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In the Norton Field Guide, the reading talked about media design, purpose, and grabbing the attention of the readers. All of these topics intermingle with each other, without one you lack the other.  Media design is crucial because something bland and boring won’t grab the attention of your readers. It’s important that you build and construct something the is creative and resembles what you are trying to get the reader to understand(purpose).

It’s important to catch the readers’ attention simply because you are trying to get a point across to them. If you lose the reader, then you lose to chance to persuade them to support what you are pitching.

Lastly, what good is all of this without purpose? Purpose is the meat of your argument. Without purpose your argument is invalid. Express what you want the reader to understand with a detailed well thought out summary. No purpose = No followers.

Media design plays a role in our multimodal post. It's only multimodal if there is effect put into the post and the images we add to the post aid the strength of our purpose. Communication was created for the purpose of grabbing attention and not being bland as you stated. Because no one wants to pay attention to what you're saying if they are bored and if no one pays attention to what you’re communicating your purpose will not come across.

This week I will be discussing designing text from the NFG. It shows us how to get an audience to read text using various strategies such as keeping it simple, balanced, consistent, and use colors to your advantage. When designing text we still think about purpose, audience, genre, and stance. This helps us see which route to take when trying to capture audiences attention. Designing text takes creativity and a clear vision on what your trying to accomplish. Everying that is placed on a designed text should have a purpose in order to tie the writing and pictures together. 

Although designing text is new to us, it has been around for a while. Look at this Coca-Cola advertisement. It shows a Military man drinking coke, which attracts the audence of all men saying Coca-Cola is for Strong men. The stance of this advertisement is that Coca-Cola is great for you, don’t you see the big smile on that man. The Picture is simple and uses the color red to focus on the word “Coca-Cola. 

One thing I didn’t see was how you can tie the designing text back to your major or the assignment we are currently doing. You could have spoken about how we are trying to grab the audience attention with our Infographs. I don’t know your major but strategies when it comes to designing text is useful in any major. It can be used to grab lots of people’s attention. Finally I wonder what question you are asking yourself when it comes to this topic. 

You did a great job man! Just wished you answered some of the questions about the topic pertaining to your major, hopefully you can add that! Great Job again!

This weeks reading that I will be evaluating is about Abstracts. The main ideas of this chapter was how abstracts are constructed, the three different types of abstracts that exist, and what details go into each type of abstract. 

The content from this chapter connects to my future career of being a football coach because like in an informative abstract, before every practice the coach will give the team a short over view of what the team will be doing that practice. What the coach will talk about in that time is exactly what you put into an informative abstract such as: main points of the paper or in the case of my career of practice, description of the paper or a description of what the team would do that specific day, methods which the team will use to accomplish the work out for that day, results because the team wants/ needs to know if they are getting better or worse, and at the end of practice like at the end of an abstract the team will get a conclusion. 

The reading makes me gain a more robust understanding on why people right abstracts and what the are used for. Because of the reading I understand how to read articles I can gain fast knowledge of an article by first reading the abstract. The major also helps me understand the major assignment we are currently working on, because now when I look for articles to put in my annotated bibliography so I don’t have to read all the really long articles. I can read over the abstract to make sure that is the article that I want.

A really good point also was the relation to our assignment, the annotated bibliography, on my post I discuss the ways in which you can get a good percentage of exactly what you want and need to make your paper and annotated bibliography credible and good to read. Without abstracts, there are other ways to find important information but with an abstract, it is telling you “This is what I want you to know because it answers my paper and may help you with yours.” 

Through my readings from the Norton Field Guide gives us an understanding of how and why we should write things depending on the purpose, audience ,and genre. The main question is why are we writing something?

 From the start everybody needs to have a purpose of what they are writing. Whether it’s to persuade, inform or even to entertain, there always has to be a reason for your writing. Then after you think of the purpose now the question of who will read your writing. This is pretty striaghtforward but it is necessary to point this out becuase for the simple fact of knowing the rules of who your writing too. For example, if you’re writing to your girlfriend I’m pretty sure you’re not going to use the words dude or bro. And finally we have have a genre of what your writing. This shows often helps the enhance the purpose of you’re writing and what kind of audience you will attract. Genre can range from writing jokes to writing poems. Choosing the type of Genre depends on who your trying to attract and what the purpose of your writing. We all have to start somewhere when writing……

I am a psychology major and this relates to be because psychology writing has a lot of informative writing and statistics. So if I go by the 3 topics i just talked about my purpose would be to inform, my audience would be professors or fellow peers, and genre would be a report. 

This reading help us with our major assignment becuase this provides us the basics of why we write anything. The 3 major concepts we should think about when writing. I believe this reading helps us clearly think of why we are writing, who we are writing to, and how it should be written. 

The purpose of our post was to interpret what we were reading in order for our audience (myself in this case) to think from the perspective of the writer (yourself in this case). The audience is mixed because you don't know every single person who will respond to your post but we all share some kinds of similarities. The genre, of course, is social media and this in term influenced how you created your post using multimodal practices.

Happy Spring Everyone! My name is Audrey, I am your instructor and I’m excited to get to know all of you. This Intro Post assignment is the first step in that direction and here’s a chance for you to get to know a little about me as well.

I’m an El Paso native, born and raised in EPT/Ciudad Juarez, and I love it here. I have a son—Daniel, who is the smartest, kindest, sweetest, funniest, most handsome thing to arrive on planet earth. Through him, I’ve also learned that the best kind of entertainment is the kind you get when people think no one is watching. For example…

Much of my life surrounds school and Danny—aka Peanut. (He acts like he hates that I call him that, but I know he loves it). But I try and make space for me: I run regularly and lift often.

I salsa! #Salsera #Dancetilyoudrop

And I love soccer. Liga MX, La Liga, English Premier League, Champions League, Bundesliga, Serie A, MLS, and so on and so on and so on.

I strive to achieve life GOALS, estilo Neymar Jr.

I have a BA in Political Science, an MA in Rhetoric and Writing, a Graduate Certificate in Intelligence and National Security, and I’m wrapping up my PhD in Rhetoric and Composition.

My humanitarian and activists efforts center on freedom and justice for Palestine. #EndTheOccupation #PeaceforPalestine

In my time here as a PhD student, I have focused on rhetoric and resistance. I’m currently researching big data and social impact—think Twitter conversations and what they mean to society, people, governments, and social movements. I argue that the discourse happening on social media gives us the chance to understand real people, real desires, and can offer lots of opportunities for shared knowledge and lead the way to diplomatic, counterinsurgency, and peace building efforts worldwide. So I’m basically trying to be this guy.

I’m also researching issues of diversity and disparity among marginalized populations in various ways, like diversity among minorities and women in Higher Education. I ask questions like who’s in power, where is our voice, our place in our fields, in our jobs, in our societies, and why does it all matter?