Journal #1 Community

The word "community" evokes a different perspectives to anyone you ask, but to me, the word community simply means a group of people, who in some way or another, feel connected to each other. A community can be a group of people that have the same interests as one another, the same ideas or beliefs in a subject, or just simply a group that resides in the same area as each other. Community and writing correlate with each other in many ways; for example, writing is a form of communication. If you are apart of a community, chances are you will be communicating with the other members. We are able to write letters to each other and nowadays technology allows us to directly call or send a text to someone we are trying to contact. Community and writing are directly related to each other for example, your community could be your group of friends. Studies show that if you hang out with certain people for a duration of time you start acting or talking more like them. Communities shape your outlook on life. If the people you surround yourself with posses a certain worldview, you will start to lean towards that worldview. This could impact your writing by demonstrating your opinion to a specific theme or conflict. This could also potentially cause you bias in debates and your views on specific subjects. In conclusion, writing and community relate to each other in many ways and we use them both in everyday life.

Journal #1 Community

A community can be described as many different things as well as many different places. My impression of a community is one that includes many different aspects.  The basic definition would be the people, friends, and objects that surround one.  In essence where one lives.  Although a community may not be where one lives.  A community may be a church or a group of people one is familiar with.  For me, a community is always there.  I know that my community will help me when I need help, and I will help them if they need help.  A community incorporates all those who one trusts. The people in one’s community have become very close to this person as if like a family member to them. The community one grows up in normally leads to how they will be raised and mature.  The community is where one grows up in and where one learns the basics of life. The affect the community has on one person affects everything including their writing.  Normally when one writes about something the first thing they go to is there home, and where is that home? The community. The relationship that the community has on writing depends on where one is from and how one has matured. Writing is such a different thing between people because everyone has their own style. With all the different styles there is a wide range of people. All the different writings of the world have come from many different communities.  The community is not only what defines us but our writing as well.

Blog 1: Community and Writing

The word community does not necessarily have different meanings, but it instead means something different to each individual.  Community to me means a group of individuals living together to create a society among themselves.  Now, a community's relationship to writing is something rather complex due to the fact there are so many different forms of writing out there which can result in so many different types of relationships.  For example, a community can have a spiritual relationship with the bible which is a form of writing.  If the individuals all come together as they would do in a church setting at a specific time to read and reflect on what the bible and it's verses mean to them they are actively engaging in a relationship with writing.  Another example of a community's relationship with writing is a flyer.  While it sounds simple and bland it can have a huge impact in a community as a whole.  If say one were to pass out flyers in their community telling people to come see their band play, they are putting forth and effort to rally the community around them.  So by using this example it can be seen that writing is bringing a community closer together.  I think that overall it it is not my perception of a community and it's relationship to writing that makes it what it is, but rather what the community does with that relationship.  In conclusion, I believe that writing is a tool that can be used to unite individuals in a community for the better.

Community and its relationship to writing

     The word community has so many different meanings. But to me the word community means people living together in the same area. We are all a part of a community, it could be within the school, classroom or where we live. People in a community share a similar belief, they work towards a common goal, and have certain characteristics; culture, race, and religion. For example, in college students dorms, all the students eat around the same time, they take showers, sleep and do laundry as they live in their community together. All the students do homework which conducts them to take  information that  they learned from class and turn that information into words, which turn into sentences, which then turns into paper.A past neighbor from when a person was younger could have impacted that person to become the person he or she is today. People grow up and they learn from what we see from the people that surround us, especially in our communities. A community is also a place where people feel safe and  where people can just be themselves. When people turn five years old, they start to learn how to write and  ever since they start, they never stop. The interaction among  people when they are younger help shape them in becoming who they are today. When children are younger, they look at what other children are doing and they want to be like them. In a community there are usually children around the same age. When one kid starts writing or walking, the other children want to be like them. The earlier a child starts writing, the sooner the other children will start.

Individual Journal 1 (Community)

Community is a set of individuals that are put in a group based off of something such as location, interests, religion, or beliefs. A community can be a political party, a sports team, a college campus, or a place of worship to just name a few.  Inside of a community individuals are united by something. For example, at Florida State University everyone is a student of the school and for the most part live in Tallahassee. All the members of a sports team play for the same team and for the most part share the same goal of winning. The members of the given community do not need to have all the same interests or same personalities. A community could be a group of people writing about the same topic or a group of writers that write with the same style. Many people can find a community in writing. Whether it is reading the same novel series or writing the same style of poetry. Writing can also bring forth a community. Writing in novels sometimes makes people think a certain way about life. People who find similar meanings from writing can be seen as a part of one community. All forms of writing are part of one community. Every piece of writing is one’s way of expressing themselves through writing text. Whether it is someone writing a love letter or an action packed novel, someone is expressing something. The writing community chooses to share their feelings, stories, or thoughts through text, opposed to singing or acting them out.

