Mark Rose

Mark Rose describes his educational experience through his years of vocational classes. His classes were more known for kids who don’t take education seriously, therefore the teachers teaching vocational classes didn’t either. He mentions the different kids he has met and explains their stories. For example, Dave Snyder was a track super star but his studies weren’t so good, yet he was still respectful to teachers. Or Ken Harvey who caught Mark’s attention by discussing religious facts and Ken happened to be chosen to answer a question. Ken responded with “I just want to be average.” Mark notices Ken say average and not the word perfect.
Mark also mentions his troubles at home with his father fighting a disease called arteriosclerosis. As if dealing with vocational school wasn’t enough, his father dies due to continuous health problems. Life at the moment wasn’t going well but then one day Mark was inspired by a teacher named Jack Macfarland. Mark’s first impression of him wasn’t pleasing; Jack looked as if he slept in his own car. But they way jack presented himself was totally different from how he teaches. He would assign multiple essays a month, he had his students reading a new book every 2 weeks, and he would test his students every other day on the material they were assigned to read. This type of education was different to Mark. But Mark ended up enjoying receiving good grades and understood more of why some kids take getting good grades as such a big deal. Because of jack, Mark was turned into a new person.

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Yancey summary

Yancey is a professor of English and wrote an article on the writing assessment through print and electronic portfolios. She mentions the term Ecology many times throughout her article. Ecology is the study of living organisms and how they interact with other organisms in their environment. Ecology relates to the importance of digital or print because the term helps to understand the difference between the two types of portfolios more clearly. An electronic portfolio displays a “…ecology of composing and composer.” Meaning to take all the written drafts and compiling them into one digital print. On the other hand, a finished print portfolio has a curricular ecology. The print model is more social, persuasive, and has more interaction in the classroom of drafting and redrafting. Rather than a single draft directed toward a one person audience. As portfolios change from print to digital, text is more visible to read and the technique has helped exercise the visual and verbal mind.

Evaluation on portfolio's

1) Collection
2)Range
3)Context richness
4)Delayed evaluation
5)Selection
6)Student center control
7)Reflection and self assessment
8)Growth along specific perimeters
9) Development over time

james kinneavy

James Kinneavy’s aims of discourse explain two different types of writers: and encoder and decoder. Encoder writers are known to be expressive in their writing. When in an environment of just themselves, they tend to have conversation and write in journals or diaries. But when they are with a group of people they have contracts and religious credos. On the other hand, a decoder is someone who is persuasive; such as politics, advertisement, and editorials. The style between both encoder and decoder are literary; like short stories, novels, lyrics and movies. In reality, we may see both of these characters at seminars (exploratory), in scientific essays (scientific), or textbooks (informative). My reaction to Kinneavy’s description of two different kinds of writers was putting his info into a table like picture. It reminded me of the compare/contrast circles, where the similarity between the two was written in the middle and the differences in the circles. His way of describing what a encoder and decoder was would be helpful to those who are visual learners and his technique is more interesting than reading paragraph by paragraph.