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UNI 101: UNCW

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Final Journal

Your always excited to find out that your semester is about to end! New beginnings!

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Journal 13

My writing process could translate to anything that I want to accomplish in life. For instance if I want to achieve the goal of becoming the biggest barber on Instagram, Youtube, or in my state and country I can create an outline. I can put thing in order on how I need to acheive them and I can have a reference. Then I could revise anything that I think would add value to my goals and help me get to them much faster and my efficiently. Then I could edit out what works and what doesn't work. The writing process is a system that you can use to achieve anything you want in life.

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Journal 12

This semester the Rhetorical Analysis was my most challenging assignmnet. This was the most challenging because this was something that I have never heard of and had to adjust to. I had to really take out my opinion whe typing this paper and I had to really present myself with confidence in my research findings.

I do feel that my writing has improved this semester. I believe my Introduction and Conclusion paragraphs have become better and I believe that I have figured out how to dissolve irrelevant information out of my papers. Sometimes I feel some information that I add is unnessecary and I have picked up on it a lot this sememter.

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Journal 11

The counter-argument that I plan to address in my inforgraphic is that education can shrink the racial wealth gap in America.

Refutes:

-Education has been proven to shrink the wealth gap but not enough for their to be equality.

-We shouldn't have to use control groups in order to shrink the racial wealth gap.

The rhetorical appeals that this counter argument is using are ethos and logos. He uses these by providing graphs and statistics that he recieves from reliable resources. The audience that I think this counter-argument is address are those that don't have a higher educations and those that are trying to find ways to shrink the racial wealth gap.

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Journal 10

Evaluating a source that you are considering to use for anything is extremely important for you to gather relevant information to either inform you or help you understand and pursuade others. From reading "Evaluating Sources" I was reminded of the importance of evaluating your sources for their credibility. Being able to render a source valid or invalid will help you know what you can and cannot use for information. It will allow you to only use factual information that is supported.

This knowledge has changed the way I look at articles and information on the web by broadening my awareness on how to detect valid and invalid sources. This will help me develop a more efficent and effective research method that only allows me to provide information that is relevant and supported.

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Journal 9

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/04/economic-divide-black-households/ 

The author(s) of my new article, “The Black-White Economic Divide is as Wide as it was in 1968,” are Heather Long and Andrew Van Dan. The audience of this article is the American people or anyone that calls themselves an “American Citizen.” The article being provided during the current situations going on around America and being published in The Washington Post gives this article a lot of attention. The article was used to persuade/inform the American people that the economic gap between white’s and black’s is tremendous and actions need to be taken in order to level out the playing field. 

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Journal 8

The rhetorical situation of the above image is equality. Throughout history the black community has continuously gone through economic inequality, systemic social inequality, police brutality, voter suppression, etc. This add describes why and how they are going to help make a change for the black community. 

I found this image on PepsiCo's website. The audience of this image would be black community and those advocating for the black community. This image shows the support that it is willing to give to inflict change in America and give equal opportunities to those that have been suppressed for their entire lives. 

The image does use rhetorical appeals such as ethos and pathos. The brand of PepsiCo is the use of ethos in this image, showing where the information and support will be coming from. And by gearing their attention specifically toward the black community is pathos, because it creates emotional responses from those that do and do not support their cause. 

This image also uses CRAP. Contrast is used by implementing a black back ground and incorporating white lettering. Repetition is used by the add continuously showing who they are support and why, (refers to the black community and racism throughout the add). Alignment is used by centering everything so that it flows cohesively. Proximity is used by incorporating titles to separate information throughout the image, (People: describes how the company will affect change within itself for its black associates, Business: describes how the company will invest in more black-owned businesses, and Communities: describes how the company will invest in black communities).

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Journal 6

A piece of advice that stuck out to me in this article is that a "a memorable sentence makes immediate sense but sounds just slighty odd." This stuck out to me because as I began to think about that statement it became true. Things that stick out to us, or me at least, are things that aren't usually or aren't heard everyday. For instance the article quoted Kate Moss, "Nothing taste as good as skinny feels." I learned that using this type of sentence a good way to put a lasting impression on the reader and to also keep them involved with your reading.

