We have pretty much finished our individual conferences for the first paper, and I have great confidence every one is on the right track. Remember to take your drafts to the Writing Center, and the 60 lab if you have that opportunity. I suggest you reread the first paper once a week, and put an hour of revision into it so that by the time the portfolio is due, the paper will be ready.
Starting today or tomorrow, we will begin workshopping our second paper--the autoethnography. By the middle of October, we will have conferences on this paper, and then you will need to continuously revise this paper, as well, throughout the semester. Before Thanksgiving break, three papers will be completed; we will spend the time after Thanksgiving polishing three or four papers for the portfolio. Paper 4 will be drafted during and immediately after Thanksgiving.
Beginning today, I will be checking this blog regularly to see who is posting reading responses. Remember, you can respond to either a reading from the class, or to another student's response. But the expectation is you will write a combined total of 500 words per week on this blog and your personal blog. Since we have ten more weeks of the semester, you need to write this much every week for the remainder of the semester to earn the maximum number of points unless you have already written on the blogs so far.
I'm looking forward to hearing your opinions of blogging as a substitute for writing in a reading log or journal. Susan
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In class we read a couple of autoethnography. The first one was about the living in the old fashion suburbs, next was about being a Japanese, and the last one was about being short. Each one was of course different from each other but they held some connection. They each experienced something that conflicted with cultures around them.
The first was written by a writer, if I remember correctly. He has been living in the same suburbs since he was born and does not wish to move away. This one was okay in showing us how to write a autoethnography paper, but I could not connect in any way.
The second one was easier to connect to because it was written by someone my age. Though I am not Japanese, I can relate to something in a different way.
The final paper was about a tall man who at one point was very short. In the end, I think he never got over being small, even after he grew to be 6 feet tall.
The one that will probably help me the most would be the second paper we heard, followed by the last one. Those two are the only one’s I can see myself using as examples to write my own autoethnography.
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ReplyDeleteLast week I got to listen to a few examples of auto ethnographies. The one I really enjoy was the Japanese girl’s. It was my favorite among the examples and thought it was the best example. I thought it gave me a good understanding of what an auto ethnography should sound like. I loved hearing her story about her Japanese culture. Her story was about how at first she was embarrassed of her Japanese background, then it how she changed and though positively about her heritage and really embraced it. She went from not liking to going to Japanese school to being able to speak it. She gave examples of how she hated being Japanese and the stereotypes to examples of how she now loves being Japanese.
I can relate a lot of her story to my life because I am Chinese and went though a lot of the same problems as her. Like her, I used to be embarrassed to be around my parents at places like open house at school because, there my friends would see how weird my dad was and how my mom had a really funny accent. But now I’m over that way of thinking things. I love being Chinese and its traditions because it has a rich background that I now am proud of.
After listening to the auto ethnography of the Japanese girl, I got a better understanding of what an auto ethnography should be.
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I enjoyed listening to the auto ethnography of that Japanese girl. Because she wrote it in a way were i felt some sort of connection with it. I knew what she felt when she said she doesn't know where she belongs.She confuse, she angry because she is a Japanese girl is Mainstream America. I felt her culture clash and her inner struggle and her shame of being what she was.Even Though I am not Japanese i do relate because as i grew up i sort of felt the same things about being a Dark-Skin Latino.
ReplyDeleteYesterday Professor Susan Bennett read us a essay. I really did not understand it. Did anyone did. I really wouldn't know.
But from what i did understand it was about building a tower of ivory. And some changes we must do to better prepare students for the real world.That and the truth, and how college professors do not teach the truth and in fact some professors teach their on views or politics. Or something like that.
What is truth? It is something that everyone holds dear to them, because knowing the truth, and being told the truth helps you to understand everything and everyone around you. The truth is fact. The truth is real. But how much of what we know is actually the truth? Truth has been the center of a lot of philosophical theories throughout thousands of years, and we still do not have a meaning or set definition for truth. For me truth is what I believe to be true. it is someone I trust and look to for support. It is also what is considered fact in the eyes of the world. Lies and deceit are not truth. Truth is one hundred percent in the eyes of the beholder as the saying goes. The truth can be anything you want it to be, even if to others it is false. With this statement comes a lot of controversy. How can something be true but false at the same time? This depends on multiple factors. Ones childhood, culture, and education can all effect what they believe to be true. For Christians, Jesus is true, but for atheists he never existed. For children it is true that their mom is the best mom in the world, but for everyone else this is not the case. Truth is a very complex topic, and it is hard to fully understand the magnitude that truth has on the human race but the more one tries to interpret it, the closer one can get to knowing truth.
