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Final Jornal: The WP that was my favorite was the first one. Being able to choose my favorite book and compare it to a different genre but still stick to the same subject was very interesting because it made me see writing and genres in a new way. The WP that was my least favorite was probably writing project 3. For WP3 it was because it challenged me creatively and although it did have a structure it was definitely more free-flowing than the others and for me, that is a little more difficult because I think I work better when the rules are a bit more rigid. My 3 takeaways from this class were how it better to kind of word vomit when writing a rough draft, genres can be used to help in the process of writing, and many people actually find it difficult to write, even famous authors. I don't think there is an aspect of the class that needs to be improved on other than maybe going over more of how to properly write an introduction and conclusion paragraphs.

Journal: Noticing I have not really noticed anything about my translation "writing" process because I am translating a poem into an art piece but in doing that I feel it is a bit difficult to still keep the main ideas of the poem in the painting. It is fun though because the poem does center on a topic that I feel strongly about so being able to translate it into an art piece is something that I have not done before and I find the whole process interesting. The argument/main point of the poem is very clear and shows the hardships that people who work in the fields have to deal with. I have not been struggling with anything else that has to do with the painting. My only concern is that my low artistic skills will not be good enough to do what I want to do and my painting will turn out crappy.

Journal: Everything's An Argument     Based on the reading it does seem like an argument can be any text that expresses a point of view. Three items that I have come into contact recently that make some sort of argument are toothpaste, granola, and an email about volunteering with children. The toothpaste makes the argument that it is the best and will whiten my teeth while also protecting them. The granola makes the argument that it is the best-tasting one and also the healthiest. For the email, the argument that it is making is that I should volunteer my free time to spend time with children because it would benefit me in that it would look good and it would really help out the children. All of the arguments seem to be that if I were to use or do that one thing then it would somehow benefit me.

Daniella Trevino Professor Williams Writing 2 10, November 2019 PB3 The primary text that I will be translating is a poem by Blas Manuel De Luna called “Bent to the earth”.   It is about a Mexican five-year-old who is in a van along with his parents and other Mexicans to go work in the fields when they are stopped by authorities. These authorities then basically attack them trying to arrest any "illegals" they can find. After that whole ordeal, they then continue to the fields and go to work. The genre is terms of its format and the conventions it follows is of a poem. But its genre of what it is about is immigration, ICE Agents, and working in the fields. The audience for this poem is the general public because anyone can read this even though it is meant for an older audience than a younger one. Because of the poem’s focus, it seems that the discourse community that the poem is meant to relate to are Mexican immigrants and those working in the fie...

Translation Brainstorm         Topics that interest me is climate change or just about nature in general. It interests me because I have strong views on climate change and protecting the earth from ourselves. I have seen this information about this subject in news articles online and in my Environmental Studies class.  I could derive my texts from maybe a powerpoint slide from my class or I could go online and look back at some of the articles that I have looked at. The pros of the PowerPoint slide are that it will be very straightforward so I won't have to search through it for my translation. The pro of the online article is there is usually a lot more information that I can go off of. The cons of both though are that they will both probably focus more on one aspect of climate change instead of in general. The PowerPoint slide does seem like the easiest to translate because of its pro. I hope to possibly translate it into an art piece.

Journal 11/5/19 What I have completed in my fieldwork is I have some of my artifacts such as my notes, slides, and some of the interviews with my professor transcribed. I still have to observe a group in my class and take notes as to how they interact with each other. I have honestly not written down any other fieldnotes besides when I observed the class and that is definitely something that I should work more on. The only thing that is worrying me about the project is that I don't completely understand ethnographies yet and I think I have a good idea of what a discourse community is but I'm afraid that maybe I don't. Also, I'm having some difficulty transcribing the parts of the interview with my professor that I need for my paper. Other than that though everything else is fine and I'm sure that if I just spend some more time on it I'll be okay.

