Tuesday, January 29, 2013

1.       Why is the government trying to rewrite the 2nd ammendmany
2.       Why don’t we just pull out of the middle east
3.       Why is it if you drink to much water it is u n healthy
4.       Why are food prices so high
5.       Are there realy ufo’s
6.       Why is the Bermuda triangle known for lots if dissapearing planes and boats
7.       Why do our gas price rise and fall so often
8.       Why are the polar ice caps melting so soon
9.       Why are there so few jobs in the united states
10.   Why is the hospitality business growing so much


Lester Faigley,and Jack Selzer, in their book “Good Reasons” imply more structured techniques on writing another type of argument, Casual arguments. The authors show a variety of ways to understanding how to write a casual argument, such as beginning with the cause and wich will lead to many effects. The steps to writing a good casual argument start by making a claim,what’s at stake with the claim made, possible causes, analyzing,writing a draft , and revise and proof read. Like in chapter 7 some good research and time taken to do this will result in  a good  a good casual argument.


                                Lester Faigley, Jack Selzer in their book ”Good Reasons” chapter 7 implies that there are different tools to writing an argument. The authors tell a story of a drunk driving incident and implies that maybe checkpoints could be used more often, and also repeat offenders should go straight to jail. The book states that by telling your story and defining the argument such as drunk driving and comparing the treatments in different states of the use of alcohol while driving. And also doing some research on the laws in different state you might just have a good argument on the use of check points, and also if a repeat offender should go directly to jail. The purpose of this chapter I feel is to prepare us to write a good argument, and also some good research will and can possibly make for a good argument.
Lester Faigley, and Jack Selzer. Good Reasons: Researching and Writing Effective Arguments.

Saturday, January 19, 2013



In Margaret K. Woodworth’s, “The Rhetorical Précis” (1998) Margaret K. Woodworth strongly suggests the rhetorical précis will reinforce writing techniques, also learn to comprehend, question, read, and evaluate what is being read at the present time. The author has developed the Rhetorical Précis and states while learning the proper format the reader will learn to evaluate, ask questions, and understand what he or she has read. Also while practicing this format this will also help the reader to see and evaluate the main ideas. The purpose of the rhetorical précis is to basically open the reader’s eyes, and fully understand the purpose of what is being read. In order to comprehend the process the reader must practice this writing technique on a daily basis. I feel the description of the Rhetorical Précis will affect anyone who is wanting to better understand what is being read and to take the primary ideas from the text.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Aaron Schwartz

Aaron Schwartz, coder and activist dead at 26. The author Kevin Polsen is trying to imply what Aaron Schwartz had done by hacking MIT computers was in a sense ok, and also the law was bullying him?
When Aaron was 14 he helped develop RSS, IN 2006 Aaron was part of a team that sold Reditt to Conde Nast. In 2010-2011 Aaron arranged to dowmload academic articles from the JSTOR database and was initially  arrested.  Soon enough Aaron had commited suicide, the author makes it sound like he killed himself because of the FBI bullying him, I personaly do not see it that way I feel Aaron n=knew the trouble he was in and could not deal with the consiquences. I Feel this is going to catch a lot of I-T peoples attention and maybe show some type of a wake up call to the computer world.