ARCS Act. 1&3 pg. 364

Act. 1
From the DA:
- Sports Section.“Darryl ‘Truck’ Byrant”- This is an example of an Antonomasia, because it is a descriptive word used to describe a proper name.
- Main Page. “Reach out across campus”- This is an example of a Synecdoche, because the reach out across campus refers to assistance.
- News Section. “Sleepy Sunday” – Example of a Catachresis, because it is describing Sunday as sleepy, which does not exist.

From Internet Ad:
- “Great Depression II” – Example of Antonomasia and/or Metonymy, because it is using the event Great Depression to refer to something bad and it is also using the event to relate to an up and coming similar situation.

From Internet Article:
- “Koby Bryant is no Michael Jordan” – example of a Hyperbole, because it is used to strain the truth about Koby.

Advertisements:
- “Just Do It”- example of Metonymy, because that advertisement slogan is associated with Nike.
- “NOBAMA”- example of Hyperbaton, because it uses the word No and Obama and puts them together to create a campaign slogan that is a parody.

Act. 2
I used a passage by Mark Twain in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
Original Passage:
“By and by he rolled out and jumped up to his feet looking wild, and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round the place with a clasp knife, calling me the Angel of death, and saying he would kill me, and then I couldn’t come for him no more. I begged, and told him I was only Huck; but he laughed such a screechy laugh, an roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up.”

*What I changed is in bold

New Passage:
“By and by he rolled out and jumped up like a bat out of hell, and he see me and went for me. Whoosh, he chased me round and round the place with a clasp knife, calling me the Angel of death, and saying he would kick the bucket on me , and then I couldn’t come for him no more. I begged like pigs on a farm, and told him I was only Huck, the adventurer; his laughter sounded like nails on a chalk board, an roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up.”

In Class Notes November 11

Arrangement- ideally, the rhetorical situation influences the writers decisions

Writer=Audience-=Topic

Cicero's 6 part decision for discourse:

1. Exordium: Introduction; more direct. Maybe by giving an example (story, image)>Insinuation
2. Narration: Statement of issue
3. Partition: divide the issue into its major parts
4. Confirmaton: major supporting arguments (evidence, examples, and analysis)
5. Refutation: anticipating and responding to objection
6. Peroration: Conclusion

Reading:

1. Would people analyze the same data in a different way?
2. People have other data that would challenge/complicate your analysis
3. Our data, our analysis challenges other people's interpertations
4. Qualifying a statment on assertion

Rehtorical Situation:

If someone was to read my reserach ideas and questions of the Case Manager at BBBS, im sure they would interpret things differently.

ARCS Act 2&3 pg. 318

Act. 2
In Senator John McCain’s concession speech about President-elect Barak Obama, displays examples of narratives, partitions, and perorations.

In a simple statement McCain states his narrative point: My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Sen. Barack Obama — to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.
This statement depicts the narrative point that he has lost this presidential race and is now honoring the rightful candidate who clearly won the American people’s vote.

Using partitions, here is an example throughout McCain’s speech that he names the issue in dispute: Sen. Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country, and I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.
I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.
Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that.

McCain, later also uses the second function in performing partition, where he lists the arguments in order as they have happened throughout the election process. He first identifies that he and Sen. Obama have had their differences, but he has won. Then he goes on to tell his supporters that they must move on as well and help “bridge” their differences with what is to come in our very near future.

In the concession speech to sum up everything the peroration was stated like this: I would not be an American worthy of the name, should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century. Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone and I thank the people of Arizona for it.
Tonight — tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Sen. Obama, I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president.
And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.

McCain, sums up his speech by reiterating that he has served this country and will continue serving his country with pride. He brings the attention to people who have disagreed with the President-elect’s decision by commenting on how he will put his trust in Sen. Obama, as should everyone who has supported his campaign should do now; and he brings the attention to ALL Americans to believe in a country where there are no ends to possibilities that are created here. Throughout this, you can also get a sense of sympathy he posses on himself by saying, “, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant.”

Act. 3

If Shapiro were to write for a smaller publication, I do not see any reason why she would have to “tone”, or “modify” her original article. People read the press for a good reason, and that is to find “newsworthy” articles not something that has been sugar coated, because of a particular place where it has been published. So, no I do not think there is anything wrong with what she has wrote about the education and parents involvement at universities.

