Re-reading {pp.5-7} : One thing I did notice in rereading pages 5-7 is that I understood the a paper a lot more strictly by knowing what a discourse was expected to be before reading it again. Another thing I noticed was the passage talking about discourses with a capital D and discourses with a lowercase d. The capital D is about the “doing-being-valuing-beleiving combinations. While the lower case d is…

Simple grammatical errors really put my paper from being a great paper to a decent paper. My sentence and paragraph structure could have used some work as well. In my paper #2 I will make it a point to revise with more caution. I will read my paper aloud and see how the flow is working. I will be able to accurately show my knowledge with this paper after seeing…

I like how it gives specific examples of David Thoreau of his environment that he was in and I made notes about where my best environment I should be in to accomplish my best work. Woolfs writing room and how it has to be silent I can compare that to my are not dead silence but when people try to interrupt or speak to me I completely lose my train…

Graff and Birkenstein (They Say/I Say) explain that most writers (certainly of academic essays) are responding to what others have said, and they tell us to look for what motivates these writers. By entering a conversation, according to them, a writer has to represent what’s been said and move beyond it in some way. So, what are some of the views Gee responds to? Remember, he may name them explicitly; they…

Entering the Conversation: This portion of the book had to do with how to write a paper argumentatively and also how to write papers with a conversation. It references Martin Luther king jrs. speech on Birmingham where he basically is writing a script or dialogue. The one part of this chapter that stuck out to me was the They say, I say portion. If there is one thing the book…

The process that took me the most time revising was basically my grammar and spelling. The second part was my paragraph structure and the way I portrayed the story outcomes. In my process I would have not changed anything this is the first time I’ve taken advice from people and changed my essay in the way they suggested. The drafting and revising process was never a thing for me I…

Summarize the content of the program stethoscope episode 270 on 99% invisible was about the evolution of patient care and the evolution of stethoscopes. The entire podcast was about a field that i find interesting because I want to be in the medical field. The evolution of patient care has went from listening to what the patient has to say to listening what the machines and doctors tell you. How…