blog week 14

Essay Outline:
In my first paragraph, I will begin with my introduction, what my essay is about and where I plan on going with it.
In my second paragraph, I will discuss the importance of knowing your audience.
Third paragraph, discusses the importance of the introductions in essays and what needs to be included within them.
In my fourth paragraph, I will talk about the body of essays and start to introduce a rhetorical tool.
Fifth paragraph, discusses a few more of the rhetorical tools which I found very useful.
Sixth, I discuss the importance of a conclusion in essays and what should be included within those.
And finally in my last paragraph, my conclusion, I sum up everything a little bit to remind the audience of what they just read.

blog week 13a

http://tiffanyc4english.blogspot.com/

In Tiffany's blog from November 15th, she explains herself and the tools very well. She introduces each of the four tools that helped her the most in the second paragraph of her blog, then following her second paragraph she goes further into detail about each of the tools, explaining how and why they are so important in the writing process. She explains that without them, the writing would have some confusion to the reader and so on. Tiffany did wonderful!

http://betinablount.blogspot.com/2012/11/stepping-stones-to-storywriting.html#comment-form

In Betina's blog entry from November 6th, I feel as though she did a good job explaining the basics. However, she should have went into futher detail about what an Introduction is made of, more of an explination of the Thesis Statement and it's purpose to the writing process, as well as a more in depth explination of what a Conclusion is and what's included within it. Overall, the basic information was good, but the explinations need to be more drawn out. They need to be explained more.

blog week 12b

In my opinion, the most helpful elements in writing would be the rhetorical tools. Classification & division being one of the helpful rhetorical tools, helps by dividing the writing into certain subjects and going more into detail about each of those subjects in order to make the writing more comprehensible for the readers. Transitions make the writing easier to read and understand as well, by helping to move from one topic to the next, rather than to jump from one to another. By keeping each topic in chronological order, it can be easier to understand as well. Simply because the reader can follow the writing in a much easier way.

blog week 12A

Before publishing anything and making it official, it is important to make a rough draft of what you're about to publish. Meaning that after brainstorming ideas, reasearching whatever is needed, and thinking of your opinion is towards what you're writing about, you can begin to piece all of it together. After piecing it together and forming what you think is a good essay, it is important to get another pair of eyes on it which is known as peer review. Peer review helps to get an outsiders view on what you're writing about, this way you know if you have all of the information that is needed to make your writing clear to the audience. However, whether it is you who is doing the peer review or you're getting your paper peer reviewed, it is important to not be too harsh. Let them know where they messed up, how you think they can improve it, and what you believe they've done right. Don't take things to the heart, a peer review is used to HELP you and your writing, not harm in any way, shape, or form.

blog week 11A

Process Explination is the way in which you present things to a certain audience. Explaining or teaching them so that they are capable of understanding what it is and when/where it may be used.
And in order to teach an audience something, there are steps in which you must follow.
First, you must start out with an introductionn of what you are going to be talking about. In this introduction, you must introduce the main topic, just giving enough information on it to capture the audiences attention. Also, a thesis statement is needed that expresses the authors opinion on the main topic being discussed, so that the audience knows where the essay/article is headed. It must also include a roadmap of what's going to be discussed. In choronical order of course.
From there, you have the body of the writing. Here is listed all of the information as well as examples making it easier for the reader to understand. Headers may also be used to divide the different subjects, which is called Classification and Division. Keep in mind, you already have the order of what these topics should be discussed, from the intorudction.
Finally, you have the conclusion. The conclusion is grabbing the most important/strong ideas of each subject in the body and summarizing them in the order talked about from the introduction. Here, you will also restate your thesis statement.

blog week 10A

An introduction of any sort is very significant. When introducing people to eachother, it is used to let people know who the other one is and a little bit about that person. When introducing an essay or an article, it is used to tell what the essay or article is about, without actually showing us what is going on in it and what is being discussed.
The perfect introduction in writing introduces the main topic, without giving away too much of the "good stuff" but enough to capture the audiences attention. With a thesis statement that expresses the authors opinion on the main topic being discussed, so that the audience knows where the essay/article is headed. The perfect introduction also includes the "roadmap" of the piece of writing, which shows what they will be talked about first, and where it will go from there.

Blog Week 9A

Classification and Division is when the writer catergorizes things in order to make their writing more simple to understand. By pulling out certain key elements in their writing and going further into depth for each element. An example that we talked about in class is friends. We have school friends, work friends, family friends, best friends, and so on. We have different friends for different events, situations, and other things. Another example that we talked about in class was school. We have elementary with different "stations", then we go into junior high where we have 7 classes, high-school where we have an A & B class schedule with each involving 4 classes. And then we have college, where you can personalize your schedule in order to fit with your life style.

Blog week 8B

Poetry: Literature involving very special and intense words. By the use of certain rhythms and styles it is used to express feelings, strong feelings. Poems may or may not rhyme but they are written in such a way that no other writing is written, making them unique and beautiful in their own way.
Vulnerability: Different people have different "safe zones" and when you leave your personal safe zone, you make yourself vulnerable. Meaning that you are making it possible for other people/things to harm you in some way, shape or form, whether it's emotionally or physically.
Infatuation: It's that feeling you often recieve throughout many of your younger years. Where when you meet somebody and you admire them. The puppy love, it's not something that lasts forever, it's short and very passsionate.

