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Hello I'm Marina

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Welcome to RWS

RWS is a class that will expand your knowledge, you will learn beyond your writing skills, whether it’s bad or great. I personally though was a bad writer but later I gained some skill and became better. I think the first thing I was concerned about was starting a Tumblr, at first I was a bit confused about the idea because I was not used to using it for a class. As the weeks went by I found it more useful and easy to use, also a great medium to communicate with students from class and learn about them. 

Regarding the assignments I believe they are easy to follow because Professor Villa will go over them and if you don’t understand them you can always ask her questions, she will answer and clarify your problem. Within this class you will have to do research and it’s important to follow up with the assignment and don’t procrastinate. Do everything ahead of time and you will Ace the class.

Overall this class will show you new skills, learn things that you haven't done before and most importantly have fun. Be creative and you will have fun in this class, but most importantly follow the guidelines. This class will teach you things that you will definitely going to use in your college life. 

Have an AWESOME semester!!!

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Week 15

1.What is the purpose of submitting a video in a writing class? 

The purpose of submitting a video in a writing course is to learn new means of communication. Writing is a form of communication to present a goal. But a video is another way to communicate to the audience and present a message.

2. Explain how you composed your message (purpose) in multiple forms.

Throughout the video we presented our message by many ways. We used ethos, pathos and logos. For logos we showed statistics. We also made a clip explaining what coronary heart disease is. We also explained in clips what to do to prevent coronary heart disease. These clips were both ethos and pathos. They had some humor and they were informative.

3. Did the structure and delivery of the film doc worked to achieve its advocacy? Yes/No. Explain. 

I believe the structure we choose for the video was a good way to present our message. It was a unique way to present a message. It kept the audience entertain and focus on the message.

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

I selected question number two I used my knowledge from making the video. So the strategy used is ethos. I helped to create the video. So I know where we got the information an every we did throughout the video to achieve the goal. I used the gif of the recording of the ghost to symbolize how our group did clips for the video.

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I think your group did a wonderful job on letting the audience know of coronary heart disease and the intro of the film was great.

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Week 15

The purpose of submitting a video in writing class is to enhance our rhetorical skills. Learning how to incorporate ethos, logos and pathos into your video. Also having an advocacy for the problem one is presenting, finding appropriate research that will support our claim, and with all of this we put it all together into a video for a specific audience to see. Not only does this help us for writing class but it gives you an idea of how to make a video in general.

Our group delivered the message by using logos, pathos and ethos. We used logos by giving statistics and having quotes from medical expertise within the video. Also we stated the purpose within the video to explain how it was injuries from ages 14 - 18. During our presentation we included pathos by adding teens beliefs as in why they believe weight training is good. At the end of the video we stated solutions for successful weight training. These claims were also supported by medical expertise from the research we had found.

Our group delivered its purpose clearly in the video, I think we could of used another interview to support our claims but with the quotes it helped. Overall we showed exercises that would help enhance successful weight training and things they can do before they start with weight training.

In the first question I used my knowledge and experience to answer the question, in this case using ethos. I did this based on what I did and what I had learned in class was incorporated in the video. By using multiple mediums we created a video to inform teens of the effects weight training has when done incorrectly.

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WEEK 14: In Class Assignment

My topic discusses the spoken language and culture of El Paso, since most of the people who live here are Bilingual I will focus more on how people stumble upon language spoken. 

My first point of argument it teachers and students should be aware of the students ability to speak. 

The teachers should know what the student come from and be lenient on their spelling errors or speaking errors. 

“There is that assumption that language comes with your looks. Spanish is often time associated with old people and marginal people which causes this hostility toward it. Spanish gets viewed as a language of servitude, while there is that assumption that English is the prestige language” Heyman said.”  Borderzine

My second argument is have more training and practice the language

Practicing a language will enhance ones ability to speak and if a person has more training they will begin to comprehend the correct language. 

“Alden says that when communicating with Spanish-only speakers there are a lot of hand gestures and signs used to substitute spoken word. He can recall many times when he has heard” 

Finally my third argument is learning how to spell the language 

Within the practice students will learn the ability to spell the language and can practice it more as they progress in their lives.

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Week 14

1. The genre I am selecting for my op-ed will be a little more traditional. I plan to use a newspaper article.

2. I believe this is the best format because my audience are business related and I see them as more newspaper reading people. With the newspaper article, its a short, simple, and gets to the point. You can even scan through it and you’ll still get what the article is trying to say.

3. My issue is bipolar disorder in the workplace. It is not a great concern for employers because they have no clue what’s happening with their employees. So my stance is to provide an awareness to the employers to show that some of their employees could be suffering from BD and need help at work. My policy change would be to give BD employees a time to have a counseling session during work and opportunities to work at home in case they weren’t able to at work. This is just some of the mini solutions employers can do to help their employees.

