Formal/Closed and Informal/Open

Formal writing consists of all the strict rules and guidelines, like no contractions, no vernacular terms, and has to follow a format. Informal writing is the opposite. It can use any type of language and format. Even though these things are obvious from the names, open and closed writings are slightly different. No writing is all open or all closed. They are usually either more open with some closed qualities or vise versa. Open writing is fantasy, fiction, and everything like that, while closed is more like business reports, and anything that is super heavily based on regulations.
Both my cause proposal and my summary/strong response essay are close to closed. They are more formal with a report style, but they still have some aspects of an open form of writing. If u haven't taken anything out of this blog well then, whatever.

An Effective Introduction

Apparently, everything that I ever learned about setting up an introduction is wrong (that figures). The old way is boring and hard to follow, which is not hard to believe, because I thought my intros sucked.
The old way, also called the "funnel introduction", was starting with a broad generalization and then just narrowing it down to the topic. The better way of doing it has a complete different outlook on the information being used.
First, you start with old information that everyone already knows. Then, you add a new truth or something unknown about that information to surprise your readers and get them hooked. I never realized this, but it does make sense. When some article starts off with something that I am interested in and then completely changes my thinking process about it, I will probably read the rest of the article.
I don't think I've ever used this tactic' but its better late then never. My first paper to try and use it on is my summary/strong response essay. It sounds fun right? Well we will see how much this new style of introduction really changes papers.

I Had No Idea.

After we started to write some reports on this cause thingy, we had to find an article that relates to our cause. The students of the composition class are starting on Summary/strong response essays which are just reports with a summary of the article and pretty much a response to the article if it wasn't obvious. But the response is a little bit more complicated. It has to do with two elements: the rhetorical situation of the article and the points/ideas of the article.
Back to the main point of this blog. We found out that in the second symester of our class we are actually going to start with our causes. I mean we have to go out and do whatever we wrote about. We are reaching those places and changing the situations that we felt strongly about. For me, I am going to actually help Christian clubs and organizations in the public school system. I mean it is cool and all, but actually doing it is kind of worrysome. I'm not one to do something. I'm all bark, but who knows, this might turn out really good (hopefully).

It's Only the Proposal

Recently in comp. class we have been working on our causes. If that just completely confused you then that is why I'm gonna explain this to you. Causes. We were assigned to right about a cause that we feel strongly about like abortion, help for disabled students, or something like that. I chose Christian organizations and clubs within the public school system.
 I have been in the public school system, and it isn't a pretty place. It is a place where students go and try to be something that they are not. Most students act completely different at school than at home. It is a rough environment where students try to watch their backs from being teased or bullied in any way, and to do that, you have do only what is acceptable with the norms of the school and the other student that go there.
 In my own experience, many students act like they have to be better than everyone always getting in the last word, or maybe saying the wisest come back. It is sad how the morals have fallen. I swear out of the like 1,000 students only like maybe one-hundred did not cuss regularly, and far less didn't participate in corse joking or the practice of building people up with compliments other than tearing them down with insults. That is why I chose this as my cause.