Daily Log Blog 11/29/17

Today in class we continued the topic of looking at our reviews as process. We started class by looking at two excerpts and answering the questions what are the parts of the object? And what language evaluates that object? What this means is that we looked deeply into the excerpts looked at the parts that make up the objective part of the excerpts. After we found those parts of the object we looked at what was the connotation towards those parts of the object.

The first excerpt we covered in class was about the film Get Out. After reading the passage we came together as a group, trying to find as many parts of the object in the passage. After consulting with our groups we came back as a class and shared our findings. The class came up with the parts of the object like the setting, antagonist, plot, director, genre, and tone. Then we grouped up again and tried finding the language the author uses to evaluate those objects. We again came back to the class and shared our findings. The language the author uses to evaluate these objects seem to be all positive. Something we noted was that the author uses one sentence to evaluate more than one object. The author was a able to take such a rich topic and make it into a few sentences.

The second excerpt takes on a hold different perceptive and really focuses on the actor Adam Sandler as a whole. Just like before we came together as a group to see what we could find for both parts of the object and the language that the author uses to evaluate those parts. We covered object parts such as  director, Adam Sandler and his age, plot, comedy, characters, theme, and the ending. The author uses very strong language and ethos to evaluate these objects.  Some examples are negative sounding words like curdling. Use of negative tone to analyze to the objective parts, use of sarcasm to prove how Adam Sandler is a nice guy, and use of specific parts of the film. The author manages to take this topic and make it into three rich and flavorful sentences.

With the last little bit of class we had left we moved over to the concept of transition.  We talked about how different transitions can make the difference from a well constructed piece to what the paragraphs are trying to get across. We then wrapped up class with the overview of the assignment 5.1 and was granted time to start working on it. 

The questions what are the parts of the object? and what language evaluates that object? are seen in critiques and reviews everywhere. These abilities to find the parts of the object and the use of language to evaluate those objects are very real. Professional critiques and reviewers have to use this process every time they write about something. They must go through the text they are analyzing and find what makes up the objective parts of their text. They then must express their feelings and have to expand those parts with their language. By finding the parts of the object and identifying the language, it allows us to really dive into a piece of text and allow us to be better reviewers and critiques.