Activities 2 and 4

2) There are cases where evidence of the senses can be considered unreliable. In courtrooms today, many prosecutors bring to trial the victims of an attack, or witnesses to the attacks. Their accounts can be very different based on their perceptions. A victim may say that she saw the person that attacked her very clearly, but the defense might argue that she was traumatized and could not possibly be a reliable witness to her own crime. Her senses would not count as empirical evidence at all.

4) When I work on arguments, I always try to have accurate data that corresponds to key points in my arguments. I try to check my author's credibility's before I decided to use them as a source, but sometimes that isn't always the case.

1) It seems to me that writer's establishing ethos prepare a well organized argument. They state what they want to say in a clear, authoritative manner. Some of them point out the other sides of the arguments, which I think establishes ethos more. The use of quotes helps as well, providing a link to other information, and helping the writer look much more informed about what they are writing about. The writers with believable ethos didn't try to force their ideas, merely state them with conviction. The ones who argued forcefully were, I think, less successful at connecting with their audience.

2) I read an article online about rumors happening in the presidential race. I found it to be funny and quick witted. However, I'm not easily offended. I could see how taking a tone of sarcasm and disbelief towards an audience might harm an author's ethos appeal. The argument of the author was that the rumors aren't true, and pretty much anyone that believes them is an idiot. A little harsh for some people I believe.

6) Hey! Welcome to the Soup. I'm like you. Human. Unlike you, I'm being paid for these mistakes. So, hahaha...hahahah. - Joel McHale- The Soup.

Progress Report:
Purpose- persuade me (project manager) that you have a clear vision for project and have a handle on it.

To achieve this goal be specific on describing accomplishments.

Introduction:
Project observation
Summary statement about progress

Body sections
I Work completed
A
B contain types of work
II Work remaining.

Final section is a conclusion

Logical: within the realm of rhetoric deals with...
Premise: Any statement laid down, supposed or assumed before the argument begins.
As someone is building an argument, a premise is an unstated assumption on which the argument is arranged.
Probability: any statement that predicts something about human behavior.
Common interests that people share.

Inductive: Movement from specific cases to general principles.
Deductive: movement from general principles (class of items) to specific case. If premises (assumptions) are true, than the conclusion is true.
Enthymeme: Rhetorical argument based on assumptions that remain unstated.
If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit

If you stayed at a holiday Inn Express, you are qualified to be a doctor.

ARCS Activity 3

Elvis has left the building.
Elvis was here but has left.
Elvis has gone to another show.
Elvis has gone home.

10/21

Types of analyzing data:
Faigly's social perspective- Coding Data-Reading all the collected data, looking for patterns, themes, similarities, differences, to emerge.
Intertexutality Bazerman, Selzer
1- Direct Quotation
2-Indirect quotation
3-mentioning another docuent
4-commentary on another text
5-using recognizable text
"Tracing the Process" Paul Prior
1-Analyzing tets. Same between drafts, slightly revised.
2- Thinking aloud- differentiating the carious types of comments
Influence of workplace culture-editorial community- Klienman's four categories of revision comments.
analyzing genres- Linguistic features, use active verbs, presents concrete details.
Theoretical features, organizational features, chronological order.
speaking-writing connection
Theoretical theories

When I finally acquire the documents that I am to analyze, I think I want to read through them a few times first. I want to familiarize myself with her writing style. I also want to see if the document is a persuasive one, and if she convinces me to her side immediately or not. Then I want to move on to the words and structure of the overall papers. Do some words work more effectively than others? Does her organizational style seem to help her persuasion? I think I want to focus on actual content last. Because she might speak to so many people at one time, how does she address them? When she is speaking to different groups, does her writing styles change? Do her persuasive styles change?

Class notes 10/16

Ideology-a set of beliefs, values, ideas that shape how someone views the world. Example: Feminism, Conservatism/Liberalism, Humanism, Environmentalism.

Common Topic: Specific procedures/ sets of questions for generating arguments (heuristics)

Common place- taken for granted, unstated until they're challenged. Vague principles, myths, traditional values. Unstated premises that help to construct an ideology. Commonplaces are frequently resorted to in popular rhetoric. They orvide the terms within which American discourse works.
Example: Family
"Something people can take comfort it"

p130-Commonplaces
Faith in "god" guides the nation
patriotism
loyalty
national flags, anthems (symbols)
frontier
altruism
self-help
truth telling

Ideologic: Arguments that are made by stringing together commonplaces.

"Keep Austin Weird"
1- An "ideal" city is a "weird" city
2- A weird city has lots of different people, different shops, different, cultures ideas.
3-Austin is a weird city
4-Homegeneity is not weird.
5-Box store corporations promote homogeneity.
6- Government should promote what is unique in a city rather than what is "the same"

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
-Guns are weapons that take lives, due to bullets
-Guns are incapable of free-will/or action by themselves.
-Guns are only deadly when initiated by a person
- Guns are not a major contribuing factor to violence at large unless they are wielde by people
-Guns should not be the focus of legislation
- Violent offenders who use guns int he wrong way should be the focus of legislation
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P153 #4

I would like to know if excelling at writing and humanities is more useful than excelling at math or science.

Conjecture:
Being able to express yourself through the written word is an important tool.
Being able to solve problems logically is a useful concept to have.


Degree:
Writing is more important than math or science because of the need to clearly express one's self. This comes from knowing how to write well.
Being better at math and science helps you think more logically and critically about the world around you, which is an important skill in everyday life.
Each is a good skill to have and one is not better than the other.
Neither skill is that important to daily life.

Possibility:
Knowing more about each might help in everyday life, regardless if you are good at them.
People are required in schools to be exposed to both topics, so even a little bit of knowledge from each division is helpful.