The Writing Process:
Pre writing - ideas, mind map, outline, brainstorming
Drafting - where the “shitty first draft” comes in. Just start writing
Revising - feedback, peer revision, make a “second draft”
Editing - proofreading grammar, punctuation, conventions
Publication
Simple Grammar and Revising:
Parts of Speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, interjection, preposition, conjunction, article, and more…
Own example: I had always loved riding around my neighborhood on my skateboard. I had always enjoyed riding around the streets on my RipStick.
Class example: How can you mourn for the atoms you never loved? How can you grieve for the particles you never cared for?
Nouns: “Atoms” can be changed to “particles” or “molecule” as a stronger noun to be more specific.
Verb: “Can,” “Mourn,” and “Loved” “mourn” can be changed to “grieve” and “loved can be changed to “cared for.”
- The noun carries the most weight of all of these, so they must be strong unless they have an adjective attached to it.
- You can’t have a sentence without a noun and a verb. If you have a weak verb, an adverb can be added to it to make it stronger. The sentence can still stand alone without the adverb.
- Revision doesn’t always make things better; sometimes, it can make it worse.
Coordinating Conjunctions: FANBOYS for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Subordinating Conjunctions: AAAWWUBBIS after, although, as, when, while, until, because, before, if, since
Class example: How can you grieve for the particles you never cared for? If you never cared for these particles, how can you grieve for them?
Own example: I had always loved riding around my neighborhood on my skateboard. When I was younger, I had always loved riding around my neighborhood on my skateboard.
Literary Devices:
The 5 Senses: smell, sight, touch, hear, taste
Class example: The dog jumped up and hit my face.
Own example: I had always loved riding around my neighborhood on my skateboard.
Smell = barbecue, freshly cut grass
Sight = tall buildings, palm trees
Touch = the smooth surface of the board, the air whipping across my skin
Taste = sweat, Gatorade
Hear = cars driving, the sound of the wheels across the concrete
I could distinctly smell the roasting of chicken and various barbecue on the grill just a few feet away, nearly overpowering the aroma of freshly cut grass next to me. Tall buildings and palm trees towered over me, stretching toward the sky. I could taste the mixture of sweat and my favorite Gatorade in my mouth, listening intently to the sound of cars driving and the wheels of my board rolling across the hard concrete beneath my feet, where I felt its smooth surface as the air whipped across my skin.
Peronsal Narrative Elements:
Narrative elements
Logical sequence (doesn’t need to be chronological)
Strong introduction (not for this assignment)
Interesting details
Character descriptions
Dialogue
Setting description
Strong conclusion (not for this assignment)
Purposeful and precise word choice (specific nouns and verbs)
Varied sentence structure (AAAWUBBIS)
Analyzing Mentor Texts
It's more your experience that builds who you are rather than one place you are from
Instead of asking where someone is from, you could ask where they are local
Where we are from is fluid and can change – your ideas change about the places too
Identity as an individual thing rather than something that is informed by stereotypes attributed to specifics
Recursive Reading and Writing:
Prewriting: ideas, mind map, outline, brainstorming
Drafting: "shitty first draft"
Revising: "peer revision, "second draft"
Editing: proofreading, grammar, punctuation, conventions
Publication: choosing the audience
The Different Types of Storytelling:
1. Overcoming the Monster: In the stories, this is where the hero must destroy the monster to restore balance to the world. In the real world this could be overcoming an addiction, fighting off a pervvy boss, debt, beating an illness or any thing else that requires something to be defeated for the hero (your customer) to win.
2. Rags to Riches: In the stories, this is where a modest and moral but downtrodden character achieves a happy ending when their natural talents are displayed to the world at large. In the real world this applies to anyone with an undeniably incredible talent who wants to break through and be successful.
3. The Quest: The hero, often accompanied by sidekicks, travels in search of a priceless treasure and must defeat evil and overcome powerful odds, and ends when he gets both the treasure and the girl. The Odyssey is an example of this kind. Often these stories make heroes encounter a variety of challenges that are all seemingly unrelated. In the real world, this is very much the story of every beginning entrepreneurial journey.
4. Voyage and Return: Stories of normal protagonists who are suddenly thrust into strange and alien worlds and must make their way back to normal life once more. An example of this is Alice in Wonderland.
5. Comedy: We probably won't be using this one, but it's still nice to know. The plot of a comedy involves some kind of confusion that must be resolved before the hero and heroine can be united in love, etc.
6. Tragedy: The consequences of human overreaching and egotism causes this. It's literally what it means...tragedy.
7. Rebirth: Sometimes people may not even know a problem exists until you show them just how bad what they're doing can be. People sometimes need a push to realize "Something has to change, there is a better way" Ultimately once the "Rebirth" story has been initiated, everything else becomes that much easier, because they're more open to long lasting change. It's kind of also what it sounds like--a rebirth, an eye-opener type deal sort of thing.
Part 3:
Shared through social media…? Writing in multiple academic genres…
Tues, Feb 22…mentor feedback, schedule office hours
Power: the ability to make others do what you want them to do
- Think about social norms and ideas, seeing society as a set of texts
Who has what kind of power, and how is that arranged? Who are the stakeholders? (community sense)
What should you do with your power? It shouldn’t be by the people with power for the people with power. What do you want your community to look like in the future compared to now?
First-gen students? Look at google scholar…digital journalism = unlimited, space for everything
Reflection:
I think that my research has allowed me to go more in depth about my topic and the many elements that take part in it, including those that are more overlooked than others or the ones that aren’t as noticeable as others. It gives them a voice. (how research shifted perspective)
(research expanded topic?) I think that my research has expanded my topic because the audience has grown. My topic includes the world and not really just a set number of people, although I do plan on focusing on smaller groups.
(research made topic smaller?) I think that my research has made my topic smaller because I am able to focus in on certain elements that no other group of people experience, and I am able to pinpoint these smaller components and connect them to the large picture.
(how research could be read into where I’m from) I think that I could connect back to how I have always been influenced by the media (as everyone else) and then connect that to how I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I think my background and privileges have a lot to do with it.
(how part 3 has made us move closer/farther from a community/how part 3 influences part 2) I think that my research has ultimately connect my part two and three together more because of what I’m experiencing now with life choice in my future career and the many lessons that I have learned throughout college so far.
Helpful Tips/Notes
Subject media portrayal, what’s chosen to be portrayed in media, minority groups/overlooked
Occasion (motivation?)
Audience everyone kinda, focusing in on minority/underrepresented groups at TCU Purpose to spread awareness to how biased media can be even at TCU, encourage others to reach out more and speak out about what they want to see
Genre news story type deal idk, video, interviews
Elevator Pitch
1. Who are you?
2. Little background school, major
3. Explain – provide context, what if you work for a smaller company or go to a smaller school ?
4. Make the connection always talking to someone, why should that person listen and what are you trying to accomplish, connecting to what you’re selling to them
5. Ask putting yourself out there, ask what you’re looking for or tell them
6. Close out kill them with kindness
- Can do live or record, up to you
- Something that you want to “sell” to the class from your final campaign
Examples: donating money to special Olympics, creating
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