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Post-discussion Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006) My opinion hasn’t changed much after reading my peers discussion posts. Most of my peers including myself were just reviewing the claims in the article provided. That being said I didn’t get any new information to change my view or opinion on the subject. There are two sidesContinue reading “How We Learn, Ch.2”

Discussion Post Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006) “as we fielded informal (and by and large friendly) complaints from our engineer- ing colleagues about the quality of student writing, in mechanics (failure to spell-check and to punctuate successfully), in usage, and in what we consider rhetorical skills, such as using effective organization for a particularContinue reading “How We Learn Ch. 2”

Blog Post#12 Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006) I share the perceptions of Bergman and Zepernick, students don’t tend to transfer knowledge from a first year writing course to other courses or disciplines. I also agree that this is because students don’t see the relevance of the information and that students just write to pleaseContinue reading “Transfer”

Discussion Post Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006) My thoughts have remained unchanged through the discussion on Bergmann and Zepernick’s article. Some of my classmates where surprised by the assertion by Bergmann and Zepernick that students tend to reject knowledge taught to them about writing. I was not surprised, like the students that where usedContinue reading “Bergmann and Zepernick Reflection”

Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006) I have chosen to carryover Victoria stern’s and Tara Santora’s articles that cover the history and the effectiveness of subliminal messaging. I picked these two articles because I’m working with historical fiction and basics of how subliminal messages could be leveraged or misused. Exploring how things could go wrongContinue reading “Building Block 3.3”

Discussion Post Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006) I thought this article shared a lot of views that I already had in connection to what the students thought. I believe I failed to see what the authors where trying to prove after reading this paper. I side with the students on this paper in agreementContinue reading “Bergmann and Zepernick”

Blog Post. #11 Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006) The work of my research project now relying on a more narrative element, the reason for this is people identify the world with stories and characters it’s a system that is hardwired into the human brain. When you just present facts the presentation is flat, theContinue reading “Composing In Context”

Blog Prompt #10 Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006) identify, respond to, and write effectively for various rhetorical situations In our reading and discussions of the work Bitzer and Bazerman has done in defining terms like rhetorical situations, speech acts, and genres has helped me identify/respond to these situations. The ideas that was present areContinue reading “Learned and Remembered”

Discussion post Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006) At the beginning of the discussion I thought that the reasoning for a class dedicated just for English didn’t make much sense. I like the idea of reforming English so that It helps the student more so than just being around for the instructors sake. After someContinue reading “Yancey Post Discussion 2”