Final class reflection

My impressions about writing  before coming to this course were good overall, but  they changed in a way that research is now a big part of me when it comes to writing, not everytihng you see in the web is true, and with research is not only good to people see the issues, but yourself, you really learn things you did not learn before.
My favorite assignment was the video we did on Imovie because we were with our groups and we did really good team job, and putting it together was easier, than just being by yourself, we had different opinions and points of view. the least favorite, was the assignment, on the opinion piece, because we had done something really similar.
I have learn that eating disorders is a big issue, and there are many more that we do not know about and is good that we could expose what we think, and what we have researched, because otherwise, we would have been ignorants, and would  not see how real everything is, the assingments help in reading artciles for better understanding.
The three skills that I improved on were re-reading it, doing better research and rewriting it, I will apply them in the future, so that it looks better and god a better grade on my last two years of college.
I really liked doing all the job, but I believe that we should have at least two classes in a week, because when it comes to one, it becomes boring because the teacher only gets to talk and explain what was suppossed to happen in the week, instead of teaching us in class what we should do it was only like going to hear all over it again, and then we sometimes forget about the hybrid days, we should have two days so we can do it all face to face. but overall it helped me a lot for my research.

invisible children documentary film

The documentaty I watched was invisible children
1. It is about four  young boys who went to Uganda when the war was at its most damage. they went so they can make a documentary, they have never been outside of the US. and wanted to see how it is and show everyone how it is, there are a lot of people who teaches them school, and helps them but at the same time, the war is in Sudan so they arrived there and notices that was not the adventure they expected, but the over the time, the learn a little bit about how they live and saw snakes and cows and all those animals that were dangerous, they did not eat well, this is not a simple situation going on, the say all those kidnapped boys and how bad their lives are, they are fored to fight as soilders. it gives ethos in showing your emotions how the kids had to suffer, and wake up early and sleep in very ugly spaces, pathos ins howing the videos how evertyhing is and making it reliable for us to see it from here.
2.The documentary realtes to my topic of citizen journalism and research, because they wanted to live it by themselves, by doing the necessary trip to help them, and to people to see how bad it is over there, that is good research, and reliable because it is been recorded.
3.The documentary posted online is good in my opinion, because it is how people can see by these videos., it is for social change, because we can raise awareness, and now see it from our own eyes so we can help them to socially change and take advantage of what we have. it is effective, because it helped many people want the government to want to help them.
4. they are too involved, because they videoed, the wars, and some interviews about children saying how they feel, and what really is going on, yes their involvement impacts their decisions in filmmaking because it is what made them, want to show us how their experience there was really like.
5. I believe that for people it might be too involved and as citizen journalists, they became journlalists, by just being there and showing how it was. It is not harmful for us, it is better for us to see how they live, and how to want to help.
6. my participating in the video, and showing every single detail to make us understand from the beggining to the end. If this partnership wouldnt have happened it wouldnt have made such awareness of the world as it made today. we can partner with people if we are sure and we know something is really going on, showing our realible sources, and why we think they should partner with us, and then we will see if its available to the public.

History of Citizen Journalism and Context

A brief summary of the video.
It is mainly saying anyone can be a citizen journalist, by only picking up a camera and record, or just writing a blog with the informaiton they have gathered, in these times people have to go to school to become  a journalist, but since it has been really easy for them to be a jorunalist by only recording or witing in a perfect sense, they do not really have to go to school, now in other times people now see all of their news on the internet, it used to be a printing press, before that gave work to lots of people, and now to put something online is just a matter of a button. than having to go get the newspaper and actuall pay for it, the times have been changing, and we do not know if its for good or bad!. Some politians are scared of people who blog all the time because no one actually accepts it, they can blog at anytime and talk about whatever they feel like. it does not really relate to my research since is abortion in teenagers, but we should always focus the distinction.
Creating a bloffer about my semester topic is impacting my research,because it makes me want to know more, and wants me to want to know more about it, and for a better understanding.

Deconstructing citizen journalism

The reading on blackboard was called Deconstructing citizen journalism, it explained how the term citizen jourlanist and citizen journalism began, is when they got published, and only wrote what publishers told them to, they had to give the information because many journalist werent able to get the information, so the ones that could get the information complete, give name to the five groups of a citizen journalist. Most of the people do not realize how everything was made in the past, they just care about the future, and did not notice how hard it was at the beggining no life has been created easier, to do something you just gotta press a button, or stuff likfe that, in those times, to gather all that information was so hard, and they took years of research, to only give it to the publishers, and for a really low amount of money.

