Scott McClouds article “Reinventing Comics” was very interesting to me, after reading McClouds first article “From the Vocabulary of Comics,” I was curious to see the point of view he had on the technology aspect of comics. He discusses the question on how comics will fit in this new century of technology. McCloud states, “In other words we have to ask what things comics can do in a digital environment, and which of those options are going to prove valuable in the long run”(207). As I thought about this question I know that comics can fit in to this new age of technology in many ways. We have already seen how animation has fit in through video games and computer games, and as can comics through a similar and entertaining way as they once were.
I have played video games such as Spiderman that have incorporated comics through the video game experience. Comics will evolve through the digital age, comics are unique in that they incorporate reading and art and soon will incorporate technologies. We already see software such as Comic Life being created to make it easier for people to enjoy the art for their own entertainment which was not possible years ago. With software like Comic Life being available it will only enhance comics and the possibilities of where it can go. I believe comics will find their place once the technology is continued to be created for them.
I like the metaphor relating a window to a monitor as opposed to other objects. As we look throughout windows there is a whole world we can see and a number of different ways we can see it, similar to a monitor where it allows us to view cyberspace in different ways. The window/monitor never changes but the things we see through them does. We look through windows and through it the seasons change, similar to the concept of cyberspace. I like the concept of the window rather than a wheel barrow, elevator or anything else because it is relatable to a monitor. Even a mirror can be a metaphor for a monitor, the mirror never changes but we do as do the information we see through cyberspace or on our desktops.
It is difficult to decide on one piece of text, for they have all been interesting and helpful through not just DTC355 but through my other classes as well. Robin Williams book “The Non-Designers Design & Type Book” has been very helpful while creating my web pages as well as my comic life and adobe Photoshop assignments. The book has taught me the CRAP principles and how to utilize them through any work I may do, and will do in the future. Charles Hill’s, “The Psychology of Rhetorical Images” was definitely one of my favorite pdf’s by far this semester. Hill went over different aspects of how images have been used to persuade people. I found this interesting and useful when I chose certain images to grab the attention of others when drawing them into my web page. There were many great texts that I have read this semester but these two were by far my favorite and will not be getting the “delete button.”
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Blog Six
In the beginning of chapter four of “Alphabet That Thinks” Lahnam states, “Electronic text provides powerful new ways to allocate human attention”(130). Lahnam into detail explaining that the various technologies concerning text has changed the way in which information is handled and distributed. Lahnam goes further into detail and discussed the model called C-B-S which stands for “Clarity-Brevity-Sincerity” this model is used for human communication. He explains that because we communicate with words, words should be seen as “things.” He asks the reader the question of what would happen when we move from print work to the instability of digital expression.
I agree with Lanham in that if we were to follow the C-B-S model our lives would be far different and very boring. When you strip away certain creative acts of communication we lose our selves. Lanham states, “The C-B-S ideal of communication, while great for moral exhortation, proves of limited use in analyzing actual acts of communication. Powerful and important, but limited”(140). I agree with this statement personally the ability to produce a piece of communication in a creative way is something we are constantly trying to produce, to be creative is to be noticed. . The “domain” of rhetoric was said to be compared to slang and the creative ways we use words. It was stated through the text that plain language is often compared to plain living most of us wouldn’t like to be around “plain” language throughout our day. Language is fundamental to our society, it is how we communicate with others, and express our feelings.
I agree with Lanham in that if we were to follow the C-B-S model our lives would be far different and very boring. When you strip away certain creative acts of communication we lose our selves. Lanham states, “The C-B-S ideal of communication, while great for moral exhortation, proves of limited use in analyzing actual acts of communication. Powerful and important, but limited”(140). I agree with this statement personally the ability to produce a piece of communication in a creative way is something we are constantly trying to produce, to be creative is to be noticed. . The “domain” of rhetoric was said to be compared to slang and the creative ways we use words. It was stated through the text that plain language is often compared to plain living most of us wouldn’t like to be around “plain” language throughout our day. Language is fundamental to our society, it is how we communicate with others, and express our feelings.
