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.

Common Topics and Places

Common Topics: Set of questions that we can ask and answer in order to begin generating arguments on any topic/in any situation.

Conjecture: What exists? What doesn't?

Degree: goodness, justness, honor, expediency.

Possibility: What is possible/impossible in past. present, future.

Commonplaces: short phrases that capture an idea. "strengthening families"

Freewriting and notes

3 types of Interviews:
Semi-structured interview-purpose: gaining insight into writer's motivations, values, background, approach to the writing process. (What do you do when you don't understand the instructions of an assignment)
Stimulated elicitation- Purpose of both: gaining insight on writer's thinking, problem solving strategies, learning about writer's decision making.
Discourse Based Interview

*Keep emphasis on the positive
*Interview is gathering data. Analysis is afterwords.

Freewrite:
For my project, I am trying to focus on professional writing in a hospital or medical setting. Medical writing interests me very much. I was trying to do my project on one of the doctors, but I was routed to someone who works more in the educational and management part of the hospital. But, I believe this person can actually help me more than studying a doctor.
I mainly want to focus some of my questions on how does working in a professional setting vs working at home help or hinder the writing that is done. When writing for medical educational purposes, what is important to include or explain, especially to those who aren't that familiar with medical language? Hopefully my project will help me understand more about medical writing, but also what it is like to write professionally in a business orientated field that concerns itself with so many people with different backgrounds and cultures.
My contact hasn't yet discussed with me what writing she'll be sharing with me. Hopefully she will be getting back to me soon about it. As for visiting and observing her, while I may only get to observe her in one office, more than likely her home. I'm hoping to go visit her office at work as well. I want to be familiar with each place, even if I can't see her in both settings. But, visiting her office at the hospital might give me a clearer idea of what she sees and hears everyday while she is working. It should give me a view of her associates as well, and perhaps some of the interactions that go on around her.
As I mentioned before, after this project is complete I will hopefully have a better view on medical and business writing and maybe even editing as well. I'll be able to understand the pros and cons of working in a business setting vs working from home to complete projects on time. Depending on what I learn, this may influence my career path after I complete school.
As for larger implications, this project may give whomever reads it a little insight into how a person working in the medical field educates and informs those around the hospital and those who visit it.

The week

The idea of intertextuality really interested me this week. I feel like this idea will be helpful, not only for this classes research project, but for any others that I may come across. Although I had a very general idea of it to begin with, Tuesday's class clarified it even more. I think that the idea of intertexuality, and understanding it, will be useful when incorporating ideas into the ethnographic report.