Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Artifact: letter



I found this artifact very interesting. It caught my eye in the matter of seconds.  From just looking at the hand written note, I can notice a lot of things about the rhetor and the audience he is writing too. The website I found this on is a collection of found letters. We don't know if the person who was supposes to receive it, actually got a chance to read it. In this situation, it would be Kaitlyn that we would wonder about. She is the audience, who this is directed too. The rhetorical situation is about a young boy, who likes the girl named Kaitlyn. You can tell by his writing that he is in a sticky situation with a problem about not really knowing what she thinks about him. Since the letter is hand written, we can believe that this boy and girl are young. The reason for that is because the handwriting is not neat and the grammar is not correct. Also maybe they are to young to have the way to communicate over a phone call, text, media, etc. The choice of writing can share a lot of clues about the rhetor. Writing is a key way of communication and is special in its own way because it is harder to be “deleted”.  I personally think a handwritten letter displays and demonstrates more feelings. It brings to life an idea or thought from being visual appealing and different.  The is why this letter caught my eye and my attention to read. 

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