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There are several methods of acquiring evidence in order to persuade the reader about the argument made. The time of the evidence has to match the time of the argument in order for it to be effective. These days people only use the internet to acquire their evidence and ignore the library which is just as good or better than using the internet. The library has more references and resources than a personal computer but people prefer the internet because it is right there at our fingertips.

 

Under My Thumb was a very interesting read. She starts out with a story from 8th grade where she is trying to get some guy to acknowledge that she too listens to Rolling Stones. She then explains that women often have to fight harder to convince others, including other women, that they have “great” music taste and has something of value to say about music.  I call these type of people “gatekeepers.” They don’t seem to understand that music is for everyone to enjoy and just because they “discovered” someone first does not give them the power to say others can listen to that music. They seem to like to get others to “prove” themselves. It’s really annoying and pointless. Chelsea Booth then goes on to say that she spends countless hours talking about men artists but never or rarely talks about women artists. She states two arguments that other professors make and refutes those arguments. To be honest I barely know any women artists too. The ones I do know are pretty mainstream and are already at the top of their game. In her last “arc” she talks about sexual harassment at concerts and how she was a victim of this.

In the reading, Finding Evidence by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz, the several methods of acquiring evidence to persuade for the argument being made were provided and explained. One key point was the timeliness of the evidence, whether the time and place the evidence is from matches the time and place of the argument. The two key ways to obtain data and evidence from research is through the library and online. The library has collections of books, magazines, newspapers, audiotapes, videotapes, artwork, and photos for finding evidence. Likewise, the library’s computer has far more resources than a personal online search because there are important resources held in the library’s system that is not accessible from the web. Two key things when finding evidence is to know how current the sources are in regard to the argument and to gain more information and knowledge of the argument than will be needed. The other key way to obtain research information is through the internet. Several key differences that would help narrow down a search were explained including the vast difference in sources that will be provided based on the use of and, or and not. Several other ways to gain evidence would be to collect data on your own through performing experiments, making observations, conducting interviews, using questionnaires to conduct surveys, and drawing up person experience.

In Chelsea Booth’s Under My Thumb, she explains the immense sexual bias and inequality in the music world. She begins with a personal experience and continues to explain how females lack credibility in their statements in the music industry. She provides evidence of how the teaching of music and its history lacks any mention of female musicians. She then changes the focus of the piece with a personal example of being sexually assaulted. She follows this with statistics of frequent sexual assault and harassment experienced by women taking place at music festivals.

Finding Evidence, Summary and Response

In the reading “Finding Evidence,” by Andrea A. Lunsford & John J. Ruszkiewicz, the authors talk about the basics of constructing a research paper, more specifically, how to find the most effective evidence for one’s paper. It starts out by explaining the importance of evidence; it makes one’s claim sound more logically and reasonably correct. Then the article moves into discussing the correlation between one’s evidence and its claim. If the evidence is not relevant and doesn’t “match the time and place” of one’s argument, then it does the opposite of its intended purpose and dissuaded its audience from further reading the paper. As the article further progresses, the author puts forth different methods of collecting evidence. A writer can use either first-hand resources, such as anecdote, interviews, and surveys, or second-hand resources, such as books, journals, and online data, depending on his/ her rhetorical situation, to strengthen their claim. In my opinion, I think the best way to produce the most effective results is by using a combination of both first- and second-hand resources since it will not only make the audience look at reason but also give the writer credibility to speak. Also, this article seems to be for people who are getting into researching with little to no knowledge of researching, such as myself for the next assignment.

 

Under My Thumb, Summary and Response

In the essay “Under My Thumb”, by Chelsea Booth, the author digs into the gender inequality in the music industry and how that affects women as a whole. Chelsea incorporates many different pieces of evidence such as personal experience, statistics and observations, and experiments. The author begins by reminiscing over the past experience she had with a guy that made her realize all she wants is to be considered as equals. In addition, she then realizes that it’s harder for girls to love music than guys since the music industry and the history is just made up of male musicians and very few unrecognized females. By doing an observation of her music class and experimenting the allocation of time on each content, it’s quite understandable that there is an excessive amount of time wasted just on the “silence” when that same time could have been used to go over female musicians. Moving on, this gender inequality is further developed in the music industry that even during concerts women are not treated right; they are molested, raped and sexually assaulted in every way. To support this claim, Booth uses both personal experience and statistics. In the end, by including personal experiences and other sources of evidence, Booth proposes that even though females have the power to change, they are just waiting for the chance to express themselves. In my opinion, this seems like a very powerful essay and there is no doubt it got an award too. I love how Booth uses different pieces of evidence to highlight the sexual assault she has faced in life which, in turn, establishes the bigger idea; women have what it takes to change the prevailing vices in our society.

