From Spaghetti and Meatballs through Hawaiian Pizza to Sushi: The Changing Nature of Ethnicity in American Restaurants

The article was introduced by an explanation of how restaurant menus have changed and adapted over the years. Also as you read on it stresses how ethnicity plays a role in cuisine.
-I feel that the intended audience for this article are culinary perspectives and interests in this certain topic of ethnic cuisines.
-The authors main point is how our food has advanced and how menus of cuisine have varied over time to time. Also about the blending of food for example Hawaiian pizza as you see in the title. The writer is stating the information very matter a fact and the writer seems to have a history with the topic. The persuasive techniques that are used like in the article it says " Menu, make therefore, an explicit statement about what is implicitly regarded as proper by modifying all that is different into a similar form".
-What is the situation of the writer is she is knowledgeable of the subject and she uses other people who are knowledgeable to quote them in her paper so her credibility is strong.

I honestly do not think the article is that persuasive. It sounds like tons of facts, that I do believe because its credible but It did not persuade towards anything. I feel like the words that are used are used perfectly to describe the different cuisines and add life to the article.

Football Red and Baseball Green

What is invention?  (What activities did the writer have to engage in to create the text?)
- I feel like the writer must of watched a lot of sports games like football and baseball and also had to study the history of each of the sports.
What is being invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?)
-The story conveys that baseball and football are the all american sports but it specifically goes into football and describes it as a "heroic" sport. The book also portrays how football relates to the lives we live and how there is a constant worry and problem in our world and we're under great tension.
What is arrangement?  (What is being put in relation to what?)
-What is being compared is baseball and football and baseball is a Leisurely sport compared to football, which is seen as more intense.
What is being arranged? (How are the things being put in relation to one another)
-The arrangement it is it begins with the sport of baseball and how it is a leisure sport and how football in today's age is taking over because it is more relatable and "heroic"
What is revision? (What is the writer trying to change?  For example, what ideas, practices, etc.?)
-The writer wants people to understand and see that baseball and football are complete opposites just like every other sport. One is seen as more calm and relaxed while the other is more pushing and intensity. But both of them play a role in our lives and apart of our norm.
What is being revised?  (What strategies are engaged specifically to help the writer achieve the revisions?)
-The reading seems very persuasive and there is a clear point the author is trying to get across.

Literacy Reflection

For my literacy I wrote about my volleyball injury and how it effected my life and how by going through this process of learning how my body works and how to properly train it. I was also able to help other athletes at my school with their injuries and later consider this as a potential career. I really enjoyed this paper! I was able to  write about something that is important to me and and reflect on an event that greatly effected a large part of high school career. I also didn't expect this type of paper coming into my first english class in college. I thought we would have more of an academic paper but it was nice to deviate from the "norm".
For the arrangement of my paper, I pretty much listed multiple events that led up to my having my rotator cuff surgery. Then the events leading up to my first game senior year after having surgery and going through my six weeks of physical therapy. I thought the revision process for the papers in this class are very helpful. It's nice to have input from the professor and a peer and also have the Letters of Response that gives a lot of input for the paper. All together I felt like this was a nice transitional paper into the academic papers we will have to write in the future and was an interesting topic.