The article “The March for Science Can’t Figure Out How to Handle Diversity” speaks to our course in a lot of ways. The main idea I took away from the article was the fact that under the Trump administration there has been a cut down on spending for research on science. Also, Trump wanting to build a wall between US and Mexico will cause environmental damage. In an effort to fight back against these actions the science community has come up with a “March for Science”. This particular action is relevant to our course as we are helping out organizations such as Gloria Gemma, Nature Conservancy, and Save the Bay. All of these organizations need to help in having more and more people informed about the issues they present and how we as the people can go out about solving them. One term to take away in this article is Judicial. The Judicial is something that happens based on knowledge of the past. In this case Trumps actions have caused the scientist to stand up for science by having a march. Another term to take away is genre systems because in this article they are particularly looking at the science community.
The article “How the March for Science splits researchers” talked about how scientists are split on attending the March for Science. The scientists main point for supporting this march is that science means so much for the future of the world. The science community wants the world to know the importance of science by having this march. The term to take away from this article would be speech acts because the science community is coming together in order for their words to have an effect on the world. Their words want to create change in hopes of bettering the community. Both of these articles in relation to the March for Science will have an effect on our final project because we will look for great ways to interact with our Gloria Gemma audience through social media by using speech act theory’s to draw their attention. Also, addressing the Gloria Gemma project as our audience as a community just like the articles addressed the science community will be beneficial.
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In this article Smart studies how people continue to debate global climate change based on three sources of theory. The sources were contemporary theorizing of the public sphere, scholarship on collective argumentation in public spaces, and theory in genre studies. Smart study was based on two questions the first set of questions was the discursive formation of collective argumentation in the debate over global climate change. The second set was focused on the subgenre of the science blog. In his research for the first set of questions he found that the Advocates and Skeptics held different positions. The Advocates think we the people caused climate change and have to fix it before it really threatens our world. The Skeptics think that it is unlikely that we caused climate change and we should not tell the government anything that will undermine our way of life. In his research for the second set of questions he found that there was a number of strategies to communicate with your audience. One was having a survey to see what design adjustments need to be made to the blog and website. The second was how to engage best with each person that comes on the website and blog. The third was having the blog and website embedded on social media. Some concepts that were brought up in the article that we have discuss would be genre set and a genre system. Smart talked a lot about the genre set of blogs. We can relate a lot to this genre as each person in our class has a blog. Smart was able to find a good amount of research by looking at blogs and seeing how people communicate to their audience based on what they post. Also, how people set up their website in order to attract new people to look at it. Smart’s findings are helpful for my final project because he addressed how to engage with each person and how you must make design adjustments to your audience. This will be very helpful in the process of creating posts for Instagram for Gloria Gemma.
The article I choose is from the New York Times called “Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol”. This article talks about how the American Society of Clinical Oncology wants people to pay more attention to the ties of alcohol causing cancer. They talked about how heavy drinkers have more of a risk to have certain cancers. The article talked about how doctors are now suggesting to ban alcohol ads in the New York subway stations. They continued to back up their claim of drinking less alcohol by analyzing studies that proved their case to be right on the effects of alcohol usage leading to cancer. The article was summarized by having doctors mention the scientific terminology to how alcohol causes cancer, and how we must do everything in our power to limit alcohol usage in the future. In Montgomery chapter 19 he talks about how science writing is communicated to his readers by informing to a general audience. In the article I choose there was an effective introduction message send to the reader explaining what the article was going to be about. Here is what the introduction said, “The American Society of Clinical Oncology, which represents many of the nation’s top cancer doctors, is calling attention to the ties between alcohol and cancer.” This example supports Montgomery claim about the introduction to the paragraph being the lead, and how it is very important to deliver the message effectively in order to create interest to your reader. Another example from the article was how they clearly state their message to their audience by saying “The message is not, ‘Don’t drink.’ It’s, ‘If you want to reduce your cancer risk, drink less”. Montgomery talks about words in sentences that make your reader want to continue to read. In this example you can see how they phrase the sentence so that it makes you want to read more because you want to see why drinking less will reduce the probability of you getting cancer. The move I would want to steal for my final project would be having an effective delivery of our message to our reader because that will then grab the attention of our reader to want to read more.
