Sunday, September 27, 2009
A great impression
A person that left a great impression on me is a person is a person who I played with in a team. He was the person who had skills to take the last hit. He was like the Michael Jordan in our team. He takes thing like practices hard and seriously. He takes his responsibilities seriously, so he is a balanced person in many area. He was a great student-athelte that I could follow.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Assignment #9
The author descibes your voice like its your identification of yourself. He tells us that the voice shouldn't change because of the subject. He talks about breeziness, when you try to write your writing folksly, it is still important write good english. He tells us that we shouldn't be using cliches, and it makes the writing boring and dull.You shouldn't writing things that are too verbose or complicated. The author also tells us to not be scared of imitating other writers.
I agree with the author about the imitation and cliche part, not exactly the way he believe it is true though. I think writers will be influenced then try to imitate it. I think when you keep hearing someones voice, your voice gets influenced by the author, so you get this voice that is similar to book. If you are using too much cliches, it makes the story dull, because there is nothing new. However I don't agree with the author with the voice shouldn't change when you write about anything. Because some types of writing shouldn't contain personal voice in it, like a lab report.
I agree with the author about the imitation and cliche part, not exactly the way he believe it is true though. I think writers will be influenced then try to imitate it. I think when you keep hearing someones voice, your voice gets influenced by the author, so you get this voice that is similar to book. If you are using too much cliches, it makes the story dull, because there is nothing new. However I don't agree with the author with the voice shouldn't change when you write about anything. Because some types of writing shouldn't contain personal voice in it, like a lab report.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Blogging Assignment #8
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. What is voice? What makes a voice unique? How would you describe your writing voice?
Voice is the tone of your writing. It is the emotion that the writer wants to show. Every voice is different because everyone all have different emotions. I think I have a very weak voice in writing. I'm not sure how well I express my emotions when I write, so I never get a strong grade in writing.
2. Pretend you are an object in the classroom such desk, pencil, chair, the teacher's shoe, anything! Imagine yourself having a bad day as this object. Write a 500 word narrative describing your bad day from the object's perspective.
First, I didn't mean to do the same topic as the example.
Today, it was the worst day of my life in my short few years of being a laptop. I’ve been in many bad moment. I was in a factory trying to put me in boxes, trapped in storage rooms for a long time, was unused for a long time, but today felt like the worst. I think the overload of work is getting on me, I have to run so much programs, I have turn on his music, check for viruses, write his work. I do everything for him!! Why do I have to show him movies and basketball games, is it my job to make him happy? I thought I was just helping him do his work..
First, my owner was eating candy while doing his writing project, and it was one of the really sticky sour ones, and sour candy is usually sticky because of the sugar covering the jelly, so I had to be contacted by his sticky, licked hands. It felt so bad and disgusting because I feel wet and sticky at the same time. After that, he starts sneezing like crazy, and he doesn’t he clean himself before typing again. Doesn't he know what personal hygiene is? Doesn't he know that he should sanitize his hands with hand sanitizer before he starts to type on his computer? The mixture of candy and germs was very unpleasant.
Another thing that he did to me is, he dropped me! He dropped me from at least a meter! How can he drop a laptop, doesn't he knows that laptops like us really needs to be careful with shock? At least he has fast hands so he at least saved me before I would crash right into the ground without any resistance. Most of our laptops are weak and need safe care, we would crash into pieces if we got dropped.
In the end, he even put me in the steaming car because he had to go do sports. I hate hot weather, I get heated up so easily. I think I can explode if it goes over the limit. I had very little battery and I just waited until I could get charged by my cable.I hate when I have to restart my self. I have to do so many things before I can, and it takes a lot of time. He didn't come until the evenings, and all he does is complain why I didn't have any battery and I have to wait until you upload. That guy is getting in my nuts these days.
Right now, I want to avenge on him so bad, I feel like I want to just get a virus and just mess up all his work, and then enjoy watching suffer for doing everything on me. I'm sure that he's going to get swine flue for being such an unsanitized person. I also hope that I won't received the treatment that I had received today or I'd rather just break myself up so I don't see him again. Today was the absolutely worst day.
1. What is voice? What makes a voice unique? How would you describe your writing voice?
Voice is the tone of your writing. It is the emotion that the writer wants to show. Every voice is different because everyone all have different emotions. I think I have a very weak voice in writing. I'm not sure how well I express my emotions when I write, so I never get a strong grade in writing.
2. Pretend you are an object in the classroom such desk, pencil, chair, the teacher's shoe, anything! Imagine yourself having a bad day as this object. Write a 500 word narrative describing your bad day from the object's perspective.
First, I didn't mean to do the same topic as the example.
Today, it was the worst day of my life in my short few years of being a laptop. I’ve been in many bad moment. I was in a factory trying to put me in boxes, trapped in storage rooms for a long time, was unused for a long time, but today felt like the worst. I think the overload of work is getting on me, I have to run so much programs, I have turn on his music, check for viruses, write his work. I do everything for him!! Why do I have to show him movies and basketball games, is it my job to make him happy? I thought I was just helping him do his work..
