Dialectal Journal--- Brandt

Quotes

“Sponsors seemed a fitting term for the figures who turned up most typically in peoples memories of literacy learning: older relatives, teachers….., influential authors”.     

“Patterns of sponsorship became an illuminating site through which to track the different cultural attitudes people developed toward writing vs. reading…”

“The concept of sponsors helps to explain, then, a range of human relationships and ideological pressures that turn up at the senses of literacy learning-from benign sharing between adults and youth.” 

“When I got to school, then there was a lot of reading. I often felt bad. If I had read more as a high school student it wouldn’t have been so rough.”

Nicholas Kollert

Importance of quote

These are the people who you learned to read from they could’ve inspired you or read to you every night before bed, there the first people to have an influence on how you write and read.

This quote is stating that the way you wright and how you interrupt reading could just depend on where you grew up in the world. Different places around the world teach writing and reading differently.

This quote is stating that the views adults share with children about writing and reading could influence how those children write in the future.

I personally picked this quote because I can relate to this because I sometimes feel the same way that if I took high school a little more seriously then college could’ve been a tad easier. 

Intro and Synthesize

Nicholas Kollert

English 1510 148

Questioning a Construct

September 17, 2012

Questioning A Construct: Plagiarism 

Intro

            Plagiarism as we know it today has been around since the very first times we as a civilization had begun writing our thoughts down on paper. The word plagiarism itself came from the Latin root word plagiarius, which literally means kidnapper, seducer, or plunderer this definition of plagiarism came about in the early fifteenth century. There are a few types of plagiarism out there today; the different types include direct plagiarism, Mosaic plagiarism, absent citations, or not knowing when to reference. Most of these types of plagiarisms are showing up all over academic learning institutions and heavy punishments are being handed out to violators. In most cases these forms of plagiarism could be avoided easily if only the student knew the inappropriate and appropriate ways to deal with the touchy subject of plagiarism.        

Synthesize

Plagiarism today is becoming an enormous problem in high schools and colleges all across the world. The stats have shown that there is an increase of the percentage of students at these institutions that plagiarize which can easily be avoided. Rebecca Moore Howard says, “Plagiarism is almost like rape to where the original author is violated.” In this extreme example Rebecca Moore Howard is trying to say that you can’t just steal other authors work without giving proper credit, but Howard uses a much more derogatory tone of how she describes plagiarism. In my other cases though “College professors are more two minded about plagiarism in the sense that they punish students for taking other authors works but at the same time say that no writing is ever fully original” states an article from The Chronicle. In both cases though they agree that plagiarism could easily be evaded with proper techniques to avoid plagiarism.

           

Bernhardt Article

Nicholas Kollert
English 1510 148
Bernhardt Article
September 17, 2012


Bernhardt Article

Summary
In Stephen Bernhardt’s article ‘Seeing the text’ Bernhardt attempts to say that presenting ideas visually enhances writing and improves the skills of the writer. Bernhardt argues that if the writer can see visually what they have to do the whole writing process becomes so much easier and you can actually see what you have to do.


Synthesize  
After reading the article I feel like it was similar to the comic book article in the same sense that it deals with pictures to help make things easier to understand and makes the overall writing process easier by laying out what you have to do.

   QDJ
4. I believe that you are supposed to write an essay that follows a specific format because ever since school started it was always the same set up for every paper wither it be in elementary school all the way up to high school.

AEI
3. Gestalt is an organized whole that is perceived as more then the sum of its parts. And knowing what it means helps with the article by showing you exactly what you have to do to by using visual things to help frame which direction you want to take with your paper.


My Thoughts
Overall I thought this article was very informative on helping set up what a paper is supposed to be like. It gave helpful tips on how to set up your paper visually which in the long run will make writing a paper easier because you can actually see what your going to be doing.

