Final Reflection

1) RHETORICAL KNOWLEDGE -analyze understanding of audience, purpose, tone and

context.
The first screenshot is a reflection on Francine Prose's writing from the coursepack where she
brings in her voice to describe her childhood experiences in writing. She uses an informative and
curious tone when proposing different methods of enhancing writing skills from teachers to their
students. She suggests free writing to students and anyone who is a writer. She also connects her
interest in reading and writing to a growing passion of teaching writing.. Her tone is a lot more
informal than the second screenshot which is by Kevin Snodgrass of the structure of a five
paragraph essay. His tone is more straight-forward to his audience of student writers. He also
brings in his personal voice, but makes it comical by changing perspectives. He talks about the
"death of a 5 paragraph essay" because contrary to the traditional way of following it, he
suggests that there are multiple ways to play with words in the form of essays, more free-writing.
nice of writing apart from the traditional introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion style.
These two screenshots exemplify rhetorical knowledge because they contrast different intended
audience and incorporate different tones in their writing. Naturally, both writings are my
reflection of these two author's opinions, but even the reflection shows a contrast in their purpose
to their audience because Francine Prose's writing informs her audience, whereas Snodgrass's
writing entertains his audience.

2) CRITICAL READING-to recognize author's purpose, recognize bias, and interpret text.

The screenshot above, is a reflection of Stephen King's writing on What Writing Is. Stephen King
uses an example of a cage and a rabbit sitting on a red cloth in his writing to emphasize the
importance of providing different perspectives in a text as well as allowing descriptive words to
paint a picture for the reader. His idea of a writer to reader connection helped me write my
narrative essay as well as my inquiry thesis because I was able to provide multiple perspectives,
from various people such as from credible authors with PhD's, and high degrees for my inquiry
thesis. In my narrative essay, I was able to properly and thoroughly describe certain topics about
myself using vivid, and illustrative phrases to express my emotions such as describing my art
form of dance to emphasize my traditional side and overall be as descriptive as possible in the
smallest of details in my writings.

This screenshot is from a website that I originally made an annotated bibliography of, but ended
up not using in my inquiry thesis paper. I found that this source was not credible enough because
the author's views on this topic are very biased and speak only from his personal stand point.
Another reason is that he gives credit to "neurologists and psychologists" but does not really
address who and what makes them credible. He generalizes his statements and that is a big
reason as to why his source was not the most credible to use in my essay.

3) KNOWLEDGE OF CONVENTIONS-Author's edition of work with punctuation,

grammar, etc.
This screenshot is from studio 2 where we were supposed to write about a favorite place in detail
using all five senses. I would say that this writing incorporates a lot of commas to show pauses in
sentences. This implies that there is a lot of description of the words used and it is a way of
expanding writing structure. The idea of multiple commas within one sentence is used to
elaborate the sentence, thus being overly descriptive when describing the sense of smell, vision,
and hearing, particularly in the first sentence.

This screenshot is from studio 3, simply answering questions related to a selected commercial of
choice. This exemplifies knowledge of conventions because it is short and concise with the usage
of one of the most important punctuations, a period. Several periods within this paragraph
indicate that the answers are short and to the point, not elaborate and descriptive like the first
screenshot. There is no need to expand the sentences because it only required that we answer the
questions thoroughly, but concisely.
This last screenshot is an MLA cited work page for my inquiry thesis which very well depicts the
idea of knowledge of conventions through its proper citation. There are also several footnotes at
the end of previous pages for clarification on certain words along with in-text citations that show
which website and authors I got the information from. These directly take you back to its
respective citation because the title and authors are shown clearly in the MLA citation. Overall, I
learned a lot about MLA citation in this class, which is simply another example of knowledge of
conventions.

4) COMPOSING PROCESS-process of pre-writing and strategies to produce an effective

piece of writing.
These two screenshots are of my literacy narrative draft number two, which show my composing
process. In the first draft, I was given feedback to be more specific on my Indian culture and
provide examples and more details on its background. In my second draft, I did provide more
examples as mentioned with welcoming someone into the house, way of dressing, and respecting
elders, and what it meant to rebel. I show a contrast between my American culture versus my
Indian culture, which I did not do in the first draft which is why it is a good example of my
composing process, it allowed me to expand on my writing.
These two screenshots demonstrate my composing process because the first screenshot, which is
from draft one of my literacy narrative, does not provide examples of characters from books or
movies in relevance to my topic. Whereas, the second screenshot, which is from draft two of my
literacy narrative, provides a specific character from a movie and relates it back to my memory
of interaction with a patient that I worked with in a hospital. So these two paragraphs show a
slight shift in my writing with more examples and details from my previous work.

This screenshot is from my inquiry thesis and it shows my understanding of composing process
because in my first draft, I did not include the whole paragraph about a student's perspective on
multi-tasking. In my original draft, I was given feedback to incorporate a student's voice, which I
did with this additional paragraph in my second draft. This addition gave my readers more of a
connection to my topic because it was easily relatable to all the facts given by credible authors
prior to this paragraph.

5) CRITICAL REFLECTION-Make meaning of a writing piece, challenge writing and

reflect back on it.
The screenshot above is a daybook reflection on bell hooks, an African woman who writes in
behalf of all females. As I was reflecting on her writing, I realized how much of an inspiration
she is to every female, including myself on expressing thoughts and ideas about a certain topic.
She emphasizes the need to speak and write about how an individual feels, especially when being
suppressed or restricted within a community. Reading her piece of writing made me respect
writing even more because I was able to hear the voice of authors from other pieces of writing.
Her writing made me understand that there is more to words than can be seen, that we have to
actually consider looking into phrases and understand what the author is truly saying to his or her
audience.
This particular screenshot is from Studio 1, activity two, a reflection on Lyiscott's video on
articulation. After watching her video, I realized that articulation is all based on how the
audience perceives your dialogue. Articulation is most often misinterpreted by its use of well put
grammar or sentence structures, but according to her, most people fail to realize the idea of
different perspectives within articulation. She establishes that there are slangs that should be
considered, because that represents where a person comes from. Her video made me realize that
articulation is based on how fluently and coherently one can express their thoughts and this
helped me in my writing because I was able to reflect back on her words and improve my ways
of organizing sentences in a way that I thought would appeal more to my audience, especially in
my inquiry thesis.