#rhetoricalrobots

[reidbutler]

Tumblr Journal 9

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/

This article applies to both sides of the argument by giving credible opinions by respected sources in the industry. The authors are Aaron Smith and Janna Anderson. The audience is for anyone who is interested about robots potentially taking future jobs. The setting talks about the job market being changed by the year 2025. The format is an article that consists of credible quotes stating their ideas about the topic.

[julianlcs]

Journal 9

This article above (https://www.blackscreens.com.au/what-is-screen-addiction#:~:text=The%20term%20screen%20addiction%20has,have%20from%20time%20to%20time.) supports/adds on what the article by Nellie Bowles says. What I really like about this article is how in depth it goes about addiction. It first gives you the definition of addiction and then slowly moves into how can you stop yourself from being addicted. I really like this because it gives you a good understanding of what addiction really is before heading into Bowles’s article. 

[griffinbolt]

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I can translate my writing process to other work outside the classroom by improving on the general writing process which will improve my ability to write emails/letters. Becoming familiar with the writing process will allow me to craft things such as resumes or analysis articles easily as I will have a solid understanding of how to write meaningful pieces of work. Using the outline phase of the writing process will benefit anything you are writing by organizing your ideas into separate bodies of text and formulating a concise thesis. Other parts of the writing process such as the editing and revision step will improve your work making it more appealing to the viewer. 

[griffinbolt]

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The most challenging assignment I’ve completed this semester was the rhetorical analysis mainly because I haven’t been exposed to writing one since my senior year in high school. I found it the most challenging assignment because it took time for me to relearn the outline of a rhetorical analysis paper. 

I feel that my writing has improved this semester when it comes to where to position main ideas throughout a paper. The activity that helped me understand text positioning more clearly was actually when we participated in the peer review groups. The groups helped me because each member had their own ideas that benefitted my paper. Another way my writing has improved is more concise ideas when dealing with my topic sentence/main ideas. 

[griffinbolt]

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In his article "How tech created a global village — and put us at each other’s throats", Nicholas Carr argues that technology is an effective communication tool that can either be used for good or bad. Technology can be used to help bring people together, but human nature can also cause technology to be used for social division.

-  The amount of time spent using technology among young adults has steadily increased from 2015 to now.

-  People who use social media for longer are more likely to develop symptoms of depression.

In my counterargument I include the logical appeal (logos) by providing facts and statistics on the use of social media. This infographic is not inteded for a specific audience, but is mainly catered to anyone interested in social media statistics/uses of social media. 

[chris-wetherell-blog]

Journal 11

A.I. technology produces a great amount of fear and disdain in the population. This is due to the lack of jobs they cause and the fear they produce in the population who are unaware of the range of their capabilities.

Refute:

- To start, A.I. does take away simple factory jobs but in turn creates jobs for maintenance and building of this technology. Lack of jobs is also due to human laziness.

- In the future, revenue produced from A.I. powered automation in corporations will grow exponentially within the next 10 years or so.

[thexaviertorres]

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One of the arguments I need to counter is the cost of electric cars vs gas cars. I can counter this by saying the cost is worth it.

-I can tell them that the electric is more ecofriendly in the long term

-The cost of maintenance for electric cars are cheaper than gas cars

The point is trying to make electric cars seem more better than gas cars. Cost could be something I should focus more one since the argument I am trying to counter deals with cost. So, in a way, my audience are people thinking of buying electric cars. 

[julianlcs]

Journal 11

My counter argument I plan to address in my infographic is: With everything technology is used for and what it offers to society, is it solely your fault to be addicted to your screen?

-Firstly, technology, more specifically, social media is used on an day-to-day basis. Roughly 80% of Americans use social media so it’s safe to say that social media is normalized into our society. Technology is used for practically everything and some of the biggest companies in the world settles their products around technology/social media. You can’t necessarily blame the consumers for becoming addicted for how normalized technology has become.

-Secondly, to many, technology is more than just a “device”. Many will take advantage of the unique features, whether that’s from an iPhone or an Xbox or anything along those lines, and use it to distract themselves from the world. To them, technology is their “Coping Mechanism”

When thinking about my audience, I believe this can be referred to any age but even more directly to the teens and younger adults. Addiction is found at any age but you typically see it more in teens and younger adults than any other age group due to the marketing strategy be directly towards them.