Final Blog Unit #2

Where have you come in regards to this unit?


I have learned about the many genres because I had no idea that almost everything we write is a different genre like writing a paper, newspaper articles, facebook statues, and even text messages. I have come in regards to this unit is getting to understand how people respond do the breaking  of a genre.


What have you learned, nothing specifics?


I have learned about how when breaking a genre people respond very differently. They can respond by yelling, being confused, and just did not care. I have learned about how everything can be a genre. In genres, you can break them and I had know idea if you break a genre people will look at it differently. I never realized people looked at them differently.


What do you think is the “big takeaway” for you, that thing that will really stick with you?

I think the big takeaway for me is I learned about the different genres in writing. I think another big takeaway is I never realized that people looked at genres a certain. When people look at genres like an essays, you think it should be typed on white paper, texting language would not be in a paper you would turn into a teacher, or changing the contents of a ticket. I never knew that genres had like “rules” to doing them.


What questions still linger even though the unit is “finished”?


I do not think I have any questions lingering in my head about this unit now because it is almost over. If I had a question still lingering in my head now I should have asked it way before now because it is the end of the unit and everything is due tomorrow. I do not have any questions that are lingering in head. Think you explained things very well and that is why I have no questions to ask.


What did you do really well?


I think I did really well at understanding the different genres and how they work. I think I did well understand the breaking of a genre because I was not in class that day you explained it. I picked up the concept really well and totally understood it. I did well with how there are a lot of different genres and I understood how they worked.


Is there anything else you really want to talk about? Say it.

I do not really have anything to say because I do not have questions to ask or anything to talk about. As I said in the question about it there is any questions to ask I should have already come and talk to you about it. It is the end of the unit and I should have came to you before it was over, but I do not have anything to talk about or ask. I think you explain over thing very well that I did not have anything to say or ask about.

Use specific examples to successfully back up all claims, specific quotations, page numbers, etc. so I know exactly what you’re talking about.


We did a Illinois State policy ticket and changed the contents of the ticket. We put on the ticket if someone had a window open over break or if they did not follow the rules for when you leave for break. I found out that not many people freaked out as much because they were just confused about the ticket and why they got it. I thought that more people would have freaked out about having a ticket under their dorm room door. If I had a ticket under my door I probably would not have read it, but just freaked out because there is a ticket under my door. I would have been really confused and tried to think what did I do wrong. I thought in my research there would have been more people that freaked out and did not read the contents of the ticket.

Learning

• I am learning about the different types of genres
• that you dont have to be great at spelling to be a good writer
• I have learned about myself that I am terrible at writing how I feel and learn
• That you can break a genre and must people will be confused because we think things need to be a same way everytime
• I have learned that I need to be more specific with what I am saying in my papers and blogs.

  

Half-way Blog

Where have you come so far in regards to the unit?

I have found out that pretty much anything can be a genre like as simple as a text, a whiteboard, and to even a billboard. I had no idea that we have structure to everything that we write. When we write things in a text it is totally different then writing a paper I knew this, but I never really thought about how different they really are. I knew all of it was writing and I just thought they were all the same writing. In reality they are all different genres and completely different contents. I never thought of all the different genres there actually are in this world.


What have you learned, give specifics? 

I have learned about the different types of writing and how there are different types of genres. When you write a paper it is a different genre from writing an article because there is different content to both. I have found out that in different genres there is different content. The different content would be like location, how you write it, and what you use to write on/ in. Location is where you write like if it is a dairy you normally write it in a private place like a bedroom. How you write it is the structure of it like in an article you need a title and by whom it was written by. What you use to  write on/ in like texting you would type it on your phone or when you write an article you would most likely type it on a computer, but with a message in a dairy it would be on a dairy page in the dairy.


What questions do you still have for me?

I do not have any questions for you because I completely understand what I am do for this project and I understand what is going on in the classroom.


Is there something that you really don’t understand?

I understand everything that we are doing right now. I understand that pretty much anything is a different genre. When you break something in a genre it is weird to because we are use to structure and we as human do not do well with change if we think it has a structure of doing it.


What do you think you are doing really well?

I think I have done well at understand the different genres in the world. Being in this English 101 class I have learned about the different genres in the world and how pretty much anything is a different genre. I have done well at try to write these blogs because I have a hard to at writing how I feel or what I have done well at or just writing in general. I know I am still learning, but I have tried very well at it.


Is there anything else that you really want to talk to about?

I do not have anything that I really want to talk about because I have no questions and I understand things for this unit. I do not have anything to say about this project because I understand what I have to do.


Use specifics examples from both your work as well as the other work read/examined in class in order to more successfully back up your claims.

I think being more successfully in this unit you need to understand the different genres and how they can be broken. In unit two project I think to be successful is to do more experiences with breaking the genre and having more information from the experiences you do. With having more information you can explain more on the project and have a better project. People will get more out of the project if you get more information and that means more experiences on breaking the genre.