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I had a difficult time trying to use tone in rhetorical analysis when transitioning from my essay to my podcast. When your writing you have time to think about diction but when you are speaking it is hard to remember and be specific about what you wanted to say and how you wanted to say it. My essay had a kind of tense tone because the topic was so serious but in real life I find talking about difficult topics uncomfortable so I came off like my sexual harassment was no big deal. That hurt my overall message that I was trying to convey. My writing process for the most part stayed the same. I wrote out the drafts and edited with my peers as usual although it is more difficult to talk about yourself. I found it took me longer to write my drafts compared to the rhetorical analysis essay. I chose to leave out pretty much all of the literary devices from my podcast like my fish in a fish bowl example of a simile. Those remind me of what you would read from Shakespeare. I feel like literary devices like that are not used in casual everyday conversation so it would come off awkward over a podcast. I left the ones that related to pop culture in that I thought the audience would understand for example my job being like a discount Dave and Busters. I did leave in a lot of my sensory descriptions like my manager having a thick Caribbean accent and me being forced to listen to Old
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Town road on repeat. I think details like that come off naturally in conversation and help the listener visualize what is happening. I think the most challenging part of the assignment was coming up with an overall theme with my group members. I thought it would be speaking because I hate the sound of my voice or technology issues because I’m bad with computers but it was coming up with what to talk about. The total talking time about the overall message for the group was six minutes which felt like ages of Elise, Caroline, and I, repeating the same thing over and over. Our personal narratives were so different the best we could come up with was a very vague message of you should always be kind to others. I think the most interesting part of the podcast assignment was listening to my group members narratives. I was honestly really expecting peoples big moments in life to be kind shallow or not that important in the grand scheme of things. I was expecting it to be about their parents divorce or their dog died which happens all the time to everyone. Elise and Caroline's stories were really interesting and heart breaking and while they were sad those moments build a lot of character especially for people so young and it was really cool to be able to interact with them while they told their stories.
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