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.

While developing my Proposal+5, which became my Annotated Bibliography, I got to further advance my knowledge of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development through much research. I got even better at this while writing my 3,000-word research paper. I originally learned the absolute basics of this skill in my Composition 1 class at RCSJ, and I feel I took many steps to get closer to mastering this skill through this class. I was able to discover how to effectively search databases, and develop robust ways to communicate the meaning of the concepts I had created to my intended audience. My sources allowed me to create an excellent research position paper that guided my path toward a great argument about how our current driver’s education needs to be improved.

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. 

While I was writing my Summaries, I was required to read multiple counterintuitive texts and visualize the entire text so I was able to communicate the main idea in order to write delicate summaries that effectively summed up the text. This was a very useful assignment in my eyes as it helped me learn to read critically, which enabled me to synthesize the main ideas from texts and other things I may read. I have proven that I am able to do this pretty well through my summaries paper. I thought this was one of the bits that I did with relative ease and felt confident in. Being able to place texts into conversation is essentially rewording the words on paper and simplifying to sound as it would a person trying to explain it to someone with no experience in the subject.

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.

The Visual Rewrite assignment proved to display the ability I learned from this class on how to look for every little detail from a multitude of perspectives in order to perceive in many ways what the author may be communicating to the audience. It is important to know everything was strategically placed and that it all comes into play in some way. I displayed all of this throughout my Visual Rhetoric assignment. I looked at many different angles and spent enough time scanning each second for any and all changes that had been made. You will notice I explain everything almost as if I were someone who has never seen the video in question before or as I would a blind person. I think this assignment taught me that as a writer, you need to change your perspective to give yourself an advantage against what the norm would see; this is what makes your work worth reading and causes it to stand out.

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.

My work in my Research Position paper shows that I am able to meet the expectations of academic writing in many ways. I am able to locate sources that will help prove my thesis. The ability to locate reliable sources is crucial in writing academic papers. Evaluation of sources goes hand in hand with the ability to locate these sources. You need to be able to keep an eye out for signs that resemble the article’s authenticity and find the original source of all evidence and the background behind the evidence and research to truly give you an advantage. Incorporating illustrations can also be important to give your audience an idea of what you may be trying to explain, but you must be careful not to give the wrong idea; every detail counts.

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 Research Position paper also displays my ability to respect ethical standpoints and give ideas that won’t discriminate or leave anyone out. My work on the subject of improved driving schools actually gives people who may have had difficulty receiving information the chance to learn hands-on in safe environments like simulators. I have proven that I will properly cite all my research and work and not steal any ideas. Anything that was even consulted in the making of this paper was listed in the annotated bibliography. All in-text citations were properly placed in one of the revision sessions, and the references were double-checked to have been used or consulted.