Coates Response

I feel Coates made a very well informed piece. In my experience it is hard to deal with racist people who just don’t like a group of people because of something as arbitrary as skin color, and trying to argue with this those people wastes time. What Coates does do is use history. It is…

Royte Response

The Medium platform allowed for these large section pictures to be posted. These pictures were crucial for the essay because she provided factual images of the experiences she was talking about to drive the point home better. For most essays, but especially this one because of the subject matter, evidence used to push home the…

What makes an essay great? Response

The essay I read was “One more time” by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis. The essay talked about why people listen to music over and over again. The first thing that made the piece good were the sound cloud links. It’s used as an example to give the reader an idea on what the author is talking…

Consider the Lobster Response

David Foster Wallace doesn’t really talk much about the festival itself. He talks more about lobsters in general going into their history and how their are prepped for eating. In the beginning he does talk about the festival and the region a little bit. One way he makes the story interesting is by using adjectives.…

Cunningham Response

I feel the type of argument Cunningham produces is the Argument to Assert. Cunningham takes the position that American essays are trying to convince the reader of a specific position, and if an essay does try to convince the reader of a point it becomes an American Essay. He draws on mainly two articles from…

Jay Rosen Post

The idea of “everything about something” because all the members of the group are doing different things. We chose a nice topic, weird places around the area, and all of us are gathering as much information as possible about these subjects. We are going to have images, interviews, notes, write ups, discussions and web pages…

Terry Gross Reflection

I think the best question Marc asked Terry was when he asked Terry why she would choose to publish something. Terry said even if someone didn’t want something to be published it was her job to publish it. I like this because it shows the kind of person she is. She wouldn’t back down even…

Podcast Formats

After listening to many podcasts I feel there are many different forms. Saying that, I do thing all these forms lie under two main forms. These are to inform and to entertain. That being said, podcasts can do both, but they mainly focus on one of the two. The idea of a podcast though is…

Zakaria, Lehrer and Anderson post

Personally I feel Lehrer did the worst act of the three. I feel making up quotes Bob Dylan said is slander or defamation and unnecessary. While the acts of plagiarism Zakaria and Anderson did by copying other people’s work is a big issue, I personally don’t have an incredible issue with self-plagiarism. For example, if…

Schroeder Response

Like mentioned previously, Wikipedia is an incredible tool for anyone to learn pretty much anything about a specific topic. The thing that makes it special however is a downside. The ability to have anyone edit the information presents an issue. In middle school and high school, whenever there was a paper or project we had…