Monthly Archives: August 2017

Conventions

Conventions (noun): a rule of conduct or behavior

“Blogging can be understood to have a particular form and genre, with it’s own set of conventions and characteristics–just like any other mode of writing. This is true when we consider blogs as a form of journalism. Blogs can also be thought of to be a format, like a notebook or a chalkboard, and therefore open to the format of the author’s or authors’ needs.” (Guidelines for Blogging on the OpenLab)

I understood Conventions as the word itself, but I never quite learned the actual definition. It’s clear now that the passage is telling me that blogging has it’s own set of rules that I have to follow. It’s not quite like social media where informal writing is acceptable. There are different rules for behavior.

The Chronicles of Hope

Hello everyone! The people I speak to call me Hope, as that is what I’ve been trying to bring to people for the past few years. I achieved this title as I spent most of my teenage years venturing out into the open space of the internet which led me into some unsavory parts of it. After seeing many things on there, I joined up with a collective of other people who had a similar goal as myself, which was to help the people of the interwebs be free of their dire situations. I was then given that name after one of the people we communicated with on there said to me that I was her last hope. After that many of my names have some sort of variation of the word Hope in it.

My profile picture I feel is a representation of that as it is the alchemical transmutation circle for a human transmutation. One of the rules of alchemy is the Law of Equivalent Exchange. This law states that something cannot come from nothing and that everything must come from something. To put it simpler, if you want something you must be prepared to give something of equal value be it time, effort, money or… other things. The other part of it is that we have been trying for many hundreds of years to make artificial humans, we have everything needed to down to every molecule, however we still are unable to reproduce the “spark” needed to jump start life. This is related because it shows that the life we have now is something special and should not be taken for granted and that we should try our best to protect and save the lives of those who cannot. On the other hand, if you compare human life to the grand scale of the universe, we are nothing in the grand scheme of things. So take that with a grain of salt.

Some of my interests are playing video games, mainly RPGs (role playing games) as it takes you away from some of the abhorrent things I’ve seen that humans are capable of doing to each other. In the “real” world I’m a person who visits many sites and tries to track down the locations and activities of people who commit heinous acts and in doing so I have to witness these acts. In the game, however, I could be anyone I choose. I could be a valiant knight whose goal is to save the kingdom from some necromancer, or I could be a powerful mage who is trying to spread the word of God with my horde of undead. Even still I could be a cunning rouge who only seeks to gain fame and glory through sabotage and subterfuge. The problems are very one dimensional and have no repercussions. They have a precise way of solving them and they can and will be solved very easily once you know how. The good always wins. In real life however, that is rarely true.

I also would love to work on keeping my fellow peers safe in their online interactions as most people now a days have no idea how much information is easily obtained from their daily posts to their social media. This allows anyone to easily access their private information including but not limited to their live location.

I hope to achieve a higher education with this schooling in order to do what I do professionally and without having to do in in the shadows as how it’s being done now, it can be misconstrued as since “you viewed the materials as well so you’re equally as guilty.”

“The ones who seem the happiest, are usually the ones with the most pain.”

glossary

glossary (noun): a dictionary of the special terms in a particular field or job

“Glossary entries: contribute to our course’s glossary by writing one post per week (or more if you choose) in which you find a word that you need to better understand, follow the glossary instructions, and write a post that has the word as the title of the post, Glossary as the category, tags you find relevant, and all the things in the post it’s supposed to have” (Guidelines for Blogging on the OpenLab)

Each week, I will add a post that includes the definition of a word I wanted to understand better, plus its context and an explanation of its meaning, so the whole class can understand that word. It’s not just defining one word I don’t know, but collecting these words and definitions into a larger resource, like a dictionary of terms for ENG 1101.

Introducing ourselves

Although we introduced ourselves in class briefly, and we’ll introduce ourselves more formally in Project #1, please write an introduction here as a way to help us get to know each other better. Aim to write 250-300 words. This is your chance to say all the things you forgot to say in class, or to say again all the things you crafted and said brilliantly.

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Check back again and reply to at least a few of your classmates, asking questions or letting them know about shared interests.

Welcome!

Welcome to the site for ENG 1101-D351, Locating Writing. We will spend a significant amount of time and effort this semester on this site, so please take some time to look around. As the semester continues, we will add more materials, so be sure to explore frequently in addition to sharing your work and reading and responding to your classmates’ work.