14) Optional Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow.
Let’s Talk In our last couple of classes were on a game show called Let’s Talk. In this game show the game show host made it very clear “we lived and died together”. We were split up into the groups we were put into in the beginning of the year. Our groups were then given three challenges. Throughout this blog post I will be talking about our first challenge. We were given ten minutes, and an envelope with four categories and words or phrases that would go under each of them. These categories and the related words and phrases all had to do with the things we’ve learned over the past semester. The first category was Rhetorical Modes, which describes the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking. The four words we placed under this were description, argumentation, exposition, and narration. These are the most common rhetorical modes. Our second category was Motives. Throughout this semester we were constantly talking about our process and what we want to do with our writing. Our motives are what pushed us to get there. Under motives we placed seven different phrases. One I think was most important was make meaning. From the start of this class make meaning has always been talked about. This class was not just an ordinary composition class. We did not just come in write and hand in a paper. We work as a class, we talk about our writing, and we were given time to work on and revise all of our work. We were taught how to make meaning with our writing. The third category we set up was Rhetorical Purposes. Rhetorical purposes seek to persuade an audience, seek to manipulate the way that audience thinks about the given subject. In class when we talked about this we were taught PIE, Persuade, Inform, Entertain. Our fourth and final category was Genres/Subgenres. In this category we put memoir, creative nonfiction, and reflective writing. We talked about many different genres and subgenres in class. We read, wrote, and learned about them too. Each week our blog assignments had to do with a different genre of writing. This class has really opened my eyes to the many different genres. After reading and writing about them I think it will be easier for me to recognize them. In my next blog post I will be talking about the second and third challenge of the game show if you would like to hear more about Let’s Talk. Below is a pictute of the categories and the words and phrases that go with them.
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Sabatino
12/7/2017 01:36:28 pm
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