Oral work is of a presentation I did back in late October
https://iastate.box.com/s/b76d548su45sgl7rmz7rlzvxx09bma3y
For electronic here is a post of the Halloween costume Analysis where I had to embed the youtube video, which is one of lest trouble I had when it came to electronics.
Article Textual Rhetorical Analysis
Vanessa Miller mainly uses logos in her article of Tuition hike in Iowa could Just be the beginning while also questionably using ethos in certain parts of the article. She presents various facts for both sides of the college tuition hikes in an informative matter. The author also presents some points that are questionable in a logos section.
The author presents multiple facts on the reasoning why the increase and how it would affect students at the three main Universities in Iowa. At the very end of the article she includes the tuitions hikes were the product of the dwindling state funding to the public universities. With a cut over $30 million dollars for the current and next year. The author also included how the typical residential undergraduate student of ISU, UNI, and UI will see “a 5 percent bump” in cost while those who are from out of state or other programs “will see steeper hikes”. (Miller). She also dove into the fact that the increase in tuition could “widen the undergrad residential rate gap.” of the three colleges. The author while stating the cost that will burden the students has also listed the multiple benefits that the increase cost will bring.
One of the first facts presented by the author is that the colleges would benefit from the increase income by being able to compete and be “on par with high priced peer universities” and also “equipping them with more resources to better compete for top faculty and researchers.” (Miller). The UI president has also stated that the increase and more campus control would help UI be on a “competitive level based on last year’s salary information.” (Miller). One of the major points toward the acceptance of tuition increase is that Miller included information from Professor Toutkoushian from the University of Georgia on the general college cost. Toukoushian stated that while the tuition was increased, UI for example “was nearly half of the group’s highest rate” of the college cost. The increase as Miller stated also “align with national trends” where the parents and students are increasingly paying more for “public high education.”. Though the author has done a fair job of presenting the solid facts on the matter of the tuition hikes, she has also done a questionable action when introducing the quotes from Sen. Herman Quirenback.
While in first half of the article the author presented the information in a rather neutral stance on the subject it quickly changed with the introduction of the quotes from the Senator. Disregarding the good willed quote put in big black front the one in the column begins with “Our Republican-led state government has not done its part….” (Herman Quirinbach). This suggest that out of the multiple quotes that the reporter should have gotten from the Senator she chose one that seem to suggest that the whole reason for the cut of public funding was the fault from those of the Republican Party. Which future led to even more pointing figures where in the last part of the article she stated how it was how the “lawmakers clawed back $20.8 million…” where one could guess that these lawmakers who severely “clawed” back funds from the public colleges must be republican as it was stated above they have not done their part in helping the public education. Though one could certainly report and possibly blame one of the two major political parties with quotes from the opposing side on the ethos of degrading the funding for education this article is not the place for such action. Miller had clearly built up her credibility though facts before as one can say “low-key” inserting her opinion with quotes from someone who have similar ideals against those who think different from her.
Overall Vanessa Miller has over the topic on benefits and the disadvantages of the increase of college tuition. Despite such fair job she has undoubted used such fair judgement to build credibility for herself before inserting certain quotes and language that would call into judgment on her credibility.
Dear Mr. Hanson
First off, hi, hi! So about my approach to learning may have slightly changed in learning. College is such a fun time to experience new things and also to have your soul ripped out from your body doing finals and especially doing writing essays. I have started to give more time and to plan out a bit longer than I usually do which leads to more essays being fully completed. This situation underlines the fact of how important planning and that of giving ample amount of time to actually completing and assignment will greatly reduce stress and improve overall quality. This is especially true for WOVE communications as with better planning and time, the assignments will turn out better. Though also more time means I can say proofread an written assignment or work while editing various parts of a Visual or Electronic assignment that may make the work more favorable. All in all my tentative action plan is to well have a plan for every task in order better myself in the WOVE communications because a plan means a well thought process of accomplishing the satisfactory goals of having better communications. Though to better appeal to communicating to those in the future would mean improving one’s vocabulary to a more academic level while also making sure the errors are of nonexistent. There is though certain ideas that I have learned in ENGL 250 and one of those was that when composing an essay over a controversial topic it is a good idea to have one side’s point next to another side’s counterpoint instead of having two separate sections.
Probably the strongest of the WOVE for me is written though visual could be top that if it just pertains to actual drawing and such. My written is not the best though I could do better if I take a lot of time and planning in the steps for completing an essay or just an assignment. It definitely could use planning and time with also a higher vocabulary usage.
The weakest of my WOVE is electronics as well I am not the that well verse in technology and can often struggle such as turning in an assignment three different times in order for a teacher to actually be able to view the assignment. Some practice and a lot of learning I could eventually improve this area.
As noted before perhaps the weakest point of of my whole communication process is not planning out or giving enough time. If I give myself that then the only real other improvement besides the serious struggle at electronics is just to keep learning new techniques, improve vocabulary, and make sure everything is formatted in a proper way. That way I can produce proper and high quality products, I mean pieces of work. This process of improvement can be done alone though assistance is always a good thing to have around especially when questions arises. There is a possibility I may swing around your office in the future for a question or two. There is also our great internet for me to surf on for information.
Well as of now this blog is rather dry and empty. Besides the categories that have been inserted. I hope in the future I will add more categories that are also rather dynamic and unique than the general categories that I have created today. Also I have one or two posts which does include this one up, a number that will be greatly increased over time and that also contain a better sense of proper grammar usage. Not to mention I hope that I will not repeatably use the same few words and expand to a more college setting I still have the default picture set up on here. Which is a rather cute cactus on a table top though it is a rather bland and a feeling of being closed in picture that also is set in a urban setting. Hopefully I will soon be able to change that with a more open photo with perhaps a photo from the outdoors such as a waterfall or some mountains. A forest does create a sense of mystery with and a sounding of nature though I do favor more of a beach type of setting with clear waters. This way help the blog by conveying a more open and dynamic feeling. I also would like to change this black tone on the side of the site. It is a rather bland color which I could replace with a brighter color or perhaps a version of blue that fits in with Tumblr.
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