Blog Week 5A

There are quite a few rhetorical gazes, and each one is used to reach a certain audience. They help link some memory, idea, or even feeling by giving you an image related to that memory, idea, or feeling. One of the gazes is the familial gaze. These remind us of a moment that we share with a tight group of people. These people can range from family to friends, but always include people we know. Another one of the gazes is the national gaze, which isn't as intimate. This one is shared on a national level, such as 9/11. The next gaze is a global gaze, which can easily be inferred that it's shared on a global level. Then you have the consumer gaze, which is used to target a certain customer base. This is very present within stores, where bright colors on packaging is used. Or how the sugary things are more likely to be in the line of sight of children, and the healthier shelf items are usually placed higher up. Then there's the travel gaze. An example of this one is a picture of a smiling kid standing next to mickey mouse, which makes people want to take a trip to Disney Land. And finally there is the political gaze, which can be used to promote something or slander another. It's not likely that someone looking at a picture of President Obama wouldn't have the thought of Romney enter their mind.

Blog Week 4A

Cause and effect can be a valuable tool in order to reach an audience. It helps show not only how something happens, but analyses why something happens. It bridges related ideas in order to make them more comprehensible. It puts things in a chronological order, and allows the audience to easily follow along. It paints a background to the current event, rather than just jumping into it which can get rather confusing. It allows people to sometimes analyse characters reasoning and thought process based upon their actions and decisions. Also, by seeing how they have gotten to that point allows people to predict what will happen in the future based upon how you think the characters will react to the causes.

Blog Week 3B

Peer reviewing is a very important part of the writing process. One of the main reasons is that it gives you a chance to monitor other peoples reactions to your story. Its a chance to either get positive reinforement, or to get constructive criticism. The latter however only matters if your willing to listen to what people have to say, and to put what they say into action. Another important aspect is that its a fresh pair of eyes. When you proof read your own work, you tend to have a bias towards it. You want your paper to be flawless, and that tends to make the mistakes not stand out quite like they should. Bringing someone new in eliminates this problem. They will also be more likely to point out mistakes that you honestly thought were correct.

Blog Week 3A

        In Zambreno's article, she uses many rhetoric skills, and does so effectively. One thing that she did was to make the thesis statement very clear about what she would be discussing. She then put it in chronological order in order to give you a little history of Aurthurian literature. This too makes it fairly easy to follow along with what she is discussing. She also executes her transitions very smoothly. In one instance she simply stated that she would be moving on from past Aurthurian literature to present Aurthurian literature.
         Another significant thing she does is go into further detail about some possibly confusing parts. She even went as far as to describe words that she used such as piecemeal. This is very important when using words not very well known, or that have some sort of back story to them.

2A - Narratives

Understanding narratives is an important part of English. They allow people to logically go from one point to another in a reasonable order. Without this chronological fashion its hard to comprehend what it is being discussed through not only text but speech. It's important to teach students how to comprehend these things so that they are able to do it on their own. If they understand it better, then they'll also have a deeper understanding of what is being presented to them. This also makes it easier to produce their own work.
when they do start to take these skills to their own works, it will show on how they present their ideas based upon whose on the receiving end. If their going to be arguing for a point, it makes their argument much more convincing if they use information that is relative to the subject. Even if it's not for an argument, it helps develop more complex aspects of stories. This makes it easier to relate them to the readers life, and to interpret them in their own way. It thickens the plot, makes the characters more believable, the theme more relevant, and the setting more real.