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Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing, this book seems to be first of its kind in composition and rhetoric which is a writing textbook presented in the form of a comic book. The book bids a contradictory message, while it is composed in the form of a comic book, it tries to teach mostly print-based writing. Understanding Rhetoric suggests an interest in textual, visual, and artistic aspects of composing. It lists four authors: two are teachers and scholars in rhetoric and writing (Losh is the director of the Culture, Art, and Technology program at the University of California, San Diego, and Alexander is director of the Center of Excellence in Writing and Communication at the University of California, Irvine); Kevin and Zander Cannon (not related to each other) are established artists and cartoonists. The illustrations and overall approach as a comic book are visually interesting and informative. In terms of structure, the book presents seven chapters, or “Issues” each chapter is color-coded and includes a three-part structure, first section in which the teachers present an issue and “illustrate” it with examples; a second section, titled “Reframe with Luis and Cindy,” in which two imaginary freshman students work through an assignment; and finally, a two-page “assignments” section that proposes a sampling of possible class projects inspired by the chapter’s content.

The main idea is Rhetoric analysis where terms are, Ethos which is the credibility of the speaker, Pathos which is the use of emotion in debate, Logos which is appeal to reason and Kairos which is timing. In the second section, titled “Reframe with Luis and Cindy, when Luis was writing an email for the class that he would miss, he wrote in an insulted manner where he doesn’t mention why he needs to be gone and instead he was implying that her class time might not be important in insulted manner. But later Cindy tells Luis about the rhetorical writing and analyzes all the proper writing for the email he sent which was much better way of writing.

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Digital Receipt 2

Posted by Alexander Rao on

CHECK THIS OUT!!! I am really interested in the technology behind entertainment. Intels new drones are one great example. Watch the vide in the link here to see what I mean. The picture below is one drone. Hundrads of them turn into something much more when they are together.

Assignments/Week #1 Response

Sambeg’s weekly Response#1

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Sambeg Raj Subedi
ENGL 21007-S
Prof. Jesse Rice-Evans
Weekly Assign#1
02/11/2019

The comic article “Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing” was quite informative in nature. In this article, the author mainly focuses on the definition of Rhetoric, views of ancient people and it’s importance in today’s writing and communication. Rhetoric, being a broad topic covers Ethos, Pathos, Logos, and Kairos. During ancient times, people had a mixed opinion regarding Rhetoric. According to Plato, ancient Greek philosopher “Rhetoric is intended only to hide flaws, not to encourage self-improvement” which clearly reflects his negative view about Rhetoric. He believed that it negatively impacted the young peoples by disabling their ability to speak the truth. In his opinion, sexual and violent crimes committed by actors on the stage helps spectators to imitate bad actions. I am quite unsatisfied with his views because it is not true that people will always grab a negative aspect of the play and try to imitate it. It totally depends on the individual’s ways of thinking. Unlike Plato, Aristotle is quite positive about Rhetoric. He considered Rhetoric to be one of the foundations of education. He believed that to be effective in communication and writing, three aspects Ethos, Pathos, and Logos must be taken into consideration. Ethos means credibility that speakers or writer brings to the subject. Pathos means the use of emotion on the subject and finally, Logos means the use of logic behind the argument. In order to make a complete meaningful argument, there must be the inclusion of all those factors. I am totally impressed by his opinion because while reading this article, an image of a Political leader appealing his citizens to vote for him came into my mind. If we deeply analyzed their speech then we could find the inclusion of all three factors. Apart from this, the author also highlighted on Kairos which simply means doing the right things on the right moment. It is obviously true because it makes no sense if somebody tries to make fun in a funeral ceremony. Things will be effective only if it is done at the right time.
Two other articles “When Your Grades Are Based On Labor” and “Labor Log” were basically about the grading system. It was mentioned that student is graded based on time and labor which means as long as the students put their effort on their paper and submit on time, they can expect a good grade. In order to improve students writing skills, students are allowed to revise their paper which is excellent because I think in next attempt students will certainly use their previous experience and be more creative to do better than previous.

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Digital Receipt #2 -Tanvir Youhana

Posted by Tanvir Youhana on

Pictures where used to show the potential new species that were found.

Pictures were also used to explain how the mountain came to be and what was the cause being so remote.

The main reason the author wrote this article was to show that a bunch of new speices have been found as well as to show how nature is like without the interference of humans. It is also encouraged that we start to protect these regions as they are only a few places where humans have not interfered and messed with the environment.

Forest have been hit really hard by human activities and these forest are a few that show what a real forest would look like without the invasive humans destroying them. This is the main point that is being seeing in this article as the scientist works to find these rare places and to see if they can find new animals, or see how through breeding how they have changed from other animals as they are isolated and can breed with animals in that small location.

This image supports what is being described here by the author. It shows how steep the mountain was and why people have not dared to even climb it and go to the top and see what is there. Images are a great way to coney a message that can only be fully undertstood with them. This is why it is important in my opinion to include a picture for the any descriptive writing that you do. This will get the reader more engaged and help the reader to understand some points made by you better. This also goes into credibility as to how you can gain more credibility if you have images to back up your claim as well as pictures of graphs that show correlations between what you said and what is being depicted in the graphs and charts.

