Month: October 2021

• 1. What I did this week?
• Reviewed
• midterms
• 2. What went well
• Study sessions
• 3. What I had trouble with
• Homeworks
• 4. To do list
• Research
• 5. Left off
• Microeconomics study
• 6. Challenges
• little backed up on work

Writer’s Journal Prompt

In the past, what I have found helpful in creating writing ideas was to just write anything that comes to mind down on paper. This allowed me to flow my thoughts and process in order to create the most thought to work with. By seeing all the ideas I came up with on paper, allowed me to pick and choose which ideas work best. My research question will be on the topic of understanding how to write. I will present the question, How can writers improve their writing strategies?

• 1. What I did this week?
• Finished my analysis
• midterms
• 2. What went well
• Study sessions
• 3. What I had trouble with
• Balancing my schedule with exams, homeworks, and work.
• 4. To do list
• Research
• 5. Left off
• Done analysis paper
• 6. Challenges
• little backed up on work

In your response, please describe the problem or issue you see at the heart of the chapter you’ve chosen. Do some informal research (Google is great here) and see what conversations are happening around this issue.

• Who is talking about it? In what way?
• What are the arguments or positions around this issue?
• What’s your relationship to the problem? Is it relevant to you?
• What do you notice about the issue or problem?
• What do you still wonder?

Face-to-Face Courses are Superior to Online Courses

The pandemic reconstructed the entire world, causing the education systems to adapt. Many teachers had to covert from face to face teachings to online lectures. Many present online learning as a inferior way of learning for various reasons such as students not interacting and less attention is put into the individual students.

The argument presented is brought by assistant professors who understand the pros and cons of online learning due to their experience teaching both Online and face to face. This is debate is very is relevant to me because right now I am submitting a post for an online, asynchronous course. I do notice that in some classes online is beneficial such as, writing courses and history courses, where we must rely on writing more frequently and research; whereas math and other major course work where we need to interact with the professors are better off being face to face. I wonder how we can improve online learning or if one day we see all classes become online because of the convenience factor it provides.

• 1. What I did this week?
• Analysis work
• A few midterms
• 2. What went well
• Reviewing previous readings to refresh my thoughts
• 3. What I had trouble with
• Balancing my schedule with exams, homeworks, and work.
• 4. To do list
• Analysis
• 5. Left off
• Writing my polished draft.
• 6. Challenges
• Was a tough week to get all my work in.

Chart or record the rhetorical situation this book (BIAW) is responding to

• Society & History – what history or social norms exist
• Audience – who is being communicated to (be specific)
• Speaker – who is communicating (be specific)
• Message – what is being communicated (just one thing? many things?)
• Purpose – what is the mission or goal?
• Context – What is the Kairos/timing/exigence?

After learning about rhetoric and the use, we can understand the role they play in a story or even in life. In the book Bad Ideas About Writing, the history or background are the ideas created about how writing should exist. The audience are teachers and students who are looking to learn the proper form of writing and the message is to teach them that not everything previously categorized is true. The speakers are a group of many different teachers who realized the limits the ideas many gave on writing were actually hurting the future scholars. This book is used during modern times like today where the art of writing needs revival. Bad ideas about writing was created to help eliminate the misconceptions on writing, and to rekindle the original fire of passion we all had towards writing when we were younger.

• 1. What I did this week?
• Analysis rough draft
• Finally back into full force
• 2. What went well
• Setting time to do readings
• 3. What I had trouble with
• Figuring out what to write about in my analysis assignment.
• 4. To do list
• Microeconomics, Finish weekly readings
• 5. Left off
• Thinking how to continue my analysis.
• 6. Challenges
• It was my first ever analysis, I did have trouble understanding what to do.

Carroll describes several ways we might already be using rhetoric in formal and informal ways throughout our lives.

1. How do you use rhetoric in your daily life? What messages do you try to communicate? To what audiences?

Carroll starts off by showing us how we are involved in rhetoric everyday. When we enter class, examining our professors, friends, classmates- we are involved in analysis. Constantly analyzing your environment everyday creates an idea in our brains on the personality of the looked at person. We analyze so often that we don’t even realize how quickly we make assumptions, it’s almost second nature. Taking the train or sitting in the office, we are involved in rhetoric almost ALL day.

We use rhetoric to communicate to others and to relate with others. By creating this analysis of what type of person they might be, gives us the chance to interact. We can choose to use rhetoric to communicate with anyone we want. Especially in today’s world where millions of people can interact with the same images, writings, news, and advertisement. Rhetoric creates a constant influence in our thoughts and opinions.