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.