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Advice and Tips for Students

Share advice/tips/learning strategies for future students in RWS 1302 and/or students taking my class -- either is fine.

1. Always look at the rubric, and be constantly looking at it during your assignment. You will see that you won’t be as lost if you don’t know where to begin, or where to continue. Also, this will help you to not forget any of the parts that will be graded.

2. Another important thing is to select a good topic for the semester. If you pick something you are a little familiar or interested, the assigments would not be as difficult, and you’ll enjoy them. Also make sure that there’s enough information to work with.

That’s all I have.

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Week 14

1.The purpose of submitting a video in a writing class is to make us become familiar with different genres, so we can later on use them without any difficulties.

2. We composed our message by combining text, youtube clips, and background music. Since our topic was very sensitive we tried to be as serious and objective as possible.

3. Again, since our topic was very delicate, I believe the facts and the clips shown speak for itself, and will definitely make the audience want to support our plan of action.

4. In question number 1, I used that gif because I think that’s how we would feel in another class if they ask us to create a film documentary because we would already know how to do it, and we would feel very confident.

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Week 10

Option A: The main concern I have for this assignment is the time we have to do it. We only meet once a week, so all of our work must be done outside of class, and it is hard to arrange a time to meet with everybody’s different schedules. I guess the problem will not be getting the work done, but organizing a time to get the work done.

Option B: My concerns about working in a team is that I’ve had many bad experiences where I ended up doing all the work. 

Also, if I shared my opinion of what would be better, many thought I was being bossy, when in reality we followed my ideas simply because nobody else contributed with another idea and the time was limited.

After all, I learned that sometimes it is very hard to work with other persons, but you have to do it no matter what, and the best way to handle it is by having your best attitude, and always give your opinion, even if you think others will think your bossy. It’s always better to say what you think, and contribute, than to not say a word and just be the one who stays there doing nothing.

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Week 9

1.- When writing my research questions I tried to make sure they had the principles of a good research question (specific demographic, age group, location, and time) if it was possible, and also find the correct wording to avoid taking a bias stance.

2.- The patterns I found was that I would try to read the articles, and then gather the information I would find useful for some of my questions,and then I would see which questions had already enough information, and lastly I would focus on those questions that didn’t have enough  and try to find more. Also if i had information that needed to be more detailed, I would try to find it as well.

3.- I think this methodology works, at least for me, because sometimes you can be overwhelmed by so much information, but if you get what you need from a source, then you can move on to another, and you are constantly checking how much information you have, so you know what your next step should be.

4.- In question 1 I used that gif because I believe many of us struggled writing our research questions, and it’s not a difficult task, but since all of or work depended on them, it was only understandable that we all felt stressed, especially when we had to re-write them at least twice. That gift just shows how I felt at the moment.

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Week 6

My research process is like a roller coaster of emotions.

At first I feel overwhelmed even before I  start.

Then I calm myself and find the motiviation I need to start working...

Then I start finding a lot of information that I think might be useful...

Just to spend a lot of time reading or analyzing it and find it is bias, or it doesn’t answer any of my questions

And then I get frustrated because I just wasted my time, and wonder why that source had to be unreliable...

And finally  I have to remind myself that this how the research process works, and I have to repeat the cycle again.

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Literature Review

For me one of the biggest obstacles is finding the right research questions because the whole assignment depends on those questions, and trying to find them requires a lot of time and thinking that it can be very overwhelming.

Another big obstacle will be the dedication I will have to have in order to complete each part step by step, and improving my work week by week.

Doing the work according to the guidelies will be hard, especially if I take a bias stance, and I have to start again.

But at the end, I hope all my effort pays off.

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Genre Analysis

 1. What are the complexities of using genres?                              

.At first genres might seem confusing, or you might not be able to identify the qualities of each.

2. How does studying genres impact your writing? 

After stydying genres you feel more comfortable writing, and get a better sense of what you are supposed to do, or how you are supposed to do it.

3. What is the value of studying and/or writing about genres?

After studying and analyzing genres you comprehend a certain topic in a more detailed way, and you notice parts of the work, you didn’t before.

4.Select one of the questions listed and explain the rhetorical choices you made towards answering the question.

In question 3, I chose the image of SpongeBob, and the gif of Jim Carrey because it shows a way in which studying genres improves your writing abilities, It gives you a better understanding to what you are supposed to do, and if you have a better understanding, then you feel more comfortable writing, and you can even get the sense that what you write is a “master piece of work” simply because you studied the components of that genre.

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This 14-year-old Muslim American student was detained for bringing a homemade clock to school 

Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim student was arrested at his high school in Irving, Texas, after bringing a homemade clock to class, which school officials mistook for a bomb. Mohamed showed his engineering teacher first, but when the alarm went off later in the day, that’s when the trouble started. 

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But know this. Men are not from Mars. Women are not from Venus. Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theatre of your mind for the main role.

Matt Haig, The Humans (via br-o-ken-poetry)

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Be a survivor, not a victim.

There’s a world of difference.

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I hope all of you reach your goals this semester & make yourself proud

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