Swales article sucks because the length of it is very long and unnecessary. He talks about the concept of discourse community in detailed view, but his article is all common sense. He uses big words for an article that doesn’t need words like the ones he uses, plus he tries to sound smart.

Swales is a Linguists Professor so his intended readers are his fellow colleagues, but also Linguists students. I believe this is the audience since he has a Ph.D and also speaks about a topic that concerns the public. The issue is the problems within a discourse communities. Swales explains what includes in a group. He believes that a community will divide if too many different opinions are shared, this is a reason why the intended audience is the public.

2. In my opinion, this piece fills out the gap by speaking of the truth, sometimes we need reminders in this world realize what we’re doing that is wrong. Yes his text is common sense and boring but it’s an important reminder for everyone.

4. The danger of an essay like this is it can be taken the wrong way. Usually when there is 2 groups of people one has to be right but in order to be fair both share an equal amount of power so if the wrong group gains more power it will cause discourse communities to divide even more.

To be a literate is to have control of socially accepted association among ways of using etc.

The writer finished with a masters degree and taught ESL.

Then a Ph.D in Education of language

Working gains experience and language

A waitress taking a customers special request is a form of language and how she interprets it to the cook.

Literacy can be defines by the considerations of achievement and by abstract.

The menu is the most important written text to a waiter and waitress.

Knowing the meanings of the words on the menu means knowing the process of food production in the restaurant.

The way you talk to the customer is how you attract them, every customer is different you have to change your form with every customer.

This job is one of the hardest in the world, due to the control waiters and waitresses have towards the customer.

Is language a big part working in a restaurant?

But the customers always has the authority over the employee but doesn’t necessarily mean the are right.

The purpose of Steins essay is to create a sense of humor but also speaking in a serious note that is indirectly to the America, due to the war that America is in.

1. Speech communities tend to absorb people into the general fabric and discourse communities tend to separate people into occupational or speciality-interest groups. Speech communities can be joined by birth or adoption. Discourse communities are joined by your own training and work.

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1. Has a broadly agreed set of common public goals.

2. Has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members

3. Uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback

4. Utilizes and hence possess one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aim.

5. Has acquired some specific lexis.

6. Has threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.

3. The problem is the disagreement between people that it will cause them to divide. Each person has an opinion on their own, disagreement is a natural thing.

Plessy v. Fergurson

It was a criminal offense for an African-american to ride on the same train with a white man

Officially facilities were supposed to be separate but equal, but were rarely equal.

What does juxtaposition mean?

June 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson.

Albion Tourgee worked to expose the KKK and campaigned for improves conditions for freedmen

John Ferguson was a carpetbagger married the NO attorney.

Reconstruction had two goals; one to repair all the the damages caused from the civil war and the other to reform southern societies.

1866 Civil Rights Act was passed making African Americans full US citizens.

Civil War amendments removed race and color as barriers to the vote form male citizens.

There were claims that whites used violent intimidation to control black votes.

1865 Amendment 8, was to make slavery illegal.

The Mismeasure of Man

Socrates advocates a myth to Athens in order to maintain an orderly society.

People are born into a class in order to fit in what work they are able to do.

Uses the Triangle Gold, Silver and Bronze to relate it to the people.

Scientists measured humans skull to measure intelligence, the bigger the skull the bigger the brain which means they are smarter.

Then measured using the IQ test .

To be a literate is to have control of socially accepted association among ways of using etc.

The writer finished with a masters degree and taught ESL.

Then a Ph.D in Education of language

Working gains experience and language

A waitress taking a customers special request is a form of language and how she interprets it to the cook.

Literacy can be defines by the considerations of achievement and by abstract.

The menu is the most important written text to a waiter and waitress.

Knowing the meanings of the words on the menu means knowing the process of food production in the restaurant.

The way you talk to the customer is how you attract them, every customer is different you have to change your form with every customer.

This job is one of the hardest in the world, due to the control waiters and waitresses have towards the customer.

Is language a big part working in a restaurant?

But the customers always has the authority over the employee but doesn’t necessarily mean the are right.

The intended readers are the followers of Time Magazine, Joe Stein is a known as a comedian, he wasn’t being serious about his post in Defense for Domination. He made is seem like he was ticking off the audience but he was only being funny.

They all follow the news wether the writer is trying to be funny or not. He understands their hatred towards the Yankees and posts an ironic blog.

