"Excerpt from the Bootstraps: From an Academic of Color" QDJ 1, 2, 3, and 4 (WaW 117)

QDJ 1, 2, 3, and 4 (WaW 117)

1. This account shifts back and forth between the first person ("I") and the third person ("Victor," "he"). What effects does that shifting create? Does it break any rules you've been taught?

The effect the shift create is not being clear on who the paper is written on and it can become a total disaster. Yes, it does break rules I've been taught because if you're writing in first person, your entire paper has to be in first person, if third person, then your whole paper should be written in third person to have your paper with some sort of flow.

2. How does Villanueva define rhetoric? What else does he say that studying rhetoric helps you study?

He defines rhetoric as the conscious use of language and as the conscious use of the language, rhetoric would include everything that is bought out through languages such as philosophy, history, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and more. Villanueva says studying rhetoric becomes a way of studying humans and for him a study of language.

3. Have you ever tried observing and imitating the writing move that other writers make, as Villanueva describes doing with his English teachers (“Professor Discourse Analysis”)? If so, what was your experience doing so? If not, what would you need to look for in order to do the kind of imitating Villanueva describes?

            In order to do the kind of imitating Villanueva did, I would have to go to a library or and try to do as or mimic the writer writing style, if they start off with a hook/grabber, I’d do as them and however else way they did in their writing. I would have my writing set up as the writer had theirs.

4. In paragraph 6, Villanueva his college writing process as, “The night before a paper was due, he’d rather pen and pad, and stare. Clean the dishes. Stare. Watch an ‘I Love Lucy’ rerun. Stare. Then sometime in the night the words would come.” (A few more sentences finish his description.) What elements of this process resemble your own? How is yours different?

            His process resembles not only mines, but a lot of student’s period. We’ll start but we’ll get to that point when we get stuck and we tend to start doing other things and it all of a sudden unravel ore thoughts and it helps us to get more ideas. I’d be writing a paper then all of sudden my mind will slip and I’d be doing something other than writing a paper. I say mines is different because I’d stop, listen to music or check my Twitter or Instagram and maybe text other people, but then I’d be writing my ideas on a sheet of paper and I’d brainstorm and well.