Job title- Human Resources Coordinator
Credentials- Experience in the aspects of Human Resources and/or college degree in a major related to the field of Human Resource. Has to have great communication skills and be good at multitasking.
Job description- Works under the HR director and is responsible for carrying out several task in the Human Resource department. A coordinator works on important functions such as hiring, recruiting, training and development, maintaining employee records, helps employees and managers in their performance, works on solutions for employee problems, and helps managers and supervisors with company policies and procedures.
Types of writing in this field
- In a database the HR coordinator will write and store all information such as company data, employee information, program schedules etc.
- Writing up plans for recruitment and writing up strategies for employee retention.
-May also come up with and write up employee training and development programs.
Preperation
- Learn how to use Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Word, and any other programs that will be used in the field of HR.
- Internship oppurtunities that show all the different types of responsibilities in the HR department.
-Take classes in Organizational Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Event Management, Interviewing, HR Management, and other Management and bussiness courses.
-Go to Networking events that invite people who work in the HR field.
Obstacles
- Other people who have years of experience and expertise in HR and those who have a Masters degree in HR Management.
How can I give myself an edge?
- Research and learn about the most successful training and development programs. Network with alot of people the field of Human Resource.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
blog17- draft resume
Lauren Rodriguez,
155,South Inman ave ,
Avenel, NJ 07001,
(732)855-7751
. OBJECTIVE:
To obtain a position as a Human Resource coordinator
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts in Communication - May 2010
Kean University - Union, New Jersey
GPA: 3.3-3.5
Associates of Arts in Communication-May 2008
Middlesex County College- Edison, New Jersey
GPA: 3.3-3.5
Experience: Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-2009
• Assisted in coordinating Elijah’s Promise Annual health fair 2009
• Assisted with coordinating Thursday dinners for clients
• Provided new volunteers with training
Additional Experience: Filing clerk- Eastern Dental of Woodbridge 2004-2010
• Assisted the front desk
• Coordinated new goals for the organization of the filing room that occupies over 3000 charts
• Assisted with training new employees with the filing room
Skills:
• Proficient in Microsoft Works Professional 2007
• Proficient in Microsoft Power Point 2007
• Dean’s List 3 semesters
155,South Inman ave ,
Avenel, NJ 07001,
(732)855-7751
. OBJECTIVE:
To obtain a position as a Human Resource coordinator
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts in Communication - May 2010
Kean University - Union, New Jersey
GPA: 3.3-3.5
Associates of Arts in Communication-May 2008
Middlesex County College- Edison, New Jersey
GPA: 3.3-3.5
Experience: Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-2009
• Assisted in coordinating Elijah’s Promise Annual health fair 2009
• Assisted with coordinating Thursday dinners for clients
• Provided new volunteers with training
Additional Experience: Filing clerk- Eastern Dental of Woodbridge 2004-2010
• Assisted the front desk
• Coordinated new goals for the organization of the filing room that occupies over 3000 charts
• Assisted with training new employees with the filing room
Skills:
• Proficient in Microsoft Works Professional 2007
• Proficient in Microsoft Power Point 2007
• Dean’s List 3 semesters
Monday, March 29, 2010
blog 16- career choice for portfolio
For my portfolio I chose Human Resource Management as my focuse for a future career choice. Some writing samples that would be good for this type of career would be first a essay discussing why communication in an organization is so important. Another writing piece that would be good would be one on a mission statement for a company and why human resources can help that mission. Lastly, a final writing sample that would be good would be one on different policies that work hand in hand with human resources.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
blog 15-Writing process paper
I can compare my writing process to how I feel when I first learn how to do something. Whether it was learning how to ride a bike or learning how to cook I always unconciously go through the same process. First I “Mimick” then I become “Fearful” after that I realize I have to get over my fear and then I suddenly become “energetic” after being energetic for a while it brings me to a “relaxed” state and lastly I become “confident”. They say we are a product of our environment. My environment growing up was that my parents always babied me. Therefore anything new I would learn would be in “baby steps”. All the different stages in my learning process resembles me as a scared child, I need someone to guide me first and once I finally reach my goal I can be independent. Whether or not this process is a rocky process to get my writing done it has worked for me for many years.
When I gather ideas before writing a paper I begin "mimicking". I gather up all the information of what is needed to be written for the assignment and ask others what they think they will be focusing on. If it is on a particular subject such as history I ask myself the question "what stuff would a historian add in this paper"? "How can I make this resemble a true historical biography"? When I first learned how to dance ballet I would spend more of my time watching the teacher on her style of dancing then what she was actually teaching in class. It felt better for me to copy how she moved her arms and her posture because I wasn’t confident enough to just listen to what she was saying. Like a child who is first learning how to talk they “mimick” the people around them on what ever they say and how they say it. This is done because they are trying to adjust to the environment. Furthermore, whatever writing assignment that is given to me I gather ideas that will be most appropriate to that environment.
During the prewriting process I become "fearful". My fear of not writing a good piece kicks in when I jot down a couple of words. This all goes back to when I first started handing in papers in school and got bad grades on them with negative feedback. The way I felt when I received those comments conditioned me to fear my ideas when ever I start writing them. The same goes with me when I learn something new. I always reference my new experience with a bad one because I am to precautious of getting hurt mentally or physically. A great example would be me learning how to make rice. Right when I was ready to start the rice I remembered how embarrassed I got when I first learned how to make fried chicken and didn’t cook them all the way; everyone laughed at me and told me they would never try my cooking again. As soon as I remembered how I felt I procrastinated for about an hour. With prewriting the “fear” takes me to a long journey of procrastination. Writing one sentence, reading it a thousand times, to erase it and write something else.
