This blog is the public writing space of two Rhetoric and Composition I classes at Danville Area Community College. The site is administered by Marla Jarmer, instructor of these two sections. The posts are written and the site is maintained by the students in these sections.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
I think that the "Pumped Up Kicks" blog post helped me understand the rhetorical situation the most. "Pumped Up Kicks" had a very upbeat tempo, but when you read through the lyrics it was completely different. In trying to analyze this song you had to answer many questions. You had to figure out what was possibly going on and why. You had to figure out why Foster wrote this song the way he did and really the rhetorical situation is trying to figure out the answer to a bunch of questions. These questions range from what the author thinks and why, if it is effective, who is the intended audience for the song, and whether the author gets his point across. I think that this post alone made me use pretty much the whole rhetorical situation to correctly figure out the analysis of song and the lyrics.
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Nick, I have enjoyed reading your post this year. Most of them had a lot of thought put into it and were rather interesting to read. Lastly, you did a good job of expressing your opinions, beliefs, and thoughts on whatever the topic for the week was.
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