ARCS p186 Q. 1 & 3

1). Maxim-wise sayings or proverbs that are generally accepted by the community of the rhetor. Example "Better late than never". (On the humorous side of things, I am ironically actually employing this saying writing this blog).

Enthymemes-premises used in contructing rehtorical proofs. Example: Think different Apple is different. Think Apple.

Signs-physical facts or real events that usually accompany some other state of affairs. Ex: A kid plays practices basketball everyday. That is a sign that the kid will probably improve his skills.

Since I am tired of hearing about the elections and its continued post-political discourse, I decided to use an article that was nonpolitical. The article "Just Saying, Is All. The problem with the Rays" (even though I am always finding myself referring back to their old name--the Devil Rays) uses many different signs, maxims, and enthymemes. The quote "optimism is contagious" is great maxim that people generally know and accept. Essentially, the article is making the point that one season of success does not necessarily mean future success like this year. "When a choice is between defeat on one hand and delusion on another, only a fan or fool lays his money on the long shot." This is a good enthymeme premise that helps the argument. The conclusive ethymeme is "For the league's most forlorn franchise, Tampa's turnaround offers nothing more than an empty promise of better things to come". The author uses a Tom Petty lyric "Even the losers get lucky sometimes", which serves as a good maxim to stregnthen his point. The author made effective use of all three for effectiveness in his article.

3). "Elvis has left the building". Other ways to articulate premise would be Elvis is done performing. Elvis is no longer here.

Arrangement Strategies

Arrangement strategies should be based on the rhetorical situation. The ancients' tell us that a writer should arrange the introduction and other parts of the writing with clear thought about how the audience will use it.

Refutation-the act of proving a person to be in error.

Steps to take to gain insight into Research Q.--In class blog

Research Q. What does the graffiti artists' composing process look like?
Step #1--create your thesis
Step #2-Locate a moment. Regather the date/evidence and then describe what happened in detail. (thick description). sensory details , multiple data streams
Step #3--Intrepret the data, make sense of it for readers. what do they want us to notice?
Step #4-Identifying "testimony" that comfirms our analysis.

How I'm Going to Analyze My Data

I plan on taking fieldnotes along with a tape recorder as backup if I am finding that that would be useful to employ during my session with the writer. I plan on looking for documents that came from the donor or organization that is funding money in order to see initiating texts that prompted the writer to write a certain way. I will look at any comments from the other writers at Future Generations, since I mainly plan on researching one writer in the org. ( the one that does the main work on grant proposals). This goes along in part with the influence of the workplace on writing. Kliemann's four levels of comments will help me analyze that data effectively. I want to analyze the drafts by seeing what key vocabulary changes and structure of sentence level alters as the drafts progress into the final one.I will use triangulation of data--by observing the writer and then applying it to the text. This method does not involve taking their thoughts on their revision process at face value. So, I will look for evidence that they had strong revisions, instead of just listening them say how much time they spent revising the document.

ARCS p. 153 Activity 4: Aristotle

Conjecture Common Topics:
what exists?
what does not exist?
what is the size or extent of what exists
did it exist in the past
will it exist in the future

what exists: Problem: abortion
Pro-life vs. pro-choice
differing state laws in regards to the issue
what does not exist: agreement on the issue
what is the size/extent: big, controversial issue
did it exist in the past: yes
will it exist in future: yes, inevitably




Degree:
what is greater than the mean or norm?
what is lesser than the mean or norm>
what is relatively greater than something else?
what is relatively lesser tha something else?

what is good, just, beautiful, honorable, enjoyable, etc.? depends on a person's values prochoice-would say the right to choose. prolife-would say the right to live.

What is better, more just, etc.


Possibility:
what is possible? uniform standard in all states
What is impossible? to make everyone happy
what is more or less possible? uniform standard
What is possible in the future? better laws
what is impossibe in the future?

Research for Ethnographic Project Proposal

What methods do grant writers in a non-profit organization use most commonly to write a grant proposal?

It is essential for the group to receive new funding via a grant proposal.The incentive for groups to allocate funding is that the federal government gives large tax breaks to foundations for donating money to nonprofit. Therefore, how does the group know how to write an effective proposal with the proper content? Is there a designated format? What considerations must the group consider about the specific grant they are going after?

Who gives grants?
-private donors or organizations/foundations.

Considerations for acquiring the grant.
There are two different ways of going after grants.
1)Loan it to different organizations. (ex. Bill Gates or a wealthy individual offers a certain sum of money to a certain number of non-profit organizations.)
2) Look for grants that are already being offered (Group members look within their program's criteria to see if their organization qualifies for grant.)

Foundations issue different types of grants.
1) pre-allocated (specific places) money must be used for certain things in your non-profit organization.
2) open-ended. organization can use the money once they get it for whatever purpose they deem fit.

Size of grants:
Small-5, 50,000.
Large-50,000-150,000.

Argument in grant needs to be informative and highly persuasive.
informative because the company that is giving the grant, will want to know what kind of organization they are loaning money to.

Discussing Genres within the realm of Intertextuality

I think that knowing the type of writing will help a reader decide what the writer aims to do with his work, whether it be a progress report or a proposal.

One way to analyze the genre is to discuss the different features. Then discuss why those features are present in the piece of work.