Aaliyah :3

[gemstarwriter]

Drafting Essay Process

What does your writing process look like when you draft an essay?

When I start my essay draft, I tend to look up a template to use to write down my ideas if I'm struggling with the order of placing my ideas for the essay. I mostly got this process from my English teachers in middle school, since I'm not the greatest at writing. Also, my brain tends to think of ideas a the worst times, so it tends to be a jumbled mess if I just start writing, without anything to help.

Anyway, it goes smoother when you use a template because when you are done with it, you can add it to your paper. Then you can go back through and check any formatting mistakes and grammar mistakes.

Another tip when checking through your essay is to read it out loud. because you can hear if something does make sense or if your grammar is wrong. :)

[gemstarwriter]

HUH? What is Writing Content?

What does it mean to write content?

With my experience with the internet, I believe writing content can be many different things. I've been on the internet since I was a kid, which probably wasn’t the greatest for me, but I did learn a lot early on. It also taught me a lot about how people share and consume information.

Writing content always doesn’t look the same; it can be very detailed or simple, it really depends on what type of audience you’re working with. For example, TikTok usually only has a simple sentence for its captions, which works. However, on other social media like Facebook or Tumblr, they have more written content than TikTok, and it still works. The difference is that they have different audiences.

TikTok tends to have younger viewers than Facebook or Tumblr. (I doubt younger viewers even know what Tumblr is or what it used to be in 2014) Also, most people I know who use Facebook are older than me. (20yr) So it really does show the audience differences. I feel like this can be explored more. Maybe there's a reason why the younger generation tends to go to shorter content than longer content than older generation, but that's a topic for another day.

In the end, I believe writing content is to shape information into a meaningful form for an audience. It’s meant to be shared and consumed by others, and to be shared in different ways on the internet.

[gemstarwriter]

GARFIELD BINGO AD!

Share an image of a sign/ad with a key concept in action

I chose this ad because I saw about 5 times on my instagram before I eventually gave in. ( to be honest the game is actually pretty fun) I mostly got the game just because of Garfield being it in (I’m a big Garfield fan!) then once getting the game and playing it I was having a great time with it. It just a regular online bingo game but I think a good time waster if you need one 😂

Anyways back to ad in general. This ad really shows the key concept of Audience. The reason I say that is because the ad in general is not showing the game it’s only showing Garfield in the photo, so when you are scrolling on instagram all you see is Garfield and his iconic orange color. So they are REALLY advertising for all the Garfield fans out there, to get the game just because Garfield’s in it.

I think it’s a pretty good strategy since it got me 😂

[gemstarwriter]

Questions!!

The only question I have really about the assignments this week is the Reflection assignment. I'm a bit confused about what the entire assignment wants. I know it contains the notes we took on the chapters, but what else does it need?

Oh, also, where are the due dates for everything? I've been really confused about that 😭

@npfannen

[gemstarwriter]

Writing Goals for Becoming a Teacher

One of my writing goals is I would love to get more experience in the way I write! I'm definitely not the greatest when it comes to grammar, and I would love to work on that. These skills will definitely help me as I become a teacher. I need to be able to write emails to parents and students that are professional and understandable. This will help me be reliable to students/parents! It will also be helpful to help students with their own spelling, as I plan on working with really young kids. I probably get asked how to spell different words a lot, so I would love to work on my grammar more. I believe that with any teaching role, you need to be able to teach students in many different ways, not just the subject you are teaching.

@npfannen