The Writing Process

The Writing Process is something that is very important to think about when you are writing a paper. The writing process is simply the steps you go though when you are going to write a paper. The fist big step is to find out exactly what you are writing about. Then you need to take that and study and research it and gain as much knowledge on the subject as you can. Next you need to develop a thesis for the paper though your topic that you studied. Then start with a first draft. That in a nutshell is the Writing Process.

The perfect introduction

When writing a paper one of the most important parts of your essay is the introduction. The reason this is so important is that it gives the audience what your thesis is and it also gets them hooked in on your topic. The beginning of your introduction needs to have something that gets your audience hooked on your paper. Next you need to get your readers thinking and really gain their attention. You will also need to give your thesis for your paper. An introduction will pretty much outline everything that you will talk about in your paper.

Classification and Division

The definition of what classification and division are is pretty simple. Classification is how you would define or what category the topic could fit into. Division is simply taking the topic and separating it into different smaller categories.

 Three very important phrases from my New York Times article are. "He saw the killing as a wildly overzealous reaction." tactical assault groups. Peace Officer. I would define this first phase as a reaction from a man who's son in law was just kill and he believes that his death shouldn't have occurred. The second phrase has to do with a group of trained individuals that go into dangerous situations to accomplish a goal of some kind. The phrase Peace Officer is talking about a police officer or some individual who works to keep peace and stop anarchy. 

Definitions

It's very important for author to use definitions when trying to make a point to an audience. Definitions allow the audience to better understand and help get the exact point across that the author is trying to make. An example of this is an article given by the New York Times that talks about modern law enforcement and how it is becoming "militarized". http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/movies/review-peace-officer-explores-military-style-raids-by-law-enforcement.html?_r=0  This article defines what they are talking about when they say "militarized". The larger social picture that this article put across is that modern police are become more of a military then peace keepers and how people think that this needs to change.

In this blog I'm going to talk about five more rhetorical tools. The first tool is the process of eye tracking. This is a tool that advertisers use that shows what about a picture catches the eye and what the eye spends the most time on. Another tool is visual anchoring. This is the thing in a picture that you come back to time after time and keeps your attention. The next tools are explicit and implicit advertising. Explicit advertising is when the message is very clear and is obvious to the audience. Implicit is when the message in the advertising is hidden and takes more thought to figure out.

Compare and Contrast blogs

I am compared my blog with Gages blog and we both have very similar blogs. The design and format of the blogs are the same and the blogs themselves are also very similar. The only real differences that I found in out blogs is the content in the blog.

The tool of comparing and contrasting is something that we use every single day. We compare and contrast pretty much everything from pictures to who we will vote for as our next president. Comparing and contrasting is simply the looking at the advantages and disadvantages of something and putting those advantages and disadvantages to something else. An example of this could be trying to decdide what car to drive. To decide this you would put the good and the bad things up against the good and the bad things up against the other car. 

When you use this with visuals you want to use a basis for comparison. When you are looking at two different pictures you can use this basis for comparison by finding what the two things have in comon then comparing them together. This is a very helpful tool because it helps you when you are writing or if you are just using comparing and contrasting in everyday life. 

Authors use different tools to reach a certain audience. One of these tools is by using an image. For example have you ever noticed how colorful and bright the packaging on brandname cereal is? There are so many different tools on that cereal box like the color, and whats on the box. The box probably has a friendly fun character on the box because that connects to their target audience.

The author will also try to connect with the audence in a more intimate and personal level to get their point across. 

One very usefully tool you can use when writing a paper is cause and effect. Some of the benefits of using cause and effect is that it describes exactly what happens and why it happened. You can do this with other rhetorical tools like flash backs and maybe a little foreshadowing. Cause and effect is a great tool because it feels an entire story or maybe just a very important part of the story.

The structure of cause and effects is set up like this starting fist with the contributing causes, the main cause or causes then the immediate effect. Then even after the immediate effect you will get remote effects and then the ripple effects. For example if the immediate effect is getting a speeding ticket the ripple effects could be not being able to pay for rent or your insurance going up. You can use this structuring to help identify and analyze a cause and effect in a narrative.

Having a peer review is very important when you are writing a paper of any kind. Having someone else look over your paper I a good idea because it puts fresh eyes on your paper. It also is a a way for someone else to look for any grammar mistakes that you may have made or if there is anything in your paper that might not make any sense. I find that sometimes when I'm writing a paper I like it to much and I can't find any bad things in it. But someone else who is open to the paper can give you positive feed back on what to fix or change.

In the Zambreno article she talks a lot about the story of King Arthor and how even today it is a story that keeps coming back in narratives. I think that this is a great example of a rhetorical tool. People are taking this story that people really like and are changing things and making new stories from it. King Arthur is a story that many people can connect to and the entire point of rhetorical tools are to help reach a certain audience. By just changing things in the story you are still able to reach that same large audience.
Anther tool that is talked about in this article is the historical tool. I love when books and movies use actual historical events. I love the movie Forest Gump because of this tool and I know many other people whoo of when authors involve this historical tool. I think this tool is so affective because people can take a work of fiction and hook it to reality somehow and that accomplishes the entire point of a rhetorical tool which is to reach a certain audience.

In my story on sustainability the author uses a few rhetorical tools.  One of them is a comparison between a truck running on hydrogen and a standard diesel truck.  One thing interesting about this tool he used is that it kinda went against his point. He made it seem like diesel is a much better option because they are less expense then a hydrogen truck, they run better then hydrogen, It feels better to drive a diesel and other reasons.
In this whole article the author continually uses evidence to show that we should use clean burning fuel from plants rather than the fossil fuels that we are using and that we are running out of.  He also gave the examples like the truck driver in Switzerland which is another rhetorical tool. This goes to show how many rhetorical tools are used in writing everywhere.

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A narrative is simply a story in chronological order.  We have narratives all around us, any story told by someone is a narrative. For native Americans narratives where told by one person around a camp fire at night. We all tell narratives in our day to day lives; short, long, important, interesting and many other things. We have all read narratives and narratives are every where.

Narratives can have several different rhetorical tools in them. The fist example is a flash back. When telling a story it can help to give your audience a flash back to help them understand or prove a point you are trying to make in your story. Another tool is foreshadowing. This is the opposite of a flash back, this is showing something that can or will happen in the future. These are just a few examples of rhetorical tools that can help you while writing your narrative.

Writing an essay

When you write an essay you want to start in the middle on the body.  For your first draft you will dump all the information that you have on the subject into the draft. While working on the first draft don't create an introduction or a conclusion just work on the body.  For your second draft take all the important information from your first draft and summarize the essays body.  In this draft you will also make a conclusion for your paper. In your third and final draft you will go through and perfect everything that you have written. Your last step is to create in introduction to the essay.  The paper should be in times new roman and be double spaced.  The page number is in the upper left hand corner and your name in the upper right hand corner. The paper needs to be formatted in MLA. That is a basic out line of the essay structure.