Group member; Han Wang and Derek Lin

After watching some online speechs, I think the volume is not limited to a specific volume, but must be in a suitable area. And there will always be some emotional moments in the speech. At that time, increasing the volume appropriately will increase the speech quality. When speaking, choose a calm tone. This will not cause too much pressure on the audience, but when trying to persuade others or express emotions, use intense tone could increase effectiveness. Gestures and body movements are also essential. If the whole speech is motionless, the audience will lose patience. Adding gestures will make your speech more vivid.

My group member are Wai Lin Htun and Sijin Lin. After the group discussion and read each others response. We have same arguments and points. We all mentioned the racism and various bullying behaviors Gregory suffered during his school days. At the same time, his poverty when he was a child had a lot of influence on him. In the concluding, We discuss some examples in today’s society. People will judge others base on their height, obesity and appearance. We think this is a kind of body shame.

 

–Group writing on the blog: Group with Haoyuan Zhou

1. For a long time, my stepson, Jonathan, was unhappy to have me as part of his family, for he resents (resented) that he didn’t have both biological parents at home. I try (tried) to get to know him better, but he would complain that I invade (invaded) his privacy. As a newcomer, I understood that our relationship will require (required) effort from both of us. It is (was) not enough that I was friendly. Jonathan also (delete has to) want (wanted) us to be friends, and I was not happy with the two (both) of us being strangers, but I can (could) wait for him to feel more comfortable around me.
2. Anne Marie collects antique bottles and loved（loves） to turn them into works of art. She will buy bottles if she liked(likes) them, but she prefers to find them in the ground. She will find(finds) bottles everywhere, but she picked(picks) them selectively. However, she has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland, where she spent(spends) most of her time. Often, bottles appeared(appear) on the surface after a good rain, but they disappear very soon. She will use(uses) special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. She did(dose) not want to break the bottles as she removes them from the ground. After finding(find) a new bottle, Anne Marie will add(adds) it to her display case and hung on the wall as an artistic piece.

After review the marginal comments in Essay Two. I receive a lot of good adivce. At introduce paragraph, I have to introduce the article in more detail in terms of its publication date, title, purpose, etc. At same time, I also found that in the next article, I made a lot of in-text citation mistakes. Like I forgot to put page number when I cite the paragraph. Also, when I expressing views, my views are always not obvious enough, or  always lack in some supporting arguments. And the problem is I only have one additional scholarly sources. Therefore, for future essays like Essay three. Those are problem wait me fix. I’ll try to aovid these issue happen and keep my writting strengths.

My group member is Yan Yan and Derek, After reading of Yan Yan’s responses. I found out she is more focus on discribe how author Bich Nguyen describes her own childhood growing up and alienating in her memoir’s narrative. She shows the audience how she can further alienate and isolate herself from her family by connecting with these characters around her.

Yan Yan also cited her own example. When she was in the United States, she chose to be with someone with the same identity. So they don’t have the same experience of being conflicted as the protagonist Bich Nguyen.

The similarity between Yan Yan and me is we all discussed the issue of race in the U.S.

Group discussion; Group member: Liting Huang and Jessica Ji

After reading Liting and Jessica’s respones. I’m surprised that Liting and I found the same two examples. Both of us used the NASA and Mercedes to responding to the teacher’s writing request for two striking examples of more effective visual arguments. Then Liting and I have the same views on pathos, ethos, and logos. But she summarized better than me. For Jessica’s respones. Although her summary of the visual argument is similar to mine. She described the role of each element in more detail, and used pie charts and diagrams as two striking examples of more effective visual arguments in the last paragraph of the article.

 

Group Work;

1: Yes, No quotation, use the exact word form text. 

No,Because there are no same sentences, and he uses his own words.

No

No

Yes

Yes, it doesn’t have a book page or the date.

 

2: Yes, No quotation, use the exact word form text. 

3: No

After reading Haoyuan’s respones. She mainly explained the author’s analysis of the visual argument. She think visual rhetoric reinforces the visuals that catch and hold our attention, also using images to establish ethos will help audiences understand how images boost credibility and authority. In the second paragraph, she thinks the visual argument is much better than the printed form of argument.