During the process of creating a draft for my paper I become “energetic”. All my energy is put into getting everything I wanted to say in writing down. This happens because the deadline for the paper is coming up and I need to stop procrastinating. As soon as I tell myself this, the energy brings out the creativity in me. This happened to me with the literacy Narrative that I wrote. I spent alot of time in the prewriting process stressing how bad of a grade I would get also that all of my ideas started not to make sense. By the time I was doing that the draft was due the night before. I suddenly snapped out of my fear and told myself “ you have to just write”. Furthermore, when I first learned how to swim I spent my time in the “fear” stage procrastinating so much that when I realized that there was a line of people in back of me waiting to jump in the pool I just told myself “you have to do it” and that is when all my energy came out of me and I began to swim. Knowing that the due date for the assignment is a day away is my motivation to just get something down on paper because I know that if I don’t write something my “fears” will actually become true.
When it is time for me to have my final paper ready I am already “relaxed”. I used up all my energy during the last stage that I feel confident enough by this time to let what ever I wrote stay the way it is. During my process of writing a draft I usually write half of what is required for the final paper. So when I’m in this stage I am still coming up with ideas however, I do not put that much thought into what I am writing because I already got the hang of it. Once I got the hang of making rice I stoped measuring how much water I needed to put in it. I also stoped staring at the pot of rice cooking while holding a wooden spoon in my hand ready to turn over the rice once the bowling water was soaked up. I also started walking away from the kitchen. This stage in the learning process lets me finish up what I learned in a way that shows myself that it is a rewarding experience. With finishing up the final paper I feel the same way. Unconciously, I am telling myself that I accomplished a well developed paper and I should feel rewarded hence not put anymore strain on myself for it.
The last stage in my writing process is the revision. When ever I revise I take hardly nothing out because I am at my “confidence” stage. After analyzing other people’s ideas, procrastinating for a while and then finally getting my ideas on paper, I can not see anything wrong with what I wrote. Therefore, it takes for someone else to read my paper to hit me with reality and even that won’t make me budge. A great exwample would be a paper I wrote in highschool about my best memories of school throughout the years. After the final paper was written I had my mom read it over. She critiqued it up and down. Even though I was insulted I argued how great of a piece I thought it was. It seems that during this stage instead of me looking at the outside product which is the paper, I am looking at the inside product which is my ideas and time invested that I am trying to defend. Therefore, I might rearrange a couple of words or change my focus, which I ended up doing for my literacy Narrative, I don’t change around paragaphs or even take full paragraphs away. Furthermore, when I first learned how to parrallel park I did the same thing. My confidence was so high that when my father would yell at me about how I almost hit the car behind me I would argue my case instead of trying to get better at it.
My writing process has changed for the last 4 years through procrastination. I remembered in highschool I would start thinking about what I was I going to write two weeks before the due date but now It has gotten as close as a day before the due date. Therefore, all the stages I go through to get to my final paper become tougher for me because I am pressed for time. Last semester I had to write a paper on the conflict in the Pais Vasco and I waited till the last minute. Gathering ideas from other people was harder for me because I was trying to find anything on the internet that could help me get an idea about what I should write. Usually when I had more time I would ask my classmates what they were going to write or be very selective what I decided to “mimick” but when I lost the privelege to do that I just went with what ever I found. Also, all the other stages such as “fearing” and becoming “energetic” started to take a spin. My fear got more intense and my energy started to feel like “anxiety”. This in turn has caused me to stress more about writing because I think about the process instead of the end result which is the grade.
The reason why I give myself less time to go through all of the stages in the writing process is similar to how I’ve been giving myself less time to learn something. I feel like there is just to many things going on in my life that need more attention therefore learning something new has to be shortened a bit. A great example of this would be me learning to write a check out. During this time that my mother was teaching me I was going through a break up. Therefore I wanted to hurry up the process of learning how to write it out because I wanted to get on the phone and cry to my friend about how hurt I was. I did feel the pressure of the stages going by fast. I was trying to “mimick” my mom while thinking about the situation and it caused me to just forget what she showed me.
Shortening the time that I have to go through to get to all the stages of my writing process has not been working for me physically. I spend nights without sleep trying to hurry up and get something down on paper. I even skipped classes due to the lack of sleep. I also break out with pimples when I am at a press for time for a paper that I am trying to get done. It has caused my “relaxed” stage to feel more like a “exhausted” stage. My ideas no longer exist at this point and I start writing things that don’t make sense just so I can fill up the page. I even start messing around with the font size and do other rediculous things that have nothing to do with my writing process.
However, I do see a difference with my writing process for school and my writing process for a friend. The first difference is that I give myself alot of time to gather ideas because I am interested in what I have to say to them. My “fear” stage isn’t is as intense because I know that it is an informal conversation I am having. Lastly, I don’t feel stress when writing to them because I know they wouldn’t judge me. If I could channel how interested I get when writing to them to my interest in writing a school paper than I could change the time I give myself to prepare and write my final piece. Like Dr Chandler said, whatever the writing assigment is she still tries make it her own. Meaning, she tries to add in whatever she is interested in or whatever is going on in her head at the moment and make it relatable to what she needs to write. Therefore, she becomes motivated to get it done. If I could do this I know my procrastination level would be shortened because I am excercizing something that is going on in my head.
On the other hand, some of my strengths in my writing process is my “mimicking”. I written alot of good papers because of this. If people don’t have something to reference to then they can be even more lost than they were before. Moreover, the way I can strengthen my “mimicking” of ideas is by brainstorming certain topics related to what ever I am assigned to write just so I can get a bigger selection on what I want to write about. “Mimicking” in my learning process has caused me to be one of the best dancers in my dance school. I always tried to be like the dancers that I most admired on television and once I was confident enough that I got the steps right I even added my own style to it. This eventually caused other younger dancers in this school to look up to me and “mimick” how I would dance.
