Comprehension Questions 1-6
1. According to Pinsky what are some of the dangers of watching reality tv shows?
According to Pinsky, Some of the dangers of watching reality Tv shows are that being a celbrity is like a game that anyone can play. The behaviors of celebrities is imitated intwo ways. First the behavior is as a inspiration or a license to act in similar ways. Secondly people use the behavior to sit in self rightousness judgemnet, by shoring up their weak self-esteem.
2. Whcih Type of reality Tv show is in Pinsky opimion, the worst? In Pinsky's opinion the type of reality show that wasa the worst is "The Real World."
3. What Influence do the producers have on realty Tv shows? How do they Manipulate the cast members? The influence the producers have on reality Tv shows is that when the cast members were acting out sexually or when the cast members were drinling heavily or using drugs so wewre the young adults who were relating tpo the cast members without what was going on. they manipulated the cast members by discussing thier housemates beahviors in villitayting confessions sharing their feelings with the camera.
4. Kinsky writes that "the road to fame is filled with bad behavior." what does he mean by this? can you think of examples from current TV shows? pinsky means that "the road to fame is paved with bad behavior" that becoming a celebrity involves a lot of bad behavior like drinking, doing drugs, and fighting.
5What is narcissism, and whyt is it so damaging? what does the myth of naricissus have to do with narcissism? Narcissstic traits include extreme self importance, inflated sense of specialness, vanity, envy, and intitlement.
6What was weak ties , and why are they important to pinskies Arguement? the weak ties theory is gossiping sites. they are important to pinsky arguement because they have to do with narcissism.
7This reading is achapter from pinsky's book titled the mirror effect. Based on this cahpter, what do you think the "mirror effect" is? I think that the mirror effect is when somebody mirror the behaviors of a celebrity.
Discussion Questions 4&5
4. Do you agree that narcissism is a serious problem in american society? Why or Why not? Yes I agree that narcissim is a serious problem in american society because extreme self importance creates problems for other people because if someone is allways haveing self importance than they dont care about others. If someone also has a inflated sense of specialness.
5. Does social networking encourage narcisstic behavior among people? Why or why not? Social networking does encourage narcisstic behavior because it gies pople room to have narcisstic traits.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Seeing by the Starlight Questions and Answers
1. In paragraph 4, what does Flora mean by "Cognitive Whiplash?" In parageaph 4, Flora means by cognitive whiplah is that our minds play tricks on us about the celebrity world.
2. What is the "Cultural Niche" that celebrity wathcing fulfills in our society, according to Flora? The cultural niche that the celebrity watching fulfills in our society, according to Flora is that celebrities are like a religious cultural for people who dont have a belief in regular religious culturals.
3. Flora writes that celebrities provide a "common currency in our socialy fractured world" What does she mean by this/ do you agree with her? Can you think of any instances where celebrities provide us with a way to connect? Flora Means by the statement celebrities provide a "common currency in our socially fractured world that the more people get down on themselves for a situation at work, etc, the more they talk about what is going or what was going on in the celebrity world. I do agree with her because people do talk about the celebrity world often. some instances where celebrities can fiand a way to connect includes marriages and divorces.
4.What is the "exposure effect?" the exposure effect is when someone see is a beutiful face and want to see the face more becuase it creates pleasure in the brain.
5. Why according to Flora, are we so drawn to stars? According to Flora, we are drwan to stars because they live in a parrallel universe one that looks and feels just like ours yet is light years away. Were attracted to the things they do. People are also attracted to what goes in there lives because it seems as if their lives are different and better.
6. How might a reality TV star and an actor deal with fame differently? A reality TV star and an actor might deeal with fame differently by the fact it is was real and that you will have people thinking that it was real. So the people who were interested in th reality tv show stuff will be asking questions about the reality of the tv show. An actor may have less to worry about becuase all of his performance was fake and only acting.
Summer Activity
Write a brief summary of "seeing by starlight Celebrity obsesssion" by turning Floras is section subheadings into main points. Try to stay objective, even if you have strong feelings about the topic> for more help with with summary writingsee chapter one, reading and responding to college texts, page 2.
The article "seing by the starlight" was about celebrites though acting, though reality Tv shows, and musical artists. Also the article was about peoples pereceptions about these famous people. The article describes why we are so facisnatingf with famous pople. Psychologist and arizona school researches have studied the reason why pople are so memeorized by famous people. the articel "seeing by the starlight" was about celebrities and non-celebrities, culture, perceptions and understanding the reason why we love famous people.
