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About the Author Toma' Blue

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Toma' Blue

 

To start this off, first I would like to say that I love to write. I am an artist which requires me to to write songs. I also write my own stories and poetry from time to time.   


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The reason for studying writing could be different for each individual. The reason why I would study writing is because I enjoy writing. I feel like I can get everything out in a more peaceful way when I write. Writing can also open up new doors for me as a young writer. Internships and better opporutunities as far as a writing career could arrive too! I feel like when you write you become a better reader and you sometimes have an easier way of understanding how to format your writing.

 

My previous experiences with writing in college was in my Intro to Biology Lecture. I was given an assigment that required me to write a paragraph on DNA from my own perspective. I broke this topic down into many sections in order to give my audience a nice and basic view on DNA, which helped them understand the topic better. I started with a simple definition, I identified the structure and the functions of DNA.

I feel like I am well prepared for college level reading mainly because I enjoy reading. I like to learn anout new practices, policies, history and the world all together. Although there are some reading topics that will be challenging, I am willing to take on those challenging topics.

I trully hope to get better in my writting skills and research skills from this class and thats because I feel that I will need these skills in the near future. Thats all Im really looking forward to while being in English 1020. Sometimes my writing is weak especially for my conclusion. I want to learn how to make a stronger approach for my reasearch papers, which I think will enable me to look for better reasearch in order to make my paper come off stronger. I will be declaring my major soon and it will be in Journalism and Theatre. These are the things I enjoy and I feel like it will be a great neccessity to have if I excell to a higher level in my writing.

 

 

As a college writer I now tend to bring up topics that affect alot of people including myself. I try to reach out to my audience and let them know that somebody understands and that they are not alone. I write for a purpose and a reason I want my audience to have an open mind and not just know about the things that they are use to. How will I appraoch writing in the future? I will focus on what matters the most, my audience, make interesting points and update people on the things that they are unfamiliar of. 

 

 

 

 


 

Responses should be no less than one page double spaced.  The following are all related response prompts that can help you generate more material for project 6, part II.).  You don't have to answer all of them.

 

  1. Develop a claim about "information" "rhetoric" and the living braindead:  After reading Saunders and Sheffield, write a response that considers your personal relationships/experiences with "the Braindead Megaphone".  Your inital purpose is to consider yourself as someone who is an increasingly savy reader of "texts" on the web, someone who is learning to see the "good and bad" of concepts and traditions like "rhetoric" or "argument" or "analysis" and who is able to contrast these to "not dealing with reality" or to "the braindead microphone". Use this topic as a starting point for building your ethos in a world that is saturated and coded with persuasive forms of "information". 
  2. You can also broaden your self-reflection by asking some of the bigger questions that have come up this term:  How important is "good" rhetoric in the practical day-to-day work of building knowledge we can use to build an ethical, equitable, and just society? How entangled are truth and rhetoric?  When is this troublesome?  And, just as importantly, if they're almost always entangled, when or how can this be a positive thing? 
  3. You could compare this response to your initial thoughts on rhetoric in your first few responses.  Howe have they changed?  What significance to you see in rhetoric shaping our lives?  How important is it to be able to see rhetoric in action? Or, to use it yourself?
  4. In Saunders' article, his concern is that "the braindead microphone" (or media rhetoric) has negative tendencies to take us toward bad decisions, particularly war.  Since this was published in 2003, a fairly dark time leading up to war, comment on what positive potential you see in the rhetoric of popular media (or new media) by comparison, and note you or your friends' relationships to this more positive rhetoric. 
  5. Compare the rhetoric of popular culture to your new experiences with the rhetorics of academia...

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