In fact, illogical thinking and the misuse of evidence may lead an audience to draw conclusions not only about the person making the argument but also about the logic of an argument.
Never really thought about this but it is true, reading some of my classmates writing made me think like this, some were badly expressed and made me second guess the entire argument even though i agreed with them.
Some of the questions you can ask yourself as you evaluate an author’s ethos may include the following:
Again, I should have read this sooner but looking at this and answering them with my paper as an example makes me a little more confident. I believe I have done an alright job on my writing.
A good speaker or writer leads the audience to feel comfortable with her knowledge of a topic. The audience sees her as someone worth listening to—a clear or insightful thinker, or at least someone who is well-informed and genuinely interested in the topic.
I wish I would have read this before i began writing my paper because this makes me have a little self doubt. Like I could have done better on it.
You are asking yourself what elements of the essay or speech would cause an audience to feel that the author is (or is not) trustworthy and credible.
Doing my argument paper has really helped me look at every fact that I am throwing out into my writing. Like if i was on the opponent side, what could I do or say to make this writing less plausible. Forcing me to get good and trustworthy sources to state my case.
As a communicator yourself, you will benefit from being able to see how others rely upon ethos, logos, and pathos so that you can apply what you learn from your observations to your own speaking and writing.
Applying these to my own writing and/ or speaking would organize my thoughts more and could make me seem more professional.
As a reader and a listener, it is fundamental that you be able to recognize how writers and speakers depend upon ethos, logos, and pathos in their efforts to communicate.
I have never really thought about all the different ways or methods writers would organized their thoughts and ideas down. It is really fascination how acknowledging it makes the reading so different.
to keep an audience engaged, a writer needs to explain what he or she is responding to
I do not care who you are, everyone likes to hear an argument, whether it is a debate or two people about to fight in the street. The point is you want to hear both sides of the story. Prove to me why you are right in this argument. The audience will be more engaged if you show the other side of the argument and then prove to them why they are wrong.
Because our speaker failed to mention what others had said about Dr. X’s work, he left his audience unsure about why he felt the need to say what he was saying.
This is something I want to be extremely careful with in my writings. I do not want to leave my audience, or the reader, having any doubt on my writing.
Dr. X’s work was very important—was clear enough, but why did the speaker need to make it in the first place?
I think this is a very good question. Basically what was the point of Dr.X to write this argument or to have even think about this argument? If he did not make it clear then how was the reader suppose to know what the point is. The thesis is very important to every writing. If there is no thesis the writing will nor really have anything to talk about, or opposite, the author will have too much to talk about.
“They Say”: Starting with What Others Are Saying
I have not read the article yet but the message or statement that I am getting here is to listen to what other people have to say so you know how to respond.
I have to cite and document my sources.
When I first started doing a research paper I thought it would be easy. I thought the most difficult part for me would be the actual writing of it and not the citing of the work. Little did I know, that I know how to analyze my thoughts better than I used to. And I had no problem writing all of my thoughts down, the big problem was researching other peoples ideas and fitting them into my ideas. Not only that but then citing them too. The whole process was very stressful and not my best work.
Congratulations on getting started early!
Getting started early can give you a leg up on your work. This could give you room to let all your creative juices spill, and have time to get them all organized and put into perfect place. This may also give you time to ask question and get help if you need it. It will also give you time to maybe ask your professor what you can do better at, or give you feedback.
Who else might be interested in this?
This is a question us students can ask ourselves to steer us on where to look for our research papers.
What’s been most interesting so far?
This is a key way to think about how you are going to write a research paper. Eliminate the huge chunks that were not interesting to you.
I’m amazed at how much water pollution there is. It seems like it would be healthier to drink bottled water, but the plastic bottles hurt the environment.
This topic really gets me upset. There are so many people in the world that do not care about the earth. This is a huge issue that everyone seems to ignore.
I remember feeling relieved that my generation had the luxury of marrying later.
This is something I am so grateful for. I am so glad that my generation does not have the pressure of having to marry young. The later the better. Most people do not even know who they are in their early twenties. How could they love someone else for the rest of their life if they do not love themselves?
But doing something later is not necessarily the same as doing something better
So regardless of how long you wait, you can still choose the wrong person.
Pundits
Pundits- an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public.
moratorium
moratorium-a temporary prohibition of an activity.
So while we hear a lot about twentysomethings who just want to have fun before marriage, many are also waiting to commit in hopes of being luckier in love than their parents were.
yo, why are you attacking me so much?
cultural commentator
Cultural Commentator- A broad category for artworks that comment on various aspects of contemporary culture, often quite critically, as in works that focus on the misdeeds of political figures, the imperial actions of governments, or global economic inequalities.
Marriage is one of our most defining moments because so much is wrapped up in it. If building a career is like spending twelve hours at the blackjack table—seeing the cards as you make your decisions, playing each hand with current winnings in mind, having a new opportunity to take a chance or play it safe with every card dealt—then choosing a mate is like walking over to the roulette wheel and putting all your chips on red 32. With one decision you choose your partner in all adult things. Money, work, lifestyle, family, health, leisure, retirement, and even death become a three-legged race. Almost every aspect of your life will be intertwined with almost every aspect of your partner’s life. And let’s face it, if things don’t work out, a marriage cannot just be left off a résumé like a failed job. Even as a divorced couple, you may be forever tied, financially and logistically, as you pay for schools and meet every other weekend in the driveway to exchange the kids.
