Section I

Section I is designed to generate feedback. No right or wrong answers, here. Let's just take the time to reflect so as to make the most of the second half of the semester.

Your response to each of the following questions (which comprise Section I) should be about 100-150 words.

Please read the description of the course goals as they are listed on the course website. Do you feel we are proceeding towards these goals? What is so far proving most useful? What would you change, and why?

-We are successfully headed in the intended direction and it certainly feels good to have a measure of leniency on our side via the calendar and professor. By not limiting us in that way, the level and/or quality of our work greatly increase in my opinion and I quite enjoy seeing great ideas reach fulfillment via the writing process. Also, if you by some chance get slightly behind you are given ample time to catch up and improve habits. Peers are a huge part of this class too, the atmosphere is more that the professor is a friend or peer themselves and they actively engage with us on a level close and understandable. Just that type of teaching is uncommon at best, possibly because other professors are ignorant of the positives of utilizing such ideals and ways.

What are you learning in class? What more do you think you could learn in class? How can class be structured to help you learn what matters to you?

-The staple element I feel that is being pressed on me personally is heavy critical thinking mixed heavily in with rhetoric, they go hand and hand here. Honestly I had never heard of a definitional argument or causal argument (terms wise) prior to taking ENC3310 and now I can tell you the differences between the two and how to make each more effective. Using wiki’s to express ideas and link to other individuals through a vast world of internet based rhetorical knowledge, how on earth could one hope to learn more, aside from merely investing time into these tools we already have available to us from the start.

How do you define your responsibilities to this class? How are you living up to those responsibilities? What are your greatest contributions to class? What can you improve?

-First of all, my main responsibility is helping myself achieve greatness through understanding. We mainly borrow heavily from picking truth out of arguments and learning to effectively use many elements to make our own arguments more solid. Personally to achieve this, me and another friend of mine use extremely unique forms of writing aimed at creating different perspectives within the same argument that would otherwise not be feasible. My greatest contribution to the class would be peer review that I feel gives decent insight and lending my ideologies to arguments we hold in class on a daily basis. What can I improve? Seriously, I could stop procrastinating, though to try that again would be likely result in brain malfunction.

How do you define ShareRiff's responsibilities as teacher of this class? Is ShareRiff fulfilling those responsibilities? What more or different can he do to help you fulfill the work of this class?

-Dr. Conner’s responsibility is to make sure all of us excel at the things we are capable of so that when the time arrives to use the things we learn there will be no confusion. He has taught me, that there are usually no universal truths, one must find the truth in everything and move forward. Consider the audience, purpose, content, etc and execute with amazing accuracy by knowing you are the sole creator of your work. He fulfills this beyond extreme; my skull develops stress fractures from the amount of knowledge pouring out by the time class is over. I understand what is expected of me

What more or different can ShareRiff do to help you understand the work he is asking you to do?

- Dr. Conner is a great resource and mentor, if you are reading this give the man a raise. I do not care how much of a hassle it is for you because this man is one of the only professors I have had the pleasure of sitting in front of that stresses I think for myself. Take in the world no matter the cost, look at all sides of the picture and make as many conclusions as needed and revise. His teaching reminds me of the ways I was brought up to think and allowed me to become a free thinking individual. The single anomaly in all of his teaching tools that has an ambiguity to it would be the wiki, though honestly after using it so often in and out of class I have become more than used to it at this point. If something is unclear he will first make you question yourself to make sure you are not skipping something or being lazy. Once these conditions have been met he will openly and in full force help you understand the work.

What suggestions do you have for how we can improve class, to help you learn more, and enjoy the class and the learning more? (you can bullet your list for easier reading)

- Honestly, I love this class more than the others, but I absolutely hate the way deadlines are set haha. Let’s face it, free and creative expression is awesome however in this class I have more conversations (i.e. what exactly is going on, what on earth are they talking about) inside my mind than I do in any sort of class context. The primary reason I hate this is not because it is negative in any way, in fact I am on my way to using critical thinking on a moment to moment basis despite my hair falling out. Many classes are so set in their ways and this sort of thing is incredibly uncommon, at least in my own experience being a college student for around three years now. All in all I think that future classes could benefit from slightly more rigid assignment structure, then again there is a counter to this as with the unit assignments the structure has indeed become much more traditional so it seems. The chaos of this class is the very thing I love, yet the very thing I hate. Figure out what that means and you have mastered ENC3310.

Section II

Graphic Representation

     Throughout having this class I have learned that without caring and presented towards your intended audience, the argument is dead in the water as they say. These are the people who are hearing you out and in the end the ones that will develop a conclusion based on what info you have aimed at them. As far as the purposes of expository writing, no one answer is available friend, look at the world at large, take it all in and using rhetoric as your sword and shield attack and defend all that is yours for the taking. Context is everything; especially when analyzing an argument, everything has to be able to be put in perspective. Some shifting is fine as long as the original meaning is retained. One’s research is based solely on that specific area of information or ideology so you must know what direction to take in order to correctly cover that topic. In this particular essay I am voicing my own opinion which lends itself to making the essay more meaningful and effective, knowing how and when to use these tools make or breaks the skills of a writer.

By practicing hard and looking at different writing conventions I eventually concluded that the writing process is not universal, not even a process you devise for yourself. From paper to paper many are capable and do change in effect shifting everything you thought you knew into another realm having little to no connection with your current piece. As long as you understand this, it is possible to constantly change your style to keep up with your own creativity. That said, generally speaking I will write a thesis, the body, go back write the intro and finish with a strong conclusion. The greatest responsibility to an author is his readers and fulfills this in one simple way, thinking about how others would perceive what you are writing every second. Examples are critical and as far as I am concerned, anything printed is out of date. Internet sources are the best because you are capable of finding news and information no older than a few moments in the blink of an eye. Eventually after writing arguments dealing in different topics across different genres of writing I am now more capable of critical thinking by having to figure all sides of a puzzle and instead of trying to fit it back together, the re-creating of the puzzle altogether becomes a possibility.

Correlations from one thing to another are the best ways to start the composing process, you have to be able to make connections both here and out in the world. Organizational strategies are useless… Tried and tried again, though my thoughts are nonconventional at best. Revisions are the best part of the process not because you are improving the paper, but by improving ourselves by allowing changes to be made based on free thought. My favorite is by adding more examples of public propaganda to the definitional argument (peer review suggested) I helped make in order to satisfy the audiences need for more understanding. The least popular would be the current paper due to being torn apart and the puzzle has yet to be refined prior to being peer reviewed. Our new causal paper is going to enlist the help of media and all I have to say is the cliché “a picture means a thousand words” is true, however how many words is a video in my paper worth?.. Using these elements provides an unprecedented display of details and descriptions your readers have available to them, all in aid of your writing.

My writing never usually has many issues when the issue is considered serious. I work on eliminating many repetitions present and work towards left branching sentences, though to be honest that is not the case here only because the time has not permitted itself. The causal paper has been slightly more troublesome than the definitional only because linking different ideas and examples seems more difficult. If we were to use citations it would have to be MLA and I have been proficient at using such since high school, no issues there.

In the end I would like to emphasize that the use of the “Piloting Pedagogies” wiki has been successful in aiding my peers as well as myself in our writing by keeping our minds sharp like a well kept katana. Constantly delving in the writing process and forced to make decision on our own via critical thinking, then there is more we add in the electronic spectrum and we have been given a vast world of rhetoric, knowledge and greatness. When writing papers the wiki was especially important at allowing me to converse with others on my writing without having to travel and complete things on odd basis. There is only one negative and that is the removal of the human element, for which there is no remedy on most terms.