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Writing Assignment 4
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Writing Assignment 3
Informed Consent & Code of Ethics
PREAMBLE
As a researcher in English class for Texas A&M-Commerce, this research will be a great foothold for me to improve both in research skill and education. To get success in embracing it, freedom of inquiry is necessary for me. This freedom will be based on ethical research which needs responsibility to conduct all of parts included from the authenticity of data to references well. I intend this statement to embody reasonable norms for ethical conduct in teaching and learning as well as in scholarship. The statement's governing premises are as follows:
1. The responsibility for protecting free inquiry lies first with my work. Furthermore, I have ethical obligations to all of whom I research, interview, and quote with diverse fields; students, colleagues, professors, and etc.
2. As a researcher, my integrity requires the responsible use of evidence in developing arguments and fairness in hearing and reading the arguments of both colleagues and students. Even though the evidence found while research against my thought and conduct, I will keep going on reporting all of them.
3. As a community valuing free inquiry, I must be able to rely on integrity and the good judgment of our members. At the same time, I should be considerate with free inquiry. For this reason, I should not
exploit or discriminate against others on grounds such as race, ethnicity, national origin, religious creed, age, gender, sexual preference, or disability
sexually harass students, colleagues, or staff members
use language that is prejudicial or gratuitously derogatory
make capricious or arbitrary decisions affecting working conditions, professional status, or academic freedom
misuse confidential information
plagiarize the work of others.
practice deceit or fraud on the academic community or the public
4. Free inquiry respects variety in the modes and objects of investigation, whether traditional or innovative. I will defend scholarly practices against unfounded attacks from within or outside my investigation and survey. Sometimes, suggested correction with valid basis would be given on my work, which makes me to defend rationally. Otherwise, I will be sturdy for my research from disturbs.
5. My research will be basis on our culture we live in, will not be biased by specific part of the culture.
6. Judgments of whether a line of inquiry is ultimately useful to students, colleagues, or society should not be used to limit the freedom of scholars to pursue their research. For the purpose of achieving its value, I need to concentrate to deliver appropriate inquiry.
Ethical Conduct in Teaching and Learning
1. Researchers should represent to their participants the values of free inquiry
2. At the outset of each course, researchers should provide students with a statement on approaches to the course materials, on the goals of the course, and on the standards by which students will be evaluated.
3. Researchers should check their works at regular intervals so that their research is going right way.
4. Researcher-student collaboration entails the same obligation as other kinds of research. Researchers and students should acknowledge appropriately any intellectual indebtedness. Since they are not professional at the research, they need to be helped during the process.
5. Researchers, in devising requirements for research studies and questionnaires, have an ethical responsibility to respect both privacy, emotional, and intellectual dignity.
6. Researchers should keep confidential what they know about research subjects personal lives, and political or religious views with objective view, and should not exploit such personal knowledge and opinion.
7. My research must provide unbiased, professional evaluation of the subject matter at hand as well as interpreting and field notes in such a way.
8. Researchers should not exploit participants for personal or professional ends. It means I will not expect people who would participate in my research to respond to the way I want.
9. Researchers have special responsibility to provide them with adequate preparation, continuing guidance, and informed evaluation. Researchers should not push participants to survey as quick, and should be ready to give guidance anytime.
10. Researchers must weigh the value of each piece of research data on its merits.
Conclusion
This documents focuses on the ethical obligation of members of Texas A&M – Commerce that conduct research. A common understanding of such obligations will enable me to exert appropriate restraints in exercising responsibilities and to promote ethical behavior.
Explanation
The reason I selected this form is that I thought the Statement of Professional ethics format used by Modern Language Associations was proper for my research. It gave me a great direction to drawing outline. The most components of which format were easy to follow. By the way, I needed to change some words and framework as I am a researcher, not a teacher or not a specialist. I would like to distinguish the process of context by three-parts to explain easily. First of all, I am going to concentrate on information which will be the most part of research so that needed to be concerned. The information should be neutral that does not tend to any biased opinion. It will be based on correct and objective evidences. Secondly, since the participants of research are many and unspecified, the information will include various fields so that are valuable. While researcher has to be considerate on delivering the contents, participants are also of great importance. Since they participate in research, they are given chance to experience learning new information, which eventually will be the outcome of interacting with researcher. The results of research enacted by participants will play a critical role in developing arguments in research, because they are showing the statistics that of public opinion. Finally, during the progress, researchers should keep in mind the purpose of research. It is sort of prevention not to be in losing sense of direction. They need to keep interim check. I hope this all process and results of research would not be done only with preparation and participation but also be lingered as productive and useful outcomes.
