When I read the chapter last night, it was pretty much full of all of the information that I already knew about. What I mean by that is that I pretty much already knew how to make en effective argument due to having to analyze so many different arguments in this class. It's all about how you put the information together and how well it can work to make an effective argument, but you must pay attention to the details within your written argument. I had no idea though that punctuation was a major influence in creating an effective argument but I did already know that grammar and word choice was because if you can't even spell the words, why even waste your time trying to convince someone if they can't even make sense out of your argument?
Also, when I was reading about how sentence structure, I had no idea that the style and the way you compose the sentence could have such a strong impact on the readers/audience. Not only does it matter on how you start the sentence but also the length, as described in the chapter. When starting a sentence, you never want to start it the same way you started the previous sentence. I have always had a problem with that and reading this chapter helped me better understand how i'm supposed to write and compose my sentences.
Again, I knew about how to write paragraphs and arguments but that's it. I didn't have any knowledge of how it was done. so reading this chapter really helepd me in a sense to become stronger with my writing.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
I'd like you to discuss your group job title and description. What role are you playing in the group? What are your primary responsibilities? How will your role help the group function efficiently? In addition to answering these questions, please list your other group members (mainly to help me keep track of everyone!).
My group job title contains more than one job. The first job I have is to be the group's reporter. This pretty much means that I will record everything that is said, every website we might go to and jsut in general everything that my group does during class. The second job I have is to bring a checklist to make sure everyone is on track and that everyone is during their share of the group work. The third job I have is to be in charge of the poster, if that's what my group ends up doing. Since i'm pretty creative with hands-on activities, I thought it'd be best if I was in charge of the poster.
As being a part of the group I too have to put in my share of the work which means that on top of my jobs I will need to come to class prepared.
With keeping track of what all we do during class, it will help my group if we need to go back and revisit a certain website to get more information that we did not get the first time due to any reason. As for the checklist, the job speaks for itself. The checklist is there to keep me and the other group members on top of everything and if they forget something than next class they will have to bring last weeks material and the current weeks material.
My group members are: Shawna Marcus, Will Christensen, and Erin Lorenzen.
My group job title contains more than one job. The first job I have is to be the group's reporter. This pretty much means that I will record everything that is said, every website we might go to and jsut in general everything that my group does during class. The second job I have is to bring a checklist to make sure everyone is on track and that everyone is during their share of the group work. The third job I have is to be in charge of the poster, if that's what my group ends up doing. Since i'm pretty creative with hands-on activities, I thought it'd be best if I was in charge of the poster.
As being a part of the group I too have to put in my share of the work which means that on top of my jobs I will need to come to class prepared.
With keeping track of what all we do during class, it will help my group if we need to go back and revisit a certain website to get more information that we did not get the first time due to any reason. As for the checklist, the job speaks for itself. The checklist is there to keep me and the other group members on top of everything and if they forget something than next class they will have to bring last weeks material and the current weeks material.
My group members are: Shawna Marcus, Will Christensen, and Erin Lorenzen.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
In Class: Doing all the work
Group work to me is always dreadful. I always try to avoid getting together and working with others because some people never do the work and then make up excuses on how the material got burned or their cat ate it...true story. I never take pity on them and will usually make a point in front of the class during our presentation time that they did nothing for this presentation. Humilation is my goal for that eprson because if they never learn their lesson, then they're going to be that person who works in the office and never gets anything done or never likes to do the work because it's "too hard". I'm honestly petrified about getting into groups and doing work with others because I feel like I can never rely on the others to do their part. I have been in soooo many groups where they think that i'll do all the work and they'll take the credit. I know there are people out there that actually give a crap about school and their classes and i'm hoping that my group for unit 3 is just like that. I honestly am not too afraid of this group work because all this class we have done nothing but writing and making sure we have our assignments in class with us on certian days and I think that helps all of us become more responsible in a way.