Community and writing

I define a community as people caring for one another with similar beliefs and values. I feel that a community could vary anywhere from a small hometown to a university or workplace. Within a community people look out for one another and are in similar situations, such as college students attending a university. A community shapes and helps to form a person's beliefs; therefore, within a community many of the people will feel the same or similar on particular topics. Literature and writing is seen everywhere in the world, in many different forms. Writing can be something as insignificant as a billboard advertisement or as important as an award winning novel or a college textbook. Each community will encounter a large number of various forms of literature and writing. Writing will help to shape the minds of the people within the community and it will have an affect on the people's views on certain topics. Literature has a enormous affect on how people feel about different topics. Textbooks in a class will help to mold how those students view that particular topic. Writing and communities are related because different forms of writing will have a large impact on the community by helping members of the community to form opinions on social, political, personal, and other issues. Literature is related to everything in everyone's everyday lives, no one can go a day without reading or writing something, therefore writing would influence a community by either changing some members of the community's views or reinforcing them. Writing has an enormous impact on members of communities by helping to shape and form people's opinions and feelings.

How do you define community, and what is its relationship to writing?

          The simple definition of community is the group of people that you associate yourself with and interact with, but a community is really so much more. Your community is what you belong to, and even if it never crosses your mind, you reflect your community. All people in a community have some general thing in common, such as living location, or common interest. Whatever it may be, all of us belong to a community.

I believe that one’s community has a profound effect on one’s own thoughts, especially if you grew up in that community. For example, if you’re brought up in a Spanish speaking community you’ll probably end up being a Spanish speaker yourself. Or, if perhaps you’re brought up in ISIS controlled Syria you may not have the fondest mindset toward a structured society, not because that is your own view, but because that is what your community has instilled in you.

Writing is one’s own thoughts materialized in the form of characters on paper, or whatever other surface you may be writing on. The way you think is very strongly based on the community you were brought up in, and the current community you participate in definitely correlates to your current mindset. Writing is timeless. Historians get insights on how societies were from ancient times through ancient texts and scripts from the area. A simple letter can explain if someone’s life was in complete turmoil due to invasion from a powerful foe, or if their entire community was thriving because flood plains brought more water to their farmlands.

All in all, the best way to interpret someone’s thoughts, apart from speaking with them, is through their writings. I think we all seriously take writing for granted, it really is something profoundly powerful.

Defining Community and its Relationship with Writing

 Communities, in my opinion, are composed of the people who reside in, commonly go to, and/or work in a specific area. Basically, a community is a group of people who have some sort of relationship to a given place or group. The people in the state of Florida are just as much a community as the students and staff of Florida State University, and even the people in ENC 1101 with Professor Cirio. Similarly, the audience an author is aiming his or her work towards is also a community. This group of people relate to writing because they depict what the author is writing about, the language and grammar they use, and the tone of the work. For example, the way one would text a group message with their closest friends is far different from how the same person would write a letter to the board of trustees at their university. Both are forms of writing, but differ so greatly because of the community of people they were intended for. In the text message, one may use acronyms, slang, or foul language that would be appropriate for the community of friends, but not for the community of trustees. While writing the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling had to consider the appropriate language – make sure it is not to advanced, nor too elementary – for the community of tweens/teens she wanted to read her books, which in turn depicted the content of her novels. Therefore, the community the author is writing for has a great relationship with the writing itself.

Jack Ochs Community and Writing

Community can be any group of people somehow connected it can be two people or billions. Communities share connections, ideas, memories, and lively hoods. Joe the plumber is part of the community of plumbers they all share a common lively hood, ideas about plumbing, connections too clients, cleaning services and plumbing supply companies. Every sport has an enormous community of players, coaches, refs and fans. Within that community communication occurs coaches tell players what do to how to improve. Referees tell players if they have committed fouls. Players communicate their feelings where they need advise and question calls. Both of these communities are linked through a larger community hosting communities of communities and an actual location every player, coach, and referee have used a shower, toilet, or sink that a plumber living in their physical communities interacted with. In other words a community is also a geographical connection between people living in the same area connected by roads, public transportation, local markets, services, and venues. Communities share things in common and interact within with in themselves and out side.

Relationships between community and writing are derived from the human experience we all are apart of communities, live in communities, and interact with other communities. Humans whom all write take from their own personal experiences from being apart of their own communities and the human community as a whole and put it to writing. Everyone is shaped, grow from, and evolve in their communities. Your community gives you attributes of your personality and your own personal story and that you then put into writing your hark knock stories, home town legends, and personal heart breaks. Communities shape people and intern different works of writing come from different communities of writers.

