#rwsfalcon

I started this course with confidence, since I did fairly good in my previous Composition class. But after the first assignment I panicked. It has been about 8 years since I took my previous Composition class. I thought I would remember, but I was wrong. From the first assignment, I had a nervous breakdown, I still don't understand Tumblr, and majority of the time I have to watch YouTube videos on how to post. However, I believe this class helped me improve my writing skills by far. I say with confidence, I hope, that the area where I improved the most was the APA format. The previous college I attended used MLA format, and even then I must say I wasn't that good at it. Now I can site my sources with confidence. The assignment I enjoyed the most was the Digital Source Analysis. I struggled with finding adequate sources for the Literature Review. And when I had to search for sources to complete the DSA, it was like night and day. It was faster, it was easier, I did not worry as much. I am still pending a grade for that assignment, but I have confidence I will be a good grade. I do believe that when discussing writing we use the audience and the genres, at least now I do. Even when I am writing an email, now I think about who is the recipient and what message am I trying to send. The thing, I feel would help me the most in my future classes is definitely the APA format. During this semester, two of my other classes requested that format for work to be turned in. Thanks to this course I am now confident in this area and I know I will succeed in my other courses as well. Overall, I had a love hate/relationship with this class. I turned in a wrong assignment and got a zero, which made me cry by the way, since I was the only one to blame. I dreaded posting on tumblr, since I had never even heard of it before. The only thing I am going to miss from tumblr are the gifs, some of them are pretty funny. But after this class, I am positive I won't be returning to tumblr. On the positive side, I will miss the research.I did truly enjoyed researching my topic. As for my career goes, the extensive research I did on my topic will help me understand my future patients better, and hopefully guide them in the right direction.

INTRODUCTION

AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE

RHETORICAL ISSUES

Structure and Delivery

CONCLUSION/SYNTHESIS

1. What did you know about genres before this assignment and what impact do you think studying genres may have on your writing?

i honestly didn’t know a lot about genre before this assignment. In my RWS 1301 class, we touched a little on this subject but it was mainly genres like movies, letters, research papers, etc. I honestly did not know that all of these were all grouped into different categories. I believe that studying genres may have an impact not only on my writing but on everyone else’s. I think this is because we learned how to further analyze our sources and how to better use them. Before this assignment, I would just get direct quotes off of my sources but now I think that I can come up with my own conclusion about my sources.

2. What are the complexities of using genres?

I learned that when you use different genres in an assignment, it can be very complex. This is because you might interpret something in the source in a completely different way than someone else. Also, the genres might be very similar so it is hard to show the differences between them. It is also hard to use genres because one has to come up with their own ideas based on what the genre is telling us. Also, if you use two or more completely different genres, it might become hard to chose and stick to a certain writing style.

3. What is the value of studying and/or writing about genres?

Writing and studying about genres is very important because they are what make writing papers possible. Every source that we use in an assignment has it own genre. There is a value in studying these because it is what makes our writing possible. I once saw a connection that was made between writing and music. The notes, harmonies, rhythms, sonatas, etc in a piece is what makes up a beautiful piece of music. Same goes for writing because one of the most important parts in writing is  the genre that one is using.

4.Select one of the questions listed and explain the rhetorical choices you made towards answering the question.

INTRODUCTION