Week 10

It has been a great ten weeks of class, we are almost through. I have taken so much valuable information from Writing 39B, it has been unbelievable. I never knew that there was so much to know about reading and writing before this class and I feel like my perspective has been changed toward everything in the literary world. Now I know why it is so important to understand how every text grows out of and reflects its rhetorical situation, because without knowing where the author is coming from, or who the author is intending on reaching, there is a whole dimension that is wrongfully ignored. A whole dimension that I have been missing until I knew that it was missing. I began to learn this when we all discussed I Am Legend and the RIP Project really solidified it in my brain, because of the role reversal where we, the students, became the authors. We made our text grow from our rhetorical situation and I feel like, being put in those shoes made me understand what creators of text and media want the audience to look for in order to receive the message.

In this class I learned to think about audience. I will always remember to think about what genre a text is and why the author wrote what they did. I learned to pay attention to details that I thought were irrelevant before. I will remember all of the skills I acquired from the many activities we did in class.

But most of all, I will remember all the fun I've had in Writing 39B for the rest of my life. Holding Viviana and Maria's hands whenever Professor McClure would play a short horror film, peer reviewing and meeting other people in the class, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer in class to talk about tropes (by the way I just finished season one), talking to Professor McClure and hearing his many whimsical stories (the one about the Asian Box lamp was my favorite), and the many mini presentations we've done. Everything was always a wonderful time, and I am very thankful for that.