Question

How does having a disability affect someone’s self esteem and their day to day life ?

Audience

my audience for this would be the general public as I feel that they are the ones that need to be educated on this kind of stuff the most and I also feel that they are the most judgmental towards disabled people.

Reason

I chose this research topic because being an individual with a disability I have first hand experience with the general public and there opinions and blank stares. I also live a day to day life with a disability.

Prior to reading from this week I thought knowledge came from things that we had just learned naturally or through our time in school. But after doing the readings I have a different view of knowledge as the readings opened my eyes to new things. I used to think that the way we learned determined how much information we were able to take in and that then determined how much knowledge we had. But from the readings and just my own personal experience I have learned that knowledge is more than that. Knowledge should not be based off of how much a person a person learns. I had never thought that certain individuals had their own knowledge and then shared that with the world. Also I had no knowledge that there was a way for knowledge to be created based off of creativity.

A discourse community is something that I was unfamiliar with until I read swales but it was still confusing until I heard it discussed in class. I also did not realize how many discourse communities I belong to as I did not even know what one is. Some of the ones I belong to are being a part of a family as I have a very large family so that is obviously a very big discourse community for me. Just as any other family we of course have our shared beliefs and values for our family and I find that to also be a very big part of that discourse community. Another discourse community that I had no idea about was with me being the oldest of all my siblings I am apart of the discourse community for that also. Within that community there are many ways to provide each other advice and feedback. Also some of the shared beliefs that go along with that are all of us agreeing that one day we want to have our siblings looking up to us and we want to be their role model which can be a big commitment having to watch everything you say and do so that they will not want to follow into negative footsteps.

In the reading for Yancey the term reflection is tossed around alot. She defines reflection as a way for writers to be able to reflect and revisit their work to evaluate it and see what worked and what did not. Reflection can be used for so many things other than just writing. It can be used in your other classes to reflect on your class work for that class and it can even be used to reflect on your day at work or just life in general. Reflecting gives us the opportunity to take a time out and improve on our work. The website I found describes reflection as a thought,idea or opinion formed or a remark made as a result of meditation. Between the two definitions there are obvious differences yet in my opinion the overall idea is the same.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reflection

       Yancey                                other source

A way for writers to reflect on their own work.	A result of meditation to think deeper and see more than just the basics.
A way for writers to think more creatively about their work.	Gives us a time out to actually sit back and think about the work we are doing and ask ourselves those questions to dig deeper into it.
A way for writers to see the bigger picture and a deeper meaning behind their work.	A thought,idea,or opinion formed as a result of meditation.

In the quotes from Yancey she is trying to get her point across by telling us that basically we learn from our mistakes one way or another. I believe that is why she states as they learn they witness their own learning because as we learn we learn about the things that do and do not work for us and when we sit back and take a minute to reflect we open up a new window of learning for ourself because if we take the time to reflect on it then we think harder about it.

Blitzer describes a rhetorical situation as a dangerous situation and the words he uses to describes this are embarrassing situations , ethical , and dangerous. Just based off of this reading I have already noticed that blitzer is very repetitive in his writing and can be confusing at times with the way he words stuff. My understanding of a rhetorical situation is that it occurs anytime something needs to be resolved. Which is why the speaker or author will repeat certain phrases because typically that is the issue that needs resolution or the main point they are stressing to get across. For example in Martin Luther Kings I have a dream speech he repeats the phrases I have a dream and that is because he had a dream and was really trying to stress that because he wanted them to pay attention to the next line he said as that was the part he wanted to be a dream come true for society as a whole

reading in college is much different than any other kind of reading you will do. Your college readings are going to be of various difficulty levels and some you may not fully understand. That is where your reading skills come into play you are going to need to develop these reading skills in order to make it through college because I can guarantee you that you will be doing readings of various types. Some reading skills are Annotate as you go along if a question or comment pops into mind write it on the side of the margins next to the reading that way you can remember your question and exactly where you found it. Some other reading skills are to read aloud or you could even re read if you just are not understanding it.

Before reading: Genre is an overall theme or topic chosen for writing pieces. In younger grades I was taught that the genre is the overall theme and focus point that helps to tie everything together and make it easier for the reader.

Bazerman: Genre is carried out in patterned, typical ,and intelligible text forms. My defintion is overall them but he makes his defintion more detailed and down to the specifics. Commencement speeches tend to focus on motivating for life after graduation what ever that may be and the other speakers like collins and the ones linked below focus on giving more of a raw real life perspective point of view. In other words they are not giving the graduating class any advice that they have no yet followed themselves.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-graduation-speeches-of-all-time-2016-6

Before reading :To me writing is the expressions of someones thoughts and ideas that are shared through writing books ,stories, blogs ,and articles. Successful writing for me is being able to read something and identify thoughts and ideas based on someones writing. I see my self as more of an inspirational writer because once I get all of my ideas straight and find that spark of inspiration I do not have any problems writing. Some words that I associate writing with are thoughts , ideas , words , ideas , stories , and articles.

After reading: In collins commencement speech he talks about how speeches are generally a tricky genre I think because when we give speeches there live in person and almost always about real life situations which makes it tricky to define it with a specific genre of writing. In my opinion I would say this text is very successful in the beginning when he first wrote this speech he had no idea that he would now be famous for his commencement speech writing. This speech is also successful for not only physically being now well known it is also very successful in the context and the word choice he uses for this speech. In most commencement speeches you hear advice for the real world and you have no idea if that speaker has followed that advice themselves. In Collins speech he states that he would not share any advice with them that he has not followed himself and to me that is what stands out the most and makes this speech different from all the rest. I think the list of terms that I defined writing as that are listed above are pretty accurate along the lines of this speech so therefore I would not change my list right now.

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