Monday, October 4, 2010
The Texting Technology
There has been a major progression with writing from writing on tablets, walls, paper to now writing on screens which are small and big. The progression of writing has came rapidly, and many people believe because of the new forms of writing, writing with pen and paper may become obsolete. This is similar to thousands of years ago where people felt that writing was dangerous to the mind, in that we were depending on writing then our minds. I remember reading about how Plato Socrates was against writing because it could not do what speaking could do. Although many people felt this way, many saw the good in writing as well. Kalmback states, “Writing systems were no longer solely a means of preserving traditional texts. They could be used to create new ideas and to communicate those ideas to others. New technologies enabled the Greeks to use written language in new ways”(222). All of these things are how many people feel about actual writing with pen and paper then “typing,” as well as question how switching to a keyboard and screen will affect the younger generation in learning to read and write.
Kalmback mentions many writing technologies through his book, some I did not know about previously to this reading. As I have said it is interesting to see the progression of writing, of where we were to where we are now. Another form of technology that is very popular in today’s society is texting. Texting on a cell phone has taken writing to a new medium. We now are able to carry portable devices everywhere we go, and communicate with one another as much as we like in a fast amount of time. We text constantly and its convenient when our devices are a key part of our lives where they are with us wherever we go. Texting has changed the way we communicate, in that we no longer have to write a letter to someone, mail it, and wait days until it gets there, and wait days until that person writes us back. Today, it is all instantaneous. We can communicate with someone half way across the world and have conversations in a day that many people years ago would take months to discuss through the mail.
Texting is indeed changing the way people read and write. We no longer are writing with pen and paper we are now “texting” through a virtual keyboard and a small screen which is with us wherever we go. Many people are fearful in the way this may affect our reading and writing skills, in my experience I learned to read and write the old fashion way with pencil, pen and paper. Now I hardly write with these tools, I constantly use a keyboard, virtual keyboard and screen to communicate with whoever it may be. I often wonder if writing with pen and pencil will become obsolete with the younger generation, how will texting and typing affect their learning? Will schools continue to teach reading and writing as they used to? Or will they use technology to teach reading and writing? I remember, I had just gotten into 4th grade when they started teaching students how to type on a computer. This makes me wonder how much younger they are starting children in learning to type. Only time will tell….
Peeples, Tim. Professional Writing and Rhetoric:Readings from the Field. 218-233. Print.
Kalmback mentions many writing technologies through his book, some I did not know about previously to this reading. As I have said it is interesting to see the progression of writing, of where we were to where we are now. Another form of technology that is very popular in today’s society is texting. Texting on a cell phone has taken writing to a new medium. We now are able to carry portable devices everywhere we go, and communicate with one another as much as we like in a fast amount of time. We text constantly and its convenient when our devices are a key part of our lives where they are with us wherever we go. Texting has changed the way we communicate, in that we no longer have to write a letter to someone, mail it, and wait days until it gets there, and wait days until that person writes us back. Today, it is all instantaneous. We can communicate with someone half way across the world and have conversations in a day that many people years ago would take months to discuss through the mail.
Texting is indeed changing the way people read and write. We no longer are writing with pen and paper we are now “texting” through a virtual keyboard and a small screen which is with us wherever we go. Many people are fearful in the way this may affect our reading and writing skills, in my experience I learned to read and write the old fashion way with pencil, pen and paper. Now I hardly write with these tools, I constantly use a keyboard, virtual keyboard and screen to communicate with whoever it may be. I often wonder if writing with pen and pencil will become obsolete with the younger generation, how will texting and typing affect their learning? Will schools continue to teach reading and writing as they used to? Or will they use technology to teach reading and writing? I remember, I had just gotten into 4th grade when they started teaching students how to type on a computer. This makes me wonder how much younger they are starting children in learning to type. Only time will tell….
