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Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/13/23 BLOG-PROJ Week #1 St.Croix Rods, a manufacturer of fishing rods for over seventy years is an American company, originally producing fishing poles out of bamboo. They have refined fiberglass and carbon composite materials to be used in their newest products, revolutionizing the fishing industry. Many tournament fishermen, specifically fishing for largemouth bass, represent St. Croix as one of their sponsors and the company continues to grow. The Company is trying to convey to their audience that…

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Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/14/23 PG 277 para 3 PG 280 para 7 Q: “As already mentioned, you must establish and maintain an appropriate relationship with an audience and base decisions about a speech partly on that relationship.” (PG 277 para 3) C:  A speaker can only be successful in conveying information if they first establish a connection between themselves and the audience. Another example referenced in the book is the famous “My fellow Americans…” quote from President Obama. Americans everywhere…

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Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/7/23 Journal #5 PG 25 PARA 2  This passage I found to be quite confusing or hard for me to understand. The study of rhetoric is a well known practice and can be related to many different parts of communication. Public speaking is very important to the study of rhetoric, and although good written work and good speaking share similar skills they are different practices. Rhetoric allows students to identify hidden messages of words and phrases used…

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Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/7/23 Journal #4 I want to become a better version of my personal self, I will connect with the audience by using good public speaking practices. I will speak clearly and loudly, taking my time to pronounce words. I think that my peers will find my goals of self improvement to be very relatable and therefore they will be more inclined to listen and ask me questions. I will attempt not to relate everything to an experience…

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Sawyer Ohman  CMM110-A 9/7/23 Journal #3 The author Kevin Kelly makes a good point by connecting our basic love for animals and nature to our love for technology. “Maybe our technophilia is merely biophilia in disguise. (Pg 3, Pa,2)” Humans have a deep connection with nature, from our pets to house plants and wild animals we might find on our property. We have compassion for living and moving things, and so technophilia is a product of our deep love for…

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Sawyer Ohman 9/4/23 CMM110-A Journal #2 Passage #1 (PG #8, Para #3) I found this passage to be confusing but after a second read I enjoyed the explanation that was given even though it was contradictory to my natural idea. My definition of a sign was based on stop signs and billboards. But those objects aren’t signs at all, they are symbols. Images of beaches and coronas or performers in a circus, they are symbols which represent something unique in…

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Sawyer Ohman  CMM110-A 9/2/23 Journal Entry #1 Communication Communicating is a universal function, every human being, every animal, even plants communicate with each other. Communication takes many different forms, it can be both verbal and physical. We communicate verbally by sounds, singing, talking, yelling, are all examples of verbal communication. Physical communication is an action which we do to convey a message or information. Hand gestures, dancing, kissing a loved one are ways of conveying feelings and thoughts.  We are…

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Peer review was a scary and foreign concept to me, I had never done it before in high school and I felt nervous to critique another persons paper. My professor was quick to say that the best thing to do was make honest comments on our class mates paper. I focused more on the positives rather than what they could improve on and I noticed things that needed work but didnt always mention something. This quickly made writing different in…

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When it came to grammatical errors I found it difficult to improve upon what I already knew. I knew to space my writing out and allow the reader to breath when taking in information, and to reread my work to ensure a smooth transition from sentence to sentence but my writing still needed work. About half way through the semester I hadnt seen much improvement on my sentence level revision so I downloaded grammerly onto my computer. One thing that…

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Although using proper MLA format seems tedious and time consuming it provides a good way to show that your wrok is original while still using other sources to strengthen your writing. A works cited page is where I would reference the texts we read in class as well as any other websites that I might have used to find more information. MLA formatting also includes proper quotations of other sources I found this very difficult to get in the habit…

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