Anna Vrabel Rhetoric blog

Title: Standardized Tests Deciding Students Future Purpose statement : Persuade the audience that standardized testing is problematic Thesis statement : Standardized tests give an inaccurate measure of college success Introduction A.  According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, ““The SAT is not designed as an indicator of student achievement, but rather as an aid for predicting how well students will do in college.” B. I took the Act/Sat multiple times trying to improve my score because I knew how much colleges looked into them. C. Thesis:  Standardized tests give an inaccurate measure of college success Transition: Now we will look at the three big reasons why standardized tests don’t measure college success. Body Main point 1. ACT/SAT don’t test students on high school curriculum. The information that is on the ACT/SAT is stuff that the teachers spend about two weeks trying to teach students. Teachers are too into “teaching the t...

College textbooks:    Strengths: 1. They inform the  audience  on the problem. 2. They justify their  solution     Weaknesses: 1. They can justify their solution more 2. The solution was a bit confusing    Nuclear power:    Strengths: 1.  explained the problem clearly 2. gave good background information Weaknesses: 1. they give the solution before explaining the problem 2. they talk a lot about why people are opposed to nuclear power Off campus purchases:    Strengths: 1. the proposal is well organized 2. explain the solution in depth    Weaknesses: 1. in the justification section they talk about the problem of gender  

Standardized tests play a huge role in education today. Standardized tests are meant to predict how well a student will perform in school. A bad score on a standardized test can hold a student back from advancing in their educational system.  A good score can help a student  advance even though that student may not deserve it. There have been many debates on whether standardized testing measures a student's intelligence or not. Some people claim standardized tests eliminate grading bias, but others say it isn’t accurate since performance is based off one test.    My proposal states that standardized testing falsely measures student intelligence and needs to be changed.  Standardized test scores can hold students back who have the potential to be successful in college. One test score should not determine  some  one ' s  future.  If schools continue to focus on standardized test scores, students will continue to lose opportunities.  ...

The final speech project asks us to put together all of our rhetoric skills and think about a problem that we are passionate about and to think of a solution for that problem. We must persuade the class on why this problem is so important. We also have the choice of what visual ad we use whether it is a full power point or just one picture. After our presentation, we must create a page reflection on how we used rhetoric skills.

After reviewing Casey’s paper I think I can go back to my paper and fix some things. One thing Casey forgot was an appendix and that made me realize that I need to add one in too. Also I realized I can go back into my methods section and change some things.

After reviewing Ellie’s paper I think the comments I made can also be applied to my own paper. Some things I suggested Ellie were to check in text citations, add more information to the results section, and try to be more concise. I can go back over my paper and make sure I cited my information correctly and didn’t make any errors. I can also go back and try to shorten sentences. After analyzing her paper I also realized I need to add more headers to my paper so it is more organized.

Introduction Social media has become a everyday thing for teens in the United States. In 2015, pew research center did a study that found 92% of teens report going online daily and more than half of those teens use social media more than once a day. Social media has so many different effects on teenagers today. There are times where social media positively affects teens, but studies show the negative effects of social media outweigh the positive ones. So what aspects of teen’s lives are being impacted by social media? Social media impacts teen’s mental and physical health and their social lives. Many research studies have studied different aspects of this topic. One of those being the connection between social media use and cyberbullying. In 2018, Pew Research Center released a report on cyberbullying. Studies showed that 59% of teens have reported being bullied or harassed online. These studies also showed that 57% of parents were worried about their children experiencing cyberb...

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Authors cyberbullying addiction relationships grades Monica Anderson Pg 1-4 Talks about research done about cyberbullying Mark D. Griffins and Daria J. Kuss Briefly talk about cyberbullying Pg. 119-141 Talks about children and teens being addicted to social media Igor Pantic 1998 research shows how social media affects relationships with family Megan Landry Research on how social media affects grades

What form of social media do you use most? - twitter -facebook -snapchat -instagram Do you worry about not getting enough likes or not having enough followers? - yes -no Do you ever compare your self to other people you see on social media? - yes -no Have you ever edited a photo to change the way you look? - yes -no Has social media ever lowered your self esteem? -yes -no How do you think social media is affecting younger generations?

The topic I chose to do research on is today's teens and how they are affected by social media. This topic is important because social media is such a big thing that so many people use. The majority of people who use social media are teens and I want to do research on how it can effect their lives negatively/positively. Two research questions that can be used for this topic are how does social media affect teens self-esteem? or What are the affects of social media on body image? For my research I plan to make a survey on google forms that has a variety of questions about my topic. I will send this survey to a big sample of people so I can receive a variety of feedback.

The style of IMRad writing is very different from papers I would write in high school. In high school, I usually wrote papers in the normal argumentative format so IMRaD is new to me. The purpose of a IMRaD report is to structure a scientific article. IMRad stands for intro, methods results, and discussion. To organize all the information those are the different sections it is split up into which is different from a APA argumentative paper because it uses different headings. The other difference between a normal argumentative paper and a IMRaD is a IMRad is based off a experiment or a survey. This is what is used to prove your point and present a claim. While in an argumentative paper it isn't necessary to conduct a experiment.

Show commercial-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6bLugtJkQ   Purpose : The purpose of this commercial is to appeal to our  emotions  so the audience can see  how  a relationship with a Chevy can be  just as meaningful as the relationship with a childhood pet. W hich will make people want to purchase a Chevy.    Proving the thesis:  The commercial uses  a story of a women and her childhood pet to make us emotional. M any different aspects   are used  to make us feel an emotional connection to the video.   The actress's facial expressions are used to make the audience feel what she is feeling. As the commercial shows us major milestones the woman has experienced we see a variety emotion. When she is graduating and moving in to a new home we see how she is  has  a huge smile on her face showing her happiness. Then we see the first time she is learning to drive a car and we can tell she is ner...