Blog Week 8A

When reaching an audience it is important to use some patterns of Definitions. The reason why we use definitions in order to reach an audience is to get the audience on track. When we use definitions we have to make sure that we are using the definitions in context to what we want to say. We use definitions to tell what something means, show how something works, make what we want to define more clearly, and what its essential nature is. Definitions can be textual and individual; therefore, we have to make sure that we define the words to what we want them to mean.   

Definitions can be used in many different ways with different context. Exemplification is when we use examples to show behaviorism. Through description we show what we are talking about in images, ads, verbally, graphs and charts, any visuals that help us explain what it is that we want our audience to understand. Compare and contrast is when we tell our audience what is the same and what is different. The process is explaining to the audience how something is done or created, in order to understand what is there. Classification and division shows the authority of something.

In reaching an audience it is important to use some of these patterns because in doing so, it will bring the audience closer to the author. Slang is now used all over the world, so when reaching an audience it is important to use these patterns in some form to get the audience to understand what the author is trying to say.

Blog Week 7A

There are many different types of specific rhetorical tools that are important in the writing process. When a writer uses these specific important rhetorical tools in the writing process, their writings become clearer and they can make a connection with their reader. A writer can get that connection with their reader when using different types of rhetorical tools; such as the visual rhetoric tool or the descriptive tool or when using the Compare and contrast rhetoric tool.  There are many more tools that a writer can use to make their paper more understandable by a mass group, but I believe that these are the most important in the writing process.

When using the visual rhetoric tool there are powerful tools that can be used. These tools are very influential throughout the paper and should be the ones that a reader relates to the most. The most powerful tools when using the visual rhetoric tools are Narratives, propaganda, and ideologies. Narratives are used when telling a story. Everyone likes to tell a story and has a story to be told. When we tell our stories to others we are using visual rhetoric tools. Another tool is the Propaganda tool. Propagandas are used when trying to persuade the reader or audience to think a certain way. The one place that we see this a lot is the television. Commercials are famous for using this visual rhetoric tool. The last powerful tool in the visual rhetoric is Ideologies; Ideologies are a set of options or beliefs of a group or of an individual. An example of an Ideology would socialism. There are many other tools that we can use when using the visual rhetoric tool such as subjective, what you know about something, or objective, what you can see.

There are many other tools that one can use to enhance their paper. For instance one can use the descriptive rhetorical tool. The descriptive rhetorical tool is used to describe something. Or we can use the Compare and Contrast tool. When we compare something we see what makes two things the same. When we contrast, we see what makes two things different. We can compare and contrast using side by side, which is also subject by subject, or point by point. When using side by side we see the first thing as a whole and then we see the next, as a whole and then we make our decision. When we compare and contrast using point by point, we look at both arguments and look at them point by point, as we do this we see what they have the same or what they have different. All of these elements are what makes a good paper.

Blog Week 6A

Compare and contrast is the way we make sense of our everyday world. When comparing and contrasting, we have to be careful that the things that we are comparing and contrasting make sense; we cannot compare and contrast a tree with a person.  We have to have bases for comparison. We use compare when we find all of the similarities between two things; we also find all of the differences using contrast. And then when we are done comparing and contrasting, we make a choice/decision. We are more prone to choose the one that fits us better, or the one that that we find more idealistic. An example of this would be comparing and contrasting a vehicle. If we have a big family, then obviously, we are not going to buy a sports car. So we compare and contrast vehicles and then make a choice of which one is the best one for our situation.

When we compare and contrast we can also use analogies. Analogies are when we use information that we have on a particular subject and use it on another subject.  That is, when we know information about one subject and we use that information to help describe another subject. Analogies also refer to the relationship between the source, the thing that we know about, and the target (another subject). An example of an analogy would be if a teacher would tell their class to be as “Quiet as a mouse.”  We are simply implying that the mouse is quiet; therefore we must be quiet like that too. Comparing and contrasting make everything more interesting. I believe that by comparing and contrasting it adds life to what did not have life before.

Blog Week 5A

The three rhetorical gazes that are used in writing are the: Familial gaze, National gaze, and the Consumer gaze. The familial gaze reminds us that we are part of a small and immediate group. An example of this is belonging to a circle of friends or just being part of a family. The next type of gaze is the National gaze. The national gaze reminds us, when we see the logo that we belong to a greater group; for instance when we see a football team logo on another fans car, we are reminded that we are not that particular teams only fan. The last gaze in writing is the consumer gaze. The consumer gaze reminds us to buy certain things, or tells/shows us what we would like to buy. An example of this is commercials and magazines. Commercials and magazines often remind us of the things that we would like to buy. They want us to be interested in the product, so that we can buy it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The picture that you see is an example of the consumer gaze.  It is the Coca-Cola ad and it is telling the consumer that when you drink this product you are more colorful. The little pictures inside the big heart are also saying that when you drink this product, you will have a greater life and you can do more things.