It's been on my mind, and brought to my attention from third parties who would read it that....
WE HAVE NOT BEEN RECIEVING BLOG TOPICS IN CLASS.
Tragic.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Diction
Well, in class today we discussed "Diction", essentially what types of speech are appropriate in what contexts. To be honest.... It's not really anything new to me... I guess I learned that Elizabeth the first potentially wrote a letter regarding the Spanish armada back in 1988 haha (Just joking if anyone is even reading this blog who was in the class.... but you have to admit that was pretty funny)
Anyways, truth be told, the class wasn't really anything new to me. I guess it was terms and styles I have become familiar with in the past.. I can't say where I became familiar with it, but I was.
Still a good class though.
Oh wait, I did learn one new term "Functional Specialization" Which means Language suitable for a specific discipline... such as Biological terms or Philisophical.
There we go.
Anyways, truth be told, the class wasn't really anything new to me. I guess it was terms and styles I have become familiar with in the past.. I can't say where I became familiar with it, but I was.
Still a good class though.
Oh wait, I did learn one new term "Functional Specialization" Which means Language suitable for a specific discipline... such as Biological terms or Philisophical.
There we go.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Playing Favorites
So what is my favorite type of essay structure?
Well.... as much as I see the importance of writing with a style that gives credit to opposing sides, I personally prefer the Classical style, for the sole reason that it is basically a debate format. Haha, so in all honesty, i just like a good debate, I appreciate a well put together argument with solid points and an objective tone, and I especially like the Classical style's inclusion of a rebuttal type section to "throw away" any "strong" points an opposition may think they have.
What a satisfying feeling to know you came out on top in a good debate.
What a good essay format.
It even sounds classy.... "Classical", how nice.
Well.... as much as I see the importance of writing with a style that gives credit to opposing sides, I personally prefer the Classical style, for the sole reason that it is basically a debate format. Haha, so in all honesty, i just like a good debate, I appreciate a well put together argument with solid points and an objective tone, and I especially like the Classical style's inclusion of a rebuttal type section to "throw away" any "strong" points an opposition may think they have.
What a satisfying feeling to know you came out on top in a good debate.
What a good essay format.
It even sounds classy.... "Classical", how nice.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Summer- Izing
The following is a video, it is a comedy video made by a snowboarding movie maker from Whistler BC, Robjn Taylor. The video consists of a quick progression throughout a year in Robjn's life, making outrageous, yet hilarious, claims as to how he spent the year. Despite his unique.. and very strange comedic styling, he has claimed quite a vast internet fan base, and continues to make comedy shorts out of his home town.
The video starts off with the claim that he was working on a crossword puzzle, and when he can't find a certain word, puts the crossword puzzle aside and distracts himself with other activities for a full year. In the end, he makes quite an interesting discovery, bringing the story to a close.
"Streblo"
or
"Too Much Pistachio Pudding Makes Me Feel Sick" By Robjn Taylor
Anyways, if you chose to watch the movie even after reading the above description then you must have made a summarizing opinion in favour of it. What YOU as the reader did was look at a brief overview, and summarized, a common tool used by readers of writings (and blogs! which kind of falls into the category of writings, so lets move on).
Anyways, I know I summarize many things, I never judge a book by anything but it's cover, and if a movie doesn't have a flashy poster? then no deal. Same goes with people, Quick summary, and you are set. It's called first impressions, watch out!
The end (of this post)
****I claim no responsibility for the video, i think it's funny no more, i was not involved in it's creation, conception, filming or editing. I do my own work thank you very much
I just thought it was funny.
The video starts off with the claim that he was working on a crossword puzzle, and when he can't find a certain word, puts the crossword puzzle aside and distracts himself with other activities for a full year. In the end, he makes quite an interesting discovery, bringing the story to a close.
"Streblo"
or
"Too Much Pistachio Pudding Makes Me Feel Sick" By Robjn Taylor
Anyways, if you chose to watch the movie even after reading the above description then you must have made a summarizing opinion in favour of it. What YOU as the reader did was look at a brief overview, and summarized, a common tool used by readers of writings (and blogs! which kind of falls into the category of writings, so lets move on).
Anyways, I know I summarize many things, I never judge a book by anything but it's cover, and if a movie doesn't have a flashy poster? then no deal. Same goes with people, Quick summary, and you are set. It's called first impressions, watch out!
The end (of this post)
****I claim no responsibility for the video, i think it's funny no more, i was not involved in it's creation, conception, filming or editing. I do my own work thank you very much
I just thought it was funny.
