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.

Compare and Contrast

Today in class we talked about compare and contrast in writing.  There are two types of writing styles you can use for compare and contrast. Side by Side and Point by Point are these two styles. 

In the Side by Side style we tell the whole story about each subject fleshing it out, expressing every detail of our subjects and then we summarize the diffrences in our conclusion.  When using this style it is easier to focus on the big picture of both sides and then pick out the varying simalarities or diffrences in the conclusion.  With the Point by Point style we break down each subject and show each simalarity or diffrence side by side and then summerize again at our conclusion.  This style works best when doing a rebuttal to something like a list of campaign promises that were made by a elected candidate.

We can use compare and contrast to help tell a story. For an example we can say a person who lost all his inventory because it was all in one truck and the truck was totalled by a hit and run driver is simalar to the proverb of keeping all your eggs in one basket, or you can make a contrast of someones bright chhery new room being much diffrent then the dark basement that they used to live in.  We use compare and contrast in alot of everyday speach that we may not even think about.  "That guy is as dumb as a bunch of rocks."(Compare)  "That guy is NOT the sharpest tool in the shed" (Contrast).  Compare and contrast is a very important part of writing to help explain things that could be confusing to someone not familiar with the subject matter.

Visual Rhetoric

Visual Rhetoric helps a writer tell his story by using a picture which the reader can see and see the obvious in the picture or the objective view then we have the subjective view that the author can use to give the reader more information about the things that are not readily seen but the author wants us to know.  In visual Rhetoric there are several ways to describe our picture and relate to the reader. We use pathos to pull at their emotion, logos to connect with a persons logic, and ethos to describe the character.  In this picture we are using a national gaze, this pulls at the readers sense of patriotism with things we associate with our country.  There are several types of gazes, Familial Gazes, Consumer Gazes, National Gazes, Traveling Gazes, and Cultural Gazes.