Peeples, Tim. Professional Writing and Rhetoric:Readings from the Field. 218-233. Print.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Blog Four
I’ve learned many things since the semester has begun in DTC355. It is very difficult to choose one topic that I believe is the most important for they have all taught me new things that I believe will all be valuable to me in the future. I enjoyed learning and working with Comic Life this project eased me in to learning the new software I will be learning through the semester. Now after I have finished my project with Comic Life I see many similarities with Adobe Photoshop. I believe Comic Life prepared me to better understand Adobe Photoshop on a more complex level; it in a way gave me a preview of what may come with working with Photoshop. Along with Comic Life, I believe learning Adobe Photoshop has been very important software and has taught me many aspects of the software I did not know was possible to accomplish.
Along with the software I have learned this semester in DTC355, I believe learning about Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity will in turn help me with my Adobe Photoshop skills as well as my Dreamweaver skills. The CRAP principles are the four main principles we constantly come back to in class, which I believe shows the necessity to learn the principles well.
While surfing the web I was looking for links that represented Burbuels definitions of his tropes. I randomly went on a Fox News website because I found a link that directed me there. While on the Fox News website I had found an image of the Twighlight book, I was immediately influenced to click on it without even reading the text below the image of what the article would be about. I realized since my rhetoric card we are very influenced to click on links without even knowing what we may find, which could be why we click on them because of the curiosity that we won’t know what to expect. We often get lucky and find great information when we click on a link we may not have otherwised clicked on if it had not been highlighted, or we may get disappointed that we had found nothing that interested us when clicking on the link. I was disappointed when I had clicked on that Twighlight image, because the article was nothing I was interested in, even though it was funny. The article was about the popular image of the hands on the front cover of the book, and how the person whose hands were photograph was offended because she was not getting the attention she thought she deserved.
While reading the article I saw a link that said “massage therapist,” I clicked on the link and it took me to a Chiropractic site. I believe this link is seen as a “Metaphor.” Burbuels states, “Web links can be read as metaphors when apparently unrelated textual points are associated”(111). Although the fox news article was stating how the women hand model was a massage therapist, that link took me to a site concerning chiropractic specialists which are different topics but do have similarities in that we were given more information about chiropractic specialists and more information about health, stories from patients, and myths and facts. This link may also be seen as a “Metonymy,” Burbuels uses an example of a page on “Vacation Spots” may take you to “How to Avoid Pickpockets”(112). This is similar to what we saw on through this link with massage therapists and chiropractic specialists.
While on the Fox News website I also clicked on “The ‘Social Network’ $cores,” the article gave the rankings in the box office from all the movies that are currently out in theaters. While reading the article “Warner Bros” was able to be clicked on, as I did the link lead me to another page concerning four different links of articles I could choose from. I saw this link as Antistasis which as Burbuels states, “A less familiar trope involves the repetition of a word –the ‘same’ word—in a different context”(113). I saw this trope and its examples that Burbuels stated very relevant to the link I had found. The “Warner Bros” link linked me to many different articles that provided the ‘same’ word in a different setting as seen in the four links that were given.
Burbules, Nicholas. Rheotrics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy. 102-120. Print.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/10/03/twilight-model-seeks-hand-glory/?test=faces
http://www.foxnews.com/topics/entertainment/movies/studios/warner-bros.htm
Along with the software I have learned this semester in DTC355, I believe learning about Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity will in turn help me with my Adobe Photoshop skills as well as my Dreamweaver skills. The CRAP principles are the four main principles we constantly come back to in class, which I believe shows the necessity to learn the principles well.
While surfing the web I was looking for links that represented Burbuels definitions of his tropes. I randomly went on a Fox News website because I found a link that directed me there. While on the Fox News website I had found an image of the Twighlight book, I was immediately influenced to click on it without even reading the text below the image of what the article would be about. I realized since my rhetoric card we are very influenced to click on links without even knowing what we may find, which could be why we click on them because of the curiosity that we won’t know what to expect. We often get lucky and find great information when we click on a link we may not have otherwised clicked on if it had not been highlighted, or we may get disappointed that we had found nothing that interested us when clicking on the link. I was disappointed when I had clicked on that Twighlight image, because the article was nothing I was interested in, even though it was funny. The article was about the popular image of the hands on the front cover of the book, and how the person whose hands were photograph was offended because she was not getting the attention she thought she deserved.
