This document provides resources and tips for improving English composition skills, including writing paragraphs, identifying bias, revising writing, and developing multimedia presentations. It discusses developing skills like building business plans, writing project proposals, and communicating creative processes. Tips include using a topic sentence in each paragraph, avoiding opinions and using facts only, and following APA format guidelines. Bias can be identified through extreme language, limited perspectives, and conflicts of interest. The document also provides strategies for planning responses, having a voice in writing, and connecting ideas through synthesis.
2. RED BOAT provides a collection of links for beneficial resources dealing with independent studies to
pursue one's career. All links lead to educational or self-study websites full of tutorials and videos that are
all free, public, and easy to use!
These are real courses, tips, and notes taken by Camito Hatsune during his time as a college student at
Full Sail University & on basic tutorials on YouTube. Full Sail University is a private, for-profit university in
Winter Park, Florida. It was formerly a recording studio in Ohio named Full Sail Productions and Full Sail
Center for the Recording Arts. The school moved to Florida in 1980 and began offering online degrees in
2007.
All notes from the teachers' material and courses are credited with every sideshow and document shared.
The information provided is to NOT be sold, distributed to other private schools, and may be outdated as
time goes on. This is for public use and knowledge only.
● GSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/red-boat/home
● MEDIUM: https://leweitgo74.medium.com/notes-from-college-english-comp-229fce3c2a36
● WORDPRESS:
https://excellicp.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/red-boat-english-writing-college-notes/
● SLIDESHARE:
● PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/861313497492005982
4. Week 1: Introduction to Play
● You will reflect on your play history, identify your play personalities, and make connections to your
career goals.
● https://youtu.be/EC-lvfZGE-k
Week 2: Brain and Positive Psychology
● You will learn how play shapes the brain and engage in activities to increase well-being.
● https://youtu.be/4Z_hMYGAQ6k
● https://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng
Week 3: Social Play and Motivation
● You will explore your collaboration skills and examine your motivations to determine the impact it
has on your journey.
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYYc_gQc7xg
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxsAxi30BYw
Week 4: Creative Thinking and Mindfulness
● You will explore ideas and strategies that could help you maximize your creativity, productivity,
and career goals.
Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/psychologyofplay-3308877/sets/psychology-of-play/s-jjldQ
Reminder: Save file using the naming convention
● FirstNameLastName_Assignment (JohnSmith_WeeklyPlan1)
● Feed yourself positivity!
Lecture 06/08/2020: https://youtu.be/EC-lvfZGE-k
Week 1: Call To Play, Discussion Posts, Response to 2 classmates
● Answer posts in full sentences
Quests
● Creative Workspace
● Weekly Planning
● Find & Research A Mentor (Newsletter Format)
● Personal Crest (Play personalities; a shield with what represents me; graphic design)
Concepts of answering questions
● Identify, Apply, Define
● Vocabulary and definition
● Connecting the sentences
Play
● Voluntary (For more amusement and self-will)
● Purposeless on the surface
● Inherent attraction
● Freedom from time
● Losing consciousness of self (personality over looks)
● Make things up along the way (Along rules)
● Wanting it to continue
Personas
5. ● Joker (Comic relief, makes people laugh)
● Kinesthete (Body movement)
● Explorer (Extrovert or mental journey)
● Competitor (Others or yourself)
● Director (Putting the pieces together)
● Collectors (Physical objects or experiences)
● Artist / Creator (Original or inspiration)
● Storyteller (See stories in everything)
PERMA - Well-being
● (P)ositive emotion: Includes emotions such as pleasure, comfort, warmth, peace, gratitude, hope,
love
● (E)ngagement: Entering a flow state.
● (R)elationships: Having positive, meaningful relationships with people in your life.
● (M)eaning: Belonging to and serving something that you believe is bigger than yourself.
● (A)chievement: Striving to better ourselves in some way
Better Flow
● Set goals that have clear and immediate feedback.
● Become immersed in the particular activity.
● Pay attention to what is happening at the moment.
● Learn to enjoy the experience.
● Increase your skills at the activity.