In conclusion, I find that my writing process throughout the years has changed a little bit but overall has still been the original one that I follow. The strength of it has definitly caused me to get good grades and the weakness of it has caused me to physically dread writing. Nevertheless, learning something new in life causes the same rewarding and unpleasant experiences. One wouldn’t know that a stove is hot unless they touch it by accident, burn their hand and learn that they should never do it again. Likewise they learn how to read and read to their little brother or sister and find that their siblings love them so much and look up to them for it. I will change my new habits of procrastination once I go through a true physical break down. I know this because even though I say to myself “I can’t keep waiting till the last minute to do things”! I still am right back to where I started.
When I gather ideas before writing a paper I begin "mimicking". I gather up all the information of what is needed to be written for the assignment and ask others what they think they will be focusing on. If it is on a particular subject such as history I ask myself the question "what stuff would a historian add in this paper"? "How can I make this resemble a true historical biography"? When I first learned how to dance ballet I would spend more of my time watching the teacher on her style of dancing then what she was actually teaching in class. It felt better for me to copy how she moved her arms and her posture because I wasn’t confident enough to just listen to what she was saying. Like a child who is first learning how to talk they “mimick” the people around them on what ever they say and how they say it. This is done because they are trying to adjust to the environment. Furthermore, whatever writing assignment that is given to me I gather ideas that will be most appropriate to that environment.
During the prewriting process I become "fearful". My fear of not writing a good piece kicks in when I jot down a couple of words. This all goes back to when I first started handing in papers in school and got bad grades on them with negative feedback. The way I felt when I received those comments conditioned me to fear my ideas when ever I start writing them. The same goes with me when I learn something new. I always reference my new experience with a bad one because I am to precautious of getting hurt mentally or physically. A great example would be me learning how to make rice. Right when I was ready to start the rice I remembered how embarrassed I got when I first learned how to make fried chicken and didn’t cook them all the way; everyone laughed at me and told me they would never try my cooking again. As soon as I remembered how I felt I procrastinated for about an hour. With prewriting the “fear” takes me to a long journey of procrastination. Writing one sentence, reading it a thousand times, to erase it and write something else.
During the process of creating a draft for my paper I become “energetic”. All my energy is put into getting everything I wanted to say in writing down. This happens because the deadline for the paper is coming up and I need to stop procrastinating. As soon as I tell myself this, the energy brings out the creativity in me. This happened to me with the literacy Narrative that I wrote. I spent alot of time in the prewriting process stressing how bad of a grade I would get also that all of my ideas started not to make sense. By the time I was doing that the draft was due the night before. I suddenly snapped out of my fear and told myself “ you have to just write”. Furthermore, when I first learned how to swim I spent my time in the “fear” stage procrastinating so much that when I realized that there was a line of people in back of me waiting to jump in the pool I just told myself “you have to do it” and that is when all my energy came out of me and I began to swim. Knowing that the due date for the assignment is a day away is my motivation to just get something down on paper because I know that if I don’t write something my “fears” will actually become true.
When it is time for me to have my final paper ready I am already “relaxed”. I used up all my energy during the last stage that I feel confident enough by this time to let what ever I wrote stay the way it is. During my process of writing a draft I usually write half of what is required for the final paper. So when I’m in this stage I am still coming up with ideas however, I do not put that much thought into what I am writing because I already got the hang of it. Once I got the hang of making rice I stoped measuring how much water I needed to put in it. I also stoped staring at the pot of rice cooking while holding a wooden spoon in my hand ready to turn over the rice once the bowling water was soaked up. I also started walking away from the kitchen. This stage in the learning process lets me finish up what I learned in a way that shows myself that it is a rewarding experience. With finishing up the final paper I feel the same way. Unconciously, I am telling myself that I accomplished a well developed paper and I should feel rewarded hence not put anymore strain on myself for it.
The last stage in my writing process is the revision. When ever I revise I take hardly nothing out because I am at my “confidence” stage. After analyzing other people’s ideas, procrastinating for a while and then finally getting my ideas on paper, I can not see anything wrong with what I wrote. Therefore, it takes for someone else to read my paper to hit me with reality and even that won’t make me budge. A great exwample would be a paper I wrote in highschool about my best memories of school throughout the years. After the final paper was written I had my mom read it over. She critiqued it up and down. Even though I was insulted I argued how great of a piece I thought it was. It seems that during this stage instead of me looking at the outside product which is the paper, I am looking at the inside product which is my ideas and time invested that I am trying to defend. Therefore, I might rearrange a couple of words or change my focus, which I ended up doing for my literacy Narrative, I don’t change around paragaphs or even take full paragraphs away. Furthermore, when I first learned how to parrallel park I did the same thing. My confidence was so high that when my father would yell at me about how I almost hit the car behind me I would argue my case instead of trying to get better at it.
My writing process has changed for the last 4 years through procrastination. I remembered in highschool I would start thinking about what I was I going to write two weeks before the due date but now It has gotten as close as a day before the due date. Therefore, all the stages I go through to get to my final paper become tougher for me because I am pressed for time. Last semester I had to write a paper on the conflict in the Pais Vasco and I waited till the last minute. Gathering ideas from other people was harder for me because I was trying to find anything on the internet that could help me get an idea about what I should write. Usually when I had more time I would ask my classmates what they were going to write or be very selective what I decided to “mimick” but when I lost the privelege to do that I just went with what ever I found. Also, all the other stages such as “fearing” and becoming “energetic” started to take a spin. My fear got more intense and my energy started to feel like “anxiety”. This in turn has caused me to stress more about writing because I think about the process instead of the end result which is the grade.
The reason why I give myself less time to go through all of the stages in the writing process is similar to how I’ve been giving myself less time to learn something. I feel like there is just to many things going on in my life that need more attention therefore learning something new has to be shortened a bit. A great example of this would be me learning to write a check out. During this time that my mother was teaching me I was going through a break up. Therefore I wanted to hurry up the process of learning how to write it out because I wanted to get on the phone and cry to my friend about how hurt I was. I did feel the pressure of the stages going by fast. I was trying to “mimick” my mom while thinking about the situation and it caused me to just forget what she showed me.
