Coaches can Read, Too

In "Coaches Can Read, Too" Sean Branick uses the CARS model to write an ethnography on the coaching community.  The three main moves he uses in his paper are as follows:

Establishing the Territory:

Branick establishes what a coach is and talks about their background by stating "The main responsibility of the coach is to enable their athletes to attain levels of performance not otherwise achievable" (558).  Coaches set goals, develop plans to reach said goals, then helps the team carry out the goals by monitoring and assisting.  Branick shows that coaches are crucial to a successful football team by mentioning coaches have to be literate in many different ways; reading defense, reading his own players and creating a game plan are just a few literacies any good coach needs.

Establishing a Niche:

When Branick introduces the paragraph on "Characteristics of an Effective Coach" he starts out with a while statement similar to the three while examples on pages 7-8 of WAW for establishing a niche. "While successful coaches have been exposed to the spotlight throughout history, certain personal qualities of these coaches have emerged as essential to success in the coaching business."  What he is talking about is that effective, successful coaches tend to have nearly identical qualities and characteristics:  being a good teacher, organized, competitiveness, learning abilities, and the ability to be a friend and mentor.

Explaining how he will fill the niche:

Branick asks the reader "How do football coaches, as members of a specific discourse community, go about their players and the game in order to get optimal performance and a positive end result?" (561).  This question will lead into his methods of using the characteristics of an effective coach to evaluate real coaches and how they read the game and their players.  He then applies his 5 established qualities of a successful coach to already successful coaches (UD and UC head football coaches) to see if the qualities match up with his earlier claim.

Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food and Service Workers

 In "Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food and Service Workers" I believe Mirabelli's research question asks what a menu is for a restaurant, and how it fits in as a part of the discourse community.  I believe this because Mirabelli states, "..what is a menu and what does it mean to have a literate understanding of one?”(544).  Mirabelli was able to easily collect and analyze the dinner discourse community because he used to be a part of a restaurant discourse community and was experienced and fluent in language of the restaurant business.  Because of this, he could instantly spot out ways Harvey could have done things different, or things that Harvey was doing wrong.  For example, the situation Harvey was in with the mother of the child who wanted a side of carrots, Harvey's inexperience made the situation a lot harder than Mirabelli thought it should have been.  Harvey could have avoided the whole thing by just saying "oh yeah for sure you can get carrots" then went to the freezer and got some carrots himself, not asking the already busy cooks to pick out carrots of the mixed veggie bags.  Mirabelli finds out that the menu is a primary connection between the paying customer and working employee and if this crucial interaction between the waiter and customer has any bumps the whole interaction can go south in no time.  Waiters are supposed to be the translators of the restaurant lexis and answer any questions a non member of the community wishes to know, and if the translator can't perform their job correctly the customer can choose to not be a member of that restaurant community anymore.

Project 4 proposal

Project 4 Proposal

Bobby Baldino

I am proposing for project four that I examine the discourse community of the highly popular and competitive computer game Starcraft II and its rapidly growing player community.   Nationwide, the game Starcraft II is starting to finally become well known among Americans or “foreigners” as the community calls anyone who is not from Korea.  My friends and I have been a member of this community ever since we heard about the $10 Million dollar game release two summers ago.  For a game developer, Blizzard Entertainment, to put the amount of time and money into the making of this game, we had to check it out. 

The release of Starcraft II was highly anticipated due to the huge success of Starcraft Brood war.  The first Starcraft game was released in March of 1998 and changed the way real time strategy (RTS) games were made and played.  It was the first game of its kind to be so balanced and competitive that it instantly got a lot of attention.  The most popular expansion set of Starcraft was Starcraft Brood war, which was released November of 1998.  From 1998 until 2009, countless hours of unique competitive game play has occurred recreationally and in professional tournaments.  With the rate of change in technology, for a game to remain extremely popular for more than 2 years is extremely difficult and Starcraft did it for over 10.