Consent Form
You are being invited to survey a research study which is conducted by Seungho Ko, a student attending Texas A&M- Commerce. The purpose of this research is to communicate with people, and get statistics of common culture understand. The contents are handling generally about Kanye West who is well known as singer.
The research is conducted in various filed that Kanye has being worked for. Since Kanye debut, he made lots of works that making songs and producing. He even has been participating in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Nike, and Adidas. As he is in various fields, there were histories which make me curious and get to research about. It is pleasure for me that shares and communicate with you by providing this survey.
Once you get to participate in research, it will be an experience to think about information that would be not familiar material but valuable. The questions of survey are simply asking your preference. And you are free to express your usual thought. However, the information that you will provide me will be treated confidentially. I guarantee all of information is anonymous so that I can prevent the data from exposure.
I am willing to answer your questions, so you can ask me all your convenience time by contacting
or 469-239-1703. Any concerns about completing survey also are one of the important for me to developing contents. "
Writing Assignment 2
Overview
Sometimes, people make surprised outcomes with slight action. For instance, there is a Cutting Remark which means one’s words are so powerful that gives big influences to others. Also, Butterfly Effect is the idiom which means the sensitive in which a small can results in large differences in a later state. Likewise, people can affect the others and world by their existence and ability. The celebrities such as politicians and entertainers who are on the screens are eligible for it. Amongst of them who are well in influencing others, there is Kanye West who’s occupation is not limited to singer but also work record producer and fashion designer (Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia). Since he debuted at 2004, he has been affecting the entertainment, musical circles, and fashion with enthusiastic fandoms. Each of Kanye’s activities is making tremendous results, and it made me turned out to become of his fan and to researching. As long as I believe people influence each other every word, action, and moment that are important to us to making our thoughts and ideas, this work would affect me to develop my literature.
Author Background
I have been interesting in fashion since attending high school. It was the time that every youth go through, adolescence. The most of them are sensible at one’s eyes, they put quite of times into making themselves look better. Cloths were the basic tools that can make me look fancy. Thus I was interested in fashion a lot. By the time, Nike and Louis Vuitton released shoes that were collaborated with Kanye West who was unfamiliar to me at then, but which made a sensation in fashion. It was due to the fact that the musician who was proficient enough to design cloths and was famous enough to make that impact. Furthermore, Kanye released his album that famous electronic musician Daft Punk participated in same year. I was shocked by his works that attract my attention to hip hop and USA culture. He made me to find out more magazines and articles that I could get more information about him, and track several music programs that I could hear his music. From these chances, I could read English-articles, and I could hear English-lyrics, all of which made me to study English more. In a result, I came to more adjusting USA culture and English than before.
Competition
As Kanye West is not working just as a singer, there are lots of information about him. From the TVTROPS Kanye West page, it is introducing that Kanye’s some visible achievements, and also some incidents that was figured due to the infamous outcries and so on. “Kanye did not limit him on one way but also still working in accomplish his pursue.” (TV tropes) This is the most part that I chose him as my role model. Secondly, VOGUE magazine, which is one of the fashion magazine, has several articles that are about Kanye West fashion works. Especially, the contents are about the shoes as he has been collaborating with some companies where make shoes. “Once he had experienced the fever with his “Air Yeezy”, and what else exists in market, he should not stop to producing new shoes.” (Standen) Finally, his name is also uploaded in Wikipedia where we can search and gain information. I was surprised at there were tremendous information about him. With these online resources which are related and suit to my subjects, I believe I could finish my research all right.
Research Plan
This research will be required me to put effort into gathering information what I was not accustomed to. But since I have started this project, I could feel that participating, following and joining the group in online is giving new opportunity that was unfamiliar part, and I have been adapting this new circumstance so far. Through the Tumblr, Twitter, social community, and Vogue magazine, I would gather and find supplement facts and details about Kanye West. “Distinguishing whether the information on the site are not always useful and necessary will be the most important ground during this research.” (Zollo 39)
Work Cited
"Kanye West (Music) - TV Tropes." Kanye West (Music) - TV Tropes. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2015.
Standen, Dirk. "Exclusive: The Kanye West Interview." Vogue. Vogue, 16 Feb. 2015. Web. 12 Oct. 2015.
Wikipedia contributors. "Kanye West." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 7 Oct. 2015. Web. 11 Oct. 2015.
