Journal Entry #10

Rhetoric and Composition: What affects performance in college? Why do some do exceedingly well while others do not? English Education: Using fake words to help teach nouns, adverbs, verbs, etc. How would using this, like the poem Jabberwocky, help students? Does it help? Cultural Studies: The sexuality of advertisements. Why does sex sell? Discourse Analysis: How do syntax and gestures affect verbal communication? Topics I'm interested in: 1. Using athletes to sell products and if the athlete's reputation truly affects sales. 2. Infomercials. How do they go about selling products and how does it work? 3. Writing on the internet: does it hurt student's ability to write professionally or verbalize what they need to say. 4. Romantic films with the "bad boy" turning good. Why do most women prefer that? 5. Americans general ignorance about the United States government and what is going on with the country.

Sources

STUDENT AND COURSE INFO : Student name : Ariel Tymeson Email Address : tymeson@nova.edu Instructor : Professor Mason Topic : Shark Finning : RESOURCE ONE : Database used : Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt Title of periodical or book: Sharks and tunas: Fisheries impacts on predators with contrasting life histories Title of article : Author : Schindler, DE; Essington, TE; Kitchell, JF; Boggs, C; Hilborn, R Full text available : yes Bibliography : yes Citation from bibliography: Alverson, D. L. , M. H. Freeberg , S. A. Murawski , and J. G. Pope . 1994. A global assessment of fisheries bycatch and discards. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Fisheries Technical Paper 339 : RESOURCE TWO : Database used : ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Title of periodical or book: Preliminary re-assessment of the validity of the 5% fin to carcass ratio for sharks Title of article : Author : Cortes, E; Neer, JA Full text available : no Bibliography : no Citation from bibliography : : RESOURCE THREE : Database used : Global Information Network Title of periodical or book: ENVIRONMENT: EU BODY PROPOSES PROTECTING SHARKS FROM HUMANS Title of article : Author : David Cronin Full text available : yes Bibliography : no Citation from bibliography : :

Journal Entry #9

1. Katrina Powell uses the activity theory to determine the goals within the college for the analysis. Also, she looks to examine identity through self-representation. Combining the activity theory with self-representation and performance, Powell examines how students negotiate tensions they encounter within the activity systems while genres liberate and constrain the student at the same time. 2. To collect the data, Powell looks how personal identity and motivation shapes the writing of students. She looks expressly to the resistance, conflicts, and contradictions in writing to help find this out. 3. Many times, students don't get to choose the genre in which we are writing because professors will require that students write from a certain perspective or on a specific subject. However, students can, and should, add their own style to whatever they are told to write about. With some teachers, students risk losing their sense of self to please, or displease, the professor. So, "self-representation" is just a mixture of pleasing the professor and tips or suggestions from peers and teachers. This is seen especially with those students who either admire or dislike the professor. If a student likes the teacher, he or she may mimic the teacher. If he or she dislikes the professor, he or she may purposely ignore all sorts of tips or not pay attention to any sort of advice given.

Rhetorical Analysis

This is what I have so far, I know I need more I just have to put it back into word, but I have a different version. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i22/22a03201.htm In this article, author Joseph Storch brings up a new idea of using digital “textbooks” rather than requiring students to purchase hundreds of dollars worth of textbooks that some do not even read. Throughout the article, he uses logos and gives possible scenarios for using these new textbooks. As a college student who knows the hassle buying books is, his idea seems to be a good one. Storch mentions that students find a way to get books or the materials from these books illegally. Although I have never experienced the more extreme ways of getting this material, I do know that some choose not to purchase books and will then depend on friends or other students to get by in the class. I don’t believe this is necessarily illegal, but it is a way for students to find a way around buying expensive books. This would also help the declining revenue that publishing companies depend on. Using logos, he makes logical reasons for a person to want these new textbooks. He notices that college students tend to be completely broke (something that many companies do not understand or care about) and asking us to buy six hundred plus dollars on a book we will read (maybe) for a semester at most. To have the colleges pay for unlimited access within the school year will make everything more cost efficient and may make it possible for more people to obtain a college degree.

Journal Entry #8

The writer, David Pattie, is trying to research the topic of authenticity in rock music. This started with Pattie getting into a disagreement with Ritchey. Towards the end of the argument, Ritchey took a razor blade and cut "4 Real" into his arm. Although many rock bands show off self-mutilation, Ritchey took it a step further than most, maybe to prove that he was authentic. Pattie uses his personal experience with Ritchey to start off his research. To back up his case, he uses an essay written by Richard Dyer about constructed authenticity and what Bono said about embracing irony. Also, Bono believes that musicians look towards their music for validation on authenticity. This would mean that music is the truth that everyone in the business is looking for. Pattie also uses what has happened in rock history to help support the discussion on authenticity. He notes that authenticity is not "fixed," which means it can change. This has been seen to be true, by me at least, with a lot of underground bands that became mainstream. Fans of the bands previously get angered when they change to please the masses and sometimes stop being fans. Many have argued that the bands are no longer authentic. I can understand what they are saying, especially if they change their music. But, people change throughout life, so that may not necessarily mean that all of a sudden the artist is no longer "authentic." Many people try to establish authenticity by proving creativity. Also, most people like being reassured by others validity. This could also be correlated with honesty. It all depends on how a person defines authentic. Some may say it means being unique, and then would try to be their own person with no outside influence. This, of course, is close to impossible. To be truly unique with no outside help is hard, people tend to be impressionable. But, if you were to define authentic as real, people would want outside input to help verify that they are, in fact, authentic. This could come in the form of compliments or how people generally think of you. It isn't too difficult to find out how people think, as long as you look.