Discussion Questions
1. In what ways can star watching be inspiring? What inspirational celebrities can you think of who fulfill this role? what needs can celebrity watching fulfill?
Some ways that star watching can be inspiring is because a lot of the stars sometimes came from nothing. Some Inspiration celebrities that I could think of who fulfill this role would be a lot of hip hop artists some needs that celebrity watching could fill would probably be the need to talk, gossip, or discuss celbrities becuase they ahve nothing else to talk about
2. How does celbrity watching affect your freinships? celebrity watching affects my friendships by imaitating certain words, sayings, or behaviors that I have seen or heard on Tv which doesnt really affetc my friendhsips at all.
4.Think of a current big celbrity: do Flora points about our fascination with celebrity apply to this celebrity? Why or why not. A current big celibrity today might be Floyd Mayweather. Floras points about our fascination with celebrities do apply to this celebrity becuase people may not actual like Floyd Mayweather but if they saw him thay migh have a differnt opinion just because he is famous?
2. What is the "Cultural Niche" that celebrity wathcing fulfills in our society, according to Flora? The cultural niche that the celebrity watching fulfills in our society, according to Flora is that celebrities are like a religious cultural for people who dont have a belief in regular religious culturals.
3. Flora writes that celebrities provide a "common currency in our socialy fractured world" What does she mean by this/ do you agree with her? Can you think of any instances where celebrities provide us with a way to connect? Flora Means by the statement celebrities provide a "common currency in our socially fractured world that the more people get down on themselves for a situation at work, etc, the more they talk about what is going or what was going on in the celebrity world. I do agree with her because people do talk about the celebrity world often. some instances where celebrities can fiand a way to connect includes marriages and divorces.
4.What is the "exposure effect?" the exposure effect is when someone see is a beutiful face and want to see the face more becuase it creates pleasure in the brain.
5. Why according to Flora, are we so drawn to stars? According to Flora, we are drwan to stars because they live in a parrallel universe one that looks and feels just like ours yet is light years away. Were attracted to the things they do. People are also attracted to what goes in there lives because it seems as if their lives are different and better.
6. How might a reality TV star and an actor deal with fame differently? A reality TV star and an actor might deeal with fame differently by the fact it is was real and that you will have people thinking that it was real. So the people who were interested in th reality tv show stuff will be asking questions about the reality of the tv show. An actor may have less to worry about becuase all of his performance was fake and only acting.
Summer Activity
Write a brief summary of "seeing by starlight Celebrity obsesssion" by turning Floras is section subheadings into main points. Try to stay objective, even if you have strong feelings about the topic> for more help with with summary writingsee chapter one, reading and responding to college texts, page 2.
The article "seing by the starlight" was about celebrites though acting, though reality Tv shows, and musical artists. Also the article was about peoples pereceptions about these famous people. The article describes why we are so facisnatingf with famous pople. Psychologist and arizona school researches have studied the reason why pople are so memeorized by famous people. the articel "seeing by the starlight" was about celebrities and non-celebrities, culture, perceptions and understanding the reason why we love famous people.
Discussion Questions
1. In what ways can star watching be inspiring? What inspirational celebrities can you think of who fulfill this role? what needs can celebrity watching fulfill?
Some ways that star watching can be inspiring is because a lot of the stars sometimes came from nothing. Some Inspiration celebrities that I could think of who fulfill this role would be a lot of hip hop artists some needs that celebrity watching could fill would probably be the need to talk, gossip, or discuss celbrities becuase they ahve nothing else to talk about
2. How does celbrity watching affect your freinships? celebrity watching affects my friendships by imaitating certain words, sayings, or behaviors that I have seen or heard on Tv which doesnt really affetc my friendhsips at all.
4.Think of a current big celbrity: do Flora points about our fascination with celebrity apply to this celebrity? Why or why not. A current big celibrity today might be Floyd Mayweather. Floras points about our fascination with celebrities do apply to this celebrity becuase people may not actual like Floyd Mayweather but if they saw him thay migh have a differnt opinion just because he is famous?
Thursday, October 23, 2014
500 word refelection
Now that I am at the half way point in the English class I have learned a lot of new information that will help me in the days to come. The information that I have learned includes fragments, commas, introductions, conclusions, and how to take notes, etc. I plan to use this information in future classes.
