Blog 13B

Throughout my experience of learning of the writing process I have found quite a few things to be very helpful to me personally. One of the tools that we have to our benefit is a website called the Purdue Owl. This is a writing tool or 'help' that I have found to be extremely helpful. It has within it a ton of helps and examples that are to be used while writing. This has helped me tremendously in my own writing. Another thing that I found really helpful was going to class and visually and verbally learning. I couldn't have understood if it weren't for my professor explaining and giving us visual examples of the writing process itself. I also really liked how in each essay we learned a couple more rhetorical tools and had to incorporate them into our papers. Practice really does make perfect!! The more you practice using the writing process the more you will understand and become a more fluent writer. These things have been so helpful to me and would definitely be helpful for anyone else that is learning to write and use the writing process.

Blog 13A

After looking over my past blogs, the first thing that one will want to remember about the writing process is that our goal is to reach our desired audience. This is super important because it is our main purpose of writing in the first place. Everything we do we need to then ask ourselves the question, "does this relate to our desired audience?" Next we need to know the outline of how our paper should look. We first start out with the first draft which is our 'information dump' this is when we take all of the information we have about a topic and dump it all on a page no matter how messy it is. The next draft we need to clean it up and make it pretty and comprehensible. After that we will have a peer review and add a introduction and conclusion. We also need to make sure we incorporate rhetorical tools throughout our paper while writing it. These can include things such as narratives, classification and division, and many other tools that we find useful in reaching an audience.

Blog 12A

The process explanation is important because it explains to the audience why we do something. Like in the video we watched today, she explained what steps to take in cooking the food but then also explained to us why we do those certain steps. This also helps us realize the value of things we do I think. I personally like knowing why I am being told to do something or what value it may have. This really can help us relate to our audience.

Blog 11A

I personally think that the introduction of an essay is one of the most important parts of the text. However, it is only good if you have the important aspects that should be in the introduction. These aspects are a thesis statement and a road map of the entire essay. The introduction should basically be a rundown of your entire essay so  the audience as an idea of what your essay is about. I don't think your audience should have any question on what you are talking about after reading the introduction to your paper. This also helps me know to what I am writing and in what order to put things in. Just put them in the order that you put in your introduction!

Blog 10A

Classification and division is a way for authors to define and put points across to their desired audience in a way that is organized and understandable. They take definitions and classify them together into separate groups so the reader can better comprehend the text. To do this, they apply subheadings that states the general classification that different subjects are a part of and them describe them more in depth. The divisions of all classifications helps to organize a text. I personally think this because it helps me to better understand what I am reading and helps me divide what is important within the text and what is not.

Blog 9A

• "This growth, here and elsewhere in the West, is coming at a cost, according to conservationists: harmed wildlife habitats, higher regional temperatures, air and water pollution, more traffic and the introduction of invasive species."

Urban development is not only ruining the wildlife and environment that once was there but it also does several other things like harms wildlife habitats, higher regional temperatures, air and water pollution and introduces traffic and invasive species. It harms wildlife habitats because we are literally building right over them. How is an animal supposed to live within chaotic streets? Higher temperature result because of all the things going on to develop cities. We are not clean people even as hard as we try to be, which results in air and water pollution. Also, every city is going to have traffic which does not help with the pollution whatsoever. Finally, of course we would bring invasive species with us because many people simply don't care about the environment as long as they have a big shiny mall to shop in.

• Like Scottsdale, many cities and towns across the West that grew up after World War II have struggled to maintain their quintessentially Western features while encouraging growth and economic development. Hanging on to the West's characteristic "wide open spaces," officials say, is a constant battle.

The phrase of "the wild west" shouldn't be a new phrase to anyone; yet if development continues, the further generations will turn their heads in confusion when this phrase is spoken. Is that really what we want as citizens? Urban development EVERYWHERE? Personally, I love to look at the scenery of some places. This is slowly becoming extinct. 

• "You could talk to the most hard-core Republican in my community," Cave Creek Mayor Vincent Francia says, "and preservation is the most important thing -- it's the one thing we all agree on."

More and more people are joining the side of sustainability, yet urban development has ceased to build and build. We as society are the only ones that can do something about this. The west needs to stay wild and that is exactly what they people that live there think as well. If only all of us could agree with this, something could be done. We could keep the scenery and not do any damage to the environment. This is something that is overlooked in today's busy world but needs to be noticed. If only we could all agree, we could do something big. 

Blog 8A

There is a lot of importance when it comes to definition. Authors need definitions to help their desired audiences comprehend what they are really trying to say. An example of this that we discussed in class is say you are talking about girls and you say, "the definition of 'girls' in the dictionary is 'female'." This does not give the audience anything to go off of. Just the word female does not fully describe girls. This reason is why we don't really want to use the dictionary answer while writing. My article that I chose is about development hurting the environment. It talks about a town called Scottsdale Arizona and how what used to be beautiful western landscape is now shopping malls, golf courses, jewelry shops, and major league baseball training facilities. (The link of my article is found below.) The conversation that this fits into is environmental sustainability. The conversation is preserving environments.

facilities. http://search.proquest.com.dist.lib.usu.edu/docview/1460843522?accountid=14761