a reliable source to get a reliable argument,  I think this argument should be an argument relative to our life. So for me, I struggle with the cigarette, because some of my friends start to smoke and I don’t think this is good behavior. so I  may be going to choose some paper which tale about why is bad for a human to smoke and analyze the paper.

 

Intro– some of my friends start to smoke and I want to stop them at the beginning of this behavior because I don’t think smoking is good. and the paper I find gives me a good point to the argument,

body

introduce the cigarette and show the argument from the paper

how the paper proves that. Arguments about the text’s effectiveness are persuasively supported with detailed descriptions, paraphrases, and quotes.

 

conclusion

reflect that smoke is bad for health and use the idea to persuade my friend.

We call on people to pay attention to their health.

 

Group work

1. Drunk drivers are involved in more than 50 percent of traffic deaths. （hard evidence number used in it )
2. DNA tests of skin found under the victim’s fingernails suggest that the defendant was responsible for the assault.  (hard evidence )
3. A psychologist testified that teenage violence could not be blamed on video games.  hard evidence
4. The crowds at President Trump’s inauguration were the largest on record. constructed arguments.
5. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” hard evidence
6. Air bags ought to be removed from vehicles because they can kill young children and small-framed adults   constructed arguments.

 

A. Directions: Read the following scenarios and decide whether it is a case of plagiarism or
not. (Y or N) and explain why.
___Y__ 1. Kyoko needs to write a report on American politics. She looks up Barack Obama in
Wikipedia and discovers he is the 44th president of the United States. She includes this
information in her report but doesn’t mention Wikipedia.(use WIKIPEDIA is also a  called a kind of plagiarismbecause is from internet)
___Y__2. Tam is writing a paper on a novel for his English class. Since the whole class is reading
the same book, he doesn’t need to use a citation. (he need to citation)
____N_3. Sugi wrote a paper for his European history class last semester and got an A on the
paper. This semester, his Political Science class is addressing some of the same issues that are in  his History paper. He checks with his professor first who agrees with Sugi, so he uses the
material from his History paper. ( this is what he does with his teacher )
__Y___4. Ramiro, Stephan, April, and Chris are working on a group project. Chris submits his
work and the others suspect that some of it came from the Internet, but it sounds good, so they  submit it.(they need to do the citation)
__Y___5. Maria finds a lot of good information for her paper on the Internet. She carefully
changes the wording and prepares a good paraphrase. She doesn’t copy anything verbatim(he need to do the citation because he is als also copy the main point )

 

1.have strong and logistics proof to support our statement

2. use logos as our strategies to make an argument

First, examine our beliefs in particular facts and pieces of information. Second, we need to become a conscientious fact-checker, digging deep to make sure claims are backed by evidence. Finally, don’t give up on facts.

Exercise 1 

• Pets are not allowed in Mr. Taylor’s building. He owns several cats and a parrot.

Pets are not allowed in Mr. Taylor’s building; however, he owns several cats and a parrot.

• New legislation prevents drivers from sending or reading text messages while driving. Many people continue to use their phones illegally.

New legislation prevents drivers from sending or reading text messages while driving but, many people continue to use their phones illegally.

• The coroner concluded that the young man had taken a lethal concoction of drugs. By the time his relatives found him, nothing could be done.

The coroner concluded that the young man had taken a lethal concoction of drugs and by the time his relatives found him, nothing could be done.

• Amphibians are vertebrates that live on land and in the water. Flatworms are invertebrates that live only in water.

Amphibians are vertebrates that live on land and in water whereas flatworms are invertebrates that only live in water. 

• Ashley carefully fed and watered her tomato plants all summer. The tomatoes grew juicy and ripe.

Ashley carefully fed and watered her tomato plants all summer, so the tomatoes grew juicy and ripe.

• When he lost his car key, Simon attempted to open the door with a wire hanger, a credit card, and a paper clip. He called the manufacturer for advice.

 

When he lost his car key, Simon attempted to open the door with a wire hanger, a credit card, and a paper clip; consequently, he called the manufacturer for advice. 

 

Exercise 2

• Jake is going to Mexico. There are beautiful beaches in Mexico.

Jake is going to Mexico because there are beautiful beaches in Mexico.

1. A snowstorm disrupted traffic all over the east coast. There will be long delivery delays this week.

Because a snowstorm disrupted traffic all over the east coast, there will be long delivery delays this week.

• My neighbor had his television volume turned up too high. I banged on his door and asked him to keep the noise down.

Since my neighbor had his television volume turned up too high, I banged on his door and asked him to keep the noise down.

• Jessica prepared the potato salad and the sautéed vegetables. Ashley marinated the chicken.

Jessica prepared the potato salad and the sauteed vegetables whereas Ashley marinated the chicken. 

• Romeo poisons himself. Juliet awakes to find Romeo dead and stabs herself with a dagger.

After Romeo poisons himself, Juliet awakes to find Romeo dead and stabs herself with a dagger.

