10 Things to Think About

1.       Why do some people have problem with same sex couples marring?

2.       Why is it that some people think abusing animals okay?

3.       Why do people bully others?

4.       Why do people discriminate against others based on race/gender?

5.       Why must people wear name brand clothing?

6.       Why do people follow a religion?

7.       Why do we search for someone to love us?

8.       Why do people make fake Facebook/dating profiles?

9.       Why do we idealize the rich and famous?

10.   Why are we obsessed with “new” and “better” things?

Good Reasons Ch 9 Casual Arguments Rhetorical Precis

            In the book Good Reasons Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer’s claim that the reader will learn the basics of writing a casual argument. They support their thesis by telling the reader how casual arguments work, how to find causes, how to build a casual argument, steps to writing a casual argument, how to write about it and examples of written casual arguments. The authors’ purpose is to explain that casual argument can take three basic forms, causes can be identified by using four different methods and effective casual argument go beyond the obvious causes to explore complex relationships in order to teach the reader write casual arguments well. College students and really anyone having to or wanting to write a casual argument is who this chapter is intended for; they show different examples of casual arguments, such as articles and a student’s essay.

 

Good Reasons Chapter 7 "Putting Good Reasons into Action" Rhetorical Precis

In Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer’s book Good Reasons imply that the reader will learn that most arguments use multiple approaches to achieve a specific purpose, thinking explicitly about the structure of arguments can help identify different ways to approach the topic and using different kinds of arguments can help you get started writing about a complex topic. The authors support their thesis by talking about finding a purpose for writing an argument, defining what diversity could mean according to the topic, how to write about your topic and getting started writing about complex issues. Their purpose is to show how picking a more specific topic is important in order to write about more complex topics. The intended audience for this chapter is college students or anyone else writing a about complex issues because Faigley and Selzer’s tell the reader how to write about complex issues.

Should Inforamtion Be Free??

Information should be free to the public, because it is mostly only avail be to college professors and college students. Most people do not even go to college for one reason or another but that does not mean they should not be able to get a hold of information. Many people do not go to college because it is to expansive and because colleges have to pay data bases to use them for information that only makes school cost much more as to if it was free more people would be able to afford school and attend. It is not fair to the people that do not attend school to not get information when reading is a great way to receive education. Being able to access information for free would lead to people reading more and becoming more educated and putting that knowledge to good use. Most of the authors that write the information that is not free does not even see a single cent of the money that goes to people getting what he/she wrote about so why should the company/journal they send their work to make money off them and the author gets nothing, if they get nothing neither should the company/journal publishing the work. Wikis are a good model of free information and others should follow their examples. Having free information would lead to smarter and more educated people. I understand if some information is not free but most information should be just like education is free to an extent, which is how information should be too. Education is what gives a person power if you are the smartest person everyone will follow but if information is free then everyone will have their own thoughts and opinions. Then if everyone has access to be the smartest there will no leaders but that is not true someone will always know more on a subject than another but that is life and if everyone has access to information then new and better things can be done and create new and better things. Free information is the key to a better and brighter future and information should be shared and not just for the rich.

Precis of "The Rhetorical Precis" by Margaret K. Woodworth

In Margaret K. Woodworth's essay "The Rhetorical Précis" (1988) she claims writing a rhetorical précis helps students’ better understand written and spoken words no matter what the subject is and that it can help in any class even if it is not asked to do it helps the student with the class.  Woodworth supports her thesis by explaining the rhetorical précis form, the teaching strategies, how it can be applied in class to get the students to learn it, how to apply in other courses and then assessments of what students think about using it. She also uses the actual assessments from her students to back up her claim. Woodworth’s purpose is to have students learn how to do a rhetorical précis and apply in every class, “The rhetorical précis form is a highly structured four-sentence paragraph. . . Once students have mastered the form, they are heartily encouraged to create other, less rigid forms to accommodate the information,” in order to better understand the written and spoken word. The audience for this essay are college professors since Woodworth says it is for college students and how it helps them in all their courses once they have mastered the form but college students can also be the audience since this does help them and the essay says how to use and practice writing a rhetorical précis.

The Rhetorical Précis of Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26”

Kevin Poulsen wrote the article “Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26” (January 12, 2013) to suggest Aaron Swart’s death is tragic and “that the world is a poorer place for the loss” to show that the world will now have unsolved technological problems. Poulsen talks about all the things he did technological starting at when he was fourteen years old to the present. The authors purpose is to show how important Aaron was and the tragedy of his passing, “The world is robbed of a half-century of all the things we can’t even imagine Aaron would have accomplished with the remainder of his life”, in order to sow that he was very much needed in the world and should not have taken his own life. The intended audience is for coders and other technological people like Aaron since the article is about what Aaron did technologically and the government since he brings up how Aaron hacked and downloaded articles from the JSTOR and his trial.