ReplyDeleteLast week in class we read a few enthnographies as examples so we can know what to do when we start off our papers. The Japanese story that we read was my favorite because the Japanese girl had a lot of stories and examples as to why she hated being Japanese. When she was talking about how much she hated it I was really surprised. I couldn't believe she would say all those negative things about her own family and culture. I liked how honest she was and open. I know if I ever said those things about my family I would feel terrible about myself. She did; however, have a very good enthnography because she was so honest. Talking about different examples in class made me come to the conclusion that I wanted to do my paper on having a single mom my whole life. This topic has greatly affected my life so I thought it would be easy to write about it. After we started our ethnographies we got into our groups and we all evaluated each others’ papers. We wrote down the strengths and weaknesses of the papers as each individual read them. Ryan’s paper is on being overweight, mine as well as Morgan’s is on having a single mother, and Tatum’s is on being an HSU freshman. Everyone had about a page of their papers’ done. This assignment is definitely going to be a lot easier because we are talking about our personal lives and experiences we’ve had. I know that I am going to have a lot of writing to present for my paper.
ReplyDeleteHey Susan its Daniel Lopez from your Tuesday and Thursday this is my Blog Address. http://danielsarchery.blogspot.com
ReplyDeletewe are starting our second paper which is an auto ethnography we went over a couple readings in class. To help start to give us ideas and direction on how to write this type of paper and what to write about. from these readings i have learned that it is about a certain culture that you are familiar with or have been apart of in your life. one good example was the one about the japanese girl it starts off sounding pretty bad with her bad mouthing her culture and her customs on why she doesn't like them but in the end she finds better reasons to accept who she is rather then being embarrassed by her family and national origin. the other one was about a short man stuck in a tall mans body. he talked about he in his mind he will always be short because thats how he was his whole life in the short lifestyle. this one i could kind of relate to but the opposite because ive always been considerably tall. all in all i have gotten good ideas from these stories along with suggestions from my group members on how to write an auto ethnography.
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading the Ontology of Plagiarism: Part Two by Stanley Fish, I concluded that plagiarism is only hurting the person who is committing it. Plagiarism is a big ‘no-no,’ if you will, in school and for the future. The quote I completely agree with was stated by dobes and goes as follows: “academics should ‘remember that they are training their students in professionalism, not character.’ (Character may or may not follow.)” What this quote means to me is that the professional thing to do is learn and to demonstrate your learning by working by your own thoughts and writing. ‘Character may or may not follow’ means whether you don’t have character and be a cheater or to have enough character to do your own work, and not go by anyone else.
I also agree that treating plagiarism as a crime or as morally wrong, does not work. I believe that lack knowledge is punishment enough. You’re not gaining anything by plagiarizing, all it is is going through the motions.
The question the arises in this piece of writing, is ‘What is the difference between the president of our country using many speech writers and a college student plagiarizing?’ I do not, however, agree with the response given in this article. The reasons they give for this is because the president has many other obligations to the nation that he has to focus on more than writing a speech to the people, as if the words coming from the president of the United States himself isn’t important. It also goes on to say that college students, however, do not have responsibilities like the president does, but they have a duty to learn and to demonstrate their own work.
What I have gained from reading this article from Mr. Stanley fish, is that if you want to succeed and go forth in life, do it on your own terms, and learn what is being taught to you. There is no bigger regret in life than having the opportunity to learn and not taking it.
I enjoyed reading the auto ethnography of the Japanese girl in class. Although i thought my response made it onto this page i must of signed out without submitting. I really felt the story of the young lady was quite compelling. How she was ashamed of her heritage. Also i thought it was interesting to hear how she didnt want to be who she was already no matter how inevitable it was. She sat there and rambled on for the longest time about how her culture her parents forced her to be brought up in pushed away but how now that she is older she regrets not learning more. Another neat story we had heard was about the man who was once so small and now thats he is older he has grown to quiet tall he still portrays himself as short because that is were he was categorized for most of his life . Not to mention the daily struggles he had to deal with that he didn't had to before . I didnt seem to have much sense of direction i was going to do with this paper. We had a great worksheet to help us out. Although i didnt come up with very many good ideas i had a little bit of help in my english writing lab. So i chose my topic of being not only a freshmen in college but a freshmen at Humboldt State University. IM actually looking quiet forward to writing this paper.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading an article written by Stanely Fish called, "Why We Built the Ivory Tower" I came to a few key conclusions. I really enjoyed the authors view on education. My favorite quote is located in the first paragraph, when the author is describing wisdom of higher education. Fish states,"Do your job; don’t try and do someone else's " As simple as this quote is, it is very important and key in life, he continues this quote with furthering information that one might not be qualified to do someone else's job. The author also provides a strong opinion, " ... Not that academics should refrain from being political in an absolute sense-that is impossible-but they should engage in politics appropriate to the enterprise they singed onto." I sought that this quote is accurate and should be practiced. In my high school years I had a teacher-in the math department- who always lectured us on politics. This was out of his manor because he most certainly was not a political science teacher. He was doing someone else's job and was not qualified to do so. Overall for a difficult read, this article was quite enjoyable and I agreed with many of the author's opinions.
