Writing is a PROCESS Not a Product
My name is Jared Dettwiller. I am currently a student at Western Washington University, and am currently pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering. I’m also a video gamer and creative story writer. For me, blending the two together can result in some really great ideas and topics to write about or discuss with friends. … Continue reading Jared’s Author Statement
Something that made me want to work with this medium is that I think drawing is really relaxing, I don’t really consider myself an artist but when I have a good idea of what I want to do it usually turns out how I imagine it. Drawing takes a long time and in this case … Continue reading Extension Project A
At first this research project seemed very daunting, it seemed as it it would take a great deal of effort and persistence to complete. Once me and Elijah completed making the survey questions and formating the survey itself we began conducting it, which I thought would be a long and boring task involving a lot … Continue reading Field Notes
Field Narrative: So far, I’ve been able to play through about a third of the missions that I’m going to do for the Halo Combat Evolved Campaign. So far, the results have been interesting. As I have already played all of the Halo games (because I am a huge fan of the Halo universe), I … Continue reading project 5 Field Notes
Upon reading both our literacy narratives, we noticed a bit of overlap in our themes. Our first theme we aim to portray is a lack of confidence. In Javareah’s case, lack of confidence in his abilities to write. In mine, interacting with my classmates. To symbolize this in our audio clip we have the song … Continue reading Is Anyone Out There?
When coming up with ideas for our collage, it was a lot easier to find the differences between our literacy narratives than the similarities. Because our narratives weren’t very similar, one being about a difficult book read in middle school and the other about learning Hebrew for a Bat Mitzvah; we wanted to highlight the … Continue reading Similarities Within Our Differences
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My teacher’s cause was to get us to want to read. It was a typical rainy day at school in December of my sophomore year. We had just finished checking out our next book for the unit: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. At this point, I was still adamant about being in high school and wanting … Continue reading People throughout history have acquired literacy pragmatically under the banner of others’ causes
Hello! Welcome to our class WordPress page. This is where you will publish most of the major projects you do for our class. Everything you post of WordPress will be visible to the other students in the class, as students in other English 101 classes. Right now, the site is private only to Western WordPress … Continue reading Welcome!