Zollo Rick. “Friday Night at Iowa 80 : The truck stop at Community and Culture”. Field Working Reading and Writing Research. 4th ed. Ed. Bonnie S, Sunstein. Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater. New York; Bedford/ St. Martins. 2012. 24-43. Print
Writing Assignment 1
All about Literacy
People are living in the world where they communicate each other with language as a communication tool. The pictograph was the one of the communication toll before innovation of digital technology, but now information is provided from newspapers to radio, internet, and smart-phone applications in this modern society. “Language has been evolved as it appeared to be one of the few elements of education” (Szwed, 4).” As it said, I think language forms specific community, because people interact with the world through the media which plays a role as a medium that is important in communication. It means media affects people while they communicate, and the language they use is the most essential and basic opponent. In this point, it would be said that the more people do well in literature, the more they live productively. In the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of Literacy is that the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write. The ability to read and write could be improved with putting efforts into finding and reading materials, but it could be improved more naturally. The following paragraphs will show how literacy could be better , and how literacy is important to our lives with several examples and my own experiences.
The first of all, people often read famous masterpiece books such as The old Man and the Sea, Shakespeare or articles to learn the text structure and better expressive words. By the way, I believe people can get betterment in there literacy regardless of spending time reading books or articles. Literacy automatically can be developed by thoughts, values and ideas which are developed depending on the circumstance where and how someone lives. I am attending the political class this semester, and learning the history of American government. In the class, I learn not only the history of American politics, but also sometimes, professor adds his opinion on the matters during the class. He shares his opinion about the facts to give the students a choice to agree with him or the textbook. Due to this point, the professor prompts me to think differently during the class. Since then, I think and am more considerate about the materials and information in books compare to before.
Even if it is the same country, there are some differences in language depending on its district. People call it dialects. Dialects exist in every country, and each dialect has its own features such as their tone of voices, accents and one’s way of speaking. It is due to the fact that they have been reflected in each local culture and custom. For instance, Texan people wear boots-cut jean with boots and a hat which reminds me of cowboy whereas Floridian people wear short-sleeves and flowery shirts which reminds me of a beach. I have been to Miami, Florida this spring break with my friends. At the south bottom point of the Miami, there is Key-west where we can easily recognize its cultural feature. Key-West is consists of islands that are connected with a lots of bridges. The climate of Miami is a tropical climate, so we can see the people in Miami usually wear short pants and sleeves easily. Most of them are slow and act leisurely, and it appeared to me impressively. It gave me a chance to feel live in free and easy retirement. It was best memory during the trip. Men and women of all, there skins were red brown. It is attributed to the fact that they are accustomed to tanning daily. Finally, the people in key-west looked always in good moods as it is carnival every day. They sit at the outside bar and drink beers alone or with their friends since afternoon. I could experience how Miami people live, what they do, who they are through the travel. It was valuable experience for me to being there shoes.
Third, I believe it is the most match thing with this subject that I have experienced recently. During the summer vacation, I have been to my home country, South Korea. While I was having a great vacation, I had chance to go to the concert tickets of my favorite label company fortunately. The company name is “ILLIONAIRE”. There are only three singers who are actually rappers. The reason they named and called themselves as “ILLIONAIRE” is that each member of them overcame every adversity and hardship by themselves. There are some songs that lyrics are consists of the way how they overcame the hardships. Of course they make songs with good melody, attractive rap making, but the most of the fans were moved by their lyrics which express the singer’s firm will and volition. Also, there is the action between the fans and artist. The action is that with stretching thumb, index, and middle fingers which forms as “IL” from “ILLIONAIRE”. They put their fingers up and shake when the music is on. And also there is the name of the fans, it is called as “ILLINAIRE GANG”. Absolutely it does not mean the real mean of gang, but it used to indicate the group of fans who communicate with artists. They think they give artists love and attention, and artists reward fans by providing good songs and good albums. The company produces t-shirts, sweatshirts and hats with the logo “ILLIONAIRE” stitch on and it intensifying cohesion between artists and fans. I put on hat on my head and enjoyed the concert with “ILLIONAIR GANG”.
I have viewed the experiences of what I had gone through from the class to travel and concert so far. To summarize what I mentioned above, I am learning and studying with critical thinking as well as American politics in college class, I had experienced how the people from different local are living and got to know their tendency by traveling, and went through a specific community by being the fan of the specific singers. According to Lorraine Ahearn, “both a little thing that is not the ideas people could not accept and things that seems no relation with them can be the factor of our subjective responses”. I believe all of them became a crucial part of my thought and they all will play a role in building of my idea and value continually. As long as I think the language is the most basic and important tool in communication, I will put my effort into go through variety experiences for my own development.
Works Cited
Ahearn, Lorraine. “Folk “Cure” Sold Locally High school”. Field Working Reading and Writing Research. 4th ed. Ed. Bonnie S, Sunstein. Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater. New York; Bedford/ St. Martins. 2012. 14-18. Print
"Literacy." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. Web. 26 Sep. 2015.
