WRA-130 Ellie Jensen

I thought that the layout of this article was interesting in comparison to other pieces we've read in class. It seems that she's talking as though third person naritive for you to read as a situational experience. I felt that it was a well done attention getter. She is setting the text up for a reader to experence or have the ability to visualize what the author once experienced in her childhood. It has the ability to express some emotion when she continues to explain the difficulties that are in relation to being a woman novelist. personally, however, I found this piece a bit extensive and too discriptive. I found myself becoming unfocused frequently and found that she was building small tangents from her discription, personally I believe that this article could have been protrayed just as excellent cutting back a paragraph, simplification is sometimes the latter for well writen text. 

I thought that the layout of this article was interesting in comparison to other pieces we've read in class. It seems that she's talking as though third person naritive for you to read as a situational experience. I felt that it was a well done attention getter. She is setting the text up for a reader to experence or have the ability to visualize what the author once experienced in her childhood. It has the ability to express some emotion when she continues to explain the difficulties that are in relation to being a woman novelist. personally, however, I found this piece a bit extensive and too discriptive. I found myself becoming unfocused frequently and found that she was building small tangents from her discription, personally I believe that this article could have been protrayed just as excellent cutting back a paragraph, simplification is sometimes the latter for well writen text. 

This chapter emphasizes the importance of outlining your paper before you start the physical wirting process. It stresses the importance of knowing your topic and the direction you want your presented information to lead your reader, what message do you want your reader to walk away with?Also to know that the topic you have picked has substancial resources and credible information that you can gather and incorporate into your piece. With that information to know the structure of your paper and the order of paragraphs is essential to the flow of your information and the ability for a reader to go through your work smoothly. I think this chapter will always be essential in every form of wiritng. Writing is a process that requires careful consideration needed to make an excellent paper. 

The author is diligent about the importance of a first draft and how you should know clearly your argument before you start making drafts afterwards because your argument is the direction of your paper. When talking about dialogue I interpreted it as asking yourself questions you feel like a reader would have on your specific topic and cover them throughout your text making sure they are relevant and educational for your reader. Organization is key.

The flow of a paper can set the mood and the feeling when a reader walks away from a text, you want it to be logical and fitting to the information you have. So what do you have in all research papers? A thesis: what do you want to know about your topic? What do you already know? What do I think about what I already know or what has already been said? What has been clarified? And what’s the most important piece of information you’ve walked away with? Are some key questions this chapter expresses you should ask yourself through the writing process.

The chapter continues with tips we’ve discussed in class such as citing work as essential to avoid plagiarizing however the biggest impression I got from this chapter was the questions to ask yourself while writing an article. It made perfect sense to me to constantly question yourself for two reasons; you find that you cover a broader range of information fully immersing both you and your reader on the topic. Also it gives your article purpose, which is the main reason a reader chose your piece. They felt like it had information worth learning, you never want someone to walk away from your text saying so what. You want your purpose clear and concise.

Feminist criticism has become more modernized through generations. Being considered a political or social movement. There are several movements listed to start us off, informing us of the broad topics possibly covered for example the feminist or as states women’s liberation movement. Attempting to improve certain conditions of women. Feminism or to be a feminist hold ties to many different interpretations. You could be assumed as someone who feels that thus far American or global society undermines women authority and power, or an activist aiming to improve the already standing issues. Both these definitions were defined in the introduction leading us to believe where this paper is heading. The introduction was well placed because giving basic definitions helps the reader with basic knowledge to understand the text better. Also the transitions throughout this piece I felt are well placed, although the topic is redundant I feel that apart for repetitiveness the information flows smoothly and that is something I’ll always enjoy throughout a paper.

The author notes that the largest and founding factor of feminist issue is the culture women grow up in. now culture is a broad topic, if you sit to think about it is nearly everything in ones life. So because of the substantial sub topics this paper could have I feel it was written well to control the multitude of information that could correlate with the topic. The other main portion of the text was reflecting on a topic we’ve already encountered, rhetorical criticism.

