Reading out loud worksop

The workshop on Monday helped me out a lot. Since we were doing a new method of work shopping, this workshop was a little more useful. Reading my paper out loud helped me find small grammatical errors and also helped me make my sentences flow better. My partner was also finding out he had grammatical errors when he read his out loud. After the workshop I decided to change a few things. The biggest thing that I’ve decided to change is my conclusion. My partner said it was a little repetitive and I agree with him. Working with someone that had a similar topic was actually very helpful. Since our topics were similar we were able to share ideas on how to organize the essay and it was extremely helpful.  In my partners paper he presented a problem similar to mine. He then offered a proposal to fix the problem, which I found to be a very good addition to his paper. After reading his solution I actually plan on doing the same. After this workshop I have a lot more ideas on where to get sources. Since I’m writing about reddit there isn’t much information to go off of. After the workshop I realized that I can find other sources the correlate to my topic to help me prove my point. Now that I think about it our papers were very similar. My partner was arguing that a certain part of the Internet called the “deep web” should be more censored or not made available to the general public. My paper was about censorship and moderation on a website called reddit. Both of our topics are basically talking about censorship so it was very easy to read each others papers and get ideas from each other.

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final project thoughts

After the workshop we did on Wednesday im feeling ok about how my draft is going. The summary of my thesis was accurate which lets me know im at least on the right track. The thesis was basically what was in my head. The only difference was the wording was a little bit different. My paper isnt very balanced between research and analysis at all. Since it’s the rough draft I haven’t added as much to research side as I should. Most of the paper is analysis so far but I do have some research added in. My classmate just recommended that I stay on the same track but just polish it more for the final paper (obviously). My next step from here is just to continue writing and do a little more research. Im still not sure I like where my paper is going but I guess ill have to see. My bibliography was lacking some information so my next step is to do more research because I don’t feel like I have enough material to write about. Another thing im slightly concerned about is that I don’t really like what im writing. Im only writing about this topic because I feel like there is more to write about it. I feel like I should write about what my actual opinion is because it would motivate me more to make my paper better. Maybe my next step is to try and find more information on my actual point of view so I can start over and write about something that is actually my point of view. Hopefully I am able to get everything figured out and I can turn in a quality paper that i am happy with.

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Class Blogger Reflection

     My Class Blogger experience was pretty good. I noticed that it made me focus more in class and I definitely retained more information because I took notes and basically had to go through everything twice. I focused more on the main points that we went over in class. Most of the class time was taken by the power point and it was pretty monotonous. I basically just brushed over the topics that we covered. I feel if I went more in depth to every point that we covered in the PowerPoint that the class blogger post would have been pretty boring.. I also briefly went over the game we played in class. I could have definitely written a little more about it but I feel like I got the best parts in my post. If I were to cover ever question that we did it would have been lame. I chose two gifs for my blog post. The first one was chosen because it related to the class and I thought it was funny. I chose the second gif because I was salty about not winning the jeopardy game. Being class blogger didn’t really change my perspective of the class. If anything it just made me more alert in class because I knew I had to cover everything we were doing. Overall I think this is a positive experience and maybe now ill pay a little more attention in class even though I’m not the class blogger.

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Class Blogger

     We started with the class blogger from the class and everything went along smoothly. Ms. Lang addressed a few questions and then we quickly moved on.  Ms. Lang goes on to tell us that she has a dream where she says “And We’re” and we respond “Moving on” so we all played along and made her dreams come true. Ms. Lang then asked us to take our MLA handbook so we could start learning how to format and cite properly. We're told that we all need to be focused and that it is going to be “boring and terrible” but she reassured us that if we made it to the game, that we were going to have a great time. She then decided to show off her New Mexican roots and give us a little motivation by saying “Si se puede” (yes we can) for the non so-flo kids. 

     Although the MLA lesson was going to be boring, Ms.Lang recommended that we all buy a handbook because they can be extremely helpful. She even has hers from her freshman writing class.  We then moved on to the lesson and we are told the best way to learn citation is to do citation.  Next on the agenda was a super exciting MLA PowerPoint. The power point was gone through at a very fast pace. The lesson included formatting details like spacing, heading, margins, and font size. Additionally, we went over how to cite properly when given certain situations like not having an author or how to cite depending on the kind of medium you’re using. After finally getting through the PowerPoint we moved on to the game. Teams 2 and 3 were ahead of the pack most of the game and unfortunately team 5 was in the negative for most of the game. Team 2 landed on a daily double and made the rookie mistake of not wagering everything on an easy 10-point question. Unfortunately, final jeopardy got the better of most teams and team 4 came up with the W.  Their prize was ten points of extra credit and some candy. ( BIG WHOOP) :’(

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This is an image of a crashed airplane from San Francisco's International Airport. The picture shows how badly damaged the air craft is because of the crash. It is also trying to show exactly why the plane crashed.  The intended audience could be people wanting to know about causes of airplane crashes or even just weary travelers reading up on accidents. The intended audience most likely has some prior knowledge on flight paths and common airplane behavior because the info graphic leads to charts comparing its path to other flights. Even though anybody is really able to decipher the graphs if they really wanted to. The medium is a photograph. The genre can be considered “Accident Photography”. There isn’t a caption but there are just some letters and numbers shown on the broken plains wing. The style is very formal because its just documenting something that happened. Nothing about the photo shows any visual metaphors.

Path Of San Francisco Crash Shows Plane Was Too Low, Too Slow (INFOGRAPHIC). 2013. Photograph. By Jan Diehm. The Huffington Post, 8 July 2013. Web. 4 Mar. 2014.

ps4 wiki

The Wikipedia article I read was about the play station 4. The article explains how it’s the new generation of consoles and  it compares it to the new Wii or Xbox ONE.  The article then goes on to give a little history about the company and then goes into specifics about the hardware on the gaming console. The article also gives details about their new gaming network and payment system and all the new features that come along with it. In the article I also read about their sales numbers and found it very interesting. 1 million PlayStations were sold in the first day in North America. In the UK it became the best selling console of all time. The one question I have after reading the article is how did the sales compare to those of the new Xbox or Wii. There is a part that talks about IGN comparing the Xbox and ps4 but it doesn’t go very in depth and doesn’t talk about the sales of the two consoles at all.

            The Wikipedia page is very updated since it’s a new console. The last edits to the page were just some small typos and I couldn’t find anything to major.  The article seems very well written and organized. I trust the page because it has over 100 sources, which really validates the article. Nothing is really being disputed in the talk page. The only real updates are when it’s being released in other countries and what the prices are going to be like. There is also more recent information being added like awards the ps4 is winning.

Key Words : Sony Computer Entertainment, eighth generation, Xbox One, Operating system, PlayStation Network, cloud based games, backwards compatibility, E3, PlayStation Plus

Links:

http://web.archive.org/web/20131113162714/http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57612107-94/sony-releases-playstation-app-for-ios-android-users/

http://www.geek.com/games/ps4-runs-modified-version-of-the-freebsd-9-0-operating-system-1559866/

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