Individual 

A wise old gentleman, who mostly spent his summers in his cottage, retired and bought a home near a Middle School.  When the school year begins,  his peace and quiet came to a sudden halt.

On the first day of school, three boys came down. The alley beating merrily on every trash can they see, and the same thing happens the next day and the next. The noise started driving the wise old man crazy. It is time for action.

he stopped the drummers as they banged their way down the street in the afternoon. He said, “You kids are a lot of fun! I love hearing your drumming, because it is so cheerful, and it reminds me of what I use to do at your age, will you do me a favor?”

The boys looked at him suspiciously. “What?” they asked. “I’ll give you a dollar if you promise to come around every single day and keep beating on those trash cans,” said the man.

The boys were thrilled. Every day they pounded on trash cans and collected a dollar.

After about a week, the wise old man stopped the boys again and this time he looked a little bit said, I still ‘love your drumming,  However I’m afraid spending a dollar a day is hard on me, I’m on a fixed income. From now on, I only to be able to pay you 50 sense to beat on the cans.’

The boys weren’t too happy, but they decided to accept 50 cents a day, and they continued beating on all the trash cans. After another week the clever old man stopped the boys again. “I’ve got more bad news,” he said. “My Social Security check hasn’t come yet, so I’m not going to be able to give you more than 25 cents a day. Is that all right?”

“Are you kidding?” said one of the boys. “We’re not going to waste our time beating on those trash cans for only a lousy quarter! We quit!

The wise old man smiled and enjoyed his peace and quiet again.

Response for Jessica

similarities:

identify the appeals find who the author wants to talk with

check if one’s text or article 

differences

Jessica:

criticize the original text and standardize the text from a third-person point of view

The author points out that this piece does not observe from a third-person point of view, but is only written from Kristof’s perspective.

Weihong:

do a stylistic choice and think of the characteristic of the way the author uses to express the point

 

Library research practice:

According to people’s impressions, Chinese people tend to avoid conflicts rather than confront them directly. . It is believed that Chinese people’s non-argumentative predispositions are just the plainly natural consequences of the fact that China has a longstanding tradition of stressing the notion of harmony within its cultural value systems and mainstream philosophies. This paper expresses doubt about these scholarly views and then tests them empirically.

Chinese philosophical traditions feature harmony.  In order to evaluate the validity of this claim, this paper sketches Chinese people’s feelings and understandings about interpersonal arguing by reporting results of a data collection in China, using measures of argumentativeness, verbal aggressiveness, argument frames, and personalization of conflict. As a result, an emphasis on preserving harmony has been deeply rooted in Chinese culture and cherished in Chinese social lives. In this paper, we sketched Chinese people’s feelings and understandings of interpersonal arguing with empirical findings and gave a crosscultural analysis of argument predispositions by comparing our results with those from a US sample. Chinese and US respondents differed in complex ways, but we did not find Chinese to be more argument-avoidant.

Refercence

Xie, Yun Hample, Dale Wang, Xiaoli(2015, August)Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning. August 2015 29(3):265-284

Group members: Haoyuan Zhou, Chieh-jou Lee, and Weihong Lin.

Our group searched the image from the BLOGS within Uttaranchal (P.G.) College Of Bio-Medical Sciences & Hospital |UCBMSH.ORG. And it brings us a very strong emotional impact. It is powerful to use the forests in the shape of lungs and gives us the controversial way to illustrate that we need to protect the forests immediately. The trees that have been cut down are the lungs of the earth–forests, which have been damaged by human activities in order to make money.

The image represents the idea of protecting the lungs of our planet. Lungs are associated with breathing which is associated with staying alive. It lets us think about where the air that we breathe comes from. There is a strong contraction of the torn-down section of trees. The picture shows the ecological environment is destroyed by extensive deforestation from humans. It appeals to us to protect the environment and not over-cut the trees anymore. If we do not stop right now, we will be harmful to ourselves.

 

https://blog.ucbmsh.org/department/deforestation-facts-causes-and-effects/attachment/deforestation-facts-causes-and-effects-3

 

Writing in groups:

Passage 1:

A man from the city came to visit a small farm, and he saw a farmer feeding pigs in a very strange way. The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, then the pig would eat the apples directly off the tree. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another until the pig was full, then he would start again with another pig.

The man from the city was pretty puzzled. He watched for quite a while and finally said, “What a strange way to feed pigs! It’s a waste of time! You could save a whole lot of time if you just shook the apples off the tree and let the pigs eat them from the ground!” The farmer looked puzzled and replied, “What’s time to a pig?”

Passage 2:

A young man was waiting in line at the bank and he developed a loud case of hiccups. It got worse and worse. By the time he got to the teller’s window, he could hardly talk. He handed the teller his check to cash.

The teller was tapping numbers into the computer. In a moment, she was looking up and frowning and said, “I can’t cash your check.”

The man was shocked and asked, “Why not?”

She said, “the computer indicates that you do not have sufficient funds to cover this amount. In fact, our records show that your account is overdrawn by more than $5000.00.”

“It can’t be!” cried the man. “You’ve got to be kidding!”

