This class overall has helped me understand the concept of discourse community and writing about different genres more in depth than before. How I understood discourse community better is that at first, I didn’t even know what it was at the beginning of the semester but throughout this course I have developed my own definition of understanding about discourse community better. How discourse community relates to the events happening today is that everybody is thinking the same way about everything like how some people are taking it seriously and some are not taking it seriously because some people think this is a hoax but it is not it is very real and it is here in the United States. How a profile can work in talking about using toilet paper is that everyone is always running out to get toilet paper because it is the phsycology part of our brain thinking it is the end of the world because this coronavirus is not going away anytime soon. How arguments over social distancing relate to a profile is that we can argue about people who agree with social distancing and the people who do not agree with social distancing. I agree with social distancing because it is seeming to work all around the world because slowly the number of deaths are going down, and people are not dying as much as they were a couple of weeks ago.
How Journalism and media is responding to this pandemic is interesting because they are actually using real facts from the CDC to peoples stories because right now they want to get the real truth out there to people who are concerned if the virus is in there area or not. How physical distancing is relates to discourse communities is that people think the same thing about physical distancing from everyone for 14 days if you come from out of state. At the beginning of this course you had us write down our goals for this course and what we want to achieve in this class, and I felt like I have met my goals. My first goal was to not be late to classes and I have met this goal so far because I have not missed one class. Another goal of mine was to turn all of my assignments in on time and I felt like I have done that so far. I have achieved on writing what I am passionate about. For example when you asked us to create profile on what career we wanted to do in the future and I picked social work because that is what I am passionate about because I am passionate about kids and protecting them.
With the photo collaborative project, I understood music and genre because it taught us how music changed over the years with genre or if it stayed the same. I think music has changed over the years because it has turned more of country than anything. How we use tone in the project and our profile is that it is how we perceive the piece and how we word the piece and use language. Language plays a big part in writing because language is the way you can communicate to your audience in the piece. Here is the four readings I did and how they relate to language and genre.
Twelve Words
What this is about is Brian is trying to get his brother Danny to say his name. Brian becomes frustrated with Danny because he can’t say his name or any of his other sibling’s name, but Brian got his brother to say at least one word that only Brian knew I-an. Danny said the word I-an to tease Brian as well. I like the part where Brian wanted Danny to say his name because he was persistent on getting Danny to say his name. Why was Brian so persistent on Danny saying his name even though Danny could not speak? What I found compelling is also when Danny said I-an before he goes to sleep that means I love you in his language. The idea I have for this story is share a little more about the childhood the two had because he only wrote half of a page worth for the childhood. I like how through all this Brian was by his brothers side no matter what the cost was. What made me sad is that Danny died way to early to enjoy life to the fullest and die old.
No one could see the color blue until modern times
What this is about is that talking about blue and not seeing it before today. What I find interesting about this article is that do not see blue because I always thought people saw blue. An idea I have for this article is that they should have shown a video of people reacting to seeing blue for the first time. What surprised me about this is that Egyptians were the ones to discover the word blue. I like when they did the green square experiment to see if people saw blue. Why did they do this experiment to see blue? What I find weird is that we did not see blue at all before modern times.
How Language Shapes our Perception of Reality
What this article is about is that how language shapes our thoughts and our actions. What I find weird is that they compare the brain to the conception of reality. Why are they saying the brain has a second language in reality? An idea I have for this article is that they should add more information to the section “The Brain with a second language”. Another idea I have is they should add a little bit more information to the whole article itself because it fells kind of short and I am interested in this article. What I like about this article is that they talk about the brain having a second language. What I also like is that how they compare English speakers to languages.
The Concept of Discourse Community
What this pdf is about it compares how one person’s idea can be similar to another person’s idea. An idea I have for this article is that give an example of a Discourse community. What I like about this article it goes in depth on what you need to do to talk about discourse community. What I also like is that they talk about how they use it in an example. What I do not like about this article is that they put to much information in this article. An idea for this article just summarizes what discourse community is about. What is compelling to me is that they talk about how someone can think about a similar thing another person wants to write about.
How this relates to language is that I am trying to tell the audience at these are the best four readings they should read and I put my own perspectives in these four reading and I am telling them what I think these are about. Another way language plays in this four readings reflection is that it plays in the summary that we discuss ad the summary helps the reader decide if they want to read it or not. How genre plays in the four readings is that it plays overall and some of these stories have connections because some of them have similar outlines than the other stories. What I mean by similar outlines is that they are following the same format.
How this shift to online only has impacted me is that I can stay more focused but at the same time I feel distracted because my mom constantly waning me to do things. How this pandemic impacted me positivly is that I get to spend more time with my family and get to spend more time getting to know each other better. How this pandemic impacted me negatively is I don’t to get to see my friends often do to the stay at home order. The one thing I will not take for granted in the future is seeing my friends and spending time with my family because I feel like this pandemic has been tearing families apart when they don’t want to be apart from one another. The first thing I am going to do when this pandemic I over is to go out and hangout with my friends.
How this pandemic affected me mentally is I am fine sure it is hard on the brain to process everything, but I know soon that this will be all over. What I did for my Journalistic work is that I compared Journalism to media because everyone has their general opinion about Journalism and media, but I wanted to uncover the truth about it. With Journalism they get to pick and choose who they want to interview for their paper but, media covers all the stories and what is happening all around us. Overall, this class has been really helpful in my writing skills and helping me expand my horizons on the English language.
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