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With the semester coming to a close I want to take some time to go over what I have done and also what I have learned throughout this course. Not only have I learned a lot new things about writing but also about myself throughout this semester. Writing is one of my worst weaknesses comingContinue reading “Final Reflections”

I changed some things in my portfolio last week to mainly make my site easier to navigate and also to look at. First I changed the design of my site on order for it look more appealing to look at. I ddi this because a site that is better to look at and to navigateContinue reading “Portfolio Design Rationale”

The relationship between my PLP that I have been working on this semester and the course key terms is that many of these terms do relate to my PLP. The writing in my PLP relates mainly to the audience that any document is being written for. Audience is very important to what every document isContinue reading “Reflecting PLP”

As I talked about last week in my blog post about discourse communities that they are a group or a community of people with have similar interests or they are in some sort of career that communicate with each other in order to get things done. This doesn’t have to include people who are whoContinue reading “Discourse Community Activities”

For this week I did not have an inkling of what a discourse community was, but after reading the two readings for this week I have a better understanding about what discourse communities are to not only me, but to many others around the world. A discourse community is a set of people that haveContinue reading “Discourse Communities”

There are two different types of thinking, the first one is novice thinking. This thinking is of someone that is just starting out to begin to handle the ropes of something that they doing which could be work or for school as well. The other type of thinking is someone that has expert thinking ofContinue reading “Role of Reflection”

This weeks reading deals with the common workplace genres and professional writing. Just like when I talked about last week about rhetorical situations, we are expanding our knowledge of what rhetorical situations are in our writings that we have done this semester. The first document I will analyze is a case study that I wroteContinue reading “Rhetorical Situation”

A rhetorical situation is a fairly simple concept, but is pretty complex when you look at it in depth. In my own words a rhetorical situation is a situation in which there is an audience, a writer, and a message that is being conveyed through someone or something. Those could be speeches, writings, and otherContinue reading “Rhetorical Situations”

The past few weeks I have read and discussed my point if view on different types of genre and audiences. After reviewing the technical and professional writing textbook that was the current reading for this week. It was interesting to see some of the different sections that were in the book. I learned to takeContinue reading “Working on Audience”

Connecting with your audience is one of the most important parts of speaking in a general sense. An audience is not just a group of people that you go up and speak to in front of them person to person. There are many ways to be able to connect with your audience. Some of theseContinue reading “Introducing Audience in the Workplace”

This weeks article Navigating Genres by Kerry Dirk talks about the characteristics of genres and how genres change over time. He starts off the article by stating how the genre of country music is based on certain words, phrases, and style of music. ” But what would happen if I wanted to write a countryContinue reading “Genre Activities”

Before I read the articles for this week, my own definition of Genre is it is something in writing that is use to simplify and organize certain works of writing into categories, for example different kinds of television shows and movies. They could be action, adventure, mystery, and romance. With many many more kinds toContinue reading “Genre”

After reading the College for America article about how certain academic skills transfer over to the workplace. After reading this article, ive come to the conclusion that the College of America wants to prepare you for life after college and know how to use your certain skills for your life in the future. They didContinue reading “Learning Transfer”

What I think Portfolio Thinking is to mean is something that we create for others to read our options and our knowledge on things, but to also share their options with us to read and to have a discussion of what we can do to better ourself in knowledge. I think people will just seeContinue reading “Portfolio Thinking”

Hello! My name is Sam Stauss. I am currently a third year student at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College. This is my first year in the BTAS program at the University of Cincinnati. I have lived on the west side of Cincinnati my entire life. I went to Elder High School and graduated inContinue reading “Self Introduction”