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 

                          Annoying Ways People Use Sources: Summary 

In the article “Annoying Ways People Use Sources”, Kyle Stedman tries to show people the wrongdoings in the way they quote sources and how to fix them. For example, I quoted someone the wrong way, and I got penalized for it. Like Kyle I expected my teacher to fix my wrongdoings. He argues that “the way most of quote sources is as annoying as following a slow driver on the highway”. “Because the readers are either thinking that we have no idea; how to quote things properly; or that we don’t care to quote them properly”. He explains the most common mistakes that us college students make when quoting sources. He talks about how to fix them, and examples of good and bad quoting. School is about learning nor repercussions for what you don’t know. I honestly one hundred percent enjoyed reading Stedman’s article about the problems with how most college students quote things. I don’t think collage teachers understand how generate some students are coming out of high school. They just don’t know, they want to do good, but they don’t know. If it was because of the interesting examples of the quirky titles he gave to each problem/section, I was engaged and interested throughout the entire article because I had a personal experience. It will be helpful for me because I used to just throw quotes into my writing without truly introducing them or giving credit to the creator of the text. I didn’t thing nothing wrong with it, how should I know how to do something if I was never taught or introduced to it.  From now on, I’ll make sure to properly introduce and cite my quotations. How should I know how to cite if I never did it, but lesson learned the hard way. Kyle D’s issue of how writers incorrectly use sources in their writing. He stated that writers do one of two things. Writers use a source incorrectly because they don’t know the proper rule or writers use a source incorrectly because they simply just don’t care. Kyle also went into detail on how to fix it to shed some light on how to use a source correctly for those who didn’t/don’t know how and/or to reinforce the correct way for those who don’t care. Over all if someone doesn’t know then you can’t get mad or penalized for it. Like when the said the slow drivers are like sloppy writing, because the driver might not know the speed limit but when he sees the limit sigh, he or she knows. Either way they’re going to be unaware of the rules and regulations unless someone says something to correct them. 

CITE: Kyle D. Stedman (2011) Annoying Ways People Use Sources. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. 

“Seeing ourselves Through Technology” Chapters 1-3 Post 

In Jill Walkers Rettberg’s “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology I feel chapter 3 was my over-all favorite. Chapter 3 was my favorite and was very accurate in my opinion. Jill Walker Rettberg talks about serial and cumulative, it’s about looking at an individual post, or only sells us part cool to read only to tell us part of the story. Tinger, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat it’s easy to make yourself look like something you’re not. People love using filters and that’s half the story, and that brings in the self-representation and the self- presentation argument about which means what to someone. They now a days hide behind filters and other social media, like to present an image. People aren’t confident in their selves that’s why they need assurance form the rest of the world. I know a lot of people who are just existing on social media and not lengthy may act like everything is ok, but their life is usually a mess.  

 Chapter 2, it talks about how Walker explained filters and how we used them in our daily lives. Filters has always been a-part of our world no matter the era.  They analytical term to understand algorithmic culture. Us as humans will always filter out the parts in their life that does matter without even noticing. My main two examples the spoke about was the coffee or the photos. Reading this article brought new aspect of thinking and on how filters affect us. My point of view on filters can be broken down into complex topics and reasons on how we filter our lives. Us as humans can filter out simple pictures to make us look better or we can filter out our news and get what we want to see. I feel filters have helped humans see and hear what they want.  

“Seeing Ourselves Through Technology”, chapter one she talks about the text or people self-representation with digital technologies is a form of self-documentation. I never keep my photos not one. I feel a memory is best lived in the moment and stored in your mental rolodex. How could a picture I no longer have be a documentation of my-self? In the section Writing about the self the author talks about 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. – First English language autobiography was “The Book of Margery Kempe” by Margery Kempe in 1373.  I didn’t know there where so many illiterate people in the 16^th centry. 

 I also feel there should have been more self-assessment prices during that time regardless of that. I know people still wanted to write. Overall I feel “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” was helpful information and it will make me a better reader and writer.  

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

How to Read Like A Writer: Summary 

In the essay Read Like a Writer, Mike Bunn explains the basics of reading like a writer. One must really pay close attention to the way authors write their pieces of work. Also, this will help the reader decide if they like or dislike the way the author is writing a piece, and if the reader does like that style, it can be replicated in their own writing. If not, the reader will know what types of writing they are not comfortable reading, and in turn will write according to their own preferences. Bunn also introduces the idea of using quotes at the beginning of a piece of work. Some people find that using a quote is more effective with impressing their readers, but it is not a guarantee. In this section, Mike describes the differences between RLW and normal reading. Normal reading consists of the reader barely scratching the surface of a piece for information. RLW is obviously a much deeper process. When RLW, one must really think about what the author is conveying to the audience, how this information is being conveyed, and what one can do to write like the author. Bunn acknowledges that “for most college students RLW is a new way to read, and it can be difficult to learn at first” (75). He tells his readers that learning how to RLW will improve their writing skills, and that most college instructors assume students have this skill, though most do not. Also, because students have written papers before in their educational career, students have an advantage when RLW. Bunn states, “All of your previous writing experiences – inside the classroom and out – can contribute to your success with RLW” (75). This is because students have a basic knowledge of how to write, and how to see the way in which an author is writing. The Author uses several past students to explain some of the most vital parts of RLW. The most common suggestion was for readers to examine the context around the assignment and the piece that must be read. The reader must know the author’s purpose for the piece of writing and the intended audience for the piece. The Author states that readers must consider the genre of a text before reading. By genre, he means poem, article, essay, etc. One must also pay close attention to the type of text being read. In conclusion the essay was about the benefits of RLW. 

 
Cite: Mike Bunn (2017) How to Read Like a Writer This Essay is a chapter in Writing Spaces: Reading on Writing, Volume 2 a peer reviewed open textbook series for then writing class room. http://writingspace.org/essays