Journal Entry 10

Rhetoric and Composition- What factors are used in persuasive essays?

English Education- Does poor spelling and incorrect formatting really take away from the purpose of an essay?

Cultural Studies- What influences American society?

Discourse Analysis: Do the SATs really determine how smart you are?

5 topics I could research on:

1. Medicinal Marijuana

2. Medias influence on society

3. The increase in prices of food

4. The REAL reasons on why we're at war.

5. Why girls mature faster than boys.

Journal Entry 9

1. The writer is trying to find out about how different genres of students become or want to become sucessful in writing. How they represent themselves through writing. Some questions that she asks are: what is their disipline, enviroment, and goals toward school.

2. She focuses on three different people in a small religious liberal arts college.

3. Contradiction.

Journal Entry 8

1. The writer is trying to research what gives a rock band its credibility.

2. The writer uses other rock songs and other rock bands as sources. The author often refers to techniques of other bands s/he views as "true rock bands".

3. Others try to establish their "authenticity" by focusing on their area of expertise and elaborating on it. They often give their input in certain conversations and what they are not fond of they stay quiet and observe.

Journal Entry 7

1. The writer is trying to learn more abour editing and the revision process done by other critics.

2.They collect their information from real life editors who either do revisions full time or part time as their career. They analyze the information they recieve by seeing how well their strategies work per client.

3. Professional editing differs from self revision because you as the writer can change any piece of the writing to anything you want. Where as professional editing cannot, professional editing can just do the basic forms of editing, spelling, grammar, etc because it is not their work.

Journal Entry 6

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2. Bitzer means the characteristics surrounding the situation. The outside influences that result in a certain behavior.

3. An exigence is an imperfection marked by urgency that can be positively modified. An example of exigence could be a hungry baby. The baby cries and cries until the parent figures out what it wants. If the baby is hungry, you give it food and it will stop crying.

Journal Entry 3

In the excerpt "Inventing the University" Bartholomae talks about how a student must 'invent the university' meaning create the mood. When writing the student has the power to take his readers to a different place and clearly demonstrate their thoughts or ideas. When he says to 'invent the university' he means to create a mood for the audience through the use of his essay.
Bartholomae suggests that by making students more aware of their own right to speak will make them better writers. Being an "insider" helps the student feel like they belong and in turn will fuel the motivation behind their essay.
The first essay that Bartholomae analyzed was n0t as well written as the second one. The second one was more elegant and appealing to a unviersity setting. Although the first essay indeed answered the question of creativity, its organization and flow arent apparent.

Writing Workshop 1

List of topics/ subjects/ fields/ areas in which you have expertise:

• Child care
• Dogs
• Burping
• Writing
• Shopping

List of topics/ subjects/ fields/ areas in which you have interest in:

• Boys
• Child care
• Helping save the planet