Integrating Three Posts: Post

Gregory Slade Jr 

Bonnie Robinson 

ENGL 1117- 31 

13 June 2019 

Integrating Three Posts 

For my intergrating of three articles from class and homework, I decided to pick the articals that I agreed with. These articals made me want to read more and learn. They all gave me good information  that applied and I ciould apply to my everyday like.  

The author of “Shitty First Draft”  Anne Lamott, and she explains how that first draft ft is meant to be s shitty one.  I have always felt this was very nessary to having a good final draft. She would stress over writing an article about a restaurant. Then “she would come back the next day to find that some of that mess makes sense so she pulls out bits and parts that she can use in the article”.  After reading this I can easily recognize how some writers will sometimes have trouble writing, but the important thing is to keep an open mind and have a good sense of self constructive criticism when working on your second and third draft. I always double space eatch sentence and number them. This allows me to see more mistakes and allows me to self constructive criticism.After editing my  writing and exploring my options, I am usually surprised to what my final work came out to b . Not everyone knows what to write until they have their ideas settled. I never stress over the first draft. I understand the process to have a final paper. 

My next article I will talk about is “Seeing ourselves through technology” by  Jill Walker Retterg. My faforit chapter in this articsl is “ Filltered Reality”. I feel like this conects becausenliterly everyone uses filters. I didnt know how many people and how long filters have been realevent. Filters in a broader social aspect shows exactly how much and how long we have been using filters. We filter our photos and our news all the time. I feel filters have helped create confidence because it blocks out all your imperfections. Technological culture and cognitive are combination of these photos, Instagram, snap and other social media. I use these apps every day and didn’t realize how much I use filters and how much they apply to my life. Another thing I likes and can connect with in the text is iPhone. I have an iPhone and I can set it to tell me how many steps I put in in in one day. Visual filters we apply to our photographs, and the technological filters we apply to out blogs and other social media and culture filters.because 

My last topic and conection is the same Jill Walker Retterg article and this was my personal favorite. In “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology”, chapter one talks about the three self-representations. I feel this connects to me because I use social media for self-gratification. I know I am confident but the dopamine that I receive taking a selfie. How we see ourselves does shows in our social media today. A lot of people feel they must put up a fake image for people to like them or just to get some likes. This is an example of self-representations. I participate in quantitative self-representation without even knowing it. Self-representation is a number, list, map, and graphs. Written autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries are self-representation and aesthetics. Written self-representation are more common because the literacy rate is higher than ever, Augustine’s “Confessions” written in 397-8 CE was the first autobiography. People rarely wrote about oneself in 16^th century -b 30% of the population were literate in the early 17^th century, then 70%-90% in the 19^th century. The first English language autobiography was “The Book of Margery Kempe” by Margery Kempe in 1373.  

In conclusion I feel all these self representation, filtered realitys, and shitty first draft are very realevent and people use them more often they would think. I have learned so much just reading these articals and it has made me have a different prespective yet make it all connect to my like. The most important that stood out the most to me is the self-representation.  

CITE: Jill Walker Rettberg (2014). Seeing Ourselves Through Technology. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 

CITE: Anne Lamott (2005). Shitty First Draft. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins. PAUL ESCHHOLZ, ALFERS ROSA, and VIRGINA CLARK