Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Facebook Privacy

We started a group project in class and as a group we decided to make a website. We began to make it on Weebly and each of us has a part describing something on or about Facebook. I chose the part explaining the privacy policy. I am going to explain how Facebook keeps part of your page as private as you make it, but your exact profile isn't completely private to the world.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Guide Your Reader to the Beiginning and End.

I know what I go to pick up a book, I judge it by it cover. I know that's wrong, but the visual aid is always appealing to a person, no matter what. But sometimes I give it a second chance, and I'll read the beginning. This attracts me also to the book. The ending though, is what will decide whether I enjoyed the book or not. It may make me mad, because it didn't end the way I wanted it to, or maybe make me happy because it was a perfect ending. I find that usually the ending is the best part because it leaves you satisfied. The beginning fits in the big picture of things. It introduces, explains, and informs your audience about the story you are about to tell. The ending though, can then summerize the whole text itself. It can end in many ways such as, referring to the beginning, tieing up loose ends, giving the audience something to think about, or restating the main point. The beginning and end will determine whether or not the audience things this book is readable.
As a reader, and as many others, I want to be guided through a text I am reading. Ways to guide your reader would have to be throught titles, theses statements, topic sentences, and transitions. A title serves a purpose and names a text. Thesis statements identifies the topic of the text and the claim you are trying to make. Topic sentences are similar to thesis statements, in that they are announcing the topic and purpose, but it states the subject and focus on that certain paragraph. And lastly, a transition help the readers move from each thought to thought, sentence, paragraph, etc.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

C&E,C&D,C&C.

Today we all use Cause and Effect. We all want to know why something happened and what will happen next. It's like a human instinct. Useful processes for analyzing causes would have to be outlining, listing, and clustering. Always look for which ones are the most relevant to your purpose and also which ones are most likely to convince your audience. Once you have found what your main purpose is, then you need to argue your claim, organize your analysis of the cause and effect, and then most importantly consider the rhetorical situation.
So when it comes to classifying and dividing, they are somewhat similar and yet different. Classifying is when you organize information into various pieces and put them into different groups But dividing is more as taking one topic and diving into different parts. Classifying is grouping similar things and dividing is breaking down something into parts.
Like the book says, "Comparing things look at their similarities; contrasting them focuses on their differences." In writing we'd compare and contrast poems or pretty much all of them, like in a proposal, you need to compare your solution and maybe other ones. In real life, we would compare and contrast such things like the cell phones we may want to buy, or a version of a book to a film. There are two ways of comparing and contrasting. One would be the block method, which is discussing each item separately, informing all about one, and then the other ones. The second method would be the point-by-point method. This method would obviously be to focus on the specific points of comparison. All of these seem pretty easy to me, except to move on to things like using graphs and images to support comparisons, or using figurative language to make comparisons.