The text you find, use, and forget to cite. #AvoidPlagiarism!

Plagiarism is the theft of other's ideas and using the ideas as your own. Plagiarism was not a problem in classical times, but with the invention of printing technology and copyright law, it is easy to take people's work and claim them as your own for quick use. There are two ways that you can avoid unintentional plagiarism. Keep in mind that you are contributing to a conversation with other writers and develop effective ways of note taking while reading through your sources. It is easy to assimilate all the material we have read and then think that the ideas are our own once we have shuffled around some words here and there and constructed a new sentence. This however, is what plagiarism is all about. Even though the thoughts may be jumbled around, the same ideas are still being presented and the author that came up with the ideas needs to be credited. That is what works cited pages are for. Books, newspapers, pictures, music, magazines, and many more places where we get information all have authors and need to be cited properly when used. In-text citations are also necessary in papers when you are quoting your source or using the information directly from the cite. These are easy and are not time consuming. Let's say you get information from a magazine. You would just need to put the author's last name and the page number you found the information on in parenthesis. Citing your sources is easy, but people easily forget to credit the authors that they get their information from. Stay away from plagiarism and cite your sources!

CH 6:Building

Constructing a research project is a complex and ongoing process. From drafting to formatting and researching, revising and refining. I suggest spanning it out and getting early starts. Sleep is also essential. Eating regularly is a good idea as well. You can process your ideas into a bubble web which is simply arranging everything into categories. You could also create a graphic flowchart where you list ideas and created arrows showing similarities of causes and effects. Visual maps can then help you create and outline. Once your outline is done you can refine it into a formal outline with numbers and letters. You should also consider enhancing your flow by having well crafted transitions. Once your paper is written it would be wise to revise it several times over.

CH 5: The Research

As you begin your research you must begin to evaluate and investigate resources for your project. You should be aware of your audience types while researching. This will help with shaping your argument. Visualize what it is you will be researching. It is important that you gather information from a broad selection of resources because it is not cerrtain that all information will go into the final cut of your paper. Try to add your voice to that of others. you should try to include some primary sources. These are sources taken directly from the source. As for secondary where you obtain your information from sources taht have already obtained the information for you. Towards the end you should begin to synthesize your research into an annotated bibliography where you provide a list of sources that provides infromational notes about each source.

David Letterman

Ball State alum, David Letterman and journalism Rachel Maddow came to Ball State to have a conversation as a part of David Letterman’s Distinguished Professional Lecture and Workshop Series on December 2^nd. Also joining the pair was BSU president JoAnn Gora. I thoroughly enjoyed the program because of its news dynamic and the simple fact they were not just lecturing to us, it was an honest conversation about events and issues in our world today. I thought it was very interesting Letterman brought Gora on stage, because Maddow and Letterman are these powerful, influential people and are nationally famous, but Gora is just locally known because she is our president. It was interesting to see them interact because they do come from such different backgrounds. The most interesting topic for me was the Sandusky conversation about the Penn State and Syracuse sex abuse scandals. Listening to Gora speak about the University side and what she would do was very interesting and listening to Maddow who is a profound journalist and has covered this for weeks now talk about the multiple sides of the story was interesting to hear and understand. Gora and Maddow really had the same opinion about the situation and how it is so upsetting and shocking when no one reported it. It was bad enough the event occurred, but shocking they kept it from the police. I like that Gora emphasized that a university isn’t about their football team, it really is academics and to know that Penn State hid this scandal for fear of a bad reputation, specifically towards the football team is upsetting to many.

pursausion skills

In chapter 2 understanding strategies or persuasion I learned that there are different type of ad arguments. The ones mentioned in the text was narration, comparison-contrast, cause and effect, definition. Theses strategies are equally effectively both visual and writing texts. In the text they talked about the famous quote "this is your brain on drugs" this quote is an analogy. An analogy is a comparison to something else. The chapter moves to understanding rhetorical appeals and how logos, pathos, and ethos is the heart of persuasion dating back to 500 BCE. They continued to talk about each one individual when logos is used you will probably tend to see quotations and statistics about advertising present. Pathos is used to an intimate connection with the audience and they talked about exaggerated use of pathos. The three forms of pathos use when exaggerarting are scretactic , slippery slope, and false need. Ethos was the last talked about the chapter says everytime you pick up a pen or proofread a paper. This all the important things i gathered after reading this chapter.

Chapter 2: Understanding Strategies of Persuasion

The point of an ad is to convince the audience. This is why advertisers are careful to attend to the rhetorical situation, in which we find specific strategies of argumentation that you can use to make your case. Most advertisers use narration comparison-contrast, example, illustration, cause and effect, definition, analogy, process, description, classification and division.

The narration is how to sell their product, for example using an ad to tell a story. Comparison-contrast is used to convince the audience to purchase their product instead of their competitors. An example or illustration of a product can show how the product can impact the consumer’s life. Cause and effect is used to show the benefits of using their product and the definition is to specify the purpose and function of the product. The process is to demonstrate the way a product can be used and the classification is to help the audience concept how the product fits into a larger scheme. All of these strategies are very effective if chosen and used correctly to persuade the audience into purchasing their product.

Regards From the Nest. Chirp Chirp.

A few weeks ago, I was only focused on college football. Then, I saw a glorious sign. “BSU Basketball Fanfest”. Finally. I am a huge basketball fan and was ready for the season to tip off. So I decided to attend this event to get myself excited for the upcoming men’s basketball season. I threw on some BSU merch that evening and I walked over to Worthen Arena. What I saw was awesomely promising. There was a nice line where you could grab your new poster for the upcoming season. I waited in line and was eventually greeted by a large red person. Yes, THE Charlie Cardinal and his obnoxiously large yellow feet waddled over and gave me a big high five. With my excitement level at an all time high, I waited in line. What is better than a large cartoon Cardinal? A large cartoon piece of pizza perhaps? I saw yes. After Charlie left and piece of pizza came over and handed me a coupon. He was a promotion with Papa John’s (Ball State Alumni). Well this has taken a turn for the weird. So without any more cartoon interruptions, I got my poster. Then I didn’t see much else to do. As I got prepared to leave I see head coach Billy Taylor. I don’t know coach Taylor personally, but my brother does. My brother played on the team hear from 2007-2009. So I went up and introduced myself and told him I was excited to watch the team this year. He was delighted to talk with me and catch up on what my brother was up to. After that, I walked through the tunnel that the cheerleaders were making and was on my way. All in all a very fun time. I suggest if you have never been to watch the men’s team play, run by sometime. They will be taking on 2-time National Runner Up Butler on Saturday at 2.