“Never give up”

“YOLO”

Never regret”

“Everything happens for a reason”

“Life is precious”

“Forget but never forget”

My motto: “ Who you become depends on who is around you.”

My audience: This can help anyone around the world who is in any type of group who can influence you to do bad or good.

Philosophical Quote Response
1.Based on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote, I think the purpose of his message is to tell others to focus on the present rather than the past or the future. By focusing on the present then they can now see what is really of importance.
2.I believe that anyone can write philosophical statements is due to experiences that they want to try to convey to others.
3.I might expect to encounter these types of writing in some inspirational writing to possibly change someone.
4.I believe anyone can understand these philosophical excerpts because if the person is able to read it then there is a chance for the author’s message to be conveyed. Ralph Waldo’s possible audience can be directed towards people who are dwelling in the past or to focused on the future.
5.You can associate philosophical writing with people who want to give advice to people.
6.If I were to make my own life philosophy, I would include something about equality and respect. For me to be able to write a philosophical excerpt / quote then I probably would need some more life experience.
7.The types of writing that can help give advice about living could come from inspirational writing or from history.

Discourse Communities:
I believe that there are some discourse communities are given more power / voice in society than others because there are some communities that just have a larger influence on people.
Language does play a role in discourse communities because if someone is unable to understand what the people in that community could be saying therefore leading people to stray from that community. Depending on the language, it could impact someone’s identity because the language that the persons knows could only interact with people that also know that language (unless willing to trying to interact with other people who do not know the language.)

Hello all!  Please be sure to have the excerpt from the DSM4 and 5 printed with you in class (about personality disorders)–I had posted the link last week.  Also, if you did not already, please be sure to have completed the questions about your mottos based on the life philosophies discussion.  PLEASE also post one of your mottos on our page and who your audience might be, whom you might help the most with your ideas or words.  See you all tomorrow!!

“Too much  choice is as debilitating of meaning as is too little choice. In language, too much variation results eventually in lack of meaning: mutual unintelligibly” (Devitt, “Genre” 53) – pg 259

I find the quote to be helpful because it really is true how to little choice and how too much choice can stop a person from picking something. I have been in those types of situation and it really can be to hard to make a choice.

The kinds of writing that we encounter in our everyday lives are texting, writing personal or professional emails.

In our academic majors or classes we face essays of any types such as argumentative or informative. Another type of writing is short stories as well with quick writes.

1. Comics
2. Subtitles / Captions
3. Mathematical expressions
4. Computer programming codes.

Hi all,

Please read and print the following link and bring it to class Monday and Wednesday:

http://www.psi.uba.ar/academica/carrerasdegrado/psicologia/sitios_catedras/practicas_profesionales/820_clinica_tr_personalidad_psicosis/material/dsm.pdf

Please be sure to also bring the text that I had posted last week by Kerry Dirk.

Here is also another genre example that we will be working with–please print this and bring this to class Monday as well:

Genre Example:

These quotes are all taken from philosophers. Specifically, these philosophers are known as ones who write about philosophies of life or living. The second example is taken from a text that is also considered a religious philosophy that some people live by or follow.

These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great perfection appears defective, so use can never make it worn; great fullness seems vacant, so use can never make it empty. Great straightness seems bent; great skill seems clumsy; great eloquence seems inarticulate. Haste overcomes cold, tranquility overcomes heat.
Clear and tranquil, be a standard to the world.

Lao Tzu ( from the Dao de Jing)

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche (these are three separate quotes)

…all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties. And still men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hi all!

I had forgotten to tell you all that I do also need an electronic copy of your first draft of your essay (before your revisions)–please either email it to me OR you can post it on our course site is great as well.  Please have the text with you “Navigating Genres” on Monday.  Please also come in with one or two examples of genres that we encounter in our lives (these can also include work related and academic of course or literary examples).

Let’s think about this quote from the Dirk text when we choose our examples:

“…all genres matter because they shape our everyday lives.”

Please email me if you have any questions.

1. Ads on the train, bus, while we drive (billboards)
2. Text messages (slang, memes, social media posts and status)
3. Subtitles and captions (when we watch shows in other languages)
4. Logos and slogans
5. Personal documents (passport, birth certificate, SSN, resume)