Thursday, October 18, 2007

d8hw2

WP#2 Draft Steroids in Baseball Brennan Dardis

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=d23x7xp_6gsbbt9&hl=en

Annotated BibliographyPaulette Estrada
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dd2vw5gx_2djbw28&hl=en

d8hw4

he elements of its rhetorical situation
audience(music industry, music listeners who may listen to cold play and the people who already listen to cold play)
purpose(to show that cold play is a whiny band of self pity)
context
topic(how much cold play sucks,basically the authors dislike for cold play and how he believes they are whiny and full of self pity)
author(Jon Pareles, a guy who hates cold plays music about self pity and the sound of the singers voice)
He calls cold play the most insufferable band of the decade. Stating that the singers voice made him wish he did not know English. The music full of self pity, lust anger and greed stating that their is nothing wrong with using them to spur on song writing but with cold play you get all of them.
ethos pathos and logos- i can not read far enough in to this article to get this information with my already strong dislike for Cold Play and my growing contempt for this author it makes this impossible to read fully as it has already given me a head-ache.
objections.
Complaints- he seemed to not get his point across well enough he tried to hard to make it an art piece and it turned me off as a reader. The only reason i got past most of the second page was because it was assigned to me. After getting that far I've grown to hate the writer more than i hate cold play at this point.

d8hw1

chap5 is about rhetorically thinking, how to write an rhetorical analysis and what to look for in your target of the argument, to pick out elements that stand out. It goes into examining arguments on ethos, pathos and logos and what to look for in each of them. also has a guide in back of chapter about writing rhetorical analysis.
chap6 structuring argument, is all about the Toulmin argument and it also does go a little beyond it. It goes on about how claims are what begins arguments but the claim is nothing with out evidence and reasons to give the claim substance. It also talks about qualifiers putting limits on claims to limit responsibilities in an argument.
chap8 arguments of definition, describes the different types of definitions, slandered, operational and by example. and how to make a claim and argument on those definitions.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

d5hw5

If i could interview some one it would be the manufactures of ethanol and e-85. I would like to ask them what it takes to make the ethanol energy wise and if it is really an improvement over normal gas. I would also ask if there was any other way to produce the fuel.I would also like to interview a researcher about the effects of the different fuel on the environment both to wild life and to humans. Are their any forms of pollution that this fuel produces more of?

d5hw1

Chap.6 is about finding sources through printed sources. these sources are library stacks, books and periodicals. It also talks about the types of Bibliographies and how to use them to find other sources. they can be found in either the reference room or the stacks. chap. seven goes into interviews and field research. How to plan an interview and whom to interview. Then it tells us how to decide if we should conduct a survey who to survey and how to interpret the results.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

d4hw1

Goes through just about all types of ways to find information online. it goes through just about everything that is needed to do research online.
How to read critically, teaches you what to look for when reading, how to skim and how to find key ideas.it tells you to highlight text write in the margins. it tell you to ask certain questions to see if the research is relevant to my research.
evaluating sources tells you to question the author, publisher, timeliness and comprehensiveness. Questioning their relevance and their biased to see if there was any motives that would of swayed their writing to to be one sided

Thursday, September 13, 2007

d3hw7

http://infoweb.newsbank.com.ezp.mc.maricopa.edu/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=11BA2EC61E9475F0&p_docnum=3&p_queryname=2&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=O63K5EFUMTE4OTc0NDEzNC42NDAwNTQ6MTo3OnJhLTIxNzM
This is a short but good article basically a question and answer segment. It finial gave me a decent answer about fuel economy. But it is too short to pull much information from.

http://infoweb.newsbank.com.ezp.mc.maricopa.edu/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=11B8AA15C3C940E8&p_docnum=10&p_queryname=2&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=O63K5EFUMTE4OTc0NDEzNC42NDAwNTQ6MTo3OnJhLTIxNzM
this is an article about the unfulfilled promises of bring more e85 gasoline to Florida. It was promised to bring ethanol to many people but they have seemed to fail to meet it by the date they promised. Make you wonder if it is possible to produce this fuel or if it is even possible to transport what was the reason they could not fulfill their promises. Could be a major setback.
"Down on the farm.(In the News)(Brief article)." American Scientist. 95. 4 (July-August 2007): 317(1). Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. Mesa Community College. 14 Sep. 2007 .
Interesting a fuel that has been called a cleaner burning fuel is not cleaner in all respects. It is said that if we converted to this fuel we would have more asthma and create more ozone related mortality. This brings the question is it still worth it. The article still says it does remove some pollutants but how important are those pollutants.

"Lower price of e85 fuel catches consumers' attention." Kansas City Star. (May 23, 2005): NA. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. Mesa Community College. 14 Sep. 2007 .
This article goes somewhat in depth about price and why ethanol is somewhat cheaper. It turns out there is a tax break of about 50 cents a gallon. Didn’t know there was such a following from the car companies. This will help compare its worth I get to see how much it was compared to gas and the fuel economy difference.