JoUrNaL # 10

COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC - Which subjects drawn students to write about the most for their final academic paper?

ENGLISH STUDIES - What are the different ways in which a student can display or put together his or her research for a project such as this, other than an essay?

CULTURAL STUDIES - Are students able to write on whatever topic they please without a bias from their professor? (Something they are passionate about, yet may not be up to par in the teachers eyes)

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS - How many of the sources you may or may not use for research are actually fradulant and untrue and most don't realize what they are taking there information from?

FIVE TOPICS
1. Cults (how people are drawn in and what they are all about)
2. Facebook
3. Women; expensive presents or things from the heart...what do they like more
4. How fashion and standerds of dress drastically changed over the last century
5. Childrens response to their parents divorse and the impact it makes

LiBRARY ASSiGNMENT

* * Thank you for filling out: COMP Online Library Assignment* * See Your WWW Form Submission Below * *Submitted by : (Dominique8118@aol.com) on : Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 14:46:22--------------------------------------------------------------------------- : STUDENT AND COURSE INFO : Student name : Dominique CasaleEmail Address : Dominique8118@aol.comInstructor : Doctor Eric MasonTopic : Cults :

RESOURCE ONE : Database used : ProQuest CentralTitle of periodical or book : Maclean'sTitle of article : Killer CultsAuthor : Rae CorelliFull text available : yesBibliography : yesCitation from bibliography: Rae Corelli (1997, April). Killer cults. Maclean's, 110(14), 44-45. Retrieved February 11, 2009, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 11370092). :

RESOURCE TWO : Database used : ProQuest CentralTitle of periodical or book : Direct marketing Title of article : The cultural logic of Heaven's GateAuthor : AnonymousFull text available : yesBibliography : yesCitation from bibliography: The cultural logic of Heaven's Gate. (1997, October). Direct Marketing, 60(6), 31. Retrieved February 11, 2009, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 17111066). :

# 9

Journal # 9

1.  1. Powell focuses on how students negotiate various genres in which they come across.  Through this close analysis of a tiny, religious, liberal arts college, she studies and then examines how students’ constructs of “self” are reflected within school genres and how their backgrounds, specific academic backgrounds and disciplines, and institutional goals that those construct.

2.  2.  In order to complete her study, she does the following: she uses the activity theory to examine possible competing goals within the activity system (which is the college itself) and, than, how those goals can affect student’s writings. Combining activity theory and theories of self-representation and performance, she than create a framework to explore how genres can simultaneously liberate and constrain and how students negotiate the various tensions they may encounter within an activity system.

3.  3.  The genre that students most use in forms of self-representation is autobiographies.  With this they also make use of resistance, contradictions, and conflicts within their writing.

 

JOURNAL # 8

1. He asks whether something should be read totally theoretical or entirely spontaneously.
2. He uses sources that give great detail to performance and music, such as Music and Identity and Savage. Blurbs of information about either a performer, a performance, a song, or an entire album.
3. Through rock they try to attempt in establishing authenticity. Although many try to gain authenticity through there music…what is authenticity and which group, all which with different sounds and outcomes, have completed the task.

JOURNAL 7 (:

Dominique Casale
COMP 2000

JOURNAL # 7


1. The writer is interested in researching the revision process. She, with the help of six professional writers, further studied this. With this, “An analysis of their work approach strategies showed their detection strategies to consist in anticipating errors and in comparing the author’s text with the editor’s knowledge, which appears in a range of states: certitude, uncertainty, and ignorance. Furthermore, the participating editors used problem-solving strategies to automatically solve more than half of the problems encountered in the text.” The questions that knowledge that she hopes to gain, are the answers the to following questions: “What defines revision in a professional context? What approach is taken by those who make their living revising—that is, professional editors? Are their resemblances between their strategies? How is their revision process influenced by the mandate they receive, their conception of revision, and their experience?”


2. They collected their data by first separating the six participants into two categories, least experienced and most experienced. By doing so they were able to see weather behavior varied with experience. Then they separated them into two groups against based on how they went about the process of revision. They also made use of interview data. They then developed a system to organize and grids to display there data from the research they had done. They examined their research and furthered on in gaining their knowledge of the process.


3. “Even though professional editing presents numerous similarities with the self-revision performed by copywriters, it nevertheless differs from the latter on several points.” & “professional editing is a process unto itself that occurs independently of writing, whereas self-revision is one of the three sub processes of writing, the other two being planning and drafting.”

JOURNAL # 6 (no dropbox for the journal)

Dominique Casale
Journal Entry # 6
1. He says it is clear that not every situation has a discourse. No major theorist has ever treated the rhetorical situation thoroughly as a distinct subject in rhetorical theory; in fact, many ignore it. With this, each reader probably can recall a specific time and place where there was opportunity to speak upon an urgent matter, and after the opportunity was gone he created in private thought the speech he should have spoke up and told earlier in the situation. This makes it very clear that situations are not always accompanied by discourse.
2. The rhetorical situation is the nature of those contexts in which the speakers or the writers create rhetorical discourse and Rhetorical situation maybe defined as a complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially removed if discourse, introduced into the situation, can so constrain human decision or action as to bring about the significant modification of the exigence.
3. “Any exigence is an imperfection marked by urgency; it is a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, a thing which is other than it should be.” An example could be when a student hastily puts together a personal narrative and there are constant grammatical errors and errors within the flow of the paper. The reader can correct and further understand the paper than.

JOURNAL ENTRY 5 ON CHAPTER 1 ENGLISH STUDIES :)

JOURNAL ENTRY # 5

All the disciplines of language are intertwined yet in a highly intellectual way. Yet it seems that all, linguistics, discourse analysis, and English studies are contradicting to one another. Within this theory the interaction of linguistics as a description of language is general and grammars as a description of the rules of particular languages, where comes syntax and semantics. Within this view, contemporary linguistics can thus be characterized as the study of the structure of language as cognitive and social object.

The scholars are extremely passionate about their writing. Here they try to explain a specific aspect of writing and its parts.  They believe linguistics gives meaning and structure to writing.  Like any statement made…anything they say towards a certain topic is brought to the public eye where people can further learn from their knowledge and findings.