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

Journal Entry 2

Claim- Conceiving another child in order to save a previously exsisting child is not always detrimental.
Data- When surgeries are performed on young babies their memory is still developing so later years in life they will not have any recollection of the incident, nor the pain they may have experienced. Not always will the child receive complications and the outcome ( if possible.) Will be greater because you are saving your childs life.
Warrant- It is not fair to the child being born because it is viewed as if the parents are just using the child selfishly to save their oldest child. It seems as though the child is a Ginea Pig with no significant value and was just birthed to save another.
Grounds- If the parents a loving, caring unit the child will be just as cared for as the first born. It is not true that the family will not care for the second child or like him/her less just because their purpose was to save their sibling.
Backing- Many also believe that if the child was not originally wanted that the parents will not take as good care of him/her as they would the first one.
Qualifiers- Although, some parents are not as considerate as other the chances of a child being neglected or abused as a donor child are slim because that child is a necessity to the family as a unit. That child is what can possibly keep their sibling alive and neglecting the child will greatly reduce the childs will and ability to donate anything valueable without endangering his/her own life.

Journal Entry 1

Argument Article

The claim being made in this article is whether it is morally justified or not to birth another child in order to save an older siblings life. This type of claim is Value. It is a value claim because it varies from person to person. Many individuals feel that having a child for the sole purpose of saving another is not morally just. Mostly because it comes off as if the parents do not care for the other child in hopes to save the other. However, now 18 years later the bone marrow donor, who saved her sister, is living a happy normal life. She is not affected by what happened to her at such a young age of two. Although the process of extracting bone marrow is painful at such a young age it did not impact her now. The family is now happy with two healthy daughters.

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