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I’m also planning to do a newspaper or magazine editorial but I’m a bit concerned at the outcome, hopefully it works out. I really agree that a newspaper is a great type of genre for your issue although you can always take a fun alternative to grab your audience attention.

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Week 14: Op-Ed

What genre are you selecting to use for your op-ed?

For my op-ed genre I wasn’t sure what to select but I’m in between a letter to an editor such as a magazine or a newspaper.

Why is the genre you selected the best format for your opinion piece?

 I chose this genre because my issue is about language and culture in El Paso, where I talk about a specific area and can relate to the people who live here in El Paso, although I wont be focusing on everyone but those who are bilingual, those who speak Spanish and English. These genre will benefit my op-ed because I can deliver my message in a written format where I can express knowledge and include past sources. 

 What is your stance and policy change/solution for the issue?

 My stance would be that people who com from Mexico will influence the speaking language of El Paso,not only that but cities who are border towns. Therefore creating a new language and speaking Spanglish, a combination of Spanish and English. I will focus on the importance of only speaking a certain language at once without combining it and why this is beneficial to bilingual people, in this case being my solution for the issue.

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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) 

[mrodri84-blog]

That gif with the girl falling is super hilarious, I agree with your post 

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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?

When writing my assignment, I noticed I had a very hard time trying to not be argumentative or bias. I found that my primary research in my first draft was weak and didn’t contribute any to my paper as a whole. I was mostly frustrated because I had a substantial amount of revision to do on my paper it almost felt impossible. Once I started working on my final draft I actually started focusing more and conducting new primary research which benefited my paper dramatically. I improve sections that were rather weak and fixing grammatical errors.

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

When I first found my resources for my Literature Review paper most of my sources were from academic articles from the internet. Due to time frame I mostly skimmed my articles which I realized was a bad choice because, most of the articles that were chosen were similar and had the same views on my research questions. As I progressed through the assignment I added in books and videos so my paper can have different perspectives and not be one sided. I felt this helped because it showed a variety of views and not just what the majority of experts thought.

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

I think the methodology of improving research skills and sources did help because it was easier to have a set structure for the paper. I knew what went where and every piece of information had its own place. With revision and enhancements, it made for a more informational paper rather than an opinionated paper.

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

The rhetorical choices I made for answering question 2 was ethos and logos. When trying to find a variety of resources I had to make sure they were logical and credible. With logical and credible resources, it makes for a more reliable paper. Having reliable resource allows readers to see proof of information and that its actually true.

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Ahh!!! Literally screamed when I saw Michael Cera’s face on your post, I can agree on all your responses especially because you found a GIF of Cera and used them for each of your responses. I salute you!! Great Job!

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Week 10: Lit. Review Reflection

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

 While looking for my sources I tried hard to not only focus on scholarly articles. With having this on my mind I still found it hard because I wanted to do as I was taught. A pattern I found in the development of my research was that even though I tried not to focus on that I had to look at the author or publisher, whether they were reliable or not, I think after this it made it easy to use the source and find sources that would help my paper. 

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

 Oh Definitely! When I was writing my research questions I had to think carefully on the source variation I was going to use. At first I thought I had picked a good variation but later when I tried to support my questions I had to change them to fit each of them based off the question. After my first draft the evaluation of my sources still changed and had to use them adequately and find a new source to support one of my research questions.

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

 Of course, every piece of information I used for my literature review was used for a particular purpose and helped me enhance my writing. The methodology worked in my favor in the end because I got to learn new skills that I can use later to enhance my writing. 

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

 The rhetorical choices I made towards answering question 2 was ethos because I based it off my experience when writing my paper, I also used logos because of the GIF used, which is the planet with the Yeah word, I used the gif because it reminded me of the song “Move your feet” and I totally agree with the question so I thought it was a perfect fit. After I was done with the sources wanted to celebrate and dance off!!

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Week 7: Source Research

The first thing I did while searching for resources was to identify who published/wrote the source. In order to have a well written paper the sources must be credible therefore I always checked the credibility of my source. If it was published/written by a well known company or person I wrote it down for possible resource usage however if they seemed a bit suspicious I would eliminate it form my resource choices. 

In order to avoid being bias I gathered several resources that had different point of views. By doing this I get to see both sides of the topic without discriminating all the view points of my topic. Another thing I did to avoid bias was to look up sources that do not take a side and simply informed. In fact, many of the scholarly articles I picked are more informative rather than opinionated. 

(the gif above represents seeing both sides of the same topic. Sorry, not sorry) 

Another factor that was critical to my research process was to gather several different forms of sources. Instead of sticking to just one genre I tried to vary my resources. For example I have scholarly articles, a documentary, websites, and electronic books. All my resources include information about my topic however it is delivered differently. This allows me to have more information and different tactics on how to write my paper. Oddly enough it was not as hard as I thought to collect different forms of resources for my topic. 

