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.

In my definition rewrite, I was intended to summarize what my paper was focused on which was emotions in the human mind. It did take a few tries to write exactly what I wanted to be written but the deadline was approaching so I ended up submitting it how it is. I wasn’t able to fix it or rewrite it as I would have liked mainly because I forgot and I was also focusing on the next writing assignment. I also explored different stages of development in the human mind and included it in my paper. Overall, I would say that it really is a first draft and I could have wrote more and improved as the professor did provide feedback for me.

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.

In my casual rewrite, It was quite difficult to explain what I wanted the readers to understand with my research. I found myself trying to add in different examples and also scenarios. I added two in the casual rewrite but I do believe I could have done something different in my writing or expressed it differently to get readers to understand. In my rough draft I kind of found myself repeating the same things I mentioned in my definition rewrite. When I realized that examples or scenarios could help readers imagine what they would feel or think in those situations, I tried to add that into my casual rewrite. The sources that I used kind of tied into the examples that I mentioned.

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.

I can confidently say that my rebuttal argument was not the best of my writing. It was a bit challenging trying to add in arguments that disagreed with my research paper. My research paper was based on how emotions in the human mind work and why. The “arguments” that I tried to tie in were neurological explanations and psychological explanations. Which is why I understand the grade that I received on my rebuttal argument. I thought that what I wrote would be enough but reading it over again, I could have added in more arguments that were disproving my thesis.

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.

This was shown in my purposeful summary or my visual rewrite. I believe that both of these assignments reflect the qualities the most. I was able to describe the video in the visual rewrite and the picture in my purposeful summary writing. My work demonstrates this because I included every detail in both. Although I received an 81-83 on both I think I did a good job, mainly on the visual rewrite. This is because I stopped at every second of the video, capturing everything from every single angle and describing it.

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. 

While I was writing my research paper I tried to keep a balanced perspective on both sides. My responsibility to represent complex ideas fairly were somewhat used in my research paper but I could have done better. It’s a bit difficult to represent a different idea when you aren’t even sure what that idea is. My thesis was about complex emotions in the human mind and although I added in examples, I wouldn’t say I was fair in how I represented them. I will say that I was able to cite my information appropriately and provided evidence for each concept.