Blog 6A

Visual rhetoric is commonly used by many sources. It is most commonly seen in advertisements to try to grab the attention of the audience. However visual rhetoric can be used as a very useful teaching technique. Many people have even learned that they are visual learners. This means that they cannot comprehend a concept fully without a picture or diagram. Many visual teaching aids have been created to enhance the learning of students such as Venn diagrams, line graphs, pie charts and the use of video clips have also been found to be useful.

Comparing and contrasting can be essentially useful in visual rhetoric when trying to fully analyze two pieces of work. When looking at the similarities and differences of two visuals, the viewer can analyze the color, the people, and the time of the picture more clearly as compared to when one visual stands alone. When the works are side by side it becomes a great tool to differentiate the main ideas and the creator’s message of the pieces. Comparing and contrasting is a great tool when evaluating pieces of work.

Rhetorical Gazes

Rhetorical gazes are a type of technique used by writers to convey different perspectives, feelings, or actions. This tool can be used to capture a specific audience and convince them to think or act a certain way. The writer can add art or short, easy to remember mottos within the gaze to aid in the persuasion of reaching the favor of a desired audience. Rhetorical gazes are located everywhere, even in places we would never expect. The goal of the gazes is to grab the attention of an audience, and for the audience to still remember the gaze even after the gaze is no longer in sight.

The different types of rhetorical gazes are political, familial, and travel. A political gaze is used by governmental agencies to gain support or patriotism, or rather, to reach an audience based on their nationality. Political gazes often are seen as propaganda.  A familial gaze is used to reach an audience on a sentimental level, often including pictures of families or children. A familial gaze is something personal and is often something that is familiar to the general population. Last, is the travel gaze which is based on the enticement from travel companies. Travel organizations often use visual aids to make the audience want to be in a different place, away from home, where they can create memories. These are the most commonly seen on billboards, bus stops, and advertisements everywhere.

This is an ad used by Delta Airlines to convince you to use their airlines when flying to Cape Town. The beautiful picture makes you want to be there and experience Cape Town.

Blog Week 4A, Cause and Effect

Cause and effect papers have many benefits. This type of paper uses an organizational pattern and the audience can easily recognize a sequential pattern that reveals the continuous, consecutive, and fluid movement of ideas. With cause and effect, one can distinguish what sparked a series of events that may lead to a culminating event. The cause and effect style is mostly seen in social studies text books since the author is presenting abstract concepts, facts, and generalizations. With this style, a writer can reach an audience by explaining the background of the cause following with thorough information on the events, or the effect, that was the result of the cause. By doing this, the writer is helping the reader comprehend the events and hopefully grasp the meaning behind the paper.

The writer can better analyze a cause and effect paper by using the Question Network. This learning tool helps the readers understand the text structure. The Q Network consists of two stages: guessing the identity of the major events in a textbook and asking scaffolded questions to determine the relationship between the main event and the prior or contribution events. If one does not ask questions to find the answers, then how can a reader hope to truly understand the meaning? Some questions are what is the author saying and what words are being repeated within the passage? With questioning, the writer can better analyze a cause and effect paper if the paper is written in a clean and concise manner.

Blog 3B

Peer editing is very important because it allows for the writer to see how his message will be perceived by the audience. Also, peer editing is important because others can see mistakes that may have been made. This tool can help the author see when things are confusing for the reader or see how things may be interpreted.

                Peer editing, or review, is a great tool to use when the author is planning on publishing the work or turning it in to a boss. Peer review can be essential to all papers and should be required, or used, for all people when writing.  

Blog 3a

Mary Frances Zambreno is discussing how some stories never seem to fade away with each generation that passes. She explores some reason as to why this is using straightforward, simple language to get her audience to fully comprehend her theory. Zambreno points out tools that have been used in Arthurian literature that could be the indicator for why this particular story of King Arthur, and many of the like, has lasted for many years.  Some tools are the following: mutability or plasticity, piecemeal, windows of opportunity, and open-ended closure.

          Mutability or plasticity is defines as the quality of being capable of change or reshaping, this quality is at the control of the author. This is seen in the Arthurian literature when every generation, culture, or individual taste has reshaped or changed from the original story into something more relatable for the era. The second tool is a piecemeal, which is characterized by unsystematic partial measures taken over a period of time; can be seen as short scenes or tales within the stories. Zambreno uses the example of the romance involved in Arthurian stories. Another tool would be “windows of opportunity.” The dictionary defines this as short time frame during which an opportunity must be grasped or lost. Zambreno defines this as new perspectives perceived by the audience from the original version. It gives the chance to fill in their created information for the story, even though it may not be true. Lastly, the open-ended closure tool is used. This tool can be seen when the author tells the audience there is more information and stories out in the world, but the audience must go find this information on their own time. These are the tools that Zambreno says can contribute to the success of many stories, especially the involvement of romance within the stories. Even though romance can always keep interest in a story, audiences find that these narratives produce and compress questions that related to both the 12^th century and modern world.

Blog 2B Engl. 1010

Blog 2B- Engl. 1010

All narrative stories usually follow a specific guideline. This guideline can help students receive a better understanding of the story, especially if it may be complex. Narratives normally follow story grammars. Story grammars include a hierarchy. The setting, theme, plot, characters, and resolution are located near the top since they are the general information for the story. Near the bottom, the specific details are located such as: subgoal, outcome, and theme. Setting is where the story takes place, generally changes with every scene. Characters are the people involved in the story. Characters can be compared to each other or can set up the purpose, or theme. Plot is the series of events that create the story. This element can be further divided into episodes that help the story flow from one end to the other. Conflict is the fight against two opposing forces, could be character or ideas. Climax is the peak of emotion. The story usually leads to this moment. Resolution is where the conflict is resolved. A catharsis can take place here. These elements come together to create a specific purpose that the author is trying to communicate to the audience. It is important to follow a structure so the readers will be able to fully comprehend the text. Stories can include flashbacks or quick looks into the future, but it is important that the author makes this clear for the reader to follow. The author can make this clear by the changing of tenses, or perhaps warning the reader in advance. The author uses narrative elements (setting, characters, theme, thesis, etc.) to set up the tone and mood. Tone and mood also aids the author in getting the purpose of writing across.

            The narrative would not be complete without a complete understanding and use of the communication triangle. Narratives are a type of rhetoric that contains a rhetor, the text, and an audience. These three must exist for the communication process to be complete. The author must consider what image is trying to be portrayed by the audience, this can be determined by the culture of which the author comes from.  Understanding this communication triangle can be beneficial for the author when trying to get a message across to the audience.