Jose Briones's List: Writing Textbook AB

Listening and reading strategies mean; developing a sense for listening and reading in a efficient way. In this article the author shares a personal experience that he has performed sometime in his career and acknowledges the source which are the students.\nThis particular website states an expanded examples on how to practice listening and reading stategies, it is about a teacher who uses the whole class as an example and shares it on this website so other teachers can use it as a lesson plan. The intended audience by this article are other teachers and probably some students. This is a very popular website that i have used in the pass for research purposes. It is a well design website that focuses on lesson plans for teachers and has a broad content of useful information.

Citation- (Teachers.net1996 - 2009.) Retrieved on 10 Nov 09. From:http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1248.html

This website is very useful when doing prewriting strategies because it walks you through the process on how to develop a rough prewriting paper. Prewriting is the writing you do before you come up with the actual paper you are writing, writing down your rough ideas. This website gives you examples of how professional writers do prewriting and this makes you feel pretty good about using this website because is such a good source for prewriting strategies. The audience for this article would be anyone working on a prewriting paper. This is a relyable website because it is intended for students from the 4th grade and up to teachers and professors. It is a very well design site and is totally safe to use. Citation- National Institute for Literacy (2008). Retrieved on 10 Nov 09. From http://www.adlit.org/article/27894

This website is very useful and credible because it gives you a list of all the research strategies you can use to develop a good research and get the most out of it. Research which means investigating or studying a particular subject. The research strategies are; developing a research plan, recopilating background information over your subject, in depth information, facts and data, and news and opinions of the multimedia. These strategies truly help you develop a good research strategy, the audience for this article would be; students and people trying to develop a subject research. This website is not a well known website has some very good information, it is some basic information you can rely on for researching sakes. This website specializes on tutoring on line for people.
Citation-(1997-2008, The Ohio State University Libraries.) Retrieved on 10 Nov 09. From:http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les6/

Drafting strategies- This website is very useful because it is a good source for using drafting strategies, you can use examples that the author provides for you. This article explains Drafting as analyzing and revising a draft. I think that this is a very simple way of explaining it for readers who are not familiar with it. The author explains that you should find your best point of view and translating in to the right words so your readers can find it. When drafting you should find the begining and end of your point and find a good candidate or character to help get your point across. Also by creating coherent and suitable sections will help to explain it better, finding the paper's major sections, making an introduction, conclusion for each section and ordering the sections. These are some of the drafting strategies mentioned in the article, this particular website specializes in strategies for drafting. My audience could make some good use of this website and retrieve some safe information from it without stealing somebody else's work. The audiece for this website would be; my audience, teachers students.
Citation- Joseph M. Williams and Lawrence McEnerney.
Retrieved on 06 Nov 09. From:http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/strategy_for_analyzing_and_rev.htm

After exploring this website and its important content, i concluded that it is a very useful because clearly shows you how to do a peer review and what sources to take in consideration when doing it. Peer review means that you get to go over somebody else's paper and rate it's content. This article imforms you on what makes a good peer review and these are some of the following strategies; declaring your policy on how you will review it, writing clear and using precise letters, keep authors informed, maintain levels of anonymity, treat reviewers well, communicate with reviewers and provide feed back and over all, be very respectfull. All this information really puts you on the right track towards building a peer review. This website is an open access publisher and they focus on advertising articles like this one. It is a very good quality website but i had a hard time finding authorships.

Citation-(1999-2009 BioMed Central Ltd).
Retrieved on 10 Nov 09. From:http://www.biomedcentral.com/independent/develop/peerreview

This website gives a very good process list of tips for revising your paper. Revising means, going over something with the sole purpose of imporving it. Which in this case you would focus on your title, choosing the right title is critical for describing the content and purpose of your paper. Stucture of your paragraphs such; introductory paragraph, supporting paragraph, conclusion, senteces and phrases. A big one to look out for is Vocabulary, you have to choose the right to express your thoughts. Asking for feed back and taking it in to account is a very good strategie, reading your paper out loud and always keeping in mind what your audience wants to know and making sure you include it in your paper. This website specializes on study guides and strategies, the author acknowledges all the sources of information he has used in this article. It is also a well known website because when i was doing research, i came accross it several times, it is also a very well organize site and safe to use and referr to.
Citation- Landsberger J. Retrieved on 06 Nov 09. From:http://www.studygs.net/writing/revising.htm

This website gives you a series of steps to follow when editing your writing material. It clearly states exactly what strategies to use when editing, like printing a copy of your paper to use when editing and proofreading. Reading your paper outloud, reading it backwards, check punctuation, get feedback from other people and re-reading your paper. I think this are some pretty good tips when editing your paper, they are well explained by the author and they are very easy to interpretate. This website focuses on student writing support and has links for workshops, resources for instructors and consultant bios. The audience would be composed of students and teachers. The layout is very well displayed and well designed, everything is well organized.

