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Website

Target audience: students of Mr. Bevill's English 103 class

Content and main argument: History of technology, information on how it has evolved, movie clips, work done by our group. Technology has transformed beyond belief in a short amount of time.

Purpose: To educate about technology and it's improvements

Level of decorum: organized, neat

Navigation and layout: we will use a panel on the left side, as most websites, to navigate to and from our work

Pamphlet

Target Audience: Mr. Bevill's English 103 class

Content: History of cell phones and how they came to the level of technology they are at today

Purpose: To educate, inform

Level of decorum: creative, colorful, eye-pleasing

Layout: Information throughout, many pictures.

Initial Brainstorm for Multimedia Project

I think our group wants to do something with how technology has improved over the past few decades or so. I think we will work separately and then combine all of our efforts together at the end on a website to organize all of our work. Each of us has different resources we can use to do separate parts better than others in our group may be able to, and so we will work on each of our parts with our own resources and programs to produce a final work that will be put together at the end for our presentation.

First Draft and Peer Review for Research Projects

The first draft of my research paper on vegetarianism I think was reviewed well. The peer review helped a lot with rewording and correcting my over-usage of similar phrases and words. It helped put my paper in the perspective of someone who knew nothing about my subject at all. They explained to me certain parts that were hard to understand or what needed more background information. This is also helped to lengthen my paper closer to the requirement.

Note Taking

My usual note taking style is to take hand-written notes during class on the high points in a lecture. However, if the teacher or professor moves too quickly through information, I may move to typing my notes so I can get down as much information as possible. I don't like to type the notes because I get distracted by the computer during class, which happens less when I am hand writing notes.

Powerful Image

This image was taken during the Holocaust. You can tell because of the poor living conditions these men are being subjected to. You can also tell by the condition of their bodies. They are thin; their skin is stretched to cover their bones. You can tell they are malnourished. Some of them are hurt and have poor quality bandages. This is an impactful image because as the viewer, you begin to care for these men who are smiling into the camera even though their lives are inadequate; they are subjected to live in poor conditions that are cramped and dirty.

Thank You For Smoking

Today in class we watched most of Thank You For Smoking. I have already seen the movie but a second time around in a rhetoric and writing class allowed me to focus on those parts of the movie that mentioned argument and reasoning. Certain parts of the movie were a little uncomfortable to be watching during a class period, but those segments didn't last long. It so far has been a good movie and I know it will continue to be. I wish I had never seen it before so that I would be surprised at the ending but I know how the movie ends. 

Research Experience in the Past

In the past I have written several research papers. I had to write one for Chemistry 105 last semester. The research paper is something that must be very organized so that you don't scare the audience or lose the reader with stats or boring writing. The point is to convince the audience that your point is right and they should also follow that reasoning. There must be a lot of logic in these papers, I think. Logos is important in these papers. Solid facts prove something that ethos or pathos could not. Pathos, however, is key. It hits the reader where it hurts and they will remember your paper for that reason. Research papers can be great, if done well.