Daily Notes
Thursday, Sept 1
Before determining the purpose of your piece, you need to know your audience (to see how you need to come across and how you can fulfill your purpose)
Ethos, Pathos, Logos: All used to lead the audience one way or another and promoting a call to action
Audience: anyone who listens/reads an author’s work, whether its first or second hand
Genre Conventions: Rules pertaining to each individual genre and area applied, ex. In a comic speech bubbles are used to denote conversation. Also, thought bubbles and the lines separating each box
Rhetorical situation: the occasion that you write something for
Genre: the method a writer chooses the distribute his/her ideas, ex. Through video, essay, poem, blog, etc. (a category of composition, as in scientific, financial, digital, characterized by similarities in from, style, or subject matter)
Purpose: the reason behind why you’re writing, the point you want to get across
Audience (intended): The people you aim your writing at, who you want to read your writing, etc.
Genre conventions of Poetry: ABA (and many other) rhyme schemes, stanzas, 5-7-5 haiku [meter]
Thursday, Sept 8
Genre presentations: if you can answer who, what, where, when, why, then you’re all set
Ex. Half time shows: where- TNT; when- Half time (not more than 20 min); who- former player, Shaq; what –prediction, analyze; why-it’s on, recap
Genre: type of media you use to compose something about anything
Ex. Blog about a cat (the cat itself is not a genre)
Tuesday, Sept 13
www.mywconline.com (reading/ writing center)
exigence- (very important in personal writing) one part of rhetorical situation; the demand or urgent need or impulse to get this thing across to that audience. Different from purpose! Has to do with why YOU needed/wanted to write whatever you wrote.
Literature of music and genres in music literature???? -for my paper
What if I talk about MPA, Solo and ensemble??? And the genres in those???
Place within the community, why you chose to be involved, how you are involved, not just the genres (for paper) It’s a PERSONAL narrative!!!!
Maybe compare and contrast two genres within music community????
Thursday, Sept 15
Personal essay- ex. Shitty First Drafts
Conventions:
Intro, body, conclusion
Recounts a past moment; anecdotes
Has to have a voice
Personal opinion/story/ “interior monologue”
Should express that from author to audience
Style, Tone: Anecdotal, personal, engages the audience, reflective tone
Structure
Geography
Walk through a space (band room or mpa warm up room)
Bird’s eye view
Shapes
Inductive
Deductive
Plagiarism
Thursday, October 6th
How can we use what we learned about Epic’s to remix our third paper
Could start the paper w/ genre/ community/ exigence
Tuesday, October 11th
How could you manipulate the “epic” genre for this class?
I would remix a genre into an epic by using the journey aspect and the travelling across lands, figuratively,
In your reflection, painting yourself as a hero fighting through the underworld that is enc 2135, etc.
Guidelines for project 2
Exigence is still important
College research is about adding to the “scholarship”
Avoid generalizations
“people everywhere”, “it is common”, ___(group of people)____ does/says/believes
Avoid unsupported statements
“schedules are important to swimmers in a competition”
give details
“for example” ß good, continue to use
move on from personal anecdotes and use more from other people (like the person you interview)
Nitty gritty
Sentence combining
Avoid comma splice- never connect two independent clauses with a comma
“Morgan ate waffles for breakfast. Lexi drank a protein shake” USE A PERIOD.
“Morgan ate waffles for breakfast, and Lexi drank a protein shake.” USE A COMMA AND A CONJUNCTION (FANBOYS- For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
“Morgan ate waffles for breakfast; Lexi drank a protein shake.” USE A SEMICOLON
Sentence variation
Introductory phrases- After, Although, As, While, When, Until, Before, Because, If, Since
“While Morgan was eating waffles, Lexi drank a protein shake.” Subordinate (Morgan is being out above Lexi)
Parenthetical phrases
Morgan ate (regular) waffles. USE PARENTHESIS
Morgan, the host at Texas Roadhouse, ate waffles. USE COMMAS
Morgan ate waffles--yum! USE M DASH (two dashes)
Research question
Eventually narrow it down in such a way that your thesis directly answers the question
For the proposal, it doesn’t need to be an actual question. It can be “I’m wondering about…” statement
Be original!
Tuesday, October 25th
NEVER MAKE GENERLIZATIONS
“The world”, “the planet”, “people in the world” (NO)
Comma splice (don’t do it)
Tuesday, November 17th
Google maps
icy water, trails
header (convention of twitter)
they have a lot of followers
they warn and advise people
they don’t follow many people
they have almost 7000 tweets
avi (profile picture)
twitter certified
link to google maps
Ted Talk
Non-verbal elements
Calming music
Promotes the sadness of his story
Camera angles zoom in and focus on specific images (blur the surrounding things)
Dark colors until finds family
Close-ups
Masks the identity until end of video (finds family)
Foreshadowing
