Blog Post 12 of 12

     My advice for the people coming into WSC 1 is just to pay attention. I feel as though my writing has improved by taking this course. I have also learned that i really dont like blogging, but you gotta do what you gotta do. This is just a class that you have to take and you get back whatever you put into it. So if you dont try then you wont improve and youre just wasting everyones time. But if you do try and then try even harder to improve it then you will get something out of it. 

Blog post 10 of 12

      What Rodney Jones is arguing in this poem is that once you let go of an idea its really hard almost impossible to get it back. Just like dumping the coconut milk and rum into the ocean sure he felt it wash over him but there was no way for him to ever get it back. Once it was gone it was gone. The ocean took it away. 
     He didnt know if he was finished with his idea, but that uncertainty came too late. Once he made the conscious choice to get rid of it, it was gone. However he said he still had the idea that he would get it back. That hope of getting what was his was less than slim to none. He wouldnt ever get it back but the idea remained.

Blog Post 6 of 12

      The people that youre talking to on twitter are your followers. They can be youre friends, acquaintances or completely random people that you have no idea who they are or why theyre following you. I dont wonder who my audience is on twitter because my twitter is private so i know exactly who is reading my tweets. I don't really feel differently about my audience in an online writing environment. I mean some stuff is just stuff that you dont tweet like personal stuff. Some things  are meant to stay private or between close friends. My relationship with my audience is distinct i guess. I follow them, they follow me; we make it work. I dont have to imagine whose reading my tweets, i know my friends are reading my tweets. 
      I liked this video i thought it was funny. It clearly showed a dislike for twitter but it made sense. The stuff that some people tweet are really pointless. But if youre addicted to twitter than it is a serious problem, people become obsessed with tweeting about everything. Looking at it now, it kind of is pointless. Nobody needs to know everything that youre doing in that exact moment. The purpose of microblogging to just blog short little things that really dont have a major purpose.

Blog Post 5 of 12

       The difference in the rhetoric of the poet and the president is that a poet is supposed to change his voice. If the poet had only one voice then their poetry would be even more boring than it is to read now. If a poet had one voice then there wouldnt be any reason to read more than one of their poems. Changing their voice makes a poet a poet. A poet has the ability to take their reader different places and experience different things because of their writing abilities. Its a poets job to lie and stretch the truth otherwise it wouldnt be interesting. A tree would be just a tree, not something "glittering in the wind"
     A president on the other hand should not change his voice. If he does then it makes his voters wonder what he is actually telling the truth about. He should only have one voice, the truth. If hes lying to please all people then that isnt doing anyone any good. 

Blog Post 11 of 12

       No. I dont think that the four letter words projects are writing. The only writing in the productions are the four letter word and a bunch of pictures, but it shouldn't be considered writing because its not using any other words. Writing is expressing yourself or an idea in some form and although the videos do express an idea it doesnt use any words so it cant be considered writing. 
      I think they can be considered an argument though. Some were more successful than others but they were still arguments. Just like some peoples writing is better than others. Writing requires words whereas an argument just needs a simple plot line whether through writing or pictures.  

Blog Post 9 of 12

      When someone puts on a shirt in the morning i dont think that theyre thinking about their audience. I know i dont, but i usually read peoples shirts. Some are funny and some are stupid but i think its interesting to what people wear. I guess when you do put on a shirt the audience is the general public. When i use twitter since mine is private my expected readership is my tweeps, or my followers. i tweet things that i find funny or just a general announcement as to why my life sucks at that moment.
     These two outlets are limited in the same form that crayons are limiting. A tweet has a limited space of 140 characters. Thats not a lot of room to move around with and it makes you think about what youre writing. Plenty of times i have had to reword what i was tweeting in order to get it under the 140 character limit. A shirt also has a limited writing space. For most graphic tees to be printed cheaply it has a very small space to be printed in right on the front. The limitations help to decide if the thing that youre wearing or tweeting is worth sharing.

Blog Post 8 of 12

"I believe that is true because a persons voice can completely change an argument whether they inject sarcasm into an argument may sometimes be missed by the reader"