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Review Questions:
1. One main difference between library subscription databases and the world wide web is that you must obtain a password from the library in order to search for an article. Also, things in a library database service are more reliable and real than things found on the world wide web. Anyone can create a page on the internet and write whatever they want about the topic. Also, inside a library database, you can get anything from an internet page, to a newspaper article, to a journal article that has been written about the topic you are researching.

2. A bibliography is the alphabetically arranged list of evaluated sources you have decided are credible, related to your issue, and potentionally valuable to your research. An annotated bibliogprahy helps you visualize your sources, their basic content, and your reactions to them as a unit of information, gathered together in one place. Annotations can be added in the form of summaries and responses.

3. To figure out if your source is credible or not, there are a few questions to look for: Is the source associated with an organization that is recognized in the field? Is the source listed under a reputable domain? Is the source published in a print or online journal that is peer-reviewed? Is the online source duplicated in print? Is the source accessed by a large number of people? Is the source directed mainly to extremists? Is the evidence in the source stacked to reprsent one point of view? Is the source current? Is the source sloppily edited, undocumented, or unreasonable? Is the source moral or immoral, ethical or unethical according to your values?

4. You should create a research plan to make your research as efficient as possible. Most of your time should be directed reading that will fill in specific parts of your paper. You should first, write out what you already know about the topic and what you want to learn. Then, you should write a claim plus reasons. Make a statement that you want to prove. Then make a list of words associated with your issue that will help you locate sources. Then, think about what you have learned about your audience and write out what your audience needs as a background. Then list the types of materials you plan on using.

5.Plagiarism is when the writer purposely uses someone elses language, ideas, or other original material without acknowledging its source. To avoid it, you can take your own notes, but make sure you get the author of who wrote the source you are using. Also, try to use more of your own idea in your research.

My Post Secret

The reason I made my post secret about my shopping addiction is because when I thought about a secret I had, it was the fist thing that came into my head. I absolutely LOVE to shop, and I would do it every single day if I had the time and the money. People definitely know this secret about me too once they see my closet and shoe collection, but I don't think people would necessarily know just by looking at me. I don't really have any deep/dark secrets that I felt the need to confess, but I liked the one i chose. I went through a few magazines I had in my room and found things that I usually love shopping for, and made my post secret card from there.

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In the second MAC advertisement, MAC 1994 their main claim/argument is that MAC is better than windows. The man in the video goes on to tell why MAC is better and how you would be better off with a MAC than a pc. Their target audience, I would say are people business people, or people who are on the computers a lot. More than likely, they arent aiming at college students, because most college students have laptops and buy for price, not quality. Business people/professionals care a lot about the computer they are buying and which one will work better. You can tell the commercial/advertisement is old, because it is very boring and plain. Commercials now aim to grab peoples attentions more. You can also tell how old it is from the looks of the computers, and the fact that most people these days are buying laptops, not big Pcs.

In the third MAC advertisement, the MAC love one, they used a slightly different approach than the first one did. In the first one, they talked about windows, and how MAC is better than windows, but in the MAC love one, they didn't talk about any other computers besides MAC. They said that the virus could not replicate itself on the macintosh operating system. But they got their point across without saying how bad another computer system is. You can also tell that the advertisement is newer and more up-to date just from the coloring how the commerical itself is set up.

Post Secret Card Blog

This image from Post Secret really stood out to me. The text written on the card is very clear and can easily be understood by the reader. Most likely a girl, was molested by a man, maybe a football player, but she wants the guy to know that he didn't break her, and that she is doing ok, she won. Girls are usually mollested way more than men are mollested, which makes me believe a female wrote this. Also, she wrote it on a picture of a male football player. I think she could have been hinting that a football player was the one that mollested her. She also wrote I WON in all caps and really big so that it stood out very easily after reading her other words, and also wrote it in a color that can easily be seen. I think her audience could be other females. I think she wants other females to see that if she wasnt broken, and she won, that other females can do the same thing. I also think she wants the male who did it, and other males to read it so they know that what they did did not affect her, and that she is now doing ok.