ARCS ACT 1&4 pg 283

2. Taste is something I find unreliable. For example, many things taste like something else like chicken. Chicken has a “universal” taste that could cause someone who can not use their other senses to identify what they are eating could possibly trick them into what really was the right food. Touch might also seem like a deceiving sense, because let’s say you are blindfolded you probably couldn’t tell the difference without using your other senses whether you were feeling a rigid rock or sandpaper. A person’s testimony of their senses could develop an argument with someone else’s testimony of their senses, because it is all based out of ones opinion and people find that person truthful and reliable. Some people would trust a blind person to identify a distinct smell because they have to develop a keen sense of smell to live their lives versus a person who is able to see what they smell.

4. In the text they talk about how rhetoricians never take anyone’s testimony at face value without motives and witnesses. Using this as a helpful tool in my research project, the person I am studying is under my very own testimony. It could be that we have a phone interview and he tells me all these facts, but if I do not observe face to face what he is talking about than I may be lied to. Seeing is believing in this world and you can never be sure if someone is telling you the truth without seeing it for yourself.

ARCS pg 263 act 1,4,6

1)    1)  Scene: the crowd of fans is on their toes with excitement and anticipation whether the Mountaineers will get the must-needed touchdown to win the game. Breathing hard from nervous and sweat and the pressure of 1000’s and 1000 are of eyes watching the quarterback for the Mountaineers gets the snap. Face dripping with sweat, eyes concentrated on the pass…he makes the throw. Fans screaming as they see the pass in the air, their faces tight with anticipated pain of what is going to happen. To receive the ball they win to miss this pass the let down to moving on to the National Championship yet again. The pass was caught and the Mountaineers score!! Everybody is excited and energetic making the atmosphere ecstatic from the big win that the team just pulled off.

 

4) If you look in the paper of the DA under the help wanted, its really funny to read what the little blurbs say to catch the attention of their readers; especially college readers. They all have the job title in bold as well as how much money you can make if you apply. They usually say, “Fast Cash,” or “no experience necessary needed.” They are also those advertisements from the local bars, like today Mutt’s advertisement says you can get your picture taken with the raccoon and pumpkin from 10-12 or the Lazy Lizard has golden ticket night every Thursday that allows you to pass for free cover and free drink specials from 9-11; this is all to attract the attention of new and old customers.

 

6) I noticed reading a local article about Halloween safety tips when trick-or-treating. The article uses pejorative terms such as, “caution,” “the best way…”, “increasingly,” etc. This just shows that ethos of the article is implementing safety. The values are clear about what the community likes to read and focus there attention on which is children and their safety. So by using words that relate to safety draws the attention and the emotion that appeals to their readers. 

In Class Notes October 28, 2008

What is ethos?
-good character
-goodwill
-good sense

*1st, 2nd, 3rd person "distance" and "voice"
*active vs passive
* qualifiers
* word choec
* punctuation

Parents example pg 315.
Sharpio-
Good Sense: making the argument- "if we do x, y will happen" Examples- 1st person word choice (pairing)
Qualifier- "it is a complex matter"

Goodwill: acknowledges parents, emotions, values
- word choice confidence, grace
- QUALIFIERS (some...most)

Good Character:

• (agressiveness toward parents)
• (trust)/ (responsible)/ (fair)/ (honest)
• Situates herself as an advocate for both parents and students
• word choices
• examples (first person)

ARCS pg 230 act 1,2,6

Activity 1
In one of my English classes I have had to become an “expert” on press releases. I have looked at numerous printed and online press releases. Each writer expresses ethos by identifying their audience. Always following the 5 W’s and the tagalong H is the structure of how they establish character (ethos) in each press release. For an example, ESPN press releases have action pictures and quotes from athletes, coaches, sports analysts, etc. These quotes are the ways that project ethos in each press release, because the facts are coming right from the person. The topic in each press release is focused on generating a newsworthy article that will appeal to journalists who will cover the story in full detail.
Activity 2
Each author does not make a “close” distance relationship with their readers. In a press release it is best to leave out jargon and ego because a press release is simply to state the facts that are most newsworthy and interesting so that a news article maybe developed later on from the media, etc. The voice of the majority of each press release is geared towards the intended audience. ESPN for example uses “sports lingo” because they know that sports viewers, fans, and others who associate their time with sports will understand. The writer also uses really easy words to read quickly and uses numbers and graphics to help create a rhetorical distance for their sports fans/readers.
Activity 6
Ellen DeGeneres.
Dear program writing director,
I feel that the show needs more fun filled games to involve the audience. The doughnut game and marshmellow game is funny and entertaining. So, I have created another game that I fill will spread like wildfire for most popular games played on the show. It involves karaoke and dancing. There will be two randomly chosen audience members and they will have to pick out of a list of artists and the specific song and they will have to sing and dance like that song artists. It will be great. We can even have people send in youtube videos that could lead to a free trip out to LA and come to the show for like a “playoff.” You know how I feel about dancing so why not start my show with dancing and end it with dancing.