Optimistic Mindset
● The past does not complete who you are
● Enjoy the gift of the present
● Be bright about the future
Build Strengths
● A sense of ownership and authenticity (“This is the real me”)
● A feeling of excitement while displaying it, particularly at first
● A rapid learning curve as the strength is first practiced
● A sense of yearning to find new ways to use it
● A feeling of inevitability in using the strength (“Try to stop me”)
● Invigoration rather than exhaustion while using the strength
● The creation and pursuit of personal projects that revolve around it
● Joy, zest, enthusiasm, even ecstasy while using it
Why Money Doesn’t Matter
● Autonomy is the inner desire to be self-directed to make our own choices
● Competence is the desire to get better at something for the simple sake of doing it
● Relatedness, also known as connection, meets the need of belonging and attachment to others
Candle Problem
● https://youtu.be/V5TmzGGLX3U
● Functional fixedness is the idea that we can only use an object for its original purpose
● Creative thinking requires us to overcome the concept of functional fixedness by thinking outside
of the box to come up with innovative solutions
Conflict Resolution
● Someone using the Competing style during a conflict, would demonstrate high assertiveness and
low cooperativeness
6. ● Someone in the Avoiding mode may ignore the conflict and not take any action to resolve it
● To Compromise is to “meet in the middle.”
● When we Collaborate, we seek to understand the other party’s concerns while also expressing our
own
GRIT
● Develop a “growth mindset.”
● Practice optimism!
● Find your passion in life… and pursue it
● Know when to take a break
Key To Inspiration
● What is my purpose in life and for my career?
● What is my cause for the industry I want to enter?
● What is my belief about my career choice and industry?
● Why do I want to be in this industry?
● Why do I get out of bed in the morning? (as it relates to your aspirations/career choice)
● Why should anyone care about my passion in this industry?
Mindfulness
● Being aware of your mindset in a given moment
● To disrupt unhelpful thought patterns and develop healthy new habits and behaviors
Self Reflection
● I am conscious of my emotions while I am experiencing them.
● I am able to stay focused on what is happening in the present.
● When I am walking, I focus on what I experience along the way.
● I am in tune with any feelings of physical tension or discomfort as soon as I experience them.
● I take time on activities so I can give them my full attention.
● I am able to remain focused on a goal I want to achieve without losing focus on what I am doing
now to get there.
● I fully listen to someone speaking, while focusing on his/her body language and facial
expressions.
● I am focused on the present without worrying about the future or regretting the past.
● When I am eating, I take time to notice whether I am satiated.
● When my mood changes, I am aware of the thoughts I am having.
● I am aware of my body when my heart starts to beat faster or when my muscles get tense.
● I control my emotions easily.
● When I walk outside, I am aware of smells or how the air feels against my face.
● I am able to accept and work through unpleasant thoughts or feelings.
● I take time on a daily basis for self-reflection or some form of meditation.
Gameification
● Game Chart
● Stress Chart
8. WEEK 1
https://youtu.be/V8_BaS-k4jo
Who You Are?
● What is your dream job?
● Who inspired you the most?
● Where do you want to be or live in the world?
Expectations?
● Positivity over negativity
● Don’t be afraid to ask questions
● You get out what you put in
● You always have a choice (even tough ones)
● Self-sufficiency
To Be Expected
● Help & Assistance
● Review & Consult
● Feedback (Criticism will make you better)
WEEK 1.1
https://youtu.be/kAjeK7M16Tk
Tell A Story
Beginning, Middle, & End
● Call To Adventure, Contrast, Call To Action
1. Call your audience to action
2. Show them your perspective and facts
3. Call your audience to action
Connect With Audience
● You audience is the hero, you are the mentor
● Know your audience (company, crowd, viewers, etc.)
● Shared experiences
● Common goals (how it will benefit them)
● Confidence and knowledge (make your audience feel you’re qualified)
Types Of Audience
● Friendly, Respectful, & Understanding
● Apathetic, Dull, & Unresponsive
● Uninformed (Blank canvas)
● Hostile, Angry, Offended
WEEK 4
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/resonate-present-visual/9780470632017/ch08.html#
Communication Parts
● The message can become distorted at any step of this process
● Your top priority is to ensure that the message-carrying signal is free from as much noise or
interference as possible.
● Make sure your message is clear in what you’re saying (verbally and informally)
9. Change Your World
● Your ideas are a simple way of saying “I want to change the world.”
● Stay passionate and consistent about any constructive idea
● Not all ideas will be accepted by others
● The RISE Model:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/0d/b5/aa0db521c013c70274918f561cb88484.jpg
● “Society doesn't reward rejects, but it does reward those who have the tenacity to keep going after
being rejected. So don't give up.”
