Thursday, March 17, 2011

MLA 2 summary

In this article firts of all and the most important is that authors encourage students to not use plagarism. They are talking about the writing situations and how students can get better on those situations depending on what they are studing.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

P1 Make-up


I was born speaking only one language, spanish. Since both my parents were raised in Mexico it only seemed right for me to learn spanish as my primary language. When I turned 4 years old my father decided to change the way I was going to experience school. Like my sister, I didn't know english when I started Pre-K. My parents enrolled her to a bilingual speaking class. Which made things a lot easier on her since we didn't know english. Well my father, the swell guy he is threw me in an english only speaking class. I did not speak for the first six months of the year. Listening to everyone around me I was able to pick up a few words here and there. I felt so isolated from everyone in the classroom. My sister, being a few years ahead of me was able to teach me the basics of reading and writing in english. She was pretty much the biggest inspiration I had when I was a young child. My father working on his business and my mother working full time at a clothing store, my sister took the effort and responsibility of making sure I did not have a hard time since I didn't get the advantage she did. In the long run it worked out well because I was able to practice the language a lot more than she did. In the contrary I now do not know as much spanish as she does, since I would only speak english in most of my early classes. From then on the only person I can actually trust and speak about my english classes or writing in english is my older sister. None of my teachers were able to get me to open up to them about my writings. She was the only one that was able to get to my level and make me learn and understand the way things are read and written.


My theory is that since my sister was around the most when I was a child, her decision about something was that mattered the most in my life. I looked up to her, so if she told me a way to learn I was able to adjust to that method and understand what she was telling me.

Monday, March 14, 2011

MLA

Emig Janet "College Composition and Communication"  Vol. 28, No. 2 (May, 1977), pp. 122-128

writing is unique and doesnt always have to be written correctly. in here janet emig
 talks about the four languaging process of listening, talking, reading, and writing.
 she explains some important points, "successful learning is also engaged, committed 
personal learning". another thing is that things have to be maximally detailed. by that she 
is trying to say that things have to be very detailed in order to be understood to the 
fullest extent. 

Summary First Article

This article by Janet Emig talks about how important writing is in our school lives. It takes a big part when we're learning something new. Is a way to express your feelings and it shows a little bit of your personality. She also gave us some facts about writing one that cached my attention was ''writing is learned behavior; talking is natural, even irrepressible, behavior.'' pg 123.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

MLA Summary 1

Behm, Richard. "You Want a Workshop or a Revival Meetin'?" English Education, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 39-43


In this article Behm tell us about the right ways to make a workshop great. The first thing you do is to choose a topic that you want to do research about and then you select an angle of topic because you need to concentrate in specific parts of the reading investigation. After that we choose a partner that would help us in the traveling of the work and this partner should be able to work on this topic. Finally you evaluate your ideas and you will get feedback.

MLA 1 summary

Revision points up a split between teachers' claims and students' performance. Teachers assertt that the practice of multiple drafts is the key to good writing. This is not a strategy that every student use because some students can end up with a worse.

MLA Summary 1

George, Diana. "Working with Peer Groups in the Composition Classroom." College Composition and Communication 35 (1984): 320-6.

Summary: Diana George talks about how working in peer groups in a class where composition is the focus can be helpful to students. Learning about each other is what she focuses on. The author questions as well how effective it is. She says that it has been studied before but not thoroughlys. Using group discussions and peer response in classrooms, Diana George say that it can actually increase responsibility in a students and teachers learning. The teacher is made to constantly listen and watch while students work on their own and evaluate each other.

MLA 1 Summary

Behm, Richard. "You Want a Workshop or a Revival Meetin'?" English Education, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 39-43.

In this article Behm tell us the steps to make a workshop in a perfect way. He first tell us that we need to find a topic that is important to us, then we choose the angle because we are not going to see the whole point of the topic, just the most important and specific things. After that we choose a partner that would help us in the traveling of the work and this partner should be able to work on this topic. Then we evaluate everything we have done at that moment in order to have feedback on things.

Summary: The Visible Voice, An Approach of Writing

From the article, voice is important in writing.  In it, voice is a personal item created into ones work.  As it is the spirit of the person.  Where the style is the strutured and the voice is the might of it.  Where as it holds a creative mean to express feelings intot he matter created.  With it, it can help in creative writing, as it doesn't make the person go into structure wording but by looking with in to form their work.

MLA 2

Hamalian, Leo, The Visible Voice, An Approach to Writing, English Journal, 59.2 (1970) pg. 227-230

MLA 2

Ede, Lisa, and Andrea Lunsford. "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy." CCC 35 (May 1984): 155–71. Rpt. in Corbett, Myers, and Tate [171].

Summary “The Meanings of Audience.”

Audience is a main part of writing and it’s difficult to define. There are two types of audience. First we have the one that has its owns beliefs and expectations and due to this in the author has to connect itself with it. The second one, it’s mainly a “fictional audience” which is implied by the writing. Even when we can identified our audience it is still difficult to apply our writings to a certain audience because we have a lot of varieties. One thing that can be due to this problem is that instead of only focus on the audience we have to make sure that what we are trying to communicate its well communicated and expressed.

MLA 2

Arthur, B., et al.  "Evaluation Reactions of College Students to Dialect Differences in the English of Mexican-Americans."  Language and Speech 17 (1974):  255-70.

MLA 2

Schreiner, Steven. "A Portrait of the Student as a Young Writer: Re-evaluating Emig and the Process Movement." CCC 48 (February 1997): 86–104.
Perl, Sondra, ed. Landmark Essays on Writing Process. Davis, Calif.: Hermagoras Press, 1994.