Action Research

This article was really interesting and was made for us to fully understand how reserach should work, and why teachers do this for us. like the professors should always fully understand what our work is following and imagining it. reserach should be reliable and from sources, that will show how easy we can learn different methods, and how to apply them. and teachers or educators can always learn from our articles or our research, so that is why it is important to always understand research should be prepared and should have the exact connections to what we want to write. and as students we should be ready to be critized so we can make a better research and better understanding of your subject.

Topic proposal

This semester I will focus on my topic which is abortion in teenagers, I chose this topic, because it is a big issue, and not a lot of people is aware of how unhealthy clinics are, and how teenagers are mis-informed, and for a better future, they should have the necessary education to be able to make the decision on killing someone, becasue it can even result in their own death.
Adoption is one of the options there that those girls can consider, because they will not live their lives as before, they will end up traumatized knowing they killed their own baby, and their hearts will end up broken. I also wanted to make more research on the subject, so I can start by raising awareness in my daily life, so girls do not make that mistake.

link

The post that I have been following

http://texasedequity.blogspot.com/ 

group video for Ted

The video was called the brain in your gut (TED)

We chose this video as a group because it talks how wonderful the brain is, and how we were made by our ancestors to eat cooked food, without food we do not have the sufficient energy for the day, the topic of our team, is eating disorders, so it also tells taht the people with anorexia do not have a gut now, becasue their brain is not getting the signal of food, it is not only a mental illness, it gets that way because your gut, does not have the food, to tell the brain it needs more, so it stays that way instead of letting them eat, that is why it is so difficult, for people with anorexia to get healthy because it is not up to the girl is the part of the brain thaat is not working anymore.

it influenced our topic video, because most people think is really easy to just get out of anorexia, but it is not its something they cant control, and people should be aware of this, that is why it made easier our video to give out the important stuff, so everyone can see it is not a game to just stay skinny.

http://www.ted.com/talks/heribert_watzke_the_brain_in_your_gut.html

eating disorders

This is our team video about eating disorders.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mo45tDxsqo

Carolina Alarcon (me)

Viridina Falliner
David Limas
Mariana Ruiz

opinion piece from the new york times ABORTION

Silent about abortion

This opinion piece, is about a book on how unhealthy clinics work, and what the government should do about it, is says that "That those who provide a legal medical service may require federal protection speaks volumes about how stigmatized abortion is in our society."
Which brings you into thinking how bad the situation is that now people who are aborting, who at first were hiding, now want to raise their voices up, they believe that if they are going to commit abortion, it should be safe, and should be regulated, and the federal protecion should find those who hae unsafe clinics.

My topic was abortion on teeangers, which a lot of girls have died of, because they do not know what to do, or are mis-informed, and go to these places, that are unhealthy and can cause them to die, and ask for a lot of money.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/opinion/silent-about-abortion.html

english 1312 responding to a student writing

 Responding to a student writing

         Revision Strategies

After reading the Sommer's article on revision stratgies, my revision plans have changed, and now I had to apply different methods, like for example revising, and later on rewrite it and try to make it better, it is better to read it more than three times, and have wide explanations, and it is best not to generalize, and explain it well, you need to have it clean, so I would use all this new techniques to make it better, and neat, like for example, I noticed that I used to do a lot of repetition, demonstrates that my vocabulary should be more amplified, and modificate what I have wrong, than just being lazy, and just let it be like that. So first of all Im going to start by doing a brainstorm, then writing what comes up to my mind, then revise it, and edit it, then finish it, then take out the parts, that are do not fit or do not make sense at all, and then re-read it and most important not just go through it but actually revising it, and reviewing it several times, till it becomes best and it makes you feel satisfied following the cycles.

It mainly talks about how your editing may also change what your peers meaning of the wiring was, you might want to change it diffrently but your peer, must haveunderstood it differently than you did, that is one of the most important aspects to check; as I said before not to generalize, but the best thing is to always explain if you say many plants, specify which plants you are refering to.

english 1312 more than just error

More than just Error Connection

An analysis review on this reading was very intersting, becasue you could see how the corrections, and the editing, and realizing, what is important, and what is now has made the reader do all the reserach concerning our methods for a better writing.

It shows you the details that have been made, on the revisions, and what we did not realize before we had wrong and that now is very important such as repetition, accuracy and general improvements. One of the biggest mistake on revising the paper was that repetition is the most common error people doesn't notice until is very repetitive, when at the end its wrong, and the student did not have the time to revise it. 

Moving on another thing that made an impression in this reading was that most of us do not even check the accuracy of the writing it may seem really persuasive, but sources must always be there because otherewise the writing looks weak.

 If students would revise more often and understand every step of the revision it should always support writers in activating their strategies, following the steps first to plan their ideas, then to make their drafts, then editing and at the end, re-read it again for a better understanding to the writing.

This writing has shown that there are many details that we did not notice before, and should always help us for a better writing