1/30 Homework: Eisner and McCloud

After reading the McCloud articles on comic books I feel like I know much more about comic books. I was never really into comic books when I was a little kid, so all of this is new to me. However, I never realized how much actually goes into a comic book. How our eyes change to see different symbols and faces. I thought it was really interesting about the faces. We respond better to simple faces. If all the faces were very detailed we would have a hard time reading the material, and instead we would focus on the detail. You also have to read between the lines. This makes sense, but I had never thought of it that way before. Once you see a drawing in one slide, and then it skips right to the next slide you have to use your mind to invision what actually happened in between. After reading this article I am more excited about reading graphic novels in class, and writing a paper about them.

Exercise 4.m Exploring Your Own Writing Process

When I am getting ready to write I usually try to be by myself at my desk where I can focus. Most of the time I put headphones on listen to some sort of music. Instead of writing with a pencil or pen I always type it on my laptop. Not only can I type faster, it is also easier to make revisions to mistakes I make. Before I actually start writing my paper, I try to brainstorm and write my ideas down in some sort of web on another piece of paper. After this I go into my drafting process. I usually try to make the first rough draft as good as I can, but still leave room to change a lot of things. Once I start the revision process I first revise it myself, then have a fellow classmate look over it for me. Revisions play a big role in my papers, because most of the time I cannot find all of my grammatical errors on my own. Other people can also give me better ideas of how to improve my paper, and the "flow" of all the words. Finally I go over the paper again or get someone else to revise it again. This is always helpful, because no matter how many times you revise it, it can still be better. I think my writing process is similar to most of my classmates. The only exception is that some people may have a looser or less organized rough draft. However, I am willing to try this strategy to see if it can make me a better writer.

1/26 Homework

As a genre a workshop draft would look like a rough draft, but more unorganized. It is more like a lot of brainstorming ideas, all placed into a very quickly written paper. The purpose is simply to get lots of ideas on what to write about, and how to organize them to make a better paper. The audience of a workshop draft is the small group you are working with. This way they can look at it and give advice on how to make it better. This differs from a final draft because the final draft needs to be flawless. The final draft is often going to a professor or someone important.

If I was doing a workshop draft for Essay "R" about pro wrestling I would give several forms of advice. I would correct all the grammatical errors, as well as the organization of the paper. The writer needs to explain in more detail for readers who don't know much about the WWE. They also need to make the paper "flow" together better.

Grading Essay "R"

While I was reading essay "R" about the WWE I noticed many things wrong with the paper, and many changes that could be done to improve it. While it was not a bad paper, it still has several changes that need to be made. If I was the instructor grading the paper I would most likely give it a C+. The main changes that need to be made to the paper are the amount of gramatical errors throughout it. However, grammatical errors are not the only problems that need to be fixed in this paper. It talks a lot about the wrestlers and the types of things that they need to do. Its ok to talk about things like that if you understand the WWE or professional wrestling. But for the people reading the paper that don't understand professional wrestling, the author needs to explain in more detail what is going on for the reader to completely grasp an understanding of it.
With some work to grammatical errors and the different usage of words this paper could easily become a very good paper.

First Homework: 2.h

1. I imagine the rhetorical situation of which this text is to try to persuade readers against the Clintons. The main purposes are to show how Bill Clinton was a dishonest president, and to try to prove that Hillary would do the same types of things. The audiences that the writer is trying to reach are his class mates and other individuals that are going to be voting in the election.

2. In this text I recognized a editiorial genre that the author used to talk about Hillary Clinton. I have written a paper in this type of genre in the past to prove why one presidential candidate was a better choice than another.

3. The author could have also used rhetoric to analyze Hillary Clinton and show why or how she woulld be a bad president. The advantage of writing the way he did was that it was more effective because it shows how he feels strongly against the Clinton's.

4. the author could use an informative genre to tell people higher up than him this. These people could be bosses or even other co-workers.

5. Many different jobs could use different forms of rhetoric or genre. For example someone who works for a newspaper would often use the informative or editiorial genres. The same as a teacher who would most likely use an informative genre, to teach students.