Kickstarter Project

For blogs III and IV, I want to start thinking about a project you want to accomplish.  This project needs to be funded.  Try to imagine yourself as an entrepreneur wanting to get your project off the ground.  You can be an aspiring filmmaker, a software developer, or a restaurant owner; the possibilities are endless. Once you have decided on your project, you must write your ad.

Here are the requirements needed for this blog:

(1)An ad that is at least a paragraph long. In this ad, you must consider your rhetorical situation (the five w's and the how).  Write a professional ad where you describe your project and your goal.

(2)Make sure you name your price for this project.  Next, set a number of days for you will keep this ad open.  For example, do you expect you'll need forty days to receive ten thousand dollars for your project?

(3) Once you've completed the second set, write what your backers will receive for their donations. Here's an example:

(A) Those who pledge $100 to Pro. P's PhD fund will receive a limited edition note card with the grand scholar's research scribble.  Raspberry mocha coffee ring included.

(B)Those who pledge $1,000 will receive a hand-written rough draft entitled Pro. P's Guide to Italian Horror Movies and Soundtracks and Their Subversive Irrelevance to Composition Theory and other Rhetorical Nonsense. Impress your philistine friends with this hard-to-read scholarly chicken scratch complete with poems and sketches made during class.

(C) Those who pledge $3,000 will receive an awkward smile, a whimpy handshake, and a free continental breakfast from Denny's—coffee and orange juice not included. Consider this cheap, greasy, unhealthy breakfast as way of shielding my true elitist tendencies.  I want to be a PhD for the people.  Please note: No Romantic languages will be spoken during this sit-down, mainly because I will have forgotten them after writing my dissertation.

(4)Once you have written your incentives for your backers, conclude with the contexts of your ad (PEPE). Then write and briefly discuss the different readers of your ad. 

(5)This ad should concise and well-written.  The smoother your delivery, the more likely someone will give you money.   You may also make a video to help promote your project.

(6)This will be due by Sunday, March 2nd.  It will count as two blogs.  Best of luck.

Blog II: Summer B

The Career Search

Congratulations!  You are coming close to the end of your first four years of college.  You are now ready to start thinking about your career.  For this blog, I would like you to choose your dream career.  In doing so, you are to answer the following questions:

(1)What is your career?

(2)What education requirements do you need for this career?

(3)What the salary expectations are?

(4)What experience do you need before you can take this job?

Then, once you have finished answering those questions, you must write an objective statement that might go on a future resume or CV.  This objective statement should not be too narrow or too broad.  Instead, it should it be just right for this job.

Good luck!

Blog I, Summer B

Facebook Report

           

            You are an admissions officer in a first-tier college.   The finest talent of the nation attends your school.  It just so happens that a large percentage of undergraduates continue their graduate studies at your school.  Unfortunately, it gets harder and harder to let new students into graduate programs because the seats are filled by former undergraduates.

            A respected colleague of yours comes up with a suggestion: A recent article written about party universities reveals your college to be in fifth place out ten schools.  Going from this article, your colleague suggests infiltrating students' Facebook pages for acceptance or denial into the graduate programs.   You like the idea and come up with a document called the Facebook Report.  In this report, you name the students who have inappropriate material on their Facebook pages.  For this blog posting, you are to do the following:

(1)Briefly discuss how you plan to infiltrate a student's Facebook page.

(2)Discuss what things would constitute grounds for rejecting a former student into your graduate program.

(3)Name the four readers of your document, Facebook Report, and how the role they play in perusal of your exposé.  Hint:  the four readers are gatekeeper, primary, secondary, and tertiary.

Kickstarter Project

For blogs IV and V, I want to start thinking about a project you want to accomplish.  This project needs to be funded.  Try to imagine yourself as an entrepreneur wanting to get your project off the ground.  You can be an aspiring filmmaker, a software developer, or a restaurant owner; the possibilities are endless. Once you have decided on your project, you must write your ad.

Here are the requirements needed for this blog:

(1)An ad that is at least a paragraph long. In this ad, you must consider your rhetorical situation (the five w's and the how).  Write a professional ad where you describe your project and your goal.

(2)Make sure you name your price for this project.  Next, set a number of days for you will keep this ad open.  For example, do you expect you'll need forty days to receive ten thousand dollars for your project?

(3) Once you've completed the second set, write what your backers will receive for their donations. Here's an example:

(A) Those who pledge $100 to Pro. P's PhD fund will receive a limited edition note card with the grand scholar's research scribble.  Raspberry mocha coffee ring included.

(B)Those who pledge $1,000 will receive a hand-written rough draft entitled Pro. P's Guide to Italian Horror Movies and Soundtracks and Their Subversive Irrelevance to Composition Theory and other Rhetorical Nonsense. Impress your philistine friends with this hard-to-read scholarly chicken scratch complete with poems and sketches made during class.

(C) Those who pledge $3,000 will receive an awkward smile, a whimpy handshake, and a free continental breakfast from Denny's—coffee and orange juice not included. Consider this cheap, greasy, unhealthy breakfast as way of shielding my true elitist tendencies.  I want to be a PhD for the people.  Please note: No Romantic languages will be spoken during this sit-down, mainly because I will have forgotten them after writing my dissertation.

(4)Once you have written your incentives for your backers, conclude with the contexts of your ad (PEPE). Then write and briefly discuss the different readers of your ad. 

(5)This ad should concise and well-written.  The smoother your delivery, the more likely someone will give you money.   You may also make a video to help promote your project.

(6)This will be due by Sunday, March 2nd.  It will count as two blogs.  Best of luck.

