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I am interested in speaking to someone who is involved in publication. I don’t yet know who, but a few options would be people working for local newspapers. I would like to conduct an interview with the actual publisher, the person who finalizes the drafts and sends them through to be printed. I think thisContinue reading “Research Proposal”

We discussed the engagement with Eileen

How do you think that writing is the carrier for the “information economy”, and therefore, how do you think literacy is essential in your workplace? Even in a business that is not specifically dedicated to writing, how do you use writing in your day to day life? Do you use it enough that you wouldContinue reading “Engagement 3/4/2020”

In an ideal future career, I think that I would like to be involved in publication- specifically, nonfiction work. In this field, writing is clearly an essential tool to have. Beyond having well rounded literacy, and being able to read, understand, and work with written texts, I would assume that within publication there will needContinue reading “Engagement 03/02/2020”

In my analysis, I am trying to make the point that beauty is often sold as a commodity, and therefore could be viewed as a factor in our economy. I hope that it may work to solve the problem of the unrealistic standards that someone could purchase beauty, or that beauty has a price tagContinue reading “Engagement (2) 02/26/2020”

In Jia Tolentino’s piece on the #MeToo movement, she uses rhetoric to differentiate the ideas of a movement versus a moment. A movement, she says, is lasting and withstanding and will eventually be able to fix some of the problems that it arose in face of. A moment, however, is a brief period of timeContinue reading “Engagement 02/26/2020”

Option 1: Roommate, When my lights are out that means I’m sleeping! 🙂 The genre of this passive aggressive note is in between roommates, where tensions can arise and are often quite difficult to combat. I think what makes it passive aggressive is that there is no acknowledgement of what the roommate is doing thatContinue reading “Engagement 02/24/2020”

In this reading, Melissa Gregg takes a look at the ways in which the “privileges and security” that once came along with a white collar, salaried job have begun to change and may be under some sort of threat. For example, the essay says that “employees who [were once] valuable assets… based on the knowledgeContinue reading “Reading Response 2/24/2020”

The exigence that my piece will be trying to mediate is the idea that beauty sells and could be viewed as a commodity. The audience to best mediate this, in my opinion, would be magazine readers, in specific women and girls I think it would be interesting to use an online magazine with advertisements andContinue reading “In Class 02/19/2020”

For this project, I will be looking at the movie Pretty Woman as my artifact. This movie is about Vivian, a prostitute who is picked up by businessman, Edward, who hires her for the weekend. Vivian is incredulous at Edward’s wealth, and he is entranced by her beauty. In any other situation, a wealthy businessmanContinue reading “Analysis Project Rough Draft”