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I agree with Matt that this was a relatable article for most of us and the title can drag the readers’ attention to the piece. Sometimes in class kids would ask “when are we ever going to use this in the real world?” Honestly, I think it all depends on your major. For me personally, I am majoring in psychology so I will be doing all sorts of writing. The FYS classes guided me in the right direction of how my writing should look like for the future. These types of classes in our early college semesters are mandatory for a reason. We need to have the knowledge and confidence in ourselves that we have what it takes to be a successful writer. Writing is not for everyone so you have to build up to have the knowledge you need and you will know all the ins and outs of writing. The purpose of writing classes are to have the students exposed to all the different types of writing in case we ever come across having to write a paper in our future careers. I believe that no matter what you career is, you will always need to know how to write, even if it’s just the basics of it. Writing can make you go a long way. Writing can help you apply for jobs in the future and it guides us to be more professional. Overall, I think this was an easy read and very relatable for first year students. There’s always a good reason for everything.
Right off the bat I like how this reading was a comic format. It definitely makes it easier to read and follow along with the topic. I enjoy seeing the pictures and putting meaning to the text based off the pictures. Most comics like this are short and right to the point which is very convenient for the readers. Throughout this reading, they discussed various forms of bias that I had no idea they even existed. Gladstone went into depth when describing the different types of biases and the definitions of each one were very clear in the reading. Personally I think the most common form of bias is the visual one. Many people are drawn to news articles and readings simply with pictures on them. I agree with Ashley when it comes to social media. Social media can play a huge role with biased information because it’s very easy to advertise or post something and it’s amazing the different ways people can be attracted to the post or reading. A lot of people most likely pay attention to the visualizations. I think this article is mainly for any English classes and I enjoyed this article. Like I mentioned previously, I think the pictures and visuals helped me understand the reading a little bit more. I liked the topic of this reading because I learned things about biases that I didn’t know before. This was a very easy read for me.
I liked this reading right from the beginning. It was very interesting and it kept my attention throughout the whole thing. Along with Ashley, I am a psychology major as well and I think that’s what helps me relate to this article a little more. I enjoyed how the reading was based on a personal event and she was telling a short story about her, her career, and her coworkers. She goes on to talk about science writing and she says that it is the most human of disciplines. Science is all about curiosity and it’s more of a search about something, always wanting to find out more data or information. I thought it was a cool thing when the author separates the biologists from the rattlesnake and she was more focused on her coworkers and how fascinating they all were. Overall, I thought this was a great piece to read and the length of it was a plus for me because it got right to the point. Again, I like how it was based on a personal experience which can help the readers relate and base it off of something they’ve been through themselves. I believe that there is so much more to science than just an experiment. Science is all about being researchers and wanting to explore more, or finding out a reason to why things happen the way they do. I think this reading can be very relatable for almost any type of audience especially biology majors or anyone related to the science field. I think she did a great job explaining to the audience what scientific writing is all about and I like that she targets her point right away.
When I first opened the reading, I thought it would be another one of the “easy to read” pieces, and I was right. The fact that it is played out to be a comic book article makes it very interesting for the readers. Readings that are formatted this way makes it much easier for people to understand the piece and put meaning to it. I do agree with Kira about journalists not getting good reactions because it’s all about the audience at the time. The public could sometimes feel differently than the journalist himself/herself. It is the journalists job to be honest to their readers and convey important, truthful information. By portraying themselves as biased, there is a chance they could have a bad reputation from the public. I liked the direction of the tone in this reading because it seemed to be very informal yet informational. I liked how in the beginning, Gladstone used examples of famous people to gain the readers’ attention about the negativity towards journalists. I think by doing so, it helps support the whole reading all together. I agree that the audience is for English students or people in an English class. It could also be written towards people who are thinking about becoming a journalist because the reading was very informative when it comes to journalism. I think that it’s very serious topic when it comes to trusting and believing certain news groups. Someone could put something out in public and say that it’s true but do you really believe them? You won’t know for sure unless you’ve done your own research and have facts about the situation. People could say a lot of things just to get into their readers’ minds and make them think twice about a certain factor. They don’t always portray things to be positive either. Everyone have different reactions to things and people take things the wrong way a lot so I think journalists being biased can add to their readers reactions. Overall, I liked this reading because it was easy to read and it kept my attention. I liked how examples were given because it helps support the purpose of the reading.
