Three ideas from Erin Frost and Jordana Hall

A quad chart is a genre in writing that is used in organizational administration, vehicle design and when applying for government grant.  This is important if you want to propose a new vehicle design or other technical things.  The grassroots book has two main titles for different purposes.  One title is less specific than the other one and has a smaller font this is more of an overview and the other bigger title is more specific.  When you write a book publishers are responsible for advertising and marketing aspects of a book as well as physical production.  This is important because the book needs to sell so the publisher will make ads for the book.

Picture Exchange

Dear Classmate,

This is a photo of my brother, sister, and I waterskiing.  My sisters name is Rebecca, and she is two and a half years younger than I am.  My brothers name is John, and he is eight years younger than I am.  We all love to go waterskiing and have been skiing since we were very little.  This is a river where our cabin is located, called the New Jersey Flowage.  It is dammed off on both ends so technically it is called a flowage.  Our cabin is located deep in the north woods of wisconsin.  The small town is called Tomahawk.  We drive to Tomahawk as often as we can during the summer and the winter to get away and have a fun family vacation.  This is one of my favorite places to go. Waterskiing is very important to me.  I am going to join the club waterski and wakeboard team here at ISU because of my love for the sport.  When I was eight years old my grandfather taught me how to waterski.  Everyone on my mom’s side of the family waterskis.  My aunt and uncle both skied at the Tommy Bartlett Water Ski Show.  I eventually will be skiing there also.  I worked there over the summer and loved every minute of it.  Two of my cousins are semi-professional waterskiers.  The oldest, Tyler, just won nationals in three event.  Three event is a tournament style of waterskiing, where you compete in three events which gives it the name.  The three events are Slalom, which is skiing around buoys on one ski, Trick, which is a specially designed slalom ski that people can do flips and spins on, and finally Jump skiing, which is an even where you go over a ramp and try to soar threw the air as far as you can.  This picture is very special to me because has all the things that are special to me in one photo.  My brother and sister are very special to me, I love my cabin in Tomahawk, and I love waterskiing.  

Now you know, 

Paul Kuske 

3 genres Textbooks, Texting, and Advertisement

When I am reading a textbook I am looking to understand the information and go in depth. I read textbooks for school strictly and would never touch them if I wasn't learning from them. But when I read text message I imagine the conversation.  Then I quickly think of a response and send it. And just wait for another text. You have to wait for the information to come, but for textbooks and advertisements its all right in front of you. Advertisements are a whole different thing. When I read an advertisement I read it out of bordom and think about whether I need this product or not.  I read all types in different ways and its hard to read a textbook like a text message, or a advertisement like a textbook.  That just doesn't happen. These three genres are all very different in my mind and they rarely mix.

Pioneer blog post

Fun, I just started a blog.