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"

Blog 7 of 12

      I believe the person is influenced by the use of the crayon. In fact the writing is only one sentence. As well as a patch of green maybe meant to be grass, and a drawing in the corner that may or may not be a pink, green and red american flag or a postage stamp. I think the writer is less expressive because of this. He doesnt back his argument up or even fully explore it. He doesnt have any examples so although he says that sometimes the voice in particularly an argument may "sometimes be missed by the reader" in this case i think its true because i didnt really get the point that he was trying to make.
       I dont think this argument is good. I dont really have any authority to say whats good and whats not but in order to be good i think he should have explained some more. His images dont go with his argument or what i can guess that is then it really isnt good writing.

Blog Post 4 of 12

1) Why does Smith choose to write about speaking when we cant hear her? she may know what speaking like "this" sounds like but i dont. It seems like an interesting topic to pick to write about since her argument is textual when her subject is typically auditory.

2) Why did she have to change what her voice sounded like? especially since she quotes "to thine own self be true" She says its extrememey important in Britain to keep your own voice, its almost a sin to change it. So why would she go against her own culture to change her voice.

3) Is she a liberal or a democrat? she seems to spend an awful amount of time describing Obama. She spoke a lot about how Obama's voice had changed from when he was younger to when he was older and campaigning to become president.

4) Why does she juxtapose Obama and Shakespeare? Artist and Politician. This seems like too very different career choices so to compare them is a deliberate choice yet a strange one at the same time. They are also two people from different time periods so they are vastly different.

5) Why focus mainly on men and not as many women? Since she is a woman it is an odd choice about how she only analyzes men. She deeply describes Obama and Shakespeare two people from very different lifestyle and very different time periods as well. In the last paragraph she even says "its my audicious hope  that a man born and raised"

6) Why does she believe culture so prominent in your voice? She says that culture is an essential part of finding your voice but why is it so important? culture seems to influence more of your view on life not exactly your physical voice.

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         What I really think about the writing space that twitter affords is its a good size for what its meant to be. Twitter is a social networking site that is defined as microblogging. Its supposed to be short messages, just a quick heads up to what people are doing to send to their followers. These restrictions are necessary and helpful because it keeps people from posting paragraphs about their lives. It lets them sum up the most important parts and then tweet them. Twitter allows people to post videos and links and its a good way to spread something like information quickly. The trending topics show what the most popular thing that people are tweeting about. 
         Twitter is used all over the world and people can follow anyone, from celebrities, to news sources, comedians, and your friends. The 140 character limit is what makes tweeting tweeting, its a short burst of information. If they wish to write longer about something then they have other social media outlets. They can make a status on facebook about it, blog about it, or even text or call someone about it. If the people want to write a novel about their personal lives they can, but then its called an autobiography not a tweet.

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     I'm not sure why so many people wear texts on their clothing and on their skin.  Perhaps they feel that such portable writing serves to say something about themselves. I dont believe that clothing and tattoos should be grouped within the same category. "#puttingontext" in the form of a shirt is one thing, youre not stuck with it for the rest of your life.  To get some form of writing put on your body in the form of a tattoo is a completely different story. A tattoo is permanent so that requires more of a conscious choice of what they decide to sit through the pain for and pay a lot of money for as well. 
     Putting text on by wearing clothes has a different connotation. If you didnt have anything on your shirt then youre wardrobe would be rather plain. The text on your clothes can be graphic tees because you find them funny. They can also show where you come from, many people have a lot of tshirts and sweatshirts from their high schools or colleges. These versions of text is different than what people generally put on their body. If they get a textual tattoo then it will usually be a quote that some one said or something from the bible. These texts arent on tshirts, so that is why i dont think that they should be grouped together in the same category