1. Who is your audience for this paper?
I believe my audience is my professor. He will be the one reading and grading the paper, no one else. I will have a classmate or 2 read it just to edit it and give me feedback, but the person who actually matters is my teacher.
2. What is your definition of writing?
My definition of writing is something that someone says or does, but it doesn't have to be the actual acting of writing anything down.
3. What genre do you want to use to tell your audience what you have to tell them?
Well previously I wrote about who I was going to tell (my audience), what I was going to tell them (my definition of writing), and now I have to decide how I am going to tell them. Since I chose my audience to be my teacher, I will write a formal essay telling him everything I need to tell him. I don't think anything else would be appropriate in this situation.
4. Why is it worth defining writing? Why is this essay important?
I believe it is important to define writing because everyone has a different opinion on what writing is. I believe the definition of writing is something completely different than my roommate does. I also believe it is important because to make my definition of writing true, we writing something everyday. Everyone either physically writes, types and email or paper of some sort, draws a picture, types a text message, or something along those lines.
5. Why now? Why is it important to define writing now in your life?
I believe it is important to define writing now in my life, because I just started a whole new chapter in my life. Not only in general, but in the academic world. I have never taken time to think about the definition of writing, because honestly, I have never cared. I have never taken time out of my day to consider what is writing, and what is not writing.

11-5 classwork

Arne Duncan is the CEO of Chicago public schools. Writing would be important for him because he probably has to write a lot of formal emails and letters. He probably also has to give speeches. If he did not have good grammar or did not know how to write well, his emails, letters, and speeches would not sound educated at all.

David Coleman is the ninth president of the College Board. He designs the SAT which has a lot to do with writing. The questions on the SAT have to sound educated. He designs the tests to decide which college students will get into. David has to know how to write because I'm sure he gives a lot of speeches and writes a lot of things for being president of College Board. The SAT is probably one of the biggest tests in the United States and if the president of the company who made the test did not know how to write, who knows what would happen.

Les Perelman was a writing professor at MIT, which mean he was probably an extremely good writer. Perelman was had a lot to do with why college board took the essay off the SAT. I'm pretty sure whenever I took the SAT, the essay part was optional. He serves on the board at MIT now with their writing department so I would say he is a pretty good writer.

Kathleen Blake Yancey works at the Florida State University with their writing department. She studies students writing. I would say she has to be a good writer to study other students writing or she would not have the job she has

11-3 in class

1. What have you done well with your papers based on the teachers feedback? In general what are you doing well.
A: On the first paper I stayed with one topic and talked about that throughout my paper. I did not start rambling about a random topic. On the second paper, I did not do that so well. I got off topic a lot, and did not stay with the main point. In the second paper, my teacher thought I did not completely understand the topic. I thought I did, but I guess I didn't. In both of my papers, I did different things well. I am incorporating the stories we read in class well with my papers.

2. What is one thing based on the teachers comments you can improve on?
A: I can improve on staying on topic. I start writing and when I run out of things to say, I just start rambling and get way off topic. I need to find a topic or idea I can talk a lot about and just talk about that main topic. I thought I did a good job of this, but apparently I did not, so that is something I need to work on.