Journal Entry # 11

Project 4: Stacy, Yasim, and Xiance

• Graphic Cover (incorporating magazine name and highlighting contents) Yasim Stacy
• Front Matter (lists staff, magazine title and description, and table of contents) Everyone
• Piece of fiction (any type of fiction) Stacy
• Piece of non-fiction (this could be an interview, profile, process-description, or any number of other non-fiction genres) Yasim
• Factoids (facts about your topic; these could be presented in several ways) Xiance
• Editorial (a persuasive piece of writing with a clear thesis) Xiance
• Review (evaluation of a work related to your theme—an artistic work, a venue, etc.) Everyone
• Advertisement (for a product you imagine; related to your theme in some way). Stacy

Interview

Puzzles/ Brain Teasers

Questioners

Technology

Around the world technology

Science Project

Quote of the month

Calendar

Medicine News

Biography

Article: Too Much isn't always good

Plastic Surgery

Journal Entry # 10

Abortion Pentad

Act: Research, Go to dr. appt
Actor: Women, Men, Fetus, Doctors, babies, the families
Agency: Embroy, Sperm, Egg, Surgical tools, ultrasound
Scene: Dr. Office, Medical Place (hospital)
Purpose: When a woman gets pregnant but does not want to give birth to the child some women do recearch and choose to have an abortion in a medical facility to remove the fetus.

Journal Entry # 9

Picture # 1
1.) When you are 18 you can enroll in the army but not drink.
2.) When you are 18 you can enroll in the army but not drink because enrolling in the army is good but drinking is not.
3.) When you are 18 you can enroll in the army but not drink because you are doing a good thing for the country by enrolling.

Picture # 7
1.) Drinking and driving is not good for you.
2.) Drinking and driving is not good for you because you can die when you drink and drive.
3.) Drinking and driving is not good for you because your brain is not functioning properly when you are intoxicated.

Journal Entry # 8

This controversial image is saying that uncle Sam is trying to save the Caucasian people while leaving the African American people to drown.
This image is saying that Uncle Sam is calling all the shots in America and he wants the African Americans last and wants to keep the Caucasians safe.

Journal Entry # 7

The sort of trouble that Orwell suguests that the English languages is in is that when using it it lacks imagery, its not very presices it seems very vague. Some of the bad habits may be passed down through culture from generation to generation even though the people may haven known better. And when using the English languge people use to many phrases an not enough simple words.
Since Orwell wrote this essay about 60 years ago I think that the language has deteriorated even more. I think it is because of all the new modern technology. Text messaging and instant messaging has shortened the language and even invented new words, words with different spelling and completely new acronyms.
I completely agree with them. My 12th grade English teacher lived by the very same rules. He made us write our essay and then do a draft looking for and editing each rule one draft at a time. I think that was really helpful because u focus one one thing at a time.
I think what Orwell means by focus on pictures and perceptions before writing is know, feel, and understand what you want to write about before you write it and then when you begin to write you will be able to choose the right words to convey your meaning. I have done this before and its like brainstorming without writing it down. It does help. It kind of creates a path and helps you narrow down the way you want your writing to go.

Journal Entry # 6

What do you think about serial killers?
Serial killers I believe are individuals who have just snapped with the world. They
either had a grim and sad adolescent life, which emotionally and physically scared them
for life and they just turn on the world and seek revenge or refuge in causing people
suffrage.
Or they are just individuals who have had a wonderful or moderate life but because
something happened, for example a stalker guy who has a girlfriend but she dumps him and
hides cause he's a stalker, so she goes out with someone else he gets jealous and doesn't
want her to be with anyone else so he kills her finds that enjoyable so he keeps killing
or someone who believes some type of person is bad...rapist or prostitutes so he just
decides to kill them all...purge the world

Do you think that they have a myth?
Their myth is their criminally insane, if they have a consciousness of what they’re doing
and they have emotions that are triggered by their actions who’s to say what’s insane
anyway? It’s funny every time someone kills some people their defense attorney decides to
tell them to plead for insanity
And serial killers look like jack Nicholas with some huge evil smile or they always use
knives and stab people and wear masks and are just these scifi beings when they can be
normal every day people, could be a priest

Do you think that they are able to caught by their MO?
Yes I believe they can be caught by their method of operations like Sherlock Holmes says,
"Eyes and brains Watson eyes and brains"
Say the person is a throat cutter it can easily be known whether the killer is a lefty or
a right and depends on the cut, if they have surgical background or butchery background
or novice regular person background
choice of weapon...hunting rifle..person might like to hunt, 9 millimeter could just be a
normal person thats one of the easiest accessible guns,

how clean the kill is...easy to tell if a crime was rushed or carefully planned out..no
finger prints on the door knob (possibly using gloves), no footprints possible (used some
kind of bag, taking good care of how they hit the body and how they stop the leakage of
gunpowder or their hair (could be a clearly shaven person...all over...but hmmm after
shave could catch them) yeah so basically if it’s too clean..the person is smart and has
experience like with guns

