Thinking and Acting Rhetorically

I think rhetoric is when you use your language to try to inform or persuade an audience to conform to your way of thinking. Like if you want to explain your stance on LGBT+ rights, you would come up with a list of reasons to explain yourself and try to order everything in a way that makes sense and helps to push the reader in a certain direction of thinking. You take your topics and your audience into consideration and try to form cohesive thoughts to convey your meaning in a concise and clear manner in order to change their mind and channel the audience into your way of thinking. If I wanted to convince someone that same-sex marriage was a inherent right, I would come up with a list of reasons why, such as they are people, it wont affect you personally, it's really not your business unless you want to marry someone of the same sex, what is wrong with you that you would hate a group of people so much that you don't want them so have the same rights as every other person. And then you would expand on those topics, making sure to thoroughly explain each point you have, in order to convince your audience of homophobes that gay people actually are people who have rights! Omg who knew!

Rhetorical Situations-Narratives

2.

•   For the first question, we all said that the main point was the essence of hope and determination, and that it was stated in the last paragraph.
•   For the second question it was primarily Lydia’s point of view. It made us feel scared for her life.
•   Third. terrified,destroyed: used to put the reader into a state of fear. Could feel the hope in how she kept fighting to survive. “cramped on the shelf of the linen closet” “had an abscessed tooth”
• Anyone who’s interested in health affairs/life changing stories. sophisticated people who know about disasters. the tone helps cause a movement for help through sympathizing.

3. Jan Brideau used the rhetoric that we learned about in chapter two to write Lydia’s Story. She kept her audience in mind, that they’re going to be people who are more sympathetic to victims of natural disasters like hurricanes. Her primary goal was to affect the emotions of the readers and to give people courage and motivation. Jan uses descriptive words to affect her tone. It made me think about how I can use descriptive words to affect my audience. Charlotte said that you have to portray your attitude towards the topic for your audience using rhetoric and the guidelines from the book.

7. Stories about car crashes, friends, co-workers, crazy cats/dogs

10. Think about friends who are part LGBT community and how hard it is for them to just be themselves.

You don’t have to be afraid to be yourself-message to everyone

the different emotions and aspects of the people

12. Video-see the raw emotion

Text-have to use words to portray emotion/more time to think over what you want to say

Video to text- lose some affect bc you don’t know the words to explain the emotion

Text to video-like a play; have to determine the emotions

The tone would change: how you were affected would change

Think About; pg 104/107

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Stories

• What happened at work or school
• different events you attended
• funny things you saw
• stuff that made you happy or mad
• thoughts you have
•  movies/books that you saw/read
• videos that you watched

Subjects

• coworkers
• friends
• drivers on the road
• people you see in stores or on the street
• pets
• different media

107

The videos were really powerful because you see the people's emotions and their lives and they are very raw and unedited. Personally, as someone who can't come out to my parents, it makes me feel hopeful about the future.

Q 1-4 pg 131: Lydia's Story

1. Brideau's main point is that Lydia's story "represents the essence of hope and determination in the face of terrible adversary." It's found in the very last paragraph.
2. The primary point of view is Lydia's. The impact that it has is to distance yourself from the subject.
3. Brideau makes her story come alive by including words like hope, determination, rocking, and telling us about Lydia's desire to go back to her house and find the photo album. These are things that really show the emotions that she was feeling when this happened.
4. The audience for this piece would be medical health professionals and students, and the tone suits it because it is very narrative and helps make patients seem more like people with lives and emotions.

Response to pg 23 prompt

The writing I've done in the past week has been texting, notes, homework, signing my name (if that counts), and writing down dates for work.

   For texting, my 'genre' was a casual conversation with my friends as the audience. The purpose was just to talk about our lives, the topics ranging from work to when I might go back to California. The stance I had varied from topic to topic. The rest of the guidelines from this chapter had no affect on what I was writing. They aren't relevant to any part of what I was doing

   For homework, my genre was a series of interesting facts from the chapter, my audience being both my teacher and my classmates. My purpose was to write down the things that I had found to be intriguing and then discuss them with classmates in the next class as a way to relay information.My attitude toward my topic was motivated; i needed to find things to discuss next class to get a good grade so that i can graduate college and a get a job that will actually have a living wage because I was born into this world and we have a capitalist economy. It's a very independent, free activity. My medium was writing by hand on an index card. No visuals 'cause those are in the book.

  Finally, my last writing was dates on boxes. The audience was coworkers and customers. They need to know what product is inside the box so that they sell the customers what they want. My stance toward this is indifferent. It's just part of my job. The only constraints are where to write and what. My medium is black or green sharpie on a brown box. It's very earthy. So organic in nature. Beautiful. I have no tone. But according to the book, this makes me an author. I'm so proud of myself. 

More Similarities: Social media, blogging, schooling

Writers	Author
A person who jots down stuff	Published writer
Random thoughts/ opinions	Claim on what he writes
undiscovered authors	Well known writers
School newspaper	Published Newspaper
College papers	Published articles

Type of writing	Why it is enjoyed/disliked
school papers	somewhat enjoyed: depends on subject
texting	enjoyed: communication with friends
creative writing	enjoyed: freedom to write what you like

Genres: poem, Kyra; shopping list, Rhianna; memo, CJ

Shopping List: purchase Invitations from walmart, order cake from central, deliver balloons and confetti from party city, drive me to dollar tree for candy.

Poem: I need this stuff for realz tho

Drive me to the store

So I can purchase the cake

And take me back home

so i can order the invitations

And don’t forget to deliver the balloons

to the venue

It will make the party complete

Memo: Dear Friends,

Please obtain Shopping list and Driving Instructions and do the following,

• Purchase Invitations from Walmart
• Order cake
• Deliver Balloons and Confetti
• Drive me to the Candy Store

Thank you

Is everyone an author

To answer the question "is everyone an author," you have to take into account what an author is. An author by definition is someone who has written a book, article, or report. So, by definition, no. Not everyone is an author. However, everyone does write. Whether its a report for school or a post on Facebook, even notes that they've jotted down, everyone has written. These don't take the typical forms of writing that we would expect from authors so we don't consider the writer of these things to be an author. If you were to say your definition of author is someone who has their work published, though, then everyone who's tweeted or posted on Facebook would be an author. Everything on the internet is published for the world to see. It's all quite public and therefore published electronically, even though you personally may not consider it to be published because it is not in a printed medium such as a newspaper or book or magazine. I personally think that an author is someone who is serious about their writing. I don't consider someone an author because they electronically published something on Facebook. I would consider a blogger an author because they are probably more serious about the things that they are writing about. A blogger is most likely blogging about their passion and is therefore taking what they write rather seriously.