Blog 10: Design

Design is in the way you represent yourself. How do you plan to design your portfolio? Discuss the particular font styles, colors, images you plan to use and how they function as rhetoric.

Blog 9: Wild Card

As you work on developing your portfolio, you should think about other writing styles you may want to include from different genres. Write about what you would include that we didn't cover in this class or you can write about what journals or in-class writings you are selecting to fold into your portfolio. 

Blog 8: Intepretation

At this point, you have been engaged in interpretation as a rhetorical device. In other words, you have been finding and making meaning with words and visuals. You should have noticed that you have not been able to solely rely on the author's intention; your experiences that you bring to a text alter the meaning. 

Now, you are starting to look towards your portfolio.  I am interested in how you find and make meaning among your compositions this term.  You might think one particular composition represents this term, but you should attempt to read across assignments.

Blog 7: Context

If you have learned anything about rhetoric and composition, you should have learned that context is a key principle.  Take a moment to write about your process for developing contextual information for your third project. Which scenario was easier to write about and why? How might you find yourself providing contextual information for other writing projects outside of this class?

Blog 6: Genre

As we have discussed in class, genres are different classifications (rock, country, poetry, fiction, etc.)and are governed by different guidelines or "conventions" (style, beat, rhythm, verse, etc.) that let's us know what is acceptable and what is not.  We also discussed how permeable these conventions are; in other words, conventions overlap. 

Genres respond to--and establish--audience expectations. In fact, it can be argued that these shared expectations are what turns a text into a genre.

What genres have you written in for your third composition? What conventions did you have to follow? What is your favorite genre that you have written in over the course of the semester and why?

Blog 5: The Role of Audience

You were assigned Toby Fulwiler's "The Role of Audience" (OW 180) for homework. How can you apply his tips on shifting from one audience's expectations to another? How do these shifts impact your genres?