Respond to the following questions based on your article. You need to answer in complete sentences using specific language--so, don't say something like "this is the best article I have ever written because I defined my term." This tells me nothing. Each question should have three-five sentences in response.
1. Believe this is the best assignment you have ever written. Tell me why.
2. Doubt this assignment is any good at all. Tell me why.
3. Predict my response to your assignment.
4. Agree or disagree with your sense of my response to this assignment.
1.This is the best assignment I've ever written because the logic flows well and the terms are defined in easy to understand, straightforward, language. Also, I think the reader would ultimately understand what I was trying to teach them, the three key rhetorical terms.
ReplyDelete2. The assignment in so good because it reads more like an academic paper and I didn't quite address my audience in the way that an article is supposed to. Also, my analysis could be lacking a bit, aka not enough direct quotes.
3. I'm guessing you'll say that it reads too much like an academic paper and while there are some good points and it flows well, it could be better addressed to the audience I was trying to reach.
4. I agree with your potential response that I may not have done the best job of addressing my audience. However, I feel like the definitions are strong and that I achieved my ultimate goal with writing this article, which was to inform the average reader about these key rhetorical terms.
1. This assignment is the best I’ve ever written because I finally thought about my audience in a different way, and morphed my language and style to appeal to this specific audience. I believe anyone could read my article and understand much better what rhetorical situation, audience, and genre are. The piece is all-around relatable to the people and also the current time, that being the Superbowl.
ReplyDelete2. This assignment is not my best because I did not appeal to everyone. Many readers are into art, science, technology, home and décor, and my piece would be in the sports section. Yes, this is a widely read section but it should have had a broader metaphor to go along with the importance of the piece, which were the definitions. While I think I related the metaphor to the writing well, there are some parts where it is random to swoop in with information about writing. I need better transitions and more relatable examples.
3. I think you will like the formatting, images and idea of my paper but I’m afraid you’ll still think it was mostly about soccer, despite me revising it a lot. I think you will think my definitions are well put and concise, as well as simple enough for any reader to understand. I think you’ll agree with me that my examples need to be more relatable and appealing to the general audience. You may read them to be random in my article and not introduced well enough.
4. I agree with some parts of what I think you’ll think. For instance, I agree with the transitions thing. I know I have some good ones, but the quotes were tricky and I should have thought it through more and really worked to make it flow better. I think my article looks nice and is formatted well. The images and advertisements are relatable, and the paper itself is easy to read. The simple language appeals to the audience and I think you’ll agree with that as well. I don’t think my paper is all about soccer anymore. I changed a lot and got rid of useless soccer words, and merely use the sport as a reference for the reader, who I assumed is oblivious to all soccer, to understand.
I believe that this is the best assignment I have ever written because I got into character. I wrote the entire piece as if it was an article in a newspaper, and I used a certain type of language to make it easy to understand. I also used a metaphor to make what I was saying more relatable. I am also very happy with the way the formatting turned out. I believe it looks like a real newspaper article.
ReplyDeleteI doubt that this assignment is any good at all, because it is not as in depth as a normal essay would be. Due to the fact that it is written as an article, it is not the same as a 5-paragraph essay full of parenthetical references. I am nervous that it is not factual enough, and is too much into character. I am also nervous that my article was not colorful enough. I hadn’t realized that USA today was supposed to be colorful until a classmate pointed it out to me. When I googled USA today, most of the articles were not colorful. They were in black and white and if they were in color they were not super bright. I am hoping that you will understand that it could go either way. That said, my article is not black and white, it just doesn’t scream color.
I think that you will like the assignment. It is a lot different than my first draft, which I really like. It is more geared towards the actual assignment. I think that you will see that I changed my methods of writing the piece, and will find that it is informative but more stylized than my first draft.
I am nervous, however, that you will think that it is not good enough because I have never written in this style before. Although I think that it will elicit a positive response, I hope that I have not missed the mark. That said, however, I agree with the response that I think you will give. I put a lot of effort into the piece and I think that I finally understood the assignment. I also think that I did a good job explaining each definition in a less formal way. I hope you like it ☺
1. This is the best assignment that I have ever written because of the creativity I used to come up with my idea. Instead of opting for a metaphor to provide the definitions, I opted for a very literal newspaper article, which I think might have been more difficult to pull off. Also, I think that I did a very strong job writing for my designated audience (the Denver Post) and did provide three clear definitions for the ideas we were asked to do.
ReplyDelete2. This assignment is not very good because of the fact that I did choose to do a more concrete newspaper article rather than a metaphor. I think I might have bit off a bit more than I can chew and did not effectively produce the paper that I was hoping for because of that. It was more difficult than I thought to do, and I think that I may not have fully committed to the idea because of that.
3. Professor Taczak will be impressed with my formatting, because I did try and copy what the front page of the Denver Post looks like as best as I could. I think you will also enjoy the originality involved with the piece and that I provided the definitions very clearly. I expect that you will think that I did not fully commit to the idea, and needed to use more support for my definitions than I did, and there will probably be some errors in the works cited.
