Tuesday, September 6, 2011

The coolest blog to EVER exist

To begin the "coolest blog that ever existed", i must confess...this probably isn't going to be the coolest blog that ever existed...probably not even in the top 1,000,000. I just gave it that title to get people interested and to get people to read it, so since you're already reading it, you might as well just keep reading it. Well anyway, what this blog is really about is what i've learned so far in composition 12. So far, there's been a lot of writing and journal entries and searching the web and stuff like that. The writing has been alot, but it hasn't been anything over-bearing or anything like that and they've mostly been about things that are semi-easy to write about. What we've learned about as far as terms and such have been rhetorical analysis, rhetorical situation, good writing, and focused freewrites. The rhetorical situation, by definition, refers to any set of circumstances that involves at least one person using some sort of communication to modify the perspective of at least one other person, according to owl.english.purdue. edu. A rhetorical analysis is when you study a piece of writing, song lyrics, or even just a flyer advertising something and you write down things such as what is the general tone of this writing, who is the audience meant to be, what is the overall main point, and so forth. For good writing, we had to make a checklist for what we think makes something a good piece of writing. We all had different things like no run-on sentences, ideas must make sense, use transitional  words, use a good vocabulary, and brainstorm brainstorm brainstorm!! Lastly, we learned of focused freewrites. By definition, a focused freewrite is basically a chunk of writing that a writer composes in a certain period of time, without the pencil leaving the paper, writing on a certain topic, and writing anything and everything that comes to your mind concerning that topic.

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