To write this autoethnography effectively, Professor Julien told us to think about who our audience would be so that our writing would be understood by them. At first I thought that my audience would only be my professor and some of my classmates, but while writing I started thinking that maybe my website would reach a wider audience. Other professors, people who know about soccer, and even people who know nothing at all about soccer but are curious about my topic may all read my writing and I had to take that into consideration. Since all of these audiences could potentially have different levels of knowledge about soccer, the terminology I would have to use needed to be simple enough for a majority of readers to understand while also not sounding condesending or like I am insulting the reader's intelligence. This was the most challenging part for me. I had to constantly reread my writing over and over again, more than what I would usually do. I had different friends and family read my website to see if they could understand what I was trying to explain without too much trouble. After finishing a majority of my website, I can say that thinking about the audiences I could have definietly improved my autoethnography and my writing as a whole.
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After the end of this English 101 course, I probably will not update this domain ever again. I know that I will have to take more writing courses before I graduate from Emory, but I do not see me needing a website to turn in my papers. I will tell my friends and family about this website, but whether they want to look at it will be up to them.
My personal writing philosophy is one that most people who dislike English classes can all connect to. I believe that learning how to write at a high level is important to students and people who are looking to obtain high position jobs, but forcing all students to learn how to write at such a high level is a waste of time. Majority of people write papers all throughout their pre-college years and have mastered the basics of writing. However, most liberal arts colleges make their students continue their writing courses even though they have no interest in pursuing a career that involves such high levels of writing. All throughout high school I would write papers for my English classes, and while I got high marks on all my papers, I never enjoyed writing. The topics were always so forced and I would always write in a way that my teachers would find appealing, so in a way it was not what I wanted to write. Writing, to me, is similar to forcing a person to make an impossible choice. Either write the way your teacher or professor wants you to, or suffer the consequence of a failing grade. English classes give a false illusion of choice, and I believe that is where my disdain for writing stems from.
Today in class we went over what and who the stakeholders in our individual projects are. A project stakeholder is anyone person, group, or organization who may be affected by the outcome of the project. Professor Julien told us to write down who we thought our stakeholders were in our project. For me, the stakeholders that I can think of are the students in my class, Professor Julien, my two interview subjects, and people from the soccer community who may happen to come across my website and read my autoethnogrophy.
These are just a few interview questions that I came up with to ask my interview subject in the upcoming weeks
- What is your current view on soccer and it's culture? - Have you or anyone you know participated in any soccer related violence? If so, elaborate on the experience. - How do you think these experiences have changed your outlook on soccer culture - What is the main difference you have noticed about soccer here in the United States and England? - Why do you think soccer violence occurs much more frequently overseas rather than here in the United States? - How is soccer violence perceived in England? - How is soccer violence perceived in the United States? A good infographic is one that communicates your ideas and the topic you are trying to get across in a quick, concise way that is easy for the audience to understand. The infographic should not have colors that are really hard to see or have fonts that are hard to decipher. For my topic, my audience is anyone who has an interest in soccer or an interest in sports violence in general. My infographic should be able to tell them the main points of the information that I have gathered from my autoethnogrophy research. The information and pictures used in my infographic should be from recent history, probably within the last 10 years. I am not trying to convince people to join a side on my topic, but rather show them the facts that are out there so that they can be aware of the situation. It will be up to the reader to decide what they want to do after they view my infographic.
After reading the first chapter of the Writer/Designer book and the first two chapters of the Writing and Editing for Digital Media book, I have some new found clarity on this new style of writing. I already knew some of this information coming into this class, but the chapters gave me some real concrete definitions for some new words. I did not know the word mutimodal existed until I read these books, but I can now say that after learning what it is, it makes a lot of sense and I am surprised that this word is not used more throughout schools and the media. The five modes that make up mutimodal writing (visual, linguistic, aural, spatial, and gestural) all make a lot of sense to me and are a good way to categorize such a wide subject. In the Writing and Editing book, I really appreciated how they gave a brief history of writing and media in general because this is information that I have never heard of before and probably would have never heard if I did not read this book. The principles of good writing was also very informative, but I feel that categorizing writing can lead to repetition in writing and a writer's creativity may not be able to be noticed if they have to follow these principles to have writing that is considered "good". I also liked how the second chapter described the differences between digital media and more traditional forms of media. I thought that it covered everything well and I do not feel as if there was anything to add to the section.
After having a long thinking session about what to do my autoethnogrophy on, I decided to make it simple. I want to compare the soccer culture here in the United States to countries abroad. After coming up with this topic, one of the librarian's here at Emory had me tweak my topic a bit by telling me to focus on one aspect of soccer culture and to focus on just one country that is not the United States to do my comparison on. I finally ended up focusing on violence or 'hooliganism' in soccer and my country of choice was England, which was an easy choice after witnessing the events of the 2016 Euros that recently passed. Now I finally have a pretty solid research question which is "What are the differences in how soccer violence is perceived and handled by the soccer community in England and the United States?"
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Ivan WarnerI am a first year at Emory University in a English 101 writing course. Archives
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