My strengths and weaknesses as a student at ppcc is firstly I am mostly pretty good at figure things out when I need to as a student. I do not know if I would have a weaknesses because I enjoy school. I also enjoy learning new information. The only concern I would have as a student is making sure that I do not take to many classes again. I started taking four classes which was more than I could handle. Also making sure that I stay on top of all of my work. I will improve overtime.
The objectives that I need to do in order to complete the class successfully includes passing my next quizzes and also passing the midterm. Passing future quizzes is all I need to do.
At the half way point of this class I am doing allright as a student in my English class. I will continue to improve and get better in my english class and at ppcc. My expectations are simple that I continue to grow and that I get As and Bs on all my assignments.
My strengths and weaknesses as a student at ppcc is firstly I am mostly pretty good at figure things out when I need to as a student. I do not know if I would have a weaknesses because I enjoy school. I also enjoy learning new information. The only concern I would have as a student is making sure that I do not take to many classes again. I started taking four classes which was more than I could handle. Also making sure that I stay on top of all of my work. I will improve overtime.
The objectives that I need to do in order to complete the class successfully includes passing my next quizzes and also passing the midterm. Passing future quizzes is all I need to do.
At the half way point of this class I am doing allright as a student in my English class. I will continue to improve and get better in my english class and at ppcc. My expectations are simple that I continue to grow and that I get As and Bs on all my assignments.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Summary Response Pg 290-299
The writing about introductions is about the correct structure for writing a introduction. The introductions hsould include four elements. these elements are the hook, the topic, the background information, and the thesis. The hook is the first sentence of the paragraph and should grab the readers attention. The topic is what your essay is going to be about. The background information includes the full authors name, the full title, the year it was published and a short summary of the text. Fianlly the thesis is the central idea or claim of your essay. All four elements conclude to a correct format of a introduction.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Questions to The Articles
On Dumpster Diving
1. Eighner is careful to offer definitions of the key terms he uses. List those key Terms and their Definitions.
the list of key terms Eighner uses includes dumpster, wino, hobo,, scavenging, scrounging, foraging, and dumpster diving. Eighner briefly describes these words in the beginning of the writing. The word dumpster means a trademark used for containers designed for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials. The word wino is slang for a chronic drinker. The meaning of the word hobo is a person who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood. Scavenging means one that scavenges, as aperson who searches through refuse for food. The definition of scrounging is to obatian (something) by begging or borrowing with no intention on givving it reperation. Foraging is to wander in search of food or provisions. The noun dumpster diving is the practice o searching through dustbins for discarded but still usable or valueble objects such as food or clothes. The words dumpster, wino, hobo, scavenging, scrounging,foraging, and dumpster diving are the words Eigner uses breifly in the beggining of the article "On Dumpster Diving."
2Summeraize the practical stages a dumpster diver goes through. What does Eigner analysis tell us about the larger experience of having to scavenge fro food? The practical stages a dumpster diver goes through include at the begginig a disgust feeling towards oneself. The diver trys to hide and lurks around and decides to do things at night. the diver realizes that diving at night does not work. Still in the beggining the diver feels disgust. He or she cannot erase the stigma of eating from the garbage can. After experiencing the stigma it soon disappears. He or she bigins to take pleasure in diving because he or she finds a lot of god stuff. eigners analysis tells us about the larger experince of having to scavenge for foofdby explaining and giving the reader a in depth undertanding of dumpster diving. Eigner begins by describing foods to eat and locations of foods. He then describes the process of becoming a dumpdter diver. Eighner describes the different ways to use less energy to get the resources he needs from the dumpsters. lastly he describes the process of appreciating everything he finds. The larger experince of dumpster diving is that it is more than just digging through garbage cans and gathering cans to earn a few dallars a day.
3What does his writing style tell you about his views on his way of life? Explain with examples.
his writing styles tells me about his way of life that he understands, accepts, and is comfortable with dumpster diving. He undestands the style of his life because he goes through the whole story describing to the reader the process of becoming a dumpster diver, he says "I have learned that there is a predicatable series of stages a person goes through in having to learning to scavenge." Eighner does not accept his life style becuase he trys to change it by writing stories.
4 How does reading Eighner make you feel ashamed about your own material values? How do you relate to dumpster diving and to what he calls the "grab for the gaudy bowble"
Reading Eighner made me feel ashamed about how much materails I have. I feel sorry for him deeply. I would like to give hom some of the materials that I have to make him feel better. He states that his grab his grab for the goaudy baowble has been sated; meaning that he no longer desires to collect those valuable but meaningless objects because he knows that there are plenty more places that he can get those from.
