Week 7 hybrid homework

English 301 Hybrid Homework

           

To start off the day yesterday, our group had a meeting about what the agenda was for the upcoming weeks for the project. Jason was unable to attend the meeting, but we emailed him about what was discussed in the room. Martin, Elizabete, and I discussed our objectives everyone basically talked about their progression on their part of the assignment. My part is taking a little longer than anticipated because all of the directors and professors do not reply back so that I could interview them through email. My part is the main section for the research, but I’ve gotten most of my research from a thorough search of the website on the ASU webpage. I started the “research methods” section so I could give my group a draft to brainstorm around. The next part I will get to and write about, but our main worries were about the organization and duties of our group members and with that meeting we accomplished it by sending emails and updating each other on the project.

Chapter 8

The section that was important to me was where it talked about identifying the elements of an argument. The reason for its importance is because it talks about evidence, reasoning, and claims of an argument (Markel, 187). So, basically the claim is what you want the audience to believe about a certain topic or argument. The reasoning explains your logic when you’re approaching the subject. Lastly, the evidence is the part of argument that makes the claims and reasoning true with its facts (Markel, 187). There is also a difference in the types of evidence used when reasoning in an argument.  The first set of evidence is “commonsense” arguments and it explains how most of the data is commonsense and the audience members should just use their logic to figure out the certain topic at hand. Then there is numerical data, which are generally more persuasive (Markel, 188). The thing about the numerical data is that most business’ that are competing against another brand tend to use graphs of numerical data to show that their company is better than everyone else’s. Lastly, comes the expert testimony, which my opinion is the most important because the certain individual that is elaborating on the topic has studied and mastered the category and whatever the individual explains is correct and should be taken as evidence (Markel, 189).  Moving on, another topic that peeked my interest was appealing to emotions responsibility. The reason for such interest was because I took a look at the example displayed on page 191 and it explains how KFC was cruel and what it would do to the animals at the slaughterhouse (Markel, 191). This example doesn’t overdo it with the sympathetic and emotional facts and if they were to do it would become an alienation of the audience.

Chapter 16

The next topic that I would like to bring up is that in chapter 16, it talks about research proposals. The research proposals are similar to what my group and I are working on as if right now with our center research. Basically, the definition for the research proposal is to perform a research and then provide a report about it (Markel, 444).  During the report proposal there is going to be numerous amounts of drafting and completion reports. There has to be a lot of drafting before constructing the final report and explaining the topic at hand. The next topic that I found was interesting was demonstrating your professionalism. The importance about that is that once you show the readers that you understand the topic, you would also have to keep your promises and deliver whatever it is that was promised from the beginning. The key objective about it is showing the reader that you have pride and perseverance to solve any problem that comes about (Markel, 447).  When writing a proposal you have to take many things under consideration and that is personnel, facilities, and equipment. The personnel are important because it’s basically managers and/or group leaders, which in our case it’s Martin. Facilities talk about the main companies and in our case we could use the Center of Biology and Society (Markel, 449). Lastly, the equipment symbolizes our equipment used when recording data such as, a recording device when giving an interview or the computers we use to get us where we need to be in order to become successful and accomplish our goals. In conclusion, the group and I are working through the project so that we could have enough time to revise anything and to be successful. Thank you.