Shortening the time that I have to go through to get to all the stages of my writing process has not been working for me physically. I spend nights without sleep trying to hurry up and get something down on paper. I even skipped classes due to the lack of sleep. I also break out with pimples when I am at a press for time for a paper that I am trying to get done. It has caused my “relaxed” stage to feel more like a “exhausted” stage. My ideas no longer exist at this point and I start writing things that don’t make sense just so I can fill up the page. I even start messing around with the font size and do other rediculous things that have nothing to do with my writing process.
However, I do see a difference with my writing process for school and my writing process for a friend. The first difference is that I give myself alot of time to gather ideas because I am interested in what I have to say to them. My “fear” stage isn’t is as intense because I know that it is an informal conversation I am having. Lastly, I don’t feel stress when writing to them because I know they wouldn’t judge me. If I could channel how interested I get when writing to them to my interest in writing a school paper than I could change the time I give myself to prepare and write my final piece. Like Dr Chandler said, whatever the writing assigment is she still tries make it her own. Meaning, she tries to add in whatever she is interested in or whatever is going on in her head at the moment and make it relatable to what she needs to write. Therefore, she becomes motivated to get it done. If I could do this I know my procrastination level would be shortened because I am excercizing something that is going on in my head.
On the other hand, some of my strengths in my writing process is my “mimicking”. I written alot of good papers because of this. If people don’t have something to reference to then they can be even more lost than they were before. Moreover, the way I can strengthen my “mimicking” of ideas is by brainstorming certain topics related to what ever I am assigned to write just so I can get a bigger selection on what I want to write about. “Mimicking” in my learning process has caused me to be one of the best dancers in my dance school. I always tried to be like the dancers that I most admired on television and once I was confident enough that I got the steps right I even added my own style to it. This eventually caused other younger dancers in this school to look up to me and “mimick” how I would dance.
In conclusion, I find that my writing process throughout the years has changed a little bit but overall has still been the original one that I follow. The strength of it has definitly caused me to get good grades and the weakness of it has caused me to physically dread writing. Nevertheless, learning something new in life causes the same rewarding and unpleasant experiences. One wouldn’t know that a stove is hot unless they touch it by accident, burn their hand and learn that they should never do it again. Likewise they learn how to read and read to their little brother or sister and find that their siblings love them so much and look up to them for it. I will change my new habits of procrastination once I go through a true physical break down. I know this because even though I say to myself “I can’t keep waiting till the last minute to do things”! I still am right back to where I started.
Monday, March 8, 2010
blog 14- draft writing process
During the writing process stage when I gather ideas I characterize my process as "mimicking". Once I gather up all the information of what is needed to be written for the assignment I ask others what they think they will be focusing on. If it is on a particular subject such as history I ask myself the question "what stuff would a historian add in this paper". "How can I make this resemble a true historical biography". If it takes further research to pull out better examples that I wouldn't be able to answer on my own I research on the internet. The style of writing is also important for me to copy. I feel confident if I know that I am following the protocol of what is expected in that particular paper. A great example of this would be when I get an assignment to write a fictional story. I look at other people's pieces on a fictional story and see what type of words they use to get an idea what a fictional story intales in order to be successful.
Once I am done gathering ideas through "mimicking" I start my prewriting process. During the prewriting process I become "fearful". My fear of not writing a good piece kicks in when I jot down a couple of words. I stop for 10 minutes in between a few sentences and question myself if it makes any sense. I think about other papers before that I got bad grades on and I think about the comments those teachers left on those papers. Those comments bring back the memories of how I felt when I received them. I felt embarrassed and angry so when I know there is a posibility for me to feel that way again I hold off on my writing. Fear can stop anyone from doing something in this case it always stops me from writing smoothly. A paper that is two pages long will take me 4 hours to finish when my fear kicks in.
During the process of creating a draft for a paper I become “energetic”. All my energy is put into getting everything I wanted to say in writing down. Since I waisted alot of time thinking about what I wanted to say in the prewriting alot of my creativity stays lurking in my unconcious. When I know I have to put something down that is when it becomes concious. It’s as if the deadline gave me the inspiriation to not stop writing and to be creative. My energy level during this time reminds me of the energy that comes out when I am at the gym. My first step before actually steping in the gym is telling myself that I need to go and work out. It takes me forever to finally tell myself “okay its time to go”! Once I get in my car and head to the gym and go through those doors the energy kicks in and I am working out every part in my body that I desired to work out. With my writing during the drafting process I work on every piece of idea that I wanted to add in my paper. Furthermore, the energy that arrives during the draft process helps me to avoid my insecurities with writing and to just keep saying what I wanted to say.
During the processs of writing my final paper I characterize this as my “relaxation process”. I used up all my energy during the last stage that I feel confident enough by this time to let what ever I wrote stay the way it is. It feels like coming back from the gym and not having anything left in you but just confidence that the work out you did will pay off. Even if I finish up what I wrote from the draft I don’t put alot of thought into it because I feel that all my thoughts were already brought out in my highest moment of energy.
Once I am done gathering ideas through "mimicking" I start my prewriting process. During the prewriting process I become "fearful". My fear of not writing a good piece kicks in when I jot down a couple of words. I stop for 10 minutes in between a few sentences and question myself if it makes any sense. I think about other papers before that I got bad grades on and I think about the comments those teachers left on those papers. Those comments bring back the memories of how I felt when I received them. I felt embarrassed and angry so when I know there is a posibility for me to feel that way again I hold off on my writing. Fear can stop anyone from doing something in this case it always stops me from writing smoothly. A paper that is two pages long will take me 4 hours to finish when my fear kicks in.