Serving In Florida
1. Why Does Ehrenriech so dislike managment? Consider her response to the meeting at the beggining of th essay, and her confrontations with Stu throughout. Do you Think she's right to be untrusting of managment.
Ehrenriech dislkes managment becaiuse it ca be too tight and strict for the employees and to loose for managers.
2What are some of the ways that Ehrenriech fellow workers live? What kinds of homes do they have. (or not have)Write out at least three examples.
Some of the ways Ehrenreich workers live is by Sharing rent living in trailors, living in cars, and living in hotels. Gail one of the employees companies a flop-house for two hundred and fifty dallars a month. Marrianne also one of the employees has a trailor thatt costs on ehundred and seventy dallars a week. Joan lives in his own van. when he needs to take showers he goes to tinas motel.
3Does Ehrenreich's background (especially the way she grew up) contribute to whuy she does this project or how she belives about low-income workers? Give ome examples? I dont undrstand this question nor can I find the answer in the text or through online sources.
4Ehrenreich is working these jobs and attempting to live on a low income wages in spite of the fact that she has a "real job" (shes a biology proffessor at a university in Florida) at the time shes writing this (she tok a break for a few months to do this experiment) Can she really understand what it is to be a waitress? Why or why not?
Ehrenreich can understand what it is to be a waitress. she can understand thius by actually experincing what a waitress goes through. She would have to experince these experiences by fully ingraving herself into a waitresses lifestyle. This includes housing, bills, extra monry for any othe ractivities, food, gas , and clothing. if she can ecperince the lifestyle fully yes she can understand in-depth what it is to be a waitress.
5Towards the end of the essay, th emanagmnet gives a waitress the "gift" of being able to live out of her car on the motel property. Ehrenrich interprets this gift as cruel, and fells that the management should've gone more out of their way to help the waitress. others have critized ehrenriech for this view and and claimed that the amnager was giving more than he had to in thais case. What do you think? How Responsible should an employer be for aiding an employee?
The manger did not ahve to aid he employee. The manager could have given her a raise to help her get out of living in a car and into living into a hotel or apartment. The manager was very generous to give the employee a improved living situation. I think he did not have to do that for her though.
1. Eighner is careful to offer definitions of the key terms he uses. List those key Terms and their Definitions.
the list of key terms Eighner uses includes dumpster, wino, hobo,, scavenging, scrounging, foraging, and dumpster diving. Eighner briefly describes these words in the beginning of the writing. The word dumpster means a trademark used for containers designed for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials. The word wino is slang for a chronic drinker. The meaning of the word hobo is a person who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood. Scavenging means one that scavenges, as aperson who searches through refuse for food. The definition of scrounging is to obatian (something) by begging or borrowing with no intention on givving it reperation. Foraging is to wander in search of food or provisions. The noun dumpster diving is the practice o searching through dustbins for discarded but still usable or valueble objects such as food or clothes. The words dumpster, wino, hobo, scavenging, scrounging,foraging, and dumpster diving are the words Eigner uses breifly in the beggining of the article "On Dumpster Diving."
2Summeraize the practical stages a dumpster diver goes through. What does Eigner analysis tell us about the larger experience of having to scavenge fro food? The practical stages a dumpster diver goes through include at the begginig a disgust feeling towards oneself. The diver trys to hide and lurks around and decides to do things at night. the diver realizes that diving at night does not work. Still in the beggining the diver feels disgust. He or she cannot erase the stigma of eating from the garbage can. After experiencing the stigma it soon disappears. He or she bigins to take pleasure in diving because he or she finds a lot of god stuff. eigners analysis tells us about the larger experince of having to scavenge for foofdby explaining and giving the reader a in depth undertanding of dumpster diving. Eigner begins by describing foods to eat and locations of foods. He then describes the process of becoming a dumpdter diver. Eighner describes the different ways to use less energy to get the resources he needs from the dumpsters. lastly he describes the process of appreciating everything he finds. The larger experince of dumpster diving is that it is more than just digging through garbage cans and gathering cans to earn a few dallars a day.