Good Advertisement

The advertisements that Stetson Cologne has created really draw my attention. <http://www.stetsoncologne.com/>. Their new ads are all done by New England quarterback, Tom Brady. Personally, I think the star is very hot, which immediately makes me look at Stetson Cologne. I think the audience is male and females. Using Tom Brady as their model, males may want to buy the cologne to use in hopes that they can look like Tom Brady. Women would want to buy the cologne for their boyfriend in hopes that they will look like Tom Brady.
I think that the claim is clearly stated in the advertisement as well. They used a good looking and talented man to advertise a product, which draws in the eyes of both males and females.

Visual vs. Written Arguments

Visual argments are different from written arguments because you can very easily get a mental image of the argument through a picture, as where reading it can take some time to understand the argument. You may be able to better relate to a visual argument than a written argument as well. Visual arguments can bring out emotions and feelings to the reader, instead of having to read an article that could be boring. Seeing the image of an argument can also be more convincing because then you know that it is truly a real argument.

Free-Write

The reason I liked "If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know?" was because the title caught my attention and made me want to read it. A boring title can immediately ruin an article for me. The write chose very good examples that also kept me interested throughout the article. His examples made me realize how unfair and unreasonable the website criminalsearches.com can be. I also really liked the way that he ended his article, about how its easy for the creators of the site to say it will make everyone safer because according to the site, they are both clean. I thought the way he ended it was very good, he ended it in a very serious, yet humerous way.


Essay Author and Title:
If You Run A Red Light, Will Everyone Know? by Brad Stone

Central Argument of the Essay:(p.349) That someone's privacy is no longer private because of this site.

My Central Claim about the nature/effectiveness of the argument in the essay: The logos, ethos and pathos of this article fit very well together. And the argument itself is an effective argument because it causes controversy among different people.

This is how the author mnipulated the rhetorical appeals:

The logos appeal: I immediately realized the logical proof behind his argument and what the argument was about. I also found the plot of the argument, which is about privacy beind exposed on the internet.

The ethos appeal: Quotes in the argument that that grab our attention and keep us interested

The pathos appeal: Grab the readers attention by using feelings of other people throughout the article. He uses people who are on the site for stupid reasons for the emotional factor in the article.

My conclusion about the nature/effectiveness of the argument in the essay: His feelings towards the argument were written out very well and I thought it was very effective.

Rhetorical Analysis Responses

"If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know?"
The author of this article, Brad Stone, is arguing that it's not really fare to have everything about your criminal record posted on the internet. Yes, I would want to know if an ex rapist moved in next door to me, but to have a speeding ticket listed as a criminal offense is ridiculous. Jobs used to do background searches on future employees before hiring them, and now anyone can log onto www.criminalsearches.com and all their records are out in the open. I think the website is a little to much. I actually looked up a friend of mine who was charged with a dui and man slaughter a few years ago, and it has him listed as a violent criminal. So as for the title goes, yes, if you run a red light and get a traffic ticket, everyone can know.

"The Chicken Soup Chronicles"
This article is a very different article about a casual argument. The author, Nora Ephron is not really arguing about anything important in life, but just random things. She talks about breastfeeding causing allergies, chicken soup causing a cold, computers being responsible for the decline of movies, that reading about hand washing leads to memory loss, and that google will mean the end of conversation as we know it. The author really just rambles on about pointless things that are on her mind. I sort of agree with the google one though, because like she says, when google is right there and you can look up the answer in seconds, whats the point in standing around talking about the question with people? The other things she writes about really make no sense, and even though they are an argument, they are only casual arguments.

There are many different types of arguments in the articles in chaper 10. There are definitional arguments, evaluative arguments, casual arguments, policy arguments, and humorous arguments. I really never knew there were so many different types of arguments.