Blog 4

Peer editing my classmates paragraphs and reading through everyone’s was very helpful. It allowed me to listen to everyone’s opinions and ideas and opened my mind up more for some writing options. Some papers started off with a quote, or a question and so forth. It was interesting to see each students different starting points. … [Read more…]

Blog 16

I have learned many helpful revision strategies in my English 110 class. Before this class I didn’t use much recursive writing processes but instead just focused on writing about the main topic and writing down my ideas. My favorite and most helpful revision strategy that I learned is the color coding strategy. Color coding your … [Read more…]

Blog 15

My goals for my paper is to talk about beauty through people and to express how social media and magazines are lying about what true beauty really is.Younger generations look up to these girl and think in order to be considered beautiful you must look just like those models. Those models have been photoshopped, airbrushed, … [Read more…]

Blog 14

When writing this essay I plan on using linguistic, visual and audio for my modes of communication. In my paper I want to talk about how our society views beauty and how every person is beautiful in their owns ways. I will address how our society looks at beauty as someone who is perfect and … [Read more…]

Blog 13

I view beauty as something that makes you do a double take, is breathtaking and leaves you speechless. Something beautiful is anything that you admire and you are impressed and makes you wonder how anything could look so gorgeous. Amstrong states, “To regard beauty as a luxury adornment or a social signifier was to miss … [Read more…]

Blog 12

Blog 12:   Overall I really think Alexis’s “Let’s Talk About Art” project was the best and it truly had the most meaning. It takes a lot of courage to go in front of a class and do a presentation about an incident that occurred in your life. She expressed how music is a type … [Read more…]

Blog 11

  For this assignment I read chapter 8 of They Say I say and underlined all the connected parts of my own essay. I used yellow for repetition, green for key terms, blue for pointing terms and pink for transition. I noticed that I was very repetitive with the words Art and science and I … [Read more…]

Blog 10

In the Article The Future to Science…is Arts talks about how crucials it is that science needs art in order to explain science. Jonah Lehrer’s wants to connect art and science and said that getting art perspective in the science world can help get new insights and even gain scientific progress. Lehrer gives many examples … [Read more…]

Blog 9

The immediate context for the essay, Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education talked about the author, Yo-Yo Ma’s biography and his opinions on art. The essay was published on World-Post online, Huffington Post and the Berggruen Institute of Governance. Yo-Yo Mama went to Harvard University and became a songwriter and a professional cellist. He produced … [Read more…]

Blog 8

For my first quote I added “the Effective Altruism states that…” I also explained more about what the quote is saying to give the reader a better understanding. For my second quote I added a totally new one and talked about  Peter Singer and his opinions on art and how they are similar to the … [Read more…]