Rhetorical Knowledge

I chose this piece of writing because it was the very first assignment we had to do. The audience
of this assignment was Barbara Presnell. The purpose of this assignment was to inform Barbara
about my life and personality. The genre of this writing was like an autobiography because I was
telling her a shortening version of my life story. The topic of the assignment was my life. The
context of this assignment was that it was required for my UWRT 1104 class to be graded.

This is the second piece of writing that I choose for the rhetorical knowledge section. The
audience of this writing was to my groupmates. The purpose of my writing was to tell my
groupmates what I liked about their papers, what I didnt like and what needed to be changed.
The genre of this writing was peer reviewing to enhance one others papers. The topic of this
paper was to write reviews on each of my groupmates papers. The context of this writing was
because it was for UWRT and to help my groupmates develop their stories so they could fix it
before the final draft.
Both of these writings were required for the class but they were different as far as the other
rhetorical aspects of it. The first document was a paper that was written for the professor, while
the second paper was written for my groupmates. The purpose of the first document was to
inform my professor my story of how I learnt to read and write. The second document purposes
was to help my groupmates improve on their essays. The genre of my first writing was like an
autobiography. The genre of my second writing was like a peer review.

Critical Reading

This was the group revision of the essay called Football that we had to do as a class assignment.
This shows my critical reading skills because I had to decipher what the author was trying to say
and determine what made sense, what needed to be elaborated on, what did not need to be in the
essay and other things along that line. First I read through the piece looking for grammar
mistakes, paragraph formations and spelling. These are usually the easiest things to point out
and are things that can easily be fixed. The next thing I focused on was the beginning paragraph.
The first paragraph in the original essay was not strong and it lacked a good way to pull the
audience into what he was wanting to read. I took out most of what he put and made it simple
and sweet so the readers would not lose interest. The last paragraph was the last thing I focused
on and it was because he did not have an ending paragraph. I basically just summed up the story
and gave it an ending.

Knowledge of Conventions

One of the main reason I chose this paper for knowledge for conventions was for the fact that it
was one of my better pieces of writing that I have written this semester. This was a topic that I
knew a lot of information about and I communicated it very well by adding great detail and
keeping the readers attention. As you can see, I spelled words correctly, I used correct grammar
and I have good formation of paragraphs.

I chose this piece of writing because it shows how I am able to communicate my ideas
effectively. The point of this assignment was to pick a photo that describes who I am and to
write an accompany paragraph to show what can be observed for the picture. My grammar is
fairly good, I used commas where they should be and I specified what point of view it was in by
the use of Is.

This was a forum response to two readings we had to do for UWRT 1104. The assignment was
to read both stories and tell their similarities and differences. The displays my ability to
communicate my ideas. I used correct grammar, my sentences were complete and I displayed
the point of view by describing both stories without the use of first person terms such as I.

This is my first draft of my research journey. This draft was by far not at all good. I did not
understand the assignment at first and I did not really know what my professor wanted this paper
to be like. I had never written an informal paper and I thought the purpose of the research
journey was to explain what I went through to research the information for the paper.

This is my second draft of the research journey and as you can tell, it is an extreme improvement
from the first draft. This draft I actually understood what Barbara wanted from this assignment.
She wanted an informal paper that had my perspective on it and she wanted the information to be
shared like a formal paper, but just a little more sparkle. This was unusual for me because I have
always been asked to write formally. However, this version was still far from being able to be
called finished. One of the biggest changes from the first draft to the second draft was the
content. Instead of just telling how I found the research, I relayed the information in a way that
would grab the readers attention.

Critical Reflection

This was my midterm reflection and this is one of the best reflection passages that I have. This is
a reflection on my first half of the semester. This reflection talked about how hard it was when I
realized college was not going to be as easy as high school was. The insight that I have learned
during this first semester is that I need to study and at least go through my notes for each class
before each class. My history class is the one that I had the hardest reality check. He gives
quizzes out on random days and I have yet to receive a grade better than a zero. This made me
change my study habits and ever since the fourth zero, which is the last quiz grade I had, I have
been reviewing his notes before class. This experience made me rethink my habits and made me
change how I was going to approach college.

Creative Writing

This piece of writing was the third freewriting assignment that we had at the beginning of class.
The topic of this freewriting section was to make up a conversation between myself and someone
else. This displays my creativity because I made up a conversation between Kayla, who is my
girlfriend and I. Even though this may have been the reaction that I would have gotten from her,
it still displays my creativity. I started off with saying that I did not want to go to class, which
almost everyone feels at least every now and then. It goes on to where she says that she would
buy me Starbucks if I stayed and my remark to that was that it only works on her. She then
stated that I would buy her a drink, which triggered my uncontrollable urge to sings songs when I
her lyrics to songs. I proceed to sing bartender by T-pain and she also finished the lyrics where I
would stop at.