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My advice to future students is to do their work and go with the flow of the class. Professor Villa ia pretty cool but she has high expectations for her class. If you follow her rubric and listen to what she has to say you will do well. Don’t procrastinate like I am right now and she will help you do well. She gives out plenty of extra credit opportunities in case you do mess up but she does not make exceptions for any one. It is very important to check your calander often so you don’t forget to turn something in like I did on multiple occasions because every point is going to matter when finals time comes around.

This assignment was the most fun for me. I usually hate working in a group but working with Edgar and Paulina was very enjoyable. Everyone helped out and did their part and we got along pretty well. We chose to work on Paulina’s topic because it lend itself the best to do an AVA on. I was surprised there wasn’t that many people who did a video because I think it can be more effective than a website or a poster. I personally enjoy making videos with my friends so it was exiting to use a skill normally used to make people on the internet think we are cool for school. I wish we had a little bit more time to work on our project because our deadline got moved a week closer than we were prepared for so we had to record and edit a little faster than I would have liked. My original plan for the video was to make a news broadcast style video but that would have than much longer both in recording and specially in editing time. Overall I think our presentation and project were pretty good. It would have been pretty cool to see more people create videos to see different approaches to presenting an argument. Maybe this project will lead to me finally creating my youtube channel about my passions of cars, computers/gaming, and firearms. I feel like the fast filming and editing used would help in becoming a hobby content creator in the future.

This assignment sucked so much. The size of it didn’t bother me until the laptop I was working on it with stopped working and I couldn’t recover what I had worked on the day the second draft was due. I had to start over with hardly anything I had other than most of my sources. I had to be quick to put something together and even skipped going to the conference to try and do so. I felt good about my final because the girl who helped me at the writing center said she liked it but I ended up getting a not so good grade on it. I don’t want to complain about that because in life sometimes things like that happen. The assignment also felt like a big summary which in a way it was and that felt kind of dry to me. The sources I used were also mostly academic engineering papers which are super dry and long. To be honest I wanted to use some of the equations presented in those papers but I didn’t even understand what they meant but I knew what they were proving. Most of the things I read in order to complete the assignment were also fairly long making the assignment suck even more. As much as I didn’t like this assignment I think this is fairly close to what I will be doing as an engineer. I would like to thank caffeine, nicotine, and the mystery chemicals in red bull and monster because without them this assignment would have never been completed.

The genre analysis was the most strait forward of the writing assignments. I feel like mine was pretty easy because my topic for the semester was about cars which I love outside of school. The genres I chose to analyze are typical of what I read and watch when I am bored at home or between classes so I think it was fairly easy to do so. It felt weird using something I enjoy for school because most school projects are on a subject that I don’t find fun or even interest me. I feel like I had a hard time explaining my genres because I didn’t know if our professor had seen the media I used even if it was in the works cited page. It is hard to exactly describe a video to someone because I don’t know what they are picturing in their mind. The humor in that video can be hard to understand without watching it and even more so because the TV show it comes from is from England and there are themes in the show one would not understand without watching it for a fair amount of episodes. The article I used was a lot easier to write about because of how strait forward it was. I feel like anybody could read the article and understand it because it doesn’t use inside jokes or a particular theme in order to reach its audience. Breaking down both genres to explain how they give their argument was not that difficult but effectively writing about it was tricky for me.

To be completely honest when I heard we had to create a tumblr for this class I taught it was going to suck. I’m not big on writing on social media, I’m more of a share pictures on social media kind of person. Maintaining a tumblr for the class was actually not that bad specially since we could be as creative as we want with how we present our information or assignment. I enjoyed using the GIF’s because it brought some humor into the posts. Replying to classmates was fun at times too but at the beginning felt sort of awkward. I had a good laugh when I used a pimp my ride reference as a response and according to professor Villa it made a few people laugh as well. I feel like the use of tumblr kept the class from being boring like most other RWS classes. Social media keeps our generation interested better than just writing on the blackboard discussion. I had to use the blackboard discussion in my first RWS class and that got boring super-fast and I don’t think anybody enjoyed it. Being able to be creative and use images and GIFs made it feel like we weren’t doing an assignment for the most part as well as keeping the theme of it light hearted and not stressful. That being said it did take a fair amount of time to complete the tumblr assignments because of the reading we had to do. I wish more classes implemented this multimedia type of learning.

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