Sunday, February 13, 2011
Project One
By now, you are basically done with project one, so this is where I give you the space to discuss how you feel about the project. Did you love it, hate it, didn't feel one way or the other, was it meaningful, useless? Don't be afraid to be honest, there won't be any repercussions if you didn't like the project and negative feedback has been used to improve projects in the past. As usual, 250 word post up by Thursday night and 100 word response up by Sunday night.
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I didn't really feel one way or the other about project one. To me it was just the first project of the semester. The one thing I did like about the project was how we had to find different sources such as political cartoons and videos. In the past when I have done projects like this one, we have only used news articles, but having to use different sources made the project more interesting to me. I also thought it was interesting how we had to use kairos to analyze the sources instead of just ethos, pathos, and logos. Having to use this extra element made me think a little bit more about what I was looking at and reading, and helped give me a much better understanding of what kairos is. Overall the project was pretty useful, it was a good, easy project that gave me a look into how things are going to work in the class for the rest of the semester as far as projects go. The thing I did not like was the three page reflection that we had to do. I feel like it was useless and just a repeat of the annotations we already did, it seems like the only thing that was done differently was to go a little more in depth on some of the sources. This last part is the only part of the project I really did not like; the rest was easy and interesting.
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly my view of project 1 in the fall semester was very different from my view of project 1 in the spring semester. Maybe that is because before the fall semester here at USF I had never done an annotated bibliography before. When we had to do annotated bibliographies for project 1 of ENC 1102 I was not as worried as I was with the annotations from ENC 1101. Not only did I feel less worried and a lot less stressed about this project I loved that we were able to use sources other than just news articles or excerpts from a book. I liked that we were allowed and were encouraged to use pictures and videos as well as political cartoons. This made the project much more interesting not only to write, but also interesting to research. I also found this project to actually be somewhat useful. Since project 1 of ENC 1101 stressed me out like crazy I didn't really see the full purpose behind the assignment. With project 1 of ENC 1102 I really felt as if this assignment helped me learn how to analyze things especially arguments. This project forced me to really pay attention to the details that go into making an argument and I think this will help me for the future. I have to say that my least favorite part of project 1 was the reflective essay. I was not nearly as annoyed with the annotations as with the reflective essay. However I do feel as if I benefited from this project. So all in all project 1 was not too bad.
ReplyDeleteSo far I found the first project of Composition two to be very interesting, at least in comparison to project one of Composition one. I find arguments to be inherently interesting and the opportunity to evaluate four arguments on a topic of my choosing was challenging and fun. It allowed me to get my thoughts down on a subject I’m passionate about and that is what really appealed to me as a writer. I cannot really say if the project was useful or not but from what I have gathered on the upcoming projects in Composition two, project one will lay the foundation of my ability to evaluate arguments effectively. I think allowing students to choose their own topic is a must-have; it is always easier and far more engaging to write about and research a topic that I have chosen myself, even more so when that topic is something that I am interested in. A possible point to consider would be adding more source choices than just the four that are outlined in the project, an article, a political cartoon/advertisement, a video, and an editorial. I’m not entirely sure what other sources you could use at this time but I believe that instead of defining what sources we are allowed to use just state that you can only have two types of sources be identical. This way students can go out and find their own sources without being confined to a strict outline and teachers can get a variety of source evaluations back, everybody wins. Just my two-cents though.
ReplyDeleteThe project was good experience for finding credibility within articles, but I felt it was just a repeat of Project 1 from the fall semester. I really liked the rogerian argument because I thought it is cool idea to find sympathy and common ground with your opponent’s response. Creating the annotated bibliographies did help for the rogerian argument paper, so I would stick with that for the next semester. I find that the hardest part of a paper is selecting a topic for the paper. I hate admitting it, but I don’t watch the news too often, so the only topics that I can come up with off the top of my head are the ones you ruled out. I’m glad you did that though because I would hate to have to read a ton of papers on abortion or capital punishment. Picking topics isn’t the worst idea because I wouldn’t minds researching something that I didn’t really know about. One thing I’m still not totally sure about is the thesis statement. Where is it supposed to be, and how in depth should it be? Some teachers don’t like extremely thesis statements because they become convoluted. That is pretty much it. I thought it was a good project that forces you to really analyze a source and really question the credibility of an author by how logical his/her points are and take into question the emotional appeal.