While reading the article I saw a link that said “massage therapist,” I clicked on the link and it took me to a Chiropractic site. I believe this link is seen as a “Metaphor.” Burbuels states, “Web links can be read as metaphors when apparently unrelated textual points are associated”(111). Although the fox news article was stating how the women hand model was a massage therapist, that link took me to a site concerning chiropractic specialists which are different topics but do have similarities in that we were given more information about chiropractic specialists and more information about health, stories from patients, and myths and facts. This link may also be seen as a “Metonymy,” Burbuels uses an example of a page on “Vacation Spots” may take you to “How to Avoid Pickpockets”(112). This is similar to what we saw on through this link with massage therapists and chiropractic specialists.
While on the Fox News website I also clicked on “The ‘Social Network’ $cores,” the article gave the rankings in the box office from all the movies that are currently out in theaters. While reading the article “Warner Bros” was able to be clicked on, as I did the link lead me to another page concerning four different links of articles I could choose from. I saw this link as Antistasis which as Burbuels states, “A less familiar trope involves the repetition of a word –the ‘same’ word—in a different context”(113). I saw this trope and its examples that Burbuels stated very relevant to the link I had found. The “Warner Bros” link linked me to many different articles that provided the ‘same’ word in a different setting as seen in the four links that were given.
Burbules, Nicholas. Rheotrics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy. 102-120. Print.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/10/03/twilight-model-seeks-hand-glory/?test=faces
http://www.foxnews.com/topics/entertainment/movies/studios/warner-bros.htm
Monday, September 13, 2010
Blog Three
Through the reading “The Psychology of Rhetorical Images” by Charles A. Hill, he expresses to the audience how visual images we constantly come into contact with everyday weather it be through the television, internet, billboards etc could be used as rhetorical elements. Hill discusses many times throughout his article about persuasion and how images can be misleading to the eye even when we do not feel we are being manipulated. Hill uses examples such as reading about a starving child and how when we see a photograph it seems more realistic to the audience. Hill states, “The child in the photographs seems more “real” to us, and the photograph is much more likely to prompts a visceral, emotional response” (30).
It is one thing to read about a topic and quite another to see it. The advertisement I have chosen is of a Camel advertisement. The ad depicts a woman who is playing a very popular game among males which is pool. We see the woman’s sex appeal, and concentration in this image as she tries to conquer the game against what may be a male opponent. She also has a cigarette in the same hand as her pool stick, which can portray that she can play a male game just as well as a male. The ad appeals to males because males do in fact like seeing women kick back and enjoy the same interests as they do while keeping the sex appeal intact. The ad appeals to women because of the sex appeal the image represents, showing they can to have they’re men look at them as they look at this female. To some the cigarette in the same hand as the pool stick may not be manipulating them to smoke, but it very well is. Having a cigarette in the same hand as a pool stick can be considered sexy and yet feminine at the same time which may appeal to both audiences, which accomplishes the goal of selling their product. We see affect transfer taking affect in this in that it provides an emotional response to the image from both sexes, and when you have an image that can be sold to both genders it is very effective.
Reading through Hill’s article what he was explaining to the audience about Pavlov’s classical conditioning experiment was a very interesting thought to grasp. Hill states, “Nevertheless, classical conditioning has been shown to work in humans, and research with advertisements has demonstrated the phenomenon that psychologists call affect transfer”(37). He explains affect transfer to be an emotional response from one object to the one being sold. When we see a unique and entertaining image we do not consider the thoughts or persuasions that were sought out to be accomplished, but they do in fact get accomplished.
Hill, Charles A. “The Psychology of Rhetorical Images.” Defining Visual Rhetorics. Ed. Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. 25-40.
