understanding writing analysis group in class lab

What we now understand about analyzing writing:
You need to follow certain steps, in order.
You need to know what questions to ask.
You need to know what the point of the analysis is.
How to identify patterns in data and info.
You need to know how to connect to readers.
You need to look at text and see how it supports your claim.
You need to know how authors establish authority .
You need to know what emotions the text appeals to.
You need to know that analysis has to be instructional and informational.

How "Stay Sweet As You Are" fits the criteria: 

The author uses a clear point to establish the topic sentence. He claimed that advertisements aimed at women encourage them to like beauty products that reinforce a male's role in their life.  He identified patterns in his data by analyzing the advertisements. He specifically picked apart ads that used men to reinforce the product. In the soap ad he proved that the soap was showing that women who want to get married need to have clear skin and even if they have wit and grace men wont be attracted to them. He looked at the text in the ads and explained how this supported his claim. He also knew what the emotions in the advertisements were and showed that they were trying to shame women into buying the products. He also is informative in his analysis by sticking to his claim, and using three different ads to prove his point. The essay "Stay Sweet as You Are" definitely fits the criteria to be an analysis essay.

differences between my second and third paper

there were a couple differences between my first and second paper even though both papers were research papers. the first difference is that the 2nd paper i used advertisements and in in the 3rd paper i used articles on websites. another diffrence is the 3rd paper is more of a argumentative paper in the second beaus the second is more of an comparison paper. the last difference I've seen in the papers is in the 2nd paper i talked more one sided while in the 3rd paper i talked about both sides of the argument.

airlines comparison

I compared two websites to figure out which one was the best site to use to go on a vacation. The two sites I used were tripadviser.com and expidia.com. Trip adviser give hotel, restaurant and flight options just like Expidia. But what Expidia has unlike trip adviser is places to rent cars and go on cruises. Also Expidia advertises lots of deals on their site unlike trip adviser so if you were on a budget Expidia would be the best option. They also have many package deals. Expidia also goes more in depth in what kind of hotels you’re looking for such as has a TV or if children are staying in the hotel. But one thing trip adviser dose have is it shows all of the award winning and top hotels around the world this year which Expidia does not have. In conclusion on expidia you can plan your whole trip on it without going to a different web site. On trip adviser you would have to go to many different web sites to plan your trip. I believe Expidia is the better travel site.     

five characteristics of my essay

1. What happened? Who was involved? what happened was i learned too love to read from reading the series of unfortunate events. i always disliked reading until the book was recommended to me in the fourth grade. the people involved in my story were myself my fourth grade teacher mrs langholff, and the school librarian. 

2. When and Where did it happen? this happened in the fourth grade for me when i was ten years old. this happened at sand hill elementary school.

3. What makes the story come alive? this story comes alive when I'm really struggling in school because of my reading. 

4. Who's telling the story? i am telling the story about my younger self. 

5. Why does the story matter? this story matters to me because it shows my struggles and how eventually i over came them.

1st paper rough draft

Jacob Henson

English 101-5:30

Dr Sonia Bergert

October 20^th

Enjoying reading

              Even if you don’t love to read everyone’s had an enjoyable experience from reading. Reading is a wonderful thing. You can gather lots of information from picking up any book and just reading a page or two. In my case it really improved my grades and improved my education experience as a whole  My first enjoyable experience occurred for me when I was ten I was in fourth grade and went to Green Mountain elementary. I struggled as a student. I had many problems when reading and trying to comprehend literature. I was placed in many different study groups and classes prior to this time to help me be more successful at reading and writing. But there was one problem with this. Reading and writing weren’t enjoyable for me at all. I would doing anything possible not to read or write. I would skip a study group I was supposed to go to during recess on certain days. Almost every time I had a writing assignment due I would pretend I was sick at home just to not attend class. I wouldn’t do any reading or writing at home for homework. But in fourth grade a lot of this changed. 

      My fourth grade teachers name was Mrs. Langholff. She was a tall woman with short black hair that was usually curled. She was a mid-aged woman, I believe in her mid-30’s. She had two sons that went to the school also.She was one of my favorite teachers of all time she was always a kind lady and helped me during this time because I had just transferred from Sand Hill Elementary and I was having a hard transition. 