ReplyDeleteGoing into composition two I was dreading all of the projects, mostly because of the annotated bibliographies. After finishing the first project, I did not think it was as bad as I though it would be. Comparing it to the fall semester it was a piece of cake, probably because I learned how to do it right. All though it took a lot of time up, it was not as dreadful because we were able to pick a subject that we were personally interested in. I liked the fact we did not just have to use articles as our sources. It was cool finding political cartoons and videos to carry into our paper. It was also interesting to see how they related to the topic. I feel that through project one of ENC1102 I became more aware, and gained a better understanding of the rhetorical appeals. (ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos) I feel that I have accomplished annotated bibliographies, unlike in ENC1101 where I was dreading doing them. I have realized they help with your final essay, and they are not a waste of time. I feel that I have learned how to write more concisely because our annotated bibliographies were different from that in the fall semester, and so this spring semester we had to learn to just analyze the rhetorical appeals, rather then the entire article. I think it made it a little easier to do, and that is probably why I did not mind doing this project one.
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you! I think with having the same teacher last year we both dreaded going to class, and turning in our projects. I feel like it was always such a hassle to even get the annotations done, and that i was not learning a single thing from what I was writing. I felt completely different with this project one, I think because we got to choose our topics and our sources. I did not get a bit stressed out on this project, unlike last semester where I was staying up so late just to try and figure out how to write the stupid annotations. I thought that it was explained much better, and that since we had already done some that it was less of a hassle, like I stated before.
Project one was a bit of pain for the simple reason that I thought it was to similar to the ad analysis we did last semester. I am so tired of all of Aristotle’s oses (pathos, logos, ect.), and felt like I was rewriting the same thing over and over again. I surely wouldn’t enjoy grading these. Even so, the assignment was not without merit as it allowed us to notice particular strategies and identify techniques used in rhetorical arguments be them political cartoons, satirical comedy, or the State of the Union address. In fact, using those varying sources made the project fun. I got to cite Stephen Colbert in a formal Composition paper at college and that is something I will always remember. Again I agree with the direction that USF is going with this project, but it pains me to know that we are still forced to spit up more papers about Aristotle’s proofs when my thirteen year old cousin already has them mastered in the 8th grade. Unfortunately, I can’t think of a way that you can get through this project without mentioning them, which is why I bit my tongue and powered through the two papers. It wasn’t easy and took up an entire weekend. I think that we should have spent less time on the annotations than the reflections. It was only until I went through the reflective process that my analysis of the arguments made since. I found myself holding back in the annotated bibs and when trying to make a word count that isn’t something I like doing. I really hate ethos, pathos, and logos.
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ReplyDeleteI actually didn’t mind completing project one. Compared to project one in 1101, it wasn’t nearly as annoying as I thought it would be. I struggled with project one in the fall because I had never learned how to annotate bibliographies before coming to USF so it took me many hours to gather my thoughts. As for project one in 1102, I had an easier time gathering my thoughts because it wasn’t just about the author’s credibility like it was last semester. We had to actually talk about how certain perspectives were used throughout the source and it’s quite simple to find what we need to analyze. I really liked having the option to choose what topic we would like to analyze, because I would have disliked this project a lot if we were assigned a certain one. Thankfully, we could all choose a topic that sounded interesting to us, or even something that we were comfortable with to write about. I’ve heard of ethos, pathos, and logos but honestly, I never learned in much detail as to what they were until composition 2. I’ve never even heard of kairos so one thing I liked about project one was that it consisted of new material, for me at least, instead of just covering old information that we learned years ago. The one thing I didn’t like at all about project one was the reflective essay afterwards. I felt like it was a repetition of basically everything I wrote in my annotations of the sources earlier. To sum it all up, project one was definitely a benefit for the upcoming projects.
