Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Just an imaginative night story
The sun was hanging low in the sky, it was losing it's battle with the deep, dark shadows of the cool everlasting night. The brilliant iridescent sunbeams of fire and amethyst was combating hard against the sheer darkness that spread throughout the valley. The sunset was going to burn with one last attempt of radiance that would shame the night for ever trying hide its existence.
The seasons had almost come to transition, in a few days fall would set in. Already the leaves in the forest were beginning to change their colors, from a deep emerald, pine, and jade green, to the tangerine, honey gold, scarlet, and maroon colors that represented a picturesque autumn.
There was a crisp, cool breeze blowing quietly through the mountains. The air smelled earthy and had a hint of the blossoms blowing through the wind, along with all of the other foliage that resided in the dense forest.
To the untrained eyes it would seem as though one would be alone, with nothing in sight for miles. But if one chose to focus their eyes, calm their breath, and relax their body. Other senses would be available to them, scents would be sharpened, eyes could see the creeping shapes and shadows more easily, and they would be able to hear every crunch and rustle of sound that ran throughout the area. They would notice that deep within the hollow of an Oak tree there was a nest of squirrels scurrying out of the tree to run to the nearest source of food, then make a mad dash back to the hollow, and to their horde of nuts and berries to stash the food away for winter.
Just beyond the clumps of bushes, and trees there was a thicket that ran eastward alongside a sweeping river. Within the thicket a pair of red foxes playfully romped through the tall grass, eager to have fun beneath the night sky. A family of deer slept quietly on the edge of the forest near the river, the doe and fawn were laying down, blissfully adrift in their own thoughts, and peaceful dreams. While the buck was not to far away watching out for it's family to make sure that predators brought them no harm.
The sounds were amazing, the leaves rustled lightly in the wind, small birds were chattering in the tree branches above, and an owl hooted off in the distance. Ones own footsteps made the most noise, shoes were crunching on fallen leaves, and lost branch limbs. Your own heartbeat seemed to be audible, as it pounded to the hum of the lyrical environment.
Walking past the babbling brook in the bend of the river was quite calming. Rushing water could be heard before you had even made it to the waterfall. Every splash, and dribble of falling water was a chime that created its own lullaby.
Though the most beautiful thing of all was when the sunlight finally faded into oblivion, and the moon and stars came out to glimmer and dance in triumph across the rippling waves in the water. It seemed to enthrall you with all its splendor, and hold you captive until the time came for dawn to reaclaim its victory.
The seasons had almost come to transition, in a few days fall would set in. Already the leaves in the forest were beginning to change their colors, from a deep emerald, pine, and jade green, to the tangerine, honey gold, scarlet, and maroon colors that represented a picturesque autumn.
There was a crisp, cool breeze blowing quietly through the mountains. The air smelled earthy and had a hint of the blossoms blowing through the wind, along with all of the other foliage that resided in the dense forest.
To the untrained eyes it would seem as though one would be alone, with nothing in sight for miles. But if one chose to focus their eyes, calm their breath, and relax their body. Other senses would be available to them, scents would be sharpened, eyes could see the creeping shapes and shadows more easily, and they would be able to hear every crunch and rustle of sound that ran throughout the area. They would notice that deep within the hollow of an Oak tree there was a nest of squirrels scurrying out of the tree to run to the nearest source of food, then make a mad dash back to the hollow, and to their horde of nuts and berries to stash the food away for winter.
Just beyond the clumps of bushes, and trees there was a thicket that ran eastward alongside a sweeping river. Within the thicket a pair of red foxes playfully romped through the tall grass, eager to have fun beneath the night sky. A family of deer slept quietly on the edge of the forest near the river, the doe and fawn were laying down, blissfully adrift in their own thoughts, and peaceful dreams. While the buck was not to far away watching out for it's family to make sure that predators brought them no harm.
The sounds were amazing, the leaves rustled lightly in the wind, small birds were chattering in the tree branches above, and an owl hooted off in the distance. Ones own footsteps made the most noise, shoes were crunching on fallen leaves, and lost branch limbs. Your own heartbeat seemed to be audible, as it pounded to the hum of the lyrical environment.
Walking past the babbling brook in the bend of the river was quite calming. Rushing water could be heard before you had even made it to the waterfall. Every splash, and dribble of falling water was a chime that created its own lullaby.
