Exigence: Student-athletes don’t have the money to support their families or help pay for their tuition since they don’t have time to get a job while balancing academics and sports. D1 athletes should be paid.

Audience: Current D1 athletes or athletes that are pursuing college sports

Choices we can make: Paper or podcast

1. It is a facebook post as the broad genre, but it is definitely not a regular facebook post people are used to seeing on their timeline. It is more of a response to the people he tagged and saying that their criticism is unfair. It is more like a response within a niche that know the context and their positions within the topic.
2. The author is very organized with his arguments so it comes out as very direct. Since he’s organized, there is really no confusion about what he’s arguing about.
3. He shows his ideas as bullet points starting with the general idea or opinion and then goes into the sub points that go more into detail. Also, he doesn’t have a traditional introduction to the topic and goes right into his argument. It might restrict them because most people aren’t used to what people are used to seeing on Facebook. The length might be unattractive to some.

One piece of culture (a song, movie, book) that I’ve encountered recently that has to do with money is watching the movie, Wolf of Wall Street.

A rhetorical analysis that could be involved is why and how money affects human emotions and actions. Jordan Belfort was a great example of how money changed him throughout the 3 and some hours of the movie. Examples of textual analysis is how he talks and treats others throughout the plot and it clearly changes.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

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