ReplyDeleteFrom the beginning, I anticipated a much more difficult Project One. I felt very confused when first discussing the elements of the project, specifically ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos. Although we did annotated bibliographies in ENC 1101, these elements were not discussed directly. However, after some practice and more clarification, this project turned out to be quite simple. I actually found it much easier than the first time I did annotated bibliographies. In addition, I enjoyed rhetorically analyzing arguments that were about a topic I was interested in, Facebook. It made the entire project less daunting, especially when concerned about meeting the word count. I actually found myself writing too much and having to condense my paragraphs. Also, being able to incorporate other types of sources such as cartoons, videos, or letters to the editor made for a more interesting project as well, instead of the typical articles. I definitely feel that I learned more from this ENC 1102 Project One than I did in composition last semester. I was forced to work with ideas and tools that were outside of my comfort zone, but now they are things I consider to be very familiar with. I know that I will be able to use what I have learned from this project throughout the rest of the semester. However, like many of my classmates, I did not like the essay portion of the project. I felt that it was very repetitive of what I had written in the annotations. I didn’t obtain any new knowledge from writing the essay.
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ReplyDeleteI have very similar feelings as you do about our first project in 1102. I had a hard time with the annotated bibliographies in 1101, but this time around it was much easier for me. As you mentioned, I enjoyed the freedom to choose our own topic as well. I also agree that it was more fun to learn new things in this project, than covering ideas that everyone knew already. Like many of our classmates, I didn’t like the reflective essay either. I definitely feel that it was repetitive. I wish there had been another way to incorporate an essay, but in a way that asked us to branch out from the annotated bibliographies instead of reiterating what we said.
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ReplyDeleteEven though I dread everything about writing papers I found project one fairly easy. Mainly because in composition one we did an annotated bibliography so I was familiar with it when it was presented to me. I learned a lot about pathos, logos, ethos, and kiaros. Whenever I looked at an ad or article I didn’t know appeals where intentionally placed to appeal to an audience. I like how we were able to pick our own topics because I feel like it’s ten times easier to write about something that you are interested in. Whenever I pick topics I really think about what I want to learn more on and I usually pick things that are most popular in todays society. Another thing I liked about this project is I learned how to properly analyze advertisements. One thing I loved about the project is how we spent time on the annotated part. Usually you just turn in one draft of the annotated and 3 drafts of the essay. By us doing more than one draft for the annotated made me really comfortable and my essay was basically pulled from the annotated. This is going to help me with our next project because all of this is about rogerian arguments. I can see where project one is our foundation for the upcoming projects. The only thing that I could think of that was maybe bad is it was somewhat repetitive.
ReplyDeleteHey Lauren! I also can’t say I loved the project but I didn’t hate it. The different sources we got to use were refreshing from the usual boring articles that we normally have to read, but it was just another writing assignment. I also agree that the second part of the assignment did seem a bit repetitive but overall it wasn’t too hard. Hopefully, the next couple of projects will prove to be as easy and maybe even fun. The Rogerian argument paper seems new and interesting so fingers crossed. I guess we’ll be finding out pretty soon now. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteProject one was very easy and a good start to the semester. I learned a lot about ethos, pathos, logos and kairos. I learned how to use them effectively in situations and how writers use them. I liked having the freedom to choose whatever topic we wanted, because I chose something that I was actually interested in and it helped me do the project. I liked being able to use other sources like pictures or political cartoons because the freedom gave me much more interest in the project. I didn't have a problem with the annotated bibliographies, I actually did learn a lot about how writers work and I learned how to read into articles. I also didn't mind the essay as much either because I learned how effective ethos, pathos, logos and kairos are in an article. It made me realize how everything is set up, and worked. One of the only reasons I didn't have a problem with this project is because I had the ability to choose whatever topic interested me the most. If I didn't have that freedom, I would have had no care at all in the project and possibly would've done extremely bad because of lack of attention and effort.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you on how the comp one project one was defiantly more stressful because I had absolutely no idea on what was going on. Also my teacher didn’t really do a great job in really explaining what we were doing. I never did an annotated bibliography before in my life so it was very new to me. This project came very easy to me because everything was interesting like you said. I loved how we could use videos and pictures as our sources because I can talk more about a video than articles. I didn’t struggle much with the reflective essay because it is just the same thing a your annotated but two sources and in essay form. Overall I thought project one was not so bad either.
