When creating a story through visual-based genre, the TS templates would work very differently from writing an essay. However, the function of the templates was still there, which was to express the relationship between ideas. In a visual-based genre, instead of directly using the words, we would need to use different transition scenes in a digital video to show relationships between pictures, we could blur parts of a picture to give more emphasis to an object or a person in the picture, we could juxtapose different pictures in a pattern that showed the contrast or comparison, and so on.
To change something from a text-only realm to a text-focused enriched realm, there are several changes that we should pay attention to.
Firstly, the text-only version is usually the prototype of the project. We usually start drafting a project by writing, and then form it into an essay. However, when we turn it into an enriched format, and publish it digitally online, we should not merely copy and paste the original text onto the webpage. We should, instead, make it more interactive with the reader. So, we can break up the text into different sections by putting some space in between and putting a title for each of them so that the readers can easily navigate through the writing. In addition, pictures and links should be added to facilitate the readers to easily understand what we are trying to convey. Secondly, the text-only version is usually written for the sake of an academic paper so that sometimes the language sounds serious. However, on the webpages, because we try to communicate with the readers more directly, we can replace some words with more colloquial one and break up complicated sentences, or add another paragraph using colloquial language to explain the writing when the original piece is hard to be changed. Memoir is a kind of genre where writer writes about a short piece of memory that is meaningful. Often, the memoir reflects what the writer thinks is important in the past and the writer has new thoughts on that piece of the experience.
In this class, memoir is a very helpful genre to write about past experience of space and place. Specifically, when a person moves from one place to another, he or she lost physical contact with the old place and so memoir is a very good way to think about the past experience of the place. And throughout the process of doing so, it allows the writer to reflect on the change of experience of one place/space over time. It is meaningful because place/space is what shapes us and its change can often reflect the changes of ourselves. At the beginning of the course English continue writing courser ENG 221RW, I was not really sure what “place” meant. It was a very broad and abstract concept that I did not know how to understand and apply it to formal writing. However, as I read Tuan’s and Price’s pieces of writings on “place”, I developed a better background understanding of “place”. Throughout the process, I started to see the relationship between “place” and “human beings” and how we transform “space” in to “place”.
The purpose of this essay is to examine the relationship between home and self identity. I did not developed this topic and the argument in the paper before I started writing. Rather, the concept of “home” in the context of self identity came to my mind as I was reading the sources assigned for the class. As I was wandering about which topic I should focused, I took down sentences that I found interesting from the text and organized them as an annotated bibliography. As a result, “home” gradually became the focus of my thought and as I was looking at my bookshelf for extra sources, I found one of books I have read to be useful to defend my argument in the paper. The book is Escape from Camp 14 which narrates the story of a North Korean born in one of the forced labour camps. It not only rebukes the argument of one of the other sources I incorporated but also more strongly defend my argument that home defines oneself.
The purpose of this proposal and annotated bibliography is to present a writing plan for one of the formal persuasive paper assignments to be completed in ENG 221RW course at Emory University. Instead of writing the paper from scratch, making a proposal with an annotated bibliography is certainly helpful since the concept dealt with in this paper is “place” which is very abstract and needs much critical thinking.
The blog post this week is free writing activities proposed in being a writer and is about yi-fu tuan's interpretation of "place"Activity 1
Free Writing… Haha, I cannot believe that I actually doing the same thing again as two days ago. I just felt I am really hungry and so I am going to make some dumplings after I finish this activity. I really don't understand why I have to repeat doing this as every single time, I can only write about the iPhone 6 but I don't want to repeat the same thing that I have done. Just one random thought: Space and Place is really hard to understand. I thought “place” is a concept easy to grasp but it turns out that is not something easy. Maybe the Tuan kind of make the concept abstract. I feel like I can better understand it when more concrete examples are given. I am the kind of person who does not like philosophy or abstract thinking. comparision and cotrast of place by patricia price and space and place by yi-fu tuan First thought after reading...
The theme of both pieces is similar as both talk about the meaning of place. What surprises me is that Price and Tuan attach many different aspects of humanity to the concept of “place”. I have never thought of the distinction between “space” and “place” since for me, they have always merely mean somewhere for us to exist. So, the most interesting yet complicated question for me to think through is what makes “place” so important to the existence of human beings. this is response to "rhode island" by jhumpa lahiri... In the story, Lahiri describes how she feels about Rhode Island as a place and also as her hometown. Although she was not born there and is an immigrant to the United States, she called Rhode Island home. Throughout the writing, she has recorded how Rhode Island has changed but how some parts of it remained the same over the decades. The attachment and the feeling of bond to a place is what I think Lahiri tries to express. What important to Lahiri about Rhode Island is the sense of freedom, leisure and embracing that makes this place special to her.
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