journal 10

i wouldnt say my outlook on me being a writer has changed much. i mean i believe i gained much insight on how to improve my writing but i still think it has a long way to go. i still am standing by what i said when i said i liked to write but i still dont write for leisure, its just not fun to me. writing is a great past time though and you can record your thought and look back on what you were thinking that day. i believe that there are many great writers in my class though. I have learned different styles of writing and enjoyed reading their work. The tips and new stuff i learned in 1101 will for sure help me in my future english classes and writing classes.

journal 8

attractive: www.facebook.com

to me this website is "attractive" because it appeals to me i could not only spend hours on that website but its so entertaining. you know everything about everyone at the tip of your fingers. I like to be in the loop with new things with my friends and family. Facebook is also a great way to communicate with people you are not close with or if they dont live near you.

ugly: www.myspace.com

myspace to me is terrible. its almost trashy in a sense to me. i dont like it and i dont like going on it anymore. i used to have on and was addicted to it like i am to facebook now but now that i do have a facebook i dont ever go on my myspace. its just not appealing to me anymore. others may like it but i am not one of them.

journal 8

www.wikipedia.org

wikipedia is an unatrractive site because there is no color at all. there is nothing to draw the attention of the reader and is really boring. The font is bland and is not welcoming. there are some pictures but most of them are in black and white which makes it even more boring. i dont think wikipedia is a very fun website and we arent even allowed to use it so why look at it?

www.cosmo.com

obviously we know that cosmo magazine is full of color and life! thats why i love it, it pulls you in just by the colors on the front cover. it has so many different fonts and such a warm vibe that it makes it a very attractive website. there are so many pictures that have every color imaginable instead of everything being in black and white. it is not bland at all and really makes you want to read it.

journal 7

On July 18, 2009, Caitlin Hanrick was 13 when she was struck and killed by a stolen car on a pedestrian crossing between 2 campuses of Recliffe state high school on oxaley ave. The driver of the stolen Holden Commodore, Adrielle Faith Coolwell, was affected by drugs and alcohol and was driving an unregistered car without breaks. She was sentenced to 9 years in jail for her role in the crash. The police had been chasing the stolen Holden Commodore, reaching speeds of 120 km/h in a 60 km/h zone. The stolen car sped through red lights and drove on the wrong side of the road but officers did not abandon the pursuit.

This was so freaky!!!!!

journal 7

On July 18, 2009, Caitlin Hanrick was 13 when she was struck and killed by a stolen car on a pedestrian crossing between 2 campuses of Recliffe state high school on oxaley ave. The driver of the stolen Holden Commodore, Adrielle Faith Coolwell, was affected by drugs and alcohol and was driving an unregistered car without breaks. She was sentenced to 9 years in jail for her role in the crash. The police had been chasing the stolen Holden Commodore, reaching speeds of 120 km/h in a 60 km/h zone. The stolen car sped through red lights and drove on the wrong side of the road but officers did not abandon the pursuit.

This was so freaky!!!!!

journal 5

the article i chose was from cosmo.com, its not exactly an article but it was the opening page when you pull up the online magazine. there was so much going on in this page. there were so may attention grabbers with the video clips showing the latest news and pictures inside the newest issue. also all the sex tips and fashion tips really pull women in. The colors on the page show spunk and excitement and give off a welcoming vibe and makes the reader want to keep reading. There are a lot of sexual articles included in this magazine and many portrayed on this opening page so this magazine is suitable for older teens and young women. I think that pictures give off just as much meaning as words to, but in different ways. A picture can give off the same meaning of the words that go with it but also can be taken with a whole different meaning depending on who reads it, especially without seeing the words that correspond to the picture. A picture can definitely be rhetoric just like words can. it all depends on how you interpret the picture. you can make any kind of assumption about a picture and or words all based on your mind set. use your imagination!

journal 6

IM A DIE HARD STEELERS FAN!!!

journal 4

The ad i saw, i saw it on tv and i thought it was very impactful. It was of a boy standing on almost like a movie set and there are picture moving on a belt coming at him and he stands in the cut out to be apart of the picture as it moves by and repeats this for the next few photo frames. The last photo frame come at him and its of the cut out taking a joint from another kid. Instead of forming his body into this cut out he walks away and out of the screen. Then on the tv screen it says something like you make your own identity or something along the lines of choosing your own path. So instead of taking the weed to smoke it he walks away and makes a good decision. Out of this ad i get that you must make good decisions and not do something because of peer pressure. Take a stand in what you think is right and follow your gut. Don't do something because it cool. I like this ad a lot and i see it all the time on tv so i thought it was a good message to teens and even older men and women everywhere!

journal 3

Ok Hemingway’s “Hills like white elephants”, was extremely confusing. I know there are 2 main characters, an American man, and a younger girl, ho are dating or in some kind of relationship together. They are in Barcelona i believe headed toward Madrid, Spain. They are waiting for their train at the station and decided to have a beer. Then after the beer they want to try a different drink. The girl is sitting at the station looking at the hills on the other side of the tracks. From reading the story, she was apparently pregnant and he wanted her to have an abortion. She was too keen on this idea and felt uneasy about it. Also from what i got out of the story, she thought that the clouds resting on top of the hills looked like white elephants and she wanted to go across the tracks and see them, because she had never seen a white elephant before. When I think of white elephants I think about the gift exchange at like a Christmas party where people buy gag gifts and et stuck with worthless gifts they will ever use. I don’t really know why they kept asking each other if they wanted to, or telling each other one cares and the other one doesn't and all that stuff. I think i got the gist of the story though but it was verrrrry confusing.

journal 2

After reading, “Responding-really responding- to other students writing”, I really see the reason for revising and proofreading a paper. I always thought I was supposed to check grammar like spelling and punctuation, but now I know that it’s much more than that. I now have learned that the best way to revise a paper is to give the writer suggestions and ideas on how to improve their paper. In the workshops I hope to put my new findings to good use and really help out the students with my suggestions and help make their paper even better!

journal 1

I don’t necessarily consider myself a writer because my writing needs a lot of work. On the other hand I like to write. I don’t really write for leisure, i mean yeah when i was younger I used to write in a diary, but I don’t do that anymore. When I find a topic I like to write about in class, then I feel like I am a writer, because things just flow out and I could write for hours! But if I find something I am not interested it will take me forever to write on it. In this class I plan to gain more skills and a better understanding on how to write papers like research papers and how to do in text citation and quote things to avoid plagiarism.