Read the prompt carefully, considering your audience, purpose and the conventions of your chosen genre. You may complete the required responses in any order. Academic Response In a well-organized, well-supported paragraph of at least, o Analyze Charles Simic's use of tone. Refer briefly but specifically to the reading to support your analysis

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Living in our increasingly digital world, our attention is constantly distracted by an "ecosystem of interruption technologies" (Cory Doctorow). In fact, many worry that we are losing the ability to truly focus on the written (or even spoken) word. You have been invited to blog about the importance of powerful, thought-provoking, communications; using "The Lost Art of Postcard Writing" as an example, explore the author's use of genre and rhetoric to effectively capture the reader/audience's attention and convey ideas.

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