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1. Writing to our friends, family and instructor

2. With your friends it would be more casual language and with your parents it would be more formal, you would not text them to tell them you would do it in person. If telling your instructor, it would be in an email it would be formal and concise - not much slang used.

3. Our purpose for writing would be to accept it and support it, shouldn't be negative.

4. For friends short with simple phrases and maybe more fun details. Parents would need an explanation with a story behind it.While telling our instructor the language would be a bit more formal, with full sentences, correct punctuation and good grammar.

5. Writing to inform the people around us and update them on our lives. We hope to gain their support and approval.

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Week 1: Find 4 examples of hedging from the interview and write down reasons for the use of hedges

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Week 1: Find 4 examples of hedging from the interview and write down reasons for the use of hedges

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Hedging language | Reasons hedging language used
“...to have the potential..” | The author is not sure completely if what he says applies %100 but he does know that they have the potential to have a very high intelligence.
“We think that crows are smart” | The author talks about how intelligence is diverse based on different species. There isn't any accurate information on whether or not this is true other than the way we think and act and how we see it in animals. (human qualities).
“We often measure intelligence…” | The author's use of the word “often” emphasizes that individuals are only measuring the intelligence of mammals in relation to weight which does not encounter other factors that contribute to intelligence.

“Dolphins are said to have…”
| Used this language because they’re                not able to measure their intelligence the way they want to yet.

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Week 1: Outline a “Real-World” Rhetorical Situation

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Week 1: Outline a “Real-World” Rhetorical Situation

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Audience: During a Job, you  would talk to your coworkers, boss, and customers. For any job, you would need to stay professional with body language, tone, and speaking style. Dressing professionally helps to convey professional manners. One time I failed to communicate effectively was when I didn't inform a customer fully about what they were going to purchase. To fix this I could have clarified that for them beforehand. One time I communicated effectively was when someone was happy with the service and the outcome of their purchase.
Purpose: The mission of any company is to make the customer happy with their purchase and help them have a good experience. Tasked to complete all responsibilities your job had you do. This contributed to the organization because it helps the organization run smoothly and serve those that it is meant to.
Context:The medium of communication that was used is face-to-face communication. Using face-to-face communication positively affected our ability to communicate because it made each customer’s experience their own. Being respectful towards each other in a work environment helps to provide the best service to customers.

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Week 2: What did you learn in Chapter 6 that you didn’t know before?

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Week 2: What did you learn in Chapter 6 that you didn’t know before?

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When reading chapter 6, I realized that genres apply to so much more than just movies. We encounter genres everyday of our life without even noticing them.This chapter taught me how important genres are to social practices and that some people even call genre’s “etiquette”. For example, some are used primarily for social relations like holiday letters, birthday letters, and thank you notes.

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Week 2: What did we try to find in all these cereal boxes?

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Week 2: What did we try to find in all these cereal boxes?

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In the cereal box activity, we were trying to find the audience, purpose and structure of the text. The cereal box activity related to chapter 13, because every choice each cereal brand made was intentional. Whether it was including a large picture of the cereal front and center, using a lot of bright colors, or including nutritional facts like the calories,non-gmo, or kosher. All of these choices were made to make their cereal more appealing to their audience. For example, the grape-nuts cereal was obviously marketed to people who are active and outdoor-sy so they made sure to include lots of nutritional facts on the front, emphasizing that this was a good and “healthy” option for their audience.

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Which one of these are writing conventions?

1.  Colors

2. Fonts

3. Text size

4. Spacing

5. All of the above

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Week 3: Discuss in your groups and summarize what you understand from each concept below. 

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Week 3: Discuss in your groups and summarize what you understand from each concept below. 

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Text: different methods of communicating and using language, not limited to just written texts and words.
Rhetoric: the overall purpose of a text, the reasoning of the writing.
Rhetorical Situation:
The rhetorical situation considers the audience, relationship and purpose of the theoretical situation.
Genre:The category of writing or texts(drama,action or comedy).
Medium:
What the text is read or viewed on, for example, it could be viewed digitally on an email or on paper.

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1. How do writers' identities or roles change depending on the target community they are reaching out to?
- Writers change their identities and roles when speaking to different audiences to relate to them more, in most cases. They have the ability to change their tone, language, and purpose to accommodate any audience. The writer does this to better fit the audience, doing this can change the overall structure of the writing and change the writer's identity, in the process.

2. How do these roles influence the style of their writing?
- The role a writer is taking plays a huge part in the style of the writing. The purpose of the writing influences the structure, tone, language, and style. If the writer needs to persuade an audience in the direction he wants, he will need to use a different approach than a writer who is writing a case study. The writer needs to change their style of writing to fit and relate to the audience.

3. What do YOU need to do if you need to understand different styles adopted when reaching out to different communities?
-  To understand different styles of writing to certain audiences I would first need to access the structure of the text. Then, I would need to assess the purpose and goal of the writer and what kind of tone and language they are choosing to deliver it in. These attributes would help me understand the different styles used by writers for different audiences.

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1. I created this post so I could show and update my friends on my month-long trip to Europe.

2. My audience for this post was my friends and family.

3. I wrote “Spain>>>” because Spain was by far my favorite country that I visited.

4. I used this caption to emphasize that Spain was my favorite country during my trip.

5. I got a decent amount of likes on this post because it was different from my other ones, considering I was in Europe and it was also my first post in a while.

