Culture, Identity, and Society

Culture Identity and Society are prevalent concepts throughout this class. In order to understand rhetoric is in important to understand the culture that we live in as well as the society that we live in along with the identity of the audience that views the rhetoric. All of the concepts in this course are interrelated. It is imperative to understand all of them to understand one of them. We started this class with an research paper all about rhetoric and things that are seen in our society. We also created a multimedia project that incorporated rhetoric in some way.

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1) our presentation will take the form of a powerpoint with a windows movie maker video.

2)some materials we will use are a video camera to film a few scenes.

3) -Introduction
- Basic Information
-Sources of Pollution
-Marine life impace
-Possible Solutions

At a Glance pg. 174

I liked taking in the paper as a whole and taking in the big picture. It helped with understanding the problems I had with the fluidity of the entire paper. Normally I would have taken the paper in sentence by sentence. I also like reading a hard copy better than on the screen. It is easier to analyze the paper as if I was in the place of the audience instead of actually reading my own paper. I do not like to revise out of order because the paper will not be read out of order.

Multimedia Ideas

Topic Ideas:
Gun Rights
Gay Rights
Abortion
Immigration
Health Care
Stem Cell research

Usefulness:
-To inform the audience about the topic/issue
-To raise awareness about the topic/issue
-To entertain the audience

Questions:
1. Does anyone have expertise in making movies on the computer and adding music etc.?
2. What topic would be the most interesting to research and to present to the audience?

Research Outline

Russ Clark

Research Paper Outline

3 March 2009

Amy Jessee

The Reason Behind Domestic Violence

I. Introduction

A. “Hook”

B. Background Information and some facts

C. Thesis: Domestic violence is a serious violation of human rights which affects the victims’ lives in many aspects of their lives and it occurs in all countries, regardless of race or class of the people involved.

II. The Prominence of Abuse

A. Comparison Between US and other countries

B. Statistics

III. Prevention and Coping

A. Different Organizations

B. Techniques to Avoid situations

C. Techniques to cope

IV. Conclusion

A. Overview

B. Tie everything together

Plagiarism

Starting when a person starts to write essays they are told not to copy each other and then not to plagiarize. It is important to avoid plagiarism because obviously in the simplest terms it is cheating and as students and as a person we have an academic and moral responsibility for our actions. Another obvious reason it is important to not plagiarize is because you could fail or get a zero on the assignment. Deeper than that, plagiarizing devalues the efforts of the original author. It is hard for many people to see things from a different perspective. Would you want someone to turn in your work that you worked hard on? It "cheats yourself" as many people say because you do not learn anything by plagiarizing.

Research Log Template

In my research log I will have:
-Date
-Specific URL with short definition of what was on each site
-Specific quotes and sources
-Author
-Specific search terms used
-Note how helpful each source is
-Summary of the useful information
-Image sources


I will keep my log in Word.