Semester Two: Blog Five

Pitch Number One:

I was thinking about writing my article based off of a few main quotes. I would have a my first quote to start the essay, and that would lead to me explaining how my day was based off of that. Then my next quote could help me move into the next subject of how I grew. And I could write the essay like that.

Pitch Number Two:

I could write the essay in a timeline format, I could start out with the time I wake up and how I start my day all the way until I finish the day. All the while I could be adding things that have improved my life and how certain things affected me,etc.

Pitch Number Three:

I could also write my article like from the viewpoint of either the camera I borrowed to take all of my pictures, or my laptop that I took to the internship quite a few days, or even my coffee mug I took to the internship everyday. This way I could have things from a different perspective and explain how it would seem things are and then later add what I was thinking into the story.

Semester Two: Blog 4

1.) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/7928784/Bill-Withers-interview.html

The Bill Withers interview is an example of how I would write my Ampersand article because I like how it was a story still but it also included quotes and main points. I would make it more personalized to a specific style that I would find works for me, but I would like to base my article off of this interview.

2.) http://www.biographyonline.net/people/joan-of-arc.html

I chose this biography on Joan of Arc as my second article because I liked the way it was formated. This to me is the way I would like to format my Ampersand article, with a quote to start out the article and then quote through out the article to prove different points.

3.) http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obama-in-command-br-the-rolling-stone-interview-20100928

I chose the Obama article as my third article to base my Ampersand article off of because I like how the article gave you a specific time and place you could imagine yourself in. It made me connect with the piece more and also I want to maybe used some of my interview question and answers in my final Ampersand piece.

Semester Two: Blog Three

1.)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8599597/
The first interview I chose was done by Katie Couric to JK Rowling. The reason I chose this interview was because I like the way it was structured. I liked how they had a short anecdote at the beginning and then went into a question and answer format. This is something I was maybe going to try when writing my second draft of the interview.

2.)
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=226
This was the second interview I chose because I liked how it was just a simple question and answer format. This seems like I something I would like to try because I like the straight forward style of writing with my interview.

Semester Two: Blog 2

What have you read lately (say, since last semester), that you found interesting?

A piece of writing that I found interesting was a newspaper article in the St. Louis Post- Dispatch. It was an article titled St. Louis Zoo favorite for nearly two decades. It was an article written about a gorilla named Phil, he died in the St. Louis zoo recently, he had lived there since 1941. Something I found interesting about this article was all of the facts they decided to share with the public, like Phil's diet and what he loved to do, how long he was at the zoo, etc. This only made me love the gorilla more, just like everyone else who loved Phil and was very sad to see him die.

Why did it catch your attention?

The reason this article caught my attention is because Phil was the gorilla that my great uncle, a major founder of the St. Louis Zoo, had brought with him to the zoo. It was a famous story because my uncle believed that animals should not be caged in some small cage while traveling. So he famously let them ride in his car with him to the St. Louis zoo. This was a major part of my history, so I was interested in seeing how Phil's story ended. That is why I chose this as something interesting I've read recently.