11. LEARN SKILLS
● Building business plans
● Writing project proposals and/or industry conference proposals
● Preparing presentations for classes, future colleagues, and industry leaders
● Writing successful business emails
● Communicating your creative process effectively at job interviews
● Contributing as a member of a creative team in the classroom and workplace
● Accepting, evaluating, and applying constructive criticism from professors, employers, and
colleagues
● Revising and polishing both professional writing and creative writing
PURPOSE
● Getting your point across
● Verbal & digital communications skills
TAP
● Tone = Emotion + Formality
● Audience = People you’re talking to
● Purpose = Overall message in your writing
YOUR BIO
● Go third person
● Label your accomplishments, publications, and work
● Life, career, services, products, and business
● Be professional as if talking to a stranger or customer
OVERALL
● Build reading comprehension
● Prepare your argument
● Increase your study skills
● Gain real world experiences
WRITING PARAGRAPHS
● Beginning - A hook to introduce readers
● Topic sentence
● Explanation of topic sentence
● Evidence supporting topic sentence
● Conclusion
● AVOID OPINIONS, FACTS ONLY
APA
● LastName, First Initial (20XX, Month)
● Theme
● Story
● Link
12. COLOR CODE STRAT.
● Blue - Thesis/Main Idea
● Green - Topic sentence
● Purple - Explanation of topic sentence/Evidence supporting topic sentence
● Pink - Conclusion
APA Format
● Times New Roman
● 12 pt. Font
● Double spaced
● 1 inch. Margins
● Heading in top-left corner
● Paragraph indents
● Reference Page
SUMMARY
● NO personal opinions
● NO agreements
● NO direct quotes
● NO new/your own personal knowledge
● NO questions
● NO repetition
IDENTIFYING BIAS
● The language of the document or article that is the most extreme
● Emotion > Logic
● Oversimplified or over generalized
● Limited view of the topic
● Conflict of interest?
● Are there points the author is ignoring or not validating?
MAP (MOTIVES, ATTITUDE, PERSPECTIVE)
● Bias: Judgement based on a personal POV
● Subjectivity: Influenced by personal feelings, taste or opinions
● Objectivity: Lack of favoritism to one side or another
● Claim: A statement put forth as truth in an argument
● Exaggeration: An overstatement of stretching the truth
● Reason: Statement that supports a claim
● Evidence: Facts, statements, and examples
MAP (AUTHOR’S GOALS)
● Motives - Aims? Goals? Expectations?
● Attitude - Tone? Biases? Evidence?
● Perspectives - Views from beginning to end
PLAN YOUR RESPONSE
● Note what you already know
● Identify specific aspects
● Analyse the research
● See if there’s any bias in the article (no bias)
M.A.P (IDENTIFY & PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE)
● References, identify, and quote which specific idea you/they were responding to
13. ● Do you/they agree or disagree on a subject
● Connects your ideas from the context you/they referenced
HAVE A VOICE!
● Add meaning and relevant information
● Raise compelling questions
● Critique their arguments
● Analyse their use of information
● Asses their bias
SYNTHESIS
● Connecting ideas
● What you read + what you know
CLAIM
● Main idea to lead your readers off
● Summarize your conversation
● Supporting points
● Claim, Points, & Conclusion
REVISE VS EDIT
● Edit: Line changes, minor correction, grammar
● Revise: Fresh and global changes, shifting in info, language, and research
15. A BETTER STORY THAN RWBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fdKWOHrdE
ROOSTER TEETH
● Stated as roleplaying/dub video game characters
● Build off a business from their hobby
● Stop or find inspiration when ideas go stale
● Monty Onn - 3D Fighting animation
● Create something original based upon their inspiration
TRAILER
● Builded up hype, engaged in an awesome fighting scene
● Ruby “Red” visits a grave and fights werewolves
● Weiss “White” sings and fights a knight
● Blake “Black” fights robots on a train in a red forest
● Yang “Yellow” fights with fist guns in a casino
● Builds curiosity and creativity
● No Episodes, build one large story for people to catch up
● No obvious written plots in character
THESIS
● Accept decent criticism
● About a a girl thats gets invited to a warrior school
● Create plotlines that focus on the story; use the school as a base setting
● Some stories don’t go anywhere, but they connect in some way
● Less questionable dialogue, more action
● Practice and study writing story series
● Connect the dots of ideas to a story
● “Dust” - to destroy monster in the story (Provide background stories)
● “Assemblance” - a unique power each person has independently
● Create a material or force that brinks and balance good v evil
● DO NOT DROP PLOT POINTS
WORLD BUILDING
● Build worlds around characters and their culture (what’s normal and what’s not)
● Naturalistic storytelling - Easy to understand saying how the world works by learning, adventure,
history, or surroundings
● Simple and brief expositions, no speeches
● Proper conveyance of information
● Let the story explain and unfold, not pauses within the characters
● “Semblance” - “Not” magic, unleashed power
● Build a simple intro for the story to flow
● Don’t give your viewers “homework” (lore > homework)
GOOD EXAMPLES
● Huntress are a key piece to their world
● Characters have learned to work together
16. ● Focus on the tone and detail in dialogue focusing on a character’s ability
● (Monty & Shane’s genuineness)
MONTY FIGHT HERE
● Fill gaps in scripts
● No double negatives in planning
● Character tensions and conflict
● Natural flow of characters being introduced to each other
TEAM CFWY
● Unknown characters fight in the climax of the story
● Give all characters proper screen/dialogue time
IMPORTANCE & CHARACIZATION
● Learning about the character and their mentality
● EX: Cowboy Bebop: How does a character find value in his life when he sees no value in himself?
