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How do different modes effect the way the story is perceived (ex: text vs audio)?
ReplyDeleteDifferent modes change the way a story is perceived because it changes the formality of the statement. For example, if someone texted another person saying that their uncle passed away, it would be significantly less formal than a written obituary. It changes the way that a person takes the message as well. Also, it can alter the story all together. Sometimes (especially over text) tones can be misconstrued and be taken the wrong way. It can change a positive story into a negative one because of the way the reader perceived it. Whereas a story told audibly is more cut and clear because the audience can clearly hear the tone and the way the story was intended to be told.
DeleteWho do you think is more likely to read a member: someone from the younger or older generation?
ReplyDeleteI believe you meant memoir and I feel like it could be both generations. I feel like an older generation would read a memoir if it was about someone influential in their lifetime but I also believe that younger generation would eventually read a memoir once that person becomes relevant in their life. Like the memoir created by Eminem's mom, even though Eminen is very relevant in our generation I feel as though the older generation that went through the birth of Eminem and has watched 8 mile and somewhat understands what he went through would be interested in reading her memoir "telling her side of the story." But again, those younger Eminem lovers would possibly be interested in reading the memoir now because lets say Eminem is now their favorite artist.
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DeleteDo photo essays have enough material to get the story told or are captions and explanations necessary?
ReplyDeleteI think that a photo essay with captions projects a different element of the story than one without. A caption helps the reader know the exact situation, and therefore leaves the reader without any questions. It helps the artist avoid any miscommunication amongst the audience. However, without the captions, the pictures are able to capture the raw emotions of both the photographer and those in the photo. It is plain and simple, and the photograph speaks for itself.
DeleteIn short, I think that it all depends on the photo. If it appears self-explanatory, then I believe that it should be left without captions. I think that this would add to the power of the image. However, sometimes an explanation is needed in order for the story to be told properly. Whether or not captions or explanations are used, it is ultimately dependent on both the photo and the author’s artistic choice.
I believe that it depends on the photo(s). Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes, they remain more mysterious, maybe even silent, to some viewers. Everyone perceives photos differently, but even with writing, everyone can perceive written words differently. For example, when a class has required readings, they are all reading the same text, but each individual has their own personal perception of it. Photo essays are no different. If an author wants viewers to see something a certain way, then it would be necessary to add text or captions in order to get the audience to understand their true purpose. If an author wants to leave it up to a viewer’s imagination and see what they get out of the images on their own, then there would be no reason to include an explanation. So, the question of captions with photo essays depends on the photos and how the author wants their work to be perceived.
DeleteIs the medium (print, digital, face-to-face) important when telling a story? Does it make a significant impact?
ReplyDeleteMediums are important when telling a story and have significant impact when delivering the work. The different mediums excel in different elements of story telling to be more entertaining, eye-catching, specific, or relatable. Face-to-face interaction can feel more personal and catered to the individual while digital interaction can emphasize on visual satisfaction. Using a digital medium can also be more convenient to the creator, for the work can be easily accessed to a larger audience. The print medium can ensure a physical copy for the audience and ensure precise details or words for the story, which digital and face-to-face does not offer due to lack to memory or editing. Choosing the best medium to have the greatest impact on the audience depends on the type of audience and the story’s purpose. There are stories that are successful without relying on the medium or share several mediums, but I do think the type of medium plays a big part in deliverance and presentation.
DeleteHow have literacy narratives helped the education of its readers and the understanding of our language?
ReplyDeleteLiteracy narratives have helped to teach readers the process that accomplished writers use to compose works of writing. They show how literacy plays a part in the lives of people. They also help readers to understand what influences go into composing. Literacy narratives often talk about why and how a writer learned to read or write. These influences can vary greatly, from a household speaking two different languages (as exemplified in our book) to a great teacher who helped a young writer to improve. It can be both enlightening as well as inspiring for a reader to see all the different factors that cause someone to read and write. Personally, I think that the most valuable benefit of literacy narratives is not necessarily the educational aspect, but rather the motivational aspect. Knowing where a writer came from can play a big part in pushing someone to begin or continue writing.
DeleteWhat is the most difficult part of creating a memoir and why?
ReplyDeleteWhat types of methods and techniques can a photo essayist use to create tone and style without using words?
