1,2,4 pg. 545

1.  a.The Beginning is everything, a writer should immediately get a readers attention in the text.

     b. Sentences should be written grammatically correct. 

      c. three or more points should be included in an essay.

      d. do not make an outline complex because it can make your composing harder.

      e. if the first paragraph is good, then the rest of the essay should be good.

 I think some times I have a hard time writing correct grammatical sentences but it does not happen much often.

2. non blockers are expressed less absolutely,  they use more ideas in their thesis paragraph.

They do not focus on getting someones attention from start. They get to know their audience, and also brig unfinished wok for evaluation.

4. what makes a rule good for writers is the amount of interest the writer has in this specific rule.

what makes a bad rule for writers is they do not actually understand what is saying and have a problem following this rule.

Ernest Hemingway.

what makes Ernest's writing process so different is that he writes every morning as soon as the sun rises.  You will never catch him writing no other time of the day other than the morning time.  when time finishes he just leaves it alone and can not wait to the next day so he can do it again.

Page 587
 1. Students use the process of revising as finding better vocabulary words that can be placed instead of the ones thats already written.  They do this to make their text becomes more valuable.

3. I think all four of these describe the way I write.  I always write down ideas as I do my daily routines.  After I write my thoughts, I always compose my text after I get my thoughts together.  By me gathering thoughts, composing the text becomes real easy.

5. Experienced writers tend to have that advantage that student writers do not have.  Experienced writers already have a thought of how their text is going to be and they do not need to pre write.

7. A revised paper is always better than an unrevised paper because the more the paper is revised the better sentences and words will be in the text.  Some  people do what they learn while others tend to have that in them from start.

2,3,4,5,7

2. There is a lot of ways a reader can trace a text.  Prior used many different skills of tracing a single text.  He relates text to source text meaning that any texts he reads is not a source of its own, some of the text had to come from another text that was previously written.  A text must have multiple drafts before having  a final one, it can be related to talk or discussion.  he also used thinking aloud a certain text, look for hidden writing, use natural resources in a text, retrospective accounts of writing.  He used different types of interviewing such as stimulated, semi-structerd, or text-based.  Observation of writing as well as side notes in writing.  Using data from different sources, conclusion and finally references.  All of these aspects can be used to trace writing.

  3. Inscription is a little different, Inscription is the act of writing out what a writer is writing, while composing is what a writer does to edit what he/she is writing. Inscription seems to come first not by much because composing follows along right after it.

4. It is important to distinguish different kinds of authorship because when tracing a text because more than one skill can be involved.  For example, inscription and composing can both be present in a text at one time.

5. one major skill that must be done while tracing writing is being able to identify the participants in a certain text.  Knowing who did what and what does the text mean to certain participants is also important.

7. Concurrent makes looking at a writer inscription and writing alone difficult to see what is going on in the text.  Retrospective rely on someone's memory which I think that is not a good way to write a text because sometimes a writer does not remember everything that happened.  Naturalistic account deals with a lot of image use.  Semi-structured interviewing is a series of questions that can be looked bak into after the interview is over.  Stimulated Elicitation interviewing wants a response based on a person memory, I think both of the interview process I find my favorite but with the semi-structured being the prior one.

Changes to my paper and writing process.

I would change the way I use descriptive writing.  I will try to make it as more descriptive and more entertaining as possible.  I learned descriptive writing was a major cause to have a better paper along with other basic writing skills a writer should have.  I would use grammar correctly, use correct persuasive appeals, and rhetorical concepts.  

Page 75
2. Writing is an autobiography beacasue it shows readers the personal feeling and experience the writer feels.  Writing an autobiography can be written in any category, from poetry to narrative.  It shows the reader everything the writer goes through as he experience what he is writing about.

 5. I agree with Murray.  Everyone writes his papers different.

6. some stories I wrote have been autobiography in the sense that Murray describes while other stories are not.

page  205

1. By expressing feelings and emotions, a writer does not use the same skills in writing as if he/she is writing research paper or such thing.  I agree because a writer uses different skills when writing different stories or papers.


2. Strasser is right but at the same time he is wrong.  Having good writing skills lead to meaningless writing, but what is more important than that is how much interest does the writer have in the topic he is writing about.

3. I think school has a major role in creating ones mind, but not to much about body and spirits because there are many different kinds of schools and the creation of body and spirits in learning depends on what type of school a student attends in his life.

I do not remember a specific name of a book I liked.  I read a lot of sport articles online about soccer and wrestling. I did not have a computer at home so I did not have access to the internet all the time.  So every time I get free time for example at school inside classrooms or sometimes in the library, I would go to websites like WWE.com or Realmadrid.com and read articles and posts that follow up the weekly Tv shows.   I also used to read a lot of WWE magazines; Every time I used to go to certain markets I would go to the magazine aisle and start looking at sports magazines and read certain articles while I wait for my cousin or anyone while He/She shopped.  I do not remember the exact age I was when I began reading.

Q D G 1-4
1. The shifting creates a confusion for the readers.  It makes it hard to distinguish weather the story is from a first person or third person point of view.  I have learned that a writer should always keep the story from one point of view so it would be easier for the reader to follow along the story and does not get confused about who is the writer talking about.

2.Villanueva defines rhetoric as the way people use language in their everyday lives.  The way people think,talk, and interact with one another.  He says that learning is very vital in someones life and rhetoric was the way people talk to each other, read and write.
3. I have always tried to imitate good writer's books.  I look at the sentence structure, grammar use, vocabulary, and all the other skills good writers use in their writing.  By using this process, I try to make my writing as most accurate as I can.
4. A lot of these elements apply to my writing process, I gather thoughts and ideas as I do a lot of other stuff.  For example, I start writing a paper, then once I get stuck, I might get up and go get a drink of water or something.  As I am drinking my water, an idea might come up where I am stuck in my writing, then I start typing until I get stuck again and so on.  I continue this process until I get my whole thoughts together and Finish my paper.

Skills To Be Learned

     There are a few skills that I am familiar with while many I need to improve upon.  I am familiar with MLA Formatting, understanding plagiarism, and properly use in-text citations.  As I was growing up, I learned MLA formatting multiple times, from different literacy sponsors and teachers.  While I was in school ( specifically High School) , I learned that plagiarism is one of the most common way people get kicked out of college.  I would like to improve as many skills as I can because I know that a perfect paper is written by good reading and writing skills.  I would like to improve on writing better papers, a better paper is written with more vocabulary, correct in-text citations, correct use of grammar, no plagiarism and so on.  I understand the longer your paper is the better your professor is more likely to credit your paper, the longer your paper is (without redundance) the more value it has.  I would also like to improve on knowing the difference between editing and proofreading, and how to be able to use them and to know what to do when getting stuck while writing as well because I get stuck sometimes in my own thinking while writing.  Getting stuck while writing could be one of the major reasons on finishing papers late and not on time which is why I want to never get stuck while writing.  Knowing the difference between editing and proofreading is very important because a writer can often misunderstand the correct usage of these two skills and might consider them the same.


     Another skill I would like to have as a good writer is using writing as a brainstorming process, that way I can collect general ideas about what i am going to write and go in detail following that.  This process will make what ever I have to write easier because my ideas and thoughts will already be written down and organized.  I want to also learn adapt appropriate voice, tone, and and level of formality as well as the ability to understand how tutoring is different than peer review.  After practicing these skills I will become a better writer and reader.  I think after taking this course I would learn a lot of skills for writing that I do not have or currently weak in.