Welcome

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Collection of Diffent “Tal”

This portfolio is about how I progressed through Rhet 105 class over this semester.

Artist statement has a brief introduction of myself as well as my writing experience.

Metaphor explains what writing is for me.

There is four essays and assignments that I revised at Revised Major Assignment and Revised Minor Assignment tap.

Acknowledgment and Citation tap has credits and a brief explanation for media.

If you really want to read my unrevised paper, access to archive tap with a bunch of hashtags.

What I learned from analysis activity

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Besides writing skill, this assignment taught me how to analyze other papers with rhetoric skills.

Moreover, I also learned how to construct argumentative paper with rhetoric.

From this assignment I learned Toulmin’s model as well as rhetorical triangle.

With in my writing, I did not have solid understanding on warrants so I could not expand and explain more about what is author’s warrant. I tired to read various links to understand what warrant is, and I learned what warrant is. However, when it comes to fining warrants from other people’s essay, it was quiet hard to discover it; it is hidden most of times.

I also found that my rhetorical triangle analysis was weak as well. However, after I read about comments on my paper. I easily found out what ethos, logos and pathos is and how those acts it’s role to persuade readers.

This activity made me to learn how to evaluate other writings and how to extract good information from the writing. Also, I learned how to differentiate good sources from bad sources.

When I was writing this essay, I tried to stay organized by introducing each part of Toulmin’s model. I introduced each by each along with the examples form the text. After I introduced Toulmin’s model, I also introduced rhetorical triangle and exigency to achieve logical transition in my paper. However, I have some trouble with formatting in-text citation as well as citation. But I think I did well on keeping the boundaries of citation.

I also found various grammatical errors. I often made article mistakes and I have to learn when to use “a” or “the” and when to not. Rest of grammatical mistakes were minor, and I was not cautious when I was reading my paper again. Next time, I should take more time in proof reading my paper.

Overall, I did okay job on my paper. My overall organization was good. However, I was not able to fulfill the word count for the paper since I did not understand Toulmin’s model thoroughly. I also need to expand or re write the rhetorical triangle part as well.

Pedagogical Goals

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My own goal for the course is to learn how to write scholarly essay.

As a student in the school of engineering, I need some skill to write strong research paper. Therefore, I desire to learn how to support my idea and argue with good sources with technique.

Since the pedagogical goal of the course is to discern good sources ethically, analyze other writings, identify the argument at various media, and find sources from archives in UIUC, there is an intersection between my own goal and pedagogical goal.

The intersection is techniques to write research paper, and find good source that can support my argument. I hope I can learn more about discerning sources ethically, and write solid argument paper.

My plan for Unofficial

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I really do not have any special plan for this weekend.

Yes, I am old enough to go out and drink in pubs and I can buy alcohol substances. But from multiple past experiences, I learned that getting drunk is not pleasant at all. I like drinking beer with my friends and sharing about whiskey taste. But, drinking just to get drunk is stupid. Also after I read about how “unofficial” started in the college, I am not willing to be fooled my various bar’s scheme.

One thing that I found interesting is that not a lot of international students, specifically Koreans participate in unofficial. Most of my Korean friends does not know about St. Patrick’s day and they does not understand what unofficial is for. Also, even they know about it, they are unwilling to get drunk in public especially during the daytime. Well, might be because most of my Korean friends are in master’s program or they are just too old to get drunk…

For this weekend, I might cook some Korean food paired with Korean drink to celebrate by culture with my friends.

Research Question

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I want to intersect international student with food.

As an international student in UIUC, I thought there were not be a variety of access to my cultural cuisine, but what I figured out is that there is tons of variety of choice of my own cultural food in the university. There is at least 7 Korean food restaurant around the campus. If it comes to other ethnic food, there is so many around the campus that I can’t even count every single one of them.

From this finding, I want to know co-relation among when the certain ethnic restaurant was founded and amount of that ethnic student in University. I eventually want to explore whether there was demand for other ethical food even before the huge induce of the international students.

I already know that there is a variety of cuisine available not only at restaurants but also at the dining hall. This fact makes me assume that international students demanded their ethnic food.

First artifact

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My favorite place to write is my desk in my room.

Because I am really bad at handwriting, I use my desktop for writings. It helps me to write faster with grammatically correct sentences. My best tool for writing is Grammarly, which checks for my spellings and grammatical errors.This is my desk in my room.And this is my favorite blue mechanical pencil.

Once in a while, if I need help with my paper, I usually go to Writer’s Workshop in UGL.

I never listen to music when I have to work on any of my assignments since music distracts me the most. There are some materials I always have on my desk before I start to write: an Oxford note, my favorite blue mechanical pencil, cup of water, and candy. If I miss any of those items, I will not be able to write for more than an hour.

Best time of the day for me to write is after midnight. I don’t know why, but I never have inspiration before the midnight. Once in awhile, there is a moment when I get sudden inspiration for my writing when I am about to sleep. Thus, I mostly write after the midnight.