Reading Response #1 "They Say" Chapter 1

Exercise #1

a. Researchers suggest that there are dangerous levels of Chemical X in the Ohio groundwater.

b. Book reviews have stated that this novel has certain flaws.

c. Fans of hockey find football is so boring.

d. Educators have found that male students often dominate class discussions.

e. Movie critics feel that the film is really about the problems of romantic relationships not that of how great it is to be in love.

f. Readers feel that templates like the ones in this book will stifle their creativity.


Exercise #2

If there ever was a custom made idea for a Jay Leno monologue, this was it: movie directors being more concerned with the amount of money made versus the strength of the story they portray. Isn't that like say the money equals power and art equals the poorhouse. Whatever happened to the film industry being about the art that is on the screen and not the money that goes into our pockets. I happen to sympathize with those artists that truly are in it for the art versus the money,though perhaps that is because I am a self-proclaimed starving artist that is always looking to put the message above the money. Always trying to do my best to remember that the art not others opinions is what counts.

Comp 106 Screen Capture

Writing and composing can take on many forms. The image above is an example of a common difficult composition task for me, a television script. While I was writing the piece it felt as though I could see the story jump off the page and come alive in my imagination and see all the pieces of the puzzle. Seeing it in this space it seems to lose that life. I can’t feel the emotions that the individuals who are on the screen were feeling as they spoke these words. The image of these words make them feel as if they no longer have meaning, no longer tell a story. This reaction surprised me because in the ever evolving world of digital composing the goal is often to tell a story or evoke an emotion through the manipulation of various medium such as photography and music via the use of a computer. The digital age that we are presently living in has many pros. I believe that you can see digital composing as a new broader way to communicate. After I post this it will be open to the world's eyes and opinions. The digital age has changed the way that we communicate with one another before when we wanted to talk to someone who across a distance we would hand write a letter, put it in the mail and wait for a response. This, however is no longer the case. Now we send messages to others via multiple digital composing methods, e.g, email, instant or text message, or video. I think that the best way that we can gain a greater understanding of digital processes is to emerge ourselves in them and use them to educate ourselves about the world around us but not forget the composition forms that were existed prior and how they helped us develop the new communications we have today.