ReplyDeleteThere are many methods and techniques that a photo essayist can use to create tone and style without using words. One of those is using the rules of third. This technique means that you aline a subject with guide lines and their intersection points to create a off balance shot. Another technique would be using a shallow depth of field and a large depth of field. Shallow depth of field means exactly what it sounds like, which is taking a focused close up photo of an object blurring out the background. While large depth of field is the opposite focusing on the background, blurring out the image in front. The last technique that could help create tone and style is using the macro setting. This setting with allow your camera to take a high definition photo of any small object. This setting helps when taking photographs of small animals or flowers.
DeleteIn the modern day, the lives of people of importance are constantly under surveillance but are also becoming increasingly scripted. Do you think that these factors will cause memoirs to become more or less truthful?
ReplyDeleteTimes are changing and we are advancing. Those in the limelight are unceasingly surrounded by paparazzi and cellphones, all looking for one thing, a story. Memoirs are supposed to be accurate and truthful, they are supposed to come with keen insight that could help other people and show them how to overcome certain obstacles. With all this glorified media those in the constant attention are conforming. They are trying to be type of person people want them to be. With all the judgements of the world today, who could blame them? Memoirs from those people may not be completely truthful. As much as we would like to think that we know the real them, in most cases we don’t. I do believe that some memoirs from people of importance will continue to be truthful and right, however from all the pressures of people watching them I sadly believe in most cases they will not be.
DeletePeople that are living under the microscopic eye of fame are generally celebrities that work hard and true for their overall image. People of importance can include politicians to even reality stars who indeed have a very large fan base and have the power to influence up to millions of people. Therefore, since they live their entire lives in scrutiny I believe that if they were to decide to write a memoir instead it would be incredibly truthful because they would like to share their personal story and open up to the world on why they act a certain way, mainly like a tell-all book about their lives. But this all depends on the purpose and intention of the very influential being. If their purpose is instead a vainer one, like to promote their image or business then instead yes the fact that their lives are generally scripted can cause the memoir to be much less truthful. In my opinion it all depends on what kind of person the author is.
DeleteWould reading a published memoir, written twenty years ago, be more effective or accurate than listening to the author of the memoir face-to-face? Why?
ReplyDeleteWould a graphic memoir be easier to understand rather than a printed memoir? Why or why not?
ReplyDeleteI think that a graphic memoir could be much easier to understand rather than a printed one. The pictures and drawings that are included in the graphic memoir allow readers to better understand what went on within the author's life. Also printed memoirs keep things only text based which allows less visual aid to understand their life, which is the whole goal. Some graphic memoirs look like comic strips, which allows readers who may not be interested in the graphic memoir to be interested in it if they are interested in comics. There is no reason that a printed memoir should be more in depth than a graphic one with images to help reproduce what the author wanted to tell the audience. It allows the information to be spread through a bigger audience, and can make it a more widely known work. I have not read a printed memoir as far as I know.
DeleteI agree that a graphic memoir would be easier to understand because it takes out the element that the memoir is just a story. I know in the past when I have read memoirs sometimes I forget that it is real life and not fiction. The addition of graphics in the memoir get rid of the reader having to imagine, for example, what the authors house looked like. The story is brought to a more realistic level through the addition of graphics. On another level, the graphics also make the story attainable to a much wider audience. Those who learn more on a visual level will be able to relate easier to the author and get more out of the memoir. The author will be able to spread the message they like to a much wider audience than before, and do it in a way that makes it more realistic to the reader.
DeleteI don't necessarily think that its a question of which is easier to understand, but which reaches it's target audience more effectively. A printed memoir may be written to serve one audience and purpose that the graphic memoir would fail to adequately reach. Occasionally the graphics, in my experience, can become distracting, and in turn cause me to fail to think through the situation that the reading has placed me in. Again, however, I believe the success of either is dependent on the message, audience, and purpose of the memoir.
DeletePathos can be shown with shading and expressions of the images, and logos can be explained through dialogue, but how can you show ethos in a graphic memoir?
ReplyDeleteEthos can be shown through a mixture of the two, trustworthiness can be demonstrated through the dialogue and the words spoken by said characters, as well as through the drawings themselves. If the author is an experienced artist, this will be proven through his or her artistic abilities.
DeleteCould you change the format of a literacy narrative and still make a well written paper?
ReplyDeleteEven when a writer creates a story to entertain, are they still persuading the reader to think a certain way? (Like about the characters and their situations)
ReplyDeleteIs the first or the third person narrative style better for getting a reader to understand a character fully/completely?
