screen shot reflection

What came to my mind in seeing my first reading response essay was ending up being around 409 words is that, a 409 word essay is not a lot of writing. It easily all fits onto the screen, when it’s not double spaced. The assignment was given to us as having to be at least 300 words and when I first read that I was concerned that I was not going to be able to write that much. Once I started writing it just all came out and next thing I knew I had wrote one paragraph and it was 150 words.
I think that composing changes shape in digital spaces by it makes things a lot neater and easier to read. It makes it so that all your lines are straight and the indents on the pages even. It makes it fair to all students in class to write a certain page amount essay since the teacher can specify the font size and the style of the font. Anything hand written can be any vary amount of sizes and 3 pages for someone could be a lot shorter amount of essay than someone else who may write bigger.
To better understand digital composing I think people, grade schools, and universities are taking proper steps to getting everyone to this point of doing all writing on the computer. There are required classes in both middle schools and high schools to make students more comfortable with using the computer. Even though younger generations are pretty much raised with computer so they are already comfortable. For the adults new to using the computer there is classes everywhere that you can take to help get better and used to writing on the computer rather then by hand. There is also help functions in almost all computer composing programs that can help you step by step in writing a good paper. I think in the near future everyone will be expected to know how to compose a paper on the computer.

reading response #1

Depicting Identities
Home Movies


I started reading this essay because the introduction of it pulled me in, and I could not resist reading it. It talked about looking at old photographs and/or home movies of things in the past and it helping you bring back old memories of things that have happened in your past. Certain things that have happened in your past maybe hard to remember until you find something to remind you of it, it maybe someone talking about it or coming across old pictures or home movies that were made like how Judith Cofer did in this essay. She found an old video of a party she had went to with her parents and it brought back many different memories of her growing up as a Puerto Rican child that moved to New York with her family because of her father joining the navy to make money for their ever growing family. The old home movie of the party helped bring back memories from when she was about 3 years old up until about her teenage years.
In this essay I really enjoyed how she would jump back and forth from the video that she had watched to filling in the history about what was going on before the party. I like how she described her house and the neighborhood that she was living in. Another part of this essay that I liked hearing about is how her father wanted to give them the best life and make sure they were safe and got what they wanted, for example the nice clothing from Penny’s and Sears, and him wanting to move them into a better neighborhood. Although the mother didn’t want this, she missed the comfort that the island brought her and did anything she could to get back the feeling of home. She shopped at the local markets for the groceries that she needed, so she could get the same food items that she would have had at home and she could talk to the other women that lived the same building as they did. All of this that she did was against the father’s wishes.
I could relate to this essay because just like Cofer did, I use old pictures and home videos to relive and remember certain parts of my life that are a little hazy. I think it’s a good idea for everyone to take some free time and remember certain parts of their past, especially the good ones.