Writers Response p.23 & p.131

Rhetorical situations this week:
Texting

Essays

Lists

1. I wrote an essay earlier this week which called for writing to an audience. My audience was anybody who wanted to know if dangerous breeds of dogs should be outlawed (fairly neutral). I wanted to make myself sound credible so using information from websites and citing them would give me an advantage in in facts and statistics to support my opinion. i brought in claims and counter-arguments that i assumed a live audience would give and proved them wrong. so the use of a few rhetorical strategies

2. Texting is an everyday thing in most of our lives and the thing I found most common (as far as rhetorical situations go) in my conversations was the struggle to assert my stance on a subject. It’s quite a bit harder to show someone how you feel about something by only using written words instead of spoken dialogue. It causes you to be more careful in your word choice a when sending a message to someone.

3. I made a list for myself of things I needed to get done earlier this week so my audience was myself. I wrote it down on a piece of paper because I figured it would be the best way for me to remind myself about what I had to do. It wasn’t a fancy list. All I wrote down were the topics and the rest I would be able to remember.

p.131 topic questions

1.  Brideau’s main point was to explain how humans experience hope and determination even after a disaster. This is indicated in the last sentence of the last paragraph of the passage.

2. Lydia’s position is the primary point of view. That point of view really helps you see what that person saw and to almost feel the same fear as her. The feeling sinks into your bones as you read from her position.

3. Brideau gives you the feeling of being there. She describes the scent and temperature of the atmosphere in the first few paragraphs in a way that you can feel and smell on your own. she describes close details which really paint a picture in the reader’s mind. she uses words like abscessed, slender, odor,  illuminated, uncomfortable. I think they kind of just give you a raw feeling of what the setting was like.

4. I think the audience would be people who want to know more about handling disaster situations and what could be improved. She kind of opens up the narrative with an observational point of view and then moves into an intense tone when telling Lydia’s story. She uses the phrase “swept up in the current and drown”, which doesn’t exactly make you feel too calm, or “the water pressure was so strong that water spurted out of the kitchen sink like a fountain.”