Andrea Giner

[agiive-blog]

Advice :)

Hi, welcome to RWS1302. The first day of class will feel like a lot and impossible, but keep calm. Professor villa offers some extra credits, do not be lazy and work on them.

RWS 1302 is a class has a lot of small details that can either help your grade or ruin it. You have to stay on top of everything. Do not procrastinate, do everything in advance or at least read the instructions for the projects in advance so once you have to do them you are not that lost.

Tumblr posts will be due every week, I recommend you to do the one that is due that week in advance and just post it, add the images and respond one of the posts the day that you have to turn it in, this will make it easier and you won’t forget to do it. Overall just organize your time and do not wait until the last minute to start working on the assignments.

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Week 15

Learning has no linear structure, but many people have forgotten that. It is not common to create a video in a writing class because it does not seem appropriate under the curriculum. However, creating a video that advocates a message requires the knowledge from a writing class. In our rws class we learned things such as: rhetoric approaches, advocacy, how to have accurate research, and the effective approach of a message. All of these elements are incredibly important in creating a video. By doing a video in a writing class I learned how to combine new learned skills with outside resources. My newly learned skills did not just stay in class nor only in writing. Submitting a video expanded my knowledge by allowing me to introduce new information with old information.       

My group and I composed our purpose in the film documentary in multiple ways. We wanted to establish ethos for our project so we conducted a interview. We also included several parts of a video film that was created by JAN (the organization we focused on) to provide information from them. Our group also provided several statistics to accurately inform our audience. We varied the amount of videos and pictures so neither of them would be over dominating. We also switched the background music depending on our information to provoke the right emotions. For our presentation we decided to use something that was informative while being creative, quirky, and understandable. For that reason we chose to dress as the characters from inside out. This allowed us to explain the emotional imbalance people with bipolar disorder go through while keeping it unique.      

I believe that me and my group effectively delivered our message.We explained the situation, we explained the problem, and provided a solution. Our video could be considered serious and that is what we were going for. We wanted our audience to understand that this is a serious situation which needs to be resolved. My group members and I worked our hardest and I am very happy with the end product.  

For my first question I choose to write what was in my head. In a way it felt like a free write. I did this because I really value the idea of gaining knowledge and I believe that the answer to everything is getting educated. Many students take learning for granted, when several children in third world countries would die for the same opportunities. Therefore I wanted to express the importance of learning and using the skills that we are taught. 

[villaphd]

The group did an excellent job with the video and presentation. 

[agiive-blog]

I loved your presentation, making the connection with the movie inside out made it special! Good job !

[agiive-blog]

Week 15

Writing is not the only way to communicate or express ideas. The purpose of submitting a video in a writing class is to experiment different platforms. Even if a video is more visual and does not contains many textual parts, it requires the same type of organization that a normal paper would do.

In our video we composed our message by providing an interview from a professional trainer who talked about the common mistakes done while training, providing statistics that show the amount of injuries caused by bad technique, also we provided examples of exercises done properly. 

I believe that our film doc achieved its advocacy, which is to create conscience among teens that they should get informed before starting weight training. We achieved our advocacy by providing information about how to get informed as well as recommendations. In question number one I decided to write my own opinion. I wrote what I believe is the purpose to create a video in a  writing class, I believe that writing is not limited to be on a paper.

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Op-ed main points

The topic for my op-ed is how globalization affect countries in Latin America. The major points that i am going to use for my op-ed are 

1.-What effects (positive and negative ) globalization has in Latin american countries.It is true that globalization is beneficial for Latin American countries, economy is important but also the social life it is important. 

“the activity level in free trade zones showed a 31% annual growth rate based on an increase from $635 million dollars in 2007, which represented 1.7% ofUruguay’s GDP that Year” (Free Trade Zones Contribute to the Diversification of Uruguay's Export’s, 2014)

2.- How international treaties work and if they are or are not beneficial.

“With an ailing economy NAFTA was in fact a bad deal for Mexico because it could not compete with U.S subsidies to its own businesses, thus producing job loss and migration pressures in Mexico…” (Hing, 2010, p.3).

3.- How globalization affects not only the economic aspect but also the cultural aspect of each country.

“Due to globalization,many regions are losing their own culture, leaving their roots behind, “[i]ncreased Globalization appears to lead to increased homogenization. Cultural variety is threatened… variety and diversity are being replaced by sameness” (Saenz, 2002, p.126). 