Compared with my response, Haoyuan’s extra description of the visual argument. But our interpretation of the visual argument is almost the same. After comparing my responds with hers, I found that I did not focus on the difference between the old version of the text argument and the modern visual argument.

 

Group Work:

1. My dog is friendly and playful.
2. We can go to the park or dance in the classroom.
3. Jeremy likes to read historical, realistic and speculative fiction.
4. When I went to the bar, I wanted to dance, drink and punch on the rowdy faces.
5. Buying a car is neither a decision to take lightly or be careless about. 
6. Tyler is for the legalization, not criminalization of marijuana. (maye be correct)
7. Sally needs a new stove, dishwasher, and knives for her kitchen.
8. My first grade teacher taught me how to write, how to read, and how to play tic-tac-toe.
9. She will not admit it, nor she will be apologizing.
10. The whole wheat pasta is better than enriched wheat pasta. (Correct)
11. Literature classes teach students to analyze texts, think critically, and improve writing.

12. Beets are just as nutrient rich as rutabagas even though they are not in season. (Correct)
13. Drunk drivers are thoughtlessly taking the lives of other people in their own hands,risk their own lives, think only about their own pleasure and fun, and not consider the consequences of their actions

14. In order to convey the information correctly, the police officer spoke loudly to the crowd, told people where they should stand, repeated the information to helppeople remember, and gesture.

 

 

Breakout room group work:

In the video, the lecturer made further explanations on visual rhetoric and exemplified the main points with an advertisement of ketchup conducted by Heinz. In the advertisement, an image of tomatoes piled up into the shape of a bottle of ketchup was presented with words like “No one grows ketchup like Heinz” to deliver a message that the product is natural and possibly beneficial for your health.

By looking at the picture, it is not difficult to find that the left side of the whole poster is dominated by a huge bottle of tomato sauce. And this bottle of ketchup is made up of slices of fresh tomatoes. At the same time, the tomato bottle is also marked with the name of the ketchup manufacturer.

It appeals to the audience that how natural the ketchup is. First and foremost, the colour of this commercial is red. In addition, the slogan is white. The audience has shrunk significantly. It will tell customers about the product’s ingredients and components in a clear way. That is why the commercial works so well.

After reading Jessica and Noga’s respones. We all have a common point of view. That is the multimodal argument is to deliver text in different formats such as visual, video and audio.

Jessica mainly discussed the difference between new media and old media. She believes that new media is more convenient and easy to access. She also believes that video text may be the best medium. This is a very effective way to convey information to the audience.

Noga write more about analyzing the current new media. She believes that video text can be an example of a multi-modal argument. It will be more effective because the video text is more accessible, more direct, includes images, text, and sound, and is more eye-catching.

 

Individual writting:

I randomly choose a wechat post. Through the text and pictures he post, we will soon know that he is a used car seller.(The text in the picture describes the configuration of this car and the year of production.) If only through text introduction, readers can only know that this is a Ford Raptor produced in 2019. But by adding pictures, readers can get a new understanding of this car, like this is a blue Raptor and very new in appearance. So people could get more through ethos.

For the Essay Two assignment, I think it is very important to find a suitable article. Because the requirement of writing is to analyze the rhetorical analysis of the author. So I think a lot of available articles are in the news. News is always closely related to people’s lives, so some guiding rhetoric will often appear in the news. Usually in order to make people believe in the content of the news, news writers will use a lot of rhetoric analysis. For example, BBC is a British broadcasting company. It was barred from entering China by the Chinese government because it added excessive political prejudice in the news. I think I can find good material in the BBC.

 

Outline;

A. Introduction

a. News summary, troduces the topic by giving a background and narrowing the topic.

b. State the author’s point, and the efficiency of guiding readers.

B. Body paragraph

a. Analyze the author’s rhetoric.

b. Gives credit to the writer of the source using APA in-text citations style.

c.Analyze between the facts and the rhetoric in the article. Analyze between the facts                   and the rhetoric in the article. Shows whether rhetorical analysis has played a better                   role.

C. Conclusion

a. Summarize all the rhetoric and facts of the author.

b. Express my own opinions.

 

Group member: Karen, Zheyu, Harrison

Hard evidence or constructed arguments;

1.Drunk drivers are involved in more than 50 percent of traffic deaths.

Hard evidence

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.