Though the most beautiful thing of all was when the sunlight finally faded into oblivion, and the moon and stars came out to glimmer and dance in triumph across the rippling waves in the water. It seemed to enthrall you with all its splendor, and hold you captive until the time came for dawn to reaclaim its victory.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Essay Outline
My process of explanation started with the discussion of how a writer must start with a first draft, this is where the writer just spews out all of the information that they know on paper. Then a writer must go and revise all the errors in the essay, go back to the beginning of the essay to create an introduction that is witty, yet applicable to the main topic to begin the discussion while still incorporating a thesis statement. The writer should then use classification and division to help with the body of the essay, as well as incorporate definitions so that the reader can follow along with the writer’s meaning. A writer may also use the narrative style of writing to tell a story through first person perspective, and use detailed descriptions to help the reader visualize the setting, plot, and theme of the narrative. A writer uses compare and contrast to differentiate two or more object or bring them together. Different types of gazing helps the writer to connect with the readers by appealing to their senses of familiarity, culture, places, or nation. The writer uses cause and effect to show the chronological sequence to tie the story together and show how an event happened and why. Then comes the conclusion that summarizes the introduction, and the body of the essay, while reiterating the thesis statement once again in the end.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Week 13 Critique
Kelsie Hair:
1. Compare and Contrast:
This blog entry was great. It reached out to the audience, and really broke down the idea of compare and contrast into a more simpler way for the audience to comprehend. I liked the way you described to the audience the differences between the subject by subject, and the side by side comparison. It was great that you also explained how both ways are used and are beneficial to who ever is writing about whatever.
2. Rhetorical terms:
In this paragraph you explained the idea that writers use rhetorical tools to help a writer connect with their audience, however when you listed the tools that can be implemented into the writing you did not define the specific tools. This would be a great explanation for our class if that was your targeted audience, but some people that are not in our class might read this and not know what alliterations, allusions, similes are. You just might want to broaden your writing for a larger audience.
Amy Bean:
1. 8A
I liked this article. The ideas that were presented were done quite well, and got all of the information that you were trying to give. The example about your history teacher was great. I liked the part that adding more definitions leaves no room for misinterpretations. Well done.
2. 12B
In this blog entry I got that you wanted to talk about how to write an essay, however I felt that this essay needed more fleshing out. The entry seemed a bit vague to the reader. It talked about the fisherman's the one that got away, as an example of adding more to our writing, and how it is the same story, but its just a bit more defined. I felt you could have defined, or added more examples, so that the reader can truly connect and take in the information you are trying to give.
Kaitlyn Glauser:
1.Rhetorical tools
I loved how you broke this blog down for the reader! It highlighted the main points you are trying to convey, and gave some descriptions as to what the rhetorical tools were and how to use them. I feel that this blog entry benefited your audience the most! Great job.
2. Outline on writing a paper
I liked the beginning of this blog, and how it started out as defining the outline of how to write and essay, but more towards the middle of this blog entry it turned out to be more about the importance of a peer review or a critique. I would have liked a bit more fleshing out of your blog, and I would have liked for you to go more into the meat of writing an essay to just break it all down for the reader. If you do that, and talk just a little about the peer review this blog would be awesome!
1. Compare and Contrast:
This blog entry was great. It reached out to the audience, and really broke down the idea of compare and contrast into a more simpler way for the audience to comprehend. I liked the way you described to the audience the differences between the subject by subject, and the side by side comparison. It was great that you also explained how both ways are used and are beneficial to who ever is writing about whatever.
2. Rhetorical terms:
In this paragraph you explained the idea that writers use rhetorical tools to help a writer connect with their audience, however when you listed the tools that can be implemented into the writing you did not define the specific tools. This would be a great explanation for our class if that was your targeted audience, but some people that are not in our class might read this and not know what alliterations, allusions, similes are. You just might want to broaden your writing for a larger audience.
Amy Bean:
1. 8A
I liked this article. The ideas that were presented were done quite well, and got all of the information that you were trying to give. The example about your history teacher was great. I liked the part that adding more definitions leaves no room for misinterpretations. Well done.
2. 12B
In this blog entry I got that you wanted to talk about how to write an essay, however I felt that this essay needed more fleshing out. The entry seemed a bit vague to the reader. It talked about the fisherman's the one that got away, as an example of adding more to our writing, and how it is the same story, but its just a bit more defined. I felt you could have defined, or added more examples, so that the reader can truly connect and take in the information you are trying to give.
Kaitlyn Glauser:
1.Rhetorical tools
I loved how you broke this blog down for the reader! It highlighted the main points you are trying to convey, and gave some descriptions as to what the rhetorical tools were and how to use them. I feel that this blog entry benefited your audience the most! Great job.
2. Outline on writing a paper
I liked the beginning of this blog, and how it started out as defining the outline of how to write and essay, but more towards the middle of this blog entry it turned out to be more about the importance of a peer review or a critique. I would have liked a bit more fleshing out of your blog, and I would have liked for you to go more into the meat of writing an essay to just break it all down for the reader. If you do that, and talk just a little about the peer review this blog would be awesome!
