My third blog assignment is about having communication with yourself and the self author, we were assigned to read some lectures to guide us how to perfect that letter. After reading Fable for the Living (Kevin Brockmeier) ,I understand how creative an author could be, taking you in your imagination with so many details and ideas, its a very deep and sad story but very rich in how to write a wonderful story. I invite you to take time and read the links below the fable above, it is a really good exercise to see who you are and spend time with yourself.
5 Reasons to Write a Letter to Yourself (and How to Do It) 3 Ways to Master the Power of Empathy in your Writing (Karen Hertzberg) How to Write a Victim Empathy Letter (Jayne Thompson) 3 Perfect Examples of How to Write an Apology Letter (Karen Hertzberg) A Motivational Letter to Myself (Jenna Terek) My Breakthrough Moment: Writing a Letter to My Younger Self (Kayla Matthews) Dear Lulu: It feels like the two of us decided to go on a Euro trip together, and when we did immigration point, your entry to the country was denied, and I have to do the trip by myself --that's how it feels." I have been thinking about you recently since I miss reading your stories and your ideas. The writing inspiration we have it is not as good as the one we used to be. I am not sure if it was because of finishing school, not having time with our busy life or just because we were focusing on learning a new language. I would like us to be better in free-lance and school English writing and be more creative with our ideas. But I also know that we both get distracted. On my side I could plan to sit down to write five times a day and I get out mentally. I need you here with me, to help me to bring those ideas and experience you and I lived before. I need you to remind those details that I cannot express when I am typing. All that time just you, me and the pencil printing my brain ideas. I remember how motivated I used to feel. I understand, we are currently dealing with a language barrier but guess what? It is fixable. There are so many ways to improve our vocabulary and connections words, which I consider the two of us are not the best at. I think we should meet weekly for now since we are both busy. Let’s say for an hour on Thursday night after you are done with your work out videos. We are going to sit down, open a word document and write for twenty minutes. The document name will be label as Goal #33, We are also going to read the book you bought back in October on amazon and never read it, let me refresh your mind the book name is Rome Sweet Home and the one you never finish reading for your reading class last semester and you liked it, The Soloist, for another twenty minutes prior this. We either write about the reading or our life experiences. I think reading and writing goes well together. This way we both can enrich our vocabulary and ideas. I cannot wait to meet with you every Thursday. Best Regards, Super Valentina
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iIn the assignment #2, After reading this links you are able to answer the following questions.
3. What are the seven sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition? the seven sample criteria used by Borton-and-Huot are purpose, audience, tone, organized, transitions, synthesizes and detailed. 4. As a web site author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the four C.R.A.P. principles of design on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each design principle ranking. As a website designer I could rank the importance of the four C.R.A.P. principles on 5 in a scale from 1-5 where five is very importance. After reading and watching the video about the C.R.A.P. principles everything makes more sense. Now I know why I do like some websites more than others or why it is easier for me to find things than other websites. Its because they are following the contrast so I can find exactly what I am looking for in credit card store payment website for example. Using an excellent Repetition on a website like Amazon, you will know when you are heading to the last item of the list because of the cohesive look. Also having the right alignment on a wellness or healthcare website will simplify the search. No less importance than the others using a great Proximity will make data more digestible on a google search. 5. What does the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for? C.R.A.P. acronym stand for Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity. 6. As a web site author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the five modes on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each mode ranking. As an author of my own website, I found these five modes very helpful, I kind of knew about them but in different way, back when I was studying marketing in Panama. The importance of these modes I would rank it in five. When you are decorating, communicating or selling something you need a juicy linguistic mode how to delivery the information. But first of all, it is really crucial finding the audience you are going to interact with. Using a good aural, because all you want it is the information to stay and be digested in people’s brain. I like the “visual”, because I am person with an excellent visual memory which I could get out of a website in less than a second if I do not see it organized. Gestural, as a website designer I see that I want this website to be a good resource for future generations. So, I need to get that click with my audience. And last but not less importance Spatial, in here is where you show your creativity in space administrator. A good way to find out before you open your website, it is standing at the door of your room, look from right to left what’s bother you? Whatever you see out of space take it out or find a new place for it the same on your website. Visit others website to have an idea of your taste. 7. Do you agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim "all writing is multimodal"? “All writing is multimodal” according to the definition from Ball and Charlton, yes, they are right. Everything that you write in this century has five or four of the modes. People use emojis, videos, links, pictures, text, voices on their regular texts everyday in personal life, at work or for business. I could say at my work the training they provided is amazing and they use these five important modes. They encourage us the same way from us to our patients. It is quality of communication. You want to delivery the message in the clearest way possible to anybody that you communicate with. Another example could be at college in all the classes I am taking. Coming to regular life, the way you receive an email from an clothing store or airlines they met Linguistic, aural, visual, gestural and spatial modes. 8. How do Ball and Charlton define "multimodal" writing? Ball and Charlton define “multimodal” writing as multiple + mode. Using different codes of communication to make meaning when you write. As mention previously there are five modes to a multimodal text: Linguistic, Aural, Visual, Gestural and Spatial. Welcome to my first English Composition assignment “The Proust Questionnaire”. This questionnaire was made by Marcel Proust (1871-1922). Marcel Proust was a French writer which used to slept during the day and wrote through the night. He always knew that he wanted to be a writer. He designed these thirty-five questions to find about people personality I hope you enjoy reading my answers. The Proust Questionnaire.