Project one definitely wasn’t what I expected. I thought it would be a lot more artsy and allow me to write more freely on my topic. The very fact that I had to stick to such a strict structure of writing really annoyed me. After writing the first annotation I felt as if I wanted to remove the words ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos from existence. After reading a ton of papers, watching videos, and looking at cartoon pictures only to focus on the rhetorical tools of the piece I was very fed up with the project. I really felt as if I was wasting my time, especially since I had to deal with this too many times before. Since I took AP Composition in high school I was already familiar with rhetorical analyzing. And also this project one was very similar to the project one from 1102 with all the annotations. Overall I really just felt as if project one was a review of the past. Writing skills that students are required to know in order to even enter a level one composition class seemed to be the skills used in this project. I get annoyed when things are too simple, especially when it’s simple but disguised with complicated wording jut to make it seem more difficult. So after all this, the one thing I can contribute to the English staff while they read my comments trying to improve project one, I feel that the project could be made a little more challenging and a lot less repetitive.
ReplyDeleteThough I didn't particularly love project one, I thought there were some useful skills that could be developed from it. I thought it was interesting to compare different news sources and such. I actually thought the annotations were more enjoyable than the paper because it was interesting to just pick out the ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos in the works. I had actually never been exposed to these rhetorical strategies so I deffinately did learn from this assignment. The length of the paper was great too. It didn't seem too overbearing and it was easy to accomplish without feeling like I needed to rush. All in all I felt like project one wasn't that bad. Of course it's still school work so I can't day that I actualy enjoyed it, but it didnt seem insanely tedious either. Not a bad first project.
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you! The fact that we were able to pick our own topics made this project not nearly as dreadful as project one was in ENC 1101. Also that we were allowed to use other sources aside from articles, such as pictures, videos, and political cartoons helped make this project more interesting and appealing to complete. I also agree with you about understand and becoming more aware of the appeals (ethos, pathos, logos, kairos). I felt like the I was so lost during the fall semester when it came to the appeals but after project one of ENC 1102 I feel so much more comfortable and actually have a much better understanding of the appeals.
I actually did not mind this project at all. To me, project one of ENC 1102 was a lot easier than it was in 1101. I think thatis because of a combination of my professor last semester verses this semester, and the fact that I am now more prepared. Plus I like this one better. Last semester, before I jumped into the first project, I had no idea what to expect of my professor's grading, I was nervous, and I had never done an annotated bibliography before. This semester, there really was no annotated bibliography (though I know how to do them now, I don't like them). Writing is not my best subject, but when I do it not completely last minute (which I have been doing good on this semester, not procrastinating), it usually turns out better. The more time I have to sit down and just take notes or outline my ideas on paper before I begin actually writing my paper, the better it flows. I also liked the fact that we were able to pick the topic we did our project on. Being as it was a controversial issue, I would not have liked being given a random controversial topic to research that did not interest me. I did my project on dog fighting and found a lot of interesting sources, and many satirical cartoons that make fun of dog fighters and point out how stupid and pointless the whole thing is. Overall, I think the first project this semester went a lot better than I had originally expected, and a lot better than it did for me last semester.
ReplyDeleteIn my past experience with all of the projects in comp class I have not really had any complaints about any of them. All of them come pretty easy to me. After asking a few questions I get all of my confusions figured out then I get rolling. The only issue that I had with this project is the analysis aspect of this. Yes this is the main part, but it was difficult for me to analyze what I was I was reading, instead of summarizing them. The essay proved to be much more simple than writing the annotations. I looked the annotations somewhat as a try out, and the essay was judging the finalist.
ReplyDeleteWriting is becoming enjoyable for me, especially with the help of Mr. Breckenridge. He seems to be a pretty good prof when it comes to writing, and always has a spare minute to talk about the questions I have for him. The next projects that we having coming don’t worry me to much. It seems to be pretty normal that when I hear about projects I get worried but after the next class and the re-hashing everything becomes clear to me.
One issue that I did find with the formatting of the project is the necessity of the 4 different sources, or at least 3 different sources. It is sometimes very hard to find a legit source about what the argument is. I’m sure with time though, my research skills will be honed and it will not prove to be much of a problem at all
Project one was as dreadful as I expected it to be. It was not until I finally sat down to write the paper that I tried to figure out what exactly I was supposed to be doing. It seemed incredibily dumb and I had a lot of difficulty finding sources that I thought would work. It then required deep analyzing which seems to be something this English department is in love with having its students do. It was a double edged sword having to find multiple sources to back up my issue. It was good because if you had difficulty analyzing one particular type of source, you could skip that one and if you were particularly good at analyzing one type of source, that could be the one used twice. However each source required a different way of thinking and it was often a struggle to switch gears and focus on what type of source I was looking at and how all four elements were applied.