Constructed arguments

4.he crowds at President Trump’s inauguration were the largest on record.

Hard evidence

5.“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

Constructed arguments

6.Air bags ought to be removed from vehicles because they can kill young children and small-framed adults.

Constructed arguments

 

Plagiarism Activities; Part A

___N__ 1. Kyoko needs to write a report on American politics.  She looks up Barack Obama inWikipedia and

discovers he is the 44th president of the United States.  She includes this information in her report but doesn’t mention Wikipedia.

__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.

__Y__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.

_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.

__N___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.

 

Plagiarism Activities; Part B

__N___1. You clearly identify the source at the beginning of a paragraph that summarizes the

author’s ideas about teenage drinking.  Since readers will naturally assume all of the ideas in

the paragraphs are from the source, no additional citation is necessary.

__Y___2. In your paper on the history of aviation you state the date of the Wright brothers’ first

successful flight at Kitty Hawk.

 

__N___3. In a paper on the civil rights movement you find some general, well-known background

information in an encyclopedia.  It is obviously common knowledge, so you copy the

information and include it in your paper.

__N___4. You ask your mother about the steps she went through in obtaining a bank load for a

new car. You include this information in your paper.

__Y___5. You skim a 325-page book entitled Using the Internet. A major theme throughout the

book is that the Internet is an important technological achievement.  You include this in your

paper.

_Y____6. You find an article that takes the same position you have taken on the subject of gun

control. To save time you summarize in your paper a portion of the argument from the article,

since the author’s ideas are identical to your own.

Sijin cited the example of Sessions in his respones. He learned that arguments are distinguished by Artistic Proofs and Inartistic Proofs. Sijin he used both artistic proofs and inartistic proofs. to support his argument that rescinds the DACA program. He also provided “open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority.” So his conclusion is that by providing the facts in the argument, you can be more credible and convincing.

 

Group work

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

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

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

4.Amphibians are vertebrates that live on land and in the water; instead, flatworms are invertebrates that live only in water.

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

6.When he lost his car key, Simon attempted to open the door with a wire hanger, a credit card, and a paperclip, also he called the manufacturer for advice.

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

8.A snowstorm disrupted traffic all over the east coast, so that there will be long delivery delays this week.

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

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

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

 

Individual Writing

A wise old gentlemen, who mostly spent his summers in his cottage,retired and bought a home near a Middle School. Then the school year begins, and his peace and quite 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, and the noise started driving the wise old man crazy, so its time for action.

The next afternoon he stops the drummers as they banged their way down the street, then he says, “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 ask. “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.

Therefore the boys,who was thrilled, pounded on trash cans and collected a dollar.

After about a week, the wise old man stops the boys again and this time he looked a little bit sad, I still love you’re drumming, he said to the boys. However I’m afraid spending a dollar a day is hard on me, I’m on a fixed income. From now on, I’m only going 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.

My group members are Noga and Faye. After reading Noga’s respones. I found out our article is completely different. Noga introduced the way to write an effective rhetorical analysis of a text includes seven steps in detail in the first paragraph.She introduced very comprehensively, with details in every step. Our same point of view is in the last paragraph, and the content of the summary is very similar.

After reading Faye’s article, it is more of an introduction to rhetorical strategies. She gave many examples, such as how to use visual text to determine the author’s rhetorical appeals. And the image’s use of text can vary according to font choice, size, layout, color etc is also very important. The type of audience will also affect your rhetoric. How to use images correctly is also a kind of skill. Although she did not introduce the content of the article. But her view is correct.

 

Quote sandwiches：

Introduce:

Homework is recognized as a source of stress for parents and children, but its underlying mechanism is still unclear. This article will examine why.

 

Quote:

“Study 1 confirmed that the more parents experience homework as need-frustrating, the more their children report stress. This finding was mediated by the stress the parents themselves experience, parents’ tendency to adopt need-thwarting practices, and the child’s experience of homework as need-frustrating.”(Moè, A., Katz, I., Cohen, R., & Alesi, M. 2020)

 

Analyze:

The homework stress is not only from child. It also could be from parent.Study shows that brief interventions designed to support the satisfaction of parents’ needs reduce the stress on parents and children and improve parents’ adoption of supportive behaviors