How To Be Interesting

A. The rhetorical purpose of this text is to help bloggers make their blogs more interesting. They have 21 ways to help bloggers. By giving us these 21 ways they hope we will take them into our own writing so that others can have a more interesting blog to read.

B. The way they do it is very effective, at least for people to read the whole thing. They keep it interesting and keep the reader wanting to read more by how they state the 21 ways. It also makes you want to find out if they are telling the truth and if it will really make your blog more interesting.

C. They have a perfect kariotic moment. Blogging is becoming more and more populare so its perfect that they are trying to help people write more interesting blog posts.

D. Rhetorical Devices

• Figurative Language: Some examples are, "are simple as an aspirin" and "Many blog posts are like miniature textbooks." They are using metaphors throughout the piece. This helps you imagine it a little better but still has a little of your own interpretation to it. So it makes you thinkg a lot more then just sticking it out, boringly for the readers.
• Rhetorical Question: By using rhetorical questions it makes the reader want to read more, to see what they have to say about that question. An example is, “Who am I?” This makes you think of who you are specificaly and then about the audience, who are they? By using this they were trying to show one of their 21 ways of how to be interesting.
• Diction: "Be startlingly honest" is an example of how they use diction. I like how it wasn't just "be honest" but it was a little more. It made it more interesting and made you think, oh wow, that honest? There diction adds more details and makes it more interesting to read.
• Tone: They are very casual throughout the whole blog. This makes it feel more personal and not like a textbook. So it makes it a lot more fun to read. An example is, "Oh wait… he did" although it isn't a huge example it sort of shows how it is just more personal and as if one was have a casual conversation with you.

E. New Media Devices

• Hypertextuality. Throughout the blog they have red words and when your pointer goes over them it highlights it and you can go to that cite. This makes the author have a little more credibility because it shows he is just not making it up and it also makes it more interesting because you can see the examples at that site. An example of this is, "like this one, this one, and this one."
• Interation: It is very personal throughout the blog. It makes you feel like he knows how to help you and is really trying to help you. An example of this is, "You’ll feel better" or "I’m talking about the story that haunts you on your deathbed." The author is using "you" quite a bit which makes you feel more important. One of the ways to be better at blogging is to not be a textbook or not so formal, so the author is showing us an example of how not to be also.