Monday, September 24, 2007
My Reaction to J.H.P's writing
Okee Dokee, What did I think of J.H. Plumb's writing style?
Well, I like it personally. As a matter of fact, today in class while my group was trying to decide how to start our paragraph (that we had been contemplating together), I (believe it or not) actually (no joke) referenced (for real) the tone of J.H. Plumbs "The Dying Family" as a suggestion on how we should/could/would write our paragraph. True Story
As a result, I approve and enjoy J.H.P's writing style, and would not restrain from using such methods in my own writing.
Yep.
Well, I like it personally. As a matter of fact, today in class while my group was trying to decide how to start our paragraph (that we had been contemplating together), I (believe it or not) actually (no joke) referenced (for real) the tone of J.H. Plumbs "The Dying Family" as a suggestion on how we should/could/would write our paragraph. True Story
As a result, I approve and enjoy J.H.P's writing style, and would not restrain from using such methods in my own writing.
Yep.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
An Interesting Paragraph
What I have learned about helping the Audience follow my writing.
Keep it simple (stupid).
Essentially in class I have Learned that the best way to keep a reader interested in what I am saying, (no matter what it is about), is making sure that in that the opening paragraph has a few certain things. These things are important because they keep the reader interested, they can be varied in different ways, particular methods that are exciting enough to keep the reader following along, until the thesis. I felt that this is an important skill and recognize it's importance. I Believe, (which I know you may not) that a good paragraph will have that certain thing that will "grip" the reader. Examples of these, (that we learned about in class) include the use of examples and humorous anecdotes, statistics, etc basically anything that will grip the readers attention soon, especially a strong thesis statement, one that doesn't flop about.
Now if you are reading this far, you will have (hopefully) recognized the above paragraph as being the most uninteresting, repetitive, rambling that is an example of a BAD paragraph, and for your dedication to read the entire thing (despite how painful it might have been) impresses me.
This is how I chose to illustrate that point, by showing that I recognize how horrible a paragraph can be without the elements that grip a reader.
Keep it simple (stupid).
Essentially in class I have Learned that the best way to keep a reader interested in what I am saying, (no matter what it is about), is making sure that in that the opening paragraph has a few certain things. These things are important because they keep the reader interested, they can be varied in different ways, particular methods that are exciting enough to keep the reader following along, until the thesis. I felt that this is an important skill and recognize it's importance. I Believe, (which I know you may not) that a good paragraph will have that certain thing that will "grip" the reader. Examples of these, (that we learned about in class) include the use of examples and humorous anecdotes, statistics, etc basically anything that will grip the readers attention soon, especially a strong thesis statement, one that doesn't flop about.
Now if you are reading this far, you will have (hopefully) recognized the above paragraph as being the most uninteresting, repetitive, rambling that is an example of a BAD paragraph, and for your dedication to read the entire thing (despite how painful it might have been) impresses me.
This is how I chose to illustrate that point, by showing that I recognize how horrible a paragraph can be without the elements that grip a reader.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Other classes??
Hmnm.... oh Prof Enz, you are always raising the bar for difficult topics to randomly write about in the blog. Today? Happens to be "What is an Issue that you are discussing in ANOTHER class", interesting topic indeed, not only is the question one that requires a good answer, but it's ALSO one which causes us to think about our work outside of English, bravo, bravo.
Anyways, a discussion we've been having in another class would be.... Ah, well in Philosophy we are discussing the "Value of Philosophy" (for a brief time, we will soon move into arguements about the existance of God), but at the moment it's been discussion about whether Philosophy is worth learning at all. Personally I'm loving it, that class is the most interesting class I have been in since kindergarten I think. Anyways.... I can't quite remember how long this was supposed to be, and truth be told, this is being done in a rush so I havn't been able to put too much thought into it, but thats the answer to the question. Philosophy, is it worth it.
Thats all.
Anyways, a discussion we've been having in another class would be.... Ah, well in Philosophy we are discussing the "Value of Philosophy" (for a brief time, we will soon move into arguements about the existance of God), but at the moment it's been discussion about whether Philosophy is worth learning at all. Personally I'm loving it, that class is the most interesting class I have been in since kindergarten I think. Anyways.... I can't quite remember how long this was supposed to be, and truth be told, this is being done in a rush so I havn't been able to put too much thought into it, but thats the answer to the question. Philosophy, is it worth it.
Thats all.
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