Citation-( Nicholson Hall, Appleby Hall.) Retrieved on 06 Nov 09. From: http://writing.umn.edu/sws/quicktips/process/editing.htm

This website is very useful because it tells you how you can develop proper and correct proofreading strategies. It also states how important proofreading is for a good writer. Proofreading means; looking over, revising your paper to make sure you have presented your ideas and thoughts in a clear way for your audience to understand it. Some of the strategies are; reading your paper out loud, allowing some time between writing and proofreading, reading your paper backward, setting aside time for proofreading your paper, using resources such as dictionaries and websites, seeking feedback and re-reading your paper several times. In this website the author explains general strategies for editing and proofreading, he also oftenly updates the information. The website is professionally build and you can find a large amount of information on writing strategies.
Citation- Liton, M. Retrieved on 10 Nov 09. From:http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/genproofed.html

This website is very useful because it gives you a very good and clear definition of what is a rhetorical situation and what composes it. It is very easy to read through and digest the meaning of Exigency and Audience which are part of the development of a rhtorical situation. The author and publisher also provide alternative topics to help you best understand the meaning of Rhetorical situation. This particular source specializes in grammar and composition, their related topics to rhetorical situation were; rhetorical terms, rhetoric and style and figues of speech. This website acknowledge every outside source they used in the APA style and their main audience would be; teachers, students, writers and grammar and composition researchers. This is a very well orgainize and design website, therefore is vey easy to find subjects and they are very well defined. There are not lots of visual images except for the layout but for this subject they are not really needed.
Citation- Nordquist R. (Grammar and composition.) Retrieved on 10 Nov 09. From:http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/rhetsituaterm.htm

This website is very useful because it states what the goal is in a rhetorical sitation and how it is develop and what is the meaning. A goal is a particular objective you want to achieve in the future. This website describes links goal back to the rhetorical situation and states how they relate together. He is also omitting that a rhetorical situation can't be complete whith out a goal and makes it very clear for the audience which in this case is me. The information is very detailed and relyable because the author acknowledges all the sources he has used for this article. The website is of very high quality and you can also find information about the author himself.
Citation- Smith Nash S. (Ph,D), (Proposal writing checklist.) Retrieved on 10 Nov 09. From http://community.elearners.com/blogs/inside_elearning/archive/2009/04/21/proposal-writing-checklist.aspx

This website is very useful because it tells you what is the purpose of the author and how he can use different personalities when writing a paper. Author- somebody who wrote a paper and claimed it. The information is detailed but in a way is also broad because it talks about the duties and "must do" of an author when he is writing a paper. The audience for this website would be anyone who wants to learn about what an author does. This is also a well known website because i used it several time for reference on my annotated bibliography assignment. On this website there is a link solely dedicated for the author and contributors of this article which is pretty unique and it gives you confidence on using this website in the future.


Citation- (doing a rhetorical analysis on a text) Retrieved on 10 Nov 09. From http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/co301aman/pop7b13.cfm

This Website is very useful because it defines what exigency is on a rhetorical situation. Exigency- the need to comunicate something to someone. This is a very good definition because the audience that in this case is me is able to understand what exigency is and how it relates to the rhetorical situation. Eventhough this is an old article published in 1999 it still has the same principles the most recent articles have. I had never seem this webpage before so therefore i assume that is not really that popular and is not a good quality design. It still has some pretty relyable information and there is someone who claims authorship which is good enough for me. The audience would be; students, teachers and people doing research.
Citation- (The writing process in brief.) Retrieved on 10 Nov 09. From http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/~rouzie/307j/process.html

In this website the author is communicating through the form of blogging, in his paper he links audience with the rhetorical situation and states several forms of the audience being involved in rhetorical situations. Audience means a group of people, listeners reached by your form of communication with them. This relates in a very close way of what the purpose is by me writing this particular paper, i am also trying to reach an audience. This website is relyable because it has an actual author and acknowledges the sources of information that were used. This website is very relyable because it provides lots of information regarding this subject and it gives good examples.\nCitation- (Blog), (Brave new world), (2009)
Retrieved from:http://konjektures.com/2009/09/09/brave-new-world-2-the-rhetorical-situation/

This is a very useful website because it gives you a very good explanation of rethorical context, including purpose audience and focus which are essential for the understanding of what context is. This is a credible resource because it states that most of its material is used with permission of the original author. Also states that it is a print friendly page, so it is safe to use it as research guide and even use it for teaching purposes. By using this web source you could truly enrich and satisfy your audience in the meanings of rhetorical context. The audience for this website would be; mainly teachers because it seems to target very useful teaching methods but, there is some very useful information for students as well. This website is very straight forward and formal by focusing in one purpose which is "teaching guides for writing".

Citation: University of colorado and colaborators (Teaching writing in first year seminars), (1993, 2009) http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/fys/rhetcontext.cfm

This website is dedicated for the museum of broadcast communication. The author defines genre and it takes us to its origins in french. He also uses the genre in television and gives very specific details of genre in tv and also educates you in a very entertaining way, which is using visual images from tv characters. The author and publisher acknowledge all the sources where they pulled photos and general information abou television. This website also features; collection, education, publications, blogs,press room and shopping, which relates to television broadcasting. The audience could be teachers, students, tv history researches and the general public.


Citation: Berger A. A.(The Museum of Broadcast Television), (2008), Retrieved from: http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=genre

This website is very useful because it gives you the definition of modality which is 2.A tendency to conform to a general pattern or belong to a particular group or category. The author gives you several meanings that would fit other subjects, this website specializes on answering any questions you might have over any subject. This definition helps you understand what the meaning of modality is and you can also compare it to other definitions to see which one works better for you. This is a very common website that i have used hundreds of times on any research im doing, in fact this is one of my most visited websites. It is a very reliable website because it has lots of information and its safe to use, the quality of the website is very good and they acknowledge every source they retrieved information from.


Citation: (Dictionary), (Philosophy Dictionary), (Wikipedia), (2006-2009.) Retrieved from: http://www.answers.com/topic/modality