Thlog #9-Almost there

   Alright guys, I think that this is my second to last thlog that I am going to be doing.  Oh my gosh the sadness is just so overwhelming :(((  I just want to tell all my friends and fans that I will miss all of you dearly.  Every one of you.  And when I say every one of you, I mean only one of you.  So thank you for being there for me.  So yesterday in class we were doing our group presentations, and I thought that they were pretty interesting.  I was kind of nervous about going and presenting this think on hedged language, but in the end it pretty much all worked out alright.  All of the other students presentations were pretty good too.  I can’t remember all of them.  I learned some very interesting things about writing that I hadn’t known before.  For example, did you know that if you didn’t cite a work that you used info or a line from, you could be kicked out of school.  If that happened to me I wouldn’t be able to write all of my precious thlogs for you guys and you might get severely depressed.  Now we do not want that to happen now do we.  So I better cite everything that I copy.  Another thing that I learned was that when writing sentences you can use more than one comma.  Not like if you were listing things, but if you just had three different independent clauses then you could use multiple commas.  Zack warned us about using this because he said he didn’t even know about this.  So be careful kiddies if you use this hidden technique.  Other than that, there was so much just stuff going on like I couldn’t handle all this information.  But, otherwise it was great  to see all the students being cool and presenting their stuff.  Now there is only one obstacle left in my way and that is the final portfolio.  Wish me luck guys!! I will see you next week!!!      

Thlog #8 Crunch Time

Thlog #8

Alrightttt!!!! I finished up all of the writing projects!! I felt so relieved when I completed it and turned it in.  It might be the worst piece of writing that I have ever done in my life, but it’s done.  Just thinking about that made me so relieved.  Then, before I could even get comfortable, I realize that I have to do this 15 minute long group presentation and also I just found out that our portfolio (which is our final and is worth 30% of my grade) is due soon too.  Man, and here I was just starting to get comfortable and starting to think that I was all done.  Oh well, I guess that's college for me.  Another thing for you guys, this is one of my last blogs guys. :(  The end is coming near.  I sure am going to miss all my fans once I am gone.  But let's not think about the future, I still have some work to do.  While in class today, learning about my portfolio for the class, the assignment sheet said that I had to revise my first two WP’s and make a reverse outline and kind of rewrite them.  I thought to myself, “what the heck man, I spent hours working on those and now I have to pretty much rewrite them.”  The once Zack explained that it wasn’t going to be too hard I kind of calmed down a bit.  There are many things that I know I can improve upon in my past essays.  I feel like I better understand genre and conventions since the first essay and I feel that I can improve upon those.  Then for the WP #2, I know that's a train wreck.  I am going to have to look at that again to find out what I did wrong because I blocked that one out of my mind.  Dark days man, dark days.  I know I got some work to do.  So I am going to sign off for right now and I will see you guys later.  I have some work to do.  Wish me Luck!!!    

Thlog #7 Lessons from Luke

Alright guys, we are coming close to the end here.  Not really, but we are getting there.  So we are getting into our WP #3.  I am starting to realize that this will require a little bit more focus and work than the other WP’s.  Although this prompt does seem more fun than the other prompts, but I know that lurking around the corner is probably a snake waiting to STRIKE!!!  Figuratively speaking of course.  However, after reading some of my other classmates ideas and different genres and stuff.  I know now I really have to get working on this thing.  But, I got a secret weapon!!!  I’m not going to tell anyone yet but you are just going to have to wait and see.  Another thing is that I am kind of worried about this WP.  I’m worried because I know I have to do well on it.  I hate having to think about that when I am working on this.  But, I know that probably everyone else has the same feeling and I just need to suck it up and start working hard.  One problem I have though is that I don’t know what topic I should choose.  I want it to be something that I am interested in, but let's face it, how do I find a really scholarly article that I find interesting?  I mean that's like trying to find junk food in the fresh produce aisle, you can only find it when someone else puts it there on accident. (or is just to lazy to put it back)  So, I’m just hoping I find something that I can find at least holds a little bit of interest for me.  Otherwise I hope that I just write well about something I am not too interested in.  Now for my special segment that I like to call “Lessons from Luke”.  The lesson for today is that you should never procrastinate because have you ever listened to the song, “Sunday Morning” by Maroon 5.  If you haven’t then listen to it, and that is pretty much what you will feel like Sunday Morning the day before your project is due.  Anyways, as always if you have stuck with me this long I thank you, and I hope you come back next week for some more doses of feeling bad about myself and random stuff that you can’t make sense of.  Thank you all and have a good week!  

