I think that project 5 was a good idea because it is a very useful to have a resume online. It makes it so one doesn't have to always have a hard copy of one's resume on hand, but you always have access to it because the internet is everywhere. In addition, this project forces you to get rid of all the things in your resume that is no longer relevant to your career. It is important to start building your resume throughout college because it is easier to go year by year than look back and try to remember everything. The only concern I have about this project is that some of the websites are "free" but then ask you to pay for using their website. This worried me when I was doing all this work because I kept thinking that in the end I wouldn't be able to pull the website up.
There are so many things about genres that I did not know when I entered this class. For instance, I knew that your audience was important when creating something; however, when your doing a project it doesnt always have to be for the entire population but towards a selective audience. In addition, one has to keep in mind the previous knowledge your audience has to make sure they understand everything. This was important to keep in mind during project 2,3 and 4. For project 3 it was all about showing and not telling. I have always struggled with this in the past; however, the more I am assigned this projects the better I get at them. I believe it also helped to have read some in class to give us a rough idea on how to do this. Lastly, I think that project 4 was the hardest project in theory, but once you got started it came very easily. It took me forever to come up with a way to tell a story without words, because words are a part of your everyday life. Overall, this class teaches you a ton about different genres.
I will deffinitly use what I learned in this class throughout college/life. I learned that writing style is not always clear cut and cannot be used with every genre. I was always taught certain conventions were always right and this is not the case. You wouldn't use a formal tone in a creative non fiction piece. In addition, that is more to English than just the typical 5 paragraph essays that high school teacher make you write. From now on I will never write a 5 paragraph essay (unless my teacher asks for it) because I feel like it brings me bac to five grade writing. Furthermore, I will always keep my audience in mind when I am writing because if you whole goal is to get published, or even so someone actually reads your paper than you have to make a connection with them. I think that this class has taught me a lot of valuable information that has improved my wirting skills.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Resume online
I think an online resume is one of the best ways to go. You are able to constantly update it, keep it visually appealing and your resume can be more competitive. With technology always growing, why not jump on board and take advantage of it. For my resume I am in between using wikia or weebly. I looked at the video that weebly had on how to make a weebly page and I might start with this website. You can do a ton of things with this website and still keep it clean and fresh for potential employers.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
What are good websites
In my opinion what makes a good website verse a bad website is how easy you can access the information it tries to provide. If I have to look through three different pages to get the information I will most likely not go to that website again. In addition, I love pictures. Especially pictures that is pared with the information on the page so if I really wanted to I didn't even have to read it to understand what kind of information was on the page. Another thing is I really enjoy colors that are not too hard on the eyes but amazing enough to get my attention. Furthermore, I really like the websites like youtube because you can find absolutely anything on there, whether you want to find something funny, sad, serious, happy, etc. Lastly, I do not really like websites that require you to be a member of the website first even though it is free, because they always send you spam which clogs up email.
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