In Class October 23, 2008

* my computer glitched, so my notes were unsaved till this point in class *

If evidence does not fit the defendent, then you must acquit the defendant.
- Grounded in community values (major premise: unstated)
-The glove is evidence (unstated minor prmise)
-The glove doesn't fit the defendant (stated minor prmise)
"If the glvoe doesn't fit, you must acquit"

Video-
- Someone needs medical help
- A doctor is certified to help with medical emergency problems
- Holiday Inn guests are smart
"A holiday inn guest is smarter than a doctor"

Major Premise(general class): Smart people are the best people to handle difficult situations
Minor Premise (specific case): People who stay at a Holiday Inn Express are smart
Argument: We need someone who stayed at the Holidy Inn Express to help this man

ARCS Act. 3 pg 186

“Elvis has left the building”
- Elvis has moved to a different place
- Elvis has performed his last show
- Grand finale

ARCS Act 1 pg 186

The first sentence of the article I thought used Enthymematic proof because it had the “thus it follows that” indicated by “therefore;” plane crash kills and injures passengers therefore investigations by federal aviation officials are investigating accident.

A NTSB Public Affairs Officer Petter Kundson used an example of maxim in his quote which read, “Oftentimes, we find that as we collect more information, the picture changes.” The quote uses a wise saying that everybody generally understands and accepts its analogy. It clearly deals with human actions that are being chosen on what is happening and what to do with the problem at hand.

The last paragraph talks about the only two survivors of the plane crash and uses signs to help identify its logical proof. The text claims that the two passengers, Travis Barker and DJ AM both experienced plane crash accidents which was the real event in the sign and now their state of affairs are they suffered severe burns because of the crash.

Article-
Shredded Tires, Debris Likely Caused Travis Barker's Plane Crash:
Federal aviation officials looking into last month's crash that killed four people and critically injured Travis Barker and DJ AM are focusing on bare tires and debris on the runway as the causes of the fate of the doomed Learjet and those onboard. The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that the aircraft's wheels had very little rubber remaining and its brakes were severely damaged. The plane crashed upon an aborted takeoff around midnight Sept. 19. "Oftentimes, we find that as we collect more information, the picture changes," said NTSB Public Affairs Officer Peter Knudson, who said the physical evidence of the crash – such as skid marks and the condition of the brakes – is being analyzed. The cockpit voice recorder indicated that crewmembers expressed their belief that a tire blew as the jet was on the runway. Having both suffered severe burns in the crash, Barker, 32, and DJ AM (real name: Adam Goldstein), 35, are now expected to recover fully.
The wreckage of the Learjet carrying Travis Barker, Adam Goldstein and four others Photo by: Brett Flashnick / AP

In class October 21, 2008

Analyze Data

Faigley's Social Perspective:
-Coding Data: reading all the collected data, looking for patterns, themes, similarities/differences to emerge

Intertextuality (Bazerman):
1)Direct Quotation
2) Indirect Quotation
3) Mentioning another document
4) Commenting on another text
5) Using recognizable phrases

"Tracing Writing Process" (Prior):
A) Analyzing Texts:
-Same between drafts
-Slightly revised
-Added
-[Deleted]

B) Thinking aloud
-differentiating the various types of comments

Influence of Workplace Culture on Writing/Revising:
-Kleimann's four categories of revision comments
- Editorial comments

Analyzing Genres:
-Prominent Linguistic Features
ex- uses active verbs
- presents concrete details
-Rhetorical Features
ex-Progress report that has an argument throughout the report. What is the person doing to make an argument in the report.
-Organizational Features
ex-Chronological order

Speaking-Writing Connection:

Rhetorical Theories:
-Definitions/concepts can serve as lenses to analyze what is happening in texts


Free Write- What I am going to do about re-analyzing my data:
- I am probably going to focus more on the Analyzing Genres: the organizational features and rhetorical features.
- If my person I am observing writes evaluations and creates projects then what type of order does that person deliver throughout the evaluation?
- I will be looking for active verbs and indirect quotations. From there that could lead me to re-analyzing what type of argument was that person trying to perceive in the evaluation; was it more of an argument or agreement?

