Uptake Week 1 - Akya Lewis

One thing I knew about multimodality is that is more than one way of doing something. Something I learned about multimodality is that it's actually different forms of communication. Something I still want to know about it is it more ways besides the ways mentioned in the text which were visual, gestural, spatial, and linguistic of multimodality. Multimodality is kind of self-explanatory so really most of it is easy to understand and so far, there are no hard parts about it.

 In my drawing, it's two friends giving each other peer reviews on each other's papers. The past antecedent knowledge I had about peer review is basically when somebody else reviews your paper to see if they see any mistakes or give you advice on it. My view on peer review is the same. What I find helpful about it is the fact that you could get someone else's opinion on it which is basically advice. To plan for peer review next week, I will make sure to look at all aspects of the person's paper and to be honest. I am hoping to get back honest feedback myself and I'm not expecting all of it to be only positive things but also honest negative things about it too.

 Before this class, I thought genre meant what type of book or movie you were watching. My definition of genre changed because now I know that it doesn't have to be only books or movies, but it could be anything including music and literature. So, one of my favorite types of genres of books and movies are horror. I love watching horror movies because they are interesting to me and keep me at the edge of my seat. My favorite genre of music is slow, sexy, and R&B which is why Chris Brown is one of my favorite singers. 

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.