Finding Evidence:

This article makes the claim that finding good evidence for a research project isn’t as simple as one would think. It asks the reader to consider the rhetorical situation and states how the best evidence will usually match the time and place of which you make your argument. The authors also state the importance of what evidence is best for what rhetorical situation. The article then goes into detail about how to use data and evidence from research sources and how the type of research a writer requires can change the credibility of a source. In the end, this article informs the reader about the various ways that they can collect their own data, whether it be performing experiments, conducting interviews, or more.  

 

Under My Thumb:

Opening up with dialogue describing when the narrator lied in eighth grade to fit in, this writing tells the author’s personal experiences in her life and its effect on her. She focuses on the hardships that she faced being in the music industry and describes how for most women like her it was the same. She goes into detail about a time when she was sexually harassed during one of her concerts and how she felt shocked and disgusted. She even put in bold text “I didn’t care if he liked me; I just wanted to be treated as an equal” which was essentially her main point in that paragraph. She then followed this by using various evidence to build up her case that women harassment in the workplace was a common thing that occurred and she wasn’t the only one. In her conclusion, she even goes on to say that even she feels is part of this problem because she never used to speak against it and urges others to not be like that.

Finding Evidence

Evidence is used to support and make claims in every academic argument. In order to be effective, however, evidence must be of good quality. Good evidence matches the rhetorical situation of the argument; it has to fit the time and place that your argument is in. The sources that are used for research play a key role in strengthening an argument and, thus, being able to navigate libraries, databases, and the internet  is important in securing quality evidence. The first thing most people do when looking for information online is do a quick keyword search, despite there being far better ways of searching for sources related to an argument (as I had just found out). By using a subject directory, one can narrow down categories until they find what they’re looking for. Google’s search function is also multifaceted, with options to narrow a search or keywords that can be used to specify what you’re trying to find. Collecting data on your own, either through surveys, experiments, or by recalling personal experience, can either greatly improve your argument or severely hinder it depending on how the data is used.

Under My Thumb

          In this piece, Chelsea Booth writes about the prejudiced treatment of women in the music industry. She remembers a moment in middle school when she had to lie about her music taste in order for her to be considered an equal. In her experiences with the music industry, she’s been constantly subjected to hostilities over her musical knowledge as well as sexual advances; she’s been made to feel like she isn’t welcome. She then goes on to write about how female musicians were, for the most part, left out of her musical studies. Her classes had even collectively featured 27 minutes of silence (due to Cage’s 4’33) rather than putting more emphasis on the influential female musicians of the 20th century. When attending concerts and festivals, events where she feels the freest, Booth has fallen victim to sexual harassment time and time again. A survey has revealed that more than 90% of women have experienced sexual harassment at music events. Festivals have taken preventive measures against violence, but not sexual assault despite it being such a glaring and recurring issue. When Booth brought up her point about female representation in music classes, I thought back to my high school music class. Unsurprisingly, I couldn’t recall learning about a single female musician. However, I don’t understand Booth considering herself part of the problem because she judges other women’s music tastes and doesn’t support enough female artists. I feel like gender shouldn’t stop her from having an opinion on music.

Finding Evidence

In order to properly argue your claim, you need to be aware of what type of sources you’re using for your research. Depending on what you’re trying to prove, Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz discuss the different types of sources that you can use for research and where they can be found. One way would be to use second hand materials, such as books and journals, which can be found in the library or online. Another way would be to use primary sources, which can be obtained by conducting your own interviews, surveys, experiments, or by giving your own personal experiences. Using a quick and simple Google search should not be the only method of obtaining sources. In order to gather the best sources, one must effectively utilize the library, search engines, and one’s own abilities to collect data to obtain information that would be most helpful in supporting a claim.