In Class Notes October 16,2008

Ideology: Sets of beliefs, values, ideas that shape how someone views the world
ex-feminism, conservatism, humanism, communism, capitalism, and enviormentalism

Common Topic: specific procedure/set of questions for generating arguments (heuristics)

Common Place: unstated ideas, statements that help to shape an ideology
- unstated premises that help to construct an ideology

*Common Places are frequently resorted to popular rhetoric
*They provide the terms within which American discourse works

Ideologic: Arguments that are made by stringing together common places

"Keep Austin Weird"
1) An "ideal" city is a "weird" city
2) A weird city has lots of different people, different shops , different ideas, different cultures
3) Austin is a werid city
4) Homogeneity is not weird
5) Npx stpres corp. promote homogenerity
6) Gov't should promote what is unique in a city rather than what is "the same"
7) Austin policy should keep local stores here rather than inviting in corp.

"Guns don't kill people; people kill people"
Government should create legislation that targets criminals alone not the tools they use to commit crime
Guns don't do anything on their own
People are inherently good or bad
Good people will follow laws. Bad people will ignore laws
Responsible people should be given rights; unresponsible people forfeit their rights
Government should protect community

ARCS Act. 4 pg 153

My topic is going to be over TV violence.

Common Topic of Conjecture:
- There is parent lock on television sets
- All kids will inevitable be exposed to violence one way or another
- When there was not any televised programs there were comic books that had violence
- There are TV ratings to help get an idea of what is going to be on the show, just like how there are movie ratings

Common Topic of Degree:
- Not all TV is bad. PBS, Disney, and other kids network shows use fun and entertaining ways to even help educate kids while watching the program
- TV violence may be bad in the U.S. but not as bad as in other countries who do not even have a TV to stem ideas from violent programs aired
- Violent TV programs may cause a reaction to kids giving off the vibe of hurting others is actually not all fun and games
- There is always going to be a disclaimer on violent shows, it is up to parents to reinforce that disclaimer

Common Topic of Possibility:
- Maybe violent programs will only air past a certain time where kids would be asleep or at school. Example- Adult Swim on Cartoon Network starts running their “violent” and “adult” cartoons at 10 p.m.
- You can never take away TV programs and the violent shows that maybe aired. There will always be violence and there will always be a show that airs that violence

ARCS Act. 5 pg 153

ARCS Activity 5 pg 153

After researching the news and internet for something that sprung away from the “meltdown” of our economy debate, I finally found two articles comment on the SNL skit over Alaskan Governor, Sarah Palin. Looking at Time, which is a liberal point of view and USA Today; a conservative view point I noticed some interesting differences between the two news websites.
The whole story behind SNL and Sarah Palin, was SNL’s cast member Tina Fey who has created the identical Sarah Palin keeps airing on SNL and people are starting to complain that SNL might be using the “Sarah Palin” skit as a political campaign.
The USA Today version of the event was really laid back and relaxed. The article took the commonplace theme of saying that SNL has never had an impact on the nominees for a political presidential race. The article talks about how everybody knows that SNL is for fun. They even have Sarah Palin commenting on how funny Tina Fey really is and how well she can pull off looking like her identical twin.
Times do not like the idea of having SNL as a commonplace for political satire to actually make news. Times article starts to talk about how this is not good for Palin’s stance in the political race and how it will affect voters. The article goes on by saying that voters might even get mixed up feelings on who is the “real” Palin.
I do not know much about politics and I am no genius with defining what truly is ideological, but from reading these two articles over a little political humor I get a deeper understanding that the ideology of shows and skits over things that people care deeply about will always have a bigger influence on the party that is left in the dark. The ideology of shows is feeling familiar with the way it’s ran; like SNL, everybody is familiar with not taking the show out of context; that is why SNL has Tina Fey saying things like “Katie (Couric) can I use one of my life lines?” (making fun of when Palin went on the Katie Couric show).

