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Post 8: Lesson Learned

 As a student, this class has been exceptionally beneficial in terms of academic writing. As a high school student, it was a new opportunity to learn new components of writing and implementing them into my own. It taught me in what ways high school writing and college writing can be different. Outside of writing, using Google applications such as Blogger and Google Chat has also been a new technological experience for me. I was initially struggling on how to utilize the applications, but at the end, I feel more comfortable with these Google extensions. However, personally, the most important thing I have learned in this class was the use of Gemini. Before this class, because I was taught to not use AI at all in my high school, I did not know the existence of Gemini. At the end, I learned that AI is not all bad and that it provides great assistance when it comes to writing and getting broad information. The least important thing I learned in this class was... to be honest, I really ...
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Post 7: Academic Writing in College vs High School

 As a current high school student myself, I can personally tell you in detail on how my English classes are like at my school compared to this class that I am taking right now through dual enrollment. I think the biggest difference for me was the use of AI. In high school, teachers often strictly prohibit the use of AI in any means. However, in college, especially this class, I feel like the restrictions are much more loose and Professor. Hamon does an amazing job in providing us with the freedom to use assistance from Gemini, which I have had great help from personally. Another difference is the type of style the students use in their academic writing. As Kate would say, "writing in various academic and professional contexts needs to be more flexible, sophisticated, and subtle than writing for high school English classes. In college, you should start using first-person pronouns in your formal academic writing, where appropriate" (Maddalena, 180). Like this, high school stude...
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Post 6: Boyd's Rhetorical Strategy

It was interesting to see how Janet Boyd prompted the reader to do a certain task and then predicted how the reader would react. When talking about the detective scenario, she asks the question "how did you know how to write like a detective would in the first place?" (89). This surprised me as I thought of the same answer she predicted, and it created a rhetorical situation that convinced me to agree her claim that was supported later, "When you write an academic paper, you are practicing how to use the jargon you have internalized through studying that discipline as you write for professors and students within that field" (89). She utilized a scenario to develop a rhetoric and to prove myself that using certain ways to express the meaning is what a rhetoric should be.                                                             ...
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Post 5: Logical Arguments

 In the essay "Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother With Logic?" by Rebecca Jones, she quotes what non-quality arguments often miss "is research, consideration of multiple vantage points, and, quite often, basic logic" (Jones, 158). Using extensive research, I will provide why electrical engineering is a prominent major that pre-college students should consider taking from creditable sources with factual evidence to support my argument. One of the claims I will support is that electrical engineering can be applied to many different fields and that there is barely no place that does not use electricity. For multiple vantage points, I will explain how electrical engineering can be applied from different varying jobs, from aerospace to working in the medical field. Basic logic is naturally applied in the fact that we as people use electricity for everything such as using the phone, traveling, or just simply turning on the lights.             ...
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Post 4: Why electricity?

As Laura Bolin Carroll talks about implementing the rhetoric analysis in real world situations, she quotes, " our worlds are full of these kinds of social influences. As we interact with other people and other media, we are continually creating and interpreting rhetoric" (Carroll, 47). Nowadays, these social influences and interaction with the world are mostly done by electronics. Watching the TV, reading a suspense novel on a e-book, or texting friends on social media are all electronic ways of how people communicate and connect to others as well as information. In the center, electricity plays a vital role in our system/methods of interactions. There is barely any place in this world that does not function without the use of electricity. From a phone to a hospital, the materials and the structures we know today would not exist without the advancement and innovation of electricity. The study of electrical engineering provides many different opportunities to engage with tech...
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Post 3: Ways of Sources

 Using the right sources at the right time is important in an academic writing. Author Mike Bunn does a great job in using a variety of sources that fit in the topic he is conveying, which fits into his scheme of points of reading like a writer. After he quotes the sources, he analyzes it in specific detail, forming it so that it supports his ideas of what people should consider while writing. He uses the quotes to add convincing support to his arguments. I incorporated a similar style of utilizing the sources in my own doc1 essay. For example, I used a research cited by the CDC to explain my point of how sleep deprivation can affect the immune system negatively. By paraphrasing the research that showed how lack of sleep reduced amounts of certain cells that prevent tumor cells, I supported my argument with convincing evidence from creditable sources to enhance the reliability and understanding of my argument.
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Post 2: My Rhetorical Situation

 My essay is about the problems that occur due to sleep deprivation and some of the solutions to manage this problem. Many students, including myself, have trouble getting enough sleep even in a regular daily basis. I wish to address this problem for those who suffer the same situation and possibly guide them into effectively managing this problem so that it does not affect them as much as it did before reading my essay. I will narrow this topic so that it applies to college students specifically, and I will dig deep into great details about the things normal college students can do to improve their problems regarding sleep deprivation.
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