Journal 10.31 A quote could be anything from a passage, sentence, possibly even a word that is directly cited from a text. We quote other writers and sources in our own work to use as textual evidence and maybe back us up on what we are trying to say. It could also provide more information and clarify anything that may be confusing. Some of the ways that I use and integrate sources into my work are first I present my main idea then cite the quote. I like to think my sources are effective but sometimes I feel that I put my quotes in an odd place and sometimes that leads to my paper to take an awkward turn.

"Making the familiar strange"        I eat at these places where I have limited options for what I eat. I have to give my access card to someone right when I walk in to get in the cold large building. There are sometimes people serving the food depending on the food item I choose. All of the plates and utensils are all the same color which I have to eat off of. When I am done eating off of them, the plain white plates and silver utensils must be put onto this rotating device that will take it away to be never seen again. The dining commons so it's called also have certain hours when they are open so I can't go there at any time even if I am hungry. The dining commons are where most people eat and usually they eat with their friends even though there is the option to eat alone if you so choose to do so.       Also, the people working in the dining commons all have a uniform they have to wear and a set of jobs to do. When I leave I cannot get back i...

DC: A discourse community that I participate in regularly is I guess you could say the Latino community. Within this community, I do not necessarily have a place where I have to do anything other than be connected to my culture in some way. For example, simply speaking the native language could be me engaging with my community. The primary forms of communication within this community are speaking Spanish to celebrating or at least incorporating a tradition In order to somewhat be a part of this community you have to have a firm grasp on the culture because without that you wouldn't be able to participate or even really be accepted into the community.

Journal:            I feel that I did well on my Writing Project considering how I have never really had to write about a topic like this before. It wasn't too challenging because of the project builders. I think some of the strengths of my paper were the quotes that I included and I feel that I was able to make clear what my main objective was. I feel that I could have worked more on my analysis of the genres and what else was different about them and how their differences further contributed to my thesis. in terms of my writing, I think I could use more help on how to write a proper conclusion paragraph. Out of all of my paragraphs, I think that one was the weakest. Something in class that could possibly be focused on is how to write a proper introduction and conlusion paragraph. Also maybe an example of a thesis statement that a past student has written before.

Journal 4: Responding to Other students writing The role of a peer reviewer is to give advice to the writer what maybe they can add on to or possibly take out. You should see yourself as the reader and not the writer. You should not try to make the perper your own because it is the writers. So do not be over critical but also not too kind either. What you should do is try to give an equal amount of criticism and positive reviews. The type of comments that you should make are marginal notes and a note letter at the end. Your tone should be of that of a supportive friend who wants you to succeed. Out of this peer review, I would like to get some feedback on maybe how to structure my sentences better. I am feeling somewhat ok about this draft but I definitely think it could be proved upon considering that I don't really have a thesis, I feel that my strengths in the draft are my information I have on each genre.

Writing ideas W1  I am interested in writing about possibly something to do with mental heath disorders or the environment. With the mental health disorder, I could narrow down my topic to eating disorders or anxiety and the texts that I can draw my information from texts from a scientific article, Instagram posts, or even a video. I can also narrow down my topic for the environment in maybe discussing plastics in the ocean or veganism. I could also derive texts from some of the same places as mental health disorders. But going back to the disorders I am also interested in maybe going more towards the scientific side of them instead of learning how to deal with them emotionally.  Either way, I am interested to see how after reading the articles about writing will impact the way I look at these topics and the two distinct pieces of text I find on them.

Journal 3: Writing Process    First-order thinking is when you don't restrict yourself and just let the words flow out. Second-order thinking, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. With second-order thinking, you are judging your writing basically every second trying to see if it sounds "right". The two work together in that first-order thinking is best when you start writing, so the rough draft, then second order is used when you want to revise your paper and get the final draft. My writing process has mostly been second-order thinking. I rarely ever allow myself to do first-order thinking unless I am having really bad writer's block. I wouldn't say I am terrified of writing but more of the time restriction that comes with it. For example, I like to have days at least to write my paper so then I can revise it as many times as I want. But if I only have like two hours then I do panic a little. I am looking forward to seeing how reading these articles abo...

