Yanira's Thoughts Blog

What is networking? Networking is the action of collaborating with others in order to swap information and create a professional contact. Networking can help with many things, the main thing being that creating those connections can help with getting an internship. It also helps to meet new people because no one knows which one of those people can suggest to you for something new like a job. There are many opportunities to network. It can happen before and after class, it could happen during events, it could even happen while eating lunch. When networking there are many different groups that those people will fall under. They could fall under school, work, community and even family.  There are two different kinds of networks. The first one is a closed network. This means that those people most likely know each other, and they can offer the same information as well as resources and opportunities. This is one that gives a narrow range of opportunities given. There are advantages to h...

There are many different ways we communicate with each other. The way we talk with friends is different from the way we talk to our coworkers. It is also different to how we talk to our parents. Everyday we change the way we speak to others, that being either going in and out of languages or the way we talk with our dialects. Having to filter the way we talk can be hard, especially within our English classes. It is always hard to maintain a formal or academic tone within our assignments. I have always wondered if we could bring our own voices into our papers without getting points taken off because the tone isn’t formal. It is interesting to learn from the text we had to read this week, that the way we learn to write in school is called standard written english. I would’ve never thought that the way we were taught in school would be the standard and that it's not an objective criteria set. From the reading, I saw this, “Instead it is an ideal that centers a ‘norm’ often conceived ...

What is visual rhetoric? Visual rhetoric means an efficient way of communicating through visual elements. That could be images, and the fonts of the texts. This skill helps with analyzing these images and understanding their form and meaning. As a student understanding what visual rhetoric means helped me for past assignments. I was able to analyze images and understand their meaning and the form. Since entering college there have been so many changes to how I have to learn things and the ways I should approach something new. As students we are constantly online and learning new things as well as adapting to all the new changes happening to the writing technology. As we are adapting to the new changes and we are looking at artifacts like websites and playing online games, we are learning how to read critically and how to make assumptions about those websites and those online games. The assumptions we make as we look at these websites and online games are about gender, age and other c...