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I have three younger brothers (photo above at the Texas State Fair) with whom I communicate via text messages 

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I am a part of is the NSU community. The majority of my communications with people on campus is done either through text/email or in-person conversations

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The main form of communication at my work is through discord channels

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My friends and I mainly communicate through Snapchat or messages (or sending each other TikToks)

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I was wondering what exactly would be considered a project. You had said that if we go above expectations on three different projects that would be how we get an A, but I was unclear on what were considered “projects”. Is it just any major assignment?

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The texts produced in many of my classes are research or argumentative essays

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Would you prefer for us to get ahead on assignments such as the annotations or wait until after we have discussed the previous one/will we be discussion the readings in class?

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I am part of the Paws on Broward club which communicates via GroupMe

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My roommates and I communicate mostly through face-to-face conversations. The rest of the dorm floor communicates via a GroupMe

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How quickly will we be choosing our topics for the course/beginning research for these. I saw in the description for these weekly assignments that you want us to stay close to our topics so I was just wondering if these would be recurring throughout the course of if this was specific to just the final project.

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It has always fascinated me that people of all backgrounds seem to revert to a seemingly illiterate state when posting comments on social media. Even critically acclaimed writers will forgo punctuation, misspell words, and include an unreasonable amount of emojis when commenting on videos. I think it could be interesting to see why people seem to think that social media is a place of informality to the point that oftentimes it is nearly impossible to understand what is being written.

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One way to research this could be to interview people and figure out if they use formal style writing when on social media and why they use the technique that they do. Another method would be to find past articles regarding the same subject. I could also look into how this language has begun seeping into more formal settings such as many newly published books. It could be interesting to look at how language has devolved since the social media craze began, but for now the main focus of this topic would be why people seem to lose their ability to write when on a social media platform.

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Would we be able to center our topics/research around books? For example if I wanted to write about the evolution of writing over time from one individual could I use two or more of their books (along with other articles) to base my research off of or would it be best if we stuck to topics more like the one we read about with restaurant literacy?

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How Authors Have Communicated With Readers in the Past Versus Now

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How Authors Have Communicated With Readers in the Past Versus Now

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I see a lot of marketing for books on social media nowadays from authors as a means of selling their stories, however in the past this would not have been possible. I think many authors used the newspapers to get word out in the past but it would be interesting to look at the kind of language they used. Did they answer questions? Did they share excerpts from their books? How did they communicate with their readers?

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For this topic I don’t think interviews would be very effective so I would mainly stick to other articles or sources and look at the words used by authors in the past and compare it to authors in the present. I could also potentially look at the effectiveness of the different approaches, as well as their similarities.

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How Politicians Communicate with Voters 

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How Politicians Communicate with Voters 

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For this topic I would be looking at how politicians use words to encourage people to vote for them or their policies. I would look at political debates (I could also look at past politicians versus current because their oratory skills have definitely declined in the last few years). I could also look at the words in bills that are being passed/have been passed.

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There have been many instances of words losing their meaning overtime, changing meaning, and concepts that previously did not have words to describe them (such as the color blue and the phrase “wine-dark sea”). I think it could be interesting to look at how language has evolved over time into what we now use in our everyday lives.

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For this topic I would most likely look at other articles discussing this same idea as well as analyzing words/phrases within the articles. I could also look at the invention of words (by people such as Shakespeare).

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The writing for children’s shows has drastically changed from the time I as a child to now. This has been increasingly obvious to me since I have a younger brother who is four years old. The shows I watched when I was young were mostly informational (think PBS kids, Wild Kratts, etc.), whereas the shows now are things such as Cocomelon, or PinkFong. The writing for these shows is definitely a step below those that played as I was growing up. I would look into why this has happened. I would read articles, scripts, as well as look into the studios in which these shows were produced in order to understand why this has happened.

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1. Why do people use such informal language when on social media?

2. How have authors communicated with their readers in the past versus the present?

3. What kind of words/phrases do politicians use in order to encourage people to vote for them or their policies?

4. How has language/words evolved over time?

5. Why have children’s shows devolved in their writing from the early 2000s to now?

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When looking at this topic I would specifically look into the English language so that would definitely be a key term throughout the paper

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Probable one of the most important terms, since it is the bulk of my topic

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Definitely would show up frequently in me paper since I would be discussing the addition/losing of words and their meanings

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Words and language changing would me a major point for this topic

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Evolution would be one of the main keywords simply because it is the basis of my topic (evolution of words)

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I think the change is language is most evident in books/stories/poems so they would probably be used frequently to support my topic

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Slang is another example of how language is constantly changing which would again most likely be used as support

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This would most likely be used to describe how/why language changes. New words are constantly being invented.