3What does his writing style tell you about his views on his way of life? Explain with examples.
his writing styles tells me about his way of life that he understands, accepts, and is comfortable with dumpster diving. He undestands the style of his life because he goes through the whole story describing to the reader the process of becoming a dumpster diver, he says "I have learned that there is a predicatable series of stages a person goes through in having to learning to scavenge." Eighner does not accept his life style becuase he trys to change it by writing stories.
4 How does reading Eighner make you feel ashamed about your own material values? How do you relate to dumpster diving and to what he calls the "grab for the gaudy bowble"
Reading Eighner made me feel ashamed about how much materails I have. I feel sorry for him deeply. I would like to give hom some of the materials that I have to make him feel better. He states that his grab his grab for the goaudy baowble has been sated; meaning that he no longer desires to collect those valuable but meaningless objects because he knows that there are plenty more places that he can get those from.
Serving In Florida
1. Why Does Ehrenriech so dislike managment? Consider her response to the meeting at the beggining of th essay, and her confrontations with Stu throughout. Do you Think she's right to be untrusting of managment.
Ehrenriech dislkes managment becaiuse it ca be too tight and strict for the employees and to loose for managers.
2What are some of the ways that Ehrenriech fellow workers live? What kinds of homes do they have. (or not have)Write out at least three examples.
Some of the ways Ehrenreich workers live is by Sharing rent living in trailors, living in cars, and living in hotels. Gail one of the employees companies a flop-house for two hundred and fifty dallars a month. Marrianne also one of the employees has a trailor thatt costs on ehundred and seventy dallars a week. Joan lives in his own van. when he needs to take showers he goes to tinas motel.
3Does Ehrenreich's background (especially the way she grew up) contribute to whuy she does this project or how she belives about low-income workers? Give ome examples? I dont undrstand this question nor can I find the answer in the text or through online sources.
4Ehrenreich is working these jobs and attempting to live on a low income wages in spite of the fact that she has a "real job" (shes a biology proffessor at a university in Florida) at the time shes writing this (she tok a break for a few months to do this experiment) Can she really understand what it is to be a waitress? Why or why not?
Ehrenreich can understand what it is to be a waitress. she can understand thius by actually experincing what a waitress goes through. She would have to experince these experiences by fully ingraving herself into a waitresses lifestyle. This includes housing, bills, extra monry for any othe ractivities, food, gas , and clothing. if she can ecperince the lifestyle fully yes she can understand in-depth what it is to be a waitress.
5Towards the end of the essay, th emanagmnet gives a waitress the "gift" of being able to live out of her car on the motel property. Ehrenrich interprets this gift as cruel, and fells that the management should've gone more out of their way to help the waitress. others have critized ehrenriech for this view and and claimed that the amnager was giving more than he had to in thais case. What do you think? How Responsible should an employer be for aiding an employee?
The manger did not ahve to aid he employee. The manager could have given her a raise to help her get out of living in a car and into living into a hotel or apartment. The manager was very generous to give the employee a improved living situation. I think he did not have to do that for her though.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Chapter 4 Notes
*Revising as re-seeing your work
- Revising is the most important step in the writing process
- Revising will improve your writing
- Revising is the process of working out the thesis and structural suport of your essay.
- Revising helps you to see the whole persepective, concerns, and analyzes your points, support, and /or organization
- May have to put alot of revision into the work.
- Need to be open-minded in order to become a better revisor.
- During, the rough draft focuson the big picture issues first start with the whole then work on the details of your writing.
*Practice Peer Review
- Also called "workshopping"
- Workshopping is a group of peers providing constructive critism
- Peer review has two purposes
- It gives critism for the draft.
- Improves you as a reader and writer
- Feedback helps in many differnt ways
*Revision Stratigies
- Reread the assignment prompt to start out with
- create a list of weaknesses and strengths, write, what should be worked on and which should be left alone
*Revision To Make Your Audience and Purpose Clear
-The introduction sets the tone for the rest of the writing.
-The writing should have a clear audiance
-The writing should be considerate to the audiance.
*Revising to Recognise an Essay
-If you dont plan before the writing you will have a poor rough draft.
-When revising be ready to make fixs and improvements
-Essays should be neat and organized on a two level form, though the overall and within each paragraph
-If it is messy, try another approach to create a more logical, order, oragnized writing.
-Some steps to reorganize the writing, step 1; is to make a list of your paragraph topics or points, step 2: evaluate the leftovers. Step 6: return to the document on your computer.