Daniella Trevino Professor Williams Writing 2 9 October 2019 PB1B The novel Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson is in the genre of realistic fiction. The main character Lia and her best friend Cassie both suffered from eating disorders and when Cassie ends up dying Lia must both deal with the death of someone who was close to her but also her mental health disorder. The purpose of this book is to get the message across of both how a mental health disorder like anorexia can impact someone and their loved ones. The book though is also meant to be a form of entertainment in that the main character has this "problem" and Lia has no intention of "solving her problem" so the reader then becomes interested in what will happen to her. The intended audience for a realistic novel, in general, is very broad. But this book specifically may better suit someone who wants to understand what living with a mental health disorder is like and see how that person ...

Detective DKT/Eulogy  The victim's name is Janet Doesky, the body was found on the beach by Cat Lewis whose dog was chewing on the victim's shoe when she discovered the body. The cause of death appears to be a gunshot to the head (did not look self-inflicted but could possibly be). The time of death was July 4; 2017 at 8:01p.m.. There was no witness to the crime and but a man named Mac who lives directly above the beach said that he heard  2 gunshots around 7:55p.m-8:05p.m. He then also stated that he saw a couple run-pass his house about 10 minutes after hearing the gunshots. So far the couple that Mac saw are the only suspects. I start by stating the victim's name and ending with who the possible suspects are. I found myself only wanting to add standard details about the case that I have heard on crime shown and the news. I chose basic words that weren't complicated to understand. I tried to not really have a tone and just list things. I ordered my information fr...

Journal 2 From my PB1A I discovered that when describing the genres I mostly just wanted to talk about the conventions. In other words, I felt that it was impossible to just say what genre I was talking about without diving right into the rules of that genre. From reading another person's PB1A I found it surprising that most news articles, no matter what the topic may be, also followed almost the same conventions. I had never realized that although the articles were two completely different subjects, they still went by the same rules. Also from reading others, I discovered that there are far more genres than I could have ever imagined. For example, I would have never thought that Youtube comments can be considered as a genre. And that there are "traditional" genres that can change as time goes by but are they still considered the same because they still follow the main conventions. I have not decided on a topic for my WP1 but I am thinking about writing on the topic of...

Daniella Trevino Professor Williams Writing 2 5 October 2019 PB1A The genre of a school textbook is to teach and help people understand what the material is about. A chemistry textbook follows these conventions and has two main purposes. To explain the history of how a certain thing like an equation came to be and to teach the audience. In this case, the audience is directed towards a student in a chemistry class. The writing style is formal and has no sort of slang. The textbook’s tone is omniscient and stays consistent throughout. The writing is also broken up into chapters and sections. At the end of each chapter, there are questions that the student can answer to further help them understand the material. A horror movie’s genre and purpose are to disturb or at least scare whoever is watching it within a certain time frame. The targeted audience of these movies ranges between teenagers to adults. The speaking in the film would be casual and not very strict ...

              Some genres that I have been familiar with as a student is the typical thesis statement and the essay structure of having to have 5 paragraphs. The conventions of a thesis statement would be that it can not be your first sentence but also should not be your last, must include the 3 points you will discuss later and then your main objective of the essay at the end.  The typical 5 paragraph essay format that was taught to me was your introduction needed a hook and thesis, the 3 main body paragraphs needed to be about the 3 topics from yhour thesis and had to have evidence to support your point, and the conclusion just overall needed to wrap everything up while not bringing any new topics into it.                The major course terms that I feel most comfortable with is audience and purpose. To me both of them kind of go together. In other words if you know your purpose for writting the essay an...

Hello! My name is Daniella Trevino (nickname Dani). My older sister Nathalie was the one who actually named me, not my parents. She said she got it from one of the main characters in one of my mom's novellas she used to watch. I am from Acampo, California which is a little town where almost everyone has some sort of farm animal. An interesting detail about my family is that all of my grandparents immigrated here from Mexico. What I hope to get out of this class is a better understanding of how to write certain papers. Also, the picture that I have posted is of my cat Panini. Yes, she is overweight and yes we have tried to get her to lose some pounds.