The Starcraft community has always been relatively large for a computer game, but has been exponentially increasing since the release of Starcraft II in 2009.  Anyone is welcome to join and participate in the community through online play, online forums, game casts, and even live tournaments.  Live tournaments used to be primarily hosted in South Korea and televised on one of their two 24hr gaming channels, but are becoming increasingly popular in America.  IGN, a popular site for videogame reviews, hosts IGN Professional League (IPL) competitions with a prize pool of $100,000 and first place prize of $30,000.  The tournament play is streamed live on the internet with popular game casters from the community calling the games.  An already established videogame tournament hosting organization, Major League Gaming (MLG) only adopted professional Starcraft to their competitive ESports tournaments a few years ago.  Now as the main event of all MLG tournaments, Starcraft II has proved its popularity and entertainment.  The tournaments are attracting big sponsors like Mountain Dew, Samsung, Visine, Sony, Dr Pepper, Stride, Bic, Hot Pockets, and Alienware just to name a few.  Every month MLG hosts a professional tournament in a different location and attracts thousands of people.  For this month, November, MLG Providence is from the 18^th to the 20^th and held in Providence, Rhode Island.  The tournament games are Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: Reach, and Starcraft II.  Starcraft has four separate live streams covering the matches of the World’s best players and is advertised as the main event on the MLG website.

A lot of my friends and I are members of the Starcraft II community, however compared to console games like Halo and Call of Duty our community is relatively small on a college campus like this.  I want to analyze the community to help raise awareness of Starcraft and ESports and how competitive and cool they really are.

In my paper I plan to use Gee’s 6 characteristics to define the shape and details of the community.  I also plan to use Wardle’s way of illustrating “mode of belonging” to how players and fans are accepted into the Starcraft community.  I am defiantly planning on using the specific lexis section from Swale’s article, because speaking in Starcraft terms sounds basically like speaking Latin to someone who is not an experienced member of the community.

                                              Refrences

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty/news.html?sid=6269369 

http://www.teamliquid.net/

WAW articles by Swales, Wardle, and Gee 

Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces

      In "Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces" Elizabeth Wardle states (from Wenger) three ways newcomers use to try and belong to a specific community.  The three ways are Engagement, Imagination, and Alignment. 
       Engagement for a newcomer would be trying to get to know everyone, developing "interpersonal relationships".  For my project 4 discourse community, the world of professional Starcraft 2, engagement would be going to a tournament and trying to learn all the players, learn their styles and actually watch their matches live. 
        Imagination would describe the importance of being creative and using your imagination to contribute to the community, and not being ineffective or detaching oneself from the community.  A big part of Starcraft 2 gameplay is imagination, developing new unique strategies to win the game.  This can be rewarding or a complete failure, that is why it's important to not get too carried away with a longshot strategy and end up losing. 
         Alignment describes finding a common ground, or "adoption of broader discourses", and in this case, one of the best things you can do in Starcraft 2 is adopt a build order from a professional player.  Sponsored gamers will spend up to 10 hours each day practicing builds and imagining new ones, testing them, then deciding whether to use them or not.  By watching a professional game, and mimicking at least their opening build new members of the community can gain an edge on the rest.

Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice

Swales seems to have more of a checklist that tells you where you fit in with your discourse, while gee is basically saying that one is born into a discourse community, and they may have learned literacy in their own way and formed a secondary literacy.  This of course would be corrected by the sponsors of the primary discourse community, in this case most likely parents or a teacher.  Johns on the other hand adds to the conversation by saying that maybe "discourse community" isn't the right way to describe the community, perhaps "communities of practice" is a better way to describe the community.  Johns says this because she believes that in the classroom, students should learn from each others wide variety of communities of practice to broaden their discourse through experience with many different communities and their unique discourses.

Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics

I can remember a long time ago when my younger sister was learning the many words and phrases and rules associated with the english language, and I specifically remember that she had a tough time with the past tense.  I was only three years older than she was, but would notice it every now and then and would immediately want to correct it because it was not the right discourse to me.  I still had a battle between the primary discourse of the community and my secondary discourse, but was closer to making my primary discourse the accepted one than my younger sister, so my parents were usually the ones that brought the hammer down.  They would do constant tests everywhere we would go, in the car out to dinner, at grandma and grandpas... just testing her past tense skills until she showed that she was starting to leave the previously dominant secondary discourse behind.  Of course this "help" was not at first welcomed by my sister, but as time went on and she improved she became more tolerant of the practice. This situation from my child hood is what I believe Gee is describing when he talks about dominant discourses and how the users always want to correct anyone who doesn't speak the same way.

The Concept of Discourse Community

Discourse community common  public goals:
     This can be any group or organization that shares common objectives that can be listened in on by anyone.  I am in the Ohio Snowcats, a ski and snowboard club full of members who love winter activities and anyone can join.

Mechanisms of Intercommunication:
     The methods of intercommunication for any discourse community are the multiple ways members can talk to each other and share information.  In the Snowcats, we have a facebook page and email system that tells members when meetings are.  The meetings as well are another form of communication.

Information and feedback in the community:
      In order to improve the performance and success of the discourse community feedback is always important.  Exchanging this vital information can help improve the whole organization. In meetings the commanding officers are always asking what the weekends' party should be themed, or which white water rafting trip we would want to go on in the spring.

Multiple genres of communication:
      I think this category refers to the importance of having multiple ways of communicating with the members in a community.  For the snowcats, in case a member does not have facebook, or their email listed they have another option for communication.

Specific Lexis:
      The specific lexis of a discourse community is the lingo, phrases, abbreviations and methods unique to that group or organization.  In the snowcats, phrases like Snowglow (snowcats house rave party) or backside 180 (a trick when snowboarding) are specific lexi. (past tense of lexis?)

Members with expertise in the discourse:
      In order to have a successful discourse community, there needs to be leaders and organizers that have been members for a long time, or that just have a very good understanding for the discourse.  The leaders of the Snowcats are twins that have been skiing their whole lives, and joined the club as freshman then worked their way up to senior officers for their senior year. 

From Pencils to Pixels

In "From Pencils to Pixels" by Dennis Baron I feel like he does seem to shrug at technology sometimes, but he shrugs at a lot of things in his writing.  I feel like Baron shows us good and bad sides to technology and its impact on our literacy today, however it seems like he is hesitant to use new technology.  He states that "technology has a trailing edge as well as a down side, and studying how computers are put to use raises serious issues in the politics of work and mechanisms of social control." (439) yet he goes on to say "Although the rate of change of computer development is significantly faster, it is still too early to do significant speculating." Baron is talking about how the altering of literacy practices by computers and technology remains to be seen, saying it is too early to tell if computers have altered our literacy.  Now I know this article was written in 1999, but even then a serious number of people, authors, and teachers used and embraced the use of technology in their writing.  I disagree with Baron's view point in this article; every day new technologies exist, and to say these awesome discoveries are not changing the shape of how writing is written in my opinion is crazy talk.

The Future of Literacy

In "The Future of Literacy" the authors present four case studies and talk about how they became literate and improved their skills through computers and technology.  Of all four, I feel like I make a connection with the Danielle DeVoss case study the most.  I feel like I was the brother in the story and she was my sister.  I can not remember how young I was when I was first introduced into computers but it had to be around the same time I learned to read and write.  I know my sister and I definitely would fight for computer time though, even though all we were fighting for was to play solitare or with microsoft windows 95 Paint.  But through using the computer all the time to play games and even using learning programs that teach reading and writing skills, technology has impacted my literacy skills, and basically built them.  As computer technology increased over the years, I was right there with it learning it all.  Photoshop, dreamweaver, excel, word, several different engineering 3-D design programs, and powerful function input programs like Matlab along with more than a bakers dozen videogames have given me the technological literacy I have today, which is similar to how Danielle developed her web literacies.

