To who it may concern, I am going to introduce myself as a writer, My name is Jorge Garcia and I became a writer at the start of this winter semester and I believe my voice should be heard metaphorically and physically, The way I express my voice when I write is by writing and making it sound as if I was right there beside you talking with you, guessing your brain process and trying to guess what you are talking and trying to have a conversation through the text, I use very simplistic words and ways of explaining the the things I want to get across with the reading so they know what I am taking about, 99 percent of people don’t talk in a very convoluted way when talking to their friends, family or significant one, which is the way I want to convey my writing. One of my strengths is that when I try to write the way I intend to like I said earlier, it usually works, sometimes when the critiquer tells me this it is either a complement or a critique  but I take it as a complement either way, I think I am doing pretty going when it’s talking about the style I want to keep writing about. But my negatives are that when writing an essay that cant have that personality input I usually do pretty mediocre or just plain bad because of my small range of vocabulary and sometimes my raw use of language not sounding swiftly when people read my writings having a lot of grammatical errors, like not having commas were they are supposed to be in and things of that measure that just dont help my writing in any form. I am hoping to improve in these departments so I can be a better writer, maybe write a book about something I am passionate about and sound cool and usse words like caveat or eclectic and have other people be jealous at it like “oh my god that was such a good book”. I hope I can level up my writing.

The part that resonated the most with me in the short narrative “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan was the multiple experiences she had to go through with her mother. For example, when she needed to present herself as her mother to talk to a stock broker because he wouldn’t understand her mother is something I have been through many times, and I can resonate with and speak about. Numerous times the need for my assistance, like ordering food through the phone, amazon losing my mother’s package, and having to complain to the employers, was something a kid with native language speaking parents wouldn’t think it was hard, but it was. It was a burden placed upon you that if you messed up, there was no other way of getting that package back or not being able to make that appointment for the dermatologist or even just ordering food in the Chinese restaurant with people that you think aren’t even speaking English, I can write a few more pages on these events and their impacts that were engraved in me, but all I can say was how relatable and true and genuine were the writer’s experiences that instead made me more invested into the reading. I tried getting the most out of the thing she was trying to get across in her reading. Another part that did amuse me in the reading was the writer’s intention of making the short narrative more readable for everyone, especially her mother, because this is something I struggle with too, books with many words that are so complicated that sometimes I just tell myself what the heck am I reading like in the start of the narrative the author says the line “The intersection of memory upon imagination” like what those this even mean, maybe If i take a good 20 minutes it can be understood. Still, the point is that it can be said in simpler words so all people can understand it. It worked because most of the readings I did in High School didn’t make sense, and I definitely understood what she was trying to convey in the reading with the simpler words she used, like her mother said, “So easy to read.”.

Rhetorical Situation Worksheet 

Your name:  

Jorge Garcia 

Completing this worksheet may take more time than you think. It’s worth the time. The information you gather will help you later when writing up assignments. But more importantly, the process of addressing each of the questions below will slowly work to change how you read texts. Keep in mind that some answers will not be obvious or even observable in the text, and so you may have to do some critical thinking and, at times, even some online research. Use full sentences. Take as much space as you need. 

Context & Exigence: What topic/conversation is this text responding to? What year is the text published? What is the exigence–that is, what motivating occasion/issue/concern prompted the writing? The motivating occasion could be a current or historical event, a crisis, pending legislation, a recently published alternative view, or another ongoing problem.  

The text is responding to the many new immigrant and sons and daughters of immigrants. This was published in 1990 when immigrants rates were on the rise plus the rise of immigrant American born children were rising too. 

Author: Who is the author of this text?  What are the author’s credentials and what is their investment in the issue?  

Amy tan is the author of this text. She studied in the San Diego State University. Her Investment in the issue is that she is trying to explain how people’s English doesn’t match the English most people understand and how that limits them in society.  

Text: What can you find out about the publication?  What is the genre of the text (e.g., poem, personal essay, essay, news/academic article, blog, textbook chapter, etc.)? How do the conventions of that genre help determine the depth, complexity, and even appearance of the argument? What information about the publication or source (magazine, newspaper, advocacy Web site) helps explain the writer’s perspective or the structure and style of the argument? 

Mother Tongue us a short narrative. The short narrative genre helps to convey the appearance of the argument by getting to the point quick and easy not having any complexity is everyone that reads it can get to understand the morning. 

Audience: Who is the author’s intended audience? What can you infer about the audience (think about beliefs and political association but also age, class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, profession, education, geographic location, religion, etc.)? Look for clues from the text (especially the original publication) to support your inference. 

The author’s intended audience is her mom and the people that don’t have the best English. I think that the intended audience is immigrant, children of immigrants. The original publishment was during a language symposium where people go to enhance language skills. 

Purpose: What is the author trying to accomplish? To persuade, entertain, inform, educate, call to action, shock? How do you know? 

I think Amy Tan is trying to inform everyone about how her mom’s English is viewed as broken and how it limits her mother so she wrote this book in her own type of English so she could understand it. I know this because Amy tan says, “Because she expressed them imperfectly … even acted as if they did not hear her.” this shows what she is trying to convey about her “Mother’s Tongue” in a simpler way so her man could understand it.  

Argument: What do you believe is the main claim/idea/argument that the author is trying to communicate? What stance does s/he take?  

The main idea that the author is trying to make is that “Limited” English affects the life of many other immigrants coming into America even though they try their hardest society doesn’t perceive their English as normal English. 

Evidence: How is the argument supported? Types of support include reasons and logical explanations as well as evidence. Types of evidence include anecdotes, examples, hypothetical situations, (expert) testimony, quotes, citing sources, statistics, charts/graphs, research the author or another source conducts, scientific or other facts, general knowledge, historical references, metaphors/analogies, etc.  

