During our class, we were given the task to read about Amy Tan’s essay known as mothers tongue, a story about a first-gen Chinese American who  

Recognize the role of language attitudes and standards in empowering, oppressing, and hierarchizing languages and their users, and be open to communicating across different languages and cultures and we discovered through her experience that lounge is power. 

      Through the class, I’ve been able to Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations. One of the most memorable was when we went over how her class and they reacted to her and her piece was about “back English” and how it as a derivative of English is looked down on as it’s incorrect in many forms of standardized English for example ”she pretty=she bad “ this was something had never occurred to me as an issue as “black English” was broken and improper and should not be used in a professional setting as it comes off as odd and unpleasant but I wasn’t aware that was discarded so much in America as you’d seem uneducated or less intelligent because of it.

One strategy I learned for reading was to take my time because I am a slow reader to make sure I understand if I get what I’m reading. And another would be listening to music to block out surrounding noise to help me focus. For drafting, I learned it’s finding out the information I want to be said and finding out how I incorporate them into each other. For editing, I make sure to read it out loud to help me see any errors, and for revising I have my friends read it as they help me find mistakes.     I learned Many rhetorical terms and strategies, when engaged in writing situations such as Narrating my essays, describing what subject I’m on or what I’m talking about, examples to help support my claim, illustration was used for my first project as I used a video from “the action man” to give visuals, analysis when doing the rhetorical essay on “my tan” and using logos, ethos, and pathos to help me have a base of how I want to format my essay and know what I wanna lean more towards.

I have engaged in collaborative and social aspects of writing processes as we were looking at examples of text, an example being when I was with Marco and Joe we broke down and analyzed a song and broke it down to understand the deeper meaning in Poo-shiesty’s lyrics. By first looking at the text then breaking it to sections, then making sense of the slang that was used as  the singer tended to lean more towards using it. 

During our first set of assignments, I used a visual aid to help portray how the game’s visuals help give aid to people who have never played the game as the intro was made to grab your attention as you descended it into an aquatic utopia known as rapture, you see the beautiful city light up the dark ocean making the aquatic life more visible as you see multiple different types of fishes and other aquatic mammals the most visible being a whale pass by you, really letting the setting sink in as you make your way towards the beginning of the game. 

  The way I locate research sources in the library’s databases or archives was that I first looked at the date to make sure it was still of relevance then I evaluated the source by seeing the author’s credentials and seeing if the information had not been updated to make sure no further progression has been made.

During my time in this class I’ve learned how to Compose texts that integrate my stance with appropriate sources by using strategies such as summary during my rhetorical essay as I summarized the story to further help me give my analysis on what ‘Amy tan’ was trying to bring to light in her piece as she went into details of her life as a first-generation Chinese immigrant and how her struggles helped me interpret her story the way I did, as I got into the essay I learned how to piece together a synthesis based off of Amy Tan as she was the one I related to the most and had more of an understating of to construed a synthesis on language and how important it was to her and her mother as the way they spoke determined a lot in the way they were seen and treated by others. 

Unfortunately, I still haven’t perfected, Practice systematic application of citation conventions as I am still struggling with how to properly use MLA formatting as an example of this being in my research essay I did put my sources and provided statements but unfortunately I couldn’t recall nor execute how to people site and aline my sources corresponding to the statements that were used.