Midterm Reflective Essay

Mark Fitch

English 2089

Neely McLaughlin

2/28/20

Midterm Reflective Essay

So far this semester I have acclimated myself with WordPress and learned to create and post blog posts as well as learning to post on pages. Posting these and reading certain articles that dive into what makes people read certain articles and posts. One of the first things we read in class was the “color blue” article and what was interesting about the color blue article was how in some way and some places this reason to not seeing the color would consist of either no known knowledge of the color spectrum and never thought about that color. This coincides with future assignments that we have with the idea of using words and new ways of saying things, that by doing this we can intrigue or catch someone’s eye and in turn they will read the article based on what its about or how it may look.

During this semester we have also looked at different and more effective ways of journalism. We have learned what a discourse community is(a group or people working towards the same goal or objective). Learning about the discourse community was very interesting in that in a discourse community, everyone can be working towards the same goals, but each person has or could have different area of expertise in the subject or goal that the community is working towards with an example being at UCBA. Another topic we examined was a series of VSCO post and the way that they were written. For example, on pertained more to how it related to the author of the article and the other being more focused on what the article was about and the title topic at hand. The next assignment is our observation assignment, and this includes writing about a certain topic and well observing it and writing about what it has to offer. My observation assignment consists of “why people play video games”, I chose this because video games have always been in my life and the ability that video games have to teach you or change the way you feel is what intrigues me most about my observation topic.

In this class we also talked about the activist which is where article get posted for viewing on the UC website and us finding an appropriate Article ro post on there. As I talked about earlier of the color blue article and how it reveals that language can shape our perception of reality, well soon we read an article being titled just that and this helps in when we are writing an article, blog, or pages is that we need to remember that the language we use in the beginning of each of these will shape the reader perception of how the article will continue to go, always be sure to be intriguing in the beginning so the reader will continue on. We then went on to choose our profile article that we want to focus on and mine being why people play video games.

The next assignment consisted of getting into groups to work on a photo caption list which is a topic that is discussed with information that would be interesting to the reader or readers with pictures. Our groups photo caption list is about business and the essentials of making or having one which includes saving, investing, spending, and just overall business tips and ideas. While still working on the observation paper and the photo caption list we started focusing on genre and discerning different types of genres to easier identify what it is that is being generalized. Also we talked more about the Activist and what would be considered ready to be posted on there and with that needing the observation paper to be ready. We recently read the articles genre in the wild which covers different genres and discovering them, also the article about the concept of discourse communities.