Reading Response #1

Exercise 1

a. Many scientists’ experiments suggest that there are dangerous levels of Chemical X in the Ohio groundwater.

b. According to many book clubs, this novel has certain flaws in which the book club discusses.

c. Talking to many women and men, I have heard them suggest that football is boring.

d. Students and teachers alike seem to believe that male students dominate class discussions.

e. Movie Critics write that the film is really about the problems of romantic relationships.

f. Templates are very helpful, but numerous people think that templates will stifle their creativity.


Exercise 2

If there ever was an idea custom made for a Jay Leno monologue, this was it: people only listening to one kind of genre of music. Isn’t that like eating the same thing for lunch everyday? Whatever happened to diversity?
I happen to sympathize with the people who like all kinds of music, though, perhaps because I get bored of listening to the same thing all of the time.

Screen Cap and Questions

Seeing my screenshot as a "photograph" is not really all that surprising to me. I have known how to screen cap for quite a few years now and it is fairly useful. I do not screen cap very often but when I do it is usually to show someone how to do something. Screen capping is especially useful when I want to show someone how to do something when I am talking to them online. I can just screen cap the application and then draw on it to show what do to. Although, in this case, I just screen capped a story I was working on. Also, I had a few other applications running while I was writing the story. I have a tendency to run at least three other programs while I am writing.

Composing in a digital space is very different than composing in a hand written way. In a digital document, I can type a lot more on a page then in hand writing. Also, I can type faster then handwriting. Unfortunately, because I can get distracted so easily, I do not use a laptop for my classes. The more I use programs on the computer, the more I learn about them. I think that is one way we can learn more about the digital composing process. Also, communication is key in learning more about the digital composing process. Just by talking to someone, whether it is a friend or a stranger, about what they do on the computer could open your eyes to more digital composing possibilities.