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“What is Academic Writing?”

In the article, “What is Academic Writing” by Irvin, L. Lennie, it says that academic writing is can be referred as an argument. An argument not vocally said, but in written on a piece of paper. Its when you share your point of view about a situation and write it in a “supported presentation”. Giving evidence and being able to support your claim will make the essay more credible to the readers.

Academic writing is also an analysis. When preparing to start writing your piece of paper, you have to understand what the professor is asking you to write about. Academic writing isn’t always a summary. There are three steps that the article gives us to analyze what we have to write about. The first step is to engage into ” an open inquiry” when the answer is not yet known. The second step is to know how to identify important parts of the subject, and the last is to compare steps one and two and figure out the similarities and differences.

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THE CLEANEST LINE BLOG: “LETTING GO” BY QUINN BRETT

In this article Quinn faces the most difficult time in her life. What I found really interesting was that she knew from the beginning that her day was off. She has been hiking and mountain climbing since her childhood and she never once questioned her climbing skills until October 11, 2017, she wasn’t in the right state of mind. Her mentality wasn’t the mind of a someone who has been climbing for mostly their entire life, she doubted herself the moment she took the first step to start her hike, and unfortunately she feel from a 120 feet drop that day. Another thing she mentioned in her article was that this hike that her and her best friend, Josie McKee, had started that day was nowhere near as difficult as other hikes she has done in her mountain climbing career, in fact she had done this hike multiple times.

What I really found interesting in this article was that with just her mental state being negative, she had already started her hike wrong. It shows that no matter how good your are, or if you think you have everything down , even the best can get thrown off their throne, and its nobody’s fault but their own. After Quinn fell from the mountain, she woke up in the hospital, she says she remembers how her legs, butt, feet, felt tingly like as if they have never been moved before. That day the doctors informed her that she is paralyzed from the waist down, and that she will never walk again. After Quinn found out the devastating news, she had to stay mentally strong because she found herself in a dark place afterwards, but she managed to keep her composure and now she has set her goal to walk one day.

Class Participation 2/13

My coach would always use pathos and also ethos in the beginning of each season. He would tell his story of how he had an injury during his time in the sport but that didn’t stop him, he would make his speech very motivating and emotional. It would really make the team very motivated that if our coach can do it with an injury than nothing can really stop us. That was pathos, he uses ethos by showing us pictures of his injury and his progress during rehab, that basically taught us not to give up under any circumstances.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j7QDnX5YE4k3dO7yAb89lyzrdxP78C7GyP2UBcZnBsY/edit?usp=sharing

Backpacks vs. Briefcases

This article talks about rhetorical analysis. The article states that the media is one of the most common and important places to find anything Rhetoric. Media such as television shows, Twitter, billboards, and so many other forms of media that can contain rhetorical messages. They use persuasion, beliefs, and interact in such a way to make the ad or message credible to the audience. Every day we come face to face with a rhetoric message, but we as customers must be aware of a rhetoric message so we aren’t just a bunch of mindless people believing everything the ads tells us. Rhetoric messages are so common that we might not notice some at all. That’s why it’s important to learn what a rhetoric message looks like as well as how they might be used to persuade the public. 

Although ads and messages contain rhetorical analysis, we are closer to rhetoric than we realize. When we socialize in our daily lives we create and interpret rhetoric analysis. According to Kenneth Burke in this article, rhetoric is everywhere we go, “where there is persuasion, there is rhetoric.” Almost everything in our lives consists of persuasion, for example, choosing what to wear, what shoes to wear, what we might eat, or maybe what kind if text or message we send to another person. So no matter where we are or go, rhetoric is always there, so we might as well learn how to interpret it and how to know what’s true and what’s not.

Rhetorical Analysis:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ovKuN1sDkpqw7ZWHpH-mDLomauy01P9z46uNgYq4YA0/edit?usp=sharing

Class Participation 2/27

1. Something that I’ve taken from rhetoric is that it’s a persuasive language used in our everyday lives. Sometimes we do notice it in our day, but other days it’s very hard to know if they’re using rhetoric or not. We see rhetoric in ads, billboards, commercials, or banners. 

2. Rhetoric relates to critical thinking by using it on the down low, for example when there is an ad that takes you time to read, understand, and analyze it , it most likely has rhetoric in it.