Response #8

Sean Demme

9.19.2012

English 1510

IWA:    In Bernhardt’s Seeing Texts Bernhardt brings up the argument of visual apprehension. Bernhardt says that, at a younger level of schooling we should be taught how to write with more logical textual organization; not just paragraphs and comma and so on. The use of tables and headings and much more is the type of thing that Bernhardt is trying to stand up for. An example is in advertising, the way marketers use text to make you look at certain things in certain ways.

               This is related to other readings because this, as well, is a skill that my generation of writing doesn’t just have. We weren’t schooled on it like a few other topics and it is something we’ll have to learn to do. It’s almost exiting – the way that new things continue to come up in writing and to think younger generations will be tough differently. This makes one wonder if all of this change is good nor not.

               I don’t really know how to respond to this article as much as I did with others. I know that writing structure is also important – but to what extent? Do we really NEED a different structure of writing, or do word just stand on their own. Novels have been fine for the last 100 years I’d say. I don’t really know – maybe I’m just stubborn – but that’s how I feel.

 QDJ:

               #4 I think that we are supposed to write in a certain format because the only time a college student writes is for a grade. Other than notes – I am NEVER writing for myself. And if you’ve ever seen my notes you’d know that the structure is nonexistent. Writing structure is there, simply, to keep the papers in line.

AEI:
               #3 Gestalt is the part of the text that you don’t get from reading the text but from it’s structure. This is important to this text because it’s basically the whole text in one word. Knowing this term helps.