PB #3A My Ideas

Alright guys, so I’m not really clear about how I’m going to do this but I’m going to give it my best shot.  I’m thinking about choosing the first option just like everyone else in class.  So I am not sure about what topic I should choose.  Some of the topics that i’m thinking about choosing for the peer reviewed article are maybe climate change or maybe an article about teens versus smoking.  I don’t really know yet.  But, I’ll probably figure it out while I am writing this.  Anyways, once I choose my article topic I have to figure out what genres I’m going to change it into.  For my younger audience genre, I think that I would like to change my article into something like a rap.  I think that it would be pretty cool because I like to listen to rap music sometimes, and I think that if I get the lyrics just right I could make some really well educated article into a really entertaining thing.  However, I would really have to condense my article.  For example, if I was to try and rap about climate change I would really have to focus on just one or two problems.  Such as drought in certain areas or the amount of rainfall certain areas are getting.  I also have an idea, maybe I could make some kind of music video out of it, that would be pretty cool.  I don’t know about that though, that seems pretty hard.  I think that this would be a good genre, because making up a rap like this and putting it to a sick beat could make this super long boring essay into something that could be fun and informative.  I know most people will think that, “oh, it’s just another cheesy rap trying to be cool.”  But, I think that I could prove them wrong.  

Now, I have a couple of genres that I am thinking about picking for the older audience.  I have my backups like the newspaper article, or like a magazine article.  However, I was thinking that maybe one idea could be those commercials you see with the “in the arms of an angel”  song playing and like sad puppy dog eyes everywhere.  I think that would be fun, to talk about climate change and be all like, “for just 50 cents a day you could save the world.”  I think this pertains to the the more adult audience because they are the ones who have the money.  

Another idea that I am thinking of is a genre that is like one of those cheesy romantic novels.  You know the ones that your mom reads and have the very sexual pictures on the front.  It’s not porn but it’s pretty close.  Anyways, maybe I could write a chapter of it and make a picture of the cover.  For example I could draw the world in…. you know what, this is a pretty weird genre.  I don’t know I liked the idea at first but now it’s kind of weirding me out.  I might go with it.  But I would like some opinions on it too.  

So, I think that I have some sort of  heading here.  If anybody reads this I would like to know what you think about the genres I chose, and do they have enough to write about?  That is all I have for now, and I hope that I can pull this project through and hit it out of the park.  

Thlog #6- Sh*t happens

Yo wassup you guys!!!! How you doinnnnn!!  So I just have to say really quick that I just had my very first online class.  It’s funny because the only thing I could think of besides what we were working on was that I’m really in college now.  Like look at me I have online classes and stuff.  It made me feel pretty cool.  Anyways, so this week has been pretty interesting, a lot of late nights doing nothing.  I’m starting to feel like I’m slacking off, but I also have the feeling that I need to stop that feeling and keep trying to do my best.  Because what's the point of all the money if you don’t get anything out of it.  So, I just turned in my WP #2 and I’m pretty sure it was the worst thing I’ve ever written, I was just so done with it, it was pretty frustrating.  Then, to my joy during my online class, we get assigned our next writing project!  And I’m just looking at it thinking holy s@$t!  Like, I barely understood the last one, now I have to figure this one out and pray that I can do well on it.  Then after five minutes of just feeling really stupid and depressed I knew I had to man up and try to figure out what the heck I’m doing for this project.  So looking at it again, I still have no idea.  LOL.  However I do have some distant idea about what to do.  I just hope I can find a topic that I find interesting so that I’m not super stressed about it.  Also, our leader in the classroom [which is our teacher,I’m just afraid of calling him that]  gave us a chance for extra credit.  So right now I’m trying to figure out how I can do well on that too.  Overall though,  I know I just have to focus my thoughts and just make a schedule for what I need to do, and I’m sure that everything will turn out O.K.  So to everyone who is still reading this, thank you to listening to my rants.  It feels good to get it out sometimes.  So, thank you again and I hope I see you again next week.       

Painting Trees comments

     I observed many different moves between these videos of these artists.  The most noticeable ones were the Bob Ross ones I thought, because he use sayings such as "happy little trees...".  Also, he used a calm voice and he was very repetitive in what he said.  Other moves that I saw were from the Disney artists.  For example, some of them didn't go into much detail and also they had different ways to express what they were doing and how they reached the finish of their painting.  These artists describe what they are doing through their thought process.  They talk about the things they are focusing on, or what kind of look they are trying to achieve.  They artists always refer back to the specific space that they are focusing on, or picture that they are focusing on.  These artists usually direct our attention the the brush strokes that they are doing and the paint they are using.  Each artist has a different style.  Bob Ross is more realistic in his paintings, while I think that the other artists can be more related to other painters like Van Gogh or Picasso.  Each artists has decided to illustrate their paintings in their own way.  That is how even though these painters all paint the same thing, they all present it in a different genre.

Class WP2 questions

1. In my Wp2, I was happy with the amount of analysis that I did.  I think it went alright.  I wasn’t happy with the amount of quotes I could find though.  It was like everything that I talked about had to be explained and it was too hard to show it.
2. I think that the two compliments that I thought helped me the most were, one I really had to focus on punctuation and grammar because I suck at, and the second one was that I revise my work because my ideas seemed to be a little repetitive.