Under My Thumb

In Chelsea Booth’s essay, she discusses a range of issues that occur as a result of gender inequality in music.  First, she brings up a moment where she lies about what her favorite song was. She admits to doing this so she’d be seen as an equal to her male classmate, as women are often falsely believed to have inferior opinions about music. Then she brings up how female musicians are rarely talked about in classrooms , yet she somehow wound up listening to about 27 minutes of John Cage’s 4’33”, where no actual instruments are being played. Next, she brings up stories and statistics about how she and other women have been sexually harassed at various musical festivals. It was shocking to hear her own personal story as well as the story of how a female reporter ended up being harassed as well after trying to interview other women about the issue.  In the end, she admits that she is part of the reason as to why this is still a problem. Many of us can admit to this as well. We should support more women in the music industry, push to learn more about female musicians, and aim to make music festivals more safer for women.

Finding Evidence

When making a claim, the most important thing to do is to back up your claim with evidence which further enforces the validity of the claim. A way to make evidences effective, it in the context that one presents them, that being the time and place that the evidence is being used. It is important for researchers to use the “correct” types of evidences to back up their claims, as it has an impact on how much impact the claim has. When one is trying to provide evidence for their claim, it is very important to question those evidences and to make sure that the type of evidence is necessarily in order to prove a particular rhetorical situation. The types of evidences that are required varies from field to field, as different situations requires different forms of analysis. When it comes to finding evidence, it is important to take advantage of the resources that you have at your disposal. For example in school you would be able to get your sources from school databases, which in general are pretty reliable source for doing research. There is also the internet, a giant source of information that ranges from a variety of topics. The web might be a great source for an abundance of examples, however researches still have to be careful and to check their sources in order to verify the validity of a site. In order to support a claim, researchers have to find evidence from a range of sources in order to further support their claims.

Under My Thumb

The author Chelsea Booth addresses her life experiences of criticism over female music critics. It was different for a woman to be a music critic, as it made her stand out from other critics. The first thing she writes about is when she lies about what her favorite song was, because her actual favorite song was a bit out of the norm. She lies in order to somewhat fit in with other listeners of Rolling Stones, as she wanted to fit in with the other listeners who were mostly men. Booth states the conflict of female representation within the music industry and their lack of representation, which can be seen when she learns about classical. composers that were all male. Most if not all of famous composers are male. It’s not that there aren’t female composers, they’re just not as predominant as males and less people know about them. There is a constant trend where women composers are being covered up and hidden from students, an example being the curriculum and people not wanting to  change it. Booth also explains her bad experiences when it comes to attending concerts and being touched by the men there. The man was molesting her, but she gets yelled at by him when she told him to stop. These types of events cover-up the sexual harassment that occurs to women, and Booth wasn’t able to get help from the runners of the concerts to address her issue. In a way, the music industry was initially intended for men, and had established rules and policies in order to appease their demographic. But there were no changes to policies when there were women in these concerts, which in itself causes problems to both the women that attend and the image of the concerts. It is the oddity of a female music critic that makes these issues of policy much more apparent to the general masses.

Finding Evidence

Finding good evidence is nothing easy. Your rhetorical situation determines what kinds of evidence are appropriate for your circumstances. For example, certain types of evidence are preferred over others depending on your purpose for writing. In order to find the right evidence, you have to know how to look for it. There are two approaches to collecting evidence to support an argument. One is by using readily available information. This could mean referring to library resources, such as printed material and online databases, or using online resources such as search engines. However, the latter should be taken with a grain of salt because it can difficult to distinguish between credible and non-credible sources. The other approach is to create your own evidence. Going out there and personally performing experiments, conducting interviews, or collecting data from surveys requires a lot of planning to make sure it performs the intended task.

The reading was informative as it showed just how in-depth the research process can be. Although not all of it is new information to me since most of us have done research papers before. I’ve previously used Google Scholar for finding credible sources in high school. For this next paper, I might look into using some of the library databases for information.

Under My Thumb

Chelsea Booth wrote about women in the music industry, rather the lack of, as well as her own experiences as a woman in the music industry. Women have been disproportionally represented in music compared to men. She mentions that as a Major in Management of Musical Enterprises, she has spent countless hours learning about men in the music industry in her classes. However, women don’t get their spotlight for various excuses that she rejects. Some excuses include “there isn’t enough time,” or “historically women weren’t allowed to be musicians so there are less female musicians to talk about.” Booth frequently attends concerts and festivals because they make her feel free, but has found that they are usually unsafe for women. She has personally experienced sexual assault at concerts and it has made her question the place of women in music.

This piece was well-written because not only does it raise awareness of an issue in society but she includes a lot of her own findings that contradict the norm. For example, she gives examples of reasons given as to why women in music aren’t represented as much as men, she rejects them because she found evidence to prove otherwise.