Blog 4

I am doing my CRAAP test for the first cite i used on my paper

Currency: The dates given on the website are 2007-2014. This really wasn't important for my research topic because my topic does not require any up to date information, just information in general.

Relevance: The information on this site does answer my questions. I found some information that was useful to me when I was writing my paper. I feel like the intended audience is people who have questions about the topic maybe for caregivers. I would use this website for research.

Authority: The URL ends with ".com" which isn't the preferred type of site but I found the information to by great.

Accuracy: The information on this site is copy righted by the company. From what I already knew about the topic I can match their information.

Purpose: This site was informative. I feel like its true purpose is to give true factual information.

Blog 3 (Ethos)

My final copy of Paper One has some representation, in one form or another, of ethos, logos and pathos altogether. However, I think that ethos is displayed best of the three.

My paper is best related to ethos because I believe that I have ample credibility to be able to convincingly state an argument on behalf of Doctor Who. I have been watching the show for a long enough time to "understand... what the Doctor is saying or of what in the wide, wide world is going on."(Niemann 2) in each episode. 

Ethos

In my essay I used ethos. I included real life examples from my life to help explain the point I was trying to make. "For example, I know a girl who has Bi Ploar Disorder, she will go from happy to crying in no time at all..." This is ethos because I took a real like situation and I applied it to my writing to help me earify my point. The example wasn't about me but because I had associated with the girl I was able to use it as ethos as an experience.

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Currency: 
Basically, the only online source that I used was but one. throughout the entire paper, I have drawn from personal experiences. Besides, with a topic like the one I used, there wasn't much to research anyway. On the other hand, I did research two thing. In the paper, I talk a bit about a particular dance known as the Cha Cha, and found an example of modern type music you can dance the Cha Cha to. The questions I looked up: 1) what type of dance is it? and two 2) what are some modern songs with the correct beat for that particular dance? 


Relevance:
As I said before, I did a bit of research for two particular questions. The reason for the two questions is that I used them as an example, further detail, and information to the reader.


Purpose:
The purpose of this was certainly to inform, to add detail, that even though this particular dance (The Cha Cha) was introduce around 1959, there's still music out there, modern music, to dance to.

Blog 3

I used the fact that while there are some bad athletes out there who use drugs or party iresponsibly, there ae far to many pro athletes in the world who dont do those things to catagorize that most ahletes in the world are on seroids, are iresponsible, etc. I even said in my paper that i to have been through a point in out lives when we made a mistake hat we probably shouldnt have made, so why do we look down on athletes when they get in trouble? I believe that was an example of pathos, as it asks you to look at yourself before you judge others.

CRAAP test

Relevance:The information from my outside source does relate to my topic and it answers a question. The quote from my source talks about cheerleading which is relevant to my paper about cheerleaders, and the quote answers the question of what does it really take to be a cheerleader.
The intended audience are the students and teacher who will be reading my paper assuming that they have very limited knowledge of cheerleaders and cheerleading. The information is appropriate for my paper. The language and sentence structure match the needs of my paper. I did look at several different source before choosing the right one for my paper. i was very comfortable citing this source in my research paper.

Authority: The article I borrowed the quote from was sponsored and published by the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Adminstrators. The association that published this article is very credible. They are a big association that has a lot to do with cheerleading in America, so they have knowledge of cheerleading a dn cheerleaders. There is contact information for the Association that is presenting the article.

Purpose: The purpose of this information is to inform readers on whether cheerleading is a sport or not. The sponors do make the purpose of the article very clear. A portion of the article is factual information and some of the article is based on the opinion of the association. The point of view does not seem objective or impartial at all. The opinion is based on feedback from other people. The opinion is not a personal biased but rather the opinion of a general group of people.

The persona I attempted creating for my essay on Misconceptions About Ballroom Dancing, was drawn from my own personal experiences. I haven't been in the 'dancing business' for very long, maybe about two and a half years. But in that short amount of time, I have come to find it is a very fun sport, if you will. By creating this paper, I wish it to open individuals eyes on the wonderful idea of ballroom dancing. All it takes, essentially, is for one person to announce an untruthful thing and persuade the minds on many. With this essay, I had hoped to reverse that.

