Author: to286

This semester I learned a lot of new skills that I will continue to use in the future. The first thing that I learned is ethos, logos, and pathos. This has changed my writing in a huge way. When it comes to writing papers its important to use ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is the credibility and trust, so how the information was delivered and if it came from a credible source. Logos is logic and reason, what proof do they provide you with. Lastly, pathos is the emotion that was used in the source. This is a skill that I will use for the rest of my educational career. 

My topic in the evening of the semester was about how sleep can affect your mental health. For the last project, I switched it to pollution in the ocean. Both of these topics took a lot of time to fully understand the topic that I picked. The most significant thing that I learned bout how sleep affects your mental health is that lack of sleep can cause long term problems. Meaning, it can cause sleep disorders or personality disorders. The most significant thing that I learned about pollution is that all that trash that ends up in the ocean turns into toxins that we could possibly ingest.

Post your idea for your Multimodal Recast to your Writer’s Journal.

• Your intended audience (who is the recast for?)
• My intended audience is people who actually care about our planet for the most part. I also would like to grab everyone’s attention because we all have a big role in the amount of pollution that enters our waters. 
• Your purpose (what are you trying to do?)
• The purpose of the video is to show people how much plastic we produce and use. I want to show people other options that they have. Meaning, showing the audience what they could use to reduce the amount of plastic. People don’t stress this topic enough they don’t understand the severity of pollution in our waters. People also don’t realize how much plastic and garbage they use and more than half of it ends up in the water. 
• Outline what information from your research essay would be most suitable to include to help you achieve your purpose

• Garbage patches 
• Statistics about how much plastic ends up in the water 
• Where it comes from and why
• The animals it’s affecting 
• How pollution affects the environment and humans 
• Tools you’ll need for composing. Do you have access to those tools?

• I will be creating a video that is pleasing to watch. I need a camera, a computer, and a lot of plastic witches is easy. 
• I will need an editing app that I already have purchased.
• All the items that I will need to create my vision for this project I have access to.

I am a law major and I do believe that taking my classes online will affect my academics. I learn the best inside the class room due to my learning disability dyslexia. At the same time I am thankful that my classes got switched to online because my health and other peoples are important and if staying home gives us a better chance of not getting the virus then so be it.

I think that the united states should band plastic bags altogether. Our plant is dying from all the trash that we create and we have to take care of our home. I don’t think that not using plastic bags is a big deal. Cloth bags are more strong anyways and could home more things in one bag. I feel that it is super important not only because of the trash issue but because plastic bags are killing wildlife. For example, turtles mistake plastic bags for jellyfish and they eat the bag and they die.

I think that repetition is important because it is the most effective for people. If you say things one time people tend to forget. When it comes to political speeches it is important to have people’s attention and support. To gain peoples support you have to say things that they agree with but not just one time. Mentioning things more than once will help people remember. I believe that having and target audience has the biggest effect on political euphemisms, not so much repetition.

The synthesis essay process so far is going well. I do find it harder to write these types of essays rather than the ones that I have done in the past. What difficult for me is trying not focusing on the information given in the text. My draft needs a lot more work, I have to add to all my body paragraphs. I haven’t gone to see a comp fellow yet but I have it scheduled. I will be confident in my work once it has a second opinion. I don’t have any questions or comments I just need to give more attention to this essay especially because the due date is around the corner.

Taylor Olympios 

February 12, 2020

Rhetorical precis 

Source 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5489575/ 

Patrick, Yusuf et al. “Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive and physical performance in university students.” Sleep and biological rhythms vol. 15,3 (2017): 217-225. DOI:10.1007/s41105-017-0099-5  

The 13 authors that go by the names of Yusuf Patrick, Alice Lee, Oishik Raha, Kavya Pillai, Shubham Gupta, Sonika Sethi, Felicite Mukeshimana, Lothaire Gerard, Mohammad U. Moghal, Sohag N. Saleh, Susan F. Smith, Mary J. Morrell, and James Moss wrote a essay that is a study (April 13,207) named Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive and physical performance in university students that argues how sleep impacts students. The essay starts off with an introduction that gives background information and statistics on how many students are sleep deprived. The author’s purpose in this essay is to determine whether a nigh of sleep deprivation would have a negative impact of a student’s performance. The tone of the essay is informative and the intended audience would be students and the general public.  

Source 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=gedoSfZvBgE&feature=emb_title 

Marcu, Shai, and Javier Saldeña. The Benefits of a Good Night’s Sleep. YouTube, TED-Ed, 5 Jan. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=gedoSfZvBgE&feature=emb_title.

The video “the benefits of a good night’s sleep” (January 5, 2015)  is written by Shai Marcu who is a TED talk educator, who claims that a goodnight’s sleep is better for you in the long run, and that sleep can affect how our brain functions. The author supports his thesis by narrating and illustrating his points on how staying up and cramming in work is no help and won’t help the function of the brain. The author states that we are better off putting away the books and going to sleep, in order to have the audience to be cautious of how much sleep they are getting. The tone the author uses is informative, the intended audience is students and the general public. 

Source 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=65&v=V-F2S-INvRY&feature=emb_title 

Teen Kids News. Does Sleep Deprivation Affect School Performance? YouTube, Teen Kids News, 15 June 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=65&v=V-F2S-INvRY&feature=emb_title.  

  The video “Does sleep deprivation affect school performance?”(January 15, 2018)  Is an informational video from teen kids news and is hosted by family and Filipe, they claim that sleep deprivation will impact students’ school work negatively. The authors develop and support what they are saying from narrating and illustrating. The author’s purpose is to inform people that students aren’t getting enough rest, in order to get the audience to be concerned of the amount of sleep they are getting. The author’s tone is informative, the intended audience is students and parents.

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I think that America is not doing everything in their power to make sure that our country doesn’t get infected. I think that the first thing we should have done is to stop flights in and out of China. I think America is being laid back with this due to the fact that we trade with China. 

No, I don’t think that we should send American astronauts into space from another country. I personally think that we should resume sending astronauts into space from America. not to mention that America is in debt and $86 million dollars is a lot of money that we could be saving.  

The news about Kobe Bryan passing away in a tragic helicopter crash made me feel sad. I never watched Kobe play basketball and I didn’t know him personally but this news got to me. I think that there is also a lessoned to be learned here that tomorrow is not promised. Its important that we dont take things for granted. what I would say to the Bryan family is that I am so sorry for their loss. I honestly wouldn’t know what els to say because not only did they lose Kobe but they lost Gigi as well. There is nothing that will take the pain away other than time, time heels everything.