Discussion on Kantz

1.What were your reading purposes of this text? And what were your attitudes? Can you tell how these two factors affected your writing Q&R 5?

Our purpose was to know what the article was about and gain knowledge of "textual sources". Our attitudes upon reading were somewhat similar. We thought that this article was a bit long but shorter than Downs and Wardle. At first we weren't really interested but as we read along, we realized that we could relate to the student mentioned.

2. What is original argument? How did you come up with a question every time you write a Q&R? How did you formulate your response? Do you see your responses as original arguments? Why?

An original argument is when you write your own argument based on textual resources. We would focus on one of the ideas from the article and brainstorm on different questions and chose the one we thought was the best question. We would link personal experiences with our questions and examples from the article by adding quotes to support it. We don't think our responses are original arguments because we base our answers on the article and we don't really make an argument.

3. What is “writer-based prose”? Examples?

Writer-based prose is when a student "organizes what should be an expository analysis as a narrative". Examples would be when a student begins his/her paragraph with "my first point" or "my first source". They are trying to make it into a narrative by saying what they are going to write about and then explaining it.

4.What is rhetorical situation? What includes in a typical rhetorical situation? What is the significance of each angle in the rhetorical situation triangle? What does a focus on a particular point of the triangle tell you?

Rhetorical situation is how we represent but do not state. We read sources off of the internet and then write about what we read but we never say our opinions. The way we write isn't how present ourselves. The significance of each angle is that it sometimes one type of discourse belongs more to a particular point, or angle, than to the others.

5. What are the differences between facts and opinions?

Opinions are our own thoughts and feelings about a certain thing. Facts are statements based on actual events and are the truth.

Composed by: Jose Garcia, Ashley Torres, Denise Valdez