Rachel Liang
Professor Pessin
Metacognitive Analysis
20 April 2013
Metacognitive
Analysis
After
reading the three hybrid essays provided to us I was able to realize which
style I most preferred. I was really drawn to Cabel’s “The Basement” because it
wasn’t just an article about a cool basement he found, he was able to take us
on an adventure without having us physically present. A majority of his post
was pictures, if we were to put all his comments in one paragraph or paper I’m
pretty sure that it wouldn’t of been more than a page and we wouldn’t have as
much of an understanding as we do with the pictures than without them. When I
started my blog I knew I wanted to incorporate a or some pictures but I just
wasn’t sure how I’d go about it. Because we were asked to write about our
experience on electronic writing I wasn’t really able to give the audience the
feel of it because it’s more of a feeling of an experience than a physical one,
for example if someone asked you to describe the word “love” you’d be able to
show pictures of couples acting like they’re in love but the audience isn’t
going to fully comprehend the meaning of that word unless they themselves have
gone through it. Since there wasn’t anyone sitting next to me taking pictures
of how I looked when I was experiencing writers block or when I got tired of
sitting still for too long, I had to improvise.
I remembered watching the movie Julie and Julia there were
scenes/pictures of Julie sitting at her desk either looking at her laptop or
typing on her blog, I used one of the many pictures to illustrate what an
average blogger looks like and I incorporated a summary of who she is and how
that image related to how I felt about electronic writing and blogging. Another
thing I liked about “The Basement” was how Cabel made us feel like he was
talking to us not at us. When I read the hybrid essay about cleaning water and
the Santa Cruz River, I don’t know if was because it was repeating the word
WHEREAS at the beginning of every single “paragraph” but I felt like that
author was yelling at me and I couldn’t even fully comprehend what they were
talking about because there weren’t any clear ends to their sentence or
thought. So I knew I didn’t want to come off like I was lecturing my audience
on my experience with electronic writing. I made sure to put them in nice
paragraphs with a clear sense of who I was and where I was coming from. Enduing
that my hybrid essay was in first person because I feel like when I put my own
thoughts and opinions in my work it feels more personal than just writing out
whatever the prompt asks of me without my own interpretations.
Therefore
after reading the hybrid essays provided I had a clear path way of how I wanted
to go about writing my essay. It wasn’t entirely like Cabel’s or like the one
of cleaning water but it gave me a good guideline of what to do and of what not
to do.
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