ReplyDeleteThe worst part of the entire project was without a doubt the reflective essay. I think it is such a dumb idea to make us pretty much repeat the same essay in a different form and analyze how you originally analyzed it. These projects require more critical thinking than necessary and are definitely not the kind of essays I was expecting to be writing in college. It is nice that the essays we write do not have to be based on boring books but I do not think they are making us into better writers in the end.
I can’t say I had too much of a problem with project one. It wasn’t bad at all since we were able to pick a topic of interest to us, instead of just being assigned something like we were in ENC 1101. I really enjoyed reading through my sources and learning about my subject in particular, especially because one of my citations was a documentary that I found really interesting. I also noticed that I felt more confident about making a rhetorical analysis this time around, whereas last semester I ended up pretty flustered after being assigned the first project. The one thing that I disliked was the essay that related the ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos. For some reason that part was pretty difficult and I didn’t feel that I did as well as I did on the annotations. However, all in all I thought the project was definitely beneficial. Assuming that I got a good grade overall I think I have a pretty good understanding of rhetorically analyzing media after doing it two semesters consecutively. I think this paper laid a good foundation for the projects to come. I’m looking forward to starting the Rogerian argument paper since it sounds like it’ll incorporate some of the rhetorical techniques that I liked using for this project. I’m also looking forward to starting this next project because of the movie choice list that we were given. There were several titles that I was familiar with and interested in writing about.
ReplyDeleteProject one for English composition 1102 was really different than project one last semester in ENC 1101. It was also very different than any other project I have done before and therefore, I did not really know what to expect. Obviously, I knew the project was going to be a challenge but, I didn’t really believe I was going to have any problems. I thought the annotations went well and I found my resources relatively well and quick. It was also nice that we didn’t have to write annotation bibliographies; they were just categorized as annotations. This made me happy when I heard about it. However, I did not like the essay and I found myself reiterating much of what I had said in the annotations. I felt like I wasn’t fully prepared to analyze my annotations and my resources and found that it took me a lot longer to write the essay than the annotations. This was probably because I had a hard time not summarizing my resources or restating what I had said in the annotations. I believe the project would have gone a lot smoother if we did not have to write the essay or the instructions for the essay were clearer. I also found that I was having a harder time writing the essay because we had spent so much time on the annotations and not on the essay and I wasn’t really ready for it. Overall, I think the project went pretty well.
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ReplyDeleteI agree that the project was bad but, I expected it to be worse and therefore was a little relieved by how easy it was to do the annotations. However, I do agree with you when you say that the essay and analyzing our resources was harder and more strenuous. I also agree with you when you say that the essay was the worst part of the whole project and how you don’t understand why we would be repeating ourselves but this time in the form of an essay. I agree with you when you say these are not the type of essays you expected to be writing in college.
Project one wasnt not creative. It was not interesting. It just wasnt. I already knew what Ethos, Pathos, Logos, and Kairos was so i did not learn anything new. I hope that the other to projects remaining are not as boring as this one. On a lighter note, it was not complicated and thats what really matters. I hope that i got a good grade on it and i like the fact that i still have a chance to improve my grade by showing a draft 3 to Mr Breckenridge. I tend to use that opportunity to make project 1 a solid A or B grade. I disliked the idea of choosing 4 sources about the same thing. I didnt see the point in that since what the sources where talking about was not what was important. What was important was their use of the four appeals. The essay instructions were not as clear as i wished they had been and overall i rate this project as the worst peace of crap ive had to do so far for my composition classes. On a better note, projects can only get better from this moment on, because i dont think there is anything that can be considered worse than Project 1.
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ReplyDeleteI respect your opinion as another student who completed the project but aren’t you being a tad harsh? So you knew what the four appeals were, did you ever evaluate an argument based on those four appeals? Also, the four choices were about the same general subject; each source would be a different argument, perspective, etc… and that is how you could get the variety. Final note, on the essay there was a sample on the website with concise instructions on what to do. They might not have been too clear but they gave you a prompt and that is all a writer needs. I don’t mean to knock you but at the very least you could not make your critique reflect your college status. But now I’m being too harsh, project one was not without its flaws that’s for certain.