*Revising to Reorganize a Pargraph
-When revising it is important to keep new information organized throughout the important writing
-Focus on the main point, and start from there.
-Connect the rapport with main point to make a clear essay
-Go over transitions make the transitions clean and oragnized. Evaluate the transitions.
*Revising for Paragraph Development
- The objective for the body paragraph is to support the thesis
- Every body paragraph should have a point and topic sentence with information that supports the main point
*Revising to Intergrate qoutations and Paraphrases
-When using a qoutation in your essay you should allways make sure the reader knows where it is coming from.
-The qoutation should be like a sandwhich involves: introducing the question, copy the exact words of the reader where you recieved the information for the quote.
-Allways introduce the qoutation to help the reader have a clear understanding
-To introduce use a signal phrase, or introductory words, and use the last name of the author.
-formula for a full-introduction signal phrase for the first mention of an author in your essay: full title of work(book or article)+ full name of author+signal a phrase word+qoute.
*Explain what the Qoutation Means
-Readers interpret the qoute differntly, provide good information to help the readers know what the qoutation means.
*Explain how the qoutation Support your Point
- Explain why the Qoute was introduced it into the essay
*Editing Stratigies
- Realization that revising take effort and time
- Dont go overboard revising, loosen up.
*Revising your Essay Outloud
- Reading outloud is effective
- 5 step process to reading outloud. Step 1 print a copy of your paper and grab a pencil or pen. Step 2: Read your paper outloud. Step 3: When you finish reading the whole document go back and focus on those underlined parts. Step 4: Edit your document on the computer. Step 5: Repeat step 1-4 untill your paper sounds great.
*Reading Backwards
-also a highly effective strategy for revision.
-step one: choose your most serious error. Step 2: Print your essay and also find a black piece of paper. Step 3: turn to the last page of your essay. Step 4: read the essay, one structural at a time, back to front. Step 6: take a break between passes so you are allways looking at your essay fresh. Step 7 repeat the steps with your next most serious error and thus the next.
*Proofreading
-proofreading the final for revising and includes, going through grammar and spelling error or minor details.
- Revising is the most important step in the writing process
- Revising will improve your writing
- Revising is the process of working out the thesis and structural suport of your essay.
- Revising helps you to see the whole persepective, concerns, and analyzes your points, support, and /or organization
- May have to put alot of revision into the work.
- Need to be open-minded in order to become a better revisor.
- During, the rough draft focuson the big picture issues first start with the whole then work on the details of your writing.
*Practice Peer Review
- Also called "workshopping"
- Workshopping is a group of peers providing constructive critism
- Peer review has two purposes
- It gives critism for the draft.
- Improves you as a reader and writer
- Feedback helps in many differnt ways
*Revision Stratigies
- Reread the assignment prompt to start out with
- create a list of weaknesses and strengths, write, what should be worked on and which should be left alone
*Revision To Make Your Audience and Purpose Clear
-The introduction sets the tone for the rest of the writing.
-The writing should have a clear audiance
-The writing should be considerate to the audiance.
*Revising to Recognise an Essay
-If you dont plan before the writing you will have a poor rough draft.
-When revising be ready to make fixs and improvements
-Essays should be neat and organized on a two level form, though the overall and within each paragraph
-If it is messy, try another approach to create a more logical, order, oragnized writing.
-Some steps to reorganize the writing, step 1; is to make a list of your paragraph topics or points, step 2: evaluate the leftovers. Step 6: return to the document on your computer.
*Revising to Reorganize a Pargraph
-When revising it is important to keep new information organized throughout the important writing
-Focus on the main point, and start from there.
-Connect the rapport with main point to make a clear essay
-Go over transitions make the transitions clean and oragnized. Evaluate the transitions.
*Revising for Paragraph Development
- The objective for the body paragraph is to support the thesis
- Every body paragraph should have a point and topic sentence with information that supports the main point
*Revising to Intergrate qoutations and Paraphrases
-When using a qoutation in your essay you should allways make sure the reader knows where it is coming from.
-The qoutation should be like a sandwhich involves: introducing the question, copy the exact words of the reader where you recieved the information for the quote.
-Allways introduce the qoutation to help the reader have a clear understanding
-To introduce use a signal phrase, or introductory words, and use the last name of the author.
-formula for a full-introduction signal phrase for the first mention of an author in your essay: full title of work(book or article)+ full name of author+signal a phrase word+qoute.
