Memory

Everyone has memories of things past. Some of these memories good some bad but they all shape our present and future. There are many definitions for the word memory but in this post I will focus on the one that defines memory as "a mental impression retained;a recollection" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/memories). When memories are fomed, a mental impression of the event is formed also. In my opinion, this mental impression is how the memory is remembered innitially but it can be changed as time goes on. For example, the memory of something bad happening is probably going to be associated with negative emotions at first but if looked at differently over time the mental impression can change to a positive one.

Memories often shape how we feel about certain events and even people. I believe this is kind of like a schema in psychology. Schemas are used to help us easily catagorize different things so that we don't have to waste time and energy thinking about experiences similar to those we have already experienced.

In conclusion, memories help us to remember past events and help us form mental impressions for the future.

Do things with STYLE.

Everyone has a unique style of doing something, whether it's the way you dance, look, drive, read or write. Style is an essential technique when writing rhetorically because it’s what sets you, the writer, apart from all the other authors. When you write with your own style it gives the reader a different way to interpret a text. If everyone wrote with the same style, reading and writing would be boring. Imagine if all the cars in the world had the same body style, it would be a very plain and boring to take a drive.

Style is what makes this world go around, everything around you has some kind of style in it. Being different or having a unique style keeps everything from being boring.

"Rhetorical Visions" defines style as the way you express your material and argument; therefore, style is about the form of your expression and ideas.

The definition for style from Dictionary.com is the components or features of a literary composition that have to do with the form of expression rather than the content of the thought expressed.
Dictionary.com

Invention

Invention-one of the five steps in speech preparation, the process of choosing ideas appropriate to the subject, audience, and occasion. http://www.dictionary.com

No matter what kind of paper you are writing you will always start with invention. Invention is a key role in the five-part process. Brainstorming, freewriting, or clustering are approaches you use after picking a topic to write about. This process is the essence of invention. For example, you are writing a paper about your favorite actor. You will first need to figure out the different facts you are going to talk about. You need to think to yourself, what could I say about this actor to invent my paper?

You can think of invention in many possible ways. Our english group presented invention as making an actual invention. We made a paper airplane. Yes, this isn't invention in the rhetorical sense, but you still go through the same process. You brainstorm first to figure out exactly what you would like to invent. Invention plays a huge part in your writing, even if you have never noticed it before.

Arrangement in different viewpoints.

Arrangement comes into our lives in many different ways. Think of it this way, when decorating a room in your house you have to have a sense of arrangement for where things are going to be place. (http://www.thearrangement.com/) Another way to think of it is the arrangment of your notes in a notebook or even the way streets are arranged in ways throughout a town. There's many other ways to look at it, than just through an English book, and in English terms.

In Retorical Visions it's stated that arrangement is, "text's structure or organization." Followed by an example of the arrangement of a map and how it is shaped and illustrated.

On Dictionary.com the definition given for arrangement is given as, "an act of arranging; state of being arranged. " (www.dictionary.com)

Any way you look at it arrangement has many different meanings but are all focused on the main definition of arranging some sort of matter.

Delivery in the English sense...

Delivery: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" (www.dictionary.com)

Delivery in speech is very important. It conveys feelings, meaning, and much more. If you were telling a very gruesome story you would deliver it differently than if you were telling someone a comical one. The words and tone that you use also help in delivery. Descriptive words are helpful and spice up sentences when needed. Tone, especially your tone of voice, makes a big difference in the delivery of what one is saying. Delivery is vital in all aspects of giving speeches or just talking in day to day conversations.

Even the way my group acted out the word "delivery" in class was a way of delivery. When delivering a pizza to someone you aren't going to be a jerk and just rip someone's money out of their hand. You're going to be polite and try to gain yourself a tip. Delivery plays a huge part in your life even if you don't noitce it.

Identification Important in Rhetoric

Hey, this is Tira and I'm posting about the concept of identification. In Friday's class, we were talking about Aristotle and his legacy for the Western world (insofar as far as rhetoric is concerned). We covered the five canons of rhetoric, but I only briefly mentioned "identification," not doing justice to its influence on our literacy.