Blog Week 8A

Music: The art or science of combining vocal and/or instrumental sounds in order to produce beauty of form, harmony, and express emotions. Who would've thought that such a lowclass, african american, gangbanger could have such an impact on the world? Music for Tupac Shakur was much more than just combining vocal and instumental sounds together, for him, it was a way to express himself. A way for him to get his feelings out there, to show the world what it's really like to be growing up in the 'hood.'
In the article From Poetry to Rap:The Lyrics of Tupac Shakur that I recently have read, it was discussed just how many achievements Tupac had made. Six solo rap albums, over 30 singles, starring in six movies, and also including a body of poems, is all helped and influenced greatly by his upbringing. Because his mother was a part of the Black Panther Party, an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States, Tupac learned and excelled in verbal dexterity, meaning that he was very good with his words and wordplay. While at the same time learning about the influences from his mothers political past.

blog week 7A

Subject specific rhetorical tools are very important for the writing process because they help to specify things within the story, making the writing more comprehendable for the audience. They also help to make the writing more interesting by adding details, and painting an image with the words in which they use.
Compare and Contrast is one of the rhetorical tools, which is used when there is a basis of comparison. When two or more objects, or things, are able to be compared. This helps us to understand the similiarites and differences between them.
Visual Gazes are another rhetorical tool which can be used. It helps the audience visualize what you are trying to say. The few in which we talked about in class include the following: familial gaze which is used to remind us of close friends and family. National gaze, which isn't neccessarly so private, or so near to the heart. Consumer gaze, which is used to get consumers to buy products. For example, commercials and ads. Lastly, Travel gaze, which is used to get you to Travel. Like Disneyland photos, making children all over the world wanting to go meet all their favorite cartoon characters in real life.

Blog Week 6A

Compare and contrast in visual rhetoric is important in many ways. By promoting higher-order thinking through comparing, analyzing, organizing, and evaluating, it shows the differences in things, as well as the similarities. And because of this, it is easier to pick and choose what you do and do not like about each. Comparing and contrasting helps you to understand more of what is going on, becoming more flexible with your writing.

Blog week 5A

A tool which makes the audience feel a certain way, think, act, or remember something, is a rhetorical gaze. There's several different rhetorical gazes that may be used in writing. Familial is one of the rhetorical gazes, it is used to remember things such as important places or important people. An example of a familial gaze would be a photo of a family. Travel, is another rhetorical gaze. Which is used in the remembrance of certain sites or places. For advertising, or marketing, like commericials or billboards, Consumer is the gaze which is being used. But for the general audience, the rhetorical gaze used is National.



In this photo, familial is being used. Bringing back feelings and memories within this family, the photo may take a person to a time of the past.

Blog Week 4A

There are many benefits for the use of Cause and Effect papers. In my opinion, the most important benefit of using a Cause and Effect paper is that you get reasoning behind what the paper is about, you get told "why" something happened, needs to happen, or is going to happen. Throughout life, we go through school being told what to do, without an explination of why we need to do it, and when we are going to actually use it in the real world. Even as children, our parents tell us what we are suppose to do, and what we aren't suppose to do, very rarely do they give you an explination other than "because I said so" or "because i'm the parent, and what I say, goes."
Before writing a Cause and Effect paper, it is important to analyze each cause and each effect very carefully and the relationship between them. Also, it is important not to overwhelm the reader with multiple causes and effects. Instead of writing all of them, choose ones in which are the most important for your paper, which will keep the reader interested.

Blog Week 3B

Peer Review is important for many reasons. It gets a fresh pair of eyes on your paper, a pair of eyes that doesn't know exactly what your paper is about, therefore they cannot piece together information in their head as you can. It helps to learn what you're missing, what you may have too much of, and also spelling/grammar errors that may have occured, as well as the missuse of words. Peer reviews are an excellent thing to do, because while you're getting told what you may have done wrong, and getting advise in how to fix it, you should also be getting told what you've done right, which may boost your confidence level.

Blog Week 3A

In the Zambreno Article, many rhetorical tools were used. One of them being the thesis statement, which states what her point is and what she hopes to have you learn by reading her article. The thesis statement is one of the most important tools that are used in writing, because if you don't know what the author is trying to get out of the writing, you more than likely will not learn anything from it.
In the Article, she also uses and defines words such as Mutability, Piecemeal, Windows of Opportunity and Open-ended closure. Because of the use and definitions of these words being used, it is much easier to understand what her article is about. Putting her words into your own and applying them into situations that make it easier for you to comprehend what's being said as well as what is going on.

Blog Week 2B

Rhetorical elements that are found in narrative writing are useful in many ways. The rhetorical elements help the readers to understand the text within the narrative. They also help to make narratives become more realistic, and making the readers feel as though they are actually there within the story while it is taking place. Rhetorical tools help to make narrative stories/writing come alive. The way that rhetorical tools are used in narratives vary from story to story, mostly depending on who the target audience for that specific story is. While writing a narrative, it is very important to continue keeping in mind who and what the audience is. Whether you are writing for a specific age group, or a group of soccer players, football players, cheerleaders, etc.
A Story Grammar is just one example of the rhetorical tools that may be used during writing a narrative. The setting, theme, plot, and the resolution of the narrative, as well as the characters are all structual elements which make up a story grammar. The plot of the story grammar is also broken down into four different parts, which include a problem, a response, the action and the outcome. Understanding these four parts of the plot, will help the reader to comprehend the story, making it easier to follow the story line while they visualize the story within their head.

Blog Week 2A

Narratives are important simply because they are a story, showing and telling a reason for why things are the way that they are. They're visuals, helping people understand things more clearly, because most people learn better when visuals are involved. Narratives may be either fictional or non-fictional, as well as the most simple to the most complex, but whatever it may be, we are striving to learn from them.

The rhetorical tools are used to reach the desired audience, in other words, while writing you need to keep in mind who and what your targeted audience is. If your audience is young children, you're going to want to speak clearly, using words that aren't complicated for them to understand, making it as simple as possible. While on the other hand, if your audience is an older generation, you're going to want to sound as sophisticated as you possibly can, maybe even making them think that you're smarter than you really are.