I read an article called “The Last Male Northern White Rhino Is Dead” because I found it to be very interesting. The article talked about Sudan a northern white Rhino that had finally died of old age at the age of 45. Then the article further examined the extinction of this species and how Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy is putting their best efforts forward in coming up with a way to reproduce these rhinos. The article gave great information on background history to this species and how they would go about implanting embryos into the rhinos. In the end of the article they gave a possible solution they have come up with in reproducing the Rhino species in order for it to not go extinct. Unfortunately, it will cost $9 million to do the procedure that is why they hope that Sudan death will prompt people to take action in saving this species. Montgomery stylistic tools can be found in this article. For example, the first sentence of the article “The Last Male Northern White Rhino Is Dead” shows a very effective way of introducing the article with a little humor by saying “With wide three-toed hooves and no thumbs, Sudan could neither swipe right nor swipe left.” Montgomery talks about how an introduction sentence should draw in the reader, and I think this example was an excellent way of doing it. Another way Montgomery thought to make writing more effective was through transitions. An example of a transition I saw in this article was “I don’t mean to be too forward, but the fate of my species literally depends on me,’ Sudan’s profile read.” I thought this was an effective transition because it does provide a clear meaning in the sentence to what the article is going to be talking about. Montgomery emphasizes the importance of how your ending sentence in your introduction should discuss the main topics you will be talking about in the article. This way your writing will be easy to read. A move I would steal for our own scientific writing would be the introduction sentence that helped draw the reader in because I think it is very important for our paper to display a good attracting message to our audience.
The first part of Caesar’s Last Breath talked about 3 different elements Sulfur dioxide, Nitrogen, and Oxygen. Each element had a story along with in and how it was discovered. Chapter 1 talked about the story of Harry Truman and his family. It focused on how his family was isolated on Mount Saint Helens where an active volcano stood waiting to erupt. Chapter 2 talked about the famous German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch and the historical accomplishes they made and also why people hated them. Chapter 3 talked about Joseph Priestley and how Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier stole his work. Kean’s audience seems to be people of scientific discourse community because the reading was on how these elements were discovered and how they effected the earth at the time it took place. Kean’s purpose is to make his audience informative of how these elements were discovered and how dangerous they were through story telling. For example, he mentions the Truman family in chapter 1 and how they die by living near an active volcano when it erupted. I can tell his purpose is to inform because he presents a lot of scientific terminology in his writing to be persuasive in his stories. Also, he uses ethos because he talks about certain famous chemists on how they were able to discover an element through experiments. Kean effectively tells his story by introducing the element in the beginning of the chapter that he is going to talk about. He then furthers his story by taking you step by step in chronological order of the events that have occurred. The arrangement he uses makes the audience understand what he is talking about more. Also, he clearly defines specific language he uses to avoid confusion for his audience. The moves I would take from Kean would be the delivery of information he gave to his audience that made his writing easy to follow along with. Some questions I would asked him would be:
Why did you decide to use story telling in your approach to writing to your audience? Did you feel like using certain people in your writing gave your writing more credibility? What made you have your arrangement of writing broken down into chapters and Interludes? When looking at articles, we decided to take a look at the genre of business letters that Michael Burry and Warren Buffet send to their investors/shareholders. These letters were to educate their investors on the process they went through when looking at the Stock Market. Both Buffet and Burry were persuasive when writing their letters to their investors. Also, they used certain styles, deliveries, and genres when getting information across to their investors. When looking at our preliminary analysis we looked at the invention(process) by looking at how we would relate the business letters Buffett and Burry write in relation to rhetoric, appeals, and different analytical tools. We had the arrangement of the analysis set up to show how Burry and Buffet communicated to their investors and shareholders differently by keeping their letters apart from each others. Having Burry's letters first then making a transition to Buffets letters. The style we used was our tone throughout our analysis was very informative because we thought it would be good for us to write the same type of style Buffet and Burry write. This displayed the genre of business writing we wanted to come across in our preliminary analysis. When looking at memory we used information from Burry and Buffets letters in order to make our analysis provide more factual evidence about the discourse community. The delivery of the analysis was made so that the audience reading it would understand what they are reading be being concise and clear. We did not want our audience to have any difficulty reading it. Here are some questions we have for people reading our preliminary analysis. These questions will be a big help in improving our rough draft of this paper.
How will we go about comparing and contrasting Buffett and Burry businesses letters? How will an interview with our business writing teacher enhance our paper? How can we cut this paper down, so that it is more concise to our audience? One analytical tool Bazerman employs is the creation of a patent. Bazerman talks about how a patent is a text representing an idea. The analytical tool of the patent describes how you must protect a wide range of ideas you have in order to beat out your competition. The idea of the patent has made companies control their corporation more by protecting their ideas in a legal document. This has made businesses successful. Another analytical tool Bazerman used was the issues in Speech-Act Theory. One of the main difficulties is how in local circumstances you need to identify, interpret, and realize the speech act that is occurring. A second difficulty is how the speech act may be interpreted. When given a situation with a person on making a certain decision on something you realize there are many ways to look at that decision. You can have many different interpretations of why that person made that decision. Also, the person next to you can have a different opinion then you do on that same person. This is why there can be issues within Speech Act Theory. An analytical tool used by Bazerman would be the Genres in Speech Acts. He describes how when looking at a patent you have to have a representation of an object. If you do not have an idea to your patent you will not have an approved patent. You must thoroughly talk about what your patent is trying to accomplish, and stick to that genre. Then you will be successful with getting the legal document approved. How you use Speech Act in this document is very important. All of these analytical tools from Bazerman gives me ideas on how I will conduct my analysis. I would steal the idea of Speech Acts being very important in my genre when looking at my analysis. Some of the texts I plan to collect from professor Mackey who I will be interviewing would be his articles about derivatives. I want to ask him questions on what time it is best to hedge and speculate a stock. Also, what is the best time to take advantage of an arbitrage. My analysis will really help me reach the goal of using rhetoric while still displaying it in a scientific discourse.
