in his article. Whereas you do not seem to see as many author analysis's these days, or at least I have yet to read many.
3. If the author wanted to acheive his same purpose but use a differant genre, I feel it could have been more creative and to the same end to put it in the version of a editorial response in the newspaper, which could have caused controversy because he would be directly responding to the writer himself instead of putting it out to the public to see. Though for both genre's the chosen audience would most likely get the point, but the editorial response would have been more harsh and straightforward of a written lash than the persuasive essay form.
4. I feel another genre the author could have used to show his point of the insane amounts of persuasion used in newspaper writing would be using a pamphlet and using the same examples used in the essay and the same article and author. This way the uninformed public could get a hold of this useful information and would be able to look at these articles in differant ways, and be able to see through the tools and playoffs that these article writers use. The intended audience of this genre would be the citizens that do not already have their ideals set out and have their minds open to being molded by these sorts of articles. In order to get his point out there better though the author would need to dumb down his persuasive ideals because as of now they are at the level of a college student or proffesor and they would need to be lowered to that even a twelve year old could get the picture.
5. I feel that in the corporate world you could use these genres more often especially if you have another large rival such as Pepsi and Coke. They would try and get writers to do works to persuade consumers to either buy more of their product or less or their rival's.