DL#8 HW#3

1) Thinking About Your Writing: Distinguishing Between Reporting and Arguing

• Self narrative, memo for work, application for scholarship.
• I wrote a self narrative for my comp101 class. I needed to write a summary of each year of my life since kindergarten. The memo for work was to inform the rest of the employees about upcoming events, new information on how to do things, and to remind them how to properly do things. The application for a scholarship was to apply for reimbursed money from my work's company explaining how my classes would help me be a better employee.
• For the self narrative, my audience was my teacher and whoever else reads it. The memo's audience is the other employees I work with. The scholarship application's audience was the Human Resources of HDOS Enterprises and my regional manager.
• Reporting: Memo. I was reporting information from a higher source about new information and upcoming events.
• Arguing: scholarship application. I was arguing why I would be a good candidate to give money for education to.
• Not sure: self-narrative. Since I was just telling my memories of my life, so I wasn't trying to report or argue information. It might be reporting though.

2) Connect To Your Writing: What is Your Rhetorical Situation?

• What are the mental and physical dangers of drinking alcohol?
• The purpose is to inform the audience about the dangers of alcohol. There are some dangers that many people do not know about.
• The audience is anyone and everyone. Most important are teenagers because they are the most naive. A lot of people don't know that alcohol can cause liver problems and even Hepatitis C. I want to inform my audience about the dangers of alcohol besides just drinking and driving.
• I fit into the context in many ways. One is that I myself am a teenager. As a teenager I have seen my peers drink alcohol because they think it is cool and have also seen a few of those people die from alcohol poisoning and doing stupid things when drunk. Another way I fit into the context is that my dad and stepdad are both alcoholics. Since I was a little kid, my dad has been in and out of jail and lost his driving privileges twice. Recently, he was diagnosed with Hepatitis C because of drinking alcohol most of his life. I didn't even know that could happen and I think it is important that people know this, especially people around my age so they can make smart choices now and in the future, Since I've had two people in my family be alcoholics, I see how alcoholism effects families

3) Connecting To Your Writing: Generating Responses to your Research Question

• My research question is: What are the mental and physical dangers of drinking alcohol?
• drinking and driving, poisoning, too intoxicated to make smart choices, Hepatitis C, cirrhosis, memory loss, family violence, depression, anxiety, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• My purpose is to educate people on the dangers of alcohol. It is not always fun, and if taken in excess can bring problems down the road. People need to know this so they can make educated choices nowand in the future. I'm not saying drinking is bad, because it can be fun in social settings, but a lot of people take it too far. I don't want to cross anythng off because they are all important.
• I think I will use all of my resources except for the one about Prohibition. Some of the sources may be biased, but I will write my paper using facts.
• My audience is the teacher, classmates, and pretty much anyone. Most people know that drinking and driving is bad, but most don't know that it can physically harm your body down the road. I can back up all of my information with facts and statistics.

4) Connecting to Your Writing: Drafting a Thesis Statement.

• What are the mental and physical dangers of drinking alcohol?
• Precise Claim: The mental and physical dangers of alcohol are depression, family violence, drinking and driving, Hepatitis C, cirrhosis, and many others.
• Reasons: Many people who drink alcohol regularly develop depression, become violent when drinking, kill themselves and others when drunk driving, and develop Hepatitis C and cirrhosis.
• Thesis: Many people who drink alcohol regularly develop mental and physical problems.

5) Techno Tips: Playing with Language to Clarfiy Your Thesis

Original: Many people who drink alcohol regularly develop mental and physical problems.

1. Countless people who consume alcohol regularly develop mental and physical problems.
2. Many people who drink alcohol on a regular basis acquire mental and physical problems
3. Many people who drink alcohol on a regular basis acquire emotional and bodily complications.

I like the original one and the firs edited one. I would revise them all to conclude with: Countless people who consume alcohol regularly acquire mental and physical complications.

They all mean the same thing, but changing some of the words makes the sentence sound better and more meaningful. Kind of like the author is smarter, so they have more authority.