Author: Emily Zhang

I have chosen the key-word fetishism. DEFINITION: I think it means the worship of an object as having some sort of value beyond the literal sense. PURPOSE: I intend to create a blog post. An example of this format is any of the multitude of food blogs, travel blogs, lifestyle blogs, etc. across the internet.… Continue reading Reading Journal 10- Emily Zhang

18.3 glance at genre: Genre, audience, purpose, organization – writing guide with Handbook. OpenStax. (n.d.). Retrieved November 11, 2022, from https://openstax.org/books/writing-guide/pages/18-3-glance-at-genre-genre-audience-purpose-organization  Adams, K. (2021, May 7). How to structure a blog post. The Writer’s Cookbook. Retrieved November 11, 2022, from https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-structure-blog-post/ 

My midterm essay was on Audre Lorde’s Poetry is Not a Luxury and how she used metaphor, metonymy, and other techniques to express her message that poetry is essential for women to realize the true power of their womanhood.  Strengths: I did end up really liking the different elements of Lorde’s writing that I chose… Continue reading Reading Journal 8- Emily Zhang

Had this been my freshman year of college, doing anything for myself would’ve been out of the question. Doing something as useless as painting my nails would’ve been a heinous waste of time. However, while my freshman year was undoubtedly my most productive year, it was also my unhappiest. In complete contrast, my current junior… Continue reading Reading Journal 7- Emily Zhang

I have chosen as a text to read for my midterm: “Poetry is Not a Luxury” (1985) by Audre Lorde. Here is what this text means to me: I am somewhat distanced from the text given that I do not write poetry and do not otherwise have any means of creative expression that could perhaps… Continue reading Reading Journal 5- Emily Zhang

Article from The New York Times: “How U.S. Textbooks Helped Instill White Supremacy”  As we examine article headlines, to me it seems that the author’s language, rhetorical strategies, etc. can be effective by leaving a subconscious impression on the reader. An article’s title may play an important role in subtly tinting the lens through which… Continue reading Journal 4- Emily Zhang

In Small Beauty, the way that the author wrote Mei’s perspective and inner thought process when she was alone did allow me to actually feel in her head to some degree. This was often the result of how the writing seemed to reflect or integrate a more natural stream-of-consciousness narrative style in portraying Mei’s inner… Continue reading Journal 3- Emily Zhang

From José Esteban Muñoz’s Disidentifications: Identification, then, as Sedgwick explains, is never a simple project. Identifying with an object, person, lifestyle, history, political ideology, religious orientation, and so on, means also simultaneously and partially counteridentifying, as well as only partially identifying with different aspects of the social and psychic world.  Although the various processes of… Continue reading Journal Entry 2- Emily Zhang

Hello! I’m Emily, I’m a junior majoring in NBB. I’m from Denver, Colorado, and I love food and cats and I have a TikTok addiction. My relationship to reading and writing is not fantastic, and my experiences and skills are limited to those from required English classes since middle school. I’m not sure what my… Continue reading Emily Zhang