Malcolm X and Superman

In both articles, the authors start out with little or no literacy and basically end up teaching themselves to be literate.  The two authors had some very different angles though.  Their approaches were definitely influenced by their socioeconomic statuses.  Malcolm wanted to learn to be literate so he could speak as powerful as he could on the streets with a pen and paper in letters while Sherman was raised in a house full of his fathers books wanted to learn literacy to be like his father.  A "smart indian" was a dangerous person though according to Sherman.  Indians were supposed to fail in school, but Sherman didn't want that so he taught himself to read and understand paragraphs.  Malcolm on the other hand started learning in a jail cell by copying pages of a dictionary, so he did not have much material to work with, but motivation to be literate and the amazing feeling of accomplishment kept him going and copying more and more pages until he could eventually read for himself. 

Sponsors of Literacy

In "Sponsors of Literacy" Brandt suggests that our literacies are shaped and crafted throughout our lives through various "socioeconomic" situations.  She also states that our literacies are shaped by our sponsors in our lives, or the "figures who turned up most typically in people's memories of literacy learning: older relatives, teachers, priests, supervisors..." basically anyone you look up to that influences what you do.  My parents are definitely my largest sponsors; they taught me more than anyone else has to date, and shaped me to be who I am toady.  They however are not my only influential sponsors.  My public school experience with not only 12 years of teachers and learning facts, but 12 years of learning social skills and extending my shape to be what it is today.  These sponsors have been and are still a big part of my life and have been more than adequate.  I have always wanted to learn the language of 3-D graphics, like creating and programming flash movies or creating a virtual environment for video games.  Would not mind being literate in video game designing and creating at all.

Reflection Essay

Bobby Baldino

English 308J

Matt Vetter

10 October 2011

Wikipedia Reflection Essay

When I first heard our first assignment was to create a Wikipedia article, instantly a plethora of thoughts were racing through my head.  What should it be? What do I know about that no one else knows? Will it work? Well the topic I decided on was Lake Snowden because first of all it wasn’t on Wikipedia, and second, because I love nature and the outdoors I knew I would definitely not mind researching a local lake and publishing an article on it.  The topic selection process however was not at all easy.  The first idea I had was to write about Strouds Run, a State Park just outside of Athens that my friends and I have been to many times.  Unfortunately an article had already been created on the park, which turned out wasn’t so unfortunate after all.  The Strouds Run State Park article on Wikipedia was basically my template for Lake Snowden.  Both were popular local lakes in the Athens region with very similar wildlife and activities.  The Strouds Run page helped me form my frame, how to make headings and section titles with the “===History===” equal signs and the wiki code to make an information box on the right side of the article with a picture.  I was hoping to get a few good source ideas from the Strouds Run page; however I was very surprised to find the article only had one source, and it was the website they got the picture of the park map from.  I used to be worried about my sources, but now that I am done with the project and feel like a truly have an objective, well written article with a few decent sources and three solid sources, it will not be deleted for some time to come because the Strouds Run article’s last modified date was early June of 2011.  My point is for an article to last from at least June to October with zero sources I feel like my article should last as long as I didn’t make any overlooked errors.  I liked how unique and original this assignment idea was, never before have I been “bragging” to my friends that I get to make a Wikipedia article for an English class assignment.  This is the first class I have done anything like that before and I hope Mr. Vetter continues to use Wikipedia and online writing in his future classes.  Writing articles and posts that you know will be online that people may or may not even see, makes the way I structure my writing different than before because of that chance that someone could see it in the future. 

