Civic Literacies Project PSA (Text Analysis) notes
Topic: Knowledge of Conventions
Knowledge of Conventions covers a large spectrum of sub-genres that describe how a piece of writing or an image affects the message that is portrayed. It is formally defined by formal rules and informal guidelines that define genres to shape readers’ and writers’ expectations of correctness or appropriateness. In my notes, I have the titles Exigence, Audience, Constraints, as well as the strategies of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos, and also some elements of design or multimodality such as linguistic, visual, aural, spatial, and gestural modes. These are all sub-genres that describe how a piece is expressed to express a specific idea to the audience.
A Civic Literacy is to know how to actively participate in your community, and the be able to use the information that you know to create positive change in our community.
For this project, I was supposed to analyze a Public Service Announcement using these sub-genres to ultimately describe the main idea or message that is meant to be expressed. Below, I am going to give a list of explanations and definitions for the many sub-genres listed above, so you can better understand what I wrote my piece about.
Audience - Who the writer is speaking to and will be affected by the writer's information.
Exigence - An event that strongly invited utterance, or an event that strongly invites someone to say something about.
Constraints - People, events, things, or situations that will constrain the exigence, message, and outcomes.
Logos - The appeal to logic and reason.
Ethos - The appeal to authority and credibility.
Pathos - The appeal to the emotions.
Linguistic Mode - The use of written or spoken words.
Visual Mode - The ideas that are communicated in a representative way.
Aural Mode - The role that sound plays such as tone or volume.
Spatial Mode - The arrangement of the piece.
Gestural Mode - How the movements such as expressions and body language make meaning in the piece.
My workpiece is a list of these types of organizational elements and it helped me better understand the PSA by putting all of the information that is relevant and that I wanted to discuss in an orderly, neat way. I selected this piece to be in my portfolio because I thought it was a good representation of my knowledge of these types of sub-genres in the Knowledge of Conventions. Also, it clearly gives direct examples of a log of the concepts that we learned in class.
Knowledge of Conventions covers a large spectrum of sub-genres that describe how a piece of writing or an image affects the message that is portrayed. It is formally defined by formal rules and informal guidelines that define genres to shape readers’ and writers’ expectations of correctness or appropriateness. In my notes, I have the titles Exigence, Audience, Constraints, as well as the strategies of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos, and also some elements of design or multimodality such as linguistic, visual, aural, spatial, and gestural modes. These are all sub-genres that describe how a piece is expressed to express a specific idea to the audience.
A Civic Literacy is to know how to actively participate in your community, and the be able to use the information that you know to create positive change in our community.
For this project, I was supposed to analyze a Public Service Announcement using these sub-genres to ultimately describe the main idea or message that is meant to be expressed. Below, I am going to give a list of explanations and definitions for the many sub-genres listed above, so you can better understand what I wrote my piece about.
Audience - Who the writer is speaking to and will be affected by the writer's information.
Exigence - An event that strongly invited utterance, or an event that strongly invites someone to say something about.
Constraints - People, events, things, or situations that will constrain the exigence, message, and outcomes.
Logos - The appeal to logic and reason.
Ethos - The appeal to authority and credibility.
Pathos - The appeal to the emotions.
Linguistic Mode - The use of written or spoken words.
Visual Mode - The ideas that are communicated in a representative way.
Aural Mode - The role that sound plays such as tone or volume.
Spatial Mode - The arrangement of the piece.
Gestural Mode - How the movements such as expressions and body language make meaning in the piece.
My workpiece is a list of these types of organizational elements and it helped me better understand the PSA by putting all of the information that is relevant and that I wanted to discuss in an orderly, neat way. I selected this piece to be in my portfolio because I thought it was a good representation of my knowledge of these types of sub-genres in the Knowledge of Conventions. Also, it clearly gives direct examples of a log of the concepts that we learned in class.
Civic Literacies Project (creation) Final Draft
Topic: Multimodality
Multimodality is the way of communicating through many modes such as the linguistic, visual, aural, spatial, and gestural modes with the definitions listed above. In this piece I have created a Public Service Announcement of my own to communicate the message for students on my school's campus to study abroad. It uses many more subgenres of Knowledge of Conventions than just multimodality, however, in this reflection I am just going to focus on multimodality so you, my audience, can understand more specifically what this concept explains.