Do you think that a killer always leaves evidence behind?
there’s always evidence left behind. Always. witness sightings, finger prints, foot
prints, phone records, emails, credit card purchasing locations, no matter what something
gives you away, unless you’re absolutely invisible and metal gear solid ect

How about taking a treasure from the crime scene?
tells a lot about the criminal basically serial killers get caught cause of these
criminal psychologist that study psychos and their habits and all sorts of people and
their habits basically serial killers get caught cause of these criminal psychologist
that study psychos and their habits and all sorts of people and their habits especially
if you take a weird item, like a piece of vase from this china set...you know?
Crimes I don’t believe are ever perfect in this lifetime...maybe before 1990 but now it’s
virtually impossible

Journal # 4

• What does Bartholomae mean when he says that students must "invent the university" when they write in college?

What Barthaolomae means by students must "invent the university" is that they have to become the expert in whatever it is that they are writing about. They have to know everything possible as applicable to that subject.

• What does Bartholomae suggest is a way for students to become "insiders" within academic discourse?

He suggests that students should go ahead and write what they feel. Do not be afraid of what students have to say. They were given the right to speak and they should take advantage of that right. It is ok to not understand everything but try and when students are not sure ask questions.

• Summarize some of the differences between the two examples of student writing that Bartholomae examines, and Bartholomae's opinion of these examples.
  

The difference between these two examples that Bartholomae examines is that the first one is
just simple and straightforward, the other one tries to tell a story and explain more in detail than
the first one did.

Bartholomae's opinion of the first example was that it is natural and gives what the prompt asks
however it isn't sophisticated. The second example on the other hand lends its voice to the
paper; it develops a language and gives more of an opinion than the other example. 

Journal # 1"Rhetorical situation"

· Describe the situation that made you feel a need to respond in writing.
There are some situations in which one may feel compelled to reply to a comment or a situation for a number of reasons. Perhaps it was to prove a point, to or ask a follow up question or even to inform. My situation was slightly different in some matters. In the International Baccalaureate Program, the program which I was in demanded that throughout your two years in the program you develop this sophisticated style of writing and at the end of the year you write two types of papers. At the end of my senior year I wrote a comparative study on two novels.

· Why did you decide to respond in writing instead of taking some other action or not responding at all?
I had to respond in writing not only because it was part of the criteria but also because I wanted to inform myself about my writing abilities and to persuade the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) that their program did teach me to become a better writer.

· What type or genre of writing did you use to communicate your purpose, and why did you choose this genre?
The genre that of writing that I used to communicate was a comparative study of two novels: House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, and So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ. I happen to choose this type of genre because I felt that I was able to use it to best portray my knowledge of the two pieces of literature as well as my writing abilities.

· Who was your audience and what kind of relationship did you want to establish with your readers?
My intended audience was the members of the International Baccalaureate Organization. The type of relationship that I wanted to institute was a professional and scholarly as well as an informative affiliation.

· What was your purpose in writing? Did you feel you accomplished this purpose?
I had two purposes to my writing. The first one was to prove to myself that my writing has improved drastically due to the techniques that my English teacher taught and through the genres of writing that IB implemented within their curriculum.
My second purpose of my writing was to prove to the members of the IBO that their promulgated curriculum was beneficial in improving writing.

· What knowledge of the context and culture did you draw on to guide your writing?
The title of my writing was called Subliminal Writings: The role of the Journals and Letters in the House of the Spirits and So Long a Letter. My overall thesis was that the authors secretly gave attention to genres of writing within their novel. Within my writing I drew attention to the styles of writing the two authors used. I took into consideration the time periods that they were written in and if the style of writings were popular at the time that they were written. The authors Allende and Bâ had two different cultures within their novels in which I took note of and established that because of their cultural upbringings they inserted the use of writings differently.

· How is thinking about your writing as responding to a “rhetorical situation” different from other ways to think about the writing you do?
In using “rhetorical situation” you think about what you did intentionally about your writing, whereas the other times you think about your writing you are usually thinking about it before you begin your writing process or as you write or when you are editing your writing. Usually at those times you do not focus on the details that rhetorical situations demand you think about such as factors which can affect your writing or the context which may be affected my time period, location, and current events. Even if the writer does think about those things it is not really thought about intentionally it is usually just part of the writing process that the writer goes through to be able to finish the writing.