                The Wikipedia writing assignment really reminded me how rusty I was and how long it had been since I went through the writing process.  When I was first attempting to tackle the assignment I was lost with no idea where to jump in at.  After reading a few articles and assuring myself this assignment wouldn’t be like the classic dreaded English 151 research paper the traditional writing skills started flowing out, but not perfectly.  After reading “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott, I was relieved to hear that even the great and lucrative writers have terrible first drafts and try again and again until they have something they like.  Lamott went on to inform me that, “the first draft is the down draft – you just get it down.  The second draft is the up draft – you fix it up… And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth” (303).  This really spoke to me and I feel like I will have less trouble getting the ball rolling on future writing assignments.  Through reading other articles I learned what types of sources Wikipedia likes, and what types they say are not good enough through the article submission for review process, and went back and found more legitimate sources.  I also became very fond with the evaluation and summary writing styles, for that was basically my entire article.  The article deadline is past, but I know I need more in line citations and direct quotes.  The article I was basing mine off used no inline quotations and only had one source, and I should have just dropped Strouds Run and chose another article to structure mine from even though it was so similar to Lake Snowden.  For me, the Wikipedia assignment was the first time I really posted an article to the World Wide Web that comes up in Google when you search it.  This aspect totally changed the game when it came to the writing process for me because like I said earlier, there’s a small chance someone outside the classroom will actually read your article.  In writing this social article I was making sure I edited and worded my paper better than I ever had any paper before.  With an objective paper of course the process was not as difficult as say a persuasive writing but still was time consuming.  Writing a paper as a multifaceted process became very apparent to me after reading “Tuning, Typing, and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision” by Barbara Tomlinson.  Most of the metaphors she described related to the writing process I had and didn’t even know it.  The metaphor that I felt was most like my writing process was the mechanic, or “fixing things”.  Tomlinson illustrates the mechanic metaphor in the writing process as, “gradually redying an old car for the road”, (Writing About Writing 262) or “Tightening up all the bolts.” (259). The drawing board on Wikipedia helped because it was a place for me to talk about my article topic and have other Wikians discuss ideas they had about the potential article.  This gave me some very helpful outside opinions that I could use to construct a legitimate objective well crafted article worthy of staying on Wikipedia for some time to come. 

                Online forums like Wikipedia are setting the standard for knowledge distribution in the 21^st century because this century is a technological century, full of tech savvy individuals who would rather find what they are looking for online as opposed to an encyclopedic collection of books.  As far as the forums go, Wikipedia is unique such that they offer the whole World Wide Web hundreds of millions of free encyclopedic articles.  When I think of a metaphor for Wikipedia in the writing process, I think of a liquid, “fluid, molten” (Tomlinson 255) material that can be edited and molded at anytime never quite reaching the casting status.  The web gets this valuable information for free because any of its users can be authors, writers and editors of the encyclopedia.  With this responsibility of writing a free encyclopedia comes with pros and cons.  The cons however can be taken as pros from some points of view; the possibility that anyone can get on and make an edit to any page draws attention by the original authors and Wikipedia administrators.  This confirms that the articles are being constantly watched, checked, protected, and updated all the time while other encyclopedias have to publish entire new editions to fix any errors or add any pages. The online forum approach for an encyclopedia like Wikipedia is, in my opinion and from my experience with the website, absolutely an advantage over traditional encyclopedias written by a room full of scholars and professors writing Britannica’s 14^th edition then casting that with a publisher, just to have another edition in a few years.  

Works Cited

Lamott, Anne. “Shitty First Drafts.” Writing About Writing A College Reader Ed. Elizabeth Wardle, Doug    Downs. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. 301-304. Print.

Tomlinson, Barbara. “Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts.” Writing About Writing A College Reader Ed. Elizabeth Wardle, Doug Downs. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. 251-269. Print.

Shitty First Drafts

Lamont is saying that when people think of how writers write they think they just sit down and hammer out solid usable work however that is not the case at all.  Even the best authors, most respected authors, and English professors struggle writing first drafts.  Lamont believes that all you need to do to get started is just write a first article loaded with bullll shit (just get stuff on the paper) then write a second, better draft, then a usable final draft.  She said the first draft is a "down draft", just get the ideas written down on paper even if it looks like a child wrote it.  The second draft is an "up draft", you fix up the first and crop out the bad and keep the good.  Then she said the third draft is the "dental draft", the draft where you "check every tooth, to see if its loose or cramped or decayed" and really do a close inspection then end up with a good flowing final paper.  Wikipedia gives us access to the drawing board, which is essentially a place where all the shitty first drafts come to hang out and gain helpful criticism to hopefully one day cut the shit and become a legitimate article.

Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision

I feel like I can relate to most of the metaphors that Tomlinson describes in my writing.  In my article I sculpted the writing by first writing the whole text then going back and sculpting, or morphing the text on a finer level.  I also can relate to the painting metaphor because the author talks about different layers, and numerous stages of writing and editing, which I feel like is how I looked at different sections and  "painted over" a few things.  I feel like you don't have to worry about tying things off in an objective piece.. there isn't much to keep track of and tie off.  I also felt like a mechanic jumping around and tightening up a sentence here and there... fixing a broken phrase or misspelled word... trying to end up with a well-oiled running machine.  In wikipedia, I feel like the View History tab is a good example of Casting and Recasting, showing all the previous states how they were cast before, then what was reformed.  The revisions also take advantage of the shape of earlier casts and build on them making a better article.  The discussion tab is a good place for several different metaphors to come out and be talked about.  An article might have some loose ends, or might need a patch sewed in, or something cut out.  Basically a mechanics "to do list" for the article to get it up and running again.

Toward a composing Model of Reading

Right off the bat, I know I used the planning and drafting functions the most but I used the others as well, just not as much.  As far as planning goes, once I had picked my topic, I started sifting through google pages on Lake Snowden to try and get mass information so I could start focusing and narrowing down topics to be used in my article. What makes a wikipedia article legitimate and good enough not to end up on the "deletion suggestion" page is the sources, which you search for and find, and accept or reject your sources or "backbone" of your wiki writing.  I managed to find several sources I liked well enough to write an article on Lake Snowden.  Next I went into the drafting stage, which took some time.. reading many sources, getting information and deciding what to use, what not to, and how you are going to bring it all together in your own words into writing with sourced information.  Once the first two steps are done, you're not out of the woods, but I thought the rest was way easier.  Aligning a neutral wikipedia article was not too bad, just making sure the text was objective then grouping categories together that go together.  Like aligning, I thought revising was relatively easy as well but still important.  You can't have an online encyclopedia article with writing errors... Immediately looses you a good chunk of credibility.  All it took was a few re readings and having a friend read it to catch any errors I might have made.  With monitoring, I feel like I can easily distance myself from my objective article and evaluate it.  I think planning and drafting should have dominated over the others, and they did in my paper.  I'm not saying I ignored the others, just spent less time on them because I didn't need to focus on  them as much to write a wikipedia article.

lake snowden LIVE

live link to lake snowden on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Snowden

Lake Snowden wikipedia article on my user page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bobdino24

and if that doesnt work

ake Snowden is a 675 acre education and recreation park in southeast Ohio 6 miles southwest of Athens and 1 mile northeast of Albany. The lake Lake Snowden is the largest of four lakes which form the Margaret Creek Conservancy District, covering about 136 acres with a maximum lake depth of 42 feet. Lake Snowden provides flood control, water supply, recreational activities, festivals and natural wildlife.

Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Hocking College 2 Recreation 3 Paw Paw Festival 4 Wildlife 4.1 Fishing 5 External links and Refrences

[edit] History

Lake Snowden was developed as a part of the PL-566 Margaret Creek Watershed Project with federal funds through the Farmer’s Home Administration and the Soil Conservation Service to try and control flooding in the area. The dam was completed in July 1970 across a branch of Maragret Creek. Recreation pool was achieved in April 1972. It opened to the public in 1972 and in 1998 Lake Snowden was purchased by Hocking College.

[edit] Hocking College

Hocking College purchased Lake Snowden in 1998 from Le-Ax Water District. The college owns and operates a fish hatchery located at Lake Snowden that furthers local fish management and aquaculture.