During the process of creating a draft for a paper I become “energetic”. All my energy is put into getting everything I wanted to say in writing down. Since I waisted alot of time thinking about what I wanted to say in the prewriting alot of my creativity stays lurking in my unconcious. When I know I have to put something down that is when it becomes concious. It’s as if the deadline gave me the inspiriation to not stop writing and to be creative. My energy level during this time reminds me of the energy that comes out when I am at the gym. My first step before actually steping in the gym is telling myself that I need to go and work out. It takes me forever to finally tell myself “okay its time to go”! Once I get in my car and head to the gym and go through those doors the energy kicks in and I am working out every part in my body that I desired to work out. With my writing during the drafting process I work on every piece of idea that I wanted to add in my paper. Furthermore, the energy that arrives during the draft process helps me to avoid my insecurities with writing and to just keep saying what I wanted to say.
During the processs of writing my final paper I characterize this as my “relaxation process”. I used up all my energy during the last stage that I feel confident enough by this time to let what ever I wrote stay the way it is. It feels like coming back from the gym and not having anything left in you but just confidence that the work out you did will pay off. Even if I finish up what I wrote from the draft I don’t put alot of thought into it because I feel that all my thoughts were already brought out in my highest moment of energy.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
blog 13- Summary of Charney
Charney's essay says that hyperlink text which is material that is linked up with more material that has relevance is beneficial and unbeneficial.
. Hyperlink does not represent traditional text which is predictable to the reader which can then cause the reader to feel lost at what the hyperlink text writer was trying to say.
. Hyperlink text can help a reader's writing process when they are trying to come up with different ideas.
. Hyperlink text does not work well with long term memory.
. Hyperlink does not represent traditional text which is predictable to the reader which can then cause the reader to feel lost at what the hyperlink text writer was trying to say.
. Hyperlink text can help a reader's writing process when they are trying to come up with different ideas.
. Hyperlink text does not work well with long term memory.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Blog 11- writing process prewriting
Prewriting is the hardest part of the writing process. Once ideas are in someones head and the ideas get onto paper people automatically get into that school paper being graded by teacher mode. I know I start to edit my words every five minutes and rearrange sentences. I also keep reading the paragraph I wrote over and over again to see if it makes sense. This happens because I want it to sound readable. The only time I just kept writing without stoping a professor gave me a "D" and commented that my writing made no sense. That fear that the whole writing process could go no where with one little aspect which is the prewriting always scares me so it takes me forever to write something during this stage.
blog 6-writing process 1
I gather ideas during my writing process through reading other peoples ideas on the same topic that needs to be written. Jotting things down is harder for me when I have no relation to the subject nor care for it much. Its a huge fork in the road if I don't have something to reference to. When I read other peoples ideas I list the patterns that I see from those ideas as a base for what I need to write. If I do enjoy the subject and can relate to it gathering ideas come from what the instructor tells me. If the instructor request that we only write about a certain aspect of a story that I already have planned to write down I start to narrow my ideas down. This becomes a guide for me not to run off on tangents with the subject.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Blog 12- how did I revise my Literacy Narrative
The way I revised my Literacy Narrative was to first do some free writing on everything that was on my mind. This was good so I can grab a focus on what I thought my Literacy Narrative was about and also to clear my thoughts. AFter I did that I found one important theme.. That was that I struggled as a writer because I let other peoples opinions influence me. I then wrote an entirely new introduction and read over my entire Literacy Narrative. I still struggled to revise cause I felt that most of my paper flowed with my introduction. Nevertheless, I revised a couple of sentences and even added on to one paragraph.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Blog10- Writing Process
My writing process for my literacy narrative started off with me just discussing in class what we were going to write about. We spoke about different past experiences with writing in class. When I thought about the different experiences I had with writing as a child I kept a mental not in my head. Before I jotted down stories that I remebered I answered the questions that were given by Dr Chandler that could help us get an idea what we wanted to write our literacy narrative on. From those questions I crossed out alot of stories that I thought would be great for my paper and kept only about 2. I also came up with new things to put down in my paper when I answered those questions. Once I formulated the stories I was going to write down I wrote a little bit in my first draft. As the days went by I let the draft sit till I figured out what else I wanted to say. Finally when I finished my draft I read it over and took out certain things I felt was irrelavant to the literacy narrative theme. I'm still figuring what the theme is because Dr Chandler wrote a couple of suggestions on improving my literacy narrative that showed I needed a focus.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
blog 8-literacy narrative
Writing was fun for me when I was younger. It was just like playing barbies, I could express myself behind something; I hid behind the barbies and with writing I hid behind the pencil. These feelings came to me during the time that I heard of different "cultural stories" that my dad told me. One being that he is the "american dream". He was raised in Puerto Rico, grew up very poor, came to America with little money, went to college and became a successful engineer. He would tell me "you could be anything you want to be". Coming from his mouth it meant alot. My writing would be all over the place because I was under the impression that I could be who ever I wanted to be and if that was a "writer" at the moment then so it was. As soon as I was taught how to put sentences together in first and second grade I began to make short stories for my entertainment at home. One of my first short stories was a story of a girl’s life. I wrote one or two sentences on each page an majority of the story was illustrated through drawings.
Furthermore, my earliest memories of reading books were with the themes about "being anything you wanted to be". I also read "rags to riches" stories which correlated with that theme. One of the stories that sticks out the most was the Cinderella story. She lost her father, was treated horribly by her step mother, and one day all of that changed and she became a princess and lived happily ever after. The idea of becoming something instantly was the theme that played in my head when I was younger so my dreams were endless. Madonna was a huge influence on the way I wrote as a child to. Her idea of "express yourself" "be who you want to be" made me feel that there wouldn't be any critiques in writing because people like those who express themselves.
My father reading to me had alot to do with me thinking of writing as a fun process to. He read alot of children science books to me and read them in different voices to make them fun. I remember thinking how cool it was to know how to read plus I thought my father was amazing. That was the first memory that I had of me knowing how smart my father was. All of my ideas of being smart and knowing how to be creative came from my father’s animated story telling. I even imitated him when I started to learn how to read. It made me feel better when I read to do that because it gave me confidence as a story teller.