This piece communicates my message through the linguistic mode of written words by having a lot of information about studying abroad for collage students. It uses the visual mode by including a beautiful and relaxing picture of a student walking through a mountainous meadow as the background, which is meant to invite the audience into the world of studying abroad. The aural mode is not used because it is an image and not a video, however, perhaps the poster can blow in the wind and make a peaceful sound to attract students to study abroad. The spacial mode is used by utilizing the many spaces that are not occupied heavily in the background picture, such as the vast sky and the grass. The words were also somewhat spread out to invite the reader to read parts of the information instead of overwhelming the reader with all of the information at once. Lastly, the gestural mode was used in this poster by including the student walking in front of the picture on a long path, signaling that studying abroad is a beautiful journey and you don't have to do it alone because there will always be someone to guide you along the way.
Multimodality is the way of communicating through many modes such as the linguistic, visual, aural, spatial, and gestural modes with the definitions listed above. In this piece I have created a Public Service Announcement of my own to communicate the message for students on my school's campus to study abroad. It uses many more subgenres of Knowledge of Conventions than just multimodality, however, in this reflection I am just going to focus on multimodality so you, my audience, can understand more specifically what this concept explains.
This piece communicates my message through the linguistic mode of written words by having a lot of information about studying abroad for collage students. It uses the visual mode by including a beautiful and relaxing picture of a student walking through a mountainous meadow as the background, which is meant to invite the audience into the world of studying abroad. The aural mode is not used because it is an image and not a video, however, perhaps the poster can blow in the wind and make a peaceful sound to attract students to study abroad. The spacial mode is used by utilizing the many spaces that are not occupied heavily in the background picture, such as the vast sky and the grass. The words were also somewhat spread out to invite the reader to read parts of the information instead of overwhelming the reader with all of the information at once. Lastly, the gestural mode was used in this poster by including the student walking in front of the picture on a long path, signaling that studying abroad is a beautiful journey and you don't have to do it alone because there will always be someone to guide you along the way.
Personal Literacies Project notes from example literacy stories
Topic: Critical Reading
Critical Reading was defined earlier as the ability to analyze, synthesize, interpret, and evaluate ideas, information and texts. During this topic of learning in class, we, students, were taught how to read a text and analyze it to determine the main idea, supporting ideas, and separate the facts from opinions from supporting evidence. This piece shows notes from a few different examples of literacy memoirs that I later used to help me develop my ideas for my own literacy memoir. Some notes that I thought were interesting were about the contrast between modern life and traditions. As I will explain further in the reflection of my next piece, I am half Chinese and half American so the fact that there were so many example reflections helped me develop my idea of writing about my heritage and about my experiences of growing up multiracial.
This piece shows critical reading because it shows that I have read multiple texts and have developed ideas of what the main ideas are and the facts and evidence that supports those ideas. One example is on the first page, under the title "Wild tongues can't be tames, they can only be cut out". I differentiated between the main idea of the English literacy, and the places that this literacy took place such as the university, and the playground.
This piece was important because I read different examples of literacy memoirs and took notes on them to better understand the piece of work that was required from me. I took notes on specific things I found interesting and that I should elaborate on in my own literacy project. The quotes were helpful to me because it was a deeper understanding of their lives and I wanted to recreate a quote or a theme that was personal in importance to me to further put in my literacy memoir.
Critical Reading was defined earlier as the ability to analyze, synthesize, interpret, and evaluate ideas, information and texts. During this topic of learning in class, we, students, were taught how to read a text and analyze it to determine the main idea, supporting ideas, and separate the facts from opinions from supporting evidence. This piece shows notes from a few different examples of literacy memoirs that I later used to help me develop my ideas for my own literacy memoir. Some notes that I thought were interesting were about the contrast between modern life and traditions. As I will explain further in the reflection of my next piece, I am half Chinese and half American so the fact that there were so many example reflections helped me develop my idea of writing about my heritage and about my experiences of growing up multiracial.
This piece shows critical reading because it shows that I have read multiple texts and have developed ideas of what the main ideas are and the facts and evidence that supports those ideas. One example is on the first page, under the title "Wild tongues can't be tames, they can only be cut out". I differentiated between the main idea of the English literacy, and the places that this literacy took place such as the university, and the playground.
This piece was important because I read different examples of literacy memoirs and took notes on them to better understand the piece of work that was required from me. I took notes on specific things I found interesting and that I should elaborate on in my own literacy project. The quotes were helpful to me because it was a deeper understanding of their lives and I wanted to recreate a quote or a theme that was personal in importance to me to further put in my literacy memoir.