It is one thing to read about a topic and quite another to see it. The advertisement I have chosen is of a Camel advertisement. The ad depicts a woman who is playing a very popular game among males which is pool. We see the woman’s sex appeal, and concentration in this image as she tries to conquer the game against what may be a male opponent. She also has a cigarette in the same hand as her pool stick, which can portray that she can play a male game just as well as a male. The ad appeals to males because males do in fact like seeing women kick back and enjoy the same interests as they do while keeping the sex appeal intact. The ad appeals to women because of the sex appeal the image represents, showing they can to have they’re men look at them as they look at this female. To some the cigarette in the same hand as the pool stick may not be manipulating them to smoke, but it very well is. Having a cigarette in the same hand as a pool stick can be considered sexy and yet feminine at the same time which may appeal to both audiences, which accomplishes the goal of selling their product. We see affect transfer taking affect in this in that it provides an emotional response to the image from both sexes, and when you have an image that can be sold to both genders it is very effective.
Reading through Hill’s article what he was explaining to the audience about Pavlov’s classical conditioning experiment was a very interesting thought to grasp. Hill states, “Nevertheless, classical conditioning has been shown to work in humans, and research with advertisements has demonstrated the phenomenon that psychologists call affect transfer”(37). He explains affect transfer to be an emotional response from one object to the one being sold. When we see a unique and entertaining image we do not consider the thoughts or persuasions that were sought out to be accomplished, but they do in fact get accomplished.
Hill, Charles A. “The Psychology of Rhetorical Images.” Defining Visual Rhetorics. Ed. Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. 25-40.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Blog Two
My name is Sara and this is my embarrassing story. My cousin and her husband had just bought a gigantic home in West Richland, on the top of what seemed like the highest hill! We were invited to her house warming party, and knowing my cousin she was going to invite a lot of people and it was going to be a well organized beautiful party to go along with that beautiful house of hers. My family drove over and it seemed like it took forever to get there, there was so many up hills and down hills it seemed like a maze, and what was worse is it was winter! Snow, icy roads and uphill drives is not a good mix let me tell ya!
So after our long careful drive up the hill, we finally got there! There were people I knew people I didn’t know and family members I hadn’t seen in a long time! Which makes this embarrassing story really embarrassing! Everyone knows you need people you don’t know and a lot of them I might add to make an embarrassing story an embarrassing story, which just my luck is what I had! If what I’m about to tell you happened only with close friends and family I probably would have just laughed it off…but I didn’t.
The appetizers were severed, the visiting had been started. It was such a beautiful home, filled with lots of beautiful furniture, among other things like candles. But I’ll get to that. Of course I was hungry, and of course I just had to accidently drop my appetizer all over the floor. This wasn’t the embarrassing part, or it was for about a minute until the real embarrassment began. I spilled the food on tile floor which made me feel bad…but it was tile! No stains, no carpet, no one slipped on the food I was in the clear! For now…
Feeling bad about the food that had been spilled on the floor I see napkins on a table that a couple of women whom I didn’t know were sitting at. It was pretty crowded at that table, but those were the only napkins I could find. I approach the table, apologize for my interruption and reach over the table for the napkins to clean up my mess. Remember those candles I mentioned earlier? Yeah they were all over this table. Being concerned about the mess on the floor and someone slipping on it, the candles were the farthest from my mind. Having long hair like I do you can only guess what happened next….Yes that’s right my hair caught on fire! I didn’t even notice until I smelled something immediately and someone was screaming! I quickly patted my hair like I had never patted my hair before! When I saw the fire was gone I quickly ran to the bathroom, to hear people all around asking each other “What’s that smell?” Hair smells so bad when it catches on fire, no clue why but it does…I know from experience! It being a new home, there shouldn’t be that kind of smell in the air…I felt terrible not only for my burnt hair and my embarrassment of the people who saw it happen at that table, but for my cousin having to be embarrassed about the new smell that was in her house!
