First Blog Posting
What do you want to learn?
Well since I am still trying to decide what I want my major to be I suppose this is as good of a time as any to actually learn and research animal and planet conservationism. Mainly what I would like to learn about is whether or not that is the path I want to take. That path being dedicated to helping animals and conserving the environment we do have so that people after us can experience the beauty of earth the same way that we have been able to. I want to be one person that helps make a difference and it is about time I start acting like it. So I guess the long and short of this broad question would be I want to learn what I want to do for the rest of my life on earth.
On a smaller scale, if asked this about this class, I am excited to learn how people in the year 2014 can put together projects and essays. Technology has come a long way and I am excited to learn how to make a presence on the internet with a blog.
What is your motivation in the communication situation?
I have no idea how to answer this... What is my motivation? I guess it would be to get as much of my opinion or knowledge out into the communication situation as possible, try and make my point as understood as possible.
Good communicator (group work)
• Diction, fluent with the way you speak
• Solid grasp on some form of communication
• Good listener
• Knowledgeable/willingness to learn
• Ability to deliver the message
• Message has to contain facts or have support to the message you’re delivering
• Ability to break down complex ideas and break them down to rudimentary steps
• Making sense
• Reasonable
Rhetorical Analysis of poster (pg 250 “to analyze”)
I chose to analyze the posters on the immediate left of the exercise, depicting Steve-O in a campaign forPeta2. There are two different pictures but the only thing that changed is the color scheme whichincludes brightness and saturation. As the paragraph between the exercise description and the postersdeducts the designers wanted to incorporate humor into the poster to catch the attention of theiraudience. So basing my evaluation on that theory I think that the top poster is more fitting to the goalthey are trying to accomplish, it’s brighter, Steve-O is more of the focal point because you can make himout more clearly, and it is even easier to read. The colors are more suitable to the hues you would see ina biology lab which is what the poster is referring to, and the green and yellow just ties in more with thethought of biology and Peta2 in my mind for whatever reason. I think that the top poster definitelysupports the purpose of the poster: the saturation is rich and grabs the eye, the hues fit into the subject,and it’s brighter and easier to read. Whereas the second poster does not support the message they aretrying to get across: the saturation is dull and not very vivid and eye catching, the hues just seem of forwhat the poster is talking about, and because the saturation and hues are duller the overall brightnessof the poster is negatively effected.
Writing question 2: My definition of work
Work is something that is hard to define. I work on my homework, I work by doing different tasks at my job, I work on my relationships with friends. Although work can't be defined by one simple action, there is a pattern I realized in all those statements: the work might not be something I want to do, but it is something I have to do in order to achieve certain goals I have set for myself. Whether the work I am doing is something I enjoy or hate, there is an outcome I am seeking to attain from the completion of whatever work I am doing. Work doesn't have to be something you have to force yourself to do, it can be something that you enjoy as much as leisurely activities, but there is something I am hopeful to accomplish by completion of work. Work wouldn't include something I am doing strictly for fun, I can have fun working on something, but watching Netflix isn't work. In my opinion even if I were to get paid to watch Netflix shows I already planned on watching that wouldn't be work. Now, if I were to be paid to watch something I didn't want to watch, maybe then that would be work, but I'm still iffy on that.
My definition of work is reinforces what Ciulla said because you can't simply call one thing working and call it a day, working has many different faces, from the monk meditating to the painter painting. I think I believe that work is something that involves necessity, it is something we have to do in order to accomplish a larger set of goals we have for ourselves. It can be for a job, but it can also just be something that you work on to express yourself or better yourself as a person.
Communication resposibilities
What are our responsibilities to each other when we blog?
I think the number one responsibility that we have to each other when blogging is complete honesty. If you are going to blog than you may as well put it all out there because that is kind of the point, is it not? If I was going to start a blog about my life, for example, I wouldn't go on about how much fun I have bowing my copious amounts of money because that just isn't true. I would talk about my family and my dog and my school and the myriad of emotions I go through every single day. The only other responsibility I can honestly think of when blogging would be to take it seriously. I have never started blogging because I have always found other ways to vent or communicate my feelings, and in all reality I just never saw the purpose of it. This class has already started to put in perspective for me how truly amazing blogging can be so I am excited to see how this goes. And, above all I will keep my personal responsibilities in mind: to be honest and to take it seriously.
Do we have responsibilities to others when we communicate?
This question was on the trickier side for me to answer. I do think we have responsibilities to each other when we communicate but I cannot quite put my finger on what exactly they are. I think the first ones that come to mind are the two I said for the previous question, to take it seriously and be honest. If you aren't taking the communication seriously than either party is bound to walk away with nothing, and if you aren't honest you aren't putting your true self out there for people to get to know. I guess to answer this question as in depth as possible I would have to imagine a specific communication situation. So, for example, I will say that the situation is a lecture hall full of students listening to one very boring teacher. In this instance I would think that I would want to focus on the responsibilities of the student: they would need to listen, be attentive and focused, participate when necessary, and take notes. Now other than the note taking I think that listening, being attentive, and participating are all responsibilities we have to others when we communicate. See, all I needed to do was put it in perspective for myself and I was able to come up with a clear cut answer.
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