Into the Shark Tank Many student’s coming out of high school, entering a more “frightening” world known as college, have trouble adapting to their professor’s needs and wants in their assignments. Looking through the eyes of David Bartholomae and his article, “Inventing the University” he goes on about discourse. Discourse he explains is how students are expected to write several different ways to connect with the audience that they are writing for. An example of when I ran into this problem was in my Essentials of Business course. For this course, we were separated into groups in the beginning of the semester called, learning communities. We were taught every aspect of the business world, to prepare us for the future. Our last assignment for this course was to create a product, and an affective business plan to acquire investments from business professionals across the greater Cincinnati area. This assignment also required our learning community to present our final business plan to the entire university as well. Throughout the rest of my analysis, I will explain what we were required to do in order to receive an investment. We were required to make an exceptional business plan, present in a professional tone and style, show the type of convention we used, and to present to the correct audience. We managed to create a perfect product that would surely to appeal to the average consumer and the professionals that were investing. This was a great experience coming into
In his essay “Inventing the University”, David Bartholomae kicks of his composition by explaining to readers what he believes is the accurate way to speak so that the audience will understand and take in what all you have said. He makes this very clear, for example he points out how all readers must feel equal and the writer must make them feel the same nobody should be looked down on. Bartholomae brings up how using the same dialogue is a major key as well. These mistakes are commonly made by freshman such as myself I’ll admit that. Throughout the essay Bartholomae reviews some pieces of writing that are written by students, while doing so he points out the flaws of the writing and comments on how they can do better. When Bartholomae expresses that he wants writers to learn how to speak the language that we as young adults do, He even brings up the fact that some writers either struggle or just do not know how to write in different commonplaces. He feels as though this student will have this struggle in college while writing many other papers. At some point of the essay Bartholomae tells how he was impressed by one student’s placement essay they had written while they attended orientation. In one of his main points he makes Bartholomae speaks on why students are placed in certain courses, which is based on errors made while taking the university’s placement test. These courses are designed to help students improve in those areas they scored low in. Bartholomae wants students to appropriate their dialogue by becoming one with the audience be comfortable enough to speak to them as if they were historians or members of the academy. Baratholonae says, “They have to invent the university by assembling and mimicking its language.”
Profit is the money that a business earns in revenue, minus investments, and the cost of salaries.
Joanna Bauer, she is the facilitator at the University of Phoenix. And she explained how to construct an academic paragraph. It is very interesting and will follow her guidance. Accordingly to her "Effective communication is the key to success in business." Also, it is crucial to take these consideration in an essay.
As a student experiencing formal education for over 15 years, writing essays, research papers and narrative stories presents itself as nothing new. Every student has a specific writing method ingrained in his or her brain and after years of practice, very little thought goes into creating a formal literary piece. The Lunsford humanizes the methodology of producing quality writing and it characterizes a piece of writing into something more than just a class assignment. Rhetorical situations delve into the complexity of communication through writing. Surrounding the context of a piece of writing there is a topic that needs to be clearly stated, an opinion to be portrayed, and an audience to be thought about. An appropriate topic for a writer to elaborate on is one that either puzzles or interests them. This allows the writer to be engaged in his or her writing and provide a method of effective communication. The opinion on the topic allows the writer to be individual and portray the
In “Expectations for College Writing,” the author expresses the importance of communicating clearly in writing for college and the future. At the beginning, the author discusses the impact of social writing has on an individual. Social networking allows individuals to analyze their response by conforming to the audience; thus, choosing the appropriate language. Then, the author expresses the importance of moving back and forth between informal social writing and formal academic writing. In formal academic writing, instructors assume students know the expectations of their writing. Instructors also have expectations of students to establish authority of their own work. Having confidence in your ideas and thoughts will establish authority by
When talking to a college audience in writing, a formal presentation with light informalities is used. In person, the mix of formalities and informalities is more even. When on the
During this class I expressed the use of rhetoric in the four major essays I wrote, including the Narrative Essay, Rhetorical Mode Essay, Argumentative Essay, and Research Essay. Being able to think critically is a crucial part of success when it comes to writing these essays. At the beginning of this class, I had a much less understanding of this particular area. I struggled with being able to use research effectively to persuade others of a certain argument. I also had difficulty with grammar issues, and paying attention to my overall “voice” of an essay. I believe that I improved significantly in all of those areas because in each essay I have learned to put myself in the audience’s position and view the piece of writing in the reader’s point of
When I began the quarter I had no previous any knowledge about "discourse", as the quarter progressed I have learned a lot about this idea of discourse. Although there are a lot of different ideas of what "discourse", I think they share some common things. You become a member of an institution or group, that share similarities and have a specific goals to accomplish that pertain to literacy. You have to be able to work as a group to make sure you accomplish these common goals. There are a couple of things that they have in common. First of all you have to have lexis, which is important in able to communicate and have these special language . This allows you to distinguish yourself from other communities, and allows you to communicate with the members of the group. If you don’t understand the lexis, than you will not be accepted by the group. Another important part is having one or more genres, which is important to make sure that the goals of the group get met. The last thing that I think is important is that you having boundaries or rules, that people know are not okay to do. For example, in an academic community everyone would agree that plagiarism is completely wrong and accepted. These are a couple of things that I found present throughout all the articles I read.
