Open heart surgery has shaped my writing because it has given me a new perspective. My new perspective is to always be positive, this shows up in my writing pretty often,.

1. The threshold concept that Murray is asking us to consider
2. Everything we write is an autobiography. The ways we write and incorporate ourselves into everything we write.

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HR: read over cadet B and A to see what a B paper looks like, in class peer reviews. Spoke with Brother Rat Domio about what he meant by pathos, ethos, and logos. Connor Donlan

 

Connor Donlan

Major Garriot

ERH 101

21 October 2016

Help Received:

Rhetoric in Calculus

Dr. Shinoglu claims that students within her class are self-driven in pursuing an education and a job that uses math; she argues this through her syllabus and class schedule specifically within the course description, overview, and your responsibility sections.

Calculus with Analytic Geometry 2 (Calculus 2) is a course in the mathematics department at Virginia Military Institute. Calculus 2 is a beginner to mid-level mathematics course that focuses strongly on integration and how to use it to find the area of shapes. The class also refers to limits, graphing, geometry, and differentiation. The class requires that a student have passed MA123 Calculus 1 with a C or higher. General homework that is assigned in class is based on book sections and are generally problems at the end of each section. The homework section is fourteen percent of the final grade. The class also has four tests each worth fourteen percent of the final grade; Each test covers about four sections of homework. The last percentage of the class is in the final exam which is thirty percent of the final grade.

The your responsibility (student responsibility) section of the syllabus defines what a student needs to understand to succeed in the class. The student responsibility is a genre, “self-reinforcing form of communication” (Bazerman 372), in the genre set of the syllabus that helps to define what students need to do. The student responsibility section says that a student must understand the syllabus and the policies that it entails. If a student doesn’t understand these polices they will not succeed because they will not know how the class functions.

Dr. Shinoglu’s locutionary act of stating the class’s overview instructs the new student about the importance of the class. Her illocutionary act intends to define the type of student that is successful within the class. She states,

“In addition to learning specific skills you will also be learning to think in a logical, creative, mathematical way.  This way of thinking will benefit you long after you have forgotten the specific skills that we cover in class.  In part, learning this way of thinking will be facilitated by several application scenarios that we will cover during this semester.  These scenarios will, to different extents, require you to work through the mathematical modeling process that is so important in real world applications.”  (Syllabus 2)

which describes the skills of logical and creative thinking taught by the class are the most important. The connection between current studies and future work within math demonstrates her illocutionary act of creating successful, self-driven students.

The class schedule gives evidences to her claim that students are self-driven in pursuing an education. The class schedule allows for these types of students to look ahead and plan around the weighted tests as well as seeing what possible home works can be.

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

Sahinoglu, Hatice. Math 124 Calculus with Analytic Geometry 2 Syllabus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Post needed to know what elevation and other examples were and a text to compare them too. She could have found these texts and learned the knowledge from a library. She could have gotten copies of Martin Luther King Jr.s writings.

It takes magee a while to explain why she is writing in the topic but she does a good job arguing and pointing out her points of views in comparison to the text. This gives me an idea on how to preset topics and argue for and against the article.

What is Janet doing?

Janet starts off by defining paternalism. Janet demonstrates little authority of the subject and seems hesitant in her writing.

What is roger doing?

Roger gives a real life example of what paternalism is demonstrating his knowledge/ authority with in the subject.

What is roger doing that’s better?

Roger is demonstrating his authority in the subject better. Roger is also appealing to the reader by giving them an example to follow rather than a clear cut definition/claim.

How can I use Roger’s ideas/guidelines?

I can use Roger as a guideline for demonstrating that not all evidence are facts. I can also demonstrate my authority within the topic no matter how little it may be.

Notes

Janet views the definition ad justificatory conditions as truths

Roger- Matters to be resolved

Janet- report and does

Roger- Makes no claims but demonstrates that there are matters to be resolved

Janet- Freshmen

Roger- Doctorate work in ethics

My writing is more like Janet because I have been taught to analyze sources and assume their claims are true. I often refer to specific quotes but i never argue or challenge authors. I refer often to texts and clams like Janet. My sense of authority is very novice. I believe that high schools focus too much on getting commentary papers out rather than teaching how to write argumentatively.

I am performing critical reading but at a lower level. I can improve by comprehending the topi more and having the ability to analyze the text.I can also annotate better by asking questions and challenging the texts.

What have you learned that you need to do for paper 2?

I learned that I need to challenge my sources and not to assume that they are all facts but claims that contain a perspective. i need to address that the ideas presented by the secondary sources may not be fact but more opinionated. I also learned that I need to organize my paper’s in a new way.

1. Analyze context around the author