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Journal 6

My Jr Paper was the last time that I can remember having a peer review my paper. Peer-reviewing was something that I enjoyed doing because instead of getting insight from your teacher you could just get it from a friend, and this was usually frowned upon. The suggestions that I thought were the most helpful were the ones that suggested grammatical corrections, and flow. Then suggestions have always helped me reaccess my paper and make changes that would contribute to the development of a great paper and higher grade.

The suggestions that I thought were the least helpful were suggestions to be more detailed or suggestions to incorporate ideas that the peer-reviewing thought would help my paper thrive. I didn't find incorporating the peer-reviewers ideas as helpful becasuse it is my paper, so incorporating somebody elses ideas into mine would make my paper less unique and would techniqually be plagiarism.

From my experience the peer-reveiwing process was never taken seriously amongst my classmates. So, if there was anything that I would change about the proces it would be the importance of it. I think it should be taking seriously because your peers can see things that you don't. Nothing that can potentially help your success should be taken for granted.

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Give Black Households More Economic Power: 

In my opinion this article was very successful in persuading me that there should be just as much of a fight for economic equality as well as systemic social equality. In this article the author, Nick Maggiulli, uses all three rhetorical appeals, logos, ethos, and pathos, to make his argument. In the beginning he uses statistics from the “Survey of Consumer Finances (’SCF’)” to support his argument which is both logos and ethos, and then as the article come to an end he uses emotion, ethos, to get the ready engaged in wanting to make a change for everyone. 

I believe that this article was for every American citizen. Especially the ones that are fighting for system social equality. I think Nick is wanting to persuade us all to fight just as hard for economic equality as systemic social equality. 

I agree 100 percent with his argument. To see that the economic gap in the United States is 10x greater for white families than black families is incapacitating to me. Nick has persuaded me to the narrative of economic equality just as much as systemic social quality. I do agree that it is just as important because just as he said and many other people, “money rules the world,” for the black community to really effect change I feel they need to to gain more economic power. 

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One thing that suprised me is that you are generally only supposed to use 1 to 3 hashtags per post. This suprised me because when I used to promote myself on Instagram I would use tons of hashtags and get a lot of positive outcomes from it. Such as likes, followers, shoutouts, etc. I guess incorporating this technique would make my post that I use to promote, more appealing to the public eye. Maybe I can get just as much positive feedback from using 1 to 3.

Keeping the hashtag use to a minimum is probably important because it keeps your post simple yet adding a little flare to it, therefore grasping the readers attention.

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Project 1. That was a very interesting and entertaining topic to talk about. My pre-writing process is pretty unique in my opinion because it is a lot of brainstorming and applying the ideas that come to mind. I’ve never outlined at my own will. I was always forced to by a teacher for a grade. I never really felt that I needed it because I like the freestyle feeling of just writing or typing the ideas that come to my mind. I don’t really like to be structured and limited when it comes to writing and I feel an outline does that.

My revision process includes my mom. She does a ton of reading so I usually allow her to revise my work. I give her the freedom to include her ideas into my thought process and to detail the work that I’ve done. 

Brainstorming was the most useful process of my writing process. This is also the process that I’d like to improve the most going into Project 2. I would like to expand my mind and have a deeper more intricate thought process.

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Journal 2.

Positive Influences in Writing: 

I don’t really have a lot of influences in writing but I guess you can say that I have influences on the way I speak. This usually translates into my writing so I feel these go together. But, the first influence would probably be my Mom. She has always taught me to speak freely but respectfully. To speak my mind but to be conscious about others feelings. So, when I write I keep this in mind. I like to write what’s going on in my mind. What I’m thinking about in that particular moment, especially when it comes to journals such as this one. 

Another person that you could say has an influence on the way I think and speak would be J. Cole. He says what he says and doesn’t care who rocks with it and who doesn’t. I share my beliefs regardless of what anyone else thinks about them. If I believe something I believe it and I’m going to stand beside it 100%. J. Cole’s music has talks about many controversial topics that affect the black community. Many of these topics I stand beside and will forever support. In my writing I have talked about some topics such as police brutality. I wrote my Jr Paper on this topic. So yes, J. Cole has defiantly had an influence on the way I write and what I talk about. 

Both my mother and Cole have had positive influences on my writing. I feel like they have affected me the most because they are authentic people. They also both give me the confidence to speak my mind. Being authentic and standing behind what you believe in has always drawn my attention. And being aware of the time and place has also helped me along my journey.