ReplyDeleteI feel that a first person narrative style developed the correct way makes the reader understand the character better. When writing in first person, the reader gets to truly experience the feelings of the character through the writing. You truly get to live through the eyes of the character in first person, where as in third person you get an over view of the story. I also believe when you read in a first person narrative it also paints the picture more clear for the reader making it easier to understand the character fully. The personalization of first person narrative style truly does give you a better look into the character.
DeleteI would say a first person narrative style is far easier for a reader to understand and connect with a character. The ability the writer has to create unique descriptive scenarios for even the most minute details in a story, such as sights and sounds, help form a very strong connection with the characters personality that third person simply cannot match. A well written first person narrative in my experiences, can have you so immersed in the character and the story that you feel like you are that character.
DeleteHow essential is it to create an agreeable emotional tone?
ReplyDeleteTruth be told if one can capture an emotion just right even if it's a fake or artificial emotion it can truly capture a good majority of the audience. Horrible as it sounds that is exactly what many public speakers do regardless of what they are actually saying. It was seem trivial but the episode in the office when dwight does a speech that is essential a dictator speech the audience still responded positively because of emotional tone.
DeleteWhat are the different uses of reading a memoir of someone's past?
ReplyDeleteWhat elements do you need to look for in a graphic memoir and how do these elements develop the memoir?
ReplyDeleteExplain the importance of the reader connecting with your narrative.
ReplyDeleteWhat are some reasons an author might want to create a memoir?
ReplyDeleteWhat are some popular graphic memoirs that were written in the past century?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the most effective combination of medium and mode?
ReplyDeleteThe graphic memoir Fun Home was adapted in to a musical, How did the effect of the story on the audience change from graphic memoir to musical?
ReplyDeleteMost compositions have a unique audience. Do you think it would be possible for an author to use a certain type of composition to reach a completely different audience than usually intended? Or do you believe that it is important to stick to the norm in order to reach your intended audience?
ReplyDeleteOnce a composition has been created, do you think it would be possible to effectively transpose it into a different form or is it best to leave it in it's original form? For example, the graphic memoir "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" was recently brought to the stage in musical form, using the same name "Fun Home." Would it have been better for this story to remain in its graphic form?
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that a story or work should have to be limited to one format or genre. If a story deserves or needs to be heard then as many mediums as possible should be used to tell it! Fun Home's adaptation into a staged musical has increased its audience and popularity in recent years, which speaks to the success and effectiveness of the adaptation. There are aspects of each format that assist in the telling of the story the other cannot achieve on its own. Music is very powerful for some people while visuals and time being allowed to be taken to digest the story are preferred by others, for example. (Since you can't control the pacing of a production but you can control the pace at which you read.)
DeleteHowever there are cases in which an attempt at an adaptation of a piece fails to communicate as effectively as the original and can even damage the reputation and meaning of the story, but that raises the question as to whether the genre is at fault or those who created the adaptation. (An easy example of this would be book to movie adaptations in some cases.)
How can the author of a literary narrative creatively use design to tell his or her story, making it stand out from other literary narratives?
ReplyDeleteWhy would the use of superlatives and exclamatory remarks in a memoirists writing compromise their ethical appeal to their audience?
ReplyDeleteWhat elements should a graphic memoir have to ensure its success?
ReplyDeleteI feel that photo essays are often being used on the internet as a method through which more pages are loaded and therefore more ads. In what ways could this affect the works?
ReplyDeleteWhat seems to be the most effective rhetorical appeal when writing a successful memoir?
ReplyDeleteAlthough debatable, in my opinion the most effective rhetorical appeal when writing a successful memoir is Ethos because it is essentially the confidence and reliability the author conveys to his/her intended audience. In a memoir, the reader entrusts you with their attention and takes what you say, whether they be childhood memories or a eulogy reading, as factual which is why tapping into Ethos is the most effective. The impression you leave on your reader is what makes a successful memoir.
DeleteWhen a writer begins writing a literacy narrative do you feel that their main purpose is to connect or to educate?
ReplyDeleteIs it possible for a literacy narrative to be used to manipulate under the disguise of trying to connect?
ReplyDeleteAre photo essays stronger when by themselves or in combination with another form of composition such as memoir or written narrative?
ReplyDeleteCan the purpose of manipulating of a memoir actually be to manipulate people or change their ideas wile being masked inside of what appears to be the stories of their life?
