Writing Showcase
Hello everyone! One of the biggest projects for this class is the analysis essay that is due at the end of the quarter. We completed many assignments throughout the past 10 weeks that helps with the analysis essay. For instance, we did many annotations on different films to help provide scenes to answer the course question. Not only that we also watched and read lectures, articles, and essays to further build on our understanding of the prompt. So continue to read this page to see my process throughout the quarter!
1. Planning and Exploratory Writing
The Mandalorian's Annotation
​In this assignment, our goal was to annotate a film that's not in the category of fairy tales. By doing so it will give us a broader range of the things we can talk about in our essay. One thing that I can connect this assignment with the habit of mind is openness. Before taking this class I was never interested in watching Marvel/ Disney movies that are not in the category of Disney fairy tales. Through the assignment, it forces me to watch something I thought I wouldn't be interested in. However, I ended up loving the movie. By being open-minded I was able to explore a new show that I can watch in my free time. Annotating this film I also started to notice the hints of "toxic masculinity" that surround us. One of the biggest things I noticed is the illustration of the films that are targeted towards a male audience versus films that are targeted toward a female audience.
Section 2: Peer Review
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The reason I choose this peer review to showcase on my portfolio is because of its usefulness. My classmate did not just compliment my work, but he also added more information that I can talk about in my introduction paragraphs. This helps build more credibility in my writing. This help me improve my peer view skill because it's brining my attention to the way I should read other discussions and give similar insightful reviews.
The Best Advice I Got
The Best Advice I Gave
The reason I picked this assignment is because of much thinking I put into writing this review. With the highlighted section, I believe the writer will further analyze what they can talk about. Through this assignment I learned to improve my peer review skills. This assignment not only benefit the writer that I'm leaving the review for, but it's also beneficial for me. Since my classmate did the same film as I did, I was able to analyze the film further. ​
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Section 3: Self Review
Introduction Paragraphs
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One of the thing I needed to fix was my thesis. After writing the whole essay, I realized that I needed to do a little more clarification of my introduction paragraphs. By adding in the annotation I will further show the reader of my understanding of the topic. Not only that, if I make this adjustment then I will be able to add in another secondary source in my essay. By continuing to review my writing I had the opportunity to add more information to my essay.
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Cutting Out Unnecessary Phrases
In this section of the essay I was talking about the gender values that Disney is teaching through Beauty and the Beast. One of the biggest problem I had was fitting everything I wanted to talk about into the words requirement. In this section of the essay I'm cutting certain sentences and combining them to make it shorter.