I feel like I definitely am getting closer to reaching my annotation goals, but I feel as though a prompt would help me annotate and read more closely. Surrounding Context: “Necessary Edges: Arts, and Education” was written by Yo-Yo Ma, a cellist, and songwriter who graduated from Julliard School and Harvard University. Ma wrote this … [Read more…]
Part 1: “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott After reading “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott, it was kind of a cool to see how even people who write for a living can’t just sit down and write. They get stuck starting a first draft and writing down all their ideas on the paper. It … [Read more…]
While doing my peer review, I found it a lot harder to focus just on the global edits than I thought it would be. I didn’t realize how much spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes could bother me while reading over someone’s essay. I tried to overlook them and just focus on big global edits like … [Read more…]
Metaphors have been around for eras. We particularly use them in the health field when talking about illness and treating diseases. Dhruv Khullar’s “Trouble with Medicine’s Metaphors” talks about the link between military metaphor and the health field. Typically we associate someone’s journey with an illness as a fight and deem them a fighter. Is … [Read more…]
“The Trouble With Medicine’s Metaphors” by Dhruv Khullar is talking about the use of military metaphors in medicine. Metaphors, and word in general are very powerful when used to describe an illness because most of the time, it is a new, scary and hard thing to wrap your head around. Military terms have been used … [Read more…]
After going through “See Through Words” for the second time, and after discussing it in class, I definitely saw some of his points differently. At first I really didn’t understand the whole concept of the pseudo-mistakes. It seemed like a waste and not a very effective metaphor creating process. After discussing in small groups and … [Read more…]
My initial thoughts of ePortfolio was oh my goodness this is so overwhelming. I am so bad with technology, I am going to fail this class. After doing the first two assignments and having someone come in and talk to us about how to use wordpress and ePorfolio, I am not so overwhelmed. I think … [Read more…]
While reading “Seeing Through Words” by Michael Erard, I found it interesting how he talked about Metaphors We Live By and how most of the metaphors that are designed nowadays are still structured around the same principles that were founded by George Lakoff in the 1980s. As I read about more works that were published … [Read more…]
