Our final presentation was a culmination of all the collaborative work we had done throughout the semester. This meant that as a group, we were taking other information from both our literature review and children’s book project and combining it into a final product that summarized our work. This process allowed me to work with the course objective “engage in genre analysis and multimodal composing to explore effective writing across disciplinary contexts and beyond” We were tasked with taking complex information that spread across different mediums and combining it, keeping in mind specific audiences. For example, when deciding whether to work on a children’s book or an Awarness campaign, we…

Writing an essay with a group required an amount of collaborative coordination that I was unused to. It was important that our separate sections were able to be combined into one cohesive product at the end, despite us discussing three different sub-topics. This required frequent check-ins during our individual writing process, along with corrections being made at the end to tie all of our work together. This all allowed me to work on the course objective “develop and engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes”. I was able to develop a bond with my group mates that allowed us to have smooth check-ins and consistently get our…

When I first started my literature review, I was slightly overwhelmed with the process of finding the best sources. I have done similar assignments before but there are always various databases to go through, and various articles to decipher. This process allowed me to work on both “practice using various library resources, online databases, and the Internet to locate sources appropriate to your writing projects” and “strengthen your source use practices (including evaluating, integrating, quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources)” as sources are the most important part of a Literature review. The first thing I learned how to do was utilize the CUNY library database which I had…

A Rhetorical Analysis calls for the writer to generate their own opinion/stance based on a piece of media or experience. Because of this and the nature of the assignment, the main course objectives I was pushed to explore were “formulate and articulate a stance through and in your writing” and “strengthen your source use practices.” I decided to focus on a moment in pop culture, following Winona Ryder and how she transitioned from convicted thief to the face of the very brand that she had stolen from. I made the claim that Winnona and her team made deliberate decisions during the trial to sway public opinion, and decisions were made…