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.

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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