#readingresponse

i wasn’t even trying to write about her. just letting something ancient hum through my fingers. but she kept showing up. not in comments. not in reblogs. just there — like breath on the back of the neck. like a girl standing too still behind a mirror.

she tells herself she’s just scrolling. just browsing. but the syntax rearranges her posture. the cadence presses down like a hand she didn’t see coming.

she keeps liking these. quietly. ritually. as if her hips aren’t the ones doing the remembering.

she doesn’t reblog. but her body does.

something in the rhythm moves her forward on the bed. something in the phrasing makes her pause just a little too long before pretending it was just a post.

somewhere in the algorithm, a girl is flushed and furious that her cervix is reading faster than her eyes.

this isn’t NSFW. this is spinal access. this is pelvic theology. this is a loop she never consented to, but keeps returning to anyway.

In the NFG book, there was a reading of the design of media, purpose, and catching attention of the viewers. It was very interesting reading about the aspects of design. Personally I have always been a creative individual, and reading through it was very fascinating. How to use the different shapes to catch attention, colors for emotion, and also how to keep the viewers attention through the use of short sentences, and the use of words.

I have always been interested in media design, but besides photography I have never got a chance to actually try it. Through this section of the book, it really helped me understood the different strategies to use media design. We applied the different strategies that the NFG provided for us to the infograph, and it was very fun to apply them.

This weeks reading in chapter 10 focused on the formats and modalities when designing arguments. There are different kind of arguments such as visual arguments, its main purpose is to get their argument across but in a visual manner, kind of what we have started doing in class. Verbal arguments are arguments used with words like academic presentations and speeches. I think personally i prefer a visual argument rather than any other of the types just because i am a visual learner so i feel it would be the best way to get my argument across. 

The way formats and modalities writers use to convey arguments has an impact on how they argument is shaped by helping them strict the argument to focus on communication effectively with the audience to get their point across. If the argument is off topic or has nothing to do with what the argument is, it can loose the audiences attention and will not be effective at all.

The way Yanceys article ties into the reading is by having similar examples and points as chapter 10 does on modalities and formats. According to Yancy, the relationship between literacy and rhetoric is that he both will come together on different occasions to form one argument. My perception of literacy did not really change, however it did make me get a deeper, more firm understanding of how many ways it can be looked at and viewed.

This chapter ties in with my nursing major because when dealing with any person in any work environment, many people may have different points of views on certain subjects/things so to solve they problem this would be the professional way to handle it and hopefully solve their mis understandings. 

I think this chapter really helped me understand the structure of arguments and it will help with my AVA project by me knowing exactly how to put my argument together. 

For this week we read about Developing Multimodal Academic Literacies among college freshman by Gloria Jacobs. She focuses on showing how teaching multimodal academic literacies help students from college, she also talks about Jacobs experiment and and the experiment was about  a freshman english class where they tested the multimodal literacies. Overall this text shows how getting together multimodal academic literacies help students to better understand what they are doing in class. 

I feel this reading connects to my major because in the business world a business man have to use different types of resources to get his or her message to get a business going. Sometimes you have to present videos or podcasts or maybe sometimes use a poster to inform, those are visual forms but business persons also use memos or text to inform about a business or something they have to do. 

This giff represents me and my partner Sam, when we present infront of the class.

This chapter addresses the design of an argument by introducing formats and modalities. The chapter describes different types of arguments like written, visual, verbal, and others, thus introducing its modalities. On written modalities, three formats are explained: scholarly, public scholarship, popular scholarship. On visual arguments visual ideas are developed like the purpose, and visual components, as well as well as the relationship between visual and written components. Furthermore, verbal arguments are introduced along with its modalities. For example, verbal arguments can take place in a debate format, or speech.

This chapter connects with my major, criminal justice when it comes to the formatting. For example, when a filing a complaint, a warrant, an arrest form, a court case, evidence format or whatever the case may be, format is essential. A person working in the criminal justice system needs to file paper and it is important to file them right. It also connects since the criminal justice system combines different arguments. Sometimes, visual, verbal, and written arguments combine to form a new component. When in court, sometimes evidence is presented through pictures, which is visual, and they argue in court defending their side, which is verbal, and writing their statement down, which is written. This chapter made me understand my discipline better because now I understand how different arguments have different modalities and how they can combine their components.

The readings made me understand my major assignment, AVA, better because I got to understand better the visual arguments and the correlation the different arguments can have. It explains very well the structure as well as the purpose. It made me ask some questions when working on my assignment like, do the visuals reinforce what the written text argues? Does it back up the written components? And lastly, is there a reasonable balance between the different types of arguments?

Chapter 3 of Writing in Transit discusses how questions are posed within disciplines. The chapter goes over the type of questions may be asked such as interpretive, quantitative, or fundamental questions about your discipline. These questions are useful in helping you better understand your topic, and become a credible source within your field (e.g. Physicists pose, research, and answer questions about the universe, making them credible individuals in the information they provide.)

This reading connects to my discipline because although I have strong feelings about habitat destruction, I do not know everything about it.  For this reason it is important for me to ask questions on the topic, in order to understand and expand my knowledge of it. 

Since our major assignment is the Lit Review, reading about posing research questions is significant considering we will have to do so ourselves. It was helpful to learn that there are many different types of questions one can ask about their topic. I don’t know about you guys but I find it a bit difficult to come up with questions about something, let alone doing so in order to gain a more vigorous understanding of something I barely understand. But, the reading helped me think and gave me a bit more confidence about coming up with questions. 

Finally, my topic proposal for the Lit Review is Coral Reef Destruction. I previously wrote about deforestation, and in a sense, coral reefs are the sea’s forests. 

In the article, “Emerging Personal Media Genres”, the author discusses the topic of genre with how it used, how it affects us, and how it is changing throughout time.

The reading connected to my major, Education, by explaining that genre is also demonstrated by class lectures, books, and media. Wanting to be a first grade teacher, I will be using communication through the whole day. In addition to that I will be doing fun and attention grabbing activities that I will get from all kinds of media.

One of the last readings I did for this summer semester was the “Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments” by Mary E. Hocks. This last week was focused on the last presentation we did as a group, and during that presentation we had to present our infograph. This week’s reading had to due with how in present day we use different types of media to present articles and other types of text. When we created our infograph we used a program called piktochart, and due to that program we were able to put our entire community problem report in a visual piece. Without the help of that digital source we would had not been able to create a visual that would have been appealing to the eye of our audience.

The reason I chose this blackboard reading was once again, because I simply love the media. All of this weeks readings had to due with speeches, presentations, and how to give a good impression while trying to demonstrate your work to other people. Such as the CEO of Pepsi, and how her communication skills got her to where she is right now. Those readings were so helpful, and all the knowledge that I acquired with the process of reading the articles, I actually used that knowledge to present my information to the class. As helpful as those articles were, nothing can compare to the media and design to me. I’m glad there was a variety of articles to choose from this week. Even though the class is ending, I will continue to look for articles to read in my own personal time.