Inquiry Final Draft

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Inquiry draft 2

Englsih Inquiry

Hey guys! Sorry about the delay my computer broke and wouldn’t start and they ended up having to wipe my computer so I had to rewrite my paper! Anyways, I am most concerned that my paper is too research-like. I tried to be as inquisitive as I could be while still adding in my research portion but I’m a little worried about the balance. I’m also concerned about whether or not my narrative/vignette/memoir meets the requirements. I’m also not sure if the paper is supposed to have any definite type of conclusion? Other than these things I would like to think that I’m on the right track. You can be honest! Thanks!

Class Notes 11/18/13

Group-led Disscusion: 

Free Write: My personal definition of Genre is the way of communicating in certain situations, kind of like style. I think that genre is similar to Discourse in that it can’t be put into any type box. I dont have any idea what mean and mode mean, still working on that! However I can probably guess that a median is the and a mode is the way of communicating the subject. Who knows?

Notes: Genre is a type of classification -Genres are fluid and always changing -genre is kin to Discourse -Discourses creates situations, these situations demand genre responses. From this we have to determine if we will answer to the situation with an appropriate genre or make a new genre by defying the social atmosphere by combating innapropriately and creating a new situation which creates a chain reaction and continues creating genres. –Mode: The manner in which an idea or topic is expressed or experienced. –Medium: How you go about doing it?? (Didnt quite understand)

Game: Part 1: Medium Part 2: Mode Part 3: genres Part 4:Literacies

Free Write #2: Because this is a freewrite and i’m pretty sure that im allowed to say whatever is on my mind i will be honest and say that i did not gain much from this disscusion except for the direct definitions of medium and mode. I think that saying that genre is a type of categoriziging system is a little bit of a miss. I think that my ideas on genre were not expanded and that the only reason that anyone shared was because cookies were handed out like dog treats. I didnt agree with much that was built upon. Basically the only thing i learned was what medium and mode are and that Dan likes cookies.

Class Notes on Genre 11/11

What we know about genre from the reading:

Created by social situations – They are flexible and stable – General knowledge is not enough for use (knowing forms)

Genre cannot be defined only characterized: Social, Dynamic, Rhetorical, Historical, Cultural, Ideological, Situated

They are flexible because they are: social, dynamic, rhetorical, situational, cultural

They are stable because they are: Historical, Ideological, Cultural

–Antecedent: parent of another genre (example: An address book has evolved into contacts in your phone) Or ( Twitter acts almost as a text message because it shares the same form)

–Genre chains: Roles that genres create, create other genres. Genres lead to roles that then have their own genres.

Characteristics of Genre:

Rhetorical: choices used to make a strategic plot to capture a specific audience

Social: create a social dynamic that relate to roles and relationships

Dynamic: there are many ways to approach each genre and that approach directs the tone of the situation

Historical: Genres are based on past situational contexts of genre

Cultural: related to the big D Discourse that is being played into, genre is equally weighted with culture and Discourse

Situational: we can generally predict genre based on situation, the same genre can change with different situations

Ideological: expectations

 

 

 

 

Genre: The stilts of society

Dean reading response

Draft 1 and Concerns

Englishdraft1

I am mostly concerned about my thoughts being very scattered. I have a general idea of the statement I am trying to make but I’m having a hard time making it flow, especially in terms of meshing the research and the less formal writing. I would mostly like to know if you think that this is a good enough topic to build on? I am very unsure of how to approach the idea that women and men are taught in different ways because of societal gender roles without drawing drastic or rash conclusions.

Technological Literacy: A <3/H8 Relationship

response8

Discouse Communities: How adaptable are you?

John_s_Discourse_Communities_and_COPs(2)EDITED

Readingresponse7

Class-led and Mrs. Cook’s Freewrite 9.30

 Free Write9.30

Free Write9.30.13

A Palatte of Talents

Vignette 3

I think that my Vignette makes a statement about the fact that people think that literacy has to do with being able to read and write about a topic or in general when in fact that is a very false generalization. I think that literacy is much more than knowing things out of a textbook or knowing terms. I think that literacy, like in the stories we’ve read, is all about having functional and appliable knowledge about a topic or a means of communicating, which does come somewhat from learning general terms but also aquired knowledge from being submerged in what you are trying to be literate at. I think that in this case me and my best friend both knew concepts of art, however she didn’t actively practice or know how to communicate them correctly. I also grew up with art literacy as part of my primary discourse where as she didn’t. I think that literacy is not universally uniform and required an open mind. I think that my writing’s main purpose though is to show that just because you take steps to be literate, doesn’t mean you will be. And just because you are literate in some senses (Sara Grace being able to dress) doesn’t mean you are literate in all senses (she is artistically brain dead).