A genre that I find myself mostly involved in is podcast. I usually listen to podcast while working, or driving. One podcast in particular is The Joe Rogan Experience. His podcast span anywhere from thirty minutes long to three hours. Depending on how important or famous the person being interviewing is, the show usually last longer, like Elon Musk or Bernie Sanders. What I tend to enjoy about his podcast is even though he is on such a large platform with so much influence, Joe and his interviewee just talk like if they were by themselves. No holding back and they don’t have to be professional. So its cool to see these people cursing, or being funny, or even having a drink with Joe when your use to seeing them on a professional level. Not one of his podcast are the same. Each show has a different tone directed toward the viewer. If he has someone with a political background on the show could be quite informative, like Bernie Sanders or Tulsi Gabbard. The questions he asks and the tone he uses to these people is on more of a serious side. Compared to people like Joey Diaz or Dave Chappelle where he would just joke around with them, or tell stories. What makes this genre what it is, is that there is no major companies involved with podcast (for the most part.) Its usually a small team just uploading videos to youtube, or spotify, with no influence from corporate America. So there not mandated to act a certain way, or talk about certain things, its just people in their true form talking, and that’s what I think separates podcast as a genre from others. After having read the article I think the genre is auto-biography. The author talks about her life and how it is effected by the English language. She mentions how English effected her school life negatively, but she had positive interactions with the language as well, like when she was pretending to be her mother on the phone.
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For the most part I never really pay attention to the different types of rhetoric, however in reading Laura Bolin Carroll article “Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps towards Rhetoric Analysis” made me look at different forms of rhetoric. In the article Carroll refers to a quote by Kenneth Burke, “rhetoric is everywhere wherever there is persuasion there rhetoric.” For example, as a homeowner I frequently visit the department store Home Depot. Upon entering the store on most days, a display table is setup with a Sales representative advertising solar panels.  This genre of advertisements very crafty.  The target audience are homeowner’s the perfect setting for this is a store that is base in-home improvements. The sell pitch is normally is “I can cut your electric bill in half” or “I can save you a lot of money on your home.” For the average homeowner its like music to your ears. The phase saves money or cutting a utility bill in half is like someone is playing your favorite song.
At this point the Sale representative has my attention and now I’m hook.  He began to expand on the item. The conventions are basely on the thousand I can save. In additions how the transition into solar panels also benefits the environment.  For the most part the Sales representative will use very convincing phrase   like “this is smart decision” “more money in your pocket.” These tactics are now starting to me entice my intellect on being frugal.  Towards the end of this short presentation, they will also inform you how solar panel are better for the environment, and how I will be helping the earth for future generations to come.  By the end of the presentation, I   start to wonder why most houses or buildings do not have solar panels install.
In the Home Deport example the Sale representative using the correct language has deter me from my intended propose of coming to Home Depot.    In the article Mother Tongue   author Amy Tan face many adversities in her quest to become a writer. When giving the opportunity to write a fiction stories at first, she felt need to use crafted sentences to satisfy her critic.   Not feeling comfortable with this genre of written, she abandons this format. She decides to make her target audience her mother. Her mother a Chinse lady who spoke as Tan’s describe “simple” English. The way Tan’s mother spoke “simple” English inspire Tan’s genre of written. This article shares some similarity to an Arthur name Gloria Anzaldua. She wrote a letter title “Speaking In Tongues: A letter to 3rd World Women Writers.” She encourages female’s writer across the world to abandon traditional genre of written and embrace a genre of written to reflect their heritage.
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“Shitty First Draft”
While reading “Shitty First Draft” by Anne Lamott, she exhibits several steps she uses when she’s uses when writing a rough draft. As I read it the article, I found my view on writing remains the same. Even thought Lamott and I can relate on the panicking, I as a writer find it easier to bounce my ideas off of another person such as a teacher or my mom its easier to verbalize what I’m trying to say rather than struggle with overthinking, because what I think doesn’t always equate to what I write. I have extremely bad writers block. After reading the essay, a takeaway is to just say what i have to say and if it doesn’t make sense polish it where it’s understandable to the reader.
