Who is the writer of this article (like more than his name–what important, pertinent info can you found out about him online)?

John studies things related to english and different genres for academic and information science puposes. That is his thing!

Who do you think he imagined as his perfect audience of readers?

I think students and tutors are his best students as his work has the exact amount of deepness that a student should know in English according to me. Also, for the professors he is one of the best resources to teach.

What do you think, in your own words, is the issue this article is trying to address?

I think this article is trying to make us understand the depth of english and using the language for many different genres and segregating it precisely for a specific individual.

In your own words, what do you think that Swales imagined as the gap between what he had found out about discourse community versus what his readers already knew about the concept of discourse community?

That his readers werent easily able to relate to his work as it had to broken down into easy stuff for them to understand and apply it in their study.

New literacies – discourses or discourse communities , communities of practice.

When a group of people shares goals orpurposes and uses communication to acheive them, they can be called discourse communities.

Reading a discourse and understanding depends on your perspective of the written piece that you have.

The concept of discourse communities argue with six different characteristic.

Different way of percieving the same information.

multilitercies

What is the point of Steins essay?

• He’s not really talking about baseball.
• He’s talking about the US military, its use, it being in various places around the world.
• Unreliable narrator. Stein is not a narrator.
• Sarcasm, Irony are used throughout.
• Wants to provoke a response.

He uses sarcasm and irony to pick up on his message of america following the superpower mentality.

How does Swales explain what he means when he writes that speech communities are centripetal while discourse communities are centrifugal?

Speech communities tend to absorb people into their general fabric. Discourse communities tend to seprerate people into occupational or speciality-interest groups.

According to Swales, what are the six defining characteristics of a discourse community?

1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals.
2. A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommuncation among its members.
3. A discourse community uses it participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback.
4. A discourse community utilizes and hence posseses one or more genres in the community furthurance of its aims.
5. In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has accuired some specific lexis.
6. A discourse community has a thereshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.

In your own words, what does Swales point out as the problems of the concept of discourse community?

Its unrealistic and doesnt take into account different skills of people and the academic viewpoint.

Now look at page 76 of last night’s reading. Which one of those audiences and correlated aim of argument do you think Stein is deploying? You can only pick one. In your own words, explain why you think your choice is the best choice.

I think he did this so that he can provide different shades and open up different viewpoints for people who want to understand this in different way than what they percieve it to be. And also help them understand the complexity of it.

Is Stein portraying himself as an audience friendly writer “In the Defense of…”? If not, why do you think he’s doing that?

I dont think stein is being an audience friendly writer. He is atually being a very self portraying writer who wants his audience to agree with what he says rather than understand what the audience think it is. A audience friendly writer should do both or atleast have the capability of doing both.

That it is also some kind of business where some corporations and private companies make profit from the war when they supply the weapons and they are nowhere to be liquadated into the economy, which is bad. Not only that but also the army contracts were not fair at all.

If we take this as true, in your own words describe what you think Stein sees as the gap in this conversation.

difference between what he thinks and knows about the US and what people think and understand through his article or the general viewpoint. It there is a big gap as in a lot of difference.

In your opinion, how does this piece fill that gap?

Basically him writting this article might fill the gap for majority of the audience.

Go back to your answer for question three. Do you still feel you made the correct choice? If not, feel free to change it.

Yes i did

What’s the danger of an essay like this?

First of all stein has not done a good job in conveying the message properly. Whatever, he is claiming may be important but the way his article behaves towards his audience is makes it a little less important for them. That’s where the danger is.

Who are the intended readers, and how does the writer address them?

The intended readers are people who dont like the Yankees and who think America is not an underdog and does show confidence in knowing what america is capable of people who don’t believe in america should believe in america. He is re-affirming shared values.

He adresses the readers in an ironical, funny and direct way. All at the same time and that is his speciality.

What values do the readers and writer seem to have in common? How does the writer appeal to them?

Yankees being the best team and that you americans like to make rich people richer. He appeals them by using evidences of that timeline where people could relate to his claims.

Is Stein doing anything that is mentioned on pages 78-80 of last night’s reading (I assigned it for homework)? If you say yes, then explain, in your own words, why you think he is.

Yes, he is narrating his point of view and explaining it however there is no refutations it is just that he is putting it forward in his own way.

Now look at page 76 of last night’s reading. Which one of those audiences and correlated aim of argument do you think Stein is deploying? You can only pick one. In your own words, explain why you think your choice is the best choice.

I think he did this so that he can provide different shades and open up different viewpoints for people who want to understand this in different way than what they percieve it to be. And also help them understand the complexity of it.

• The Writer

Every writer has a unique set of experiences, memories, knowledge, physical curcumstances and feelings.

• The marging of overlap

The writer and readers share some experiences, knowledge, beliefs, terminologies, desires, and physical needs.

• The readers

Each reader has a unique set of experiences, memories, knowledge, physical curcumstances and feelings.

Identifying common frounds with readers:

• What does your audience care about?
• See if you can find a way to link your concerns, which they may not have thought about yet, to their existing concerns.

Choosing a topic:

• It is a contested issue.
• It is an issue you care about.
• It is limited enough in terms of the research you’ll need to doand the number of pages it will take to cover the topic adequately.

