Introduction!

INTRODUCTION

College Writing 1111 is not the actual name of this course, the real one is: “Ways of Seeing, Being, and Representing: “Self-reflexive Critique” in Writing as Social Practice" not coincidentally but because its exactly what we have been through this last months. In this course the focus wasn’t really learn how to write better essays, with less grammar mistakes, and how to us punctuation correctly, it goes very further than only that. We encounter ourselves in this course in front of highly complicated readings such as the one from Butler, Rodriguez, Wiseman, and other writers and we focus through out the semester on the UNDERSTANDING of each sentence, the meaning of each word and on deciphering the real message that the author is trying to gave us. On each of our projects we use different focus, and each of them was about a different topics, problems or situations, but on each new work that we work on, we should be able to apply what’ve learn on the past one; and that was the magic of each project. Even thought projects where about different ideas, we where able to find the relationship of them and our original focus “An Account of One self”: A reading that we though that was almost impossible to read, but that we end up loving it.

This portfolio that I have created has a specific order of things, and it is not by coincidence neither, but because I made it in a way that my audience, new College Writing 1111 students, can observe how on each on each project we where ask to speak back to a specific idea, and how we always go back to the previous project. Something t could be really hard to understand this type of essays without reading the original source on which our work is based on. But even thought of that with this essays that you’ll find next, our focus was for our audience to understand what they are reading without the need of knowing what my original source was. 

Each project below is in order on which we made them, from the first one that we develop in September being number one, as the last one being our Final Work. Besides that you will also find among the projects some images, blog post, and other things that help me in the construction of each project, so I also post so you can understand the improvement as you go.

As you keep reading, take into account that this was not an easy course, thinking a lot and very deeply was the require # 1, and as the tittle of the course said, we where ask how each reading make us see, feel and act, in other words how each author like Butler persuade us. Adorno, Foucault, Wiseman, Rodriguez all of them where able to persuade me, but each of them in a different way; and that is exactly what I would like you to understand as you read my project, I would like you to feel what I felt while I was reading, I want you to enter my mind and see what I see and think about each essay, reading or Account of the self that we read.