CATCHIN' UP.

Well everyone after 2 weeks of extreme stress and sadness, I feel like I'm getting close to catching up witth my assignments and the rest of your blogs. Slloowww down, Ronnie . 

I'm attempting to explain the assignment paper one and I feel like Mr. Sentell asked us to do that paper in order to embed in our minds the processes of writing and the steps necessary in order to achieve the effect we are aiming for. The explanation of analysis and context were repeated so many times in pre-writing, to writing, to reviewing I feel that I know how to explain them fairly well.

But can I apply the steps and processes that I feel I've learned? That I'm not so sure about. For us to write a paper on the analysis processes was a challenge indeed but I feel that the reason was a good one and was used to get us accustomed to writing essay papers 1200 words and more. It's a "way of writing" that I know I certainly need to incorporate. I feel it was also to our benefit in the way that this assignment helped us get aquainted more with the terminolgy used in the writing process, as well as the methods.

 

I know I have so much more to learn and do to actually catch up not only with assignments and blogs but with the whole concept.. and I'm getting there



CHOOSING WISELY

 

I have chosen an article in the Consumer Health Report Journal to use as my reading in defining "ethos", "pathos", and "logos".

As read in this journal dated Sept 16, 2013, the misuse of antibiotics harms millions of people each year and kills thousands, according to a report put out on Sept 16, 2013 from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. It further states that half of the antibiotics prescribed by doctors each year are given unnecessarily or used improperly. Much of the harm comes when doctors and patients overuse antibiotic drugs, a practice that breeds superbugs, such as MRSA that are resistant to antibiotics. Misuse of antibiotics also harm in another way too by destroying the good bacterria that normally lives in your gut. (ethos)

Such antibiotic infections sicken at least two million people annually and kill 23,000, according to the CDC. (pathos)

According to the CDC almost 250,000 hospital patients each year are infected with the bacteria Clostridium difficile or C. diff and 14,000 of them die. (logos)

Choose Wisely and do not take or ask for antibiotics for common conditions such as mild sinusitis, the common cold and/or eye and ear infections.

 (Consumer Reports/2013/CDC

Writing Comparisions

 

Writing Comparisions

 

As several others have written we are as individual as snowflakes. No two are alike, nor will two write alike. There are comparisions though and after reading my fellow classmates bloggs I find I relate to and differ from several.

 

I relate to Natasha and Armando when needing quite and solitude in which to think and process my words. But also like Brandon and Natasha who have both stated, as well as Ronnie, that we are all still learning new methods and processes in which to write.

 

Unlike some I am not nor have ever been a procrastinator and although it may seem that way to some of you, for I am quite behind, I assure you it is due to recent personal afflictions and not procrastination.

 

I find I do tend to make a rough draft and proceed from there. I don't normally make an outline,

however I do feel like it is something I am going to try in the future.

 

I am not a writer. I do not ever aspire to be a writer. My goal is and I do hope that I will be able to utilize the methods and procedures learned in this class  to be able to express myself better in communication both verbal and written and will be better able to present more clarifying and precise papers in my future studies.

 

I do praise all of you on your images and icons, for that is a big problem for me.

 

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated.

Three Modes of Persuasion

 

The Three Modes of Persuasion of Rhetoric

 

When writing rhetoric or discourse you will need to use 3 modes of persuasion commonly known as logos (reason or logic), pathos (compassion or reason) and ethos (credibility or believability)

 

I have chosen the subject of money to define these modes. Money or access or lack of it defines our way of everyday existence. The more you have or have access to it the easier it is to maintain a "middle class living". To be able to obtain shelter, electricity, transportation, fuel and food in order to sustain a comfortable existence. This is logical (logos).

 

Sadly hundreds of thousands of US Citizens have no money and are considered homeless. They live on the streets, scourging for food hoping to find a tidbit to eat, with no heat, shelter or food or clothing. Thousands of these are children whom have never known any other way of life. They've never been able to have enough to eat, or a warm bed at night or watch a "favorite television show". Small things that most of us take for granted. (This defines pathos.)

 

The US Department of Housing and Urban development estimates that there are 633,782 people in the US alone in a state of homelessness and the national debt is now estimated at more than 16 trillion dollars. (ethos)

 

Our world, our lives, our money defines us as a people, as a nation, our mere existence.

 

               These three modes of persuasion are important to writing in communicating to your audience. To create an interest and present them with logic to appeal to their emotions and morals and to be able to state facts to the subject.

 



Getting Your Point Accross

Getting Your Point Accross

Sucessful Writing and Structure Adaptation

 

 

To be really successful at writing it is important to have a solid structure, and to know whom you are addressing the writing to. This enables you to do two things well

   a) It assures that you are answering your question (or focusing your thesis)

   b) It approaches what you are trying to say in a logical (and hopefully convincing) fashion

 

For the basic structure of an essay or writing you need to begin with the thesis statement of the position you are going to be writing, put simply it is like the topic sentence of the whole essay.

 

Whom are you going to address? Know your audience. Who are you writing for? Are they young, older, religious, political, academic? Know what audience, generation, group or association of people who may read what you write. Adapt your words, sentences, topics, explanations accordingly to fit your audience so that they may relate, understand and absorb your argument or statements.

 

If the introduction is strong it means the essay or writing is more likely to be well structured and each point of boy will support the writers thesis.

 

Your writing should begin with a strong introductory paragraph, evidence. First piece of evidence (or point of view) begins with a strong introductory paragraph which introduces the topic. States the points it will use and explains how they support the thesis.

 

The writer should make their point of views into a simple but well defined structure that allows the writer to make their argument clearly and logically.

 

It should finish with a conclusion that summarizes the argument or statement you have been making, restates the points you have used and strongly makes your thesis statement.

 

With a well thought out structure, it doesn't matter what question you are answering nor does it matter if you are simply presenting an argument without a question provided you have a strong structure, thesis statement and can provide at least three points to support it you will have enough for an essay

 

  

Vicki Burks and my Process of Writing

My process of writing is weak and scarce at best and probably not any more often than my cat here writing his bio on the computer. However, if I am right about the blog of The Usual Process the following are the steps that I would and should follow.

Now I need a topic. What am I writing about? Who will be reading it? Who will my audience be? Once the topic has been defined I will need to research. Research online, at the library and ask questions. Any material, anywhere that I may come up with information on the subject.

Now I need to write a draft. Just write an outline or rough draft. Then I'll read it. Does it make sense? Does it say what I want it to say? Then I'll ask someone else to read it and give suggestions. Does it make sense to them? Do they understand it, and ask for their input.

After all of this and time has elapsed I need to revise it. I'll think about the suggestions and take out parts or words that don't belong or rearrange them along with rearrangement of sentences and paragraphs. Reading it aloud will make sure it flows more smoothly. I then need to proofread it and check all spelling, punctuation and capitalization and make sure it is rewritten correctly and neatly.

After all these processes I would turn it in, post it, send it or consider it acceptable for the reason it was written.