@lbass
ReplyDeleteI also liked the fact that we had to find a different type of source for each annotation, and I was indifferent towards the first part of the project. It was very similar to Project One from fall, and kairos made you think about what was happening when the article, video, or political cartoon was released. I didn’t think that the reflection paper was completely useless because we were forced to further investigate how the author uses ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos in various arguments. The annotated bibliographies were basically shortened summaries of what the rogerian argument paper would look like.
@ arocha:
ReplyDeleteI didn’t think project one this semester was too bad either. In the fall, project one was my first writing for a college course (aside from AP in high school) and I really had no idea how to expect the professor to grade, not to mention I also had never done an annotated bibliography before. I liked the fact that this time around we actually got to pick our topics and do it on something that actually interest us and pick our own sources rather than on random sources from our books like last time. Overall, I also think I’m going to like Comp. II a lot better than Comp. I as well.
@Jalasmar
ReplyDeleteI’d have to agree with you when you say this project was easy. I thought it was really simple to just brainstorm how these articles gave influence by means of ethos, logos, pathos, and kairos. I also thought the essay was pretty straight forward too because it was just an elaboration of two of your citations. I think everyone can agree with you about the annotations being the easiest part; after taking Comp. 1 only being asked was 250 words for an annotation was not too difficult at all. Maybe we’re all being a little too confident though, since we haven’t gotten those grades yet after all.
@sebastian
ReplyDeleteI think you summed up my similar opinions in a very effective way. Going into the project I did not know what pathos, logos, ethos or kairos were so for me that was a learning experience but I agree that I did not get anything out of the project like it was expected of us. I also had some difficulty with the directions and if it was not for our first drafts getting written all over, I would have had no idea how to improve for the second draft. I hope the projects get better too because if they don’t it will be a long semester.
@sabrinasmith
ReplyDeleteI totally agree that the project was much more interesting because we got to pick our own topics. I usually enjoy having a narrow list of topics to choose from for projects, but this time it was nice to have the freedom to choose my own. It was also cool to get to dissect news media other than articles. The political cartoon was definitely my favorite one. I also agree that I gained a much better understanding of ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos. I hadn't been exposed to them very much before this project. All in all I think this was a pretty decent project 1.
@ arocha
ReplyDeleteMy view of project one in the fall semester was also very different from project one in the spring semester, because of the fact that I also never completed an annotated bibliography before coming to USF. Just like you, I think that being able to use other types of sources such as videos, pictures, etc., was an advantage on our part, and made the project a lot more diverse. It seems that the one thing we, as a class, did all not like was the reflective essay at the end. I think most of us can say that we felt that the essay was too repetitive and didn’t inform its audience with a lot of new material like it should have.
@J_Sonderegger
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for making this 100 word response an easy one. Now i have something to write about. I dont think im being harsh. Im just giving my honest opinion. Its not like im hurting anyone's feelings. Mr B made it pretty clear that its important for us to be honest so that they can improve the project for future classes, and like you said, project 1 has its flaws so why not be cruel in the critique? Its not like im gonna hurt the project's feelings lol the answer to your question is yes, i have evaluated an argument based on the four appeals. I dont like doing it, it stinks in my opinion. About the website instructions, you said it yourself, the instructions were not so clear,, in my opinion, that is enough to complain about the project so that the department can perfect it. But let me stop there. This is more than 100 words now. Over and Out.
@Sebastian:
ReplyDeleteI sort of agree with you. Project one really was boring to me and I didn’t really learn anything new either. I didn’t know what kairos was before but it felt like the concept was a pretty easy one to grasp. But I did enjoy its simplicity, though that isn’t all that matters. I would’ve been much more enjoyable if the project wasn’t so boring, repetitive, and dumbed downed. I’m also striving for that higher grade; I try to lock in an A. The choosing 4 sources thing was a little pointless to me too, but whoa you really over reacted. Wow “the worst piece of crap”? That’s a bit much. I mean it could’ve been a lot worse. But hey that’s how you feel I guess.
@elliot321
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about liking being able to pick our own topics for this project instead of being assigned a topic, like in ENC 1101. I too felt more confident about doing the rhetorical analysis for this project, where last semester project one was very stressful for me. I also did not like the essay we had to do, and I felt like I did worse on it than the actual annotations, it seemed like I was just repeating myself, so I’m a little worried about how that is going to turn out. The project has definitely helped me with understanding analyzing media, and I think like you said, it has laid a good foundation for projects to come. Good luck with your Rogerian argument!