To back up these major points I am going to use the sources from my Lit Review as well as new sources that  might be relevant to the subject.  Also these points will be included in the op-ed to inform the reader and convince him to act and keep in mind the solution that I provide. 

These two images will be included because they represent my main points. 

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Week 14 :) 

The genre I plan on using is articles. Articles are useful, because they give a good amount of information needed to gain knowledge off a certain topic. Articles allow people to learn information about a topic that they did not know, or thought they knew about. Fashion articles give good information on the topic that I’m discussing. You can never go wrong with articles because they demonstrate information as well as pictures. 

My op-ed piece will focus on the discrimination within the fashion industry mainly focusing on women and men of all shapes and sizes.I chose this topic because it relates to my major which is fashion design.  The fashion industry designs for basically thinner people, which isn’t right at all. The industry needs to expand clothing sizes, because not all people are built the same. It’s awful to know that some people can’t go into a store because that certain store doesn’t carry their size. Everyone of all shapes and sizes should be able to go into whichever store they like and be able to find clothing they like and that fits them. The solution and change to this issue is to make the fashion industry realize that all women and men of every shape and size is handsome and beautiful. Fashion designers should design for a variety of people, not just favor thinner people. This is discrimination, and there is many solutions to this issue. 

[agiive-blog]

I believe that even if the fashion industry has started to design for plus sizes there is still discrimination because of sizes. An example is how they make a difference in the way they call the section for sizes bigger than large. why give them a special name? I am looking forward to your Op-ed.

[agiive-blog]

Op-ed

My topic throughout the semester was related to International Trade policies and how these policies affect the countries, therefore I think that the genre that best suits my op-ed is a column in magazine.

A column is the best format for my opinion piece because of the nature of my subject, also in a column I can express my opinion as well as to suggest policy changes to improve the way in how trades are done in between countries as to reduce the economic gaps created because unfair treaties.

I am going to use this image in the column to make an emphasis in how the leaders of the countries sign the treaties only looking after their interests and not at those of the rest of the population. 

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Week 12 Film Doc.

My group and I are planning to base our film document on logos and ethos. The reason we picked these two rhetoric approaches is because we want a more serious approach rather than an emotional approach. By choosing logos we are expected to provide our film with several facts, statistics, and definitions.   

 For example, our group will be focusing on people with bipolar disorder and how to improve their work environment. We are planning on defining bipolar disorder, providing a statistics about the population of people with bipolar disorder, and several facts about the mental illness along with the impact of employment. Resources that have helped us so far are statistics and facts about bipolar disorder.

Since we will be providing a lot of information we need to gain credibility. In order to have a strong ethos we need to provide several credible sources. For example, my group and I are planning on either interviewing a psychologist/psychiatrist, a manager of a business, or a person with bipolar disorder. If we interview a psychologist we have the advantage of supporting our argument with logical reasoning. If we interview a manager we can get their personal opinion on how they provide or how they wish to provide support to people with bipolar disorder. Lastly, if we interview a person diagnosed as bipolar we can get the personal insight. It is important for our group to have credibility if we want the rest of our project to work. 

(our group will be like the girl if our logos and ethos fail us. We are trusting our grade on these rhetoric appeals)

The reason we are not going to focus on pathos is because we believe that a dominate emotional approach towards our film document would be irrelevant. We may include a few scenes or images with pathos but it is not our main approach.   

(sorry pathos) 

[agiive-blog]

We find your subject really interesting and It is true that, If your main goal is to inform and not to awake any feelings in the audience, pathos does not need to be that much present.

[agiive-blog]

Film Doc

For the making of the video, our team is going to use ethos, logos, pathos, these rhetorical choices, will be observed as followed, Ethos will be portrayed on the interviews that are going to be conducted, as well as the sources that are going to be used. Logos, will be incorporated with the use of graphs and statistics, that will help transmit the information visually, also facts and important information. Finally, pathos which focuses on the transition of the message. We will be using pathos to create conscience in teens about the injuries that can be caused if weightlifting is not done properly.

Without these rhetorical choices our video would fail its purpose, which is to inform teens about weightlifting at an early age.

The resource that helped us in the making of the video, and that can absolute help other groups are the outline of the movie, as well as websites related to our topic.

