Football Red and Baseball Green

In the article, Football Red and Baseball Green, by Murry Ross, the author engages the activities of football and baseball. He explains in depth the significance of the two sports and how they are a huge part of American society. The idea that are created in the text are how the two sports incorporate the crowd. The sport of baseball the author describes as an art while the sport of baseball is described as a sport of strength and is heroic.
In the arrangement, football is being put into relation of baseball. the author starts off by focusing on baseball and then states that football is a "new" myth and compares it to baseball. Throughout the article, baseball is being described first and then football is compared to it.
The writer is trying to change the opinion of readers that football is an aggressive sport. The writer tells the audience that baseball fans tend to be more passive and football fans tend to be more hostile towards each other. the uses strategies like comparing them and showing the differences.

Project 1 reflection

The purpose of my essay was to write about a literacy that was important to me. The literacy that came to mind was texting. In this day in age so many people participate in this literacy and I thought that as a writer I would be able to explain the literacy of texting. I have had experiences with texting mix-ups that I thought would benefit the reader to learn about. I started out my rough draft with out a conclusion and out of order. I knew what I wanted to say but I was having a had time getting all of my thoughts and research together in a flow that fit the paper well. Before my rough draft I wrote down all my thoughts and decided what I was going to use in the essay and what was out of context. I then looked up facts that I thought would fit well into the essay. After I got my rough draft peer edited, I made changes to it based off what another student thought. Then when I got my essay peer edited by Mrs. Gerber I made changes according to what she said and I changed some of my original words back to what I had written before the peer edit because i liked the way it sounded better and Mrs. Gerber did not edit them out.

My next essay I plan to make changes more often and be more open to changing sentences and words around. I will spend longer on it then I did on the previous essay. As a writer I am good at getting my thoughts on paper and planning my essay, but when it comes to putting it all together sometimes I don't know where to start. I need to work on having better transitions. For my next essay I will work on it in the library instead of my dorm room because I will have more time to go there and my dorm room has way to many distractions. I learned not to procrastinate and get off track. It is really easy for me to get distracted. I need to also work on writing conclusions, that is one of my weaker areas.

The Screenwriter's Tals Response

In this essay Jennifer Lawler is telling her audience not to listen to other people. She explains how people look down on her for writing novels and screenplays and how she has to hide it while she is going to graduate school. She tells her audience her experience telling her professor that she was writing a screenplay. He told her not to, but she continued to do it anyways. Her purpose is to explain to the audience that having more then one literacy that you are passionate about is not a bad thing. You should never let other people influence your writing or your love for something. The literacy she is defining for herself is story telling. She loves story telling and she turns her everyday life into a story.  She pictures her life in the medieval times and makes up stories in her head. The connection to a larger issue is being told what to do. People are constantly telling her that she is wrong for loving to write and be a storyteller. She is unable to tell the people at graduate school of her writing because she knows that it will not be accepted.