In George H. Williams’s rhetorical appeal, he discusses a quick understanding of ethos, pathos and logos and how it is used to persuade the audience you are writing for. Ethos is the first topic, stating that it is used for the audience’s perception of credibility or authority such as if the writer has a clear understanding of their topic and if they are explaining what they are talking about clearly. From this perspective their are two types of ethos, extrinsic which is the outside view and intrinsic which is the inside view.
Pathos is more use of a common sense of what the writer is trying to say. The writer tries to get a response with some kind of emoition, self-interest or identity from the audience. The overall sense of the paper the writer is trying to get across to the audience.
William does not discuss logos very much because he states how he will go more into detail with it in his class, but using logic is the main key of logos. It shows reasonableness of the paper and convinces the audience based on the thesis what the main point of the paper is.
I really enjoy William’s last statement of tying the 3 appeals together, “As your doctor, I have to tell you that if you don’t stop smoking, you’re going to die.” I feel this statement is strict and to the point of putting all of the three appeals together for a better understanding for a thesis statement in a paper.
Ethos is a perspective used to describe an audience’s view of the writer’s credibility or authority. It explains the topic in which the writer is discusses clearly and to an understanding for the audience. It shows that the writer knows what he or she is talking about and that the statements made are factual. The two types of ethos are extrinsic which is the outside view and intrinsic which is the inside view. It is base on the knowledge you know about your topic because of personal experience.
the link I have just posted, shows a little girl being happy and all of a sudden she comes around a cigarette and starts coughing. She knows that smoking can cause death. She shows the man that lights the cigarette that he is going to die from smoking.
“I was always falling down; my Indian name was Junior Falls Down. Sometimes it was Bloody Nose or Steal-His-Lunch. Once, it was Cries-Like-a-White-Boy, even though none of us had seen a white boy cry.”
The wrote is from the article of Indian Education, from Sherman. He has a personal view of how Indians were being treated. He has a personal experience of being in this kind of situation and sets an example of what happened to him because he was Indian.
Based on the readings, a literacy narrative should be descriptive and about something you are interested in. Something that tells a personal story about you in interesting detail sort of manner. A past event that not many people know about and what shaped you to become the person you are today. An experience you have had. A story line of events. Specific events that lead up to an event that has happened. An outcome of learning.
Bakhtin’s quote says, “Language, for the individual consciousness, is on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else’s.”
In general, for literacy deveolpment i think this means, is how we present our ideas to the readers that we want to focus on reading it. Many things that are written come from different emotions one is having at the time. When writing, we use language, that tells who we are in general and who we are in that moment of writing. This connects to my own writing in literacy development because I will be writing about personal events in my life or people that are important to me and how they impacted my life and in what ways. It will be a good and easy assignment for me because it is just like free writing, like putting my ideas on paper and flowing with great details about it.
In the article of “writing an autobiography,” it talks about how narratives are rhetorical meaning it tells readers the truth about life and experiences. I choose 5 topics for our new assignment which I feel very strong about and will be very difficult to choose from. From my topics of friends, schools, family, music and soccer my ideal reader would be, since I am in a class, my instructor and or some class mates. According to this article, it would mainly be my small writing groups because they would help me development my writing with their opinions of my work. We all have the same kind of experience such as, taking english courses in high school and college since it was a mandatory requirement for all students. However, each of us as individuals have learned our concepts differently and can help each other out in any way that we can with comments on our writing and our ways of thinking our writing. Already I have learned a lot in our small groups in class with our first assignment of a visual narrative. I think it is good hearing other people’s opinions about a piece of writing you have done, especially someone who is more of a stranger to you because they will give you more honesty versus a friend who gives you advice about a piece of writing.
The five topics I have been thinking about for my literacy narrative paper are:
1.) My friends: I think writing about my friends would be good to talk about since I have been through so many different times in my life where I have many groups of friends, such as, my different jobs-co-workers as friends and what I have learned from them. I also have friends from when my parents used to hang out with their parents. I have friends from my middle school and a different set of friends from my high school. Different club groups I have joined, I have different friends from then. And finally my college friends, the people who I kept in touch with and the people who I just met that I know will keep in touch for a long time.
2.) Schools: I think schools would be a very good choice for me because I have been in many different environments. I grew up in a smaller elementary school. After that, I attended a middle school for 7th and 8th grade which had many different people from many different communities attend. Then I attended an all girls catholic high school which was very different from what I was used to. Then there is Bowling Green State University for college and the comparision to other colleges I have looked at and the other colleges my friends attend to. I think a lot could be said about this topic.
