Research Changes

     I deleted and changed some of my literature review because it was starting to sound really repetitive and annoying. I also changed how I was originally was going to structure my argument, but due to the word count, it needed to be fixed. There were also verb tense issues that tend to appear on my essays, but I am slowly breaking that habit. During the literature review, there was also some parenthetical citation issues that occurred, but once it was addressed, I fixed those issues.

Research Changes

     What I did to change my research paper was the structure of the argument. At first I only labelled the category as "argument" instead of creating subcategories of the different topics of my argument which was detrimental to the the paper. Now, I labelled the different topics such as "flow", "coping" and "growth vs. fixed mindset". I also changed the way I cited my sources because in my rough draft I incorrectly cited some of them. These changes will help polish my paper to create a better argument.

Wysocki

This article discusses visual conventions of different genres. For example the conventions of an MLA or APA style research paper for school is easily recognizable by its formatting. And a children's book is easily recognizable by its pictures and captions. The author also discusses how the genre conventions change as time goes on. What we recognize today as one genre was unrecognizable a hundred years ago and will probably also be unrecognizable a hundred years from today. In addition the author talks about how different fonts also carry their own recognizable traits that give readers context. I though that the interpretations of fonts were interesting because I had never thought of fonts as a genre of their own.

Project 2 Action Plan- Eric Heinrich

Between the rough draft and final draft I added my works cited, formatted the paper to fit standards,  and finished my research and conclusion.

Wysocki

This text really opened my eyes to the importance of the visual aspect when writing or discussing a genre. After reading this I will plan to read a lot more about the visual aspect and plan to input this into some of my essays into the future. It will make me focus more on the detail when writing about things in to the future or things that are mythological. Wysocki will help me in the future analyze different genres and be able to pick out the visual aspects of each one.

Wysocki

The article wysocki talks about the visual aspect of literature and how by saying a word the reader will immediately know what the author is talking about. For instance, if i say the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, the reader knows what a fox and a dog look like so the scene is easy to picture. This can be extremely helpful in my writing because i often write about mythological or fantasy settings so i need to know that anything that people dont innately know must be described in great detail. Wysocki is also helpful in alerting us the the power of the written word as a medium for great description.

Wysocki

I really enjoyed this article because its main focus was the visual aspect of literature. He talked about how our minds already know what something is just by looking at it, children's books are colorful and academic papers are double-spaced with small letters. Unconsciously, we classify literature into categories. I thought that it was very interesting because no one really talks about that. The multiple media of texts have completely different purpose that we do not think about but affect us in many ways.