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https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/themes-essays/what-is-dance/ballet-is-it-or-isnt-it/

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/ballet-dance-guide

https://australianballet.com.au/ballet-101/short-history-of-ballet

https://www.adanceplace.com/a-history-of-ballet/

https://cather.unl.edu/writings/nonfiction/nf004

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Week 6: Genre Analysis of an Online Periodical

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Week 6: Genre Analysis of an Online Periodical

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Introduction

Introduction of the genre and its rhetorical situation:

The genre I chose to analyze is online periodicals, specifically website articles. These articles are posted periodically to their designated websites and all of my samples focus on the same topic - ballet. The audience or discourse community for this genre would be anyone who has access to the internet. Online articles are usually more convenient and accessible to most people, because once they are on the internet they stay there. Physical periodicals would be different because you might lose it, or not even be able to get it once it’s published. More specifically, because these online articles are about ballet, the audience might be narrowed down to people within the dance community who have access to the internet. Online periodicals consist of digital journals, newspapers, magazines, articles, or blogs. In this case, the genre I am focusing on is online articles.

The purpose of this genre:

The purpose of online periodicals is to publish news or writing in general, regularly. This genre of writing has many benefits which is why most writers create online versions of their publications. Having an online article gives the writer the benefit of potentially reaching a wider audience rather than just print publications. Online periodicals also give the option to use graphics, for example videos or audios. These benefits help this genre give the reader a more immersive experience and it could help them understand and comprehend the writing better overall.

Methods

Methods for finding sample texts:

My approach to selecting these 5 articles was to first look up the history and evolution of ballet. Already knowing prior to writing this analysis I knew that ballet had dated all the way back to the Italian Renaissance. To find the best articles I thought - including not just the history but the evolution of ballet was important based on the amount of time it has been since it first originated. Next, I made sure to select reliable sources coming from ballet companies, ballet organizations, universities, and well established dance businesses. After reading and analyzing each article I felt that I fully grasped what ballet is, where and when it came from, and all the evolutions and changes it has made throughout its history.

Introduction of the samples:

The first article [1] I found on the internet discusses what ballet is traditionally known for, codified technique and a series of steps, but asks the question of “where is the place for innovation in Ballet?”. This article asks many questions of the reader and provides lots of graphics from different sources to make the idea of the text easier to visualize. It then uses bullet points and lists to explain how ballet has evolved over the centuries and what different styles came up during its long and glorious history. Second, is article [2] written by Masterclass, a well established and reliable dance/arts business. This sample discusses exactly what it says in the title, the history and origins of ballet. This sample is similar to [1] in a sense that they both use bullet points and lists, however this text uses it to list types of ballet and the most famous ballets. My third article [3], written and published by the well-known Australian Ballet. “Combining dance, music and song, the earliest ballets were enactments of events from mythology, heavy on gods and heroes, and featuring wildly fantastical costumes and masks”, (Lehmann, 2020), [3]. Then comes an article written by an established dance academy, [4]. This sample focuses more on the history of ballet and is written in separate sections talking about each important chapter in ballet’s history, written in chronological order. Lastly, [5] written by Willa Cather and published by The Willa Cather Archive discusses something a little bit different, talking about how the training for ballet has evolved over centuries and how it differs around the world. This text doesn’t use subheadings like the other samples do, but still utilizes photos and goes in chronological order describing the history of training for ballet. The discourse community for this genre would be dancers, specifically ballet dancers, but also anyone within the dance community. Ballet is just one of hundreds of styles of dance, others include folk dance, jazz, tap, modern, lyrical, ballroom, and hip-hop.

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Literacy - ability to read and write

Financial literacy - you can manage your money

-you can build knowledge, trust, refute certain information directed to you

-you know what to buy, where, for how much, and for what quality

What is deixis? Why is it a metaphor used to describe the changing meaning of being literate?

-Deixis is the linguistic term for how we define literacies

-the meaning of having knowledge, i.e., being literate is also deictic

-Deixis refers to,  “person, place, and time… whose interpretation is relative to the occasion of utterance, and to the identity of the speaker and the intended audience”.

- Multiple literacies are called Multiliteracies

- Today literacy is more than -  a single notion that only embeds strongly, formalized, monolingual, and prescriptive written forms of communication.

- Broad plural literacy is - understanding of literacies that both embed diversity of text forms and multiple forms of meaning making in these forms.

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Week 8:What are multiliteracies? What are new literacies? What is multimodality?

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Week 8:What are multiliteracies? What are new literacies? What is multimodality?

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1 Multiliteracies are the different types of literacies someone acquires. The different genres of discussion someone is familiar with.

2.New literacies are new ways to share literacy through different presentations by gaining new information and developing technology that give us new ideas.

3. Multimodality adjoins multiple modes together

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Week 9: Events that lead me to pursue dance and have dance literacy

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Week 9: Events that lead me to pursue dance and have dance literacy

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I have had countless events that have influenced me to pursue dance as a career but I will only reference two for this activity. The first experience I had was winning 1st place as a 15yr old out of all the participants at the Youth American Grand Prix (YAGP). YAGP is the biggest international ballet competition for students 9-19 years old in the world. This was such a surreal moment for me and nothing will ever compare to this feeling. I had competed in my home state of Texas, specifically, in Houston where my extended family lives. So, my whole family was there to see me and my childhood best friend as well. This achievement opened so many doors for me and led me to one of my next experiences that influenced me to pursue this career.

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Week 9: Events that led me to pursue dance and have dance literacy

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Week 9: Events that led me to pursue dance and have dance literacy

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My next experience was having the owners of YAGP, Larissa and Gennadi Saveliev, personally ask me to come meet with them during the competition. In this meeting I was completely nervous and didn't know what to expect. They soon told me that I had the potential to dance anywhere in the world and they will be the bridge to help get me there. They asked me what my dream ballet companies were and I said the Paris Opera Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, and the Académie Princesse Grace in Monaco. They told me to choose one and I picked the Stuttgart Ballet in Stuttgart, Germany.