*Explain what the Qoutation Means
-Readers interpret the qoute differntly, provide good information to help the readers know what the qoutation means.
*Explain how the qoutation Support your Point
- Explain why the Qoute was introduced it into the essay
*Editing Stratigies
- Realization that revising take effort and time
- Dont go overboard revising, loosen up.
*Revising your Essay Outloud
- Reading outloud is effective
- 5 step process to reading outloud. Step 1 print a copy of your paper and grab a pencil or pen. Step 2: Read your paper outloud. Step 3: When you finish reading the whole document go back and focus on those underlined parts. Step 4: Edit your document on the computer. Step 5: Repeat step 1-4 untill your paper sounds great.
*Reading Backwards
-also a highly effective strategy for revision.
-step one: choose your most serious error. Step 2: Print your essay and also find a black piece of paper. Step 3: turn to the last page of your essay. Step 4: read the essay, one structural at a time, back to front. Step 6: take a break between passes so you are allways looking at your essay fresh. Step 7 repeat the steps with your next most serious error and thus the next.
*Proofreading
-proofreading the final for revising and includes, going through grammar and spelling error or minor details.
Descriptive Writing Exercise
1She was depressed.
I noticed a woman who was in her late fourtys. The woman was wearing all black. The woman had her head all the way down. her body seem to droop as if life was sucked right out of her chest and abdamens. Also the elder lady walked really slow as if all her energy had been tooken from her from a long work out. The lady seemed to have no motivation to do anything. She seemed hopelesswith no strength left in her body, mind, or spirit.
2The car was nice
The dark blue, black, and energy red Hummer second edition was a very nice looking car. In the inside of the car it was very luxuriuos and had high tech technolog. The inside was black and had sections of white as if it was so sophisticated. The hummer had two sets of twelve hundred watt subwoofers in the back that made the ground move like an earthquake. The Hummer was capable of going six hundred miles per hour or faster. The Hummer although always seemed to be missing something.
I noticed a woman who was in her late fourtys. The woman was wearing all black. The woman had her head all the way down. her body seem to droop as if life was sucked right out of her chest and abdamens. Also the elder lady walked really slow as if all her energy had been tooken from her from a long work out. The lady seemed to have no motivation to do anything. She seemed hopelesswith no strength left in her body, mind, or spirit.
2The car was nice
The dark blue, black, and energy red Hummer second edition was a very nice looking car. In the inside of the car it was very luxuriuos and had high tech technolog. The inside was black and had sections of white as if it was so sophisticated. The hummer had two sets of twelve hundred watt subwoofers in the back that made the ground move like an earthquake. The Hummer was capable of going six hundred miles per hour or faster. The Hummer although always seemed to be missing something.
Saturday, September 13, 2014
List ten of sedaris tics or habits and try to establish some general rules that make them tics and not more sociallh acceptable repeated motions or habits
Sedaris tics and habits are outragously not socially acceptable. Ten of sadarises tics and habits include licking, pressing, wiping, against many not okay objects inside of house, outside of his house, at school. Sadaris also has a uncontrollable need to constantly satisfy thes habits throughout his young life. Sadaris also has a consistant bad habit that goes all throughout to his college years of rocking in his bed and listening to his music. The objects sadari licks throughout his young life as in elementary school include licking light switches, mailboxes, leaves, grass, lightbulbs, outside poles, and licking corners of a metal desk. Other insane tics are touching forehead with shoe or heel, touching windshield with nose, touching desk eight times with nose, and touching the doorknob seven times with each elbow. The habits and or tics that can be considered more or less socially acceptable is the rocking in bed with music, stabbing an outlet with a butter knife and getting up from desk twenty eight times. These are more socially acceptable to my opinion because they are not ridiculous. Typically children during his age, when asked or told not to do something it makes them want to do it more. So the stabbing an outlet with a butter knife can be socially accepted. Also at the age of 5-12 or during elementary school kids have a lot of energy, so sitting still or just sitting typically is asking too much. The rocking in bed while listening to music may just be how he responds to the music he is listening to.
2What are some tics and habits that you have? Are they more socially acceptable than Sedaris? Why do you think that is?
