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Final Reflection

      The purpose of the final reflection is to inform my audience of an overview of all I have completed in this my Composition II class. I address all three projects geared to displaying how they could be applied to the six learning outcomes. I also give an example of the challenges and strengths that this class revealed. I end the essay off with the overall benefit of the class.  Final Reflection Over the past semester in English Composition II, we have completed three main projects. There were six learning outcomes expected for the students to achieve and I believe that I conquered them all. The first learning outcome was to “respond appropriately to various rhetorical situations, purposes, and audiences”. The second learning outcome was to “use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking and communicating”. Another learning outcome I was able to master was to use other’s ideas and “integrate” them into my writings. The fourth learning outcome that...
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Invention Work: To Live as if You're Dying

An unconventional invention work, this is. This spoken version of "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas is what led me to choose to explicate this poem. It is spoken in the movie "Interstellar", a movie centered around astronauts who think they are fighting the good fight in order to find a new earth for the current habitats of the old, dying earth. But they figure out after decades of traveling space that the plan all along was to leave everyone on earth to die and populate the new earth with the embryos on board. This poem is referenced throughout the movie and the antagonist is the one who says it. At the moment the true motives of the mission was discovered, the poem is referenced. They realize that in order to live and fight with no regrets, they must do the right thing even though it is not easy. They chose not to be the "wise" man, "good" man, the "wild" man,o the "grave" man. The wise man would done e...
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Poetry Explication: To Live as if You're Dying

        As my introduction says, "What better way is there to die than falling into a gentle slumber and your soul knowing that you have lived radically for and true to your purpose and beliefs?" My poetry explication of "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas will tell you just that. I loved  being able to dig into the significance of this poem, the life event that inspired this poem, and the way Thomas's diction, and style of writing contributed to the overall meaning. To Live as if You're Dying   What better way is there to die than falling into a gentle slumber and your soul knowing that you have lived radically for and true to your purpose and beliefs? There is none. Dylan Thomas lived an untamed life of dancing on the line of alcoholism, rebelling against traditional poetry, and ignoring his wedding vows every now and then ( "Dylan (Marlais) Thomas" 3). In “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, Thomas used the art...
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Rough Draft: When You Know Better You do Better

My unedited version of my persuasive argument had a lot of work to be done! My peer editors highlighted my higher order concern as needing to be more direct when it came to my thoughts and claim (thesis). They also pointed out the need to give light on what social media is already doing to help censor certain adult themes and protect children's development. Lower order concerns stated by my peer editors were grammar, punctuation and spacing. I went through and developed a stronger thesis, corrected my LOC's and tied my essay up with a strong ending claim to to thesis.  Persuasive Argument             “ As teens have started spending less time together, they have become less likely to kill one another, and more likely to kill themselves” (Klass, “When Social Media Is Really Problematic for Adolescents”) . Have you ever looked at your phone and felt a negative emotion or struggled with your mental health bec...
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Invention Work: The Complexity of Trauma

    My invention work for Project II is this outline. I planned on writing a simple argument that traumatic memory is not reliable. B ut my professor pointed out the need for an action to be taken based on the argument made. So, the action part is not in the outline but this is the information I based the application/action on.  Outline for a Argument Paper Introduction a.      Personal experience with PTSD and recounting memory accurately. b.      Thesis Statement: Although human memory is complex and varied. traumatic memory is less reliable than general memory due to fact that the brain is not naturally inapt to experiencing and recounting trauma.    II.     First Supporting point: Trauma causes dissociation Evidence-Decrease in hippocampus leads to recall difficulty (#1) Evidence- Highly emotional events lead to perception that is skewed; emotions lead to dissociation (...
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Rough Draft: The Complexity of Traumatic Memory

      My professor, Mrs. Gordiva, pointed out several missing "puzzle pieces" that my polished essay now has. Her comments are displayed below and mainly consist of relating the information back to how it applies to and affects the real world. I was struggling with finding a strong relation between the researched information and current application but knew I wanted to relate it to criminal investigation. My professor guided me to find the exact claim I needed to point to throughout my essay. She then suggested I point to that claim in every paragraph. My polished draft a addresses all suggestions made. 
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Research Essay: The Complexity of Traumatic Memory

           This is a topic you will find that is personal to me. Initially, I chose to research the reliability of traumatic memory and with peer editing added in the variable of how it applies to the real world. The essay is proving two points simultaneously: memory is complex and there are few personnel that are truly qualified to properly assist a subject to extract traumatic memories while keeping in mind the subject's well-being.  The Complexity of Traumatic Memory “Regardless of whether one accepts the concept of traumatic amnesia … memory does not operate like a video tape, emotionality does not confirm veracity, and implicit memory cannot simply be translated into narrative memory” (Colin et. al.). When I was eight, I was diagnosed with a chronic, incurable condition known as Hydrocephalus and have had ten brain surgeries since to treat it. One of the worst years, medically-speaking, was 2017 and I can only remember bits and pieces o...
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Persuasive Argument: When You know better, you do better.

      In my persuasive composition, I argue that technology is and will be the downfall of our future generations by focusing on how it affects the three fundamentals of human life: sleep, relationships and psychological development. I then offer hope by sharing tips on how to become less dependent on technology. I felt most successful when my own experiences with technology coincided with my scholarly resources. That is what makes the subject in my paper seem like less of rarity to my readers and more like their reality. When you're not ignorant to teens' addiction to technology and its' effects, you do better.  “When you know better, you do better” –Maya Angelou             “ As teens have started spending less time together, they have become less likely to kill one another, and more likely to kill themselves” (Klass, “When Social Media Is Really Problematic for Adolescents”) . Have you ever looked a...
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