Purpose, Audience, Genre Task 3 Part 2

I am following SSPets. I am following SSPets because they want to save shelter pets. I chose her because that is exactly what I want to do. I want to save the animals that are in so called shelters that are supposed to help them. I also decided to follow her because like me she wants to eliminate euthanasia as a method to control the population of homeless animals. I want to provide no-kill alternatives. The purpose of this blog is to raise money for several dogs. Some come from families who can’t take care of them anymore, while others are from shelters who are about to be euthanized and the SSP wants to save them. The intended audience are the followers of SSP and animal lovers. The strategies the writer uses is to make us hope that these dogs will be saved. She keeps us returning and checking in to see if the donation has gone up and checking in on the animals.

Purpose, Audience, Genre Task 3 Part 1

I found this blog http://franxbudi.blogspot.com/ using www.blogcatalog.com. I found this blog interesting because it is for dog lovers everywhere. I liked this blog because it gives you advice on what to do with your dog, like how to make him a part of the family. It gives a lot of helpful advice to first time dog owners and also to people who have already owned many dogs. The tips he gives you on how to train your dog are very useful and he explains them very well.

Purpose, Audience, Genre Task #2

I chose the blog Applematters.com from the blog 100 best blogs. This blog is directed to anyone who likes Apple. Apple Matters central focus is just commenting on different topics like the impact of apple on our lives, reports of important people in Apple’s history. The theme they used was a simply layout, it’s well designed and you can find everything quite easily. I find this blog useful and interesting because I am an Apple fan and own several Apple products and I always like to hear new stuff about Apple and what is going on with them. I don’t think that there is any other information that they could put out, it’s really varied and has a little bit of everything. The other design the author could have used was maybe to make the home page look less cluttered. The many authors of this blog are funny, take their job seriously and are avid Apple fans.

Personal Introduction

My name is Christine Knight and I am 21 years old. I graduated from La Joya Senior High School in 2006 and I am currently attending school at TSTC Harlingen. My educational plans for the next several years is to hopefully graduate within the next year and a half and I say hopefully because I’ve had many obstacles to overcome and it’s taken me a while to graduate. My long term career plans is to become a graphic designer and hopefully open my own little business. I also would like to open a book shop and maybe an animal shelter with a veterinarian office inside because there is no animal shelter or veterinarian close by where I live. This past Thursday my cocker spaniel Bella got poisoned and it was at night and all the veterinarians where closed and the only one I found that could come if it was an emergency would charge me $180 and I had to pay up front and then she would charge for a lot of other stuff. I told her that I didn’t have the money and if there was a way that I could pay in payments and she said very coldly that that wasn’t an option. The next day I was able to take her to a veterinarian and when I got there I learned that she had been having seizures all night and I thought she was just shaking. I was wrong. I had to put a deposit of $150 and hospitalize her. Thankfully the next day she made a fully recovery and she was back to her lovely, annoying self. I think that communication, both written and oral is very important to my profession because I have to speak with my customer or employee to see what they would like for their logo or advertisement. I am working in Barnes and Noble right now and communication is extremely important because I have to communicate with the customers to see what book they are looking for or what kind of book they want. Written communication is important because I always have to leave notes to other coworkers to tell them what’s been done and what needs to be done today or tomorrow, and what happened throughout the day. I expect this course to help me achieve in communicating a bit more written and orally. I would like to write better than I do.