Summer-A: Blog II Website

Designing a Website

You are to write a design for a website on your second blog.  This little assignment can help you formulate your ideas for your third writing project.  To get full credit for this assignment, you must do the following:

(1)Create a name for your website.

(2)Define it's purpose.

(3)List the different readers and their relationship to your blog.

(4) Briefly describe how you would design your blog.  What images would you use?

(5) Good luck!

Summer-A ENC 1102 (Tech.): Blog I

            

         

 

                Well, it has finally happened:  Decades of overpriced, under-powered hardware finally convinced once gullible consumers to spend their stimulus money on PC's and related accessories.  In 2014, Apple showed a 30 billion profit loss. Furthermore, Apple owes more than 100 billion to creditors who manufacture various parts for their computers, phones, and tablets.  These third-world creditors refuse to issue more money until Apple can prove it can make a profit.  Unfortunately, with this record loss, Apple shares dropped from $452.90 to $3.25.  Rather than continue to fight a losing battle, Apple has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, liquidating its assets to pay back creditors. 

            Hearing this good news, Re-Commodore, a burgeoning electronics company has decided to put a bid and buy the dying company.  Their hope is to buy the technology and relicense it using their brand name. 

            After months of negotiating, Re-Commodore acquires Apple's assets and debts.  Before they start their marketing campaign, the new owners must decide who of Apple's originals should remain or go.  Currently, you are a labor executive for Re-Commodore and you get to decide who should remain or be fired.  Below is the chopping-block list:

Dr. Tim Crook, a brilliant chip designer, with a background in marketing.  Rather scruffy-looking and ill-tempered.  He also has a bad case of halitosis.  Nevertheless, he has a number of successful products under his belt—along with some costly failures.

Judy Leighton, the former cute, voluptuous secretary for Apple's former VP.  She is not the smartest card in the circuit board, but she is pretty to look at and highly organized.  Her organizational skills prolonged Apple's life.

Bubba Jones, former head of Apple security.  Mean and tattooed all over; responsible for wetting the pants of many reporters with just a glance. He took a bullet for the former CEO of Apple during a Microsoft assassination attempt.   Not much for conversation, but has been known to be somewhat pleasant if he knows you are on his side.

Rachel Scandalous, Marketing Director of Apple.  She is fairly intelligent and has a reputation of getting secrets from other companies with her bedroom eyes.   Hated by just about all of the female employees at Apple; yet, despite her reputation, her actions helped Apple develop the Ipad.

John Scuzz, A rather obese programmer who practically lives in his office.  He smells like a bag of opened potato chips left in a cooler full of swamp water. Known throughout the building as leisure-suit Scuzz.  Ugly as hell, but an intelligent programmer who helped make Leopard what it is today.  Claims to have helped Gates write DOS; however, this rumor is still unconfirmed.

Buddy Troll, a key engineer who helped design the slim, attractive products that Apple fan boys gobbled up faster than a starved dog with a tapeworm.  Received the nickname Party Pizza because his face looks like a cooked Party Pizza. A poor conversationalist, but a genius engineer.  Many have offered him jobs, but he has turned them down, stating his dedication to Apple as the reason.

Your job for this first blog posting is to pick three of these six employees for Re-Commodore new electronic company.  These three will stay on and work to make Re-Commodore the next Apple.  Once you pick your favorites, you must support your choice and explain how they will be useful to Re-Commodore in a short memo.  You know their strengths and weaknesses.  Now, you have to sell your choices to Re-Commodore's CEO.  I wish you the best of luck! 

Kickstarter Project

For blogs IV and V, I want to start thinking about a project you want to accomplish.  This project needs to be funded.  Try to imagine yourself as an entrepreneur wanting to get your project off the ground.  You can be an aspiring filmmaker, a software developer, or a restaurant owner; the possibilities are endless. Once you have decided on your project, you must write your ad.

Here are the requirements needed for this blog:

(1)An ad that is at least a paragraph long. In this ad, you must consider your rhetorical situation (the five w's and the how).  Write a professional ad where you describe your project and your goal.

(2)Make sure you name your price for this project.  Next, set a number of days for you will keep this ad open.  For example, do you expect you'll need forty days to receive ten thousand dollars for your project?

(3) Once you've completed the second set, write what your backers will receive for their donations. Here's an example:

(A) Those who pledge $100 to Pro. P's PhD fund will receive a limited edition note card with the grand scholar's research scribble.  Raspberry mocha coffee ring included.

(B)Those who pledge $1,000 will receive a hand-written rough draft entitled Pro. P's Guide to Italian Horror Movies and Soundtracks and Their Subversive Irrelevance to Composition Theory and other Rhetorical Nonsense. Impress your philistine friends with this hard-to-read scholarly chicken scratch complete with poems and sketches made during class.

(C) Those who pledge $3,000 will receive an awkward smile, a whimpy handshake, and a free continental breakfast from Denny's—coffee and orange juice not included. Consider this cheap, greasy, unhealthy breakfast as way of shielding my true elitist tendencies.  I want to be a PhD for the people.  Please note: No Romantic languages will be spoken during this sit-down, mainly because I will have forgotten them after writing my dissertation.

(4)Once you have written your incentives for your backers, conclude with the contexts of your ad (PEPE). Then write and briefly discuss the different readers of your ad. 

(5)This ad should concise and well-written.  The smoother your delivery, the more likely someone will give you money.   You may also make a video to help promote your project.

(6)This will be due by Sunday, March 2nd.  It will count as two blogs.  Best of luck.