Risky or brave?
● Find a theme within every character within the story
● Character driven - What drives a character to do things; what is their purpose?
● Personality and personas
ANIME HOMEWORK
● What made your inspiration work?
● Let the audience be engaged in your characters
● Be inspired, but build your own world
● Watch characters grow
● Use characters potentials
FAUNUS
● Faunus - “A lower race of species” (half animals)
● Do not create main characters that cannot relate or be engaged by IRL audiences (EX: Weiss
change in prejudice beliefs compared to IRL prejudices )
● Don’t create topics if you feel uncomfortable talking about it or you will think it will affect your
overall story or the “fun” of it.
● If you want to talk about real world issues, be transparent
● Don’t shove or force change in your story to fill and overrun plots
● Make point in (good v. evil) motivations and intentions
KEEP MOVING FORWARD
● RIP Monty Onn
CONCLUSION
● Find a purpose in your writing
● Build yourself as when you’re building your story
● Let your writing be its own
17. MORE VIDEO NOTES
CHIP TIME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7oA6QgEHic
● Reasons for action: Logical points, actions, and logistics and common sense of character's
purpose to do things within the story & event
● Story glues and connects with clues, events, and time
● Break away from the obvious (predictions, outcomes, etc.)
● When doing a vlog movie, always have a reason why the camera is on
● Logical narrative that doesn't make everything obvious
● Build your fantasy & creepypasta with outside resources
● A physical being that cannot be seen but only by a camera
● An outside force interfering with reality
● A switch is storytelling between characters
● Build upon every small idea
● Build around the theme
● Use the readers/watchers POV, action, presence and existence as part of the story
● Be honest in the quality & resources
● Idea + Execution
● Use symbolism carefully and correctly
● Clit portray as answers and leaders, not as evil at first
● Know when to close the story
ISAGENIX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycqgAvK8088
● False supplements & all-healing health tool
● Health products = $$$
● No science/research in their products
● Products: Shake powder, essential oils, weight loss foods
● No description of what's in products or ingredients
● Copying and pasting ingredients and ideas for a higher price & false information for better
improvements
● Overpriced and advertise weight loss for kids
● Must be approved by the FDA & ERC guidelines
● Mixed ingredients are unknown to react to each other for better or worse
● No transparency in their products, business, or CEOs
● Results vary from each person
● Certain ingredients are not safe to consume and have dangerous side-effects
BRIGHT OCULAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QBl8w12ZYs
● Changing eye colour permanently to blue
● Using aesthetic > important purpose / goal
● Abusing artificial implants for aesthetic > restoration + health for iris damage
● Contacts can replace this risk from blinding and permanent iris damage, but might cause
infections
● Can chip the iris and fall apart / vision loss & losing vision
● This surgery is not approved by the FDA
18. ● Putting a plastic ring in your eye!
● Ignore celebrities and other endorsers who advertise false products with major and dangerous
cons > trivial, temporary and useless pros; Results vary!
● Majority of patients lose large percentage of visions in each eye just after a few weeks of
changing their minds with surgery removal
THE SUBTOWL HOUSE: https://youtu.be/nO5ALJZq6JQ
● Write a story with a fixed storyline & plot
● Give consistency of characters personality and role throughout the series
● When using human representation, be fluent, flexible and let it not conterlude the entire story. Do
not use it just for views or forced equality.
● Let themes and main ideas be flexible and let it find an individual meaning to the audience for
their own life, yet an overall themes together
● Let secrets of individual character lore evolve swiftly throughout the story and build upon itself
● When using missing dialogue as a writing tactic for mystery, come back to it to fill the spots or
leave it for another story/product or idea or the audience to be engaged in.
THE PAINFUL DECLINE OF THE LOUD HOUSE: https://youtu.be/5UDPZwKCSYc
● Give each character a fair, balanced storyline through each episode
● When your story gets major traction, plan ahead for the future, and the end of your series even, to
avoid cluster and setback
● Create fair & non-stereotypical diversity in your projects
● Create multiple projects that is not a remix of the original