Week 15

Throughout this semester of English 104 my writing has definitely changed. I feel like before I took this class my writing was not a structured. I would not always follow the logical lines of explaination to get my point across, I would try to make it interesting rather than informative or both if possible. I suppose what I'm saying is that this class has taught me it's okay to simply explain, or report, on what I've gained from my research. I don't have to necessarily entertain my audience all the time. I have also learned a lot more about incorporating my research into my writing. This was not a skill I was particularly good at before I too this class. I would do the research and then forget to put it into my paper entirely. Now I am better at bringing my readers along with me in my research rather than telling them everything I know from my own knowledge bank. I believe this is a skill that will help me appear more credible in any circumstance where I'll need to write. Something I could still work on is citing within my paper. I've definitely grown in doing this more frequently, but there's still a part of me that hates doing it. This has been a great class, but actually a little overbearing. I don't want to appear lazy or anything, but almost everyone I've spoken to in other English 104 classes have not had near the workload that we have had throughout the semester. I think maybe you could back of just a little. For most of us this is simply another core class, and we aren't ever going to put the same heart into it that we would in the classes pertaining to our majors.

Cut-up Story

Hip-hop is a business owned by business men./ Those days are long gone. A lot of rappers now a day have the same goal as the powerful business men so they do what they have to do to sell music even if that means stepping on toes in the process and starting "beef" with other rappers./They all discussed LaRosa with me like I was some celebrity in a movie!/ I just dont have the time or the patience for something like that./ When I think of that day, I think of the sunny, clear skies that hovered overhead; I think of the parking lot jammed full of car, which were at one point jammed full of people hoping to get in a few rounds on this gorgeous day./ My band had always been popular in the high school band world, but to find out that didn't end with college just amazed me.

Week 13 Post

Finding the most significant experience I've ever had at my fieldsite was a difficult job. There's so much I've learned from so many of the times I've been around these people. I suppose the one I find the most significant was when I was standing outside the band room with several other band members, and one of them found out that I was in Lawrence Central's marching band. He immediately asked if I was in LaRosa. I told him that not only had I been in LaRosa, but that I had the oboe solo at the beginning of the show. He stared at me with disbelief and then began to grab every band person who walked by, telling them excitedly that I was the oboe soloist in LaRosa. Every person he grabbed shook my hand congratulating me! They all discussed LaRosa with me like I was some celebrity in a movie! I knew my high school marching band was one of the best, but finding out that people from even the most remote schools knew everything about us was unbelievable! Not only did these people know all about LaRosa (that was the show my band won Grand Nationals with), but they knew almost everything about every other show LC had done within the last 5-7 years! To find out how important following a high school band was to them was almost unexpected to me. My band had always been popular in the high school band world, but to find out that didn't end with college just amazed me.

6 word stories

Personal
I will sing for a dollar!

Subculture
Drum roll, horns up, and march!