To write an effective argument you need to understand the claims and explain them properly so that the readers too can relate it to their real life.

Understand different perspectives of the audience and create a peice that is relateable to the audience by usimg specific claims and evidences.

Arguing to inquire:

• Perspective- most topics for argument naturally lend themselves to alternate points of view.
• The Margin of Overlap- Each perspective shares some common premises with the others.
• Rogerian Arguments- The aim is to broden the margin of overlap among positions by fairly representing multiple sides of an issue, creating the opportunity for finding common grounds.

Classical form of argument:

• Introduction
• Narration
• Partition
• Confirmation
• Refutation
• Conclusion

Fact vs Opinion

Fact- is a statement whose truth can be verified by observation, experimentation or research

Opinion- is an interpretation of evidence or experience.

Key terms for understanding exam questions:

• Analyze
• Argue
• Classify
• Compare and contrast
• Define
• Describe
• Discuss
• Evaluate, critique, Asses
• Explain
• Explicate
• Illustrate
• Review
• Review the literature
• Summarize

Things that make me feel comfortable in classroom:

• When professor is not giving me the importance he gives everybody else in the class.
• Basically I just want to be treated well in class if i deserve it like everybody else in the class is.
• However, talking aloud in class is fine with me if it is done in a proper way and does not create a bad enviornment in the class.

Things that make me uncomfortable in the classroom:

• is when people and my other classmates are not interested in my point of view.
• The professor does not give you attention or to help you understand something better.

In Defence of Domination:

• Who is the author and what are his intentions?

The author is Joel Stein. And he is trying to defend the actions of yankees as an organization by comparing them with the America of that time.

• Does he treat the opposing perspectives fairly? Why do you two think he does this?

He does treat it fairly according to him but the readers who read it would think of it as offensive and his humor is harsh and offensive. That is not how someone would put forward their point. However, I feel he likes to dominate, and his source to dominate is through his humor which is like the icing on the cake.

• What is the rhetorical context, that is, what personal, historical, or social events might the writer be responding to?

“The Yankees are America”, the whole projection of Yankees dominating like how America was starting to dominate the world at that time in 2004 and acting like a “superpower” is relatable to how the yankees are in baseball.

• Who are the intended readers, and how does the writer address them?

Well acccording to me joel’s article is for readers who think america is not dominating and is not operating at its full potential and he relates the new york yankees as an example for his readers to how USA is operating and the country’s power economically and in general.

• What values do the readers and writer seem to have in common? How does the writer appeal to them?

I think in terms of values both have to be patriotic to understand Joel and the way he does appeal to his reader is fantastic if he is intellignt enough to understand all the humor and irony going on in the article.

• Does the writer use examples or illustrations to prove points (argument), show events (in narrative), or explain methods (hypothesis testing)? (induction)

Yes, Joel uses alot of real life examples to prove a point and all of them are connected to the timeline of the year 2004 of the US. He does explain method by giving real life example and situations and expects the readers to connect and relate them to figure out the message he is trying to send to his readers.

• Does the author build a case for his position by starting with widely accepted knowledge and then move toward new insights or claims? (deduction)

Yes, he does start with ” You Yankee haters, you dont understand America. and then goes about proving his points and insight. I think he does this specifically to make his readers attentive and make them feel like the article is legitimate or interesting.

• Does the author appeal to reason?

Yes, Joel wants the people to understand that the US is a dominating country and that is the reason to all his appeals he has made in the article.

• Does the author use or invoke emotion to help make the point of the story? (pathos)

Yes, he uses humor as an emoting and patriotism to make his reader feel the way he wants them to and also understand correctly his message regardless of all the irony in his language.

• Active reading begins with curiosity.
• Project checklist-:Title, contents, context, your prior knowledge, genres and purposes they convey, now make predictions.

Annotating a text- note agreements, disagreements, question, connections they are making and other reactions in the margins.

Facts- A fact is a true statement that is specific and verifiable.

Opinion- An opinion is based on facts, but also includes the writer’s interpretation.

Belief- A belief is a deeply held conviction that cannot be proved or disapproved.

Evaluation evidence and assumptions:-

• Is the evidence accurate?
• Relevant?
• sufficient?
• representative?

About the authors assumptions:

• What assumption does the author make in the thesis?
• What assumptions are valid?
• Which assumptions do you think people can challenge?
• Has the other failed to assume shared beliefs?

Rhetorical analysis is systematic method of analysing the effects of a text and how the writters acheive is them.

Questions for Rhetorical Readings:

1. Who is the author, and what are his or her intentions?
2. What is the rhetorical context?
3. Who are the intended readers, and how does the writer adress them?
4. What is the subject matter of the text, and how is it arranged ?
5. How does the uthor present the text?
6. Does the text succeed in accomplishing the author’s purpose?

• I am here at UCBA because I have opted to take the Pre- Business Administration program here.
• I basically wanted to take a class with Dr. Baillie and this timie was just perfect for me taking into consideration my other classes.
• I am from India.
• I am student at the University of Cincinnati.
• Pre- Business- Administration
• Cause I have a family business to take care of after college.
• I love playing FIFA and socer in general and love to eat different cusines.
• I can keep on eating for two hours continuously.
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• Soft skills- Leadership, Communication, Time management

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