Blog #1 Community

A community to me is a place or society of people or things that all share a common interest. There are many types of communities for example; there is a gaming community, skating community, and even an underwater basket weaving community. Writing plays many different roles in a community depending on the community. Say someone publishes a review on the latest game released and a big gamer reads it they're going to be influenced on weather or not they want to purchase the game. Different types of writing are prevalent in different communities but writing as a whole shares a common goal within a community. One person's writing can represent a community as a whole in either a positive or negative way. As a community you depend on writing to get messages across to your community as well as others. The ability to relate and communicate is vital to a strong community. Just think about going to FSU (a community) and there was no writing.. Its safe to say we wouldn't get the same benefits or experience out of it.

Blog 1: Community

     I believe that you can define community as a group of people all sharing something special in common that they are geared towards. A community is a fellowship with others all sharing a common goal or maybe interest. In the community potter influence each other easily whether good or bad the impact they make could make a big difference. As a community you have to take certain risks in turn for rewards. A community will work together to build each other up and make each person better.  Also they can help to keep you orientated towards a common goal and act as mentors. In certain instances you can find a community of writers.
     In this case all that community shares together the common goal of sharing writing between fellow peers to help improve and better each other. In the community writers are all different and show each one of there own unique writing styles through there pieces. No two writers ever have the same style, each individual is able to portray their feelings and emotions through the piece and that is what can make writing so important to have and practice. Many writers are able to get great ideas from one another because they all have such different writing styles, in turn makes it super easy to pick up little bits and pieces of the different styles to add and make your own piece even more unique.in conclusion its safe to say that a community has a tight relationship with writing and very influential.

Journal #1: Community

  
  Community can be defined as a group of people who all have something in common. They are all united in one similar way. Whether the group of people live in the same neighborhood or they all play a sport at the park together it is a community. In a community everyone supports each other and brings each other together as a whole. Even throughout the difficulties a community can face they stay together by each other's side. Communities aren't only just people though. Communities can be animals as well. Animals that help each other survive in an ecosystem. An ecosystem is another word for community defined in Oxford Dictionaries as a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. So these organisms interact o survive and to make a good living.


     As a young adult communicating with my peers plays a major social role for myself. The way I can communicate with my peers is through texts, social media websites, or emails. These are all forms of writing. So writing is all around us throughout a community and is much needed to communicate. If we didn't have writing in a community, information could not be spread from person to person. The relationship between writing and a community has a direct correlation with each other. People could not survive in a community without it. Even in the 15th century they wrote through letters and had to transport them on foot. It wasn't as quick as you can send information today but it was still very effective and we have evolved to bigger and better things.

Blog #1: Community

A community is created through unity. A community is a group of like minded individuals brought together who share a common goal or passion. The literal definition of a community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common, but I believe it is much more than that. It is your safety net, your backing that reminds you that there are other like minded individuals like yourself are out there living through the same passion and struggles that you face in your daily life. A community gives you direction, feedback, and supports you through whatever obstacles you may presented in front of you. In some circumstances, a community is the people who love you or matter the most in your life.  In that perspective, community is just another word for family.


A community is related to writing the same way a class could be related to school. It's one element in part of a bigger establishment. In a community, communication is key, and writing is the backing force behind communication skills.  Writing is the glue that holds a community together, because without it, a community loses its support, feedback, and direction that the individuals within a community so desperately strive for.  Writing takes the ideas a community, vocalizes them, then spreads them throughout, excelling and evolving ideas shared, advancing the group as a whole. 

             When the word “community” is heard or seen it can have many different meanings depending on the person that is interpreting the word. When I hear the word “community”, I think about a group of people that live in the same area or have something in common. It can either be people that make up a neighborhood that share the community pool or it can be a group of students in a class. To me I think that the members in a community can always be able to relate to problems or conflicts and have the ability to help each other out if they really wanted or needed to. Communities actually play a crucial part in writing. When writers want to write a new story or paper they go to other people that can give them advice on how to make it better. The writer could also want to target a specific age group. If they want to target an age group they have to write about things that appeal to what is popular to that group. Another way communities are important in writing is that a community of people can all be influenced by something they read. In my home town there were articles online about a flesh eating virus in the water at the beach and once people read it they were afraid to go in the water and the beaches were empty, it was a good warning that kept people safe, but even now that the water is safe people still are scared to go in it because of the scary things they read. A community can be influenced by a work of writing and a work of writing can also be influenced by a community.

Welcome

Folks,

Welcome to our class' blog for ENC1101: Freshman Composition and Rhetoric. I'm excited to see the wonderful things you have to say.

Joe