- Consider the different ways that authors begin their academic essays or books: telling a personal story regarding the conversation at hand (consider the Davidson essay; establish a personal connection with your audience), asking a question (this could be your academic question), establishing a basis for the conversation/context (consider the Teare and Hade essays), or using a quotation (either from one of your sources, or from an expert on your particular conversation/claim--see "From Silence to Words: Writing as a Struggle" from Inquiry, page 989).
- Think about how other writers/composers make claims, and how those claims are presented (either from your current reading, your 121 reading, or from recent news articles or newscasts; even comedy sketches have claims that comedians state near the beginning of their acts).
- State your audience.
- Write a paragraph or two with an element of #1, and your main claim.
Do not state 1 & 2 in your response. Just use them to compose #4.
Due before class on Feb. 19th.
Is it possible for every person as one whole body to learn better in one specific way? One major conversational topic right now is if standardized testing is a fair way of measuring each student’s intelligence because of different learning styles. However, think about having an all boys or girls school. Is it feasible that there would be less distraction and therefore a better education to be had with gender segregated schools? Single-sex schools are becoming a recycled trend in the United States, but with new purpose. No longer are there gender segregated schools because men need to learn different material than woman for their careers. Now, there are schools with gender segregation with the thought in mind that it will help children focus and receive an improved learning experience.
ReplyDeleteThroughout Elementary and Middle School I took a number of typing classes all which ended in failure. Rarely could I do thirteen words per minute even on the best of days. My teachers were at a loss as to help me and I was labeled a lost cause. It was in the eighth grade that my typing began to improve drastically. It was not what the school had done but rather what I had discovered in my free time. A computer game called StarCraft had become my single obsession. Played entirely with the mouse and keyboard commands were issued in rapid order by route memorization of the keys on the keyboard. The game also encourage heavy communication with teammates via text. By the time I had entered High School my words per minute were recorded in the upper seventies, surpassing several of my classmates. The lost cause was not so lost anymore.
ReplyDeleteMy experience with StarCraft left me with the understanding that games have a profound ability to teach. If we could harness the power of games, or more specifically game design, we could enrich the learning experience for future generations. With an understanding of game design we could be able to create better, smarter classes, and systems. Giving all students a chance to not only succeed but excel.
Walk through any children’s clothing area and you will find flirty and fun styles available for a young girl. This may not seem like much of a problem until the focus is sharpened to look at what these clothes are saying to the girls. Clothing for teens or adult women is often scaled down into sizes to fit young girls. While the girls may know that dressing in these styles gets them attention, they do not necessarily understand the attention. They have not developed a sense of body or sexuality so they don’t actually know what the attention means and that it could be age-inappropriate. In ‘Why are we dressing our daughters like this?” by Lianne George, she discusses the trend of erotic clothes for young girls. Mentioning, “low-slung jeans, sequined halter tops and lacy miniskirts” and asking the question “Why am I looking there?” shines a bright spotlight on the overly provocative clothing for young girls. (1) Retail stores are not looking at the impact of this type of clothing on a girl’s body image or self-esteem, but merely as a stepping stone to create a mini-consumer who loves the product they sell.
ReplyDeleteThroughout my existence and experience with media, I always pondered why women were outnumbered by men in television shows and why was it that the African Americans always had such a negative reputation. It wasn’t until my freshmen year of college that I grew interested in the subject of minority roles in media. I took a Communication and Popular Culture class and that reeling me into this topic. From looking back of African American representation in the media such as Sambo and Mammy, that further proves how minorities have and still are underrepresented in the media. Those depictions made me feel horrible inside and I questioned who would invent such a thing, until I learned heterosexual, white males control media. Its obvious minorities never really have or have had a say in how they are represented, which leaves them with reputations and stereotypes that aren’t always true to every black, Latino, Asian, or female American. Media misrepresents and underrepresents minorities, which sets a false standard leading to false assumptions. Who gets to tell their stories? I would choose to write my own existence.
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