October 14, 2008

Ideology: beliefs, attitudes, values. Ways of thinking/viewing the world that defines a group
pg 130 ARCS

Common Places:
examples- "protecting and preserving families" or "strengthing communities"
-Mode of thinking/often unexamined beliefs taht make up an ideology
-Short ways to reference larger ideas/beliefs/values (a retorical advise)

Class Update

The readings on intertexuality was really interesting to read about because now when im writing i am observing my work as go through my process or writing. Today, in class visually looking at the progress reports I will use the layout structures as the examples.

Reading Activity 3 on Intertexuality

In my Women's Studies class we had to read an article and write an essay about how it referred to a certain question that was assigned in class. The process I took to assemble my essay was to read first the article. Then, I went on the Internet to find quotes, because I always like to start my essays off with quotes that relate to my paper, I always feel like it gives out a stronger message. While I am using the Internet I background research my thesis question. Then I begin to write. I write my first draft without re-reading. After I have completed my essay that is when I go back and check for the mechanical errors.
I guess I really never thought about about how much my words stand out. It's like the quote in the text "you are as strong as your weakest link." It is funny that when I use quotes to start my paper that I am using intertexuality, because its a source of meaning and its a background and support for my essay. Now, that I am thinking about what words I choose to complete my sentences that turn into paragraphs that makes up my papers I typically put my beliefs and statements into each word. I always strive for better vocabulary so that is why I thesaurus abuse my words.

Graffiti Video

Observation:

• Discussing using brainstormed pictures
• Collaborating together while facing one another in front of the wall they are about to spray paint
• Wearing gloves and "casual" attire
• Looks like its in the morning or the beginning of the start of evening
• One person at a time doing the work. Others maybe standing off to the side giving their opinions as the process of spray painting is being done.
• Each time something is spray painted the artists step back and observe and discuss
• Collaborating ideas before/while spray painting
• Talked about having around 100 outlines
• Talks about needing a first outline.
• Then you fill it then that replaces the first outline and then you add color and that takes then replaces the last outline- so there is a "process" that the artists follow in order to create/produce their designs/work
• The further along the process becomes the more collaborating and discussion about what to do next
• Discussing colors/ arguing and persuading one another about which color would look the "best"
• Uses hand motions to express and form ideas

in class observation activity

My first observation of the picture is that its a very small and active classroom. The atmosphere seems very relaxed and comfortable allowing the students to feel and express their opinions. The time of the day is either early morning or mid-afternoon. The time of day definitely affects the moods of students who are willing to learn. These students look very attentive. The students have laptops to maybe blog questions and/or answers or they could just be taking notes. Now, its almost easier for students to type faster than writing allowing more time to tentatively listen to the teacher and interact more in the classroom discussions.

When observing for the free write in-class asignment I did not take notes right away. I wanted to listen in how the two writers talked and collobrated their work together. They at first asked each other if they were in the PWE major. One said yes the other said no. The one that said no then said to the the student majoring in PWE if she could fill her in for what is required for a PWE major. The intial process of their paragraph was to brainstorm and talk amounst themselves then type. They would re-evaluate their sentence and discuss questions like how this would help them in a career after college. They also took what they are doing in this class and discussed how its relevent to the PWE major.

Reflection on Observating:
What i notice myself doing was thinking of ways that I would go about the writing process. This then prosed new theories and questions of my own when observing somebody else in their working atmosphere. As I kept observing I looked more and more for the verbal revisions amoung the writers. I observed how the writers were feeding off of one anothers ideas and then collaborating on a sentence. What I was doing while just observing was inferencing my observations on the spot. I wanted to ask questions like why did you choose to talk about a particular class versus another class. I observed that the writer/typer was creating more ideas than the other writer who was not typing. I think its because its the "mindset" if you will say that I am in charge of writing/typing, even thought the writers are in the same playing/collaborating process.

Class update again

This was a very long and complicated couple of classes. I think Im pretty clear on taking the comments on the 1st drafts of things and analysising them for my final draft. Im still not clear on the whole idea of observing and critcially understanding the work. I feel like I just can't write and be myself when communicating to the person I want to observe in the techincal/ critcial writing field.