Uptake Week 1 - Akya Lewis

From reading this week's class readings and discussions, what I'm understanding about CHAT is that it is a better way to go about when it comes to writing even though it may be a little messy. It has seven components: Production, Representation, Distribution, Reception, Socialization, Activity, and Ecology, and they all have effects on writing. Production helps when it comes to the different ways writing can be produced. Representation helps when it comes to how people feel and think and what they used to write the text. Distribution helps when it comes to determining where texts go because sometimes it's not only the author who has it. Reception helps when it comes to determining who uses the writing. Socialization helps when it comes to showing the interactions of a specific writing. Activity helps when it comes to what people do while they're writing. Ecology helps when it comes to the main purpose of the writing. I understand each component of CHAT but the one thing...

To me, uptake means to gather information on something and keep thinking about it so that it could make sense. I uptake information in my life in a lot of ways. One way being google, I would search stuff up if I don't understand it to get answers to the questions I be having. YouTube is also another way I uptake information. Watching different videos in which consists of so many things sometimes being helpful information other times being nothing. Getting information from different people like my friends, professors, and family is also another way I uptake information because it could be questions about schoolwork, questions about important things in my life, or just having regular conversation with my friends.