Learning Log - Unit 1

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Day 1: “Donald J. Trump, Pope Francis, and the Beef that Defiled Space and Time” - Benjamin

Soloman

A-ha: The media and application of language can persiade how a reader takes in

information and decides of it is liable. The message and ideas behind language can influence on

whether or not a message takes place in someone.

Analysis: Donald Trump and Pope Francis began going back and forth on political

stances and how human value would be taken into account in certain political actions. Benjamin

Soloman then analyzes the effective use of language from each party and how the medias used to

get their point across made a valid argument or not.

Day 2: ”Language Matters: A Rhetoriccal Look at Writing” - Chris Blankenship and Justin Jory

A-ha: The use of rhetoric has been appied in our society for over 2500 years and is used

to clarify the importance of language. Using rhetoric can help you think and better relate to your

audience, purpose, and context of your work of writing.

Language is difficut and messy: Language is considered difficut and messy because it

takes a lot of thought and concentration on how to best get your phrase across how you want it.

When there is an infinite amount of ways to get a certain point across it can become

scatterbrainded and disorganized. Correct language is a skill that you have to practice at for it to

become refined, proper, and usable.

Bickmore

A-ha: Genre is not a specific style we choose to write in for one specific assignment; it is

a way to categorize items into a category. Genre is also an act of language, pushing your words

in a strong and meaningful format to others around you.

Robotic Definition: Lisa Bickmore portrays Genre as someting that is repetitive and

becomes dull and unindividualistic. She makes sure to show how daily hassles of going through

day to day business writing becomes a genre of it’s own: which is deteriating to some. But I

believe genre can entice your writing. Being given a format to write in makes a challenge to get

your ideas onto a page in the most effective manner possible. It allows for your creativity to take

shape in ways you may not have thought of beforehand.

Day 4: “Writing for Community Change” - Elisa Stone

A-ha: College isn’t just so that we can get another check in our list of to-do items or to go

through semester after semester. It is here to help mold us into what we want to be and to help

make us good-citizens. What makes peope truly happy is them working in a cause outside of

themselves. Looking beyond them for the greater purpose of the world.

If money and time were not a factor in any aspect of life I would definitely live a life of

service and exploration. I would travel to all kinds of third world countries and would play my

part in humanitarian trips all over the gobe. This would allow me to go and visit the counries of

the world allowing me to explore what they have to offer and find myself within them. It would
also allow me to help those who cannot help themselves, because seeing a smile fly across

someone elses face is probably the greatest gift of all and you can really see that through service.

Day 5: “The Elizabeth Smart Case: A Study in Narrativized News” - Clint Johnson

“​Emmanuel’s family recognized the drawing and reported the man’s actual

name: Brian David Mitchell.”

“When officers approached the trio for questioning, they discovered Mitchell,

Barzee, and, disguised in a gray wig and veil, Elizabeth.”

The reason the Elizabeth Smart case is so universal and long-lasting is because it’s a

memorable story. You hav enever heard of that kind of kidnapping before and just how she was

able to kid of live her way out of it. Another reason that it is so long lasting is that it’s at home. It

will always be memorable in Utah because that is where we live and the fact that something this

awful could happen in our own state is crazy. It will always be memorable because of just how

crazy and wild the story really is.

Day 6: “Writing is Recursive” - Chris Blankenship

“​You’ve probably heard writing teachers talk about the idea of the “ writing

process” before. In a nutshell, although writing always ends with the creation of a

“product,” the process that leads to that product determines how effective the writing

will be.”
 “I’m talking about the big ideas here: looking over what you’ve created to see

if you’ve accomplished your purpose, that you’ve effectively considered your

audience, that your text is cohesive and coherent, and that it does the things that other

texts in that genre do.”

The second image is more correct because you are amost never done writing. Although

the first image may be how you think when you are coming up with the first draft of a piece of

writing the second image is much more accurate. The second image shows the dynamics of

writing and how there is always something to improve and that you can always make it better

and more improved. Without going back on your writing and trying to improve it your writing

will seem a bt systematical and flow based.

Day 7: “Revision is Writing that is all” - Lisa Bickmore

“​sitting in front of a messy draft, can have some hope: if I’m willing to dive in,

look at the connections (or lack thereof), the order (or patent absence of it), the words

(imprecise, not quite right), and hack away”

“Even so: just about every writer learns, one way or another, that revision is

how writing gets better, how sentences take shape, paragraphs take form, transitions

finessed, evidence sequenced, and emphasis achieved.”

Revision allows for your writing to go from just a sub par grouping of words on a page to

somethingn bigger and more meaningful. It is what allows the mediocore work of a bunch of

high school students to turn into something amazing and turn into a real work of art. We are able
to look back at everything step by step to see what and where something might go wrong and

then we can change that to make our essay or work of writing look better and sound more

coherent. Revision is an essential tool in the writing and revision process.