Blog Week 14

In this blog, you will create an outline for your essay. Make sure that it is detailed enough for another person to use when creating their own essay.

Introduction/Thesis

Topic

Title

Brainstorming

Peer review

Fine tuning the body

Introduction/Conclusion

Recheck our work

Corrections and submission

Conclusion

      

Blog week 12B

Learning how to write essays properly has been a great growth experience for me. Having the rhetorical tools explained and being aware of them helps me to be a better writer and turn out a better reading experience for anyone who picks up my paper. Knowing and being aware of the different rhetorical tools available to me help me focus on what it is I want my reader to feel and ways to express those thoughts and emotions to evoke the response to any essay, story or blog for that matter. Being able to brainstorm and get all the information I want to get down on paper and then organize it into a proper chronological process needed to reach my readers makes the task of writing an essay a lot easier and a more rewarding reading experience.

Blog 12A

Today I am supposed to tell you how to write an essay. First off when writing an essay it helps to know what your topic will be. Give it a title; we can change it later if it doesn’t fit. But it will give us something to think about while we move ahead. Every essay has a three main parts, your introduction, body and conclusion. Once you know what your topic or story will be about you want to get down as much as you know about the subject and put it all down on paper and just call it your body. Show it to a peer or classmate and have them preview it to get their input. You can come back to this and hammer it out into a fine point once we have something to work with. Once it is all down you want to pull out your Rhetorical tools and start the refining process. Using Rhetorical tool such as Visual gaze, Visual Rhetoric, Descriptors (Subjective and objective), Definition, Classification and Division we will hone our body of information. After the hard part is done we can write our Introduction and Conclusion. At this point we can go ahead and prepare our Thesis statement, what exactly it is that we want our reader to get out of our paper, and make sure our conclusion restates according to your Thesis statement. Have a tutor or someone versed in checking for grammar and content look over your paper. Correct any mistakes and turn that puppy in with the appropriate cover-sheet.

9A

In class we are learning about Classification and Division. Classification refers to a main point which can be broken into several smaller points. In writing this type of an essay you want to take the subject and break it into the smaller Classifications like introduction, point, definitions and the argument as well as a conclusion. After you have your Classifications you want to break it down into smaller Divisions and define any important information your audience needs to make a connection to the subject and help them see your point of view.  Using headings we can help the reader scan to the information they are looking for or need to reread and evaluate.

8B

For this blog, you will select 3 phrases from your New York Times article and create an extended definitions for each.

1. OnLive (free) and OnLive Plus ($5 a month) are both brilliantly executed steps forward into the long-promised world of “thin client” computing

"Thin Client" refers to a client machine (like your iPad) that relies on the server to perform the data processing.  The OnLive software is used to send keyboard and mouse input to the server and receive screen output in return. The thin client does not process any data; it processes only the user interface (UI). The benefits are improved maintenance and security due to central administration of the hardware and software in the datacenter.


2. That’s pretty impressive — but not as impressive as what’s going on behind the scenes. The PC that’s driving your iPad Windows experience is, in fact, a “farm” of computers at one of three data centers thousands of miles away.

A server farm or server cluster is a collection of computer servers usually maintained by an enterpisesuch as OnLive to accomplish server needs far beyond the capability of one machine.


3. That’s not a typo. And “1-gigabit Internet” means the fastest connection you’ve ever used in your life — on your iPad.


1-gigabit is roughly 125 megabits which is seriously faster then most home connections of around 15-20 megabits (cable speed with best optimal conditions). This is an incredible amount of speed for an iPad to have access to and witht he added processing power of the server farm it is great power.

Blog Week 8A-Definitions

Today we talked about the importance of definitions in reaching an audiance.  The main thing is with out the ability to define an unknown theory, term, object , person, place or thing you have to hope they know what you are talking about.  Being able to define what you are talking about and describe it to your audience is key in getting your message across.  Diffrent people can define the same thing in diffrent ways, due to thier life expieriances, because they see them in diffrent ways.  Being able to define your view helps the audience connect with you.  You can use the diffrent Rhetorical tools such as compare and contrast, or familial gazes as an example to help you define your view, topic or point.

In the article I have listed here as windows-7-on-the-ipad-in-blazing-speed , our subject is an emerging technology and where it may be headed in the future. The conversation that it is participating in is technological advances in the computer industry and cloud type computing and/or the increasing benifits of virtualization of the windows operating environment on a thin pad.

Week 7 Rhetorical Terms

We all have read a book. Sometimes for pleasure, sometimes it's forced upon us, most times we don't even realize we are reading. Words are everywhere as are images. So what? What does that mean to me? Well to me it means that my thoughts are being invaded by the written word or images every day and in most cases it is changing the way I think as I read.

Knowing the different Rhetorical tools we are learning in class helps me to catch the fact that I am thinking differently because of something I read or an image that I saw. They say "A picture is worth a thousand words" and I know that is true. So when I see a picture on an advertisement I have had a virtual novel thrown into my head. Moving pictures are even worse we can watch the flow of the pictures across the screen and watch them change, move, breath.

Some Rhetorical tools that we need to be aware of are Persuasive Theme, which we see a lot around election time, which is a way to persuade you to think something that evokes feelings of nationalism, tradition, and nostalgia. This way the writer can persuade you to think what he wants because of your feelings even though they may not be truly aligned with what is true to you.

Master Narrative is kind of like a Persuasive theme in that they are related to your story, your region or countries story. A turkey or an eagle means something completely different to us then they would to someone in say Pakistan. Although with our strong history with the eagle and the turkey other countries might just see them as an American thing if they know much about us.

We also must be aware of Content and Technical Signature which can help us recognize the place where the information is coming from and why the writer is putting the information out.

Last we cannot forget Audience Resonance and effects we want to know what kind of an impact the information we put out has on our target audience and if they have been reached or not. Was the investment made profitable in changing a thought or creating a desire for a product?

These are a few of the Rhetorical tools that we need to be aware of when reading or viewing images. Our minds are bombarded constantly with information and we need to be able to distinguish what is useful and what is not.