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For my project I am going to interview my professional mentor, Sarah Miner who is a product developer for Sub Zero. I am going to ask Sarah how she uses writing for her job and if she has to write differently depending on who she is talking to. I would also like to talk toContinue reading “Project 2 Proposal: Women in the Workplace”

In a perfect world, I would love to write poetry. Ideally, I’d be able to write poems and make public art installations to “publish” the poems. U don’t know if this counts for the Brandt article but I suppose I would also have to write grants to have money to create this art, be ableContinue reading “Engagement 3/2”

In the article, Writing for a Living by Deborah Brandt, we are introduced to the “knowledge economy”. Brandt argues that in an age where we have to pay to go to school in order to making a living, we are participating in the knowledge economy. The ability to read and write play a large roleContinue reading “Writing for a Living 3/2”

I used to work in a grocery store with a pretty big and extensive “wellness and beauty” section. A lot of the other women I worked with were constantly passive aggressive. One incident stands out the most because the morning group had left me 8 orders to check in, stock and store away by myself.Continue reading “The Passive Aggressive Note”

My analysis can be rhetorical because it will contain an argument and will have an audience. My genre will hopefully reach the parents of young kids that are viewing the content on YouTube to hopefully spark a conversation or alert parents to what their kids are watching and what kind of messages are being portrayedContinue reading “Composition Choices”

Plan: My main goal for this project is to analyze three rhetorical aspects of the specific internet phenomena: vlogging. I plan on delivering my analysis in the form of a podcast because I think it will be the best fit for my own personal learning and presentation style. First, I will need to establish aContinue reading “Project 1 Plan/Draft”

I actually have a very personal connection to this article. The older brother of one of my friends used to attend a private for profit college in Madison called ITT Tech, which was a technical college for sound production, video editing and other useful technical skills. Before my friend’s brother could finish his education, ITTContinue reading “Education for Profit 2/17”

Bourdieu believes that economics and the societal impact economics has is due to the production and movement of capital. He sees it as a type of game, a kind of win/lose situation. The players are people within an economic system and some players have an advantage due to higher economic influence or status. In orderContinue reading “The Forms of Capital”

Done in class by Olive L., Kara C., Sam E. and Matthew R. Wolf of Wall Street: The director/writers of the film are making commentary on American greed and how it changes the way people interact with people, places and things. Often we assume that money is always a positive influence but the Wolf ofContinue reading “Engagement Activity 2/3”

In her article, Payments and Social Ties, Viviana Zelizer explores three different kinds of payments: gifts, entitlements and compensation. Although she argues that these are the main forms of monetary payment, they can also be used in a social or sexual context as well. Zelizer uses the example of spouses to explain her theory. SpousesContinue reading “Zelizer Payments and Social Ties”