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ReplyDeleteThis story was something that happened nearly twenty years ago in L.A. Coincidentally, it goes along with the Dialogue On Race. Four black men in L.A. beat up an innocent white man. They got a life sentence and an exorbetant bail. In a similar occurence four police officers beat up a black man and they got off easy. Even though they were caught on tape and it got massive media attention. The black community was outraged. White officers of the law could wrongfully beat up a black man and get off easy. Blck men could beat up a white man, but there was no room for error. Since they were black, things were not the same for them. I guess this was still in a time when things were not socially equal, even in the twenty first century. This is amazing to me that thing like this could still happen, that racism is still apart of our society. The black community was not proud of the LA4, but they went to the trial to give them their support. They didn't think what they did was ok, and they didn't support what the white men did, but they still stood behind the LA4. They did it because it was their people and they needed to let everyone know that the LA4 had support. Their point was to let the world know that things should be fair, no matter what the color of their skin was.
I think this was a good article, it wasn't always clear because both of these event happened before i was born and they assumed that I knew what happened. Although i wouldn't have picked this essay because of its unclearness, it had a good point
There has been much controversy over the past years regarding what to do with the ruined site where the Twin Towers used to stand in New York City. The terrorists attacks on September 11th, 2001 devastated our country and left New York in a state of fear and mourning. It has been nine years and construction is almost done on ground zero and life is moving forward. Everyday life for the most part is back to normal for local New Yorkers. Samantha Gross brings up a lot of good points in her article “Nine years later: Everyone’s a Ground Zero Holder.” She wants people who do not live in New York to understand what it is like now. She sets the scene describing a church with an alter of photos of the dead, a peddler hawking photos of the ruins, a Burger King full with people on their lunch breaks, as well as a strip club one block away. This shows two polar opposites, a church and a strip club, trying to make the audience understand that this sacred place lives in public use. Samantha probably brought this point up because of the recent controversy over the Muslim Community Center planned to be 2 blocks away from Ground Zero. It is hard to argue putting in a respectful community center near ground zero when there is a strip club even closer. The new building at ground zero is supposed to be 1776 ft tall and in the complex, there is going to be the largest man-made waterfall in the world. Having lived in Connecticut for my whole life, I have always been close to New York. I had seen the Twin Towers when I was a child and I have high hopes for the September 11th, 2011 opening. Hopefully then New York’s broken spirit will be fully repaired.
ReplyDeleteI think blogging is a great way to do reading responses and voice our opinions on different matters. I think a reading journal is cool and all but I love the public forum for discussion aspect of blogging. Reading all your posts, Susan, and everyone’s responses has been taking me back through our semester. I’m not going to lie this has been a weird semester for me, both academically and personally. And on multiple days where I was in class, I didn’t feel completely present. So this blog has been a great way for me to go back and remember some of the stuff I have forgotten. I find it extremely helpful to know how my fellow students are reacting and responding to things. And, I wouldn’t be surprised if other students feel the same way. It’s a great way to keep up with others’ opinions and kind of check yourself to make sure what your thinking isn’t too radical or out of left field. Or that it is super radical, whatever floats your boat. It is the variety of thoughts and opinions that a public blog gives us that I find so valuable. Plus this way we can all work on it, at home, on our on schedule and not have to feel ready to critically think and write a powerful comment each time we come to class. I know from my own experiences sometimes it’s hard to get those mental juices flowing when I am in class, in person. So, yayy for blogging!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is partially in response to mlynn7’s comment… I recall at the beginning of the semester our class broke up into groups and each group was assigned a news article to read. My group got an article about the controversy over building a Muslim Community Center two blocks away from ground zero. This is a gut-wrenchingly controversial topic. And I feel for both sides on this one. On the one hand, yes it is somewhat touchy to build a Muslim Center so close to where the Twin Towers were destroyed by foreign Muslim extremist terrorists. But just because the terrorist were Muslim doesn’t mean that this attack was from the Muslims, on a whole. On the contrary this was a terrorist attack that no American Muslims had any control over. So in the end, I think that for New York to really turn over a new leaf and move on from this tragedy they should practice tolerance and acceptance. And, accept the Muslim Community Center, even though it is in such close proximity to ground zero.
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