After reviewing my diagnostic essay I discovered that It is really hard to try and step out of your discourse to analyze your own writing. I had to read my diagnostic essay several times to find what were the IN's I was conveying, the hard part was to try and go against my bias because I agreed ton what I had written in the past. I wrote about the fast food workers' strike and argued for their minimum wage to be raised to $15. I noticed I used words like, inhumane, unacceptable, poverty, misery, unreasonable and devastating to associate them with the wage, workers and their working conditions to convince the audience of my point of view. This reminded me of the time we talked about how word choice has an impact on what the message is, and in my case I realized I chose this words that contain negative connotation to portray the workers as the victims who are being treated horribly. I identified two INs, one being that a raise in minimum wage will redeem the unreasonable pay they earned previously. The second IN I identified was that the fast food corporations were responsible for the poverty increase among the fast food workers.
IN's are everywhere and they also live within ourselves. It may be complicated to decipher them but it is important to recognize they exist within ourselves. In the future, I will work on identifying the narratives that surround me and talk about them. That way, the people that surround me, like my family, will be more aware of INs which means we will be able to lessen the impact it has on our lives. As I head out into my discipline, I will try and identify the INs that are present in my career path so that I can do what I think it's right and avoid being biased through the existing invisible narratives.
Yeah I totally agree that this class was an eye opener. I've never thought that I would learn all these different things in an Eng 214 class! I learned some things that will stick on to me for life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Before taking this I class, I didn't even think of many things until Catlin gave us reading and writing assignments.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. This class introduced me to what we already see in our everyday life, invisible narratives. Although they are sometimes difficult to decipher, it is important to be aware that they definitely do exist within ourselves as you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that one class can truly change your perspective of how to think about things. I think that's something we can all take away from the class and really creating our own narrative that works best for us.
ReplyDeleteI completely relate with you post, this class also showed me how the words we use to describe things can effect your perspective on it.
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