ENGRD101. Fall 2024. Sections 27 & 31.
For this Sunday’s sketch assignment I chose to make a diagram on how to make an essay. I represented this diagram using the process of making pizza. Constructing a good essay takes six steps. The first step is having a prompt which you can make a good argument for. This step is represented by the […]
Read moreFor this Halfa Kucha assignment I decided to look at the trauma presented in both Stitches and Sabrina and compared the healing process. According to Juith Herman, recovery is a process set in three stages. Both comics embodied this recovery process in their own way. In Stitches, David’s recovery process started after he began meeting […]
Read moreFor this sunday sketch I choose to make a mixtape based on the rhetorical situation of a good friend going through a break up. I wanted to make a mixtape in which they could relate their emotions to the songs. Having this in mind I began choosing songs with the rule that each song had […]
Read moreFor this assignment I first had to take a look at the environment around me and the resources that were at my disposal. I was very limited on resources so I knew I had to improvise some props. While looking around my room I found that nothing reminded me of a specific movie scene, so […]
Read moreBefore creating the comic, my original draft was unorganized and difficult to understand. It started off strong but towards the end it was difficult to understand what I was trying to say. I could not find the words to convey the message I wanted my audience to get. However, after creating the comic I got […]
Read moreFor this assignment I wanted to answer the question: does relaxing and sleeping affect my stress levels? My hypothesis is that it does affect my stress levels. To answer this question I first started off by collecting data for three different categories: sleep, phone, and hangout. Each morning, when I would wake up, I would […]
Read moreFor this assignment we were first instructed to write a literacy narrative about the process of how we learned to read. Writing this narrative took some time for me as I did not know what I was going to say. I had to think back to when I was younger and try to remember how […]
Read moreFor many, when they think back to their elementary school years they think of games and friends. Elementary school is a time where kids can have fun and relax without worrying too much of their academics, but this was not the case for me. Since kindergarten I can recall the stress school gave me. I […]
Read moreMaking a quadriptych was not a long or complicated process. The only thing that was a bit challenging was thinking of an idea. I did not know what I wanted to draw as a comic so I went online and looked for inspiration. I was looking at photos I could use for my comic when […]
Read moreSparking Emotion “Spinning” by Tillie Walden and “Stitches: a memoir” by David Small are two works that deal with themes of character growth, isolation, and family dynamics. These accounts also deal with traumatic scenes involving the authors many can relate to. Both Walden and Small discussed the events after the trauma and the impacts it […]
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