After completing my infographic for project four, there are many things to reflect upon. As I worked on this project, many things became important to me. These include the audience, choice of wording and sentences, and how much information to include. The audience is very important because you want to portray your information to those who are interested in it and what matters to them. I had to keep the audience in mind so that it could relate to who I was trying to get my point across to. In this case, my audience was anyone who uses water, which is everybody in the world. The choice of wording and sentence structure was also important to me because I realized I needed to use short and more simple sentences, instead of long, boring sentences. …show more content…
Before I started the reflection writing, I made sure I had completely finished my infographic first. I did not want to go back and have to change something and have to re-reflect later. The reflection process itself came easy to me. I like reflecting on my work, so the material constraint was not an issue for me. Based on my audience and the message I wanted to send, I started by thinking what would be most important to them and why my idea mattered. In my first block, I made it clear that there was an idea of running out, but left it for the audience to question what we are running out of. That leads the audience to want to find out more and be interested enough to continue …show more content…
The audience has become most important because the whole point of an infographic or any information is to appeal to the audience. You have to consider what will matter to them and how to get their attention. If you do not consider those things, the audience will not have any interest in reading what you are trying to convey to them. The information you use has also become important to me in this composing process. If you say the wrong thing or use the wrong facts, the audience might have doubts in what you are saying and not be interested in what you have
My infographic is about some of the side effects Veterans come home with. In my infographic, it contains four charts. The charts my infographic contains are, a pie chart containing information about PTSD, a swatch chart with holding information about alcoholism, a triangle bar that has information about drug/ medication abuse, and a horizontal bar graph that encloses information about the number suicides.
Writing is a process I’ve grown to despise. Ever since grade school, I’ve had problems trying to express my ideas on paper. My writing process involves thinking about what’s being asked and trying to reflect my thoughts the best way I can on paper, but my thoughts don’t always come out as clear as I want them to be sometimes leaving a question not fully answered. My writing process isn’t a consistent set in stone process, but since being in ENC 1101 I always follow some of the same parameters such as revising my drafts, grammar usage and considering context and audience.
Unit 1 taught me to focus on each step in the writing process. Approaching the task
Writing is something I always struggled with throughout my academic career. Whether it is for the English class or any other liberal arts class, I have a tendency to deviate from the main task of writing. This semester I took a FIQWS Composition class which helped me explore the unexplored areas of my academic writing. There are three main essays Literacy narrative, exploratory essay and Critical Researched analysis each improved my writing tremendously. In the first day of class, I was surprised to see the amount of work is expected from me because there were only three major essays and three reflections. I thought the workload would not be so intense because of the limited assignments. However, as the Semester has progressed, the work required
English is a hard language to learn, for there are numerous elements of effective usage and writing. Many people, including me, struggle in writing because of a lack of knowledge. Since middle school, English was not a strong suit of mine. I struggled with the simplest of tasks often taking a considerably longer time to complete a task than the other students. Unmotivated teachers and a lack of interest resulted in remedial writing skills. To put it simply, I had little confidence in my writing and I dreaded taking the class because of the writing involved. In spite of my fears, I took the course and I was able to perfect and challenge my mediocre writing skills.
This class taught me that I am a writer, that I can write interesting things and that I can enjoy the writing process! I experienced two major changes during this class. The first was that I discovered my motivation for writing (which was new to me) and the second is that I became comfortable with revision. Having these two new perspectives changes my personal relationship to the art of writing, which is great for me. I think it will allow me to give my students a more authentic, rich writing experience.
My portfolio will demonstrate the skills and writing techniques I have developed and honed while taking the course English 1010 at the University of Memphis. Some of the techniques and skills I have learned include how to write with different persuasive strategies on the audience and how to incorporate critical thinking into my work. As well as these skills I have learned how to apply an effective composing process to my writing and have fine tuned my writing abilities. Writing with different styles on different topics has improved the way I approach writing papers. These styles helped me learn quickly, therefore making me a better writer and student at the same time.
My English teacher in high school taught us the standard five paragraph organization for an essay. But, I never liked that organization because I felt by following that process my essay would lose its uniqueness. When I started this class I thought this course would be like all the others I have taken in the past, all following the same pattern, but this was different. When we started our first essay “Writing to Share an Experience” the directions to the students were “organize and use the rules to your benefit.” To me, this was freedom to express my ideas. I was no longer bound by the five paragraph organization. I could try and experiment new styles in my writing process. During this course my writing has evolved a great
During my semester in English 101 I have learned many things such as how to be literate, how to analyze and synthesize materials as well as how to acknowledge my strengths and weaknesses while writing. Since I’ve became aware of what I need to focus more on while writing and reading I feel like it has made me more sufficient in my assignments. Some strengths I can identify in my own writing is that I am good at making sure that I give the reader a handful of visual aid while reading. I make sure to give them the most descriptive setting while still not giving the story away. I also believe that I do a good job at lead up to the actual buildup of the story. What lead to developing these two strengths is the time that
Infographics define how a picture is worth a thousand words. If you want to show to your readers what a specific topic is all about, should you bore them with words? Or should you empower their mind with digestible information through fun colors and images representing your explanation. It transforms complex information into graphics that are easy to grasp and is visually appealing.
Since I wrote my first structured essay in fourth grade, my attitude towards writing has been awful. Stemming from a poor teacher, I was not taught properly how to incorporate style and preciseness into my writing. Consequently, once I moved to a new school district I quickly found out how poor of a writer I was compared to my classmates and have now subconsciously thought of myself as below average no matter the grade I have received.
One of the biggest improvements within my documented essay is that I avoided first and second pronouns throughout the paper because I was continually thinking about it. In my other papers one frequent comment would be to avoid these pronouns but I was doing it subconsciously to engage the reader. For some reason, I believed it to be the only way to effectively engage your audience into your writing. Something I probably still need to work on would be writing in a manner that is oriented to my specific needs for the paper. Throughout my writing process I don’t often evaluate how the reader’s needs are being met through my organization or other factors. The only way to improve this mentality is to introduce it as part of the drafting process.
An important part of decision making is having a clear understanding of the information used to base decisions from. Charts can be valuable when a need to represent numerical data would benefit communicating information visually. Some of the most important aspects of a good chart are to select the right type of chart (or graph) that can best characterize the data, also, to keep the design simple in order for an audience to easily understand the information.
Infographics are so popular because audiences can absorb the information quickly and conveniently. It today’s hectic, fast-paced world, anything that is quick and convenient is seen as desirable.
The world of the written is a place where anything can happen. A mother and daughter could set warring worlds to rest with but an utterance. Dragons could sweep down from the heavens and set ablaze to all in sight. Our entire world could simply be the imagination of a divine being, and all of our lives naught under its eye. These endless possibilities are the reason I wish to further my studies and writing ability with a creative writing course so that I might someday hear my stories told.