Someone found me in the bathroom crying I was 14 years old I was filled with embarrassment! The stench was in my hair so bad too all I could do was spray perfume on it and hope it would get better. It didn’t! And neither did the house! When I finally got the guts to walk out of the bathroom I just felt everyone’s eyes were on me knowing I was the stupid girl that caught her hair on fire at a house warming party! It was pretty bad…My names Sara and no matter how bad the mess is on the floor, it will never be as bad as the stench in your hair, always pay attention to your surroundings aka candles! Come to think of it I never cleaned up that mess on the floor. Oh well! I’d say I hope someone slipped on it to get the attention off of the fire smelly hair girl…but that’s not good karma. Haha
Reading McClouds comic provided much insight and thought to the question “What is dangerous about amplification through simplification.” McCloud explains that we let ourselves at an early age “travel in a another realm, we don’t just observe the cartoon we become it!”(7). I think what he was getting at is that when we let ourselves be entertained by something so simple as a cartoon we can sometimes miss the full picture.
McCloud, Scott. The Vocabulary of Comics. Print.
So after our long careful drive up the hill, we finally got there! There were people I knew people I didn’t know and family members I hadn’t seen in a long time! Which makes this embarrassing story really embarrassing! Everyone knows you need people you don’t know and a lot of them I might add to make an embarrassing story an embarrassing story, which just my luck is what I had! If what I’m about to tell you happened only with close friends and family I probably would have just laughed it off…but I didn’t.
The appetizers were severed, the visiting had been started. It was such a beautiful home, filled with lots of beautiful furniture, among other things like candles. But I’ll get to that. Of course I was hungry, and of course I just had to accidently drop my appetizer all over the floor. This wasn’t the embarrassing part, or it was for about a minute until the real embarrassment began. I spilled the food on tile floor which made me feel bad…but it was tile! No stains, no carpet, no one slipped on the food I was in the clear! For now…
Feeling bad about the food that had been spilled on the floor I see napkins on a table that a couple of women whom I didn’t know were sitting at. It was pretty crowded at that table, but those were the only napkins I could find. I approach the table, apologize for my interruption and reach over the table for the napkins to clean up my mess. Remember those candles I mentioned earlier? Yeah they were all over this table. Being concerned about the mess on the floor and someone slipping on it, the candles were the farthest from my mind. Having long hair like I do you can only guess what happened next….Yes that’s right my hair caught on fire! I didn’t even notice until I smelled something immediately and someone was screaming! I quickly patted my hair like I had never patted my hair before! When I saw the fire was gone I quickly ran to the bathroom, to hear people all around asking each other “What’s that smell?” Hair smells so bad when it catches on fire, no clue why but it does…I know from experience! It being a new home, there shouldn’t be that kind of smell in the air…I felt terrible not only for my burnt hair and my embarrassment of the people who saw it happen at that table, but for my cousin having to be embarrassed about the new smell that was in her house!
Someone found me in the bathroom crying I was 14 years old I was filled with embarrassment! The stench was in my hair so bad too all I could do was spray perfume on it and hope it would get better. It didn’t! And neither did the house! When I finally got the guts to walk out of the bathroom I just felt everyone’s eyes were on me knowing I was the stupid girl that caught her hair on fire at a house warming party! It was pretty bad…My names Sara and no matter how bad the mess is on the floor, it will never be as bad as the stench in your hair, always pay attention to your surroundings aka candles! Come to think of it I never cleaned up that mess on the floor. Oh well! I’d say I hope someone slipped on it to get the attention off of the fire smelly hair girl…but that’s not good karma. Haha
Reading McClouds comic provided much insight and thought to the question “What is dangerous about amplification through simplification.” McCloud explains that we let ourselves at an early age “travel in a another realm, we don’t just observe the cartoon we become it!”(7). I think what he was getting at is that when we let ourselves be entertained by something so simple as a cartoon we can sometimes miss the full picture.