_1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? Perfect happiness for me it’s when you love yourself and you are proud of you, also having a family, being healthy, having a husband or wife that loves and appreciate you so much, having your mom alive and ask her the best advice for anything, having a house to live, a home to spend your free time, having food every day, having a bed with the best blanket, having a shower with your favorite shampoo and soap, having your favorites clothes and shoes to wear, having 2 or 3 real friends, having Wi-Fi when you need and the most important thing having faith in God that he will be in charge of everything for you. __2.__What is your greatest fear? I think I have two greatest fear, one of them is receiving a call from Panama with bad news about my family. And the second one is sleeping in a place at night by myself. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I trust people so much, they disappointed me and then I hated myself because I never have seen that in that person or why they did not appreciate my time and friendship. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? The most I deplore in others is the way how people are so materialistic and fake. How they prefer someone’s life instead of getting their own goals and work hard to get it. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? The person I admire the most in my life is my adorable mom. She did not have the life she wanted but she was always a hard worker to get me and my sister the best for us, she shows me God and the way he acts in our lives. She gave us the best childhood. She though us to be a good human, to be able to adapt to anything life brings to us. I could write a book about her love and personality. Her name is Vilma E. Pinto P. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? My greatest extravagance I could say is swimming in the ocean with clear water and white sand if its by myself. If it’s with more people, the color of the water does not matter. __7.__What is your current state of mind? My current state of mind is I don’t know how many people will read this questionnaire. __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? The most overrated virtue its to be patience and be able to control your emotions. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? I don’t like to lie because then later I forgot what I said and I cannot put it together. But of course, like everybody sometimes I must. I guess when a friend is a drama queen and I don’t want to do what they want. __10. __What do you most dislike about your appearance? When I don’t have my nails done. Or when I get a pinball on my face. __11. __Which living person do you most despise? A person who complains about their lives. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? The most I admire in a man is his responsibility for work, his care for his family, how he speaks about his wife and mom and the most important his loyalty. __13. __What is the quality you most like in a woman? The quality I like in a woman is the same I like about me. Be independent. __14. __Which words or phrases do you most overuse? This is a hard one. I have it in both languages and it goes by the place I am. At work I guess it’s “have a nice day”. At home with my family and friends I guess is “OMG”, “like” and “I don’t know”. __15. __What or who is the greatest love of your life? me, me and me. I don’t feel like answering this question because I love so many people in my life. __16. __When and where were you happiest? I have been happy so many times in my life. I could mention some of them, for example when I got engaged, when I graduated from college. When I got my job as a Flight attendant, When I jumped out of a plane, my first time in New York and Rio do Janeiro, when I take off and landed in the flight deck, first time I see snowing, first time doing snowboarding, any moment where I laughed so much with someone. __17. __Which talent would you most like to have? I would love to be the best with numbers and equations. __18. __If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? stop being worry about what others think or say about me after I say an honest answer that could make them feel bad. __19. __What do you consider your greatest achievement? My greatest achievement its being an immigrant and be able to be strong with all it includes. It is easy to take a carry-on, get on a plane and go for an adventure but I never imagine how hard this could be away from my family. At some point you realize you are not belonging either in the country you decided to live and your own one. And the other question that comes to your mind every day its “what if”. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I would like to come back as a Lion. __21.__Where would you most like to live? I like here in Philadelphia because of the weather is pretty good compare to places that I had lived before. But if I turn millionaire, I think I would like to live half of the year on a private beach somewhere in the Caribbean and the other half here. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? My most treasured possession is my family. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Sleeping over on January 2010 at Washington DC airport because I missed my flight. They called my name in a different pronunciation. I was the only one who stayed in that area without heater in the middle of the winter. I had to go in the bathroom and stand under the hand dryer to get myself warm. My Wi-Fi hour ended. I was so sleepy but at the same time scared, I don’t know how I found a spa station and I cross over the little gate and rest in the massage bed. All I wanted it’s to be 5:00 am so they open that area again and I can get my flight to Philadelphia. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? My favorite occupation was my first job as a flight attendant. But I never realized how cool it was not being a office every day with the same people all the time. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? According to 80% of people I have known in my life I am weird and crazy. I like it. I call it being a unique cup cake with a touch of crazy sugar. I guess my most marked characteristic its not liking chocolate. __26.__What do you most value in your friends? I like happy, loyal and relax friends. A person that loves me with all my defects. A person that ask me How are you? A person that understand my busy life and appreciate when we are together. __27.__Who are your favorite writers? I do not have a favorite writers. I read depending of the situation I am going through. For example, when I was having a hard time to understand what’s to work in a office I read a book of John C. Maxwell about leadership and I loved it and it helped so much. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? I have a lot of fiction heroes. One of the is Dwayne Johnson, I like his voice and smile. Before his death it was Paul Walker, I liked everything about him. __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? I have no idea. I never think of one that I could be. __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? People who are dealing with terminal diseases. Or a person with a family member going through this. __31.__What are your favorite names? my favorite names are Lulu and John. __32.__What is it that you most dislike? The most I dislike is the smell of oatmeal. __33.__What is your greatest regret? My greatest regret is not buying a house before I left Panama. __34.__How would you like to die? I would like to die either in surgery when I have anesthesia on or in my bed when I am sleeping, anywhere where I do not suffer or feel anything. __35.__What is your motto? My motto is myself. I always want to be better than yesterday. Every day I have a different goal, idea or occupation. Which is bad sometimes. Thank you for reading my answers! |
Lourdes Seaver
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