1. Yes, He makes a very good argument but is uses rhetoric. He creates a main claim and backs is up with reasonable evidence about the move of A-Rod to the Yankees. From the book Brief Thompson where is says uses evidence effectively and that’s what Stein does, he uses many pieces of evidence and explains them.
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3. People who wish to understand multiple views, because he states common knowledge that everyone agrees on, he makes people that hate the Yankees wanting them to think if what he says is going to be true. Also using his sarcasm he opens up debates about his view on America relating it to the Yankees on being on the top.
4. The sarcastic Heckler that tries to be funny in order to gain more followers by the language he uses.
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8. Yes
9. The Dangers of an essay like this is if the audience didn’t know who the writer is they might take his seriously and backfire at him. His use of diction is very obnoxious and unprofessional if he was being serious.
10. His purpose in this essay is to be funny but also throw a couple of true statements in his writing. He compares the Yankees to America being bullies towards the other nations and being able to do whatever they want to do.

The Brief Thompson

In order to make an argument, use points that are common to your audience.

Make claims that always have support or evidence, without evidence your claim is weak.

When making a claim be careful in what you’re saying.

Make claims that can be hard to contest in, if it’s hard to contest it’s a good claim.

Write arguments to persuade your audience, in order to achieve that you need common points.

Remember to always be open-minded when debating an argument because being very defensive will not solve the problem.

Sharing common grounds with people increases attraction with one another.

When making an argument: Research your topic.

Use evidence and explain it.

Differentiate between facts and opinions

Personal notes don’t always help

Always conclude when making an argument to refresh the audience.

Proof read your work, in order to fix what you made wrong.

Purdue Owl

When people think about rhetoric they think about politicians using language. Rhetoric came form the Greek. Sophits believed they can persuade people using rhetoric. Rhetoric is using the available means of persuasion to make an argument. Audience, ethos, pathos and logos are tools to help use rhetoric. Rhetoric is the ability to use language the most effective way.

Things that make me comfortable in class:

Sports, politics, life in general, change, modern day society

Things I feel uncomfortable to talk about in class:

Literature, poems, teacher picking on students,

In Defense of Domination:

The author is Joel Stein, he is professional Comedy writer.

His intentions is to be funny towards Yankees haters and to defend his case by the Yankees being a better team.

No not really, because he uses bullying to show how good the Yankees are instead of just pulling off stats. He does this because being at the top creates many haters and he tries to crush lower teams hope.

Hes responding to the event that had A-Rod go to the Yankees and to the fact that people are very upset that a team that is always winning picks up a very good player.

The intended readers are the losers, any team that doesn’t usually win or to the fans oF A-Rods previous team.

Both readers and writer believe that the Yankees are a better team, and both agree that anyone on top usually gets hate from the bottom side.

Yes he does, he compares the event to America being on top and how it diminishes foreign countries leaders. Also speaks on how Americas history is just as successful as the Yankees.

Yes he does, his argument isn’t wrong, it’s just the way he expressed his argument, also being posted on Time magazine a news magazine. He starts with his opinion then uses examples and evidence to prove his point.

Yes he does, but he tries to reason the people that the Yankees are good but it doesn’t mean that they have to like them.

YES, he bullies through to piss of the readers and expresses his emotions vastly.

When someone is reading a book or anything else they should be curious about what they are reading to make the reading more interesting. And they should write down how they feel about the reading while they are reading.

Before reading the text start making predictions about the text

When reading fast try to find the central idea to understand the meaning of the reading

When reading in depth read multiple times, sometimes pause then reflect on what is being said.

Use a pen or a highlighter to annotate a text to. Then write a summary to make the text memorizable whenever you want to come back and read it again you read the summary to refresh your memory on what the passage is about.

While reading distinguish between different ideas such as facts and opinions.

Show the pieces of evidence, make them go back to pages to see where this evidence came from.

Make assumptions to the reading.

Make rhetorical questions to create more arguments to idea.

Underline words that are not used as much outside of reading.

Create statements on why the writer made this reading or passage, what are his or her intentions?

I chose to go UCBA because it is closer to my house than Main Campus.

I chose this English class because it’s not too late or too early and it also fits my schedule.

I’m Palestinian but born and raised in Chicago.

I lived in Florida for 2 years before coming to Cincinnati in 2011.

I’m majoring in Physical Therapy

I chose this major because i’m very interested in how the body works and being able to help people to get back up from injuries.

I love to play Basketball, I usually play 3 days a week, also I like to play FIFA and COD

Cook

Some skills I would offer up would is the skill of creativity, being able to make a soothing design that would be pleasing to the eye. Also I would offer the skill of management to split up the time on how to produce these equipment.