MYYYY ideal group work: Of course the perfect group would be the group that did what they had previously agreed to and won't back down from what they said they were going to do leaving the restof us scrambling to figure out what's going to happen to our grade!! I hope that everyone does their work and that we come up with an awesome topic for unit 3 because honestly, if we don't come up with anything that seems interesting to me, my work might not be so good. I'll do my part of work no doubt, but it just might not be that great or it might not even make sense at all! So 1. My group members should do their work and 2. The topic should be interseting
Different roles of group members:
1. One person will keep a check-list of all the peoples names in our groups and if they completed their assignment or not so in the end, if someone didn't do their work, the professor will know.
2. One person might come up with what genre they want to focus manily on or what genre they work best with.
3. One person might even come up with making goodies or something for the class so they don't fall asleep in the middle of our rpesentation, even though it's only 15 minutes long...I have ADHD, I might jsut dose off in someone elses....
4. One person might, like Amanda Irvin said, be in charge of making up the title. The title to me is a pretty big deal because all throughout high school, we aLWAYS had to have a title to our paper...even if it was just a few paragraphs. I just feel like people should get an idea of what they're about to read.
5. Every grouop member should keep a folder of all the work they've done so as to credit those who did their work.
MYYYY ideal group work: Of course the perfect group would be the group that did what they had previously agreed to and won't back down from what they said they were going to do leaving the restof us scrambling to figure out what's going to happen to our grade!! I hope that everyone does their work and that we come up with an awesome topic for unit 3 because honestly, if we don't come up with anything that seems interesting to me, my work might not be so good. I'll do my part of work no doubt, but it just might not be that great or it might not even make sense at all! So 1. My group members should do their work and 2. The topic should be interseting
Different roles of group members:
1. One person will keep a check-list of all the peoples names in our groups and if they completed their assignment or not so in the end, if someone didn't do their work, the professor will know.
2. One person might come up with what genre they want to focus manily on or what genre they work best with.
3. One person might even come up with making goodies or something for the class so they don't fall asleep in the middle of our rpesentation, even though it's only 15 minutes long...I have ADHD, I might jsut dose off in someone elses....
4. One person might, like Amanda Irvin said, be in charge of making up the title. The title to me is a pretty big deal because all throughout high school, we aLWAYS had to have a title to our paper...even if it was just a few paragraphs. I just feel like people should get an idea of what they're about to read.
5. Every grouop member should keep a folder of all the work they've done so as to credit those who did their work.
In Class: Reflections on first post
On my very first post, I didn't really say much. I guess that's due to the fact that i'm a very structured type of person and just writing what ever I wanted about myself sort of overwhelmed in a weird way. I feel like I have more to say now that I have been typing away 90% of the time in my spring semester and I feel more comfortable with writing too. I used to hate english class whether it was in elementary school, 6th grade school, middle school or high school. The teachers were always so mean and spiteful and that really affected my motivation to learn how to write better, plus my future career doesn't require alot of writing : ). I think it's a little weird to look back at my old post and read what I put up. I seem so cold and distant in my blog and that's not really me, I just watned others to take me seriosly.
Anywho ( as my boyfriend says ), Matt's parents are coming down to Texas again for a few days and so i'll probably need to go and visit with them since I don't think they're comfortable with me yet. I think it's because Matt is the most religious one out of all of his siblings and i'm sort of, oh what's the word...wild? I honestly think that they're scared that i'll corrupt Matt or something...pretty funny if you ask me. Anyways, i'm just thinking about my advisors meeting later on this afternoon.
Have a good day!
Anywho ( as my boyfriend says ), Matt's parents are coming down to Texas again for a few days and so i'll probably need to go and visit with them since I don't think they're comfortable with me yet. I think it's because Matt is the most religious one out of all of his siblings and i'm sort of, oh what's the word...wild? I honestly think that they're scared that i'll corrupt Matt or something...pretty funny if you ask me. Anyways, i'm just thinking about my advisors meeting later on this afternoon.
