Weekend Review

I have learned what a discourse community is this week. I still don't know exactly what is the difference from a discourse communtiy and an audience though. I think all the things the faigley talked about regarding a discourse community is implied when you are thinking about what type of audience you are writing for. I think Faigley just wanted a book to publish because the ideas he presented are not nearly as revolutionary as he woud like to think. One question I have would be - What does a Dicourse Community have that an Audience truely doesn't?

Third Writing Topic

A professional writer needs to know and be able to do many things in order to effective participate in the process of communication at the workplace. A writer needs to be able to effectively transfer their thoughts to the paper. They also need to be able to keep orderly and detailed accounts of their thoughts and activities in the workplace. The professional writer needs to learn how to communiticate his ideas to his coworkers above all else because that is the height of teamwork in the workplace.

Second Writing Topic

2.Argument today in my opinion has become much more of a thing that people do for fun. Friends will call eachother bad names when they see eachother for the mere fun of it, couples will play fight with eachother because they are comfortable with eachother. Fake arguing has become almost a term of endearment. It releaves stress and lets the other person kow that in actuality you are very far from argueing with them. You just have to acknowledge what is sarcasim and humor from what is seriousness and opposition. TV is a whole different ballpark. People with TV shows will only talk to people who they can plan out an argument that will in fact support their own agendas in the end. All TV is basically staged, whether they are fighting or getting along, everything that is said is all for their own mtovies.
4. Persuasion in my communty to me is done every day by politicians and political activists. They seem to be exactly what this question is asking. They all give speeches and hold fun raisers all designed to get the community to join their side of whatever argument they are fighting for or against that day. Persuasion is done on a smaller scale by everyone in every language. A boyfriend will try to convince a girlfriend on what they should watch and eat that night by giving her a list of the pros and cons of each of their possibilities . A Christian will try to convince basically everyone they meet everyday that they should go to their church by simply telling them they are going to hell if they don't. Adds on TV try to convince the public to stop smoking or eating unhealthy foods by exagerating what might happen to you if you don't. It is simply done by everyone everyday.

First Wiriting Topic

All kinds of professionals have a majority of their work fall in the writing category. You have the basic journalist/author as the mot obvious examples, but you can also get really technical and mention the court stenographers or the secretaries of the world. Many more job titles out there have writing as a main task however. All PR and Advertising majors need to learn many different styles of writing to meet the varied needs of their clients. Engineers must write down client information and make notes. Lawyers must plan their entire court case from the moment they are handed the papers for it. Teachers need to write lesson plans of every single one of their working days. Writing is a major part of society, even if it is in the form of typing, like a web page editor or a blog manager. Everyone needs to learn effective means of persuasion through the form of writing.

In-Class Assignment #1

1. Jack Selzer wanted to examine the technical styles of an engineer because in the past, only professional writers and students have been studied. This limited view left little real world applications for the rest of society. Jack wanted to study an engineer's technical writing to give society a more complete view of technical writing in general.

2.A. I find it very interesting that he was unique enough to be one of the first researchers to stray away from the simple examinations of professors who must write every single day. His one oringinal idea could lead to a more in-depth many more examinations of multiples of jobs. People can read his research and have a better understanding of a job skill, and at the same time think, "If there is this much technical writing for an engineer, I wonder how many other jobs have a surprising amount technical writing."
2.B. I was convinced that his findings were true when he explained why Nelson doesn't do a lot of revising, but instead gathers good information at the beginning, finds what hsi client would enjoy, and makes all decisions afterward that coincide with his originial decisions.