Some terms and methods of analysis that were outlined by Bazerman were social facts and speech acts. You could use the term social facts in your discourse community to show how a person’s current financial investments are doing. For example, maybe the person has invested in to many risky investments for their age. You could provide them with numbers that suggest investing in other stocks is a safer bet. They would then trust you and believe it to me true. You are using social facts to demonstrate your skills in your finance discourse community. This relates to science in rhetoric because you are using logos by providing logical solutions to their investment strategies. Another term that can be used is speech act because every word carries an action. The example Bazerman provides is a great one because it talks about how applying for a bank loan is carried out purely in the words and numbers you use to fill out and submit the application. This is a great example for my discourse of community in finance. This example relates to science in rhetoric because you are using logos by using words and numbers to fill out a bank loan. The activity system I am most interested in is how my finance teacher chooses certain websites to use when looking at real life numbers in the world of finance. Then using those numbers to determine how our economy is doing. I would also ask him how he uses the economy in relation to investing with futures/options contracts. The genre I would choose would be business and within that would be the current news happening in the world. I would determine what news was relevant to us in the US in regards to our stock market. I would interview my advisor and teacher Professor Mackey because he would be a good person to ask questions to about economy in the world today and if we should be investing in futures/options contract in today’s day of age.
The article I choose from the field of finance that I am in is an article about behavioral finance. This article specifically talks about the stresses of the stock market, and how investors make wrong decisions based on emotions they have for certain things. The article emphasizes of the risk that comes with investing and how important it is to lower the risk. The different ways in which investors can go wrong come from many different ways. In this article it breaks down in a table how some behavioral terms like representatives, overconfidence, and anchoring can affect people’s performance in finance. After that an experiment was conducted by many participants both male and female on questions regarding their confidence levels they had in their decision making on their investments. The data was then analyzed and proved that many investors both male and female were affected by behavioral finance biases in particular representativeness. The rhetorical functions and features of this article became advent when looking at it. The branch of forensic was seen here as during the experiment participants had to look at their past knowledge and to know what affected their investments decisions. An appeal that most obvious in this article was pathos. Emotion had to do with everything in this article. You really got the feel for the field of finance because it showed how emotion really affected the everyday person in how they behaved. Some other rhetoric features and functions of the article were the arrangement and delivery. The way the article was written showed the structure of finance and how it constitutes science. The tables and graphs in the article showed the delivery of finance articles, and how more visual the article was broken down. All these functions and features of rhetoric in the article were solely based on the context. The context on behavioral finance really used rhetoric based on the persuasion used in the article. The article really wanted the audience to see how behavioral finance biases had an effect on investors by conducting an experiment that back up their hypothesis. This article really showed how finance in written in rhetoric and the process constitutes science.
I looked at the syllabus from my professor from Principle of Investments and came to the conclusion that in order to succeed in the class you would have to keep up with the current events in the world. It seemed to be important in the scientific discourse in Finance. I questioned what STOCK-TRAK was and why it matters to me if I didn’t have any knowledge of Finance yet. It occurred to me that maybe STOCK-TRAK would be essential for this class in order to apply the skills I learned from the semester. When the professor told us to highlight risk analysis in his course objective I wonder what that had to do with investing. I did not realize the importance of risk when it came to the stock market in Finance. When looking at the Investment Report we were going to be assigned in class at the end of the semester I started to put things together. This Finance course was going to test the skills you learned throughout the semester in the report. This made me nervous because what if I didn’t know what I was doing. Would this class have been a waste of my time? The syllabus suggested the report would be worked on within a group. I thought that this made a little more sense considering the long length of the paper. I took from the syllabus that this course was going to be a team based course. I realized that this scientific discourse might be emphasized on your ability to work well within a team. While reading the syllabus it suggested that the teacher was very informative in what we as students would get out of this class. I started to get the picture of what Finance was all about. Finance was a field in the business world where you would have to know a little bit about every subject. In regard to investing in Finance, you would need to analyze different companies within the United States and outside the United States based on a number of variables. Overall, the scientific discourse in Finance is a global field with a big effect on the world.
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