My final portfolio for Drawing for Animation 2 is uploaded!

1. Viral Interventions: Read

2. Viral Interventions: Identify

3. Viral Interventions: Compose

4. Viral Interventions: Present (Final)

5. Viral Interventions: Mel Chin QCQ

6. Viral Interventions: Propose Proposal #1 Proposal #2 Proposal #3

7. Viral Interventions: Final Proposal

8. Viral Interventions: Tasks

9. Viral Intervention: Timeline

10. Viral Intervention: Budget

11. Viral Intervention: Process Mugshots Stencil creation "Wanted" posters creation

12. Viral Intervention: Final Documentation

Hey guys! My name is Karen Talachy I am 19 years old. I am currently a Freshman at the University of New Mexico. I am majoring in nursing and minoring in psychology. I have always wanted to be a nurse for as long I could remember. I am a really caring person and enjoy helping people in anyway I can. In the future I am hoping to become Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN), which means my patients would be between 1-18 years old.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected not only my own life, but everyone else life as well. No one asked for this, but we have been forced to adjust accordingly to this disease. For me personally, I ended up getting a job at a nearby Walgreens during spring break and was set to have an interview set two weeks later to begin volunteering at a Presbyterian Hospital. During Spring break, it was announced that we had to leave campus and were forced to move back home. This pushed all of my plans back and definitely put them on halt. Going back home meant I wouldn’t be able to go to school anymore, no longer had a job and couldn’t volunteer anymore in Albuquerque, or back home since my volunteer work would be in a medical setting. Going back home also forced me to take on many more responsibilities and to transition to be a full-time student online. I personally, find this transition to be a lot more difficult rather than being in a classroom setting. However, I was still able to learn a variety of ways to strengthen my writing and by the end of English 1120 I became an even stronger writer.

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Rhetorical Situation and Genre

This semester we analyzed a variety of genres such as movie scences, invitations, how to’s and even genres related to our future careers. In small writing assignment (SWA) 1, I analyzed a Ray Bradbury’s “The Vedlt”, and explored the horror story and science-fiction genre conventions. My second SWA deviated quite a bit from the first one.  In SWA 2 I got to analyze genres that are within my field of interest, nursing.  I analyzed a nursing blog, the FLACC pain assessment and the PQRST assessment. The reason I chose to review these genres is because these genres are commonly used by nurses to help them with their duties as a nurse. In nursing most of the genres in my field of interest are used to share helpful information to nurses and doctors. My favorite genre to analyze was the FLACC pain assessment. I enjoyed analyzing this assessment because I got to learn how nurses evaluate patients the pain of children between 2 months to 8 years of age or up to 18 years of age for children with cognitive impairment and/or developmental impairment that prevent them from communicating their pain.

Writing as a Social Act

To me writing as a social act means to write in a way the is best suited when it comes to informing or persuading your audience. When writing it is important to keep in mind what your main objective is and know what genre conventions are important to follow and break when it comes to your achieving your main purpose. Compared to last semester, I noticed that my audience went from an informal audience to a formal audience. When it come to writting for a professonal audience I made sure my writting was well organized, included vocabulary that my audience would know and maintained a nice flow This is important within my future career as a nurse because as a nurse you need to be able to provide information to doctors in an organized, professional manner to help doctors determine how to treat and diagnose their patients. As a nurse it is very important to know which genres are needed when determing what information you need to provide.

Writing as a process

          Completing small writing assignment, one allowed me to gain a better understanding of the science fiction genre. I analyzed the ways Ray Bradbury broke and met genre conventions of both science fiction and horror genres within his short story, “The Vedlt”. Small writing assignment two was an assignment I had never done before. I created a field guide to share some genre conventions that are common in the nursing field. The genres I analyzed were blogs, a general pain assessment such as the FLACC Pain assessment, and a more specific assessment like the PQRST assessment. The small writing assignment two helped prepare me when it came time for me to compose my major writing assignment one.  For my major writing assignment one I chose to analyze the PQRST pain assessment from my SWA 2. The brain storming stage is the easiest stage for me. I am able to brainstorm many topics to write about, which allows me to chose which topics will best inform my audience about the PQRST pain assessment. Peer review helped when it came to gaining insight for another person’s perspective. This was helpful when it came to the revising stage of my MWA because the peer review helped me identify the areas, I am strong in my writing and the areas I am weak in as well. This allowed me to focus on revising allowed me to focus on improving my weak areas to strengthen my writing.

 analyze and describe the value of incorporating various languages, dialects and registers in your own and others’ texts 

Yes, I did dive into other styles of language when exploring genres that were in my field of interest. Within SWA #1, I had read a horror story by Ray Bradbury, “The Veldt”. I was able to analyze the conventions of horror genre. I wrote about how Bradbury met some of the genre conventions of horror and also how he broke them within his story.

When it came to my MWA #2 I was able to explore terminology that is very common when it come to the field of nursing. Whenever I am explaining the language to people who are outside of the field, I usually like to explain to them was certain words mean or let them know what certain phrases mean in health care. I noticed that within my area of nursing the terminology that is used varies. I learned that abbreviations are common within nurses to provide information to other people in the medical field. This is a good skill to have because it helped me improve my communication skills. I was able to learn the terminology and gain a grasp on the language by re reading the articles and using context clues to figure out some of the terms.

When it came to Major Writing Assignment 2 I wrote in a formal tone. I wrote this way because I wanted to make a claim. I also wanted to sound credible and persuasive as well.I wrote in a lower register when creating my field guide for SWA #2. I decided to do that because my field guide was intended for people who did not know much about medical terminology. I preferred to write in a low register because it is not so formal which means it doesn’t need to have such strong vocabulary and dictation.  I also prefer this register because it doesn’t have to meet certain standards.