Me and the Reading!~

FIRST BLOG!!!

So, My Name is Kyran Million. I anticipated that this first blog would be about my reading for my academic writing class so I will include my response to my reading after my introduction.

I am 26 years old. I was born in Santa Barbara and am the 6^th Generation of Santa Barbarians in my family. I was just recently engaged to my fiancé Clancy! She is amazing and beautiful and she is my very best friend. I have two cats and dog that take up a lot of my free time and I enjoy playing music. I play in a band called Young Million. I’ve been signed to record label and played music in Europe and the United States. My favorite meal is always a great salad, Buffalo wings and a tall beer. I play beach volleyball and am quite a fan of board games. If you have any more questions about who I am and what I’m about I love people and getting to know more about all of you so please ask me when you see me in Class.

That was a Cool read! I thoroughly enjoyed the graphic text portion of “Understanding Rhetoric” reading. I thought that it was an engaging spin on applying the concepts of Rhetoric in a range of different learning styles. The reading brought back a lot of fundament concepts that I had forgotten such as Aristotle’s Pathos, Ethos, and Logos concepts of Rhetoric. Moving forward, I can see how applying these concepts will make me a more effective writer and help me appeal to my intended audiences. I also loved how they began with encouraging exploring your own mind and physical spaces where writing takes place as sources of inspiration. I think this helped me make conclusions about how I would like to go about my personal writing processes for future projects and subjects.

“Everything is an Argument” was a good read and used a lot of the same concepts and tools that were mentioned in the Rhetoric readings. I like discovering the differences between how arguments are used, when they are being used and why. Understanding why certain arguments are used and how makes all the difference when you are either convincing or persuading your audience. I never really thought about it before, but the reading highlighted the three occasions for arguments and what details in the conversation should be highlighted and presented for a good argument. Arguments about the past should rely on “forensic” or facts that have already occurred. Present or “epideictic” focus on praise or blame of a thing or individual and future, “Deliberative” will deal with what opposing opinions should do about a theoretical occurrence or events to come.  These types of arguments are not with out witness or scrutiny however, and all of the different instances where an argument can take place must be placed in context and have an audience. The text also takes these two factors into consideration and explains that not only must an argument have the rhetoric to be compelling, but the audience and context of the arguments creation will also determine the outcome of which argument will enact change or influence.

-Kyran