The tics and habits that I have include messing with my hair, spending money on random stuff, cleaning up around the house, drinking lots of water, biting my nails, cleaning my shoes, and buying louis pizza. My habits are more socially acceptable than sedaris. My habits are because compared to licking everything, my habits should be more socially accetable. I think that my habits are more socially acceptable because they have a norm. For instance biting nails is a habit that you can see on daily basis. I think a couple of my habits can be socially unacceptable because less people do it. An example of this would include buying louis pizza. Im not completely sure of this but I assume theirs not a wole lot of people out their who order louis pizza and chezybread like I do. Some of my habits may not actually be habits. These habits or tics are cleaning my shoes, cleaning my apartment, and drinking lots of water. These would be considered not a habit unless I do these habits too much.
3What do you think the point of the essay is to describe and inform the readers Sedaris tics and habits. Also I think the writers point was to describe and inform the readers of his parents, where he lives and the habits in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. The entire story was about his tics and habits. The name of the story was a plaque of tics. So you can allready assume that the story has to do something with tics. Some examples are on page 8 which says, "It was a short distance from the school to our rented house, no more than six hundred and thirty-seven steps, and on a good day I could make the trip in an pausing every few feet to tongue a mailbox or touch whichever single leaf or blade of grass demanded my attention." When the writer was describing where he lived and where he was living previously, and was describing on page 9 of a plague of tics. The writing says, "I didnt remember things being this way back north. Our family had been transferred from Endicott, New York to Raleigh, North Caralina." For when Sedaris was in elemantary school his habits and tics were mostly licking things. Sedaris and his teacher had a conversation about his licking of the light switch." The purpose of the writing was and inform the readers of Sedaris habits and tics.
Sedaris tics and habits are outragously not socially acceptable. Ten of sadarises tics and habits include licking, pressing, wiping, against many not okay objects inside of house, outside of his house, at school. Sadaris also has a uncontrollable need to constantly satisfy thes habits throughout his young life. Sadaris also has a consistant bad habit that goes all throughout to his college years of rocking in his bed and listening to his music. The objects sadari licks throughout his young life as in elementary school include licking light switches, mailboxes, leaves, grass, lightbulbs, outside poles, and licking corners of a metal desk. Other insane tics are touching forehead with shoe or heel, touching windshield with nose, touching desk eight times with nose, and touching the doorknob seven times with each elbow. The habits and or tics that can be considered more or less socially acceptable is the rocking in bed with music, stabbing an outlet with a butter knife and getting up from desk twenty eight times. These are more socially acceptable to my opinion because they are not ridiculous. Typically children during his age, when asked or told not to do something it makes them want to do it more. So the stabbing an outlet with a butter knife can be socially accepted. Also at the age of 5-12 or during elementary school kids have a lot of energy, so sitting still or just sitting typically is asking too much. The rocking in bed while listening to music may just be how he responds to the music he is listening to.
2What are some tics and habits that you have? Are they more socially acceptable than Sedaris? Why do you think that is?
The tics and habits that I have include messing with my hair, spending money on random stuff, cleaning up around the house, drinking lots of water, biting my nails, cleaning my shoes, and buying louis pizza. My habits are more socially acceptable than sedaris. My habits are because compared to licking everything, my habits should be more socially accetable. I think that my habits are more socially acceptable because they have a norm. For instance biting nails is a habit that you can see on daily basis. I think a couple of my habits can be socially unacceptable because less people do it. An example of this would include buying louis pizza. Im not completely sure of this but I assume theirs not a wole lot of people out their who order louis pizza and chezybread like I do. Some of my habits may not actually be habits. These habits or tics are cleaning my shoes, cleaning my apartment, and drinking lots of water. These would be considered not a habit unless I do these habits too much.
3What do you think the point of the essay is to describe and inform the readers Sedaris tics and habits. Also I think the writers point was to describe and inform the readers of his parents, where he lives and the habits in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. The entire story was about his tics and habits. The name of the story was a plaque of tics. So you can allready assume that the story has to do something with tics. Some examples are on page 8 which says, "It was a short distance from the school to our rented house, no more than six hundred and thirty-seven steps, and on a good day I could make the trip in an pausing every few feet to tongue a mailbox or touch whichever single leaf or blade of grass demanded my attention." When the writer was describing where he lived and where he was living previously, and was describing on page 9 of a plague of tics. The writing says, "I didnt remember things being this way back north. Our family had been transferred from Endicott, New York to Raleigh, North Caralina." For when Sedaris was in elemantary school his habits and tics were mostly licking things. Sedaris and his teacher had a conversation about his licking of the light switch." The purpose of the writing was and inform the readers of Sedaris habits and tics.
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