Persona of Paper 1

The persona that I created for my paper was myself. I did not stretch so far as imagining a  different narrator or persona. I often used first person throughout my paper which implies that I was the persona for my own paper. I used a lot of my own personal experiences from cheerleading to talk to my audience. Using myself as the persona for my paper strenghtened my paper because I am a cheerleader. I have knowledge of what is true in false in the world of cheerleading therefore my persona was appropriate for my paper.

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Currency
 I used LeBron James's  essay he wrote for sports illustrated when he announced his return to Cleveland, which happens to be a fairly current event. so it fits perfectlly with the point that I was trying to make; that athletes dont always forget where they came from.

Relevance
This point was relevant because it allowed me t get the point across that not all athletes forget who they are. The perfect point was lebron because of his previous betrayal of cleveland and is now in the midst of his triumphant return.

Purpose
The purpose of the citation was to get the words of the person himself into the paper. It really tied into what i was trying to say, and the quote was perfect. It gave my point that not all athletes forget where they came from and made it relevant. That is why i used that quote.

Blog 3 - Ethos

In the first paragraph of essay 2, I have an example of Ethos. I shared in my essay, "From my personal experience, however, I can assure you that cheerleaders are more than a pretty face and a loud voice. Cheer leading is a sport." This quotation is an example of ethos because I use my personal experience as a cheerleader to make an argument against a misconception about cheerleaders. I am a cheer leader therefore i have knowledge of the subject which is cheer leading.

Blog 3 about paper one

I used the large numbers of gamers currently and in the past to show that "'gamers' is too large of a group to fit into other groups, like 'nerds'". This is because with millions and millions of people playing games every day, all of them cannot be nerdy. If all of these people were nerds, "nerd" wouldn't mean anything, because these people are all different in many ways. This appeals to logos.

Blog 4, CRAAP test for Paper 1

Currency: The Steam User records are updated every ~5 minutes. The Guinness Book of World Records is from 2008, but the source is about the number sold; Atari 2600s haven't been produced in decades. The one link is functional.

Relevance: They are both about the number of people that play/played video games. The numbers were used to prove that many people play/played them regularly, which would mean that gamers as a group would not fit into other groups. I did look at a variety of other links, including other old consoles' sales, but the Atari 2600 seemed the easiest to use so that the audience could understand.

Authority: Steam is a game distribution service and launching platform, so they would be a reputable source for most things about the games and users on their platform. The Guinness Book of World Records' business is keeping reliable records, so they should be reputable.

Accuracy: The information comes from two reputable sources. It is supported by evidence, as these are records of users and sales, which can be fact-checked against the total number of Steam accounts and how they are active, and Atari 2600 manufacturers. These are stated facts by Steam and Guiness, so the tone is fine.

Purpose: To inform of the number of people who play and/or played games, and to persuade that that number is too large to fit into any one group, like "nerd". If all of these people were nerds, none would be. It would be so common that "nerd" could be a good thing, or at least a normal thing with no negative connotation. The information is fact. The point-of-view is completely impartial, as these are records. 

Paper 1 Persona

For Paper 1, I want my persona, or voice, to come off as a person who knows what they're talking about, in my paper's case: Doctor Who, and also someone who can be trusted to give truthful information. When it comes to such a complicated show, some of the most important things for a fan is to know exactly what is going on in the show, to understand what the Doctor is talking about through his technical language, and to comprehend how the conflict or opposition was eliminated. As a writer concerning this of all topics, I need to know these few things and more to be able to explain to the audience the four misconceptions and my rebuttal to each one of them respectively.

I have been watching Doctor Who since the Christmas of 2013, and have since seen every episode of the new series, so I believe that I have the necessary qualifications to write about the show.