MY BIGGEST FEAR
Yet there are no courses on how to choose a spouse
Honestly why isn't there a course? Maybe not an actual course for choosing "the love of your life" but maybe a common sense course? So, maybe everyone could have that and they could focus on the bigger picture of life.
“Love”
Overrated.
We seem to believe that relationships are completely out of our control.
I am shook. It is crazy to me how this is so accurate this is. I never really found it embarrassing or shameful to talk about marriage, but I have noticed that many of my friends are.
obsessed with avoiding commitment
Same. You're a snitch if one of y'all shows my gf. Jk she's sitting right next to me. Lol
Brooks aptly observed that we have to go downmarket, to talk shows or reality shows, to hear marriage discussed at all.
Never really noticed this. Sad to say it's true.
fetishize
Fetishize- make (something) the object of a sexual fetish
She said she finally felt like she was living her life “in real time.”
Most times people go about life living in their past, or worrying about the future. They either focus on their trauma's, and can never get past it. Or they never give a thought about today and stress about tomorrow.
What is worse are the tears shed by thirtysomethings and fortysomethings because they are now paying a steep price—professionally, romantically, economically, reproductively—for a lack of vision in their twenties.
This statement scares me.The pressure of my twenties and determining my choices that will effect the rest of my life. This is why I plan to study different subjects to not regret anything.
So far, Kate had spent her own twenties trying to make up for what her parents missed.
Same.I'm scared that I will waist my twenties trying to make up what my mom never did. Whether it's furthering my education or not having kids. I believe every kid that has immigrant parents feels this way.
she still did not have a driver’s license, despite the fact that this limited her employment opportunities and made her feel like a passenger in her own life.
Literally all of friends. Life is passing them by. Getting your drivers license is the best part of a young adults life.
fore
Fore- situated or placed in front
stimulation
Stimulation- encouragement of something to make it develop or become more active
invariably
Invariably- in every case or on every occasion; always.
there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you
I was literally thinking of this today. I find it hard to believe that I am a freshman in college. It feels like I blinked and 7 years past me by. Elementary was the last time I remember feeling normal.
perfectionism will ruin your writing
“Don’t make perfect the enemy of the good.” Making your writing “perfect” will just make you over think things and make you doubt yourself. You should always go with your gut feeling. Perfecting it will take any type of connection you had with the reader.
I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die.
We have to stop trying to play it safe and get out of our comfort zone. We will never see what’s new if we continue to do the same thing over and over again.
rational
Rational is based on or in accordance with reason or logic.
anxiety
Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
nanosecond
one billionth of a second
“It’s not like you don’t have a choice, because you do — you can either type, or kill yourself.”
Me in every single English class.
bounding
Bounding definition is walk or run with leaping strides.
shitty
Shitty definition is contemptible; worthless or unpleasant; awful.
We will begin to see the rich garden we have inside us and use that for writing.
Our minds are libraries. Each book is a different subject. Each chapter is a different moment. We can only write about a finished, published book from our library.
it is hard to write about being in love in the midst of a mad love affair. We have no perspective. All we can say is, “I’m madly in love,” over and over again.
How can you write about something you are still going through? You can not. You’re still blinded in some areas. It is not until you fully move past that, that you can see the full picture
Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories.
Our entire experience is created from these little moments we have. We have to process everything first to see the bigger picture.
the longings and dynamics and anxieties are so similar.
The struggles of both of them are alike
And twenty-five years later a little boy cries, and so I write these words and try to heal and try to father myself.
it does not matter what a person says, we need a father figure in our life, even if your mom gets with someone else you will not except that love from that person, so you will have to grow up teaching yourself the ways of being good, being an adult, being the person you wish your father was.
Papa, come home because I decided a while back I wanted to be just like you, but I’m forgetting who you are.
As a child we still have hope for our absent father, we make up a perfect image of him off of what little that we remember of him, then when we are adults we realize that these memories weren't the whole truth.
With the power to change this world. One little boy and girl at a time. Knock knock. Who’s there? We are.
regardless of the struggles of an absent father we can still choose not to be the same, we as adults can do better for ourselves and for the people around us.
For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing.
their choices do not define us
Daniel Beatty
You NEED to watch him perform it here:
Father, I love you, yet how can I say thank you, I who can’t hold my liquor either, and don’t even know the places to fish?
he idolized this picture perfect photo of his dad but things were not like that in the sons childhood
The woman, the one my father knows, is not here.
She is acting different
My mother will get very mad. Her face will turn red and she will throw one shoe. My father will say nothing. After a while everyone will forget it. Years and years will pass. My mother will stop mentioning it.
does this mean the mother is being abusive?
smooth anything: butter on bread, cool sheets or weather. It’s the wonder of them, good or bad,
Your mother can do anything for you
Some PhD toten Poetry writing Portrait painting “I’ll see you in court” World traveling Stand back, I’m creating Type of queens
being raised by a strong woman has empowered her
“Girl, lay back and let me scratch yo head”
this is them showing that they appreciate the little things that this strong woman does for her