Murrays Q&A And Meta Moment

1.        Somewhere along the way I guess that someone said it is not good or objective writing to put down your own experience.  Murray is saying that a good piece of writing has some of the writers life experience in it. Otherwise it is just opinion or fiction.

5.         Being almost 47 years old, I tend to agree with Murrays ideas on writing.  Once again, I believe that unless I write based on my own experience, I am just copying someone elses research or opinion. Most all the writing I do today has pieces of my life connected to it.

                                                         Meta Moment

              One way Murrays claims influence my writing is that he confirms my style of communicating on paper. I write based on life experience. That gives me some confidence that the way I write can not be entirely off track. His ideas also lead me to believe that there are many different, acceptable styles of writing.

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Keith Grant Davie Article

          Rhetorical situations, discourse, exigence, constraints, what does it all mean?!

First of all, I guess this blog post is going to be a rhetorical situation. I will be trying to convince all of you, my vast blog followers, that I consumed Grant Davies article with uncontrollable passion! I am going to fill my page with rhetorical discourse that will keep you riveted to my blog! Not!

          I am also hoping that my blog post will fall into the constraints and expectations of this class. I was asked to write a little on what I did and did not like about Grant Davies article. to be honest, there was very little I liked about it.

           I did like where he wrote in bold lettering when he was about to make a point. And I did like when he finally made his point with an example, the incident in Sherwood Hills. Finally, most of what he wrote on those 2 pages tied into something I could make sense of! I guess thats how Grant Davies ties up 14 pages of painful reading.

          Anyway, the last few pages gave me a little better insight on a rhetorical situation.



   

Brandt's Literacy Sponsor

       I think Brandt is a master of writing, who can take a topic and discuss it nine ways from sunday. When writing on literacy sponsorship,she indicates that she believes our influences in literacy are strongly influenced from our past. Such as what we read when we were young, comics, text books,etc.She also suggests that we were influenced by things such as t.v,radio, anything in our past.
      
        In the biography of Malcom X and on Sherman Alexie, I think Brandt's theories are quite valid. In both these articles the people in them are describing these as influences in their own lives. Malcom X described how he used the dictionary, the prison library. He told how Mr.Muhammad greatly influenced his life. Sherman Alexie talked about how his father so loved books, so he decided he would love them to. He spoke about how he loved reading comic books and how he would read anything with paragraphs or words.

        I think Brandt's point on literacy access in relation to economic, social and ethinic background has validity but by no means is the rule. She leans toward the more you have, the better you will be. I think Branch and Lopez were equally successful despite that they came from entirely different backgrounds. I can cite 3 examples in my immediate family who started at the bottom of the pile, including literacy, and ended up toward the top in what they decided to do. I will just cite my father, 1 of 11 kids. 8th grade education. In his mid 20's, working as a carpenter, he started studing old blueprints at night after working all day. Long story short, he went on to being the top man on many multi-million dollar buildings in his lifetime. He retired in the mid ninties after his last project, the Bio-Science Building on MSU campus.

        I think wealth and success is in the dreams of the individual.
                                                                      

     
      

Something about me....

     So I guess,better late than never? Something about me. My name is Doug Schumacher,my friends call me Schuey. It has been 30 years since I have gone to school. Talk about a slight shock to the system! I am 46 years old and was born in Bozeman. Lived most all my life here,working as a carpenter. I have a son  named Joseph and a daughter named Nichole. I have 3 grandchildren,Zoey,Jordan and Olivia.
      I enrolled in  MSU to try and find a different trade to make a living. 30 years as a carpenter can take a toll on a persons body. I hope to get a sociology degree and work for Dept. of Corrections on some level. I think that would be a rewarding profession.
      I  spent my first 2 weeks of school getting ahold of this computer and trying to make the damn thing work. Now that I have gotten that accomplished I will try to participate in this class in a much more timely manner.