      Once a month our class would go to library to check out books. The walls of the library were all white with large bookcases lining them full of books. In the center of the large room was smaller book cases running parallel to each other. Next to this off to the side was a section full of tables to sit at and read. We had a whole month to read the book. The library was always quite because as I remember we had a very strict librarian who didn’t like any noise. But for some reason, I had no idea why but she was always nice to me. I don’t remember her name but she was a very short woman with short black hair. She was an older lady I could tell because she had a very wrinkly face and many grey hairs. The first couple months of this I always picked one of the few books that I had already read or books that previous teacher read to the class. But after a while I ran out of books to do this for so I had to come to grips with the situation and actually pick a book to read. The only problem though was I had no idea what to read and was very bad at deciding on what to read.

      At first I just walked around and talked to friends and looked at picture books. But eventually everyone had sat down with books that they had checked out and I was the only one still looking. So after a long time of myself  walking around the library mostly just trying to pass time and all of the other kids were sitting down reading Mrs. Langholff came up to me, And said “Do you need help finding something to read?"

I did need help so I said “Yeah, I can find anything.” 

 “What kind of books do you like to read?” replied Mrs. Langholff

 “Adventure” I said

“Have you read Harry Potter?” said Mrs. Langholff

 “No I don’t like Harry Potter.” I explained

 “Have you read The Series of Unfortunate Events?” said Mrs. Langholff

 “No. What’s that?” I questioned 

“It’s about three orphans that try to escape a man their placed in foster care with” said Mrs. Langholff 

“Okay I’ll try that I guess” I replied with 

   So I went over to the check out to check out the book. The librarian looked at the book and said “This has always been a popular book! And one of my all-time favorites.”                                  

    I still wasn’t convinced to read it even after my teacher and librarian both recommended it and said it was good. I didn’t end up reading the book at all with the class time I had in the library. I didn’t even start reading the book until the whole month was almost over. A couple days before my time was up to read the book my mom finally forced me to start reading the book. Once I started reading the book I didn’t stop until I was about half way through! I was a slow reader so I had been reading for couple hours. I was so intrigued by the story I couldn’t stop for the longest time which was very unusual for me. Normally I hate reading and everything to do with it. Mainly because I’ve never been good at it so I never really tried. The next day I came home laid in my bed and I read the last half of the book again without stopping. I was so interested in the story about the orphans that were placed into a very bad foster home. I went to school the next day and took the quiz on the book. I had gotten 100%. I was also so delighted that I received 100 %, I had whole new motive for doing my school work.  I enjoyed the book so much next time the class went to the library I checked out the next book in the series. For the rest of the year I continued going to the library and checking out the books until I read them all. From there on out it was easy to pick up almost any book and read it while keeping interest in it. 

     After discovering these books and reading the whole series I learned to enjoy reading. I became a daily reader. Before this time it was very rare for myself to actually pick up a book and decide to read it. Which I did almost every night after this time. This experience has overall made myself a better reader. If this moment did not happen my life could have been affected dramatically. Before this time I struggle very much with reading and I would need a lot of extra help from teachers and tutors.  It helped me with my education as a whole with subjects such as math, history, writing, and of course reading.                      

Literacy: A Lineage

Melanie Luken the author of Literacy: A Lineage begins her story of her life by explaining how important her father was in her life. her father was a writer, reader, and artist. her father was a stay at home dad for the most part and thought her the valuable lesson of how to write, which would stick with her for the rest of her life during christmas instead of get her father presents she would write stories for him. This would turn into a tradition for them. She would end up majoring in french but she had a great struggle with french because she didn't have any traditions for french which made it difficult for her to learn. she says how she may not be rich with money or physical things but she is rich in literature.  

rhetorical definition part 2

after reading more definitions of what rehetorical is i still believe that my previous definition is fairly accurate. But after reading more it has shown me that it is an art of communication or thinking usually in writing. it has also accrued to me that you can think rehetoricaly about almost anything in life.