Porter Article Pg. 86-100

Nicholas Kollert

English 1510 148    

James Porter Article

September 16, 2012

James Porter

Summary

In James Porters article ‘Interextuality and the Discourse Community ‘ Porter attempts to argue that common ideas about originality and plagiarism don’t account for how texts actually work and how writers actually write. Porter argues that writer cant be super original when constructing factual texts.

Synthesize 

Overall Porters article was an original of its kind because it’s the very first one that talks about plagiarism and how to work wit it. But I noticed that Porter kind of uses the same type of set up in his article that Kline uses in his article that’s about the only connection I could find between all the articles.

QDJ

4. In the pass I believed that writing should be evaluated by not only the content but how well you but the content together. Porter’s idea of acceptability all starts with picking the perfect topic and then to look for how valid the information is in the paper and how acceptable the content is to the audience.

5. I think Porter fails to get his point across because he says that all writing works are hard to make original and even that many of them aren’t. So if he says most works aren’t original then he’s contradicting himself in his article because that means his work as well is not original.

AEI 

2. The new definition of plagiarism is that you can use other people works just as long as you cite them the proper way and you be sure to give the original author credit for something they already did. And in the end it wouldn’t change that much because they pretty much have the same ideas.

Meta Moment

They way Porter presents it doesn’t really change how I viewed writers because they are still framing their work and how they present it even if it is someone else’s work. And accepting his views might make writing easier for me but I would try to incorporate some of his techniques in my writing process.

My thoughts

Overall I thought Porters article was very informative of how the plagiarism process works. I found it especially helpful because I am using plagiarism on my first major project that’s coming up very soon. Overall Porters article was a good information filled article that I think may help

Peter elbow

Nicholas Kollert

English 1510 148

Peter Elbow's article

Summary

In Peter Elbows article ‘Voice in writing again: Embracing Contraries’ elbow attempts to tell us about voice in different writing styles. Elbow argues that voice is not being talked about in writing anymore when it should be talked about the most. Because in his opinion it’s the best way to draw a reader in and keep them engaged.

Synthesize 

Overall I feel like this article is just like the rest we have read in class. The article gives the reader a brief story introducing the construct and what it’s all about. Then the articles goes into the meat of the construct telling us how to use it effectively and why its effective in writing papers.

  

Getting Ready to read

1.   I personally don’t use face book that much anymore but I feel like I set up my profile to actually who I am because if your not honest with yourself then your not being honest to anyone else and that just makes you basically a phony.

  QDJ

1.   Voce is how you intend the reader of your work to interpret what your trying to say. I think there are different kinds of voice such as if you want the person to feel sad when there reading then put depressive things in it, and if you want someone to feel happy then put happy things in your paper to evoke the readers senses.

2.     I don’t agree with his statement I feel that you cant ignore the issue of voice when teaching how to wright. Because if you ignore voice a paper could be boring to read and just drag on forever.

AEI 

1.    Sincerity- How confident you are in your writing with your info.

Resonance- is Having a lasting presence or effect.

And I struggled a little witch means I could have some trouble with including it in my paper witch could never be a good thing.

Connecting to Other Readings

2.     I personally don’t think that voice is mythical thing in writing. I think its just how people interpret what voice your actually using. I also think that its important to have it in writing so its not so dull when reading any type of work.

My thoughts

Overall I thought Elbows article was a very helpful tool in figuring out what voice really is and how to apply it to writing. I think if more people used good voice in their writing then reading there writings would be a lot more fun because it would make it a lot less dull.

WAW favorite author

Nicholas Kollert

English 1510 148

WAW Favorite Author

            After reading the three different authors stories I personally liked Lamott’s article the best. I liked how she worded the “shiity drafts” portion of the article. I also liked how she shared that she even has trouble writing at times. Witch made me feel better because everyone has trouble writing at some point. I also liked how she said to write out multiple drafts and trim them down each time you made a new one. Overall I thought Lamott had a good message in the article I also liked how she engaged the reader which really helped me connect with the overall message.