Szwed, John F. “The Ethnography of Literacy.” Ethnographic Inquiries In Writing. Ed. Tabetha Adkins. Southlake : Fountainhead Press. 2010. 3-18. Print.
The results of survey
All of progress blogs and artifacts(field notes)
All of twitter responses and summaries.
Online Progress WA4, post 1
There are few cases who success at once. As people go through tries and errors, then they came to know how to overcome and cover their mistakes. What I am going to say is that Soon ripe, soon rotten. Kanye West collaborated with Adidas and launched Yeezy season 1 this early year. Then they showed Yeezy season 2 just two months ago. Both outcomes of two Yeezy season were successful that it made the most of the products sold out, even though the price of the products were not good. Anyway, it was not bad. There are saying that launching’s hit was affected because he is famous. However, it is not always easy that if any celebrities try business, and results in success. Kanye West had tried several times that he participated and made collaboration with other brands; A.P.C. which is the famous denim and jean brand, Paris Collection. The results was poor, and experience was bitter. Although he had gone through several hardships, he recovered and overcome with his own collection finally. Through Kanye West, I have been learning since I was researching for him.
Online Progress WA4, Post 2
It has been about 3 months that I have started managing Tumblr account. The beginning and making account was the only for my English class assignment which that I need to research and write about my specific fandom. My fandom is Kanye West, and I am stilling working on searching his information. Due to this fact, I have came to realize and found information that I did not know, and the all process made me interesting that I could more focus on it better. The merit of this assignment was that I could concentrate on the subject I chose. At the very first, Air yeezy, shoes collaboration with Nike, and Stronger, the most popular sampling song, were the few things that I had known about Kanye West. However, I have come to know Kanye as a not just singer and producer but artist who is working in various fields, and who is trying to spread his area constantly through this chance. Likewise, I believe that everything depends on how they do.
Artifact 2
This is the collaboration song that Kanye West awarded Grammy Awards as well. There are lots of sampling songs that Kanye made; Stronger, gold digger and etc. But since 2010, he released and distinguished himself by My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy that many artists participated in featuring his albums. About 2 years later that he hit the musical society, he did it again in 2012 by Clique, which was shock for me that realized and repent myself that hiphop was the best genre for me. Since then, I have been interesting in and expecting Kanye West’s walk.
Artifact 1
This is the sort of picture that saying as it. A few month ago, Kanye West commented that he is going to run for president on 2020, and he will. As he is still trying and putting effort into various fields from producing songs to making clothes, I cheer for his constant try. Of course the all process of running for president won’t be easy, even it could results in negative effects and results. Since the political worlds are rough, I hope he would do well.
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Online Progress blog Unit 4, post 2
There are some cases that people express their emotions by sing, dance, drawing, sketching, or exercising. These are sorts of acting the way that they try to reduce or resolve their stress as well. Often, I have seen that some resolve their stress by cleaning their house and cars. Anyway, the former that I mentioned first is king of art act. For me, I do every thing that singing, listening, or exercising which helps me to express my emotion and keep me from bother things that I struggle with. In that point, I respect those people who are professional at art and whose occupations are art. At the begin, they would have had their occupation due to their specific situation which harass them. But finally they made successful work that move people. So I always support and advocate them to get cheered up and not to be frustrated.
Online progress blog unit 3, post 1
It has been about 2 months ago that Kanye West collaborated with Adidas and released it, Yeezy Boost. I was eager to get it but as the every items are popular every time when Kanye West collaborate with other company, it was impossible for me to get it as well. And again, as always, there were some people who stockpile the shoes whose first purpose of buying shoes were re-sell them and get more money. Since I have been interesting in fashion, I had gone through such experiences like this. Soon, about 7-9 days later, the SPA brand ,H&M will release collaboration products with High-end brand Balmain. It was about two weeks ago that the articles had shown on the internet. And the responses were extremely hot that when I called and check the store H&M in Dallas, the clerks told me that they expecting there will be about 500 people who will be waiting in line and wait 3 hours before the store open. I expect that the most of the hotels near by the store will be all sold out at the day before it release. I hope that people who are eager to get the items they want, but I do not hope there will not be any re-seller of the products.
Nike Air Max 90 HYP ID ‘Yeezy’
Artifact 2
This is the picture of Nike shoes which pretty commonly many people wear. But if you are the fan of Kanye West or well know and interested in fashion a lot, you will catch why it looks not ordinary. The color placed on the top,red, and bottom,green, of shoes is the represent color of Air Yeezy which released on 2010, and made a big fever. It was the first collaboration that Kanye participated in. Also Louis Vuitton collaborated with Kanye at the same time. Since Yeezy showed up, every time it made not only sold out but also cause stockpile.