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Post 08

 December 3, 2024 There is a million things I could say about taking this course with Professor Hamon, but I will try to keep it simple. This is my first year of college, and this being the first semester of it, to say the least I had so many mixed feelings about it. I always took AP and honors courses in high school, so I knew I would be capable of whatever college had to offer me. But, I underestimated online courses. I took them because I thought they would be easier for me to go at my own pace and be able to live at home while working a lot so I could move out instead of paying way more, living in a dorm room, being two or more hours from home, barely working, and still sitting in a classroom full of strangers. Wow was I proven wrong. Online courses are if anything, more demanding than in person school. Since you get to be in the comfort of your own room, more is asked of you. And this threw me for a loop, because rather than working a lot, i've had to take many days off to be ...
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Post 07

 November 18, 2024     In high school, which wasn't too long ago, I graduated May 2024, my literature and english classes were always particularly interesting. This is mainly because of the teachers I had. A lot of people have a bad stigma and a negative stereotype associated with high school, but I rather enjoyed the short years there. I hardly remember freshman year, but my teacher was one of the best I ever had. I attended his different courses for all four years of high school. Little I remember, however I do recall having a large greek mythology unit, as well as doing a little poetry, and writing a few essays. Sophomore year I had a different literature teacher. She is now living in another state and thriving. A couple of my classmates didn't enjoy her, or her class as much as I did. This class began my obsession with The Great Gatsby, and she found new ways to make class interesting each week. Junior year I had a different teacher. It was AP Lang. We wrote a TON of ...
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Post 06

November 13, 2024      After reading Boyd's essay, I felt enlightened. I enjoy how she explained everything, and kept it interesting. I won't lie, I often find myself getting bored reading school articles about something that I must know. But, I do love reading. So if it's interesting enough, has outside views, and tells enough of a story, I don't mind it. Boyd used 5 "facts" which are simply interrogative words. We learned these as a little child. However, as we grow old they become so used, we forget how important "Who? What? Where? When? and How?" are.     Boyd uses her previous students responses to what is rhetoric. This helps me connect better, and understand better from people in the same shoes I am in; a college student trying to pass the classes I am in. Boyd using the detective analogy also resonates to me, as I am majoring in criminal justice and love to be in that "detective" mindset. Boyd writes " Every time you go to writ...
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Post 05

 November 5, 2024 In my Doc 02, about convincing undecided college students to major in criminal justice, my thesis is that there are so many different kinds of jobs available from police officer to private investiagor to judges with a criminal justice degree under ones belt. A logical argument I may use to support this is that no matter where you go in this field, employers will always see you shining bright because of your criminal justice degree. It is so versatile, and it is so easy to work your way up a hierachy in this field. You could start as a street cop making $40k a year, depending on where you work, to being hired due to that job as a private investigator making $90k a year. This logical argument would work because everybody wants to work a job that they know they have benefits, and will eventually always get paid more, which is always a criminal justice field job.  Rebecca Jones, author of Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother With Logic , says something worth m...
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Post 04: Code of Justice

 October 30, 2024      In our real world, we use rhetoric when we don't even realize it. Laura Bolin Carroll, author of Backpacks vs. Briefcases, talks a lot about implementing rhetoric in everyday life. "Chances are you have grown up learning to interpret and analyze these types of rhetoric. They become so commonplace that we don't realize how often and how quickly we are able to perform this kind of rhetorical analysis." (Carroll, 48).      The rhetorical context of criminal justice is important to any career in the path of law. Analyzation is consequential in criminal justice degree careers for the reasons that you have to come in contact with all sorts of people. For example, networking is a huge part of it; networking will allow you to meet new people who are your higher ups, and will unfold new positions and opportuinities in your career. Not only is communication and analyzation crucial in the sense of networking, but also talking to criminals, ...
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Post 3: An Outside View

Yvonne Settles October 24, 2024      Using outside sources in an academic standpoint in a writing class can be extremely useful. Not only does it give extra substantive ideas, but it gets other published articles more reads. Citing outside sources in an article or essay or any piece of writing allows for the reader to trust the author more, and it gives the idea that the topic has been greatly researched by the author, making the author, and the article very credible. Credibility in the writing world is very important, as it showcases how much an author worked on getting the reader the most, and honest information they can. In my Doc1, I used at least one outside source in each paragraph that gave a different solution for my problem that I came up with, using Google Gemini's help, in my essay for college students. As for high school students, Mike Bunn in "How to Read Like a Writer" gave many ideas on how reading like a writer makes for a better writer. 
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Post 2: My Rhetorical Situation

 October 16, 2024     The topic I have chosen to write my essay on are the struggles to balance school and work. We all have busy lives, and it feels as if it is all crumbling apart after you graduate high school. In my essay, I hope to relay information on how to better juggle working at your job, doing school work, and maintaining your social life, but not just first-year college students like myself, but anyone in school struggling to keep a healthy balance of all the things you must accomplish in life.      I hope my essay can help anyone that reads it, and helps myself as I write it. I chose to do this topic because it is something I actually struggle with. While I feel as if I am getting better with the whole college thing, I hope to be improved even more as I read new articles, and write solutions for it. 
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