Have a good day!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
In Class: Freewrite; Titles are overrated
In all three of my primary texts, I would say that they are all alike in the text in that they are all about how this even that happened in California was an upset to doctors, specialists, bioethicists, and just regular people. There is also an upset in how the ethics of this situation folded out. How is being pregnant with eight children right? The focus on ethics in all three texts is whats alike in all three and honestly, that's the main concern right now with Nadya. How was this decision morally right? Of course we're all worried about how the children are at the moment and we all worry about how the children will be and how they will act when they grow up, but mroe importantly, why did a fertility specialist do this to a patient knowing all the risks involved with carrying just one fetus?
The way the texts are different from one another by how they are all each approached by a different view, unfortunately, they're all negative. One text focuses on how the professional standards were being disregarded by the fertility specialist and another text focuses on why this decision was made or the explanation behind the reasoning.
Everyone is not happy about this. When you're not married, don't have a job, and alerady have six children, why would someone do this knowing they can't properly support themselves let alone now their fourteen childern? We are all confused right now and we all want a clear and strong response from Nadya on answering the big question, why did you do this? Her only reply though that we've gotten from her is that she wanted a big family. Did she ever put into mind the finanaces and the love and care you have to put into having a big family? Did she ever think about how messed up these childrens lives will be never getting the proper attention they deserve?
An unstaed assumption and/or belief is that all women want children and that they will do anything to make that happen. Some women and married couples don't want to have any children at all but those who do want children try feverishly to make that happen and if it doesn't, they get frantic. They will then turn to a fertility specialist and pay over $10,000 just to get a few eggs fertilized, but to some money is not the issue. The main issue to these desperate women and married couples is that they can not seem to make a children naturally and they need some professional help. We all know that fertility specialists can give you a better hope of becoming pregnant with either a single baby or even multiples and by knowing that, we can conclude that Nadya did use a fertility specialist to become pregnant with her octuplets and that this was not done naturally.
Looking at all three texts, I do believe we live in a culture of assertion because when something unsual happens, we all want an answer of why it happened and who/what is the reason on why it happened. Many professionals, bioethicists, and doctors are all scratching their heads wanting to know why and they all want an answer. I can't even imagine how many questions have been asked to Kamrava and Nadya in wanting them to explain why they chose to do this and wanting to know the reasons behind their decision and when we don't get that answer, we automatically feel shut out and somewhat irritated by them and their ignorance in answering a single question. Even when we do get an answer from either two of them, we still ask why?
The way the texts are different from one another by how they are all each approached by a different view, unfortunately, they're all negative. One text focuses on how the professional standards were being disregarded by the fertility specialist and another text focuses on why this decision was made or the explanation behind the reasoning.
Everyone is not happy about this. When you're not married, don't have a job, and alerady have six children, why would someone do this knowing they can't properly support themselves let alone now their fourteen childern? We are all confused right now and we all want a clear and strong response from Nadya on answering the big question, why did you do this? Her only reply though that we've gotten from her is that she wanted a big family. Did she ever put into mind the finanaces and the love and care you have to put into having a big family? Did she ever think about how messed up these childrens lives will be never getting the proper attention they deserve?
An unstaed assumption and/or belief is that all women want children and that they will do anything to make that happen. Some women and married couples don't want to have any children at all but those who do want children try feverishly to make that happen and if it doesn't, they get frantic. They will then turn to a fertility specialist and pay over $10,000 just to get a few eggs fertilized, but to some money is not the issue. The main issue to these desperate women and married couples is that they can not seem to make a children naturally and they need some professional help. We all know that fertility specialists can give you a better hope of becoming pregnant with either a single baby or even multiples and by knowing that, we can conclude that Nadya did use a fertility specialist to become pregnant with her octuplets and that this was not done naturally.
Looking at all three texts, I do believe we live in a culture of assertion because when something unsual happens, we all want an answer of why it happened and who/what is the reason on why it happened. Many professionals, bioethicists, and doctors are all scratching their heads wanting to know why and they all want an answer. I can't even imagine how many questions have been asked to Kamrava and Nadya in wanting them to explain why they chose to do this and wanting to know the reasons behind their decision and when we don't get that answer, we automatically feel shut out and somewhat irritated by them and their ignorance in answering a single question. Even when we do get an answer from either two of them, we still ask why?