 

 

 

Assignments/Week #2 Response

Sambeg’s Weekly Response#2

Posted by S Raj on

Sambeg Raj Subedi
ENGL 21007-S
Prof. Jesse Rice-Evans
Weekly Assign#2
02/11/2019

On Feb. 11, 2019, The New York Times published an article called “A.I. Shows Promise as a Physician Assistant”. It was written by Cade Metz. This article mainly focused on the latest achievement obtained in the healthcare field through Artificial Intelligence. Being a Computer Science student it was a great pleasure to know the positive impact of “Deep Learning” in almost every field including healthcare, transportation, communication and so on. Being specific to this article, it was mentioned that scientists had built a system that automatically diagnoses common childhood conditions — from influenza to meningitis — after processing the patient’s symptoms, history, lab results, and other clinical data. According to researchers, the system was highly accurate and one day may assist doctors in diagnosing complex or rare conditions. In order to build this system, researchers drew the records of nearly 600,000 Chinese patients who had visited a pediatric hospital over an 18-month period and this vast collection of data was used to train the so-called A.I. system. This system relies on a neural network which is a breed of artificial intelligence. It was also mentioned that Dr. Zhang and his colleagues have created a system that can diagnose an even wider range of conditions by recognizing patterns in text, not just in medical images, which can spot-check and make sure the physician didn’t miss anything. While comparing the results from the system and experienced physicians, it was observed that the A.I. system was more than 90 percent accurate at diagnosing asthma while the accuracy of physicians in the study was just 80 percent.
Making a rhetorical analysis of this article, I think this article was mainly intended for students, healthcare professionals, and policymakers. Being informative in nature, it was well organized and had appropriate references displaying authors credibility. This article made me more interested in the technology which on the other hand shows authors ability to emotionally evoke the reader’s interest toward the subject. This article initially started with a crisis of doctors in the US and finally ended up with an alternative as an A.I. system, which perfectly makes a logical sense in today’s context. Thus, in this article, all the necessary elements Ethos, Pathos, Legos and, Kairos were properly used which makes this article more powerful and effective.

Weekly Responses/Week #2 Response

Jaspreet Weekly Assignment #2

Posted by Jaspreet Jaswal on

In the text, ‘Construction of Bridges’, the author Raymond Wong analyzed and shared his knowledge of the construction of bridges, and how it functions to serve civilization as whole. Wong, initially brings about the information of Bridges by correlating its aspects to the field of STEM which explicitly stands for: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Although Wong did not state how people from different fields and knowledge cooperate with one another, Wong imply that the construction of massive bridges requires a lot of knowledge from people with different backgrounds in their profession. For example, it takes not only a civil engineer to construct a bridge, but an architect for the blueprint as well as electricians to install lights in the bridge. Moreover, Wong provided visual diagrams of bridges and different types of bridges. There are bridges with suspensions which bears the weight and extend beneath the bridge itself. There are also beam bridges and arch bridges differing in all shapes and sizes. Wong furthermore provided where certain types of bridges stand in the world. From his text, we can see a balanced cantilever bridge for viaduct of West Rail at Au Tau Interchange. Many third world countries are now expanding on their knowledge of STEM allowing their society to build fascinating structures like bridges as bridges serve to show a conjunction of unity not only through practical uses but metaphorically as well. From the picture provided in the text, we can pinpoint the span for the cantilever bridge expands from 50m to 300m. In perspective, an average adult male stands merely at 1.8m! As civilization throughout the world expands, the education push for STEM will grow.

Week #2 Response/Week #2 Response

week#2 response

Posted by Ming Hin Cheung on

Week 2 response

        The article “Tapping Signals Replacement for Keyboards” written by John Kosowatz , Senior Editor, ASME.org  uses visual elements to help reader understand more about the how the TAP wearable device works and the benefits of using it.  The first picture on the article shows that “ a man is using the TAP to navigate Hololens AR headset. Image: TAP Systems” . It demonstrates reader about the function of the TAP. TAP allows a user to tap letters, numbers and words into a device without a keyboard. It gives the reader a better understanding of the advantages of TAP and why it is more convenient than normal keyboard. One of the primary advantage visual elements offers is simplicity. For example, when you get lost by reading a long article, you can find it easier and faster by looking at picture to get the information the author wanted to express. Visual elements are relatively more eye-pleasing. When presenting an amazing shot, it makes people relaxed. A funny picture makes people laugh and will help people memorize the information better.

The second picture in the article shows readers the actual product, it is a “wearable keyboard, mouse and game controller that connects to most Bluetooth enabled devices. Image: TAP Systems”. It helps the reader remember the product.

when people cannot understand foreign language, a picture will remove the language barrier. This is the reason that many article use visual elements in addition to words to send message. Visual charts and graphics can be posted online, put beside the website  on anywhere audible. Such flexible communication form can bridge geographic distance and cross cultural differences.

Visual elements prevails in the efficiency of communication. For example, a bar chart helps the reader find out the first and last item at a glance. A line chart on stock with an uprising arrow tells readers immediately that the stock trend is increasing and favorable.

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