As soon as I got into fourth grade and really started to get my writing read through school reports, I realized writing wasn't as I believed it to be. As the essay written by Dr. Chandler said, some of these myths are seen as "the way it is" and before teachers actually critiqued my work I believed that "expressing myself" truly was great and had no consequences. Nevertheless, they did and those consequences were people's criticzims. Some of the criticzims were that my writing didn't make sense, that my grammar was horrible, and that my thoughts weren't organized. I struggled with the idea that I wasn't a good writer for years when this happened. What made it harder for me was when I started letting my mother proof read my reports. She would critique the whole entire paper without any positive feedback. This made me shift my ideas of writing as "a boring thought out process" instead of it being a fun way to "express yourself".
I also started to relate writing with school which meant it wasn’t fun. Everytime I had to write a sentence or two to anyone that was non-related to school I would take forever to put it together as if it was going to be handed in for a grade. I would read it to myself alot of times and come up with some reason to change what I wrote around. Furthermore, the more I started to dislike anything with writing the more I avoided it. This included me reading books. I spent more time watching TV then putting my time into a great novel.
At this point in my life I started to feel the pressures of “the real world” which was that hard work paid off but for me my idea of “being who I wanted to be” still stuck to me. I knew what my father taught me when I was younger influenced me alot. However, what was missing in the things that my father taught me? I then realized what was missing was me working hard for what I wanted to accomplish. My father didn’t tell me stories about how hard he worked to get where he was and the fairy tale stories I read when I was younger spoke nothing about working hard either. I realized I valued success in life but inorder to do that I had to improve myself which meant takeing constructive critizicm as a tool for improvement not failure.
When I accepted the idea of “working hard” I was already in my teens. Writing improved a little bit but the way I felt about writing shifted again. I started to enjoy writing as a pass time. The internet definitly encouraged this shift. During my first experience with writing on the internet I would send emails to the boys I liked. This made it much easier to say how I felt since I could hide behind something plus the message got there fast. This then grew into me wanting to write poems to express how I felt about others. I looked up different poetry websites to see other poems and wrote a couple myself from some ideas that I read on these websites. Most of my poems were about love and betrayal. During this time in my life reading and writing poems on the internet helped relieve the stress I was having based on these two subjects. Furthermore, I started to gain a little more confidence as a writer when I read some of my poems to my friends and they were very impressed.
When instant messaging became popular I would write to my friends all the time. I probably expressed more of my feelings about any subject to them through instant message than face to face. One of my friends lost her mother to cancer when I used writing as a tool to express myself. Being that she was away in college when it happened I would communicate with her through instant message. I felt more comfortable to be emotionally there for her through writing then through the phone because I couldn’t handle hearing her cry. Through writing I was able to collect my thoughts about how sorry I was and how much of a good friend she was to me. I sent her a couple of cards and wrote some of my thoughts down about how I felt about the whole thing. Our friendship grew more because of the support I gave her and she told me so many times how much better those cards made her feel.
I still saw a difference between writing in school and writing on my spare of time. It wasn’t till my senior year of highschool when I took a creative writing class that I enjoyed writing for school. The class made me feel relaxed just like I did when I was writing to a friend. In class we were able to put our thoughts together in just about any subject. It was the first time in school I was able to write how a wanted and not be critiqued on grammar. The class was meant for us to become more comfortable with our writing abilities and it really helped. The teacher gave me alot of positive feedback on some short stories I wrote which brought me out of my comfort zone of writing creative pieces just for mine and my friends eyes.
Now when ever I post up a status on Facebook I really dig deep on a subject that I want to talk about. Most of them are funny topics but they always are thought out and filled with alot of creativity. I always get alot of comments when ever I post something up. Most of the comments say how funny I am or how I have a great personality. One person even wrote to me saying they never spoke to me before and they can already tell I have a creative personality. I feel that the values my father taught me shaped me into the writer that I am today because his values taught me to be fearless.
Regardless of writing being a obstacle that I had to overcome and still struggle with at times, I find it to have lead me into who I am today. The criticzms I received growing up showed me how the world really was. My fathers stories showed me who I could be. Having had gone through different events in my life that included writing showed me how important it was for me to work hard. Even though my future plans don’t involve me wanting to be a writer I know that all the special parts that I received through writing will help me along the way. Those special parts include being creative, having the strength to represent myself how ever I want to, and organize plus plan well what I want to do. Writing formulated my identity as “not being a quiter” and with that identity I continue fighting for what I want. Now what I’m fighting for is to graduate college and I will never quit.
Furthermore, my earliest memories of reading books were with the themes about "being anything you wanted to be". I also read "rags to riches" stories which correlated with that theme. One of the stories that sticks out the most was the Cinderella story. She lost her father, was treated horribly by her step mother, and one day all of that changed and she became a princess and lived happily ever after. The idea of becoming something instantly was the theme that played in my head when I was younger so my dreams were endless. Madonna was a huge influence on the way I wrote as a child to. Her idea of "express yourself" "be who you want to be" made me feel that there wouldn't be any critiques in writing because people like those who express themselves.
My father reading to me had alot to do with me thinking of writing as a fun process to. He read alot of children science books to me and read them in different voices to make them fun. I remember thinking how cool it was to know how to read plus I thought my father was amazing. That was the first memory that I had of me knowing how smart my father was. All of my ideas of being smart and knowing how to be creative came from my father’s animated story telling. I even imitated him when I started to learn how to read. It made me feel better when I read to do that because it gave me confidence as a story teller.
As soon as I got into fourth grade and really started to get my writing read through school reports, I realized writing wasn't as I believed it to be. As the essay written by Dr. Chandler said, some of these myths are seen as "the way it is" and before teachers actually critiqued my work I believed that "expressing myself" truly was great and had no consequences. Nevertheless, they did and those consequences were people's criticzims. Some of the criticzims were that my writing didn't make sense, that my grammar was horrible, and that my thoughts weren't organized. I struggled with the idea that I wasn't a good writer for years when this happened. What made it harder for me was when I started letting my mother proof read my reports. She would critique the whole entire paper without any positive feedback. This made me shift my ideas of writing as "a boring thought out process" instead of it being a fun way to "express yourself".
