In this final blog, I am going to provide you with some important aspect of the course. I divided this reflection into 5 parts. We will talk about our portfolio (process and product), and some examples of genres we have explored, the central rhetorical concepts, and our motivation for composing. Then we will conclude. Before starting this course, our teacher went through the process. He explained us that it is important for us to meet deadline. He gave an overview of what our grade will look like if we did not take seriously his advice. He told us that our portfolio in the process we go through our writing, the product or everything that we use to organize, plan, and build our website. We explored many genres in this class. First of all, we talked about the web page (weebly.com). Before this class I did not know anything about this website. It was an opportunity for us to create our web page with a username and a password. The web page includes home page, about, formal assignment pages, contact page. The home page gives a raison we created this website. The “About” allowed a readers to know our personality. One of the things I never done before was to answers to “The Proust Questionnaire”. I struggled with those 35 questions one week before completing. The formal assignment page (Narrative Project and Research Project) follows many processes to arrive to the final result. In the Narrative project, a student has at least two drafts to write. We explored in this section Rhetorical mode (narration), Genre (creative nonfiction, Sub-genre (Memoir/ Fan fiction) and the Purpose is to Persuade, Inform and Entertain. The writer’s choice were context (setting), text (opening with scene or symbols for example), and subtext (themes, conflict). The important thing on this part are the process (revising your own blogs and the blogs comments, reading assignment), and the product (the check list ) that allowed student to evaluate his work. The Research project section was about gratitude. I always hear about gratitude but I did know anything about the “Three Good Things”. We explored in this section the Rhetorical method (Argumentation), Genre (MLA Research paper), and the Thesis that communicate the TPS (Topic, Position, and Support). The structure (Introduction, Literature Review, Finding section, conclusion) was well-organize. For helping us getting a good result, our teacher gave us opportunity to form different groups (about 4 students) in class. I come to realized that it was a good idea to be closely with others students and share your work. The tools that our teacher gave us were really helpful. We covered the central rhetorical concepts such as Ethos, logos, Kairos, and telos. We also explored PIE (Persuade, Inform, and Entertain), description, exposition, argumentation and narration. I learned from this course that there are many motives for composing. We compose to make meaning, to make sense of the word, to join academic conversations, to create social connection, to apply authorial choice in writing and life. Overall this class was benefits for me as a student, and also for my future carrier. A friend of mine read one of the formal assignment’s sheets. Here is what he told me, “This is one of the best and well-organized narrative projects, I have never seen“. It means that if you follow the process, you will not have problem to compose and to make meaning. I learned how to be more productif and effecient in my carrier.The element that I was not able to do it was Vlog. I was never taken video of myself. It was not only based on the belief but it also a cultural issue. It is something I have to work on.
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