First, my owner was eating candy while doing his writing project, and it was one of the really sticky sour ones, and sour candy is usually sticky because of the sugar covering the jelly, so I had to be contacted by his sticky, licked hands. It felt so bad and disgusting because I feel wet and sticky at the same time. After that, he starts sneezing like crazy, and he doesn’t he clean himself before typing again. Doesn't he know what personal hygiene is? Doesn't he know that he should sanitize his hands with hand sanitizer before he starts to type on his computer? The mixture of candy and germs was very unpleasant.
Another thing that he did to me is, he dropped me! He dropped me from at least a meter! How can he drop a laptop, doesn't he knows that laptops like us really needs to be careful with shock? At least he has fast hands so he at least saved me before I would crash right into the ground without any resistance. Most of our laptops are weak and need safe care, we would crash into pieces if we got dropped.
In the end, he even put me in the steaming car because he had to go do sports. I hate hot weather, I get heated up so easily. I think I can explode if it goes over the limit. I had very little battery and I just waited until I could get charged by my cable.I hate when I have to restart my self. I have to do so many things before I can, and it takes a lot of time. He didn't come until the evenings, and all he does is complain why I didn't have any battery and I have to wait until you upload. That guy is getting in my nuts these days.
Right now, I want to avenge on him so bad, I feel like I want to just get a virus and just mess up all his work, and then enjoy watching suffer for doing everything on me. I'm sure that he's going to get swine flue for being such an unsanitized person. I also hope that I won't received the treatment that I had received today or I'd rather just break myself up so I don't see him again. Today was the absolutely worst day.
Assignment 7
1.What are some of the aspects of narrative writing and did you like using them?
In my opinion, the writing is very descriptive and personal. Since it is your story, you can describe more things than when you look in third person view. Because you get to describe feelings and use adjectives to give an accurate explanation about one thing. I like how narrative writing is more personal then other writings, because you get to describe how you felt and you can make many descriptions out of that.
2.How did you determine what details were relevant and necessary to support your ideas?
I think I determined the relevance of the detail by looking how much it was related to the main idea and how it rightly it describes the moment. The details should be descriptive enough to bring the reader back into the moment and help the understanding your situation, but short enough so it does not drag the story. I think I did a bad job on that and used too much description in the writing.
3.How did you create a unique piece of writing?
Since it is my story, and not someone elses. It is already unique. I think that the experience of playing in front of many people is not an experience that you get to have in your ordinary life. It can give the readers how it felt for the freshman who just had their first game of volleyball. Every writing that people write is unique because nobody is not going to have the same descriptions as what you did unless they plagiarized your work.
4.How did you craft your writing to meet the audience expectations? What is easy or hard?
I had many ideas in my mind while I was writing about this topic. However, I had too many ideas and I didn't know what ideas I should use. It gave me a really tough time because I had to find ideas that actually help readers to understand my situation. For example, you have a ball. You can describe many things about the ball such as its shape, color, weight, but you have to find something unique to describe the ball more clearly. It doesn't really help if you write something everyone knows.
5.How did your personal experience and faith shape the way you told this story?
Because it is a recent memory, and I remembered many things about the moment. Since it's not a journal where I record every single thing I remembered, I had to cut many things out of the story. It was hard for to me to choose what to take out and make the story flow.
6.What would your life be like without the experience?
This experience is really important to me. Because it was my first time doing a sport in front of people, or representing our school for KAIAC. Without this memory I wouldn't have debuted in KAIAC, since it's a first game. My life would be really plain without sports.
In my opinion, the writing is very descriptive and personal. Since it is your story, you can describe more things than when you look in third person view. Because you get to describe feelings and use adjectives to give an accurate explanation about one thing. I like how narrative writing is more personal then other writings, because you get to describe how you felt and you can make many descriptions out of that.
2.How did you determine what details were relevant and necessary to support your ideas?
I think I determined the relevance of the detail by looking how much it was related to the main idea and how it rightly it describes the moment. The details should be descriptive enough to bring the reader back into the moment and help the understanding your situation, but short enough so it does not drag the story. I think I did a bad job on that and used too much description in the writing.
3.How did you create a unique piece of writing?
Since it is my story, and not someone elses. It is already unique. I think that the experience of playing in front of many people is not an experience that you get to have in your ordinary life. It can give the readers how it felt for the freshman who just had their first game of volleyball. Every writing that people write is unique because nobody is not going to have the same descriptions as what you did unless they plagiarized your work.
4.How did you craft your writing to meet the audience expectations? What is easy or hard?
I had many ideas in my mind while I was writing about this topic. However, I had too many ideas and I didn't know what ideas I should use. It gave me a really tough time because I had to find ideas that actually help readers to understand my situation. For example, you have a ball. You can describe many things about the ball such as its shape, color, weight, but you have to find something unique to describe the ball more clearly. It doesn't really help if you write something everyone knows.
5.How did your personal experience and faith shape the way you told this story?
Because it is a recent memory, and I remembered many things about the moment. Since it's not a journal where I record every single thing I remembered, I had to cut many things out of the story. It was hard for to me to choose what to take out and make the story flow.
6.What would your life be like without the experience?
This experience is really important to me. Because it was my first time doing a sport in front of people, or representing our school for KAIAC. Without this memory I wouldn't have debuted in KAIAC, since it's a first game. My life would be really plain without sports.
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