Blog about technical writing

In my view, technical writing is really good to make the other people understand one person's writing.We practiced such kind of writing in the class by making the animals and bugs in the kits.What I found  is that making the animals by looking at the photo direction is easy to make the animals identical to the one in the picture.However, writing the instructions about how to make the animals is not so easy. We,who write the instructions, have to take care of every step to make the animals.we cannot and should leave one step,even the very negligible steps.So,what makes students frustrated for writing is that to find words which is appropriate for the instruction.Instructions by speech is different from those by writing.While we were making our assigned animals by the other groups, we found out really difficult to make the animal because there was one step left and we do not know what to do next. In the end,our animal is not exactly the same with the original one.
I think technical writing is really important in academic writing like science journal article,and research paper.In those writings, the author should mention his works to make the readers understand clearly.They have to write every step of their methods for doing the research.However, the writer should be aware of what level of people they are expecting to read their writings.Then, they have to choose the appropriate level of words in their writing.

Journal Entry from Reader

I think the reason Tan's teachers miscalculate her ability in English is that she came from the non-American family. Because Tan is the first generation in America. Her family are the Chinese emigrant. Therefore, the teachers might have thought that Tan's English especially writing would not be as good as the Native ones .Tan also talked about a person's developing language skills are more influenced by peers ,the surrounding.Her family's(her mother's) English had an limiting effect to her because her mother is more fluent in her own tongue than in English and her mother does not feel so comfortable to speak in English.
 Moreover, Tan told that her family English affect her skill in the test results like SAT because those English tests are mostly expressing of opinion and  personal experiences. Sciences are precise so that she can do well on those subjects.Tan also talked about other Asian-American students do well on the sciences and math. It is because those students' English spoken at home can be described as broken or limited.Most of those Asian students do better on math and sciences tests. This fact makes Tan's teachers to encourage her to choose science or math career instead of being in English major.
Tan  make an argument about her mother English,expressing her feelings and views on her mother's limited English as a Asian emigrant. Tan also talked about how her mother made her ashamed by making mistakes when speaking broken English.However, Tan also wrote that her mother's English make some of her friend understand what she means but for some, they do not know what she tries to say. For Tan, she can understand her mother's English because it is her mother tongue.
Tan is trying to point that for some people whose family is not English spoken, can have some difficulties in surviving in the English speaking countries especially when studying or choosing a career because of the surroundings( which had limited English skills)they have contact with.


 

how digital storytelling revolutionize narrative experience

One thing I saw great thing about digital storytelling is that the audience can understand the storytellers' feeling and what messages they want to give to the audience easily and directly with the aid of images and background sound. After I have watched some video clips about digital storytelling, I found out that I really like that kind of storytelling and got more understanding about the goal of the story more than I got from reading the whole book.
The difference I found between listening to the story that a person is telling to the audience and the narrator of the digital one is that the person who tell a story can only make audience to picture the scene of the story. Therefore, there can be some questions of "Why, Who,How" and the storyteller can answer the questions but for the digital one, the audience cannot ask questions directly and there is no direct contact between storytellers and the audience.

However, there are many good things about digital storytelling that can make revolutionize the narrative experiences. Digital storytelling changes people feel different about lives and identities. We can tell and make audience know our feeling level directly.For narrators, they can be aware of making their stories more meaningful and teach a lesson or moral and may make someone to change the way u feel or think in the end.Also, narrators can remember the moment they had experienced about their stories by sharing the feeling about that particular moment. Including images, narrative tone level and background music can be considered as conveying another way of  sending message of the story's meaning and feeling absolute understanding of the story because the combination of image and sound will give people more descriptive meaning about the story.

All in all, it is really amazing that within few minutes, people can make the short points of the story they want to tell to the audience with creative presentation and the audience can get to know the purpose of the storyteller and about the story easily and quickly as well.

summation of my topic for digital storytelling

The topic is about the story about the tortoise family that my grandfather told me when I was young. The story gave me lessons that I should not waste my time by paying too much attention to the other people and allow myself hurt. The story seems a kind of unrealistic but it make a 6-year old child understand and confident and not too afraid.