Proposal Questions

What makes you think that this event will get students involved?
Will there be enough funds to support your event?
How long will this event last?
Can people outside of NOVA attend the event? If so will there be a fee?
Or is it free to the public?

Lorraine
Brooke
Shaun

Journal 10

Rhetoric and Composition- Do students use their own experiences to write papers?

English Education- Is using modern criteria more intriguing for students?

Cultural Studies- Is knowing your history a benefit?

Discourse Analysis- Can google be the best way to find information?

Topics I Could Research and Write on

1. How to get students into literature
2. How is music related to writing
3. Does marijuana make you creative?

Journal 9

What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides her work)?
The writer is trying to find the resistance, contradictions, and conflicts in writing to reveal the ways that motivation and individual identity can shape the writing that participants do. She uses the question; “What might studying writers’ self-representations of that process reveal to us in terms of genres and activity systems?”

How does this author collect the data she needs to answer her question?
To examine self-representation across the genres of an activity system, Powell studied the wide range of genre systems at a small, private, Catholic-affiliated college, using the college as a whole as the unit of analysis.

What sort of genres do you see your peers using as forms of “self-representation”? Whenever conflict or tension arises within an activity system, genres serve as coping tools. Powell states “In the same way that genre functions as a tool for mediating the goals of participants within an activity system, self-representation functions as a “sub-tool”, that is, a tool operating within the tool of genre, for mediating the discourses of identity and the discourses of power”.

Research 1

STUDENT AND COURSE INFO : Student name : Lorraine Pena Email Address : lpena@nova.eduInstructor : Professor MasonTopic : Health : RESOURCE ONE : Database used : ForbesTitle of periodical or book : STDTitle of article : Top Celebrity Health FearsAuthor : Louis HauFull text available : yesBibliography : noCitation from bibliography : : RESOURCE TWO : Database used : The New York TimesTitle of periodical or book : HealthTitle of article : A Birth Control Pill That Promised Too Much Author : Natasha SingerFull text available : yesBibliography : noCitation from bibliography : : RESOURCE THREE : Database used : GoogleTitle of periodical or book : Rolling StoneTitle of article : Battery CaseAuthor : UnknownFull text available : noBibliography : noCitation from bibliography : : END OF FORM : :

Journal 8

1. What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides his work)? The writer is trying to understand as well as appreciate the music of Rock’n’roll and how each individual rock star tries to show their authenticity.
2. What sort of texts or sources does the author quote from to build his argument? He uses examples of different rock star situations as well as interviews different celebrities to learn why they act the way they do when they perform.
3. In what ways do you see others around you attempting to establish their “authenticity”?
I feel others do many things to try to prove that they are authentic and/or original by being unique in the way that they dress, with piercings in unique areas or even the way that they speak. I believe that there are two distinct types of people and that’s one who tries to be unique by being extremely deviant or a person that tries to be over the top.

Journal 7

What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides their work)?
The writer is trying to find out the processes used by editors as they perform their work and to grasp the modifications made to texts. Questions mentioned in the text; 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?

What is the research methodology of this article (how do they collect their information, and how do they analyze the information they collect)?
They outlined their methods before the actual research began. Creating questions as well as choosing who the professional editors that can answer these questions is the first step. They collected their information through dividing the editors into 2 categories to determine whether their behavior varied with their experience.
How does professional editing differ from how students revise their own work?

For professionals, revision is not a habitual process, often the editor must reflect to understand the meaning of a passage or reread the passage more than once just like a student would need to. However, to perform detection and correction automatically experience in certain aspects of the revision is needed to make it a part of your lifestyle. Students on the other hand haven’t gained as much experience in revision to actually be as accurate.

Journal 6

What does Bitzer not mean by “rhetorical situation”? In other words, how does his view differ from past views that readers might compare to his?
Bitzer does not mean ignoring who you are or what you feel, what your way of life has been, and overlook who your spectators are in your writing. He does not want you to lose focus when you are writing and what is the reason you are even writing anything at all. He wants you to shun writing without purpose and to write as if you can make a genuine difference.

What does Bitzer mean by “rhetorical situation”?
What Bitzer means by “rhetorical situation is to acknowledge a viewpoint that is a commonplace but fundamental. It is a mode of altering reality by the creation of discourse which changes reality through the mediation of thought and action.

Explain what “exigence” is. Give your own example of an exigence someone could respond to in writing.
Exigence is what the person is trying to prove or somehow interpret in their writing. For example; persuading one to change a certain belief.