For this writing exercise I decided to write about a song from an artist that means very much to me. The artist goes by きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ or Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, she is a Japanese pop-star known in Japan as the “Queen of pop.” I started listening to her music by watching the music video for the song Pon Pon Pon, which means clap clap clap in English. She’s been my very favorite artist since then, I fell in love with her general attitude and lyrics and her bizarre, but eye catching music videos. The song in question is the song ゆめのはじまりんりん, Yumeno Hajima Ring Ring in English. The song is about her transition from learning about music to starting to be the one he performs music free from her teacher. It’s about leaving the past behind you and looking towards the future. It’s relevant to my life because when I moved from a small town in North Dakota to the city of Denver, Colorado I listened to this song about leaving the teacher to do better things. I saw it as leaving my parents and friends to build a life of my own. I like the song because it’s a goodbye song with so much emotion, but blanketed in an upbeat happy tone. I hope you give it a listen and I hope you like it as much as I do! My outward appearance is nothing special, I pretty much try to blend in as much as possible. Except when I wear pink. Pink is one of my favorite colors, I especially love the rose quartz pink. My backpack is pink and I have a pink lanyard. So I am pretty much wearing pink all the time. When I don’t have at least one thing pink somewhere around me I feel weird.
I have several rituals, some when I wake up and some when I start to lay down to go to sleep. The common trend with them is meditation, I meditate first thing in the morning, except on rare occasions. After I wake up and meditate, I brush my teeth as everyone should do. Other rituals I do are when I go to bed, again, I brush my teeth and meditate before I sleep. I wake up with an alarm that sends me to my bathroom to turn it off, that is another ritual I have. My beliefs are simple, I do onto others as they would onto me. I like to smile even when I’m going through a rough time. I put others above myself to a fault. I like to help others, even when it means that I don’t benefit because of it. I won’t help just anybody though, a total stranger isn’t really someone I’d necessarily be nice too, but I won’t be mean to them either, just smile and move on. It takes a very specific kind of person to get me to be their friend or someone in my circle. I have one dietary restriction, I don’t eat chicken. When I was somewhere around 15 to 17 I watched a documentary on why the meat industry in America was pretty bad. This made me come to the conclusion that I should stop eating meat. I decided to go slow and only cut out 1 meat item until it was easier for me to cut out the rest. I then decided that fish was still okay for a lot of the time they aren’t farmed and are caught fresh. Years later I had still only cut out chicken and to this day I haven’t eaten a single bite of chicken since I originally stopped. I live in Colorado near Boulder, I’d say this influences me extraordinarily. I pretty much already thought like a coloradan before I moved here, but even more so now that I am here. Coloradans think a very specific way, whenever you meet someone from colorado you can definitely tell. When I lived in North Dakota and I met someone who was from Colorado I always thought they were super nice, and have a lot of pride for their home state. I for one don’t have very much pride for my home state. I have definitely been judged for my dietary habits, I bet anyone who reads this is judging me as well. I totally understand it too, like why not eat chicken, it’s a healthy meat and it tastes good, it’s more about the idea of it to me though. I still get sick to my stomach whenever I think about eating any chicken. I feel like some people judge me for meditating as well, they draw conclusions about who I am and what I stand for. I am definitely misunderstood for wearing and loving the color pink, but I think people need more to worry about than what I wear. My peers generate ideas in different ways, habandy makes list on the topic lists are their “Jam.” The way msotoama generates ideas is by asking questions, they ask several broad questions about the topic then asks more specific detailed questions related to the topic. Wspanogi googles a few topics and life events that happened in the past 1-3 weeks, then also makes lists about the topic to get some ideas. My peers use several ways outside of the course material to generate ideas, I think I might incorporate those ways into my own ways of getting ideas.
The role writing played in my life thus far has been mostly utilitarian, I only use it when I have to, like for texting, emailing, etc. I enjoy writing, getting my ideas down on paper, but I don’t write as much as I’d like, I’d like to change that. I don’t write that much because I feel that I’m not good at it, but that will change over time as I write more and more. Overall, I’d say that I like the concept of writing, but my other hobbies take precedence. I enjoy playing video games, I can’t end my day until I have played at least a little bit of some sort of video game, that means I don’t write as much in my free time unfortunately. The last time I wrote this amount was when I was in high school around 5 years ago that being said I remember a couple of assignments, but still pretty much no information stuck unfortunately. As far as my writing projects in the future, I’d like to better communicate with people using writing as a tool. I’d like to learn from my language mistakes and be more confident writing, I need to practice reflection, rhetoric, structure and writing endurance. I hope to get the basics of composition that will prepare me for the rest of my college career, I hope that other people will also learn as much as I’m learning and if it’s a little difficult just realize its part of the learning experience. The more time and effort that you put into something the better you’ll become about it.