Personal Literacies Project Final Draft
Topic: Critical Reflection
Critical reflection is a process of reasoning to make meaning out of an experience in the form of writing or a specific text. This piece exemplifies the concept of critical reflection by showing my process of reflecting through my life to piece thoughts and experiences together and compare them to create meaning. I started by writing about the struggles of my childhood of feeling confused and unaccepting of myself that I wasn't life everyone else and that I didn't fit into any specific category. I compared these experiences to my later experiences of slowly accepting who I was and where I came from. I also gave many examples along the process of writing my literacy memoir of how I changed and the different ways that I have changed throughout my life.
A Literacy Memoir is a piece of writing that reflects on a person's memories or things that happened in their life that have crucial impacts in who they are today or who they ultimately were. It represents a collection of experiences that changes a person , usually for the better.
I included this piece because, in my opinion, it was the most personal and emotional writing piece that I have ever done in my history of writing in school. I discussed and reflected on my whole process of showing my history of learning who I am and my learning process of the world and its social "norms". I felt that including this piece would let my audience better know who I am, personally, where I came from, and who I want to be.
This is one of the more personal works that I have ever done and I am proud of it because it came from my heart. I will hopefully look back on this work in the future and see how I viewed my troubles as well as my successes in my life so far, and see how much I have grown. It will give me insight into what I held important at this time in my life, which is very much showing of the kind of person someone is.
Critical reflection is a process of reasoning to make meaning out of an experience in the form of writing or a specific text. This piece exemplifies the concept of critical reflection by showing my process of reflecting through my life to piece thoughts and experiences together and compare them to create meaning. I started by writing about the struggles of my childhood of feeling confused and unaccepting of myself that I wasn't life everyone else and that I didn't fit into any specific category. I compared these experiences to my later experiences of slowly accepting who I was and where I came from. I also gave many examples along the process of writing my literacy memoir of how I changed and the different ways that I have changed throughout my life.
A Literacy Memoir is a piece of writing that reflects on a person's memories or things that happened in their life that have crucial impacts in who they are today or who they ultimately were. It represents a collection of experiences that changes a person , usually for the better.
I included this piece because, in my opinion, it was the most personal and emotional writing piece that I have ever done in my history of writing in school. I discussed and reflected on my whole process of showing my history of learning who I am and my learning process of the world and its social "norms". I felt that including this piece would let my audience better know who I am, personally, where I came from, and who I want to be.
This is one of the more personal works that I have ever done and I am proud of it because it came from my heart. I will hopefully look back on this work in the future and see how I viewed my troubles as well as my successes in my life so far, and see how much I have grown. It will give me insight into what I held important at this time in my life, which is very much showing of the kind of person someone is.
Discourse Communities Presentation Planning
Topic: Composing Process
A Composing Process is defined as the process by which a person uses multiple strategies to develop and finalize a project. This piece of writing shows a composing process because it is an outline of a presentation, whose components were researched, analyzed, planned, and ultimately perfected for reasons of presentation. Through its components it represents many pieces of a project that are not completed and combined into a whole, such as the components of a practiced piece of music, presentations on the roles of conductors and students in an orchestra community.
I thought that this piece was important to include not only because it shows my composing process, but it also shows collaboration and team work because it includes two people's names: my partner's and mine. This type of collaboration is an important twenty first century skill and shows that I am capable of working in a group and putting in a team effort, especially in something as important as a class project. In this presentation, my partner and I took turns presenting the information that we researched together, and we each also gave in our own input using our own skills, for example, I played violin during the presentation because it related to the topic and was an interesting opening to the presentation.
A Composing Process is defined as the process by which a person uses multiple strategies to develop and finalize a project. This piece of writing shows a composing process because it is an outline of a presentation, whose components were researched, analyzed, planned, and ultimately perfected for reasons of presentation. Through its components it represents many pieces of a project that are not completed and combined into a whole, such as the components of a practiced piece of music, presentations on the roles of conductors and students in an orchestra community.
I thought that this piece was important to include not only because it shows my composing process, but it also shows collaboration and team work because it includes two people's names: my partner's and mine. This type of collaboration is an important twenty first century skill and shows that I am capable of working in a group and putting in a team effort, especially in something as important as a class project. In this presentation, my partner and I took turns presenting the information that we researched together, and we each also gave in our own input using our own skills, for example, I played violin during the presentation because it related to the topic and was an interesting opening to the presentation.