[edit] Recreation

Lake Snowden offers a wide range of outdoor recreation including fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, hiking, horseback riding, bird watching and many more. For camping 125 sites are offered in four different areas of the park; The Locust Grove, Big Oak camp, Hickory Camp, and Hilltop Camp. Lake Snowden has a grass and sand beach and swimming area as well as adjacent fields that offer a great place for softball, volleyball, and badminton games. The park has two shelter houses with seating for 75 each for picnicking. Boating and horseback riding are popular as well, with 12.5 miles of horse trails and several types of rentable watercraft including canoes, rowboats, paddle boats and kayaks. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources orders Lake Snowden to be a "no wake" lake or idle only lake in order to keep the lakes natural beauty and reduce erosion caused by large waves.

[edit] Paw Paw Festival

The Ohio Pawpaw Festival is a yearly festival for the local Pawpaw tree fruits held at Lake Snowden. The festival is held every year around the third weekend of September. This three day event offers music, artwork, food and beer, entertainment and activities, as well as special events from local businesses throughout southeastern Ohio. The Pawpaw is North America's largest native tree fruit with Southern Ohio having some of the largest wild Pawpaw patches on the planet. The fruit is very nutritious and has a creamy texture and a tropical flavor. Some popular events at the Pawpaw Festival include the Pawpaw cook off, the best Pawpaw competition, and the Pawpaw eating contest. There is also a prize awarded for the largest Pawpaw. Several Ohio breweries provide unique Pawpaw beer brewed with pawpaw pulp at the beer garden as well.

[edit] Wildlife

Lake Snowden has a wide variety of wildlife including whitetail deer, canadian geese, many species of duck, beaver, mink, fox, raccoon, squirrel, rabbit and wild turkey, and a wide assortment of aquatic wildlife. Bird watching is a very popular activity with the park being a great place for migrating waterfowl such as canvasback, common goldeneye or ringneck duck. bluebirds, song sparrows and northern harrier are also common species to the area. Lake Snowden is a popular fishing lake known for its largemouth bass and channel catfish.

[edit] Fishing

The primary sport fish species managed are channel catfish, bluegill, red ear sunfish, large mouth bass and saugeye. Saugeye are stocked every year and channel catfish yearlings are stocked every other year. Lake Snowden is one of the finest catfish lakes in southern Ohio with excellent largemouth bass catch rates according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Bluegill are caught on primarily wax worms and red worms at various midwater depths and can be caught near the surface during warmer weather. Redear Sunfish like deep water and are often caught around underwater structures and also favor wax worms and red worms. Largemouth Bass fishing is best when the lake starts to warm up in early spring. Largemouth tend to favor deep water and are caught primarily on lures such as jigs and deepdriving crank baits. The bass move to shallow water to feed as the water approaches 70 degrees. Channel Catfish are generally caught around the dam and shoreline access points and can be caught with chicken liver or hotdog bits.

[edit] External links and Refrences

• Athensnews.com
• Athens County Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources
• Ohio Pawpaw Festival
• Lake Snowden
• Hocking Valley Birding Trail

Intertextuality and the Discourse Community

In "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community" Porter basically completely opposes Murray's "All Writing is Autobiographical" by saying all writing is taken from "..bits and pieces of text which writers or speakers borrow and sew together.."  or saying everything is loosely plagiarized and not autobiographical.   Porter's argument also argues that his article itself would have intertextualiy, as well as the Declaration of Independence which "...strongly resembles, ironically, the English Bill of Rights of 1689...".  I say that the view points are opposite in terms if their definitions, but are they truly opposites? In terms of where information comes from to be included in an article or writing, they are very similar.  Murray says that no writing is truly objective, that some part of the writing was written or included because of something that happened to the author once, or because of something they read or heard about once, therefore writing about their experiences, or loosely autobiographically.  Porter says that "all writing and speech arise from a single network" or all writings come from pieces of other past writings that an author had read or heard about previously.  The two viewpoints I believe can be taken either way, as opposites in some cases or as the same in some cases.

all writing is autobiography

In "all writing is autobiography" Donald M. Murray talks about how all writing by any author is still somewhat biased or opinionated, even if it does not seem like it.  The words authors choose to use, choose not to use, or the way they word things can be influenced by the author's position on the topic, even if the material being written is for an objective encyclopedia writing like Wikipedia. Murray states that we write autobiographical with out even knowing about it, and by reading this article we now know what to look for and how to try and word our objective writings to keep from making an autobiography on Wikipedia.

