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Summary: In their article “Motivation in Literacy”, Cecchini and Perez discuss the methods to become literate. They interviewed people from the University of Central Florida about their academic success with literacy. They also talk to people about how they became literate. There argument was that motivation is a big part of literacy.

Questions:

I don’t think that there is a flaw because it makes sense that if you are motivated to read you will be able to write better.

I think that the paragraph works where it is because I think that it flows well with the article.

Response: I really liked the way that this was written. I enjoyed reading it and I was able to relate to it at some parts. Overall I think that this was a good article to have us read. 

paper 4 topic idea

For paper 4 I was thinking of doing plagiarism is society today and expanding on my ideas from my first paper.

Paper 2 cover letter

With this paper I was trying to show the readers that there are many different correct ways to write. I showed this by describing my own writing style and techniques. My main point that I was trying to make was that everyone has there own writing styles. I tried to support my point by tell my own story of how I write. I think that main points of my paper are working very well and flow together. I don’t think that my introduction worked as well as I would have liked it to. I really want readers to talk about how maybe there are many correct ways to write. Given more time I think that I would have expanded more on some of my main points. After reading the letter from my peer review I changed a few simple things. First I went through and made all the necessary spelling corrections. Then I went and fixed some sentences that may have been confusing. Finally, I tried to incorporate quotes and some outside insight to how I right, but I found it very difficult to do. When I tried to add these ideas they just didn’t make much sense and I feel like my paper did not flow as well. Overall I feel like this paper went very well and I am happy with the final result.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/81123645/Paper-2 

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Malcom X summary: Malcom X describes about how he learned to read. He tells us that he learned to read in prison.

Questions:

1.     I think he is talking to people that can not read because I feel like it was an encouraging article.

2.     He defines literacy as understanding what is spoken and what you are reading. It compares because it has to do with reading and understanding what you read .

3.     Library, school, books, and prison. I think the library was most influential because Malcom X learned a lot there.

4.     I think this was the case when he was studying books and struggling with the vocabulary.

       6. I never really liked reading and don’t think I ever will, so I think that say he read more than most college students was probably correct.

AEI: I think that technology is something new that people have to become literate at every day because new technology is coming out all the time.

Reflection: I really enjoyed reading this article because it was very interesting to read about this part in Malcom X’s life.

Alexie summary: He explains in this article about the first time that he learned to read and write and how he understood it.

QD1: I think that when you do good in say school you feel good but when you do bad it makes you hate school.

AEI1: I do believe that all people would have a chance to over come poverty and succeed. But I think that it would be very difficult.

Alexie response: I really liked this article because it gave me more knowledge about how people learn to read and write.  

Blog 11

Brandt summary: In Brandt’s article Sponsors of Literacy, researched writers from 1900 to 1980 about there history. She talks about how people become literate and the skills that they gain.

Questions:

1. Brandt defines literary sponsor as agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who teach, model, support, recruit, extort, deny, or suppress literacy and gain advantage by it in some way. They are usually smart, wealthy and religious.

3. They sometimes don’t think about how the kids with less advantages and access compare to the upper and middle class.

4. When she says stratified she is talking about how people are arranged in a status level.

AEI: When I was growing up my literacy sponsors were mainly my teachers at school and my parents at home. My teachers taught me things about acedemics, and my parents taught me moral things. Yes I think that they are adequate. Im not sure what literacies I have not had access to.

Response: I didn’t really like this article because I found it very confusing and hard to understand.

Baron Summary: In Baron’s article From Pencils to Pixels, he talks about how computers have been bad for us and how they have made us lazy. He doesn’t think that it has expanded our reading and writing skills. He describes the impact of new technology.

Questions:

2. I do think that this is one of the main messages in his article that its hard to believe that new technology is changing writing in society today. I don’t agree with him because I think that technology has changed the amount that people read and write.

4. I think that the typewriter was seen as great technology at one time but not anymore. This technology helped to advance the writing process.

6. They contribute to the idea that new technology has made people less intelligent. No I don’t understand these images as writing. Yes I think that if they are considered writing then the technologies associated with writing will get larger.

Response: I liked reading this article a lot more that the last one I think that it was more interesting and easier to read.

Brett's paper 2 peer review

The main point that I got from your paper was that the writing process starts right away for you in your head. But you usually do not start the paper till the last second. I also felt like when I was done reading you paper that you showed the audience that you have changed as a write because of this paper. I didn't see anything missing from the paper or any majors problems with it, any problems that I saw I commented on in the margins. I think that there a lot of things that are working well in this paper. I really liked how you used specific examples from readings. I also liked how you started off by say what type of writer you think you are, and then finishing with the type of writer you actually are. I think that the paper flows very well and makes sense the way you have written it. I think that the current paper you have written meets all of the assignment requirements. I do not think that there are any major problems with your paper. I do think that you need to work on your introduction and conclusion a bit and also work on having some of your sentence flow better, by using better word choices. Overall I think that this was a very good first draft, and there are only a few things that I see that need to be worked on. Good Job!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/80568196/Peer-Review-Paper-2

Paper 2 cover letter and link

With this paper I was really trying to show the audience that there is not one correct way to write, and just because your way is different doesn’t mean that it is wrong. My main point of this paper is to try and convince people who think that there is one correct way of writing, and show them that there are many. The way that I tried to support my argument that there are many good forms of writing, was by telling the audience how I write and then they will hopefully compare it to the way they write. Through this comparing I hope that they will see that there is no correct way to write. The counter argument that I used was that a lot of people think that there is one correct way of writing. I think that my introduction works very well and my body paragraphs work somewhat well. But I would still like to work a lot on my conclusion and revising my body paragraphs. I want readers to talk about how there maybe could be more that one correct way to write and not be so close-minded. Given more time I would do some more research to find sources that will flow well with paper and ideas.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/80253624/Paper-2