Core Value 1. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development.

The topic that I chose for my short arguments and overall research paper demonstrated the stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development. Escapism is not a topic that is known or even talked about enough. When I chose this topic I had to dig deeper on what Escapism is defined as and stretch it for the short arguments. I used Google Scholar, Rowan’s library, and carefully revised articles from Google. My Proposal+5 shows that I know how to utilize the information given and take what I need to create a story.

Core Value 2. My work demonstrates that I read critically, and that I placed texts into conversation with one another to create meaning by synthesizing ideas from various discourse communities. 

Towards the middle of the semester, the Professor gave the class a section to analyze the type of claims that were in an article. To identify the claims we had to go by what the professor lectured that day and apply it to our work. With that assignment, we had to take a conversation and place it into a text so that the audience could understand the underlying statement. I read the text carefully and went both off my understanding and the professor’s lesson. I was able to comprehend the article and say what the author meant to say. The article was about these veterans suffering from PTSD and how that affects their families’ behavior. PTSD Claims Section 16-Hotgirlsemester

Core Value 3. My work demonstrates that I rhetorically analyzed the purpose, audience, and contexts of my own writing and other texts and visual arguments.

Before I started this class I always had trouble being less vague in my writing. When I write I am always to the point no further details no imagination to give. Then I started the class and my professor challenged me to be more detail-oriented with as less useless words as possible. Me being a student who finds writing in detail challenging I had some rewrites to do. This one assignment where you analyze a video and describe it to the point that your audience can see it tested how much detail I can record. The Visual Rhetoric assignment demonstrated that I can analyze an audience and put it into my own words. Visual Rewrite-HotGirlSemester

Core Value 4: My work demonstrates that I have met the expectations of academic writing by locating, evaluating, and incorporating illustrations and evidence to support my own ideas and interpretations.

Throughout this semester everything I have written about is about providing a picture for your audience. First, there’s the Definition argument to give your audience an understanding of what they are reading. Then it’s the Causal argument that is written to elaborate on the causes of your topic. Next is the Rebuttal Argument the part of the argument that is refuting with articles that say the opposite of what you stated in the last two arguments. Finally, it’s the research paper that brings it all together and demonstrates my understanding and execution of writing. Research-HotGirlSemester

Core Value 5. My work demonstrates that I respect my ethical responsibility to represent complex ideas fairly and to the sources of my information with appropriate citation. 

My Annotated Bibliography demonstrates my respect for ethical responsibility when it comes to backing up my ideas. To write my papers I needed information and to credit my information I referenced it. All papers need to be credited because if not it’s considered plagiarism. Citing my sources and making a page dedicated to my sources shows respect giving credit to the information that I have gathered.