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Week 10- Lit Review

1. What patterns did you find in the development, or enhancement, of your research skills?

I originally was going to interview a plastic surgeon Dr. Martin for the paper, but then as I started to write the questions and go over them again, and again. I asked myself, is this paper going to be about a surgeons perspective or is it suppose to be more along the lines of a patients view. So I changed my interview from a surgeon to a patient who has had a breast augmentation. This helped me answer more questions that the paper was needing to touch base on. 

2. Did your assessment/evaluation of the sources change? If so, how?

My sources did change and are still changing. I would read an article that would sound like what the paper needed, but as I would read more it turned out to not be so good. So I had to do more research and change the sources. The evaluation also changed as well, I would look at the paper and think how it could be more cohesive or flow better. Which that had an impact on the sources as well, cause one article would say something, but it wouldn’t mesh well with another. 

3. Do you think the methodology described in questions 1 and 2 work? Yes/No? Explain.

Yes, I think that it did work. I would be able to assess and evaluate the paper so I would be able to see what it might be missing, or what I could improve on. 

4. Select one of the questions listed and explain the rhetorical choices you made towards answering the question.

The question for number 3 rhetorical choices that I made while answering the question is, I would write a page or two. After I was done I would walk away for awhile then come back and reread the paper. I would see what sounded good, what needed improvement, or what I just needed to get rid of. Then I would ask myself what is it that I really want to know, what is the message that I am trying to get across? These rhetorical aspects really helped me, and are still helping me while I finish up these last few pages. 

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I agree with your answer in question 2. I was constantly finding new sources to replace old ones. Not only that it actually helped me figure out if my old sources sounded biased in my paper. My view on my topic also changed and allowed me to see the topic from both angles changing my overall opinion.

[agiive-blog]

I agree with you, I was always asking myself what information I wanted, and that made me change my sources. Also as I was finding new information, my opinion changed as well as the direction of my paper.

[agiive-blog]

week 10: Lit Review Reflection

1.What patterns did you find in the development, or enhancement, of your research skills?During the process of writing I found that sometimes I would go of topic, or being repetitive. I found a little challenging to put all the information together, and developing my ideas without taking a stand.

2.  Did your assessment/evaluation of the sources change? If so, how?

As I was writing I was changing the sources that I was going to use because they were too vague or did not answer the question or simply because I found something more interesting, also at some point I decided to even change one of my research questions because the information that I had did not answered the question the way that I wanted.

3. Do you think the methodology described in questions 1 and 2 work? Yes/No. Explain.

I think that the methodology described in the previous questions works really well, because it is not until you are writhing the paper that you realize what are you missing or what you have to change.

4.Select one of the questions listed and explain the rhetorical choices you made towards answering the question.

In question number 1 I used Ethos since I am telling my experience of the writing process of the Lit Review. As well as the GIF which tells how I felt because at the middle of the writing process I felt completely lost.

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Literature Review Research

The process that I have taken begins with what I want to search in the first place. I had to specifically narrow down my topic to allow for the best results.

Then I continued to search the articles and reading mainly the abstract that way if the article is irrelevant than I can move on quickly. I also paid attention to the authors and if they are credible and biased that way I can use them credibly in my paper.

I found that the best databases to search in where the UTEP Library and Google Scholar. They gave me credible sources and while some had biased articles they made it clear if it was a Scholarly Article or a periodical.

Overall I used different sources that spoke of both sides of the argument in which I am later going to research. This method allowed me to keep my opinion away from the paper, and leave it only as pure facts.

[ivanatrillo-blog]

I really like the UTEP databases like academic search complete because they have a lot of articles with good information. Like you said, I think it is very important to make sure you have different point of views and facts because you dont want to take a side on the argument. 

[agiive-blog]

I Found the data base from UTEP extremely helpful too, because it provides you a variety of sources. Also there you can narrow the information that you are looking for, making it easier.

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Week 7: Sources

To begin, I thought about what I was looking for, and narrowed my questions so it could be easier to find sources. Once I found a variety of sources, I read them and analyze what could be useful and if I could use the same source to answer more than one question, and if it brought any different point of views. 

Globalization affects every aspect of society, this can be in a positive or negative way, in consequence opinions about my topic tend to be biased, which made it a little difficult to find a no biased source or a source that contained facts and statistics. 

Doing the annotated bibliography was overwhelming. I just felt completely lost. I knew what questions I wanted to be answer and the kind of information that I was looking for, but at some point of my research process, I had too much information and completely lost my track. Next time I think that I am just going to focus on what question at a time and organize my work and time better.

