In Class: Free Write

Well its almost THE END and this time it really is the end...I graduate on May 9th and I will no longer be in college. I still don't know if that's exciting or not...I still don't know what I want to do and I'm trying to understand that that's ok, there are many people in the world who don't know what they want to do. I do have a job for May though (ok well its not like a big job) but I i'm going to the Cannes Film Festival in Nice, France and I'm so excited! This is something people would love to go to and some how I lucked out and got the position. I will be working for American Pav and I still have no clue what we really do during the day but we are supposed to be there to network with as many people as possible. Lately I have been trying to get ready for that and also working on all my end of the yr projects! well wish me luck and I will for sure post pics of Brad Pitt if I get to see him!

Unit 3

My group had decided to take on the task of  arguing the legalization of marijuana.  We have decided that hits many audiences and in order to hit everyone we will be using a piece of argument that reaches out to our own age group, our parent's age group, and elderly.  I really feel like our group is on its way to a great project!  We are all very motivated to get the project rolling and not procrastinate!  I hope we end up with an excellent project, which I'm sure we will.  

In Class: Visual Arguments

After reading chapter 14 I found it to be very insightful to helping us with our group project. The most interesting question I found was the last one. How are you directed to move within the argument? Are you encouraged to read further? Click on a link? Scroll down? Fill out a form? Provide your email address? Place an order? Every visual we have looked at even in class I find my

In Class: Chapter 12

Last nights reading was about style in arguments and how even the slightest common or period can change how effective our argument is. I actually enjoyed the different things it had to say because I think some of the things they said can be easily over looked. The slightest change in sentence stucture could make or break the argument. When reading this chapter I thought back to the different arguments I had read for my Unit 2 paper.
This chapter will be most helpful to our group project because we want our project to be as effective as possible!

In Class: Chapter 12

Group Project-Role

I am actually looking forward to this project and don't think we will have very many problems since all of us are going to be pretty busy for the rest of the semester!!

I have decide to take the role (drum role please.....) the ORGANIZER!  When we first started talking about the different roles we would need, everyone wanted to name the leader.  I have learned from past experiences that sometimes if you title a head person some people feel like that person should be in charge of EVERYTHING and if something goes wrong its all the leaders fault.  That's the main reason why we are calling it the organizer.  

I will be in charge of making sure we are informed of everything that is going on with meeting times and what we need to have for each up coming meaning.  I will also make sure every part of this project is staying on track and that we all agree with direction we are going.  I will also be in charge of the presentation and make sure we have a powerful presentation on the final day.  Making sure that our communication is on track will be the most effective thing I do for the group because if everyone is informed on what we are doing and when we are meeting, this project will be a breeze (or at least I hope)

We have talked about discussing legalization of pot.  I don't believe we have completely decided on that topic but I think it would be a good direction to go in.

My other group members include: Jenna Hayes, Brenan Gordon, and Jeff Gettel

In Class Free Write

Well last semster I had seriously 7 group projects one in every class and in one class 3!! In years before I had had horrible experiences mainly because they were freshman level courses and the maturety level was a ton lower than what it was last year. Last year I actually managed to only have two horrible group projects and one was with a guy that was a good friend of mine that decided to go to Vegas and not come back till the night before!!! He had said that he was going to put the power point together but of course since he didn't get back till 3 in the morning he was just going to wake up early and do it before class!! I filped! I hate not having things does especially waiting on the power point the night before!! But I ave learned also that if you divid up the work and hold everyone responsible for their own part they will do better, especially if you have peer evalutions at the end.

I think this will go pretty well mainly because all 3 of my group members are athletes and I have had tons of projects with athletes and since they have such a busy schedule they are super motivated to have their part together and are usually very motivated to get going on the project. I have high hopes for this group mainly because I doubt this is any of their first time on the mary-go-round.

There is usually a leader in the group and in this project they will probably be the one to make the last call on something and to divid up all the work aka who's responsible for what part in the project. I'm hoping that there is someone that will step up with an amazing idea because I really can't think of one off the top of my head. I think there should be a main person or maybe even two that research what is being said about our topic before we jump right in. I also think there should be an editor that over looks all of the work that will be turned in, especially the writing part.

In Class Free Write

We are finally getting to the end of this semester and as I look at all the writing I have done on here I'm actually surprised! I had never blogged before and I have close to like 16 blogs on here not including what I've posted on other classmate's blogs. To be honest I kind of enjoy it and I have caught my self reading local Fort Worth blogs about different resturants to try and different places to see since I'm getting to the last months of actually living here. I personally liked the days where we could talk about whatever in our free writes because it was a good way for me to destress my self in the morning. (yes its still impossible to find a parking spot) Like for instance this morning I got up to print out my paper for this class and my next class and my printer would not work it just kept saying error error over and over again. So that made me a couple mins late because then I had to get here and try and fina a parking spot.

Anyways pointing being I like this idea of blogger our thoughts, its a good way to process all of the random information we have floating around in our head about some many differnt things!
(yes in color as always!)