College Writing

I suppose that something that surprised me about the documentary, was how accepting/tolerating people were towards J.T. LeRoy. Despite not giving the ideal vision of a man or woman that society often pushes onto us, J.T. was able to become very popular during his time. Him and his work was loved by everyone, and yet he didn't conform to gender or sexuality norms from what was shown in the public. One question that I have after the viewing, is, did Laura ever get the mental help that she needed as herself? Or does she still do her therapy through J.T.? She seemed to have gone through so much from her childhood to now. Acting as J.T. or writing as a man seemed to be the only way that she could explore the trauma that she went through as it gave it some distance from herself. Laura even mentions that being forced to write as a woman in a college class was what broke her down so much that she stopped writing altogether. We might avoid including research in out summaries because we can ...

To me, visual awareness seems to be the analysis of an image. Basically analyzing them the same way we analyze texts for their meanings. The technique can be used for many different forms of imagery such as, advertisement, art, posters, videos, and journalistic photography. Many things are needed to be taken into account when analyzing an image, just like when analyzing a piece of text; such as the time and place that the image is showing, the ideals of the person who created it, any words or narratives that accompany it, and more. Evaluating images requires not only taking into account what is there or the context it was taken in, but the small things as well like lighting, framing, angling, etc. As these images are used to get the author's point across, they can also often be tampered with or edit. Images can even be staged, showing an event that was created by the author, instead of a moment in time that happened naturally.  When it comes to analyzing visual pieces of media, eve...

 College is definitely a new and different experience from how I've experienced school in the past. On the one hand, I get to take classes that actually interest me, and go through becoming more independent. On the other hand however, this new experience has stressed me out majorly. This transition has undeniably been a difficult one for me, that's for sure. Being social and not surrounding my life around things that need to be done has always been hard for me. In my eyes, I have a long, never-ending list of things to complete that just takes up all of my time. I try to manage my time, but when more things get added to that list, I end up getting really overwhelmed. So not only do I not give socializing the proper attention that it needs, I also am constantly feeling too exhausted to socialize. I've also struggled to find my footing in some of my classes. I switched most of my classes late, so trying to catch up proves to be challenging. Especially since I didn't get th...

The micro theme is a new way of writing that we are learning in my college writing class. It's three paragraphs of my opinion on a topic, however it's without the actualities of evidence. This supposedly makes the essay more open to the people that may have differing opinions than yours on the topic to possibly change, or at least think more on their opinion. I think that my biggest challenges with the microtheme, is trying to find a topic, and learning a completely new way of writing.  I am someone who likes structure and details; so trying to figure out a topic from a broad direction like "write about something you are passionate about" was really hard for me. Usually I'm given one option of two for a given topic to write about. There are many things that me, and I would assume many others, are passionate about. I feel like it would be more helpful if we could maybe be given a list of possible ideas. Even if there are some people that may do the same topic, it i...