Questions for intervewee

• What are your best writing strategies?
• How did you become such a good presenter/writer?
• What is most important when writing or presenting an argument to an audience?
• How do you present yourself depending on the audience?
• What is the best way to draw your audience in?
• How can you use word choice to better state your argument?
• In what ways can you implement Pathos, Ethos, and Logos into your writing?
• What pieces of writing are your favorite?
• Which pieces are the hardest for you?
• What audiences are hardest for you?
• What strategies do you use to research a new idea or new material?

Week 6 blogpost

I found the reading this week to be relatively easy to read. The first reading and second reading were both formatted in a conversation like style which was pretty cool. The writer also gave lots of examples to help you understand exactly what he was talking about which was helpful. The main idea of the first reading was regarding how you present your words in an argument will change the viewers perception of the message you are trying to get across. One of the ways he was talking about expressing this would be through ethos, pathos, and logos. Every audience you are trying to reach will have a different message, for the most part. If you are trying to guilt people or touch people right in the feels then pathos would be your greek/latin expression to go with (I have narry a clue if pathos is even greek or latin). Incorporating ethos into an argument would entail you to choose your words suitably for the audience or topic you are trying to express, whether that be your grammar, formality, etc. Then logos would be very factual based statements. Logos is best used for the hard headed businessman who are all FACTS FACTS FACTS. I personally think that in order to make a really strong argument ALL THREE of these strategies have to be applied to your message. With all three of these your audience has no choice but to side with you. Think about it here, throw out some pathos to draw the audience in make them feel interested in what you're saying emotionally because that is when people really listen. After you have their attention is some ethos to help yourself sound more credible and relatable to the audience. Then finally seal the deal with some logos to make the audience certain that what you are saying is factual and true. What more do you need to win an argument than that! These strategies can be applied in everyday life or the business world. Try it out and see for yourself!

E-mail (Draft)

<<Interview for English Class at Brooks>>

Hey Doug,

hope all is going well with the family and it's starting to warm up over there in Chicago. I am writing to you regarding an assignment in my English class at Brooks. I know that you have led several meetings to huge groups of people and write all of your own material. Conducting yourself strongly to an audience of people in a business manner is a huge part of the photography world as well. I was hoping at some point this week we could have a chat about the writing aspect of your career and how you present your ideas to an audience. I'd love to have the pleasure of interviewing you and hope to hear from you soon!

Best Regards

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Trevor Morrison

Week 5 - Excellence in Communication

In all honesty, the reading this week was unnecessary in my opinion. I started reading the chapter thinking, "okay, yeah this makes sense, I understand why you would do that." Then it just got simply repetitive and way too extensive. The message that was being expressed was very simple and could have been presented in a much simpler manner. The major thing to take away is that you have to choose your forms of communication depending on your audience and also choose the message you're sending depending on the audience. I thought the fact that they discussed instant messaging through an entire section of the chapter was a bit ridiculous. The difference between instant messaging, emails, and letters are very apparent. Each one of them is different for whatever message it may be you're trying to get across, simple as that. I have been writing emails my whole life and think I have a pretty decent grasp on being able to successfully write an impactful and professional email, bringing me to wonder what the purpose of the reading was for me specifically. Don't get me wrong, several parts of the reading was helpful and there were some good tips to throw in my bag of email conventions, but overall it was some pretty simple material.