There is a BuzzFeed.News article by Michelle No. She explains her struggle with her parents speaking broken english and having her to deal with it very similarly like Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue.”. 

Rhetorical Strategies: What aspects of this text stand out for you as a rhetorical reader? In other words, what do you observe about what the author strategically does (consciously or not) in hopes of appealing to their audience? List here as many observations as you can make about what the text does.  

One of the aspects is that the type of English written here can be read by most people, immigrant or not but at the same time it doesn’t lose the flare a book with more difficult words would have. She also influences the audience with the many relatable situations the audience would have experienced which pulls in the reader (myself included) unconsciously.  

Citation: Add the correct MLA or APA bibliographic entry for this text. Use easybib.com if you prefer. 

Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue” Under Western Eyes in the Threepenny Review, 1990 , pp. 315-320 

Notes: What do you want to remember about this text? 

What I want to remember about this text is English is such a language that portrays so many vast emotions with many details but can also stray away the ones that dotn have the ability to learn and speak it well.  

This essay, as it suggests, it’s an assessment, study of one’s self.

My flourishment 

This essay is the paper that will should my growth in this class for the last semester, from start to finish, from my starting level to all my accomplishments and what I managed to learn, and the goals that were reached. This will show firstly a few free writes and my later down-the-line free rights, with some quotes and some sentences that show the difference in my writing in these two points of the semester.

The first development that are seen is the change in grammar use throughout my times, I started using more college vocabulary, more commas, and just better writing overall. In one of my first few free writes, I talk about the ia this writing I did for the class about the first time I stud up for myself, and the writing itself is not that impressive but it gets the job done, it hard some minor spelling errors and many commas missing with, the way the words are written are sometimes not comprehensible and the writing sounded like I was basically talking to the reader with not even a pinch of writing skills in it, it was my voice word for word I hand not developed the skill to balance out my emotions with proper writing in this answer. Then fast forward to the future, and the next thing is a Free write from one of the classes, it talks about mostly photos and pictures, and the writing in it sounds so much better in every way. The grammar has improved to a level that I would have never imagined before starting this class putting my commas in place, been way more coherent when writing and just having more of an idea of where the subject going throughout most it before going in another tangent. All of this shows the difference between my writing before and after the class showing a level up in all the basic qualities of a writer, like grammar.

Another development throughout the semester was the use of my voice. It was first, my writing sounded like clouded-up ideas with no place to be in writing with so many I’s but no way of explaining these emotions. In this introduction to my argumentative essay, my thought process was to repress my emotions towards the topic to not overwhelm the reader with the many ideas I had, but this made the writing itself very small, and very minimal information was given and not showing much of my standpoint in the topic here. Then the introduction to the final research essay to argue against the ban on gas cars. This introduction is for my development amazing I achieved the best balance between my voice and proper writing to grab the reader to my research paper, using the emotions I used to show my passion towards the topic and my stan point in the topic while enhancing the reader’s experience, also having way more things to say and adding amazing word that correlated together, everything was flowing as I was writing and it turned out to be one of the papers I look at and say “this was not me” while my smile is grinning to each extreme of my face. Overall it shows my writing prowess and it shows the improvement I had when controlling the volume of my voice in writings to get that sweet spot that make you feel fussy when re-reading it again. 

Another one of the things I did was learn how to annotate more acceptably and knowing what to look for when reading the articles I am using for my own research paper. At the start of the semester I didn’t much of an idea of what to annotate or what to look for when reading some of the articles in class but later on it was improved throughout the semester reading more and more papers gaining that experience that helps you recognize what you want out of an article, reading so much made me able to read what I need and get what I want, this is shown when I annotated June Jordan’s Nobody mean more to me than you and the.  This writing is about 20 pages long and I managed to get the central ideas shown throughout each page when reading it at a constant pace and getting the information needed for the to be had after the annotation of the reading that helped me stand out from the class and create strong debatable topics for everyone to center around.

I also learned to do many technical things that I had weak foundations on that were easily fix by just learning the methods to use. Learning how to do MLA format citation for all kind of media like movies, videos, essays, other research papers, and a plethora of other media I used for my research paper. Another thing was being able to access professional research to use for other papers, I learned how to use jstor, Google Scholar, and the database that City College of New york Provides for their students to get valid information. All of this contributed to getting better information for my papers and having that information pinpointed to you so you don’t have to start research for one article in google that may serve you purpose for the topic you are writing for.

But everything is not colorful with rainbows and all achievements, there are somethings that I still need to work on and have not reached yet even at the end of this semester of class. The things I have not achieved are that I am not revisiting my writing while trying to make it perfect in the first go into the writing. This is something you can easily pick up in my writings they are there, they feel very raw in the terms of writing, they all feel as if they were my first draft, no revising, no proofreading, this is especially shown throughout my research essay and I still need the willpower to proofread my papers to make them flow smothering and making it less tiring for the reader to read my work.

In conclusion this this self-assessment has shown me the development that I have had throughout my time reading and writing that has overall been positive and it shows how much potential to be a writer a person has and that you don’t have to a “Writer Person” to be able to write nice sentences to make someone happy, but I still have many basic things to improve and eliminate from the way I write and revise my writing to make it better than before. In all it has been an experience needed to thrive as a writer and a person overall.

Here is my research essay, written by yours truly, viewed and monitored by my professor Brittany Vicars.

In this essay, I poured all of my passion into gasoline cars. I made an outstanding compilation of takes and reasons why gasoline cars aren’t such a big problem in our society and how we as humans should keep improving and delaying the leave of these gasoline beauties that represent a part of the human Identity with their majestic roar that brings goosebumps in any human being able to experience these machines fully.

This is but a few pages of my research paper I put so much work on.