Rose

The reading on Rose was very interesting. I found that I could really relate to what he was talking about and he wrote in a tone of voice where I really felt like he wanted to connect with the given audience. It was really refreshing reading about what he went through during ages that I can really relate to now; he wrote in a way that was really relatable. The way he spoke about his teachers and what he went through was really interesting to read about; I really loved reading about the struggles that someone else went through. From this reading I found it to be very helpful in bettering my life from hearing someone elses perspective and hearing about someone elses life. It was really nice how he let the reader know that they are not alone in the struggles that they go through; and more particularly for me it was really nice to know other people struggle too. Some of the points that he spoke about like not wanting to go to college classes and the consequences was very helpful and a push for me because sometimes I have a hard time seeing how what I do will effect the rest of my life even though I know this is a true fact. So, overall this reading was very helpful for me.

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Piece on Yancey

This piece is a chart broken into different sections that are focused on the structure of a portfolio. It gives the outline of what a portfolio is and what it is entailed to do in a very specific way. This chart also goes into who the target audience is of a particular piece and why that is so important. There is also a section that speaks about how important it is to cite a work when using someone elses launguage, thoughts, and ideas. This work by Yancey also goes into what a portfolio should overall look like when it is presented to the grader. Yancey goes into what an electronic portfolio looks like and how this portfolio is put together; she also gives ideas on what makes a better electronic portfolio.
For me reading this piece was very interesting, especially when it came to showing what an electronic portfolio looks like. This was so interesting to me because I have never done a project like this before and to see how it is done really amazed me. I loved how organized, put together, and how much time it looked like the composer spent on putting the portfolio together. I also got good information from reading this about ideas for my own portfolio.

9 Characteristics of Portfolios

9 Characteristics of Portfolios
1. Collection-showcases the portfolios validity, range of portfolios engaged
2. Range-ability to use different genres and shows off different expertise. The categories are expressionism, literary, referential, and persuasion.
3. Context Richness- assumes that writers brings their experiences in the form of writing into the assignment.
4. Delayed Evaluation-can go back and revise your work and can do it over time.
5. Selection- allows you to think about what you want to present in the portfolio
6. Student Center Control- you are responsible for your own success
7. Reflection and Self Assessment- related to the annotations, forces you to return to your work and reflect, allows you to figure out what you need to develop and how you need to develop it
8. The Portfolio Allows for Specific Parameters- asks questions like have the writer grown as a writer
9. Development Over Time-over time and not over one time and it captures who you have become as a writer

James Kinneavy’s Aims of Discourse

James makes an outline for different types of writing. He starts off with three main categories situated in a triangle which are decoder, encoder, and reality. In the middle of this triangle is the word, style which encompasses all different types of writing such as: short story, novel, lyric, ballad, drama, and movie. This is saying that decoder, encoder, and reality can all be put in these different types of forms. Decoder being to make something of code into something interpretable. Encoder is then converting a message into code. Reality is something put in front of you that just is straight forward and makes complete sense. For example, a decoder piece of work may be Shakespeare, taking something that we don't clearly understand word for word and breaking it down in to what makes sense for us. An encoder piece would be taking a work that you write and creating a way of demonstrating this information without being clearly straight forward, one can do this through a poem, leaving the interpretation up to the reader. The third, reality would then be a book like Twilight that really anyone can read and where interpretation is not needed at all. He then goes to breaking down these three general categories down. He breaks encoder down to individual and social; which would then be putting a message into code for oneself or for other people around. He only gives one category for decoder which is persuasive since when you break something down it is persuaded from the symbolism that person intended to the symbolism you see in that work of writing. He breaks reality into three categories: exploratory, scientific, and informative. All these are not left up to interpretation. When you explore something you clearly write out what it is you see, science is very straight forward and never left up to interpretation, it is giving facts and what is found within research, and finally informative is being completely straight forward and saying something so clearly to an avoidance so as to give clear information. The chart that is laid out by James makes complete sense to me and I am able to clearly decipher it and clearly understand what he is trying to convey, especially in the form of a chart which is very clear, you could say the category of reality. But, I do think there are many other categories besides the three points on the triangle where you could display your writing in different styles.