Brian Pham's Weird Blog

Stedman's essay has many sources he cites. He uses them well for his writing with how he puts the analogies and examples together with the topic of writing he is discussing. I believe his conventions are true by how he uses the examples and how he fixes quotes and points out the details. For example he quotes Robin Toner's article "Feminist Pitch by a democrat named Obama" she quotes "Obama campaign... subtly markets the feminist campaign" and he points out that "subtly" is the key word and Obama is a passive character.

My problem I have with outside sources is that after finding the credible source. I quote it in my work and tend to forget to add my own opinion after the quote like when Stedman states "As if you had just read an interesting quote... you want to hear more of his opinion... but its too late (I) moved on." I used to have that problem and still do occasionally but now I catch the problem and fix it. In my doc one I had made that mistake ending a paragraph with another Professors quote on writing formats stating that, "Those systems are usually promoted as a way to make academic way to standardize writing...I have trouble understanding it." I originally ended that paragraph without my own opinion and without a transition but I caught it after I took a break from the paper.

Evidence in Motion is not your typical ordinary blog. It's more of a business blog that gives useful information to other people studying under the majors they cover but they also make sales on the blog site.

Blogging is definitely a genre of writing. In Kerry Dirk's Navigating Genres he uses the example of George Washington having freedom to create his genre for the first state of the union. Blogging is similar as we have the same freedom but it's like our own personal journals so we can write what we want and share it online to receive feedback. If all writing genres were the same than blogging would be similar to an academic paper and it wouldn't be as stress free and fun as it should be.

In paragraph one the author explains through their point of view the lack of sleep they are getting. The topic is then stated in paragraph two which the topic is sleep deprivation. paragraphs two through five give information about sleep deprivation and the author puts in their personal struggles with how their job affected their sleep and health and how they noticed it and came to a conclusion on how they fixed it. Paragraph six however is directing the readers attention to Dr. Katie Siengsukon who is a sleep researcher in physical therapy and how the post is to get everyone's attention on sleep deprivation and how this she goes in depth about it in her own post. The final paragraph is the conclusion paragraph about how poor sleep hygiene even affects physical therapist and that people should actually get more sleep even if they "don't need it".

My writing strategy is simple, I just free write whatever ideas I have in my head that correspond to the topic. I write all the topics down and from there I pick a few that will be used in the paper and organize a pattern for how they will appear. After all that is completed I start researching the main ideas I had selected to have information to back them up.