Stephen Johnson article “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” argues “Of course, the entertainment industry isn’t increasing the cognitive complexity of its products for charitable reasons. The Sleeper Curve exists because there’s money to be made by making culture smarter.” The Sleeper Curve is something they define as a more complex, critical thinking way of making [...]
Archive for September, 2007
SWA 6
Posted in Short Writing Assignments on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
SWA 5- Alvarado Essay
Posted in Short Writing Assignments on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Alvarado believes that changing your hair color will not change your ethnicity or who you are. Even though you dye your hair, it doesn’t change who you are inside. It also doesn’t change your background. Alvarado also believes that people aren’t changing their hair color or eye color to hide who they are. Dying your [...]
SWA 5- Immigration Problem
Posted in Short Writing Assignments on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The United States has a problem with immigration. I believe that we are allowing immigrants to live here too easily. We are paying taxes for these people to get medical care and other types of care when not all Americans can get medical care. If we have illegal immigrants here, they do not have [...]
Rhetorical Analysis Draft #1
Posted in Rhetorical Analysis on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Kelsey Marti
Rhetorical Analysis, Draft 1
Professor Blackman
English 101, Section033
16 September 2007
Rhetorical Analysis Draft
In this article “Bigotry That Hurts Our Military” by Alan K. Simpson, he argues that permitting homosexuals to serve openly would enhance the quality of the armed forces and fill “critical fields” needed to win the war. He believes the “don’t ask, don’t [...]
Reading using TRACE
Posted in Short Writing Assignments on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Before you read:
When I drive I do listen to the radio. I mostly listen the pop or country stations. I don’t listen to any of the talk shows but mostly the music stations. In my town those stations are 95.5 and 96.7 FM. I like listening to radio stations because it keep me [...]
Consensual Argument Style- SWA 3
Posted in Short Writing Assignments on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My personal argument style tends to be consensual. I’m the type of person who has a very distinct view but is willing to listen and change my view depending on the oppositional statements and evidence. I agree with the statement that I would be most like a professor conducting a class discussion to help students [...]
