Please post your two questions and one response to your peers' questions about chapter 2 of the Bedford Book of Genres by commenting on this post!
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Questions should be posted by 10PM the night before class, and comments should be no less than 150 words and finished by the time we meet in class.
Monica Lamie:
ReplyDelete1) How does an author uses Ethos, logos, and Pathos in order to connect his/her story with others ?
2) What is an example of an author who uses a certain style to appeal to his/her audience? What is the style and how is it communicated ?
An author might use ethos, logos and pathos in order to connect his story with the audience in a number of ways. Ethos, the extend to how credible the author is when telling a story holds a lot of importance when writing. Depending on the genre, it is crucial the reader knows that the information that the author is giving them is true. For example when writing a nonfiction book about NASA and traveling into space, the reader needs to know that what he is reading is true and not just made up. Logos, or the logic the writer uses when telling a story is also important as well. A fiction book can be written out of order (of the events that took place) as long as it is clear of when the author is switching between the different times. Lastly pathos, the appeal to the readers emotion is very important when writing because it is a way for the author to get his reader to relate to him just by reading a piece of work. If the author writes a sad story about his dog dying, chances are the reader will be intrigued and enjoy the story more than if it showed no emotion when the dog dies a fatal death.
Delete1). Why is it so important to consider style, design and sources when writing a paper?
ReplyDelete2). How might rhetorical devices be used differently when writing either a literacy narrative, memoir, graphic memoir and a photo essay?
It is so important to consider style, design and source while writing a paper because it helped create the paper as a whole. Style is used to help create different voices for the paper and include many different type of details. Many writers have a certain type of writing style that they are use to depending on what type of paper they may be writing or what the subject of the paper is. Design is used to help format the story being written. Design also help the readers experience what the author wrote; for example, an obituary shows a picture of the person being written about and normally tells all the wonderful things about that person’s life and talents. That helps the readers feel for the family and the person who passed. Lastly sources help to make the words on the paper creditable. Depending on the paper or writing, an author goes off of his or her own life experiences. A persons experience can be used as the source if it is a personal essay or writing but for research papers, sources help the readers understand that there has been many studies conducted on this subject. The three together help tie the whole paper together.
Delete1) For what purpose might an author use outside sources in their writings?
ReplyDelete2) How does the design of a genre affect the expectations of the readers?
Authors want to establish credibility with their audience so therefore by using outside sources helps them relate their writing to other worldly topics that people may have a better understanding of. For example say I'm talking about animal extinction worldwide. It would probably be helpful to my readers for me to find facts in books on animals in different countries around the world. By including these facts in my writing this makes my explanation seem more credible. If a genre is for example a horror story you are not going to have little kids reading it. It would be more for an adult audience that could handle the scary vivid images. Depending on how the author writes on a certain genre will affect the expectations of the readers. Also people tend to have preferences on the certain styles of genres they like to read/view.
Delete1. What genre conventions matter?
ReplyDelete2. How are rhetorical appeals used in or to tell stories?
2) When telling a story, an author would first use the rhetorical appeal ethos to establish his credibility. For any story to have a significant impact on its reader, the reader must first find the author both credible and trustworthy. In non-fiction pieces of writing, your audience will trust that you are telling the truth, and that the facts you provide are indeed facts. In fictional pieces, however, the audience trusts the author to captivate their attention and communicate a story worth telling. The use of the rhetorical appeal pathos is important, for it serves the main purpose of captivating the audience’s attention, and playing to their emotions. In using pathos, the story is more deeply felt by the audience, and has a much greater impact than a story without.
DeleteGenre conventions that matter includes: style, design, and sources. These are important elements of writings because they shape the identity of each genre and affect the readers relationship with the paper. Style is unique to each author and serves to convey a story in a specific manner. A writer might include a lot of details in their story because they want their readers to be heavily informed. The author may also write in first person and directly address the audience because they want to form a close relationship with the readers and maybe try to persuade the audience to sympathize or identify with them. Design is used to convey specific intents of the author. Font style and size, pictures, and videos are used to enhance the experience of the readers. Some font is made larger to draw the audiences attention to that specific writing because the author views it to be more important. Images are used so that the audience can experience something that the author has written about instead of only visualizing it through descriptions in writing. Sources can be used to draw more information into a paper and make it more credible.
Delete1. How do stories resonate to readers?
ReplyDelete2. What do people use to write narratives?
There are many different types of narratives. A large majority of them are based off of a real experience that the author has experienced. These experiences can morph into made up fantasies that would never happen, such as the Hunger Games. Others will just write about the experiences they have dealt with and those become non-fiction stories. Other authors can just write a narrative without having any experience in the matter at all. People who write science fiction or mystery narratives, typically have no experience in being a space explorer or a detective trying to solve a case. There is no one single way that all narratives are based off of, I just gave examples of the most common ones.
Delete1. Do you think that changing the mode or media in how a story is presented can change the way it is perceived by an audience?
ReplyDelete2. What is the most efficient way to get people to read stories?
I think the most effective way to get people to read stories is to write about something that they are interested in. It also helps to keep the stories interesting and write something that draws the reader in and really makes them want to continue to read on. If a story is boring, or doesn't appeal to them, they won't read it. Stories have to be interesting and be able to reach multiple audiences. The latter is usually harder to achieve. It's hard to get someone to read your story about butterflies, if the reader is terrified of bugs. I think the best way to get people to read your stories is to make them as intriguing as possible and make people want to continue on.
Delete1. How do you decide what the purpose of your writing is if you want to achieve multiple things through your writing?
ReplyDelete2. How can you keep a reader interested in your writing if the story is really long?
1)The purpose/purposes of many genres are intertwined and connected. You don't necessarily need to have a specific "purpose" in mind to have a focused composition. You can have multiple purposes and still use one genre or you can have one purpose and use many genres. For an example, if you are creating a historical documentary, your purpose might be to educate a certain group of people of a certain event/ idea, your purpose might just be entertainment, your purpose might be to showcase a specific "side" of the story. Your purpose will affect your style,design and rhetorical appeals but it might not necessarily affect your choice of genre.
Delete2) I think you will always keep the reader interested as long as the story is worth telling. If a story is unnecessarily long and there is no plot development,no connection with the reader and if the reader's rhetorical appeals are weak, the reader will start losing attention. Otherwise, most readers will bear a long story and will even enjoy if it is going somewhere.
1) How does the author's purpose for a narrative influence the design, or format, of the story?
ReplyDelete2) What rhetorical appeals would an author use when writing his or her own memoir, and why?