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Unit 2 Proposal...maybe
Ok so here's the thing, I still have no clue what I want to spend six weeks on. I mean, yeah the "Octo-mom" is very VERY interesting and is still going on right now in our society and is veeery controversial. If I do decide to do my unit 2 proposal over the birth of octuplets from a SINGLE woman, I will most likely get my primary resources through the Los Angeles Times, possibly interviews done between the octuplet mother and a newscaster, and any other California newspaper, even though this is an event known around the country I believe that most of the best stories will be found in California.
I chose this topic because the whole idea of artificial insemination and invtiro still boggles my mind and I really believe that I need to focus on one event that has happened under that subject/topic because yes there are MANY cases of multiple births ( twins, triplets, etc. ) but why would a fertility specialist insert 6 embryos? Is there something going on in this practice that we don't know about? By focusing on one event that happened as a result of this practice ( and a very touchy subject as that ) I hope to help others better understand how others feel about all this, how I personally feel about this, and also I just wish to see why some people choose and decided to go down this path in order to become pregnant.
Like I said, i'm not 100% sure if this is what I want to do for my unit 2 proposal, but at least I have a strong idea in what I might want to do.
I chose this topic because the whole idea of artificial insemination and invtiro still boggles my mind and I really believe that I need to focus on one event that has happened under that subject/topic because yes there are MANY cases of multiple births ( twins, triplets, etc. ) but why would a fertility specialist insert 6 embryos? Is there something going on in this practice that we don't know about? By focusing on one event that happened as a result of this practice ( and a very touchy subject as that ) I hope to help others better understand how others feel about all this, how I personally feel about this, and also I just wish to see why some people choose and decided to go down this path in order to become pregnant.
Like I said, i'm not 100% sure if this is what I want to do for my unit 2 proposal, but at least I have a strong idea in what I might want to do.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
In Class: Free write
You know, I read all of chapters 5 and 6 and I understand the parts of rhetorical analysis and how I should go about doing my unit 2 topic, but I just don't know where to start. There are jsut so many things going on right now in the world and the thing is is that we have to choose one thing that's going on in our life right now. Intense to me. I did get some good feedback from my blog posting last week about the woman who had 8 children through Invitro. I'm thinking about using this as my unit 2 paper just because i'm more interested in the medical field and especially when things go haywire in the medical field or I might find something else to use as my topic for my unit 2 paper. Who knows. I have so much going on in my life right now and I don't even know where to begin, let alone this unti 2 paper that'll take weeks to finish. I am looking forward to spring break though because I get to go to california with my bf Matt and we will be actually skipping friday so we can fly down there and we wont be coming back until the 21st. My sister will also be gone too as well so me and my sister ( my moms only two children ) will be gone! Sad :(. My sister will actually be out of the country as she is going on her second year anniversary trip to London.
Hope she has fun. So my mom's birthday is also coming up soon ( this thursday ) and all she wants for her birthday is a coffee pot. Yeah right! It's always hard to find a gift for her because she never tells you what she wants but then on the other hand she always gets disappointed with the gifts she receives...yeah I don't understand it either.
Anyways, I hope this day gets better. I also hope that I will udnerstand what exactly it is that I need to do for this unti 2 paper. I have some studying to do for Biology...fun....
Hope she has fun. So my mom's birthday is also coming up soon ( this thursday ) and all she wants for her birthday is a coffee pot. Yeah right! It's always hard to find a gift for her because she never tells you what she wants but then on the other hand she always gets disappointed with the gifts she receives...yeah I don't understand it either.
Anyways, I hope this day gets better. I also hope that I will udnerstand what exactly it is that I need to do for this unti 2 paper. I have some studying to do for Biology...fun....
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