Tuesday, January 16, 2007
The way I think
Although I know little about the subject we are blogging about, I will try to answer this week’s question. I will begin to say that my mind works in odd cycles. I know you may be thinking I am crazy, but you are not alone. When I say I think in cycles this means I think of the end, then I ponder about the beginning, and last and seemingly least, I find a way to start the middle. Take the word sweetie for example. My grandmother always used to call me sweetie before she got Alzheimer’s. Now every time I think of this word, I began to think about her suffering first, then I associate the word with her love for me, and then I start to wonder how she got ill in the first place. If I heard someone I did not like use this special word, I would get mad because in some strange way, I feel that person does not deserve to say that word. This word would not affect my writing because I seldom use it.
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While you might not run into "sweetie" much in writing or even reading for school, how about Alzheimer's itself?
If somebody wrote a paper about this and then presented it to the class, is there anything they could do in that paper that would get that same reaction from you? Is there anything they could do (rhetorically, since we learned that word today) that would make it a GOOD presentation or paper to you? What sort of information could be in that communication that makes the difference (if there is one)?
And how can you then take that reaction that you might have and apply it to a topic that you choose to write about later on? How can you communicate clearly and effectively to an audience when you're not sure what they know or have experienced about your topic?
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