The papers you see listed below this memo are all of my revised or "perfected" drafts.  There were problems within each of these texts that I addressed, and I feel that I did a good job in doing so.   The main course of action to address a problem was to look up the scenario in The Everyday Writer, followed by follow up with the professor on my issues.  A lot of the times I used peer reviewers help to address a majority of my problems.  Also the Purdue Owl was a great help, as it was always very informative and in an easy format to understand.  These texts are all based off various assignments given throughout the course of ENC 1101.  All of these revisions were done with the guidance of the Professor, and with the knowledge of all that I learned throughout the course.  I feel like these are a small description of how vast writing can become.  I enjoyed writing all of these texts because they each presented their own challenge, and I am very fond of challenges.  

Tony Mirabelli blew me away with his text of different literacies required for a waiter.  It got me thinking about all the different texts that are necessary to carry out any other jobs in the world today.  A CEO for example must be able to communicate with his staff efficiently and get things done within his staff.  He must also be able to resolve problems quickly, and react to different stressful scenarios a company may be going through.  Another example can be that of a fast food worker.  An employee at McDonald's might have to deal with customers, and be able to provide excellent service even if the customer isn't friendly.  Another example is that of a college professor.  A college professor has to teach a class a subject, be able to respond to their questions, and try to maintain a good attitude towards students.  Sometimes I even wonder why professors keep their cool around some students that choose not to pay attention.  I know I don't enjoy that heat!

Without peer review, I don't know if I would've achieved the accomplishments I have achieved thus far in my papers.  Peer review is so vital to a writer, and to have to go without it really diminishes the ability of a writer.  I assume it's ok to state that a writer can best express his writing in the intended way after he has received help from someone who might have absolutely nothing to do with the text.  It would be cool if we could implement a peer review page at the end of every text, like a reference page.  It would be intriguing to see in somebody's text.

Another interesting concept for me is the difference in everybody's writing process.  You would expect since everybody is different, their writing process is different as well.  And this is true, it's just pretty strange to pay attention to it for the first time.  I didn't know how much my writing process differed compared to the student next to me.  The difference is pretty big.  I usually just sit down and write whatever is in my mind, while the person next to me can be a person that needs to plan everything before they even put a word down on paper.  This is very interesting and it can show the uniqueness in every person.

You can't really deny that social media, and computers have stopped the wave of writing.  If anything they've greatly improved it.  To speak directly about social media, no one really notices how it helps us out.  Realistically social media makes us more active in our writing experience.  Being only limited to 140 characters (twitter) or being given the openness of making your own groups, (facebook) requires a writer to improve his writing skills (most of the time anyways).  In my experience, I learned how to compress from twitter.  From facebook, I can't say I've learned much.  But my limited learning from facebook dosen't mean others haven't learned from it.

This is easily my favorite post to write (already!).  If you didn't already know, I am an upcoming entrepreneur, and I study the art of it very diligently (more than I study for school).  I study the minds of top entrepreneurs, as much as I study what they write with their minds.  It's exciting to know that a top mind like Warren Buffett, uses the rhetorical situation very often.  Not just necessarily Warren, but all entrepreneurs.  To put it into business terms, you have all four of the constituents (exigence, audience, rhetor, genre) within almost any business proposal, or just a paper written by a business executive in general.  A CEO has to be careful with how he states words, according to the audience he is speaking to.  He must also make sure the genre is appropriate for the situation.  Also, he must address/know all the constraints within the issue he is writing a paper.  An lastly, the author or the rhetor must be on track with his meaning behind every word and concept brought into the paper.  It is very intriguing, and it is a direct motivation to increase my communications skills to make me a more effective human being.

Not to contradict my last post at all, but there are some pros to plagiarism.  Not on the plagiarizers behalf, but on the plagiarized behalf.  As I grow up, I have learned that it is nice to be able to take pride in something and state "I did that, nobody else but me" in the rare instance that somebody can say that.  Bill Gates will step back one day and say to himself "I made the world a better place with my software, me alone" not necessarily that he did it on his own, but I'm sure most of us could confidently state that without Bill Gates, Microsoft wouldn't exist.  It is very good knowing that our ideas are protected, and their could be some heavy action against someone that doesn't ask our permission, or that doesn't acknowledge the work done.  

This could be considered a sorrowful post on my behalf, but the knowledge that everything is plagiarism stinks.  It's almost sad to know that most of what there is to think about has already been thought about.  I guess it would be appropriate to call this a world "filled" with plagiarism.  Every idea, every hope, every dream, has already been thought of by somebody else, and there is literally no hope to make it "original".  It dosen't really matter if you have never read a statement, or never read a thing at all in your life.  999 times out of 1000 someone has already thought of the idea. (I don't say 1000 times out of 1000 because there always is that lucky one person that will think of something original, but this is extremely rare)

Now this wasn't really confusing to me, it was really just awesome to know.  Since I always think outside of the box, I had always thought to myself "somebody else influenced me in some way to make this work possible" it's fascinating just to know that there will always be influence from another text in everything you do.  In everything!  Whenever you try a new technique for basketball, that technique has already been perfected by hundreds of people.  There is no more original ideas in the game of basketball.  Everything is completely influenced by some other person in some which way or form.

I've recently been giving a lot of my time towards video games.  I wanted to point out something that has always intrigued me in video games, and that is their dialogue.  For the longest time, video games dialogue was complete garbage.  Back then, developers would give minimal efforts to making voices sound good.  It is funny to see the transformation and importance that dialogue actually holds.  The writing for the story is huge, and being able to actively and accurately portray the feelings associated with a character (Call me a geek) can make you really feel for a character.  For example, in a game called Red Dead Redemption, we are given a lead character John Marston.  Now the thing about this lead character is that his voice was very prominent.  It was distinguished well, and it made a very good lasting memory about the character.  At the end of the game, some things happened that didn't end so well with Mr.Marston.  After we lost a sense of the character, you get to control his son.  The major difference here is the voice acting, where you go from prominent John, to his not so prominent sounding son.  The author of the script clearly knew how to make an impression last.  It actually made me very sorrowful, knowing that a character that I came to love in a game, left such a mark on me with just the mere dialogue.