Rhetoric is just using language/writing to accomplish a task or persuade a certain audience. The “rhetorical situation” is the idea that there are 3 parts to be understood a rhetorical moment, exigence, audience and constraints. I see how the rhetorical situation affecting my writing because I’ll think of the concepts whenever I’m writing. It makes me more aware of when other people use rhetoric writing as well.
A writing experience where I used rhetoric was in other writing journals, I understood that the audience is mostly professors of this course and possibly other students checking to see what other students have done in their writing journals. The writing exercise specifically that I used rhetoric was writing journal #4. I state that I’m afraid that I won’t get the work done in a collaborative assignment. I understand that it is not a fear I should have because the using the same logic collaborative writing is the same thing as any other type of writing, I understand what my audience is and I try and explain my thoughts in a way that would make sense to most people. Rhetoric will affect all of my future projects, I’m more aware of how to be more rhetorical and use the techniques of the “rhetorical situation.” The WPA Outcomes lists rhetorical knowledge in one of the main points of things to learn. Knowing the concept of rhetoric writing is extremely important because: you need to understand who is going to read your work and be okay with whoever the audience is. It helps you understand how to persuade someone into believing a point you’re trying to get across, you also need to realize that there are many constraints involved in rhetoric writing. Writing Journal #4
Someone who relays information and opinions and does a specific task in a written format is a writer. This thought was not so apparent before I thought of how collaborative writing challenges were brought up. I find collaborative writing both exciting and intimidating. I find it exciting because I like working with other people on projects, I think it could be a fun experience, I might find other like-minded people. I find it intimidating because I think things like, what if something happens if I can’t work on the assignment and I don’t finish my portion of the work that’ll just drag the rest of the team down. This is an irrational thought because I should be able to get my work done regardless if I work in a team or not. It just affects other people when I don’t do as good of a job as they do. I’d say I’m not too worried if I’ll do that bad on the assignments it's just a fear of mine. Why I think the WPA Outcomes, values, social and collaborative aspects are working in a team helps evaluate your own writing as well as evaluating others writing and taking good habits they do and incorporate it in your own writings. It means that collaborative writing will be used throughout college and throughout my own life. I think I could gain perspective on my own work with reflective writing. I can learn what and how to improve my own writing whenever I complete a reflective piece of writing. After all, I am my own worst critic. I want to have the ability to help others with the information I learned with my reflection. Reflection helps with my rhetorical decisions by helping me understand my own thoughts and my own writing style. It helps me interpret what I meant to say at the moment of thinking and how to say it better.
Reflective writing differs from other types of writing because it makes you focus on your own past writing and at the same time it helps to come up with something new or something to be gained. Some ways I might reflect back on the writing for this course would be: looking at my ePortfolio and see the progression from different writing assignments and seeing the improvement. The WPA Outcome that relates most to the reflective writing style is the “Reflect on the development of composing practices and how those practices influence their work.” bullet point. It definitely relates the most, it pretty much is a definition of reflective writing. It is what I want to achieve when I compose a reflective writing piece of writing. The best strategy for learning how to write is to just keep writing, keep practicing and be open to feedback. You also need to learn from the things that you did wrong. Use the feedback that you get from professors and your peers and don’t be afraid to implement them in your later writings. Lastly, be open to judgment on how you write take it productively.
Included in the learning process specific to writing would be, reflection first and foremost, learning from your mistakes that you have made before. I’m not afraid to make mistakes as long as I learn from them, one way to make mistakes in a comfortable writing environment is the rough draft. You learn every time you make a rough draft because they are littered with mistakes at least in my case. Another part of the learning process, but not necessarily specific to writing is getting feedback. Use feedback that you get from things like your rough draft or just in general and use that knowledge next time you’re writing. Where my understanding of the writing, learning process stems from my high school education. My specific high school wasn’t the best in terms of making everyone feel included, but it did teach me basic English composition guidelines, using MLA format, citing sources, etc. My experience differs from some other people because I haven’t gotten any help from my parents when I was learning this information for the first time, I was mostly on my own when it came to homework and writing papers. After reading the course outcomes, one key point I found surprising was the collaborative portion to writing, I never thought about writing collaboratively I always just assumed I would be writing all by my lonesome. Another surprising outcome was the section about composing in genres, I thought it would just be one type of writing style that I would use for everything academic. I didn’t necessarily find anything “confusing” about the course outcomes, but I am just not sure how some aspects will be done. Such as how I’m going to give feedback and the section that says ”Match the capacities of different environments (e.g., print and electronic) to varying theoretical situations”. Academic writing is very different than how I write in most aspects in my life, I haven’t written more than a text in the past couple of years. That being said I am ready to be doing more writing now that I’m enrolled in classes.
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