I also started to relate writing with school which meant it wasn’t fun. Everytime I had to write a sentence or two to anyone that was non-related to school I would take forever to put it together as if it was going to be handed in for a grade. I would read it to myself alot of times and come up with some reason to change what I wrote around. Furthermore, the more I started to dislike anything with writing the more I avoided it. This included me reading books. I spent more time watching TV then putting my time into a great novel.
At this point in my life I started to feel the pressures of “the real world” which was that hard work paid off but for me my idea of “being who I wanted to be” still stuck to me. I knew what my father taught me when I was younger influenced me alot. However, what was missing in the things that my father taught me? I then realized what was missing was me working hard for what I wanted to accomplish. My father didn’t tell me stories about how hard he worked to get where he was and the fairy tale stories I read when I was younger spoke nothing about working hard either. I realized I valued success in life but inorder to do that I had to improve myself which meant takeing constructive critizicm as a tool for improvement not failure.
When I accepted the idea of “working hard” I was already in my teens. Writing improved a little bit but the way I felt about writing shifted again. I started to enjoy writing as a pass time. The internet definitly encouraged this shift. During my first experience with writing on the internet I would send emails to the boys I liked. This made it much easier to say how I felt since I could hide behind something plus the message got there fast. This then grew into me wanting to write poems to express how I felt about others. I looked up different poetry websites to see other poems and wrote a couple myself from some ideas that I read on these websites. Most of my poems were about love and betrayal. During this time in my life reading and writing poems on the internet helped relieve the stress I was having based on these two subjects. Furthermore, I started to gain a little more confidence as a writer when I read some of my poems to my friends and they were very impressed.
When instant messaging became popular I would write to my friends all the time. I probably expressed more of my feelings about any subject to them through instant message than face to face. One of my friends lost her mother to cancer when I used writing as a tool to express myself. Being that she was away in college when it happened I would communicate with her through instant message. I felt more comfortable to be emotionally there for her through writing then through the phone because I couldn’t handle hearing her cry. Through writing I was able to collect my thoughts about how sorry I was and how much of a good friend she was to me. I sent her a couple of cards and wrote some of my thoughts down about how I felt about the whole thing. Our friendship grew more because of the support I gave her and she told me so many times how much better those cards made her feel.
I still saw a difference between writing in school and writing on my spare of time. It wasn’t till my senior year of highschool when I took a creative writing class that I enjoyed writing for school. The class made me feel relaxed just like I did when I was writing to a friend. In class we were able to put our thoughts together in just about any subject. It was the first time in school I was able to write how a wanted and not be critiqued on grammar. The class was meant for us to become more comfortable with our writing abilities and it really helped. The teacher gave me alot of positive feedback on some short stories I wrote which brought me out of my comfort zone of writing creative pieces just for mine and my friends eyes.
Now when ever I post up a status on Facebook I really dig deep on a subject that I want to talk about. Most of them are funny topics but they always are thought out and filled with alot of creativity. I always get alot of comments when ever I post something up. Most of the comments say how funny I am or how I have a great personality. One person even wrote to me saying they never spoke to me before and they can already tell I have a creative personality. I feel that the values my father taught me shaped me into the writer that I am today because his values taught me to be fearless.
Regardless of writing being a obstacle that I had to overcome and still struggle with at times, I find it to have lead me into who I am today. The criticzms I received growing up showed me how the world really was. My fathers stories showed me who I could be. Having had gone through different events in my life that included writing showed me how important it was for me to work hard. Even though my future plans don’t involve me wanting to be a writer I know that all the special parts that I received through writing will help me along the way. Those special parts include being creative, having the strength to represent myself how ever I want to, and organize plus plan well what I want to do. Writing formulated my identity as “not being a quiter” and with that identity I continue fighting for what I want. Now what I’m fighting for is to graduate college and I will never quit.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Blog7-in class blog
What I learned about writing is that there is proof that writing is a natural process. People didn't use writing just as a form of expressing their language. They even showed a seperation between certain styles of writing and language; even if a language evolved into something else the written language had either stayed the same or practiced completly different rules. I learned that people are influenced by others unconciously which can have an effect on the way they write. Concepts like "cultural stories" and values form people's out look on writing as being a "fun pass time" or "organized action". Lastly, writing can be defined by however it is used. If a group of people use writing to communicate then that is how they will define writing.
My philosophy of writing is that it is biological and influenced through cultural stories. People do feel the need to write. As we are growing up we scribble alot of symbols before we are taught how to form sentences. Why do we do that? Even people who have been kept from learning how to speak, when given a writing utensil scrible what ever they can. It is influenced because people form concepts of what writing is through opinion leaders, teachers, and "cultural stories".
My philosophy of writing is that it is biological and influenced through cultural stories. People do feel the need to write. As we are growing up we scribble alot of symbols before we are taught how to form sentences. Why do we do that? Even people who have been kept from learning how to speak, when given a writing utensil scrible what ever they can. It is influenced because people form concepts of what writing is through opinion leaders, teachers, and "cultural stories".
Monday, February 8, 2010
Blog 5
Writing was fun for me when I was younger. It was just like playing barbies, I could express myself behind something; I hid behind the barbies and with writing I hid behind the pencil. These feelings came to me during the time that I heard of different "cultural stories". My dad told me about how he is the "american dream". He was raised in Puerto Rico, grew up very poor, came to America with little money, went to college and became a successful engineer. He would tell me "you could be anything you want to be". Coming from his mouth it meant alot. My writing would be all over the place because I was under the impression that I could be who ever I wanted to be and if that was a "writer" at the moment then so it was. As soon as I was taught how to put sentences together in first and second grade I began to make short stories for my entertainment at home.One of my first short stories was a story of a girl’s life. I wrote one or two sentences on each page an majority of the story was illustrated through drawings.
