Blog 2

My strengths, my weaknesses... I don't even know where to begin. I enjoy writing prose, things that seem poetic but they're my thoughts uncensored. When I think of my weaknesses, I can't really come up with anything that would make sense. Well, actually, I tend to ramble and lose sight of what I have to accomplish, so really it doesn't make sense.  It takes me a while to think of an essay as one big piece. See, I enjoy writing introductions for the most part and I tend to have one or two thoughts that I HAVE to put in my essay but after that, the essay falls. 

My strengths would include my passion for writing a novel-like paper. I like to write something that can possibly have an emotional appeal on people. My actual writing strengths are few. I have yet to find an actual one.

The essay we wrote in class during the first week of class seemed easy for me. In the end I need something to tie it all together. If I had more time, I don't think it would change anything. I'm missing the mindset or maybe it's the will or more passion as a writer. I think when it's an assignment given to me I can't find ways to explain myself in fear that I won't provide the necessary details to get the grade. If I would have taken it home I probably would have stared at a blank paper wondering how I could explain everything. I bet it would have been better though.

Rhetoric and genre

From the reading at the beginning of the book I was expecting to read about something long and boring but I learned interesting things. In high school composition English class I learned about the use of rhetorical questions as a strategy but in essay writing I don't think I have properly mastered the art. After read the example and explanation I thought about rhetorical questions as an art. The article in Time magazine was interesting. It was a fun read. Instead of writing lots of figures the author found a way to ask a question that the reader would give A short unmeaningful response to. Later he explained the information. I would like to do that in my essays instead of boring the reader with a lot of straight forward boring information.




The next reading was on genre. My first impression was fantasy, and nonfiction because I thought of book genres. After reading about genres as in letters, reports, poems etc. I never thought that webpages were considered as genre. I never took presentation much into consideration. I realized that presentation can have more affect that it leads on. I was a good choice for the writer to give examples on how presentation has an affect on the reader. Also, I haven’t thought about the impact an audience has. The example in the reading was a mother’s reminder note. Since it’s a common thing, I expected it to have short phrases but I have never really thought about how much its intended audience gets out of it. If it was a note that I found on the street I would be left with a lot of questions. I never really thought about it that way.



There were things that I knew in the reading but not the depth of the stuff mentioned. It was less boring that I thought it would be.

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