I felt like this paper coincides with the previous information, almost as though when I read it, this topic was an example of the steps the other article was listing. The multiple steps that are required to produce a well-rounded paper are always stressed at titles to topic paragraphs just as the previous paper did as well. Both articles in comparison I felt that although the material was boring to read the structure was well thought out of placed together making the most of the material given. This was not my favorite paper to read but I left with gained knowledge so I felt the article provided some form of accomplishment.

The beginning of this piece provides a bit of instructions as to how to take away the most information from this article: noting the importance when we read about reader responsibility, writer responsibility, intercultural pragmatics; inductive writing, deductive writing. The beginning of the article almost touches on the norm concept a basic understanding based around a specific society. An unspoken rule understood around the community. I appreciate the formality of this article. How well placed the citations to credit the text, although this is not the most interesting thing we’ve had to read, its easy to note that this is a professional piece.

The author does a nice job of presenting the problem and why its being created, why there is an issue in the first place between reading and writing responsibilities, tying the issues in globally by literally lapping different stand points together. The interesting structure of this article is each new body paragraph builds on one another. It can be repetitive at certain moments but you know that there is always an effort of relating every topic together to creating a bigger picture, it almost proves the importance of each body paragraph because they are connected to one another in certain aspects of the topic.

My favorite potion of this piece is the extraordinary obstacles preventing people from seeing culture when the author states the abstraction along side ones own culture. I felt it was well said and short to a statement that can go on for a paper in itself. The down fall of this article I fell is at certain points it becomes repetitive about lapping cultural ideas becoming difficult, I understand that the author wants to stress it is a prime and stressing issue but it makes the paper slower to read. Bringing in a visual with the charts and placing a specific example on the cross cultural examination with Asian students was done well in the sense it provided physical evidence of his point of view, a solid example that stood out from the length of this article. There were pain different points woven into this piece and I found that there was almost two papers in one but with that said the conclusion did full circle in my opinion well with all the information they provided. The citation was done correctly as well which is something I appreciate in the professional perspective of an article to be taken seriously.

Although this passage s brief I found it very interesting to read because it places extreme care in recognizing the importance of the reader. That although the author is in control of the true outcome of the text the interpretation is accountable for each individual reader. It is up to the reader to determine what to accept what to believe to feel while reading, which places more pressure on an author to pose enough of a disclosed reason as to why the reader should in the first place. The author feels his work is important however he needs to convince others through word choice and text. I believe that this was a well done short piece my favorite so far that we have read in class for the personal connection and the evolution of a journey from the physical aspect of reading, the divulging into the underlying meaning of why someone reads. Its was brief and to the point, a snap shot of someone’s interpretation of the influence of the readers point of view from personal experience when relating and making connections to text.

Personally I feel that the introduction is dry and certain sentences feel out of place. I understand where she was trying to go with the layout of the initial paragraph but I feel like it could flow better with further revisions. I was taught throughout high school to the infamous “show not tell” so to read a blatant statement appears uncreative and not thoughtful. There are grammatical errors in word placement within several sentences. The history about basketball was intriguing however I was skeptical about her finding the original creation of basketball I feel like that’s something that could easily be construed. She gets off topic frequently with information that lags on the length of the paper. I appreciate her dedication she seems genuinely interested and concerned with the preservation and respect for women’s basketball, however, This is not an interesting piece to read.

She uses the fraise history of basketball far to frequent when we already know the title of this body paragraph. I find myself fazing in and out of this piece it doesn’t hold my interest. She explains the entire history of women’s basketball vaguely but in the next paragraph claims to tell how is started? I feel that in itself is redundant or repetitive. Classroom basketball has no relation to gender issues within a professional athletic sport. Injuries is true but those two issues are another paper on its own and have nothing to do with the original statement in the introduction. I feel like she could have cut out the classroom and injuries and go straight into the women’s basketball issues so the piece would flow more chronologically. Its as though she has two papers in one, the issue with basketball, and the issue with women’s basketball and they do not coincide smoothly within the paper.