First of all, as mentioned in out text Rhetorical Visions (page 18), identification is Kenneth Burke's concept. Burke was, what academics refer to as, a rhetorician (he lived from 1897-1993). He started writing in the 1930s, and he had two of his most influential works, A Grammar of Motives, and A Rhetoric of Motives, published in 1945 and 1950 respectively--although they were not well received then. (Information taken from Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg's The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present). Burke re-published A Rhetoric of Motives in 1969; a good description about Burkean identification is in the first three paragraphs of
Brooke L. Quigley's page from University of Memphis.


We take identification seriously in modern marketing. Note how easily most of us recognize, or think of, certain brands when confronted with certain symbols (though I think they mean "Mc D's" or "Mickey D's" at the bottom of the page). Also, check out one business tool (VALS) that shows advertisers how to appeal to different segments of the population; they can then target ads according to the traits people will identify with! I believe identification is an important rhetorical concept all around, especially because almost all communication involves the use of rhetoric.

I moved this up from a comment to a post for Bobby...

Well hello there, my name is Bobby Light. I am speaking for my group who include Mark Twain, the infamous Charlie Murphy, and Kicklor 14. We are going to be commenting on the short essay called "In Our Glory" by Bell Hooks. Overall the essay was the better of the 3, it was very detailed and thorough, while still including interesting characteristics of the father's picture. One explanatory line that i liked was when she stated "his dark skin mingling w/ the shadows in the photograph." Its cool how the author pickes up every and any aspect of her fathers picture and gives it a reason or meaning behind it. For example when she states "there is such boldness, such feirce openess in the way he faces the camera". Another question we had was why she choose to tell us that her sister is a lesbian? All in all this was a very intresting essay, and an intising read.

September 14, 2007 11:47 AM

best story EVER!

Throughout the paragraph Kingston showed us different ways to increase our writing skills. She showed many ways to describe things in great detail and make you feel as if you're there. An example of her ability to describe is, "On the other woman, strangers, I can recognize a curled lip, a sidelong glane, pinched shoulders." Kingston also uses a good use of quotes from the past. "I sailed alone," she says, "to the capital of the entire province." She took a brown leather suticase and a seabag stuffed with two quilts. In that quote she emphasizes with both descriptions and relating to that past. This author has shown us a good example of what should be in our essays.

My name is Wahwahweewoah, I am posting for FunkyFresh, Jasmine, and danahaseman. We aced the quiz but weren't smart enough to come up with a response to the essay assignment yet.

"Photograph of My Parents"

Hey, there everybody. I am Seth, and I am sitting in a computer lab with my class doing our first blog assignment. I am in a group with Gerbs, AsiA, & Candiekizzez77. We are writing a blog on a short story called "Photograph of My Parents" written by Maxine Hong Kingston. No one in my group has ever written or seen a blog before today.
Our story is about a girl looking at old photographs of her parents. The girl talks about her mom having a thumb print on her forehead in a few pictures. Her mother would never tell her the truth about why thumbprints were on her forehead. She also talked about her father. The author uses pathos to set an emotional tone for the story. The author also uses a very intelligent vocabulary that noone could understand. It was a decent story!

Thoughts about "Photographs of my Parents"

Hey this is Chloe writing for Lizzy, Kae Kae, and Blackie. This is our first blog. This is a new concept for all of us in an english class. We are excited to see how this works out. We decided to write about the essay "Photograph of my Parents" by Maxine Hong Kingston.
In general we all thought the essay gave great descripvited. We all thought that it was very opinionated. The author seems to have a strange distance from her parents. We also noticed that there was mispelled words on her mothers diploma. The author used ethos in a unique way that made her writing style stand out among the other essays. In reading this essay it really showed us that we need to show not tell when describing things.
Our final thoughts on the essay made us think about her father and how it was confusing what nationality he was because she described him completely opposite of how she decribed her chinese mother.

Welcome!

Hello... You've found your way to the class blog of a typical--but brilliant--first year English composition class in the Midwest. We are experimenting with the blogging genre and its implications in our writing progress. We have chosen to keep our identities secret, but you will be reading the words of authors from a diverse range of interests and backgrounds. Some of our posts will reflect on class assignments and/or material; others may be completely unrelated to school. Enjoy our posts and feel free to comment, remembering that we are real people.