Week 4 Readings

Finding Evidence

This reading was great. It enforced what we went over about in class. Audience is everything! Directing your evidence to match the audience you are tying to reach makes it the most successful. Evidence can come in many forms; it can be raw date or even personal stories. Artifacts should contain several ways of persuasion—to keep the readers engaged.  I will keep this info in mind, when I review my artifacts.

Lastly this reading gave me some hints about my future interview.

—Be Direct with my purpose and claim.

—Set up the interview in advance.

—Be prepared for the interview by having a list of questions, try to keep them open ended.

—Follow up afterward with an email.

Rhetorical Analysis

This article goes over how to study the rhetoric used. This directly relates to what we are doing, so it was a good read. They went over advertisements. They are great to study—because in a well-written one—it will make you desire the product. iPad ad for example, or what I have been seeing lately the Apple watch commercial. Advertisements have many factors, which written documents don't have—visuals, and music.

Some tips for using Rhetoric

—Know your audience, and persuade them accordingly.

—Use, Ethos, Pathos, Logos

—Know the genre, and fit it’s contingencies

—Use evidence to help persuade.

—Certain language can be used to help persuade.

—Lastly organizing it a certain way.

Most of what is covered in this reading is some of the main terms for the class. It did seem repetitive, however the more I read about these terms the clearer they are. It will help me for my final paper—having a complete understand of the courses terms.

I admit at first I found the term rhetoric intimidating. However, I feel like its definition is clear—from our discussions in class, along with the readings.