Furthermore, my earliest memories of reading books were with the themes about "being anything you wanted to be". I also read "rags to riches" stories which correlated with that theme. One of the stories that sticks out the most was the Cinderella story. She lost her father, was treated horribly by her step mother, and one day all of that changed and she became a princess and lived happily ever after. The idea of becoming something instantly was the theme that played in my head when I was younger so my dreams were endless. Madonna was a huge influence on the way I wrote as a child to. Her idea of "express yourself" "be who you want to be" made me feel that there wouldn't be any critiques in writing because people like those who express themselves.
Furthermore, my earliest memories of reading books were with the themes about "being anything you wanted to be". I also read "rags to riches" stories which correlated with that theme. One of the stories that sticks out the most was the Cinderella story. She lost her father, was treated horribly by her step mother, and one day all of that changed and she became a princess and lived happily ever after. The idea of becoming something instantly was the theme that played in my head when I was younger so my dreams were endless. Madonna was a huge influence on the way I wrote as a child to. Her idea of "express yourself" "be who you want to be" made me feel that there wouldn't be any critiques in writing because people like those who express themselves.
As soon as I got into fourth grade and really started to get my writing read through school reports, I realized writing wasn't as I believed it to be. As the essay written by Dr. Chandler said, some of these myths are seen as "the way it is" and before teachers actually critiqued my work I believed that "expressing myself" truly was great and had no consequences. Nevertheless, they did and those consequences were people's criticzims. Some of the criticzims were that my writing didn't make sense, that my grammar was horrible, and that my thoughts weren't organized. I struggled with the idea that I wasn't a good writer for years when this happened. What made it harder for me was when I started letting my mother proof read my reports. She would critique the whole entire paper without any positive feedback. This made me shift my ideas of writing as "a boring thought out process" instead of it being a fun way to "express yourself".
At this point in my life I started to feel the pressures of “the real world” which was that hard work paid off but for me my idea of “being who I wanted to be” still stuck to me. I knew that my fathers influence on what he taught me when I was younger was important. What was missing in the things that my father taught me? I then realized what was missing was me working hard for what I wanted to accomplish. My father didn’t tell me stories about how hard he worked to get were he was and the fairy tale stories I read when I was younger spoke nothing about working hard either. I realized I valued success in life but inorder to do that I had to improve myself which meant takeing constructive critizicm as a tool for improvement not failure.
When I accepted the idea of “working hard” I was already in my teens. Writing improved a little bit but the way I felt about writing shifted again. I started to enjoy writing as a pass time. The internet definitly encouraged this shift. During my first experience with writing on the internet I would send emails to the boys I liked. This made it much easier to say how I felt since I could hide behind something plus the message got there fast. This then grew into me wanting to write poems to express how I felt about others.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Blog 2
The factors that influenced our relationship to written language in the essay written on cultural stories were mainstream stories that are also known as "literacy myths". These myths were things that were told for many years to groups of people. Some of these myths include " freedom of speech" and "equality". The way these myths influenced writers could have been when writers write about things that are inapropriate. To them, its "just their uniqueness as a writer" to the essay it means " they are writing this way due to their unconcious belief that "it is good to say whats on your mind because we are all free to say what we feel". Also, even though someone might believe in the myth of "freedom of speech" as being true, it doesn't ever fully prove itself because of certain things people could get away with through the media-a person who cursed Obama's name on the news could be watched over as being a threat hence his/her life wouldn't be so "free" anymore.
From a biological-linguistic perspective we can learn that writing is natural and will come to each individual because it is a necessity in the process of communication. However, this essay tells us that we learn to write through our cultural stories. We learn how to write by first believing in our "cultural myths".
From a biological-linguistic perspective we can learn that writing is natural and will come to each individual because it is a necessity in the process of communication. However, this essay tells us that we learn to write through our cultural stories. We learn how to write by first believing in our "cultural myths".
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Written Language Is As Natural As Spoken Language..
-This article discusses how research shows that spoken language was a natural process throughout evolution. Nevertheless, written language was never seen as a natural process but instead a phenomenon that began once human beings wanted to express themselves.
-The authors wrote about how others found evidence that contradicts the beliefs on writing. Some of these findings include tablets of ancient writing from ancient civilizations that lived in Mesopoltamia; these tablets were found in different parts of Mesopoltamia which showed that writing wasn't started within the Sumerian genius but instead amongst different civilizations living far away from each other. Also, Egyptation language which had been replaced by Arabic for many years had tablets of middle Egyptation that was started way before the improvements of middle Egypation as a spoken Language came about, and it continued as a written language years after it died as a spoken Language.
- The theory of micro-evolution says that Language emerged and evolved throughout the years and was important for survival. This theory also proves that writing is a seperate natural process from spoken language that evolved to. During the Egyptation hieroglyph era, tablets began to improve in sentence structure. These improvements did not go hand in hand with the spoken language at the time.
-The authors wrote about how others found evidence that contradicts the beliefs on writing. Some of these findings include tablets of ancient writing from ancient civilizations that lived in Mesopoltamia; these tablets were found in different parts of Mesopoltamia which showed that writing wasn't started within the Sumerian genius but instead amongst different civilizations living far away from each other. Also, Egyptation language which had been replaced by Arabic for many years had tablets of middle Egyptation that was started way before the improvements of middle Egypation as a spoken Language came about, and it continued as a written language years after it died as a spoken Language.
- The theory of micro-evolution says that Language emerged and evolved throughout the years and was important for survival. This theory also proves that writing is a seperate natural process from spoken language that evolved to. During the Egyptation hieroglyph era, tablets began to improve in sentence structure. These improvements did not go hand in hand with the spoken language at the time.
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