4. I would agree with the part about the formatting, because that did take me FOREVER and I am really happy with the way it turned out. And while I agree that there could have been more support to the definitions, I don’t think it was necessary in the context. I made sure to introduce the section as my own opinion of the definitions, so the reader knows that they are coming from me, and will most likely be different than those on dictionary.com. And in the assignment handout you were very clear that we needed to do our own definitions, and not use someone elses, so that is why I did not base mine off of outside support. I would also disagree with the part about me not fully committing to the piece, because I really feel like I did the best I could with the idea I chose.
1. The reason I believe this is the best is because I went from a rough draft where I was truly lost and transformed it into a grade A newspaper article. I believe that the outside source I used in defining genre was phenomenal and really helped me get my final point across. Although I changed my paper from the metaphor I began with, I think my introduction now does a great job of explaining the main idea of the article and attracting and appealing to the audience.
ReplyDelete2. This assignment sucked because at first I was honestly kind of lost and not sure where I was taking myself. Writers block set in and destroyed my confidence even more. I don’t believe that I did a good job using voice and audience in the piece. Newspaper formats were also not as easy to come across as you said they would be.
3. I believe that you will like the paper, especially having seen my very rough draft. I am thinking A to A- on the paper because I believe I did everything pretty well. I am a bit confused on how to appeal directly to an audience though and think that would be a particularly weak point of the article.
4. I believe that you will enjoy and learn from my article. I am indifferent to your response as of now because I don’t know how you grade papers or what little things you take off for. I believe that the paper was very good and hit all the criteria.
If this were mt best assignment ever, it would have been written in the 5th or 6th grade. I used slightly elevated vocabulary, examples from the text, and made it look like it was from the New York Times. For a 5th or 6th grader, that would be very impressive. I also hit upon all the major points that I needed to for the assignment. I also correctly composed my works cited!
ReplyDeleteBecause this is my worst college assignment so far, I will explain why. I did not finish the assignment first of all. I gave definitions and used examples, but I did not conclude anything. I left it high and dry at the end. I also only used one text for my examples and didn't even use the Letter From Birmingham Jail. The pictures I used did not wrap around the text as I would have liked them to, and that was simply a time issue. Thought I know how to do it, I couldn't under the circumstances I was under. I also failed to edit it and am unsure as to if there are any literary errors that would have been rather easy to spot on just one look over.
I think your response to this assignment will be one of disappointment mainly due to the fact that I didn't finish. You may also be surprised at how drastically I changed my subject from my rough draft to what I turned in today.
I know that you are a kind and understanding person, but I know that your reaction may be just as I described above because what's turned in does not reflect either my level of commitment to the class nor does it show the effort that I can put forth in my writing. However, there's always that slight chance that you will just throw it in the trash (which may be the best bet for all parties involved...).
I believe that this is my best assignment I have ever done because I feel like I got through to my audience and I defined the terms that I was given. I also made up a metaphor, which makes my definitions more clear, and it connects to my audience a lot more. I have never written a newspaper article before and I think that I got to my audience while explaining writing.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes doubt this assignment because I started writing a paper that wasn’t geared toward my audience. I’m a hoping that making up the metaphor will make it more relatable, but it still could be too formal. I am also a little nervous that the definitions are not clear enough and I could of made them a lot easier to understand.
I predict that you are going to say that I need to make my metaphor more present but that it is relatable to my audience. I also think that you will say that my definitions are very clear but I need to connect my writing more with a metaphor.
I agree that my metaphor is a little faint and I need to put more emphasis on my metaphor. I also think that I have really strong definitions, but I would disagree if you said they didn’t connect to my metaphor. I feel like they connect to my metaphor even if it’s not as strong as it should be. This is because I wanted to get the definitions across before making my metaphor standing out the most.
I think this is the best assignment I have ever write because I try my best on it, and I know the purpose why I write it. I can clearly understand what my purpose is because I have learnt what the audience is. Once I know who is my audience, I can use appropriate style of writing, which is genre. Thus, my purpose is getting clear. The most important thing I have learnt from the class is that I know the structure of writings. If I want to write a good assignment, I should achieve all the elements of writings. Therefore, I think this is the best assignment I have ever written.
ReplyDeleteI loved this assignment. I feel like this particular assignment really reinforced the components that are critical to every piece of writing. Taking two weeks to analyze genre, audience and rhetoric situation helped me think about my own writing and more specifically who I’m trying to reach out to and why. I found it helpful using an outside source to support these definitions reinforcing my ideas with something I knew a little bit more about.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed nothing about this assignment. I think that the context behind genre, audience and rhetorical situation has no place in a newspaper article. Trying to reach out to people about the components of writing through a formal newspaper seems like an uncommon place for an audience I had in mind.
Excluding weak transitions, I think you will feel good about my article. It seems clear and to the point, supporting each of claims. The format and ads of my article defiantly gave the article its clear newspaper appearance.
As I typically do, I don’t think your response will be as strong as mine but for the most part I think that I understand what’s good and could be improved in my work.