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Week 6: Rhetoric Choice

My topic for the literature review surrounds the mental illness schizophrenia. 

My questions focus on informing my audience about the treatments and methods a person with paranoid schizophrenia needs and how effective they are.  

Since schizophrenia is a serious mental disease I chose logos as my rhetoric approach. I wanted my question to reflect the importance about the disease. I wanted my questions to be answered by facts more than anything else. 

[agiive-blog]

I’ve always been interested in Schizophrenia, and how people that suffers from this issue is treated as a bad element for society, even if we as society can do something to help. I like how you want to focus your research into how can be done to treat this illness.

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Week 6: Research Questions

The topic for my research is how globalization affects Latin America

The rhetorical choices that I made were focusing on how I wanted the reader to react.I wanted to create discomfort among the readers and establish the fact that globalization has two faces. Some get benefits and the others get affected directly or indirectly. Also another rhetorical choice that I made was what kind of information I wanted to use to answer my questions. As well as, making appeal to logos in the way my questions were organized, how the second question was a bridge in between the first and last question.

Now that I know that I started with my research, I found out that I have to do little modifications to my questions so I can find the information  what I am looking for easily. Also I believe that by following the instructions and staying on topic will help me to get a good grade in this assignment.

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Week 5

1) What did you know about genres before this assignment and what impact do you think studying genres may have on your writing? 

By what I understood, genres were like themes that helped explain a text or a picture. After studying about genres, I began to add more detail and personality to my writing. 

2) What are the complexities of using genres? 

It is difficult to stay on topic while explaining a really good genre because there are so many details I don’t want to leave out. 

3) What is the value of studying and/or writing about genres? 

Studying and writing about genres makes the imagination work a lot more because it makes you realize the way you feel about a certain image and it helps you understand the reason behind every color and text type chosen. 

4) Select one of the questions listed and explain the rhetorical choices you made towards answering the question. For example, if you choose a gif to help communicate your answer to the question, then you must explain why you chose that specific image. Briefly describe the rhetorical choices you made. 

I choose question number 2, and the picture of Kanye because that is literally my reaction when I begin to analyze the image or text and I begin to get so many ideas that somehow connect in my brain, but when I type them out, it does not make any sense. I get easily frustrated when I complicate a process or over think an idea.  

[solivas11]

Your answer to your fourth question is similar to my experience. I don’t think the assignment was that difficult. Crafting all of those ideas into a paper is what made the assignment a challenge, I think.

[agiive-blog]

Hi !

Your answer to question number 2 is similar to mine, I felt that we had so many details that know that we know about them we pay close attention to them and how those small details make the difference in between genres.

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Week 5: Genres

1) What did you know about genres before this assignment and what impact do you think studying genres may have on your writing?     Before doing this assignment I did not  the meaning of genres in the rhetoric context, to me genres were mostly related to books or movies.   The impact that studying genres have on my writing is that now, I will pay more attention to the little details and how the limitations of each genre define how the information is presented.

2. What are the complexities of using genres?   The complexities of using genres are that while explaining characteristics of a genre, you may lose the point and feel kind of repetitive, by explaining the little details.

3.What is the value of studying and/or writing about genres?  

The value of studying genres is that you learn the characteristics about each genre in consequence you pay more attention to details and when you have to write it becomes easier.

4.Select one of the questions listed and explain the rhetorical choices you made towards answering the question

To answer this question I am going to choose the first question and why I choose the What are those? GIF. I choose that GIF because that was my reaction the first time the genres were introduced in class, once I became familiar with the material it was easier to understand them and work with them to do the genre analysis. Also I Choose this GIF, because GIFs get the readers attention faster than the text, and by only looking ate GIF, we can have an idea of what the text is about.

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Genre Analysis

The dark side of free will | Gregg Caruso | TEDxChemungRiver 

I chose iconographic as one of my genres. 

Purpose: The point of this video is to show how the idea of free will is negative to our society. He wants to prove that choosing determinism over free will will ultimately better our lives. 

Audience: The primary audience is scholars and philosophers.

Rhetorical Analysis: The video is concentrated mainly on logos, and ethos. He discusses multiple studies in which he incorporates reliable sources. The reliable sources allows for ethos to take place due to the credibility aspect of his work. While his studies talk about the outstanding numbers of incarceration which goes hand in hand with logos.

My Reaction:

[agiive-blog]

After watching the video, my reaction was the same as yours, I found it really interesting and made me think a lot about the way we are living our lives.