My persona for Paper 1

The persona I am going to create will be that of a gamer. This means that the persona will know a lot about the subject of video games, and will know a lot of games to use as examples. This part shouldn't be hard, because I am a gamer myself. The persona will regularly state facts as evidence. Maybe not much appeal to the emotions of the reader, mainly because the paper is about video games and gamers. I will create the persona from my own opinions, experiences, and memory.

My persona that I want to have as I wrote my paper about people with mental illnesses is one that is truthful and informative. I know a lot about the topic I chose because I find the mind and how it works very interesting. So as far as my writing goes I want it to include a lot of facts and just correct information in general. However it shouldn't be boring. My goal is to write a paper that has facts and information but is aslo fun to read.

Let me start off by saying, I am homeschooled. Typically when I write a paper, I have a day to collect any and all information for my paper, the next day I begin the rough draft. The day after, I continue to go through, re-read, re-word, re-organize etc. when the day comes to to make my final copy, I type it out on the computer, run it through a system that reads my essay back to me, change anything relevant and turn it in. After turning it in, my mom and I review the paper and talk about the judgment she made on the essay.

How I Was Instructed to Write my Essays

I've only graduated my freshman year in high school so far, but even so, my English teacher gave me enough essay assignments that I know what I'm talking about here.

From what I remember(as this was so long ago...), every time an essay would come up, my teacher would usually give the class 2-3 days of planning: the first for brainstorming, the second for a rough draft, and the third for peer revising and editing. The following day, or whenever it happened to come up, we would have to write the final copy—all in the span of one class period(which was in no way unexpected, considering the obvious lack of sympathy of the school district), which gave us all about 40 minutes to rewrite the entire thing as neatly as possible(as this was always stressed).

[Just a little side note... I am loving the layout of this website—plenty of orderly and easily understood icons to choose from at the top of the text box, and this is also compatible with my iPad. All I have to do is open a separate tab with an automatic word counter, and I'm good to go!]

How I wrote all of my research papers for the last two years.

When I had to write a paper on vinegar, I basically searched "vinegar" on Google, and looked at the first couple of pages of results. I used Wikipedia and a couple other websites to gather information to write down. I took all of my notes, numbered them for the order I was going to use them in the paper, and started writing. This was the process for all of my papers on whatever subjects my mom told me to write about.

High School Writing Experience

This past year in my AP World History class, I had to write an essay describing the differences in technology during  World War I and World War II. I had to research all of the different technologies during the two eras, mostly talking about trench warfare and developments in weapons technology. My thesis was probably something along the lines of "There were many different tactics and technologies used during WWI and WWII." as a classic high school thesis seems to go, and I supported my thesis by breaking up the use of trench warfare, advancements in weaponry, the use of air and naval warfare etc. into different paragraphs. Im not entirely sure if I used rhetorical devices, but if I did I didn't use them consciously.

High School Research

In tenth grade I did a research paper over ancient Chinese empires. My thesis consisted of the major empires that lasted the longest and that made the biggest impacts on China. One of the empires was the Byzantine Empire. My paper also included a few empires that lasted for very short amounts of time and that had great negative impacts on China. Within the paper  the ways china was impacted were also included.
While actually doing the research I used a variety of different information sources. These sources were history textbooks, well trusted websites, and informational books from the library. When putting the paper together I used well formed sentences consisting of great descriptive details and well formed facts. I did this to ensure that all the required material was included in the research paper.

Ten Page Paper

This past year for my AP English class, we were required to write a ten page research paper. The topic that I was assigned to write about was immigration laws. In particular, I had to discuss whether the immigration laws of today matched with the Catholic church's teachings on immigration. My argument was that the immigration laws of today do not match the church's teachings. I supported my argument by discussing immigration laws that exist today in America. I then analyzed and compared the laws to the teachings for the church discussed by the Catholic Bishops on immigration. I organized my paper by first picking a specific immigration law to talk about in a paragraph and followed up with a second paragraph on how the law goes against the Church. I most likely used rhetorical devices however at the time I was writing, I was not very aware of it.