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
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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.