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.

I demonstrated core value 1 in my definition rewrite. I demonstrated perseverance and openness in my ideas and developed into better thoughts by taking into account all the feedback I got. With that, I also recognized what I needed to fix in my writing and saw that I tend to use a lot of unnecessary words to get straight to the point. I did revisions and took in all the feedback I got to improve my writing. I did reflect upon my writing to make sure the revisions made better sense than what I had written. I read from a writer’s and reader’s point of view to see the different tones of the person influencing and the person being influenced. As always I am open to new ideas because no writing is a perfect copy, it is just a better draft. 

defintion rewrite– gymrat

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. 

I demonstrated core value 2 in my causal argument. In this essay, I learned how to set my point across using my sources. I read through them critically, analyzed them, put the information together, and explained how and why adolescents are ruining their self-image with social media rather than helping. I saw each of the arguments and blocked every possible exit by exploring issues and questions. With this, I took on the challenge to make all my sources flow together and be formed. Having all of my ideas come together and be communicated visually so that readers can understand and be influenced by my point of view. Having different ideas with my argument created a better representation for the reader to be influenced. 

causal rewrite — gymrat

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 demonstrated core value 3 through my visual argument. Throughout my visual argument, I learned to identify different parts of my visual argument by interpreting what the author showed. While analyzing the video I used the visuals to come up with my interpretations and get an idea of what to say to my audience. Create sharp arguments within my visual argument by telling the story on the screen and interpreting it the way looks as precise as possible to the point I was trying to make. The rhetorical part of the assignment was to understand the video from a deeper perspective and explain the video. The whole assignment was to be interpreted and fully descriptive from my perspective, influencing and explaining my view of others. 

Visual Rewrite- Gymrat

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.

I demonstrated core value 4 through my stone money essay. Throughout the essay, I looked through and evaluated multiple sources and interpreted them to the best of my ability. Identifying different approaches and connecting it all in the end with how value is based on anything that people place it on. Using all the sources as well to interpret the idea of Stone Money. Having different sources like podcasts and articles helped out the idea of stone money. The reading of stone money was not hard it was more having a deeper understanding. Understanding it in the way that it is supposed to be interpreted rather than just reading to read and listening to listen helps connect all the sources. Throughout the essay, I used in-text citations to explain my idea further. 

Stone Money Essay –Gymrat27

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 citations. 

I demonstrated core value 5 through my definition rewrite. With this being my first essay I had to reorganize and fix everything. I showed this throughout my whole writing. I had to fix my alignments, citations, and the way I was quoting/paraphrasing. I was not doing any of this properly and through feedback and learned to structure everything differently. Plagiarism is not something I ever had a concern about, but I did forget to paraphrase so I had to learn to write the way needed. I did understand that the concept was for every one of my essays not just one. With that, I learned to apply this in all of them and abide by those rules. Learning to research at a deeper level of setting the point rather than beating around the bush also helps the whole writing in general. 

defintion rewrite– gymrat