My favorite paragraph is the loss of sight for what truly matters within the sport because it flows well, she makes logical and understandable points and its interesting and relatable, meaning its easy to see through her perspective. In her conclusions she does attempt a full circle touching briefly on all her body paragraphs but makes no relations between them other then the general topic of basketball and again I find myself saying this doesn’t flow well together. Also she criticizes the sport but the reminds us of its greatness yet poses no solutions to the issue that she presents. I did not think this paper was done well. I would not recommend another to read it.

I initially noticed the structure of this paper. Every point was clear and concise and the introduction in my perspective was not necessarily engaging but logical and flowed well with organized transitions. Having the first body paragraph as a brief history of food was well done making the second body, American food today, easy to compare and contrast without having to review the text several times. I appreciate the points given in this paper because each accusation is not a single statement but is paired with a form of support, support that could be viewed as common knowledge making it more comprehendible for the reader and giving the reader something to relate to while reading the piece. Something interesting about the piece is I’ve never had to create a paper with the vocabulary subtext; it made the over all appeal of the paper profession and legit.

The topic of American consumption in relation to food is a topic in this day and age as stressed and reoccurring in medical journals, news, television, and multiple forms of media. The topic is relevant and informative which is always a bonus for a paper when you can explain the reason of why this paper exists, why someone should care to read your piece. This paper hits key foundations to an informative paper. Another essential portion of this piece is her explanations of solutions for this epidemic. Entwining current statistics is always engaging to a reader. Having numbers is one of the least argumentative points a person can propose. Supplying simple solutions and realistic propositions makes this paper more then a students paper but something as when I read I took seriously, I felt informed and I walked away learning something about American eating habits.

Overall I thought this paper was done well. My criticism is that some points were pressed upon a bit to frequently bordering on redundancy. But the conclusion was well put together reviewing key statements throughout the piece adequately summarizing the purpose of her text. The works cited was also done well, assuring her reasons do have plausible sources is again reassuring to the reader that this text should be taken seriously in relation to the evidence being given. I enjoyed reading this paper because there seemed to be weight as to why American’s should be reading articles such as this. I was pleased when I finished this paper more so then other text we’ve read so far in this class.

Cogito ergo sum: I think therefore I am. The declaration of a person’s consciousness, a subject that’s been dwelled upon as early as Homer in ancient Grecian times. But exhibited across hundreds of pages of his text, is the perceptual surface of thinking. Glimpses in moments, absolute descriptions of scenes, it is only later when depth as an aspect of thinking in ironic terms surfaces through Heraclitus. The lexical means to describe social aspects of human nature. From my perspective I associate this with an authors ability to express internal monologue, to explain the emotional aspect behind each action, not just the explanation of an action in itself. I do not intend to demote the importance of figure and ground. In order for a reader to completely immerse themselves they need to know the visual surroundings to better interpret textual meaning.

A founding difference however, that stands interpretation apart is that cultural difference are influences. A beach is a beach is a beach but a middle finger possibly induces multiple meanings depending on the origin of your reader. There are always restrictions but this article uses the term perceptual boundaries. Whether location or language, perception can retain gaps or misunderstandings. Now that literature has developed through several ages of radical times, there are other more complex structures in writings. The divide between sensory perception and abstract symbolism. The tool authors will use to convey emotion through the sentimentality of an object all depends like many aspects of communication on culture. It’s broad but a simple concept to grasp, different memories, learning style and different communicative skills influence your perspective on the world. Perception can be used as a notorious skill, for example as American’s for counterfactual purposes although certain facts are objective.

But to gain a perspective you need to complete moments in your life, procedural knowledge, what I interpreted as explaining physical aspects of how one finishes a task, an American mental formation, but other countries like Germany use declarative knowledge, consisting of describing the world. Both however I find are equally important and engaging while reading, also incomplete if a document had one and not the other.