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Welcome to my website!

Hi there! My name is Monica Ferrer, and I am currently a freshman at Florida State University. I had a life changing diagnosis about a...

Non-Traditional Mini Text Presentation

In class, I showed a portion of the youtube video, "The Machine" by Bert Kreischer. This video is a comedy bit in which Kreishcer tells...

CHAPTER 11: IDENTITY (BLOG #11)

When I read this chapter from the Bedford Book of Genres, I really liked how it first established how everyone has their own identity....

3/27/18 Class Lecture: Project 2

Things we should incorporate into our project 2: - Personal exigence - Background - Community - Text Analysis - Genre explantation - What...

MY EXPERIENCE WITH PROJECT 2 (Blog #10)

Writing my project two was very challenging for me. When I started, I felt like this would be an easy project for me, but as I really got...

MY INTERVIEW (Blog #8)

Last weekend I went to conduct one of my interviews at Mellow Mushroom. I went to the restaurant and asked my waitress about what kinds...

CONSIDER THE LOBSTER (Blog #6)

"Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace is a feature article from a food magazine. The main idea of this piece is to describe and...

IDENTITY (Blog #5)

In chapter 11, the book discussed the importance of sticking to your own identity when writing. I believe it is important to know who you...

1/30/18: Class Log

We all got our notecards and wrote down things that we think make up a good story Listened to the poem “These Skirts Are For Me” by...

REVISING AND REMIXING YOUR WORK (Blog #4)

In chapter 9 of The Bedford Book of Genres, you read about the importance of the revision process when creating a piece of writing. I...

SHITTY FIRST DRAFTS (Blog #3)

I really enjoyed reading Anne Lamott's "Shitty First Drafts." I think that everyone can find this piece relatable, because everyone has...

I ONCE WAS MISS AMERICA (Blog #2)

Upon reading I Once Was Miss America I immediately found myself relating to Roxanne Gay. I found that the piece was written to show how...

1/11/2018 Class Lecture: Genre

Genre: category of composition / literature Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos: credibility Pathos: emotional appeal Logos: using reason Kairos:...

1/11/18 Class Lecture: Project 1

Personal narrative 1,000 woods minimum Encounter with a meaningful text within a community where they feel / felt accepted and heard...

UNDERSTANDING GENRES (Blog #1)

Genre: essentially a composition’s category. Genres are used to organize pieces of work into categories, which are dependent on their...

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