I understand that companies want to copyright there products to keep people from stealing their ideas and possibly redistributing themselves. However, for someone to not allow home videos online because of a song seems a little outrageous. I believe the idea of copyright was thought of more for money reasons than it was for the protection of one’s individual creation. I think interpretation and “remixing” or incorporating one’s work should not only be accepted but appreciated. Well, when the original author is given credit anyways. I think remixing is a form of flattery and a form of the audience responding and appreciating one’s work…
Throughout chapter 1 of “The Bedford Book of Genres,” I learned that there are a variety of ways to improve one’s writing. Several writers tend to get carried away while writing that they forget who their audience is and what message they are trying to deliver. This is when one must ask themselves what their purpose of writing is, do they want to present a narrative/ tell a story, inform, or persuade. After figuring out ones purpose they must choose a genre to be able to shorten their idea and be concise. In order for this to occur one must know the basic qualities and agreed-upon rules about the genre they are composing. Once one makes those decisions they move on to the rhetorical situation which mainly explains the idea. This allows the writer to provide support on their purpose such as saying what is great about it or provide statistics, which will automatically make their writing more interesting for the audience to read, as well as, get t...
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