Journal Entries/ Blog Posts

Hall and Morrow Response:       I dont believe in these article's definition of good writing. i think good writing is based solely on matter of opinion from the individual. Someone's writing style, in my opinion, can be compared to someones music style. That person can be in love with their own style of music along with some other people, but not everyone will like that type of music and they don't have too.       Shakespeare can be easily compared to country music in this way. Alot of people say country is garbage as do many people also say Shakespeare is stupid garbage. While some may think this, others may be absolutely in love with country music, or Shakespeare.      To me, good writing can't ever really be proved by anyone. Good writing is a matter of opinion, but the way our world works with a system of hierarchy means that a highly ranked scholar, or writer or whatever could literally write some bull on a piece of paper and consider it absolutely genius and other people would agree just because hes a higher ranked scholar than they are. People today are afraid to have their own opinions and i believe that students arent given the freedom to decide on their own whether or not a piece of writing is good or not. So basically these two articles were a waste to read because i don't even base good writing off what they say. Good Writing: Good writing is writing that can display your own opinions, or views.  Good writing also has good grammar and good organization and structure.  Bad writing is writing that is poorly organized, poorly structured, and contains poor grammar making it hard, for others to understand your point.

Last Lecture: The last speech was a great speech to me.  He had many powerful points that had an impaxt on me.  Many of his ideas and points i could relate to my own life.  His brick wall quote was the easiest for me to relate too.  i have had a few times in my life where i have hit a brick wall.  His quote meant to me that when you hit a wall youll still get over it.     Ive hit brick walls in my life that ive hit and had to get over.  i got over them in success and they gave me much. onfidence.  I feel that his last speech was about finishing strong, and since this was his last speech he got the chance to finish hard.

Fox: The argument does have some rhetorical techniques that is uses to make people join a side. They use kids to get at people's ethos and make them feel sorry. Overall though I thought the whole argument coming from Fox's side was soft. The only thing they had was kids, they didn't seem to use many other techniques to outdo the other side. The other side of the argument with the blonde lady was, in my opinion, the strongest side. She may have not gotten at people's emotions etc. but she used facts which to me are more important than techniques. Quote Journal: This line from the song Boss D.J.  by Sublime is connected to me because it describes me well.  I'm funky, not a junkie, but I know where to get it.  It means I'm not a drug addict junkie, but I'm funky and burn plants most people don't ha ha.  The way the words are put is sort of a rhyming pattern where funky rhymes with junkie.  This quote draws me in because it describes people who are literally like that. Reflection: These posts and journals were what I felt to be the best ones I had written.  Not all of them are my best pieces of writing ever, but out of all my journals and blog posts these were the top 5.  Rereading each piece I could see how my writing changed over the semester and how I began to expand my ideas of writing altogether.