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 thought?
2. How does Villanueva define rhetoric? What else does he say that studying rhetoric helps you study?
3. Have you ever tried observing and imitating the writing moves that other writers make, as Villanueva describes doing this his English teachers ("Professional 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 imitation Villanueva describes?
4. In paragraph 6, Villanueva describes his college writing process as, "The night before a paper was due, he'd gather 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 description.) What elements of this process resemble your own? How is yours different?
1. Its makes it confusing for the reader to know who the writer is talking about. I was always taught not to switch back and forth, to always stay with the person you began with. I was also taught to not switch between past a present.
2.The text is the world in which we find ourselves, Composition and racism.
3. I have done this. When I was in middle school my friend had beautiful handwriting and a vivid imagination. She would write fictional stories in her daily journal instead of the usual "well I ate mac and cheese" yesterday. I started reading her stories and getting ideas of my own. As I got older I am a great fictional writer and its actually something I do in my spare time.
4. All of them. I call it procrastination. I can't just sit down and do my work all at one time. I plan it out at night and then say I'll finish it in the morning. It is true that ideas come to you at night. When I don't finish my paper that night I have more ideas and revisions in the morning.
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