Audience I define audience as the people reading, listening or watching whatever it is you are creating. I think audience is important to writing because the audience has the ability to create their own point of view in whatever you create, this allows the audience to connect better to your story. In both instances observed …
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Week 2 Blog #3 Rhetorical Situation When Bitzer defined rhetorical situation, he defined it as a mode of altering reality, not by the direct application of energy to objects, but by the creation of discourse which changes reality through the mediation of thought and action. I would define rhetorical situation as changing the way something really happens by changing the action of the situation. An example of rhetorical situation is “You discover that several children in your child’s school are being bullied but your school district has no anti-bullying program. You want speak at the next board meeting to persuade the the school board to develop and implement such a program.” (https://www.quora.com/What-are-examples-of-a-rhetorical-situation). In context, they’re trying to use a rhetorical situation to persuade the school board to start an anti-bullying program for the school. I would say rhetorical situation relates to genre because it can still be viewed your own way. When you’re using a rhetorical situation, you’re seeing your point of view and persuading other people to see it the same way you do.
Group 1 Discussion of Bazerman
The passage we feel helps the most with the text and to define the word genre is on page 311 where it gives an actual definition of what genre is. On page 322 and it starts out by saying “Methodological Issues and Analytic Tools: What Is a Genre and How Do You Know One?” They can speak to one …
Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems:
My comfort level for Bazerman’s text was that I felt it was very long and it didn’t keep me interested so I kept getting distracted while reading. My approach to reading Bazerman’s text was to sit in the quiet and do as much of it in one sitting as I could. My response to Bazerman’s …
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Week 2 What is genre? Genre can mean multiple things. To me, genre means your version, meaning that whatever you’re writing, you can call it whatever “genre” you think it is. My senior year of high school, I had to write a common application paper for colleges. In that paper, the only thing that I talked about was myself and what my life was like all the way up to that year. Most people would have titled it as an ‘autobiography’, but me, I’d call it a “short story”. I would have called it a short story because it was a shorter version of my life story. I titled my paper as a short story because it was my writing and I feel as the writer should decide what genre their writing is, not the people. While reading Bazerman, he defined genre as; recognizable, self-reinforcing, forms of communication. I feel as if Bazerman meant the same thing I meant in my definition because he talks about how we are communicating by writing to where we can’t see one’s gestures or mood. An example would be texting. When you’re texting with one another, you don’t know what mood that person is in or how they’re reading your texts. That other person is going to assume your tone through text and possibly take it the wrong way, which is why I stand by my definition so far. I feel like as the writer, you’re the only one who REALLY knows what genre you’re writing. When you google the word, genre, it comes up with a definition of a category of composition. The way Bazerman describes it is that you can only know what the genre of your writing is. As I was reading, I learned that Bazerman’s definition wasn’t much different than mine. A difference between his and mine is that he brought it almost every aspect of tone as well. Usually when you think about other people’s facial expressions or gestures you assume it’s because of the tone of the story. I never thought about how genre can be included with that as well. When I think of a commencement speech, I think of sleeping. There aren’t many commencement speeches I’ve heard that have me really intrigued until I read Collins’ speech. Although, he still had to talk about all of the boring stuff, I was intrigued. He brought up real life problems that most commencement speeches don’t talk about. When I’ve heard them, they’ve been about the future, moving on from one another and how tragic that is, and the person who was giving the speech. I noticed that Mr. Collins didn’t feel like he was the smartest in the room while giving the speech. The valedictorian that gave the speech at my graduation was very all about himself. You could tell he thought he was the best thing since sliced bread up on the podium. Mr. Collins was honored, indeed, but he was humble. Based on my observations, I say that all commencement speeches have a certain point. They all focus on something huge and different. I have found 2 commencement speeches that I felt are important: 1. https://singjupost.com/bill-gates-commencement-speech-at-harvard-2007-full-transcript/ 2. https://www.keepinspiring.me/7-motivational-graduation-speeches-that-will-inspire-you/ I have listened to both Bill Gates’ speech in 2007 at Harvard and Ellen DeGeneres’ speech in 2009 at Tulane University. When listening to both speeches, I noticed that they do follow the conventions of a commencement speech. They both had meaning and were both important to the audience. During Bill Gates’ speech, he brought up how serious this world is. To me, his speech was all about believing in yourself. He was a good selection on Harvard’s part being that he went to school there and he is one of the most successful people in America. Ellen had a bit of a different approach. While listening to Ellen’s, I thought hers was important for several reasons; she kept the audience intrigued, and even though she was making jokes, she had a very important message. Her message was that if you believe in yourself, you can do it and will do it.
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Week: 1 What is writing? The definition of writing, to me, is only dependent on what you’re writing. Writing can be used for various reasons. When I feel like there is something in my mind; writing it down helps. When you write down that thought, it almost feels as if you’re leaving whatever it was …
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