English 212

Purpose: This week in my English class we were given the opportunity to gain experience about the different sides of social media. As a normal consumer, when I make a post on social media it is about my life in some way shape or form. However, this week we could either create advertisement posts for books or create fictional story posts. I decided to make Twitter fiction posts as I felt that it would be a fun activity that allows my creative juices to flow. I have always really enjoyed writing short stories based on vague prompts as they make the reader dig deeper into what is being said.  Process:  For this assignment I picked three prompts from the provided website and had to author stories that could be posted on X, formally known as Twitter. Which meant there was a strict character limit of 280, which includes commas and letters, making the task more difficult than what meet the eye. I picked the prompts “Describe an unphotographable moment” “Why did the woman wake up scre...

Purpose: This week in my English class we had to slow down and go back in technology. We were tasked with creating a newsletter like it would have been created in the 80’s by using typewriters. While we didn’t have to use real typewriters, we used a software that acted like a typewriter. This meant no spell check, no backspace to delete, and no moving around on the document. If that doesn’t seem hard enough, we also had to include two columns of text, a banner, something in a box and a text-based call out. Process and Reflection:  My process for this task began in a notebook and a word document. I sketched out a general idea of how I wanted my newsletter to look in terms of content I would include before I moved over to my computer. Due to not having specific content requirements, I felt like a topic I could write a lot about would be popular attractions in the state. I went with two major attractions in Michigan, the Detroit Zoo and the Detroit Institute of Art. I spent a few hour...