Names, explain were students and maybe our majors?
How kairos and context can help the reader a lot with synthesized purpose and get the message of the piece without having to be explicitly told it
Outline of Persuasive Dialogue (Elise)
About my first trauma situation in the ER and what happened
Used descriptive language to give important details emphasis and give a better picture of what’s going on. Lots of pathos to make the reader feel the same stuff we were feeling. Logos to show how we handled the situation and why we did what we did. Kairos to give the reader a better understanding of the circumstance and situation.
“The noise and the realization of what is actually going on woke me up faster than any cup of coffee ever could.” “I was prouder to wear that sticker than an elementary school kid who got a sticker from their third grade teacher.” “”Everything in the room tuned out and the only thing I could hear was my brain singing the infamous song “Staying Alive” as I counted to thirty compressions”.
What was everyone else doing? How did that make you feel? Did that impact you later? Is that a major reason why you did ______? How often does that affect you today?
“Let’s keep that in mind as we move onto our next topic” “Because of that, this happened”
Outline of Persuasive Dialogue (Caroline) Narrative: Talking about the day my dad had a cardiac arrest.
Using descriptive language such as sensory statements to create imagery. Using the dialogue of the conversation at the breakfast table and when we were in the emergency room what my sister was saying on the phone. Possible use dialogue from my dad seeing my best friend in the hospital. The language should be using ethos to create emotion
1. All I remember was her screaming on the phone to her boyfriend “He’s going to die! He’s going to die!” while bawling her eyes out.
2. It started as an ordinary Sunday with a family breakfast. The smell of freshly cooked bacon and eggs lingered in the air, like an old-fashioned diner.
3. The sounds of sirens were as if a catastrophic event had taken place.
Elise how long did those 43 minutes feel like?
Elise what was your immediate reaction when the doctor told you to stop doing compressions?
Elise did this happen pretty regularly at the hospital?
Sara how did this event impact your relationships?
…more questions with Sara once I know more about her topic
Transition between mine and Elise’s topics: Coming from Elise’s event I can relate to a traumatic medical emergency. My Dad had a cardiac arrest three years ago but fortunately enough the cpr was successful.
Conclusion: these three significant events all still impact our lives to this day
Message: Even though you may think you know a stranger you may have no idea what they are going through internally.
Sarah’s Examples:
About sexual assault and how you shouldn’t be embarrassed to tell other people when stuff like that happens
Mostly utilizing kairos for my narrative for some background to give it more purpose and ethos to engage the listener
“...Basically a discount Dave and Busters.” “ I felt like a fish in a bowl, a cat pawing tentatively at the water's edge.” “After that I avoided my manager like the plague.”
What were the people there like? Why didn’t you want to tell someone? How did that make you feel? a time one of my partners felt uncomfortable (if thats happened to either of you)? Did he get fired?
I had a similar experience when…
Conclusion
How all three of our stories tie together (purpose, message, writing styles, etc)
How our readers can use our synthesized purposes and use that same skill of assessing pieces of writing’s purposes (descriptive language, ethos, pathos, logos)
For this assignment students were randomly grouped together in pairs or trios based on personal narrative topics. The topics were to be cohesive or made cohesive by working together to develop similarities amongst each one. Each topic should easily flow into the others with help of questioning and story telling. Since this assignment was a a podcast many things had to be adjusted since much of it would flow organically with the help of the outline. The personal narrative essay was only a basis for your topic and be used to much more in depth on during the actual recording. The difference with a podcast is that most of it is not written down, just thought of on the spot such as a story should be told. At points I would have trouble organically coming up with details to further my story because I was too busy thinking of recording and was nervous of the results. At times I would talk too quickly or tap my foot (sorry if this is audible in the final project) because I was nervous. I would compare this experience to an unscripted speech without the audience, one in which your consequence for messing up was only a revision of the audio but it still put pressure on me to preform well for my group mates. To begin a podcast first you need an intro and a basis to go off of, an outline. Practicing the intro before we recorded it was definitely very helpful for me because I could be comfortable with talking out loud for long periods of time. For the outline we developed our own paragraph of resources to use in the podcast, which included brief sentences of what we were going to talk about as well as questions for the other group mates so our topics could flow smoothly and to add more detail. The purpose of asking questions is to think what the listener may be thinking and ask for them. Our composition process for our outline varied from a normal paper because we weren't actually going to say exactly what was on the paper, but instead use it as a reference. While we were recoding I brought my final essay as well, even though I didn't read directly from it I still used it to remember all of my important details and use imagery throughout the podcast. Since there were three group members this made recording more difficult but easier at the same time. I was able to use them to my advantage during recording because it was as if I was just talking to two friends and not just a microphone. Composition was a unique process because there are three authors instead of one and we all have to agree and design out podcast with all opinions in mind. The most challenging part of this was getting over the mental block of thinking that this was just a project and I couldn't enjoy myself while making it, but in the end I learned not to put so much pressure on myself because ultimately I end up making more errors. The most interesting part was working with two other people on a foreign type of project that none of us had done before, but still figuring out and succeeding in the end.