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I totally agree with your process, such as looking up the publisher, most of the articles I found gave me a brief summary of the publisher so t was easy to eliminate that source on the go. Other than that I agree with your source research . Very well done!!

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Week 7: Lit Review Sources

While searching for databases, scholarly articles and books I went to the UTEP library home page and clicked on the Articles & Databases tab, under the arrow I looked for language and literature since my topic belongs in this category. 

Once I typed in search I went to the keyword side bar and clicked on it, after typing in a specific keyword a few databases came out and I clicked on the one that fit my needs. While in that databases I came across another search engine box and typed in the same keyword with specific word/s to narrow my search down.   

After my searched came up I looked at the title and determined if it would fit my research. I checked on the type of source I found and first looked at the publisher whether he/she was an expert or not at that field, most of them were professors from the university therefore it made it easier for me. Also skimming through the source by reading the abstract or the thesis made me decide whether I would use it or not, collecting enough information from each one which will be useful for my research. This processed was used for finding articles, databases, books, magazines, and newspapers. 

For the rest of my sources I would type in specific keywords then base on what came up I made a decision if it was a reliable source or not. In conclusion I think finding resources can be complicated but you need to find a way to organize your searches, filter out the sources, sort by relevance or publication date, skim through the source, filter out keywords within the context and decide whether you should use it or not and the thing that was important for me was narrowing down my searches by applying specific keywords, making my source research unchallenging. 

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Week 6

The topic that I will be researching is weight lifting among teenagers. 

I will be explaining the effects that weight lifting has on the body of the teenagers. The rhetorical choice that I made mainly involves Logos along with some of Ethos. I will be using statistics, graphs and other data that involves the logic of this topic. 

Ethos will be implemented as well by using various sources that are very credible and that can show the necessary information to explain the topic thoroughly. For example medical records, doctor’s articles, etc.

As of now I need to make my research questions a bit more specific along with making them a bit more informative so that they don’t have an inclination towards a persuasive argument.

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Your research topic is interesting, I like how you are concerned about the effects of weightlifting of a teens body. I’m interested on what you find weather its good or bad. 

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Week 6

My research topic is about  language and culture within the El Paso region, at first it was language culture but it was too broad so I narrowed it down. 

While writing my research questions I was thinking of a specific age group, and how the language is affecting our culture. The rhetorical choices that I mainly involved in the modified research questions are logos, and pathos.

   The way I involved logos was through word usage, reason and data concentrating in a specific region will make my research easier to look for information. 

    The way I involved pathos is through the value and belief of the people living in El Paso, how their influences affect the way they speak and differs from their word usage. 

One thing I need to improve is the structure of the questions, making them flow and feed of one another. Also being specific as to what language I can focus on and also finding a general age group that will make my research more effective.

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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? 

I had only associated genres with different types of writing or movies like romantic, horror, comedy, etc. I think studying genres impacts your writing greatly because it helps really dig into a specific genre which makes you think beyond the face of it.

2. What are the complexities of using genres? 

The complexities of using genres is finding a genre that relates to your topic and can be analyzed. Any genre can be analyzed but finding one to be very specific with and can be addressed to the audience of your topic was the hard part.

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

The value of writing about genres makes it easier to break down the genre and truly understand its message so it can be easier to understand. It helps us open our mind to a new way of thinking and see what others don’t usually analyze at a first glance.

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

I choose to answer the first question and use a gif. Since it was constantly being said that we need to be more and more specific, I immediately thought of this gif. I just kept thinking that I need to be keep digging into the genres to be as specific as possible. Once, I started getting into it I realized it wasn’t that hard at all. Gifs are also fun to interact with.

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I completely agree with your responses, I love how all your GIFs have a connection to your response and that are cartoon.

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Week 5: GA

1. Like everyone else I knew general information, such as types of genres that exist. I first look into genres last semester and we begin to analyze a few mediums such as a song, document and video. Studying genres may have an impact on my writing because I can break down the type of genre and understand it by using the rhetorical triangle.

2. The complexities of using genres is that each of them are unique, have their own characteristics therefore can have different analyzations. Also interpreting each one and analyzing it in depth can be difficult because you want to use detail to support it. 

3. The value of writing and studying about genres makes life easier in the long run. Maybe as we progress through our college life we may need to analyze other things and we can break it down through rhetorical triangle and give enough detail to support our ideas. Personally I see this as a skill we will master with enough practice. 

4. The question I choose is number 3, I chose a gif for this question because everything we learn is value, we may use later in life. The gif has a connection because it’s skill that we learn such as the little girl, that others who don’t know may get jealous of this skill.

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This genre analysis looks into the Financial Times’s brief overview about the current social and economic change that new technology and automation are enabling.

Here’s the original video:

Any thought’s on automation?

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I totally agree, technology is becoming bigger in today’s society that it frightens me to think that a robot might run the  world.