3.) Family: My family is what brought me here today. I would probably end up going no where without them. They have inspired me to be the person I am today. They have inspired me to go to college when they did not even go to college themselves. They have been so supportive with school work, how I changed my major many times and how frustrated I get sometimes with school, no matter what they are always there for me to listen and help out in any way that they can.
4.) Music: I think music tells a lot about a person. A lot of people can tell what kind of personalities someone has with the type of music they listen to. I think it would have a lot of creative ideas to tell a story of events in someone’s life.
5.) Soccer: Soccer has really impacted my life. I played for 8 years all the way up until I attended high school. With switching the type of school I was going to attend for high school, there was no way I could continue playing soccer with trying to maintain good grades at the high school I was going to attend to. There are many positives however many negatives to my decision of quitting soccer which tells a lot about the person I am today.
A narrative is an individual who expresses ideas of their own. It tells ways of thinking in reading or writing. It is usually a piece of work that tells someone’s own experiences. I think an example of a narrative I did was in my theatre and film class in college, where I had to write about myself. I had to write about some kind of experience I had in high school and how it reflected me or how I learned from it. I think you can find narrative examples all the time daily in the BG newspaper. This is just my idea of how to kind of explain what a narrative is.
When in our groups today, we discussed what each of us are going to do to present our visual narratives. I had a couple of ideas I was thinking about doing. One of my ideas was to present images of things I used growing up learning literacies. I was going to have slide after slide of pictures of movies, books, games, music, and so on. When telling my group this, they understood what I was telling them, but I realized when I was explaining what I was thinking about doing outloud, it was more confusing then I was actually thinking. Therefore, I thought about changing my idea to a day on campus. I was thinking about walking around on campus sometime this weekend and take pictures of what I do on a daily basis. I would start maybe by taking pictures of me waking up with my alarm on my cell phone, then getting on my laptop checking my e-mail, then driving to campus maybe taking pictures of signs such as a STOP sign, then taking a picture of in a classroom with writing on a chalkboard and me sitting in a desk taking notes, then a picture of me at work helping customers, just something along this route. When telling my group this new idea I was having, then agreed that it would be a lot better to do and it was easier for me to explain to them so I would be more comfortable with the project and it would not be as hard to do. My ideas may change if I think about it more this weekend. It was easy to talk to my group since we are all doing powerpoints and no one in my group (3/4 of us who were in class today) was doing a video, so it was easier to talk more about ideas to do and help each other out more.
Recently when working on ideas for my visual narrative, I have thought about trying to do a little story that kind of ties together in a way. I am for sure doing a power point presentation. I have thought about ways as I was growing up, how I learned about visual narratives. I was thinking about maybe doing for my first slide pictures of letters and numbers, for my next slide doing something with pictures of books, next slide doing a picture of school, then movies, then cell phones, then lap tops and so on. In some sort of way a little story that ties together that shows each step of form of reading and writing I learned when I was growing up.
If I were not to go this route, I would probably just do something with a bunch of pictures of my every day life of how I use visual narratives.
What did they mean by the “commonsense” beliefs about memory? Why is commonsense in quotations in the Memory article?
In the old and new media article, it states that having sensory odors in your work can inject emotional tone without telling readers how to feel, but then there is a bullet point of write stories about memories of eating each food. If a writer was to write stories about memories of eating each food, wouldn’t he or she be technically telling the readers how to feel when eating those foods?
What makes a good visual narrative based on examples we have discussed and viewed in class would be the concepts of reading and writing and how we learn our understanding of literacy. In groups we talked about what literacy is about and different ways we could define our own definition of literacy. I think that visual narrative has a lot to do with this such as the video clips and powerpoint examples we saw in class.
What makes a bad visual narrative would be one thing we pointed out was not citing where we got our pictures and sources in the end of our presentation. Brittany made many comments about the examples we saw in class the particular ones who had cited their sources and who didn’t. Also it is based on how creative the person gets with what visual narrative actually represents. It is better to show visual narratives by not using detailed words. It avoids typos by briefly typing words than using detailed words. In one example we saw, it had a bunch of writing that did not make sense and was not in order and made it confusing to follow. It is better to show more pitcures and action describing the pictures than using words or sentences that you actually have to read when viewing the presentation.