Smurfy

Final Blog

Smurfy — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:51:00 GMT

How do wikis and MS Word's track change tools enable writers to improve drafts? How can schools better prepare students for the collaborative work they will conduct in professional settings? What skills do student readers need to provide helpful feedback?

In the wiki when you make a change it is recorded in the history on the side and if you click show changes it can show you the last thing you edited. I think schools can better prepare students by giving students more times to do blogs. If you are in a professional setting you would be looking for someone to proof read or edit and that will help the writer of better understanding of what the reader would like to see.To provide heplful feedback students need computer skills and grammar to help edit an writers paper. It helps writers alot when they collaborate and see other writers views. It makes the writer think more about their writing. The wiki also helped me organize most of my composition two work. It is a good place for storage for your papers. And give you an easy version of how create your own page. The wiki is tricky at first then once you get a hang of the process and how it works you can always use the wiki site and come back to it. Inside the wiki you can easily upload your documents and pictures. The tracking is neat because you can see how you the writer progress and how far you came from start to finish.This is very helpful to writers that like to blurb stuff out on paper it is an easier process to get to for revision and editing. I will continue to use the wiki in my writing of papers because it helped me organize my papers inside of class without bringing in a hard copy.

7 Painting Blog.....

Smurfy — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:27:00 GMT

I think the seven paintings are very abstract. I think Dan Mccarthy has a thing for dinosaurs and human bones. In all of his paintings he has them in his artwork. In the first painting he has his objects making the shape of a heart but in a very strange view. In the second painting he has all of the parts joined as one it looks as if they are holding hands. Third painting there are dinosaurs by a fire and human bones berried underneath which is kind of strange because how did they start the fire...lol..The fourth painting is drawn so that it looks like both objects in the picture are dressed in sheets like some type of Halloween look. The fifth painting is a little strange to me it has bones in the ground and roots growing out of the the bones. The first thing that popped into my head was in death it brings new life but I guess he had another view on that. The sixth painting is my favorite it shows one Skelton dropping a seed into the ground to bring the other back to life if you will. The seventh and final one shows the two talking to each other or trying to share something it looks like they agree to share the earth together. Dan Mccarthy has some great artwork and I wouldn't mind hanging one of those crazy pictures on my wall and make something up to tell my friends.

Procject blog

Smurfy — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:45:00 GMT

Fot this blog i have found more sources where i found information on racism. The articles gave me a lot of information that i found useful to the project. Racism is everywhere but has gotten better since the old days. One of th e websites that I found was Prison Policy. org

Social Injustice.. In Class

Smurfy — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:47:00 GMT

Society today is faced with many challenges and social injustice one of them. The Definition of

Social Injustice is a concept relating to the perceived unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens. The concept is distinct from those of justice in law, which may or may not be considered moral in practice. Oposition to social injustice is increasingly a platform of emerging political parties.

There are many forms of social injustice. Social injustice is a form of discrimination or racism. I have chosen to write my next paper on racism. Racism goes a long way back it would be easy for me to find something on this. Racism goes on every day just not as bad as it used to be. I have been faced with racism and so has many of my friends it's an on going cycle that needs to be stopped or dealt with. The government has been making laws for those who are being treated with social injustice. That has been a step up from how laws and things used to be.This will be the topic that I will use for my project 3. Just because the simple fact our nation was based on this at one time.It it will be interesting to look up on more information on the topic. To better my knowlegde of society today and local communities surrounding me.The governments push to do away with social injustice are laws that have been inforced with punishment for those who do not follow equal rights laws.

Critique on Rhetorical Strategies On Two Contrasting Arguments

Smurfy — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:54:00 GMT

Critique on Rhetorical Strategies On Two Contrasting Arguments this article was about a Andrea Yates and how she drowned her children. The article was written by E. Alycia Eggers.It was basciacally an explanation of both sides for argument whether Yates should be punished or not for her acts. One side believed she should be punished and the other thought she was mentally ill. It was excellently researched by Eggers......

CommentRhet

Smurfy — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:46:00 GMT

A fellow classmate used the term diasyrmus.......belittles the oponents argument with a rediculus analogy......he used a commercial for his the commercial had a no dogs allowed sign. So in the commercial the guy put it on his head so it would look like dreadlocks......So the term was used accordingly...........

RhetTerm

Smurfy — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:34:00 GMT

malapropism......A humorously misapplied word.............An advertisment i like is Geico........the one with the geico the lizard talkin about an in surance company. The advertisment is for car insurance but it has an funny word apllied with the character....A good peron or example of it is Yogi Berra a baseball player.......he would come up with things like."if you dont know where your going you'll end up somewhere else"

AdverBlog

Smurfy — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:22:00 GMT

Advertisiment use special techniques to capture the readers attention Most of the they will use exciting words to try and persuade someone into buying there product. Advertisiment often uses rhetorical text. The advertisers often repeat what the product is and how and what to use the product for......and the purpose.

Pg....219-268

Smurfy — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:15:00 GMT

Through a brief reading of these pages it is alot of information on social values. Mostly of arguments going on throughout the world. Through these pages it will definately help me in the upcoming project, Especially with how to approach an argument and stay consistant and give examples of both views..........

Project2 Blog

Smurfy — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:04:00 GMT

The Ethical Issue that I chose would be gay adoption. I watch law and order alot nad i saw an episode that really bothered me. It has been a very contraversal subject. It would be an good argument to talk about in my paper because now there are laws from preventing this. People beleive in ethical morals but a loving home is a loving home. Thousands of children live in a gay enviroment Letting gay adoption happen it will put more children in homes and out of adoption agencies,foster homes and the system. That why I am for the cause

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Smurfy — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:26:00 GMT

Technology^3rdPower

Smurfy — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:55:00 GMT

Takeover Threats and Managerial Myopia is the article I found in the database during class.The new article i found follows up on a beleif of an technology takeover, The atricle is called takeover threats and managerial Myopie. I found this article in JSTOR in usf's database.It is an argument of corporate takeovers and how people should try and stop it. In this article it is mostly on stock market and its holders. You can get on it Through JSTOR statitics. The link is below to view article........................

http://www.jstor.org/view/00223808/di951048/95p0005v/1?searchUrl=http%3a//www.jstor.org/search/BasicResults%3fhp%3d25%26si%3d1%26Query%3dtechnology%2btakeover&frame=noframe¤tResult=00223808%2bdi951048%2b95p0005v%2b0%2cBFFF0F&userID=83f7cc4d@usf.edu/01cce4401ec58d10c68c516b0&dpi=3&config=jstor

Project1

Smurfy — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:36:00 GMT

The two articles that I compared where High Tech Heroin and Why I Am Noy Going to Buy a Computer. The cmparing of the two was similiar in both articles didn't like technology. Both the articles go on about how they didn't use technology. In the High Tech Heroin article it talks on corporations are like drug dealers because technology is addictive and they are the dealers. The articles were very similiar they boyh didn't like the use of technology ans try do discourage others for it's use as well. I found it interesting that they think society would be better off without it. I think that society has no way of getting rid of technology because everyone wants to learn more. At this point in time society is totally dependent on technology. If time were to be reversed society would still lokk for better ways to expand to new things.

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Smurfy — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:36:00 GMT

hello im smurfy