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Rhetorical Analysis “Mother Tongue”- Jalin Slater

A genre I interact with and am involved with daily is video games. Video games are a huge genre that encompasses every other genre while having a sort of fixed medium. Video games are enjoyed at home; whether you are alone or with friends or on the go with a mobile device. While there are some stereotypical conventions about games, the thing that makes them great are the differences and similarities between every individual game. Some games are long, some are short, some are designed to be infinite sources of enjoyment and some are designed to convey great messages. The game you get is very dependent on the medium you play it on. If you play games on your phone, odds are you’re just getting a fast paced game with little to no actual story. If you are playing games at home on let’s say a console, depending on what you’re playing you may get a playable narrative, made after years of story boarding. What makes video games what they are is their uniqueness, what every single game, no matter what genre brings to the collective table. Video games don’t have a set audience. anyone can pick up a game and play.

“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan seems to be a persuasive piece that tries to persuade people to be introspective of the language they use and how it affects their day to day lives. The majority of the text is a personal story that depicts how her mother’s “broken” English shaped how she spoke and felt about writing. The beginning of the story is meant to make you realize that the language you use everyday is different according to your audience. Much like shitty first drafts this piece is meant to make us better writers through introspection and changing our default writing processes.

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Rhetorical Analysis – Luis Peguero

One genre that I come across a lot and also involve in it is gaming, the convection is this genre are extremely broad. every time a new game is released the way is advertises or talked about is not always identical to the games the came before it, every year companies try to one up each other in the different to sell the game to their consumers. For example, some companies go to the extreme lengths to blatantly lie about their end product this is one way language is used against the consumer. Building hype is a great way to get people within community to talk about your game, this helps spread the word at the cost that if your game doesn’t live up to the hype it will die extremely fast. Another thing is the way people react to first impression of a game. if you ever seen an E3 trailer, you will noticed how the game looks “alive” there’s stuff to do, other character interact with the players, the game so look amazing, this is a way to easily grabs people attentions, giving them the first impression that you might actually have a fun experience playing that game. What makes gaming what it is the mass appeal that it has, there’s a game out there for everybody, whether its made by a big studio or an indie developer.

After reading Mother Tongue is an autobiography, she talks on how she becomes conscious on the way she speaks the English language, she also talks on her personal opinion of the English language and the different variation of the English language, between talking to a group and talking to family she noticed the different way she uses the English language, she also credits her mom for her own understanding of the English language.

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Rhetorical Analysis _ Mother Tongue – Sara Reyes

One of the many genres I consistently come across is informative/educational. The conventions are usually argumentative, lots of opinions being shared and lots of frustrated people. Information can be interpreted differently especially when it comes to people point of view and applying it to a specific scenarios.

Meetings can go on for hours sometimes even days. One source can say “yes” while the other source says “no”. So half the time we are all frustrated and have to wrap up a 1-2 hour long meeting to conduct additional research and circle back with the new information found. Not every informative article I come across is transparent. Most of the time their is a double meaning behind the information I read. Which is why meetings can go for a long period of time. For the most part, the meeting are professional but their has been times when arguments can arise. When the disagreements come up I tend to laugh just listening to the back and forth of professionals arguing because they either read too deep into the information provided or because they found a different section that differs to what we were already discussing but, from the same source.

My genre is information because it is not something you can change. It is not an opinion, it is not based on someone’s life, non-fiction etc.  The information provided is solid and based off off facts. It will either tell you how to do it, why to do it and/or when to do it.

Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” is an autobiographical essay with a hint of humor. She speaks first hand on some of the things she had to do for her mother because her mom English was “broken”. He experiences had humor in it when she had to speak to the boss on the phone on behalf of her mom (while making believe she was her mom) but her mom was yelling in the background the whole time. She experienced embarrassing moments as she passed for her mom speaking perfect English, but in person her mom spoke broken English. Just knowing that they knew it was her speaking on her mom behalf made her feel embarrassed.