Journal Entry #10

Rhetoric and Composition – What criteria do students use to select between possible topics for their papers? This is something I would like to know for myself so I can better select my own topics for the remainder of my college career but I have yet to find an idea of what to research in this area.

English Education – The use of sitcoms to promote appropriate dialogue and communication techniques.
Cultural Studies – How talk shows and self help programming in television have effected the way women see themselves.
Discourse Analysis – Religious publications, propaganda.

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Journal Entry 9

The writer is examining how genre can be a help and a hindrance for students/writers and how their representation of self can help them negotiate through the difference. She also speculates that learning how to master various genre can allow them to fully manipulate it in their writing to, perhaps, ultimately effect change or advancement within it. Informed by prior case studies, she collected her data by studying genre systems at a private, catholic-affiliated college and interviewing its students. The primary genres I've witnessed my peers using as a form of self-representation have been technology based, i.e. the internet, specifically facebook, myspace and cellular phone texting.

Natalie Dylan Blog - Group 5 (Gretel & Camara)

However you respond to her action is directly related to how you may view yourself. You know those promise rings some of you guys wear. Well thats out of respect for your own opportunity to choose when you lose your virginity. Not dictated by anyone else. In my opinion she is on some level allowing someone else and perhaps even society the chance to say when she loses it. If the bids high enough she'll sell it. I'm not even actually saying thats totally wrong because weall know women who['ve married for money so as far as I'm concerned that is a moral choice that everyone makes on their own anyway. What I am saying is the sanctity of marriage has been systematically desanctified by so many different events and peoples personal choices that you have to decide on your own what is right for you and your body but please don't try to sell yourself to get out of going to college or getting a job.

What Bartholomae means when he says that students must "invent the university" is that the concept of invention must become alive for them within the terms of academia. Generally, no idea is a new idea. Therefore, Bartholomae suggests that, in order to learn with the potential of discovery, students must be given the opportunity to become "insiders" of academia; they are to move beyond test taking and simple summarization and speak or write from a place of their own original thought or invention.

Bartholomae also examined two bits of writing: one consisting of two paragraphs regarding football shoes and socks as a creative choice, the other, four paragraphs, containing the inspiration of music as the creative theme. He implies that the writer of the "Football Socks Revelation" (as I have just now titled it!) could, perhaps, use some verbal expansion to become closer to his own academic experience while the writer of "Childhood Song Writing... Not!" (also my own invention!) may not have been totally aware of how she was writing but it was a success none-the-less.

Expertise/Interests

Entertainment industry.
Theatre.
Acting coach.
Teen counceling.
Healthy living.
Alternative lifestyles.

Journal Entry - 2

Claim: Ann Coulter should not commit voter fraud.
Data: Coulter gave incorrect address for residence.
Warrant: She wanted to vote from another district.
Grounds: Coulter voted twice in the state of Connecticut.
Backing: Per Connecticut staff attorney Ted Bromley.

Jounal - Entry 1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20090112/cm_huffpost/156972;_ylt=AhEKichjKEs0SAlY_Hyh42H9wxIF

Ann Coulter has been using various addresses fraudulently and as a result is endangering the lives of domestic abuse victims in Florida. This claim is made in fact that Coulter has been caught using multiple addresses for voter fraud, in value because endangering lives is societally frowned upon and often illegal, and in policy as jeopardizing someones safety and criminal activity should not be done. This claim uses the ethos and logos appeals, primarily, and, while not written this way, the subject matter of compromising the anonimity of abuse victims could also engender an emotional response.