Descriptions without words

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This is a picture that has a sheet of music with two wedding bands and a flower laying upon it.  I believe this symbolizes the beauty of marriage by comparing it to the flower.

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This is beethoven's 5th symphony.  Classical music does not have words, yet they all tell a story. 

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This is a picture of a dog chewing aggressively on a toy and then trick or treaters walking past with one of them wearing a mask that looks just like the toy then the next scene is the dog in the dog house.  Even though the author did not draw the dog going after the trick or treater, the audience can assume that is what happened.

Project 3 Proposal

My idea for the creative non fiction assignment would be the time I first drove with my driving instructor.  It was a very eventful time and I feel like I could paint a good picture of it to connect with my audience.  In addition, I think that this is a good topic because everyone has driven a car and probably has that first time driving story.  For my first time driving with my instructor we were placed in groups and I ended up getting paired with someone who played a ton of video games and I was expecting him to be really good.  However, that did not end up to be the case and I thought I was going to die when he was driving.  I am still strong leaning towards doing and audio file, however, I know there has been some resistance and if we are unable to figure it out then it is something I can consider in the future.  I do not think that there is going to be too much difficulty because everyone will be able to relate to the story and the details are so fresh in my mind that I will be able to let the audience feel like it is happening to them.

Memoir

I always hated writing memoirs in high school, because I thought that was not anything important or interesting enough to write about.  I just picked a story and faked some of the details to make it more interesting, but my grades reflected that.  My teacher's had a tendency to give me a low A because I put effort into it, however, the same comment was on all of them, "Show don't tell," or "Needs to have more meaning."  So, when you assigned this project, I thought to myself, here we go again.  Then you told us to read 'making memoir' over break and it would help with the writing process.  And it did.  As I was reading the project didn't seem that difficult.  Why wasn't this explained to me when I had to write memoirs before.  I had a million ideas to choose from, but I decided to write about my first time driving with my instructor.  This event is so fresh in my mind, it feels like it only happened last year instead of 3.  All the details are so clear and I feel like it would be perfect to write about.   I feel like this would be a good story to make into an audio file, however, is there anyway we do not have to do it in class?  I would feel weird making it when almost the entire class would be listening to it while I was making it, which would make me uncomfortable.  If not then that would be alright.

David Sedaris’ creative non-fiction

I thought that this genre is really interesting.  I have never done or seen this before.  As for the example shown in class, I really liked the music that went along with it.  In addition, he used a lot of sarcasm because I am always sarcastic.  He voice held meeting and even though it was filled with sarcasm, it match what he was saying. However, his piece was inappropriate at some points and I am not sure if I would ever listen to the rest of it if it wasn't assigned.  I think that this project is going to be difficult to start, however once started the ideas will just flow.  Also, it is going to be weird to turn it into an audio file.  

Project 2

I thought that this assignment was fun.  Normally English is all about writing papers, but this project emphasized how to reach your audience and that there are more genres besides flyers.  I liked the memo because it made me think about what I planned on doing for the project.  However, I thought that the process map should have been introduced earlier though; this way we can keep track of what we do because it was difficult to look back and remember.  In addition, I decided not to email the person because it the the ISU career center and I did not think they would appreciate an undergraduate saying their flyer was not rhetorically affected.  Overall I really liked this project.