When I first opened the link to this article, I skimmed over everything and I thought to myself ‘wow this will be a hard one to read.’ I thought this because there were no pictures, nothing seemed interesting just by skimming it over. All i saw was text. I agree with Evonne because you say how you didn’t really understand the difference between Discourse and discourse and I don’t get it either. When he classified the different types of Discourse I didn’t really get how he applied those words to the text. It was hard to understand the deeper meaning of all the words that were defined. I think linguistics is just something we can learn from one another just by communicating. I think without communication it would be very hard to understand the meaning of certain words. Communication with others can help boost your vocabulary which is a win win situation in this case. Words can be very confusing and I like how Gee says it’s not about what you say, it’s about how you say it. I felt this article was long in context which made it very hard to follow along and keep my attention. I think Gee could have been a little bit more detailed in the terms used because I felt confused and lost towards the end of this reading. I think if the article wasn’t as long as it is, it would be much easier to follow along and maybe put meaning and understanding to the words that were discussed. I think if some examples were used for college kids for example, it would be much easier to go along with. Overall, I was not a huge fan of this reading. I thought it was kind of hard to get on the same page as the author.
I agree with Danielle when it comes to boredom in this writing piece. Throughout the whole thing, it felt like I was reading out of a textbook. The writing held a lot of important information that I was never aware of. I never knew that “picturing texts” was something so important to people. This article helped me to better understand how images and words can make someone understand something so much easier. As for myself, I tend to be a visual learner and when I see pictures in a textbook or a powerpoint, it makes it so much easier for me to remember whatever the topic was about. It can be hard for people to learn without a picture and a small description relating to the image.
I think this could have been written in a better way to make it more interesting and fun to read. The piece gave many different examples of images, graphs, descriptions, etc. The point gets across in this writing because I think the pictures and images helped readers to understand even more what the writer was trying to say.
When most people think of writing, we think of words. I couldn’t agree more, however, the article brought images and pictures into par. I think this is a major factor when it comes to writing in order to help your audience better understand your writing. Last semester, I had to write a paper about comparing and contrasting what my days were like during vacation versus during the school year. I provided a couple pictures of my vacations and I think it adds more personality and entertainment to the writing. I liked how it talked about how people can perceive things in many different ways. When someone goes through a traumatic event, their story would be much different rather than a person who was not involved and just witnessed it happen. Picturing texts can help people get a better grasp of what is being talked about because people will take the picture and find a way to have it make sense in their head. Everybody has their own way of learning things and picturing texts can be a main factor to the process.
This was a very fun and entertaining essay to read. Usually most essays tend to be written in a formal manner, however this one was easy to read because of the way he applied his writing towards his audience. The essay didn’t get boring to me at any point and it provided good information about genre that I did not know previously. Dirk tended to use many real-world examples which makes it easier for the readers to apply to our own lives. By doing so, it helps us to better understand where he is coming from and it helps to get his point across. I never thought about a genre being about how something happens and then someone responds to it which changes all further responses. That became very interesting to me because whenever I hear the word “genre” I always assume someone is talking about movies or music. Genre has so much more meaning than just describing a movie or a song. I liked the example Alyssa used about resumes because I had to write multiple resumes for different jobs that I applied to. For my first job, I had no idea where to start so I had to look up online what a proper resume should look like in order to get the knowledge I needed to write my own. I had to go by a previous example in order to come up with my own genre.
Rules set structure, so without rules we would be pretty lost. We would have no guidance. Writing has it’s own rules believe it or not. BUT, I think what Dirk is saying when it comes to rules is that our readings would all be somewhat similar and boring to read it everyone followed the same exact rules and if everything was the same. When you write a specific piece, you need to look outside the box and talk about whatever comes to your mind about your topic. I think it’s good to take notes on the things that come to mind and then eventually organize your thoughts in a way so they can fit into the paper without adding confusion. As writers, we need to use our imagination and be adventurous in our thoughts. It will be more interesting to your audience if you put your own twist into your writing. I agree that it is good to have your own freedom. This will help you write better. The more freedom you have, the better you write. I think it is much easier to write freestyle rather than having a topic chosen for you. Write about something you find appealing, or something that draws your attention because it will be 1000 times easier for you to come up with a written assignment on it.
I like how at the end of the essay he breaks down his main points to make it easy for the reader to come to a conclusion. I think he talked about genre in a great way and he taught me something I didn’t know about genre. I think Dirk’s essay was well written and I liked the tone he used to get his point across.
