Chapters 10 & 11

So chapter 10 is on selecting and integrating evidence. Ok, so basically this chapter is here to tell us how to evaluate our resources and how to put them in our papers. We extensively talked about in class how to find our audience and purpose and this is the very first part of the chapter so I just skimmed over it to make life simple. It then goes into how to timeline, relevance, and other aspects of a paper. I know that without relevance in a source or even a paper for that fact that it is not credible and there fore is not very useful. It talks about criteria and how it can be used to consider evidence as well. The chapter continues to review how to get proper resources as evidence and making sure you get proper sources. We have gone over this in class as well so I again skimmed. The rest of the chapter goes over evidence and is still completely boring.

Alright, now chapter 11. This chapter is over sharing the results and goes over getting the final paper together, design of the paper, and intros and conclusions. This chapter did not interest me in any sort what so ever and I dont need to read on to see how to make a concept map of ideas because i have been doing them since i was in the 2nd grade. Continuing on how to present and organize this chapter goes into great unnecessary detail. Then comes intros and conclusions. I have heard this same talk about how to catch an audience and bring them into your paper in the intro and how to sum up everything in a conclusion that i truly do not need to read this in great detail.

I didnt know what essay to read so when i find out ill blog something on it....as for now im done

Joy and catharsis

I remember growing up in Georgia with the smell of sweet sticky pine and honeysuckle in the summer time. Running barefoot as fast as I could down the steep hill of a drive way in the warm summer rain, just to splash into the puddle at the end of the drive. There was a huge rock at the end of my street that we would all climb on and pretend that we were adventurers. Behind my house there was nothing but wooded forest area with a creek and small pond about half a mile back. We would hike back there with daddy once a week just to see the flowers and smell the rushing water flowing down the rocky green mossy creek. I had a tree house, although it wasn’t in a tree, that we would play on and swing from the chain linked swing that hung, what seemed like miles, above the ground. I would run down my one way street of a neighborhood to meet up with my best friend just so we could climb the dogwood trees that grew in a row on the side of her house. Once we brought up sheets of cardboard and old towels that mom never used and made a kind of fort up there. She always took the best branches to sit on once we got to the top, and I always hated her for it. I remember swimming in Mr. Joe’s pool on the hottest days of the summer when you couldn’t go outside for 5 min and not get sun burnt. The pasta salad, grilled steak, French fries, and corn on the cob are still on my tongue.

We would swim for hours in that pool all day and late  into the night. When we would get out our fingers and toes would be so wrinkly and shriveled up that we looked like old people. I remember being so tired those nights that my sister and i had to be carried home and put into bed. Every Sunday my daddy would get up extra early just to make blueberry muffins for us. The warm, sweet smell of the muffins filled the morning air with happiness. Biting into one of them even today takes me back to when I was younger. 

Chapter 9

Alright so ch 9 is about arguing. The chapter begins by stating weather you are making a report or an argument. An argument is, according to the text, interpreting, analyzing, concluding, claiming, and persuading. And the difference between that and reporting is that reporting is summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, describing, and telling. To sum it up an argument is something that persuades people to believe what you want them to believe.

Developing a thesis is the next part of the chapter and it talks about how to do this in different steps. I personally haven't really had problems developing a thesis. You just have to make sure that the information given is complex, clear, and insightful.

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are mentioned in here as well. Being that we have gone over this in class and I have been using all three of these techniques since middle school I believe I have a clear understanding of how to use them in my writing.

Towards the end of the chapter it just goes into more of argument and counterarguments. I think that this chapter is another pointless chapter. I know how to do all of these things and hearing them over again is not going to help me. I can make an argument and I can make sure that my argument makes sense and is believable to others.

Chapters 6 and 7

Ch 6...
This chapter is about reading rhetorically and to be honest I only do this most of the time. I have come to the realization that reading has been ruined for me by text books. I am required to read so many of them that casual reading is just dull and bothersome to me. So as far as rhetorically reading something, it is rare. I have never done annotations in my readings. This will be the first class I have done so and it will be a learning experience for me. I have, however, summarized and paraphrased my writing and readings.

Ch 7...
This chapter was just basically how to effectively write a research paper with well thought out responses to your sources. It tells you how to keep track of your sources and how to add your own valid comments to fill the paper with information that not only makes it interesting but true.

Chapter 4

Ch4.....

So for ch 4 I truthfully just skimmed this chapter. I have been researching most everything for years now so I know my way around the internet and the library. I know where to get good and reliable information and I know where not to get it. For example, I use googlescholar.com to find most all of my beginning information for a science paper for biology or chemistry class. Then after I gather that I go straight to the library and further my findings there.

This chapter would be of no help to me what so ever because I know where to look already.

Chapter 5

So I have been very bad at keeping these blogs since i have no time to do so.

Here is ch 5...
In the beginning of the chapter it talks about observation and interviews. I think that this gives good tips and ways to do both of these. I have used some of them in actual interviews for jobs and such. Something i haven't really done is surveys. I have submitted simple ones for students and just for laughs, but never an important government survey or medical survey or something like that.
As far as this chapter goes it just is giving info about how to go about collecting data that is relevant and real. I think that i have learned how to do all of this over time and experience. However, the book does explain it well.