Self-Assessment Essay Waking up everyday at 8 am for my course Writing for The Social Sciences, every Monday and Wednesday wasn’t easy. The almost empty classroom that consisted of 6-4 students was where we discussed all our assignments and readings we had due. My name is Addy Bonilla and I am a high school student who is part of the ECI program, a program where we take college classes from freshman year in high school up till senior year which is where I am now. I’m someone who is very introverted when I am with people who I don’t know, …

Interview transcript I have permission from my interviewee to record the interview. The following is an exact transcript of the interview recording. AB: So, my name is Addy. JN: My name is [ ] (she wants to be anonymous so fake name being Jane. JN means Jane). AB:  Okay so we are gonna start the interview. You don’t need to answer all the questions. If you feel uncomfortable you can say “I don’t want to answer that” and you won’t have to. Okay, so let’s start, what is your culture or ethnicity? JN: Okay, so I’m Mexican. and yeah. AB: …

FO Subject Description           The online community I intend to observe is a snark page on this old family channel called 8 passengers. The community is on Reddit, and it’s called r/8passenegerssnark. The community is for people to talk about Ruby Franke and Kevin Franke who originally owned a family channel where they will film their lives including their 6 children, they then stopped vlogging. Ruby Franke was accused of child abused and was arrested along with their family therapist Judy Hildebrandt. People post conversations where others interact and reply to their comments. The goal/ interest of the community is …

TI subject description  I plan to interview my friend who is 17 years old, and she goes by she/her. She doesn’t want her name to be used so I will just call her Jane during the interview, to refer to her during my writing. Her cultural background is Mexican culture and will talk about how important her culture is to her and why it’s so special to not only her but to others who are also part of her culture. For the topic I picked misogyny more so gender roles since in Hispanic culture especially misogyny and gender roles seem …

Intro ·      Women having to face gender discrimination in the workplace, what type of discrimination, and the research done about this. Summaries ·      Many women feel mistreated or that they aren’t treated equally as men even when doing the same job and the statistics/ research of how many women feel this same way. ·      The proof by researchers of gender discrimination still being a thing, that it still exists today and why many may claim it doesn’t exist anymore. ·      The connection between gender discrimination and racism in the workplace and how …

Reversed outline Intro ·      Women having to face gender discrimination in the workplace, what type of discrimination, and the research done about this. Summaries ·      Many women feel mistreated or that they aren’t treated equally as men even when doing the same job and the statistics/ research of how many women feel this same way. ·      The proof by researchers of gender discrimination still being a thing, that it still exists today and why many may claim it doesn’t exist anymore. ·      The connection between gender discrimination and racism in the workplace …

MMT PLAN I will make a slideshow to show pictures and main points or questions. And I will explain my topic as a scenario. A scenario making the audience question what they will do or feel if you were discriminated against in your job just because of your gender. I will explain it in more simple terms or even a way that will make the audience question why there is discrimination. Make the discrimination sound dumb or unreasonable. I will involve questions throughout the presentation to make the audience question or just to make their own thoughts/ opinions when listening. …

Rationale The reason I picked a slide show showing different types of scenarios with pictures was because it felt it would draw the most attention. Have a lot of pictures will keep the audience engaged. Having questions throughout the slide show with each scenario will have the audience thinking about what is being said. Because sometimes when looking at a slide show you forget the information halfway through since it might seem like a lot. Making it short and interactive makes it more memorable than something very long and boring. That’s the reason I picked showing the topic in scenarios …