“You’re right. I am,” she smiled. She started counting out his cash. “You will notice that your hiccups are gone, though!”

Source: M. S. Samston (2005)

today I response to Noga and Derek.

similarities

With the help of rhetorical analysis, we can understand the purpose of the information we have now received and what and who it serves, thus becoming active and wise readers.

finding the most appropriate arguments to persuade.

To complete a rhetorical analysis, the first thing to do is read and view the argument critically.

differences

Noga: Rhetorical analysis is performed by questions and critical reading of the reader and is very important to the reader and writer.

Derek:

analyze the author’s style to  complete a rhetorical analysis

This story is about changing my free time activities and trying to do something more meaningful. The story is really about how you need to constantly break your comfort zone in order to improve.

Because these are ZOOM’s college days. At home, there is more free time available for us to spend. The easiest and most time-consuming option for me when I have more time is to download a mobile game and indulge in it. Things will get boring after a few days. Momentary fun on the phone is actually not good. We need to take something good, something beneficial to make us move forward. Doing a part-time job is a very good way for college students to get in touch with society.

I didn’t want to waste my free time, so I found a job in a hot pot restaurant, which not only relieved the pressure of my family, but also made some money, and more importantly, I could meet many different personalities when serving customers. Although we only have a short contact with them when serving customers, for those of us who have never been deeply in touch with society, meeting different people may be helpful for our future social work. At least communication with people will improve. In this part-time job, I learned a lot. I had contact with society and communicated with many people.

In the hotpot restaurant, my job is a waiter. Every day will come to all kinds of guests, all kinds of high quality, have low quality, you have to serve, deal with a smile to greet. In this diverse society, you may meet all kinds of people, but you must learn to know these people, read these people. Participated in the work, usually in a team. Working outside, you must learn to unite and cooperate, learn to obey, learn to tolerate, learn to calm down.

Looking back on my working process carefully, I have gained a lot. There is the care of colleagues, there is the supervisor’s teaching. And the guest’s evaluation of me is the only sincere thing I get in this job, I use my smile service in exchange for their praise, appreciation, which is that they let me realize the value of my job. This part-time job is very meaningful for me, let me learn to communicate with all kinds of people. Although I am still immature, it is this job that makes me realize the importance of a team.

This part-time job is a good challenge for me who have never worked in society. I’m glad I chose to go to work when I had the time. Choose things you don’t get to do in school. I believe that as long as we keep stepping out of our comfort zone and keep trying to touch some of the good things that we don’t touch. We can constantly improve ourselves and make ourselves better.

Find Video Feb 17(Group member: Wai Lin Htun & Weihong Lin)

Video link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3ysUkdB38

 

This is a video that helps us go through our difficult times. After watching this video, we feel motivated. He uses failure as examples, so it somehow connects with the audience because we have failed multiple times at some point in our life. And the speaker is trying to say it’s ok to fail; it’s ok not to do well. As long as we have the passion and start going for it, we will succeed one day.  For every ten failures, you’ll land one success. To believe that you’re willing to fail ten times before you can succeed one.

 

Ethos: The speaker did his research and knew what he was talking about.

Pathos: The background music of this video could change our mood and feeling. The example that the author is more board and most people can relate to the experience of Failure. 

Logos: “Failure isn’t permanent. Falling isn’t permanent.” If you try hard enough, you will succeed one day.

Today I response to liting’s discussion.

We all think that the two articles have good advantages worth learning. Our understanding of the article is similar. Both agree that in “Being a Writer,” the writer uses his own examples and tells his own story, which is very helpful. In Sherry’s story, specific examples are used to make the article more convincing. In my discussion, one more point in my summary of “being a successful writer” is that the author likes his own article is infectious, and this appeal will make people like this article.

I think the second paragraph of Liting summarizes the advantages of the two articles very well. This makes her point very clear to the reader.

This story is about changing my free time activities and trying to do something more meaningful. The story is really about how you need to constantly break your comfort zone in order to improve.

Because this is ZOOM’s college days. At home, there is more free time available for us to spend. The easiest and most time-consuming option for me when I have more time is to download a mobile game and indulge in it. Things will get boring after a few days. Momentary fun on the phone is actually not good.  We need to take something good, something beneficial to make us move forward. And small improvements can be made. For example, I started working out and keep on running every day. It’s hard to stick to things, but when you do it every day, the benefits start to show. The body gets better, and the spirit gets better. I still spend time on mobile games, but I don’t get sucked into them. Games are only tools for temporary entertainment. Learning to be better is the best thing you can do in your spare time. The important thing is to take the first step and stick to it.

I let myself choose to exercise in my free time instead of playing games.This is only a small step forward, but if this spirit is constantly applied to every part of life.The impact of the river can constantly change the course of the river.As long as I keep stepping out of my comfort zone, my life will change dramatically.You can do the same.

 

response for Noga

similarities:

show and use real data from research

find some authority

gain your readers’ trust and construct an authoritative ethos

differences

use your sense of humor

examine your motives for writing.