McCloud, Scott. The Vocabulary of Comics. Print.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Blog Number One
The authors of “Contemporary Perspective on Rhetoric” provide many different examples and definitions for the audience to better understand the in’s and outs of Rhetoric. Foss, Foss and Trapp describe Rhetoric by stating, “It is an art and a discipline that facilitates our understanding of the nature and function of symbols in our lives”(1). Throughout the article the authors mention three main topics connecting to rhetoric that allows the audience to grasp a better understanding of rhetoric which are humans, symbols, and communication. Foss, Foss and Trapp explain that humans have the ability to create their lives through symbols. We constantly use symbols in our everyday lives to communicate with one another.
Foss, Foss and Trapp constantly provided the reader with examples of symbols in our lives that we use to communicate, and through these examples I noticed rhetoric’s in my life as well. While reading the authors example of the women going into the hospital because of her severe pain in the arms and chest, it reminded me of the signs we receive from our bodies every day no matter the problem. For example when I feel cranky, drained, and not able to concentrate on my everyday tasks I begin to realize that these are signs that I’m being sleep deprived. I’ve noticed my throat has been itchy lately and that I have developed a terrible cough, I took these signs and communicated with my mother about what cough medicine would be best to buy. We take these symbols and communicate with our doctors, family and friends about the problems we are experiencing. Foss, Foss and Trapp state, “The signs and symbols often intertwine is typical of human communication”(3). We often use signs and symbols without realizing it.
Works Cited
Foss, Sonja, Karen Foss, and Robert Trapp. Contemporary Perspective on Rhetoric. 3rd ed. Carol Rowe and Neil Rowe, 1-15. Print.
rhet•o•ric (r t r- k)
n.
1.
a. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
b. A treatise or book discussing this art.
2. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
3.
a. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject: fiery political rhetoric.
b. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.
4. Verbal communication; discourse.
Works Cited
The Free Dictionary . Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009. Web. 24 Aug 2010.http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rhetoric
rhet•o•ric
ˈrɛt ər ɪkShow Spelled[ret-er-ik] Show IPA
–noun
1.
(in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
2.
the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech.
3.
the study of the effective use of language.
4.
the ability to use language effectively.
5.
the art of prose in general as opposed to verse.
6.
the art of making persuasive speeches; oratory.
7.
(in classical oratory) the art of influencing the thought and conduct of an audience.
8.
(in older use) a work on rhetoric.
Works Cited
Dictionary.com. 25 Aug 2010.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rhetoric.
Foss, Foss and Trapp constantly provided the reader with examples of symbols in our lives that we use to communicate, and through these examples I noticed rhetoric’s in my life as well. While reading the authors example of the women going into the hospital because of her severe pain in the arms and chest, it reminded me of the signs we receive from our bodies every day no matter the problem. For example when I feel cranky, drained, and not able to concentrate on my everyday tasks I begin to realize that these are signs that I’m being sleep deprived. I’ve noticed my throat has been itchy lately and that I have developed a terrible cough, I took these signs and communicated with my mother about what cough medicine would be best to buy. We take these symbols and communicate with our doctors, family and friends about the problems we are experiencing. Foss, Foss and Trapp state, “The signs and symbols often intertwine is typical of human communication”(3). We often use signs and symbols without realizing it.
Works Cited
Foss, Sonja, Karen Foss, and Robert Trapp. Contemporary Perspective on Rhetoric. 3rd ed. Carol Rowe and Neil Rowe, 1-15. Print.
rhet•o•ric (r t r- k)
n.
1.
a. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
b. A treatise or book discussing this art.
2. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
3.
a. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject: fiery political rhetoric.
b. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.
4. Verbal communication; discourse.
Works Cited
The Free Dictionary . Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009. Web. 24 Aug 2010.http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rhetoric
rhet•o•ric
ˈrɛt ər ɪkShow Spelled[ret-er-ik] Show IPA
–noun
1.
(in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
2.
the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech.
3.
the study of the effective use of language.
4.
the ability to use language effectively.
5.
the art of prose in general as opposed to verse.
6.
the art of making persuasive speeches; oratory.
7.
(in classical oratory) the art of influencing the thought and conduct of an audience.
8.
(in older use) a work on rhetoric.
Works Cited
Dictionary.com. 25 Aug 2010.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rhetoric.
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