ReplyDeleteWould reading a narrative from the past that applies to whatever is going on at the time but also perfectly commentates on a contemporary matter be more affective than writing an entirely new narrative?
ReplyDeleteAn author's style can be heavily affected by their target audience, for instance an author would write very formally when writing a doctoral thesis for his or her professors rather than when he or she would write in a personal journal. The authors choice of diction and syntax would reflect the author's audience's intelligence, interest, and knowledge on the matter. An author would not use complex niche jargon when trying to write to a general population because nobody would understand it; a skilled or even average author would know not to make that crucial mistake. The author's audience almost entirely dictates what he can and cannot write and how he or she should write it when they do.
ReplyDeleteIf you were to write a memoir, would you write it in the first or third person point of view, and why?
ReplyDeleteIf I were to write a memoir I would right it in third person point of view, because it allows the reader to connect with the writer in a more personal way. It sounds better in my opinion, to write about yourself in third person. It creates more of a story instead of just describing yourself. The third person turns it into more of a narrative instead of a autobiography type story. Since memoirs can be about certain experiences, if you write it in third person I believe it becomes more enjoyable for the reader.
DeleteDo you think that written or visual genres are more effective at telling a story?
ReplyDeletei think it depends. They say a picture says a thousand words but i think that written genres make Pathos, Logos, and Ethos more easily identifiable .I also think that a picture will mostly represent Pathos as the emotions are better distinguished from a picture based on the faces, the color and the over all mood that the picture displays. I don't think the visual genre will display the entire story as the book always has more detail than the movie.Although they do say that you should never judge a book by its cover.. we do and the flattering photo of the titer in the back and the intriguing cover in the front do have an affect on appealing to the reader.
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ReplyDeleteWhy is (or isn't) it important for cultures to pass down stories from generation to generation?
ReplyDeleteWhat is an example of an author who shows strong style and voice in their writing, and how would you describe their style? Provide examples.
ReplyDeleteHarper Lee, one of my favorite authors, has a very distinct style and voice in her writing. Her voice is evident in the many colloquialisms seen throughout the totality of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Taking into consideration the era in which the story is set, Harper Lee's style is characteristic of the 1930's. Her easy-going, colloquial diction stands out to readers as personal and inviting. The style in which Harper Lee writes is unique as the story is presented as a series of facts. By employing this style of writing, Harper Lee invites the reader to step into the shoes of the main character Scout. Presenting the happenings throughout the novel as blatant facts, the reader is enabled to begin to formulate his or her on feelings towards each event Scout encounters. Harper Lee's upbringing in a small town in the South is evident in her word choice and syntax. Lee's voice shows through in the use of slang throughout the novel by most of the characters.
DeleteUsing the rhetorical appeals such as ethos, pathos, and logos enhances one's writing in a number of ways. These appeals is one way in which the author can connect with the readers. Connecting with the reader is one of the main goals of writing, no matter what it is. Using ethos, pathos, and logos can also help the author in persuading the reader because it provides backup. Logos appeals to the logical sense of the story. This is important because if the reader doesn't think the writing makes sense, they will likely stop reading it. Ethos appeals to the ethics of a story. This is needed because readers want to feel like what they are reading is morally right. Finally, pathos appeals to the readers emotion. This is very important because it makes the reader feel strongly about the writing. Using rhetorical appeals contributes to one's writing by bringing it all together to create one cohesive, trustworthy, and believable story.
ReplyDeleteit is stated in the txt that the story has to be prepared in such a way that the audience is able to connect with it personally and it is said that people write their stories to share their experiences with others. So how does an author who is writing to express a very rare and unique experience write it in such a way that others can relate?
ReplyDeleteIs it easy to say that a biography written by one who was not there to witness the facts upon which they are writing will not be as informative and will not appeal the same type of emotions through pathos than someone who is writing their own memoir?
ReplyDeleteWhat is a memoir and in what ways can it be used in works of literature?
ReplyDeleteIn what ways can photo essays be effectively used?
ReplyDelete"The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf" ironically teaches the lesson of truthfulness despite it being a fairy tale. Is validity and factual information important in telling a story, and why?
ReplyDeleteWhy is style so important to an author and reader, and how does it add to or subtract from the intended message?
ReplyDeleteWhen writing a literary narrative, do you believe it to be more important to entertain or persuade and why?
ReplyDeleteWhen composing a photo essay in attempts to persuade the reader, which mode of persuasion (ethos, pathos, or logos) would prove most beneficial?
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