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Purpose is the word I’ve chosen as my “key word”. Purpose is the reason that any piece of writing is composed. No context or written work is ever composed aimlessly or for no reason at all. Every single discourse has a purpose, either to educate, argue or achieve. The goal of any discourse could beContinue reading “My Key Word(In Class Reflection)”

A discourse community is a group of people that have similar interests and ideologies it usually consists of people that want to achieve a common goal. discourse communities have a set of rules and regulations that must be followed to be a part of the community the members of the discourse community must follow theseContinue reading “BLOG POST 6: Discourse Community”

What is writing? To me writing could be for two reasons, out of compulsion or for leisure. Usually when we’re forced or required to write there’s a lot more thought and deep digging that goes into it. writing for leisure or out of ones own interest is more pressurizing because jotting down what you wantContinue reading “BLOG POST 1: What is writing”

According to the article being a novice is not a bad thing, in other words it’s just a lack of exposure to situations. But this lack of exposure also means they do not have any prior knowledge on the situation and the workings of it or how to react to the various difficulties or circumstancesContinue reading “BLOG POST 13: Learning and Transfer”

[One student said: “I do find myself at times restructuring my sentences. I personally hate to admit that I did something wrong. But once in a while I will look at something I’ve written and say ‘well, that’s extra and that’s extra and I can take it out,’ and I will modify it, so IContinue reading “BLOG POST 12: Transfer”

using Yanceys prompt on what writing is and what it isn’t and how it should be done and how it shouldn’t be done, I’ve understood that writing must include words, it may or may not be created for the exact same reason all the time everywhere. It could be very visual as a script forContinue reading “BLOG POST 10: Circulation”

How is knowledge made through writing? By writing, information is passed, understood or even created. When someone reads an article that has been published by a legit source, they can be sure that what they are being told is the truth and has come from credible authors. Most scientific facts are just discoveries that haveContinue reading “Knowledge through writing”

Anzaldua began in a dentists office and took a turn from a normal routinely root canal into an extensive report on the different types of Spanish speaking people in the united states and how they’ve adapted and been forced to adapt their language. She links language to identity. Anzaldua talks about how the dialects ofContinue reading “BLOG POST 11: Composing in Context”

The key concepts that we discussed in the first half of the semester were Genre Genre is the type or category which the discourse is a part of. Depending on the genre, several of the other key concepts can be determined or predicted like the purpose, context and most importantly, the audience. Genre can notContinue reading “Key Concept Check In”

What does “knowledge” mean to me? Knowledge is what is known to us. You need not be an expert or have a degree to be equipped with the knowledge for all topics. But for certain areas of understanding, a particular level of expertise or proof of that understanding is required, like a PhD for astrophysicistsContinue reading “BLOG POST 7: KNOWLEDGE”