Chapter 6 Precis

In his chapter 6 in his book "Choices 2.0", Joe Harden suggests that we have to make choics about to write when it comes to culture and the media. He point out how much media is around our everyday lives. Hardin also points out how cultural myths and how they are recognized in movies, news reports and popular songs. Hardin gives us all these things about cultural and the media in order that we may properly critque them and how to do so in a writer's manner. His audience is for college freshmen.

Plagiarism Precis

In his article “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in the Digital Age” (2010), Trip Gabriel persuades that the plagiarism is happening more and more since there so much information at the fingertips and people don’t realize that they are doing it. We could easily just type a topic and there will be things all over the internet about the topic they want. The author shows that through many examples of how plagiarism has been happening at campus around the United States. Gabriel has written this article in order to show that plagiarism is occurring more and to raise awareness of this problem. The author’s audience is for college freshmen since it is about writing and you usually start writing your freshmen year in college and is a good basis on all writing for you college career.

The first thing that had grabbed my attetion was that the image itself but then I looked at the caption of what it had said. Just the style and how the image is portrayed is all very important. The color scheme of the image is a not very bright and is used to show how serious the image is.The caption of the image meant a great deal to me. To me the text of the image was to show the general public that we ourselves are our own prisoners and only we can set our selves free. We are accountable for our actions and if we don't hold ourselves accountable of our actions and wait for someone else to be held accountable than we will never be truly free. We will always ask ourselves questions instead of getting over them and trying to figure out a solution. This image and the message that it shows is an important value to me and I love what the message means.

Speeches on Ann Romney and Michelle Obama

When I saw the two videos of the speeches in English class, I really wasn’t biased. It is easy for me to not choose sides and look at the videos in an analytical sense. Both the speeches by Ann Romney and Michelle Obama were both passionate about what they believe in and for the country that we serve. They should be since they are by the president’s side and they only want what is best for the country. To me though both of them have pathos and some ethos when telling the general public about how much passion they have for the president they are behind. There wasn’t that much logos in both of the speeches, in my opinion. I don’t know if this was supposed to be a speech about passion or for a political point of view. Both these speeches really didn’t talk about the problems we have in the United States, like the financial situation and the health care system. Both of them just talked about passion and I think that is great but to me almost any person running for president is going to have passion for family and the United States. They would not be running for president if they weren’t passionate about it. To me it really doesn’t matter where you grow up and how your background is but what you are going to do for this country and how you aim to try an achieve this and yes passion does help but you need to be able to go through with what you say or at least try.  I think both speeches lost some ethos just because they weren’t the presidents themselves and they weren’t really didn’t talk about the political party itself either. If the point of the speeches were to see how passionate the presidents are than the speeches done their job.  If the speeches were supposed to influence their political view than it really didn’t do that for me. 

In his third chapter in "Choices 2.0 Situations for college writing" (2010), Joe Marshall Hardin portrays that you need a strong structure in your writings. He portrays this by suggesting you could have supporting material include relevant experiences fact, figures statistics, original analysis, explanations, arguments and photographic images. His purpose in this chapter is show that there are ways to make a great structure in your writings and it gives you ideas on how to do that or improve your structure in your own writings. The audience is for college freshmen or people just learning how to write to show them how to have a good structure for your writings.

"Web Means the End of Forgiving"

What I think about the article that Jeffrey Rosen wrote is that I agree with him. The internet was a safe haven but now has turned into something that people fear to post things or being tagged in photos. I do think that it violates our first amendment. I don’t think that companies would have that much power to see what our personal lives are. I think that everybody does things that might now be viewed as smart but we are only human. I believe that sometimes it is okay to go drink and go out with friends to have a fun time. If we didn’t do this we would be more stressed and be just mindless zombies just going through every day. Companies should want us to have fun and not worry what we do with our free time. I think that we would be more productive and as long as we are professional at work, why should companies care.  There were some great ideas in that article like ReputationDefender or the idea that data has an expiration date. The expiration data, I think, is an amazing idea. I think teenagers and young adults don’t realize how much they can hurt their reputations. I don’t think that we should be reprimanded for the way that almost every teenager and young adult act. I don’t think that companies can make an assumption how we act in our private lives and how we act in our personal lives. The expiration date thing is at least a step forward. Teenagers and young adults don’t really want to spend all their time doing researches on themselves trying to find and delete embarrassing photos or comments on themselves. Also they are not trained to do background researches but companies hire certain people like that. That Is what I think about this article.