Before taking any courses, this student had a general idea of how communication is an essential component in any working environment. After taking many courses in the Polk State Bachelor's program, the course GEB 3213 (Advanced Communications in Business) was a course that enlightened this student on the essential skills and concepts that are necessary to know when working in a professional environment. This course taught this student how to be able to structure business communications for maximum effect through style, tone, and grammar, how to comprehend the strategies used to construct the types of business messages commonly used in the business environment, for example, like how to write a professional email. Also this course taught this student how to effectively research and organize information into effective business reports and visual presentations. Not only did this course set this student up for a bright future in the business world through means of communication, but this course also helped this student's writing when it came to completing the rest of her bachelors courses in the this program. The knowledge and skills that this student learned in this course will be essential key components that are necessary to have when working in a professional corporate
Discourse communities are a prevalent part of society, whether we realize it or not. The most recognizable of these communities would be the discourse in different work fields. When student’s are going through their final years of schooling in college, most are taught only some of this discipline-specific jargon in their junior or senior years of schooling through their out of class experience in their specific work field. The most easily identified would be the medical fields, journalism fields and the business fields. I will be reviewing the different components that differ the Marketing discourse community from other discourse communities such as; their way of communication through emails and face-to-face meetings, the field specific jargon and the requirements it takes to be qualified as a member of this marketing discourse community, such as the degree of maturity, knowledge and experience. I will also explain why this field is important and give justifying examples such as the definition of a marketing discourse community and the rate at which communication is expected.
Though English 102 is a required course for most studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, I hoped for more than just a passing grade. As a business major, I expected to improve my writing and communication skills to better prepare myself for speeches, meetings, and group projects that I will come across during not only my college education, but my professional career as well. I realize that English is essential in my everyday life and for my college classes. English 102 helped me to recognize that it is necessary to know how to construct a well written paper that reveals a purpose to a specifically chosen audience. I have learned that to communicate adequately I must know how to support multiple academic arguments, understand that it is important to incorporate others’ ideas in my own writing, and that rethinking my own ideas, rhetorical choices, and discovering other meanings are all part of the revision process. I have chosen to revise the research essay and edit my rhetorical analysis to demonstrate that I have taken these goals into consideration and was able to provide a well written essay.
In my writing class, I have accomplished the learning outcomes stated in the syllabus. My essays, “Discourse Community” and “Analysis of Study Habits”, both demonstrate my ability to “analyze conventions and concepts of genre within academic disciplines and outside of the university”. In addtion, my “Analysis of Study Habit” shows that my ability to “Paraphrase, summarize, and/or quote scholarly sources to engage academic audiences”. In "Discourse Community", I am able to use writing to analyze the community that I belong to in real life. I analyze the work that my commmunity produce and the six aspects that define a discourse community. Though this project, I am able discover many aspects of my programming group that I have never considered.
When I first came to RIT, I had never even heard of discourses before, let alone write an entire essay on it in roughly a week. I suppose then that this could be considered a separate discourse itself. When I was in high school, our teachers had us focusing on completing essays solely based on discovering the author’s purpose and using literary elements to support our thesis statements. There it did not matter what our background was; we had to get through the work and were almost required to write it to a perfect state, otherwise it would not be considered as college material. Upon arriving at college, the classwork attitudes changed drastically. Here near perfectionism was not stressed and the backgrounds of students were taken into consideration for classes. With so many discourses present it a classroom, one would think that it would be difficult to accommodate everyone, but for me, it is a discourse that is surprisingly easier to adjust to. Instead of having everyone adjust to one specific discourse, everyone is permitted to their own discourses and contribute to the community. Similarly, Williams explains how these discourses impact conflicts that could arise between students and teachers in the academic classroom. In “Home and Away: The tensions of community, literacy, and identity,” Bronwyn T. Williams argues to researchers and teachers so that they understand that because everyone comes from different backgrounds. They all will not learn the same way and have
There are (3) reasons why I have chosen energy drinks as my NAB. First off, there is a growing market for energy drinks. Red Bull and Monster Beverage Corporation, together, form over 80% of domestic energy drinks volumes by estimates. Dollar sales for energy drinks grew almost 6% to $6.67 Billion in measured channels in 2013, which propelled sales growth for convenience stores (Team, 2014). A growing thirst for caffeinated “energy” drinks, which include the likes of Red Bull, Monster, and Rock star, has spurred a heart-thumping surge in sales. Globally, the energy drink industry has gone from a $3.8-billion business in 1999, to a $27.5-billion
Starting a new business is an exciting venture and has its unique mix of challenges and rewards. Many are set-up for failure if no clear goals or measures are established and adhered. According to the Small Business Administration, “Planning is critical to successfully starting and building a business.” The best advice for a new entrepreneur interested in starting a business is to create a solid business plan that outlines the business in its entirety. A well-constructed, written business plan will help owners remain focused on their operations, marketing and financial measures through the duration of the business life. In addition, knowing the risks involved in starting a business can help prevent and minimize mistakes that cause many