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Definitions would become very important because a potential aspect of this topic would be how many of these new words mean the same as others. Definitions of words are a great way to show just how much language has actually changed.

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The best place to find definitions and examples of new or old words would be in the dictionary

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One thing I have struggled with for citations is the formatting. APA has been a bit easier but in the past I primarily used MLA

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I was never really told how to do citations and anytime we struggled our teachers would just tell us the look at Perdue Owl, however, I always had trouble finding the answers for my specific issue.

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Time was another thing that I struggled with. I usually leave literature assignments until the last minute because I have found that I write best under pressure, however this does not leave much time to construct a works cited page that if correctly formatted

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Since I usually did not have the time nor the patience for a works cited page I would just stick my sources into a citation generator. None of my past teachers really bothered with the works cited page unless it was outrageously incorrect so I never really spent the time to learn how to correctly format citations.

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I was pretty decent at in-text citations but there were a few things that I would struggle with in the past. I was never sure exactly how much information was needed for the in-text citations, especially since we used so many different kinds of sources in my previous classes.

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At my high school, teachers always put an imphasis on works cited pages as well as the in-text citations, however they never really taught us how to do them. They would just sort of throw information at us and we were e pelted to figure it out from there. So with the citations I never knew if I needed the title of the source, the year, page number, or author. I would usually just stick the name of the source and the page number in the citation and call it good. Again no one ever really checked so I never learned.

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I have definitely gotten more comfortable with citations recently but I am still not one hundred percent confident. I think I just need to do more practice until I’m fully confident I can do them correctly

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The more assignments I do where we include a works cited/references list the better I will get at them. However, practice for the sake of practice rather than an actual assignment tends to not stick in my brain as well. It also melts my brain quicker than if I needed to do it for an assignment.

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Since I work best under pressure, I tend not to get any work done unless it is closer to the deadline (or if I am avoiding working on something else) so doing citation work just for practice usually makes me forget things/makes it more likely for me to make stupid mistakes that I otherwise would not have made.

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APA formatting makes more since to me but since I do not have any background in it, I still struggle with the requirements and formatting. MLA I have gotten more used to but still do not fully understand. I think I prefer APA but still need to practice a bit more before I can say I am fully comfortable.

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Folder of sources on the Sherman library website 

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Watching tv while doing the assignments 

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Looking in text book for the research method

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Calling my mom to figure out a word but my brother wouldn’t let me 😅

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Watching Barbie with my roommate while writing

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Trying to find info to fix annotated bib

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Went to a British car show as a break from working

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Looking at the differences between the two

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Building a fort in the dorm room to do homework in

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https://q00hntnhr.supersuvey.com

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There are four multiple choice questions and six free response but the free response are very short questions

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Do we have to write our every question from the survey in the appendix of the final project?

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Editing the results section (adding the results of the discourse analysis)

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Page count and word count before editing the two sections

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“Do emojis improve online communications, and if so, how?”

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Graphs from the survey (and I may make some based on the results of the discourse analysis)

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All pasted from final paper (with minor tweaks and probably shortened)

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Are we supposed to decorate the board or is it meant to be just the words?

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Are we supposed to decorate the board or is it meant to be just the words?

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The poster board wasn’t too difficult to make, but it did take a few tries to get it right. The process consisted of mostly copying excerpts from my final paper and pasting them onto the PowerPoint. I also pasted various images from both the discourse analysis as well as my survey.

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The literature was probably the most difficult project for me. It was not a difficult project in and of itself but since I had never done one I wasn’t sure where to start with it. I had gone to the writing center previously but that was mainly for formatting. I turned it in and received an incomplete at first but they were easy fixes. Once I resubmitted it it was marked as complete but I still wasn’t happy with it. I wound up rewriting it multiple times in order to get it to how it is on the final paper.

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The worknet was the first major project that we did. It was fun to make, even though I had never done one before.

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All the notebook entries were a good way to map progress as well as organizing my thoughts. Making the weekly entries helped to gather my thoughts on both past and future assignments.

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The perusal annotations were a good way to communicate with others in the class. It was also a great way to interact with the text, to make sure people were actually reading it and engaging with what was written.