What I learned in the Lumen Waymaker was how to use multimodality efficiently by using the five modes of communication. I also learned how mode is a form of communicating and using it to become better at podcasts. The new thing I learned in this unit was when analyzing or producing media was to recognize how the artifacts affect the media.
I also learned the five modes of multimodality and how to use them in my writing and analyzing media. The visual mode helps bring in pictures into your work and it helps the reader understand what your topic is about. I also learned about how the gestural mode can help express your topic. The new thing I learned was how to use the linguistic mode to organize my words.
October 2020
10 Ways to Have a Better conversation
This Ted Talk about having 10 great ways to have a conversation is that to keep it short and straight to the point. The main thing I took away from this video is that having conversations don’t have to be long but long enough to cover the topic. Chelsea asked the audience first of anyone losing friends over politics or ended friendships over Facebook. Half of the audience have lost friends over social media because of something stupid like politics. This is why we need to know how to have better conversations by listening to what others have to say instead of going with your own opinion. Another way we can have better conversation is that we can show more attention to the person who is speaking. Showing our attention shows the person who is speaking more respect when having a conversation. Having conversations with your friends can be a great way to make good friendships.
Social Media Rhetorical Analysis
The ASPCA is an animal protection and rescue service for animals going through abuse and being homeless. The rhetor for this article is by the ASPCA and they are wanting us to take action to get the USDA to stop the speedy animal slaughter to make meat during Covid 19. This article uses emotional appeal to persuade us that animal abuse is wrong and needs to be stopped. The ASPCA’s intended audience is people in our country and farmers who are performing this bad behavior. The ASPCA wants us to use our voice to the farmers and the USDA about the rapid slaughter of farm animals. Farm animals do not deserve this false treatment from farmers and they don’t deserve to be treated horrible because Covid 19 is going around. The overall argument of this social media post from facebook is to get the people to stop animal slaughter and abuse to make meat. ASPCA wants us to prevent and make our food more humane to the animals, not just the people. The author claims his argument by using pathos when he says, “TAKE ACTION!!” “Help us ensure that the USDA stops high-speed slaughter and supports the continued growth of a more humane food system- instead of bailing out inhumane factory farms.” He also uses logos to backup his claim by stating “94% of Americans agree that animals raised for food deserve to live free from abuse and cruelty. Yet almost all of the nearly 10 billion animals raised for food annually in the U.S. live in unacceptable conditions on factory farms. The people in the U.S. want the animal cruelty to stop and they want more humane farming. The ASPCA’s diction is formal because they share percentages and state the facts about the americans not wanting farmers to preform animal cruelty. The sentence structure in the post and article are complete sentences with detail about their argument. The effect of this article is to persuade more people about farmers rapidly abusing these animals to get meat out into the market during Covid. The initial impact is persuading the people to get the farmers to stop the animal abuse and the deepest impact is the animals getting abused. Another deeper impact is that the people of ASPCA are very tired of seeing farmers rushing to get meat to the market. They also want to take care of the animals and raise money to get these farmers to stop being lazy and do their job correctly.
https://secure.aspca.org/action/usa-humane-farming?ms=so_fac_news-stop-factory-farms-20200429&initialms=so_fac_news-stop-factory-farms-20200429&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebook&utm_source=news-stop-factory-farms-20200429&fbclid=IwAR3toW6MYYKoFOPXd9ehUmUWh72w3jCiE57njYyeitW_Hk7JNTl9lUn4x20
Grant Davie Reading Journal
Reading Journal
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| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents. http://mjreiff.com/uploads/3/4/2/1/34215272/grant-davie.pdf |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | Grant Davie begins this article expressing a documentary of the civil war discussing a proper example of rhetorical analysis. Grant Davie also explains Blitzer’s 3 ways to do a rhetorical analysis by giving evidence, exigence, and discourse. Grant Davie expresses that the discourse appeals to the audience and gives detail about his claim. He also talks about an analogy of a little league umpire and connects it to how rhetors have roles to write a successful rhetorical analysis. Grant Davie defines constraints as the hardest rhetorical device to write analysis on. Grant Davie ends his article by stating his points in his discussion. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Rhetorical constraints is a new term because I have never heard of it used for a rhetorical analysis and it is the most difficult to define and to give a good detailed analysis. |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This article connects me to my journalism textbook because we discuss the topic of the audience and how the audience will read what you are writing. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. |