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 able to properly utilize feedback from my rough draft as I reproached the topic. I was able to go back into what I had previously written and decided from there how to focus more on one aspect of my thesis rather then listing off a bunch of unrelated ideas. I was able to put the puzzle pieces together and find where I wanted to take that paper, as well as the other two parts. I was able to be more foucsed when writing and when I caught myself taking it in a different direction I was able to redirect it in a way that fit into the rest of the paper. When I realized I wanted to discuss AI art, and what I believe it’s doing to the human expierence, I knew what I wanted from my sources and felt they actually benifited me rather then just being forced into my paper.

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 Causal Rewrite, I found it challenging to focus on other things that could have caused AI in it’s current form. In my rough draft I found that it was human greed at the root of it, but wasn’t really able to connect the dots. When I realized that social media is responsible for creating a world where AI could have so much influence I knew I wanted to be able to create a reasonable timeline from social media to AI. I used my sources for similar reasons but I used them all to create the connection between social media and AI. The sources themselves weren’t making that correlation but using them to prove my claims about social media, I feel I was logically able to connect the two.

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.

While not my best of the three, I believe my work in my rebuttal argument made efforts to speak to the audience in a different way. I liked this promt because when making an argument theres no better way to make a point then to disprove someone who disagress with you. Anyone who may have been reading the previous two parts of the essay may have had their own disagreements and never stopped to question themselves. Craig Boehman is an artist who defends AI, which is not very common in this discussion, so by calling out his arguments and proving someone like him wrong I might have been able to sway some undecided readers.

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.

While it was a short assignment, I believe my Purposeful Summary, reflects these qualties the most. I was able to read the article and come at the topic with a reasonably blunt and realistic summary of the events. When discussing tragedy and violence, I find it best to be straight foward and honest with yourself and the reader. We all live on Earth, we deserve to know what happens here.

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. 

When creating my Research Paper, I tried my best to be fair to the reader. My personal vision of the future of AI is grim, and that “apocalyptic” view of the topic may have influenced part of it. Whether or not the reader is as filled with dread on the subject as I am, I still delivered them factual sources that accurately depicted the current state of AI and reasonably spelled out the future implications it has on our society. In my rough draft, I was trying to connect dots that weren’t there and exaggerated the extent of some of my sources. When rewriting, I was able to find more logical connections between sources and more accurately depict them.