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
How to Write an Essay
Every time a writer creates an essay there are specific formats, and processes that are used in order to get not only the information of the essay out, but to also get out the thoughts, ideas, and feelings of the writer, so that the reader can see through the writer's perspective. Every essay format has classification and division, which helps to structure the essay by first introducing the topic at hand, then dividing that topic into sub points which become the body of the essay. The sub points are then elaborated on and can be either compared or contrasted to bring the points together, or set them apart through various descriptions. When the writer elaborates on the sub points he or she also uses writing aids such as visual rhetoric, visual gazing, and cause and effect to help build the essay. The use of visual rhetoric helps with the descriptions of certain points by describing the taste, touch, smell, feel, and sounds of the item being discussed. The use of Visual Gazing allows the writer to connect and appeal to the reader's feelings, and emotions through familiarity of family, travels, cultures, consumer appeal, and national familiarity. The writer also uses cause and effect to help move the essay along in a cognitive chronological format. This gives the essay a nice flow that is smooth and neat like a road map that takes the reader from point A to point B without any detours. Finally the essay is ended with a conclusion that summarizes the basis and strengths of the essay to reiterate the main idea, and convey the thoughts of the writer to a simple ending.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Classification and Division
In every good essay, or piece of writing the writer uses Classification and Division to map out, and flow the conversation of the writing. In our last "In Class Writing" assignment we were basically given the task to dissect the article we were given. We classified what we thought were to be the main topics, and then we broke them down so that we could recognize the sub-topics, or the elements that made up the classifications.
When we incorperate Classification and Division into our writing pieces we will use the same process from the "In Class Writing" when we write. First we will have an introduction that will set up the direction of the conversation. Second we will use definitions so that we can relate to our audience. The definition of a word can be very malleable or changeable between people. People interpret words differently which is why it is important to explain, and define the message that we are trying to convey to the reader. Third we discuss the issues to the topic we are talking about. This is the meat, or the body to an essay, we discuss what is important and how it relates the main classification. Finally we have the conclusion where we bring everything back together and discuss the what we were trying to convey to the reader and what we had hoped to get across to to the reader.
When we incorperate Classification and Division into our writing pieces we will use the same process from the "In Class Writing" when we write. First we will have an introduction that will set up the direction of the conversation. Second we will use definitions so that we can relate to our audience. The definition of a word can be very malleable or changeable between people. People interpret words differently which is why it is important to explain, and define the message that we are trying to convey to the reader. Third we discuss the issues to the topic we are talking about. This is the meat, or the body to an essay, we discuss what is important and how it relates the main classification. Finally we have the conclusion where we bring everything back together and discuss the what we were trying to convey to the reader and what we had hoped to get across to to the reader.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Subject specific rhetorical terms
Subject specific rhetoric tools are essential to help us get a certain messages across. Every good writer has a motive, which is to keep the audience en-captured within their words.The only way to do this is through vivid visualization. The reader only has a short attention span, and likely they will not want to read a long dialog, the reader would mostly prefer stories with pictures or "pop ups" to keep them occupied. It is important that when an author writes without any pictures being involved, that the writer create and incorporate a detailed picture through words. This keeps the brain active while the reader still pays attention to detail and the story. The use of pictures play a heavy influence upon our lives, and that is why it is important to analyze the message that is being sent so that we do not fall to the worlds flowery words of propaganda. Stores and the United States realize that the use of pictures plays into a big part of our lives, and that is why they rely heavily on these mixed message posters and propaganda to get the public to do as the advertisement says. We can avoid falling for propaganda by learning the visual rhetoric tools.
Here are the subject specific rhetorical terms:
Persuasive Theme:
Are appealing for neuro-psychological, cultural, and contextual reasons that make them an important weapon in the arsenal of any communicator
Master Narrative:
Content and Technical Signature:
Tend to package imagery and technical elements in such a way that one can usually discover an underlying structure. That structure constitutes a "signature" that reflects distinct characteristics and choices for every piece of persuasive visual media.
Audience Resonance and effects:
for the analyst of visual media, the indicators can show whether the designated measurement of influence is moving with respect to audience exposure and audience impact. For the communicator, they provide an important means to track and measure the extent to which the target audience has been reached and is moving in a favorable direction.
Compare and Contrast:
Describing similarities and differences between two images. To get a better understanding of the image used.
Here are the subject specific rhetorical terms:
Persuasive Theme:
Are appealing for neuro-psychological, cultural, and contextual reasons that make them an important weapon in the arsenal of any communicator
Master Narrative:
Content and Technical Signature:
Tend to package imagery and technical elements in such a way that one can usually discover an underlying structure. That structure constitutes a "signature" that reflects distinct characteristics and choices for every piece of persuasive visual media.
Audience Resonance and effects:
for the analyst of visual media, the indicators can show whether the designated measurement of influence is moving with respect to audience exposure and audience impact. For the communicator, they provide an important means to track and measure the extent to which the target audience has been reached and is moving in a favorable direction.
Compare and Contrast:
Describing similarities and differences between two images. To get a better understanding of the image used.
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