#11

1)  A person has Baccalaureate degree, but they weren't content with their field of study, so they only half heartedly worked toward their degree. Also, they cheated on the final exam that they took right before getting the degree. Can they still be considered intelligent?
- The person can still be considered intelligent. They managed to stay in college regardless of what they did. They are not considered unintellegent because of the decision they decided to make. They aer still intellegent to me.


2)  Bill Gates was a college drop out.  Do we consider him intelligent?  Why or why not?  How might this affect your criteria for your definition of intelligence?
- We do not know why he dropped out of college.He could have had many reasons, but we still consider him intelligent. He invented something no one else ever thought of. He is a practical genius. We would have never known he was a drop out. He is a billionaire.

3)  A man with a BA goes into politics and proposes going to war with another country.  He knows the war will drag out, and he knows many people will be killed during the duration of it.  Was this an intelligent decision?  Are people we admit are intelligent allowed to make unintelligent decisions from time to time?  Why or why not?  How might this affect your criteria for your definition of intelligence?
- this was an unintellegent decision. Some intellegent people make bad decisions, but we still consider them intellegent.This will not affect my criteria decision of intellegence.

Monday Nov. 7 Online Class Assignment

1.       After reviewing the information about the drafting introduction on page 3, review your own intro and decide what you can do to:

a.       more clearly show what is at stake for your issue

• In my introduction, to more clearly show what is at stake I can adress my topic more clearly and elaborate on it.

b.      more thoroughly contextualize your issue with background information (this is helpful for both intro and conclusion)

• I can elaborate more

c.       write a few sentences for a. and b. that you will insert into your next draft.

• A student who is considered an exemplary student, is a student who is outstanding, a student who is an over achiever, who sets goals and accomplish them.

2.       Review your topic sentences of your body paragraphs:

a.       Whether you are doing org. plan 1 or 2, your topic sentences should contain the criteria that you are discussing in the paragraph.  (Review bottom of page 4 and all of page 5). 

b.      If you have any main topic sentences (do at least two here) that don’t contain the criteria of your definition that you are about to discuss in your paragraph, paste the old sentence, then write the revision of it that you will change in your next draft, like this:

                                                               i.      OLD SENTENCE:   YADDA YADDA

                                                             ii.      NEW SENTENCE   YADDA YADDA now with criteria clearly stated so we know what to expect out of this paragraph

                               i.   OLD SENTENCE: An Exemplary student must do great things.

 

                               ii.   NEW SENTENCE: An exemplary student is a student who strives even though they do not understand.

 

                               i.   OLD SENTENCE: .In college we expect to go to school for our major and take only classes that relate to what our future career will look like

 

                               ii.   NEW SENTENCE: In college we expect to go to school for our major and take only classes that relate to what our future career will look like. We must go beyond what is expected, and do bigger things to have a higher chance of getting a job in our career.

                             

3.       Now, go through your body paragraphs and make sure that in the evidence sections of them, you are “developing” the criterion you are discussing, which means: explaining/defining each criterion for your definition.  By the end of your paper, we should be able to tell a) your definitions, b) the criteria for those definitions, and c) the definitions of those criteria. (Look at page 5, description of BP1).

a.       Find your shortest body paragraph.  This is a quick way to determine which one needs more development. 

b.      Paste it in.

c.       Then paste in a revision of it that contains more details and explanations of the criterion under discussion.

•   . A student who has a mastery of writing skills is a student who let the flow of words and thoughts process into one. They understand what they read and write. They write essays to get accepted into grad school, or write to get jobs. They know how to correctly spell words, or how to use grammar.

 

Revised: A student with a mastery of writing skills are the students who are more likely to get the job. They use their common sense as well as other sense to help them understand. They study, as well as reading and writing.

4.       Look over one of your rebuttal areas.  If you have one (and you should; “considering the opposition” or “other viewpoints” is on the rubric) look for a way to revise it to be more developed, if you don’t have one, make one now to add into your next draft.  Review page 6 and the ways that you 1) acknowledge opposition to your argument, 2) but prove how the opposition is not strong enough to invalidate your argument.

a.       Paste in the old and new rebuttal sections

b.      Or say that you hadn’t gotten around to that yet in your first draft and make one up now to include in your next draft.

Discussion #10

Claim: No, having good writing skills does not make you an excellent student.

Reason: because there are other skills that makes you the student that you are. Not everyone is good in writing, or even speaking. I do not think that you must write an essay to enter Grad school.

Warrant: Good writing skills just prove that you can write, not everyone will obtain good writing skills no matter no long they have been writing. Writing is not a gift for everyone.

discussion #9

1.Rich is stating that all women must step up and play the role.she quotes "we have two choices: to lend our weight to the forces that indoctrinate women to passivity. depreciation, and a sense of powerlessness, in which case the issue of taking women students seriously is a moot one; or to consider what we have to work against, as well as with, in ourselves, in our students, in the content of the curriculum, in the structure of the institution, in the society at large"

 

2.  I feel some people think that b/c we are women we are catergorized differently. I don't think it has anything to do with race anymore, maybe back then. I do not feel any racism of any kind now.

Discussion #8

A.) I spoke the same language at home and in school. I had a boyfriend who was hispanic and Spanish was his first lanugage. He found it difficult to communicate with me, especially being black. Our dialect is so diverse now. He learned the basic english, not the Urban english. I found it ver y annoying, but I had to respect his culture.

 

B.) The field I have chosen is Speech Pathology. I will have to speak other languages for certain people I encounter.

C.)It will be important b/c a Speech Pathologist work with people of all ethnicies.

 

 

2A.) yes. A family does change as the children grow up. When a child is younger he/she has no choice but to bond together. When they grow up it's like they want to be on their own and not be told what to do, when to do it, or how to do it. To be successful yes we have to sacrafice.

 

 

2B.) No, we just all talk differently, and Academics help.

2C.) I think he valued his first language and it was challegning losing it.