HOMEWORK 3

In  "Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents" , an informative yet very dry piece of literature, Grant-Davie tells us about rhetorical situations and the four categories of constituents.  The author defines a rhetorical situation as “the content in which speakers or writers create rhetorical discourse" and later goes on to say it is like a communication to try and persuade someone to do something.  The four categories of constituents are exigence, rhetors, audiences, constraints. Exigence is defined in the text as  “A need or problem that can be addressed through rhetorical discourse." The rhetors are the people who come up with the writing for the situation that can be specific to a general audience, a certain age group, or whoever the ad or situation is directed to.  The audience is who is the target of the rhetors.  They are who the writing was designed to be fed to, so hopefully they take a bite and do whatever the rhetors advertised in their writing.  The constraints are limitations to what is said for a reason.  For example, the author talks about a friend choosing their words carefully, or constraining them to be something like "dang im chilly" instead of "what is this house an igloo? lets get some heat in here!!" to not come off as pushy.  The whole sha-bang comes together in commercials on tv everyday.  Kobe Bryant comes on tv drinking sprite, the audience is the viewer, the rhetors chose to put Kobe in to appeal to the viewers, the exigence now is that the viewer wants sprite, and the owner of sprite wants their money, and the constraints were using Kobe to get the rhetorical message across that sprite is good and you should drink it, instead of bold font and buzzers commercial that just says BUY SPRITE RIGHT NOW. It is useful to us as college students to help us with our writing, make it appeal to people, while still getting a message across or persuade a reader without being too bold.  

The Phenomenology of Error

Let me start off by first saying that this article took twice as long to read as I thought it would take.  But now that I'm done and have read the last paragraph, I think I know why I was re reading a few paragraphs.  As far as what Joseph M. Williams was talking about with social constructs... I am not entirely sure.  Maybe he means depending on what the category of writing is, determines what errors will or will not be found, or what rules will be violated or not. For example if an article was written by a student, the general reading audience will generally notice easily, or even search for errors but might miss some writing rules that were violated.  However, if a scholar or professor writes an article, the general reading audience will miss most errors.  In this case, about 100 errors. Now when we think about Wikipedia writers, we think about anyone and everyone.  When reading wiki articles, I feel like most people read them like they were student written, basically searching for errors because the reader themselves are editors as well.  This is a great thing for W because it helps weed out even more errors and broken rules, increasing Wikipedia's accuracy as an encyclopedia.  I feel like eventually with this form of editing and revision by the general audience the accuracy of W could even pass Britannica.   

Assignment ONE

My name is Bobby Baldino and I am from Centerville Ohio studying Mechanical Engineering.  I love all sports and outdoor activities, especially baseball, tennis, climbing and snowboarding.  I am a transfer student from Sinclair community college in Dayton Ohio.  During my freshman year in college I took English 113 then transferred the credit as English 151 my sophomore year when I came to Ohio University.  My English teacher’s name was William Loudermilk, who was as cool as his name was.  He had a really interesting and entertaining way of getting the class to get the class involved in discussions or just about anything.  I am looking forward to this English class because I have never had one like it before.  I really like the idea of writing our own Wikipedia pages.  I have been to Wikipedia who knows how many times but never tried to write anything on the site, this could be pretty cool.  I also like how we are going to be using blogs too.  I always knew they existed but never knew how they worked or what people even write in blogs, but now we are about to find out.  My past experience with English classes usually turns out to be reading endless bland articles and summarizing, then spitting it right back out in MLA format.  That was more back in high school, but still that’s how I imagine English class.  This class appears to be different however.  I enjoy working with technology and I think this course design looks pretty cool.  I hope to have a better knowledge of blogging and writing by the end of this course as well as a legitimate Wikipedia page that doesn’t end up getting deleted by Wikipedia.

WHATS UP 308 J

Yo my name is bobby baldino and welcome to 308J FEST