Thursday, November 29, 2012

Blog 14


Audio essays incorporate more human senses than a regular piece of writing, giving your point more feeling and excitement than just simple words can illustrate. It’s like the difference between radio and television because you’re not just reading it your hearing it, and which makes a paper seem less like a paper and more of a conversation.

Audio essays don’t include summaries or quotes said by a person its actual words spoken by the person telling their point that helps prove the point you’re trying to make, this is what makes audio essays more like conversations because point are being made by the words of actual people. This makes it more interesting to people because it isn’t just a bunch of words. But there is a difference when you’re introducing people who you are using quotes from because unlike written essays audio essay you talk about the person who said the quote after the quote instead of before. When using sound bits of information it just has to relate to the subject of the paper or even if it’s not just as long as it improves the overall feeling people get when they hear it then you have used the correct sound bit because all it is suppose to do is hook the reader back into the essay and make your paper that more interesting and enjoyable. Sound bites are also great times to transition between points of your essay which is a great substitute to just using words like also.

So when using audio essays instead of just a regular essay you have more freedom with what you can do because audio essays give you more options that you have at your disposal . Things like sounds bits to help transition between points and using audio quotes to make your points seem more real because it’s the actual person talking so it is a lot harder to take their words out of content. Using these correctly make your audio essay a lot more interesting than just a regular essay because when you are speaking you have more room to convey things that you normally would not normally be able to correctly put down onto paper.

The NPR examples I used were

“Why Dividens, Capital Gains are a Big Part of Fiscal Cliff Talks”

“Would Raising Taxes on Investment Income Hurt the Economy”

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