Collaborators: Breyon Miller, Thomas Oles, Savanah Kaime, Emily Imoniedafe
Collaboration is a key to success within a proper functioning society. Without collaboration, all are left to fend for themselves, thus creating mass chaos. As within society, much is the same in an educational setting. Without collaboration in academia, the educational process is hindered. Teamwork is like the oil that keeps the gears turning smoothly in educational processes. This Midterm Project is no different.
The collaboration of four students produced the following work with a common goal in mind; successfully complete the task at hand, maximizing our educational process and methodology for the overall benefit of ourselves and others. Please feel free to explore this website. Take note of the following individual sections: one course outcome, one rhetorical mode, an expansion on Chapter 9 in The McGraw-Hill Reader, and test your knowledge of the lessons taught on the quiz page.
Collaboration is a key to success within a proper functioning society. Without collaboration, all are left to fend for themselves, thus creating mass chaos. As within society, much is the same in an educational setting. Without collaboration in academia, the educational process is hindered. Teamwork is like the oil that keeps the gears turning smoothly in educational processes. This Midterm Project is no different.
The collaboration of four students produced the following work with a common goal in mind; successfully complete the task at hand, maximizing our educational process and methodology for the overall benefit of ourselves and others. Please feel free to explore this website. Take note of the following individual sections: one course outcome, one rhetorical mode, an expansion on Chapter 9 in The McGraw-Hill Reader, and test your knowledge of the lessons taught on the quiz page.
One Course Outcome
Develop writing that demonstrates critical reading and analytical thinking skill;
In class we have been learning to develop better critical reading and analytical thinking skills. In order to critically read, we must carefully analyze the essays structure and logic to try and determine the validity of the argument. Coinciding with critical reading, we must use analytical thinking to break down the problem into its constituent parts. In chapter one, we learned that one way to view critical reading is through the concept of active reading. “Active reading suggests that you, as a reader, have an obligation to yourself and the author to bring an alert, critical, and responsive perspective to your encounter with the written word.” (Muller) This means to reflect on what you read and to develop personal responses in order to prepare yourself for the writing assignments in class. Analytical thinking will help you better your critical reading by starting with analyzing the problem within the essay. From there we create a hypothesis on what we believe the problem is about. We then need to look at the facts and analyze them, and after we complete all of this, we come to a solution about the problem.
When we use our critical reading skills and analytical thinking skills, we are able to better understand what we are reading. This helps us develop a more detailed and accurate idea about what we read and once we have a more accurate idea, we are able write a stronger essay.
One Rhetorical Mode
“A Rhetorical mode is a strategy – a way or method of presenting a subject through writing or speech.” (Writing) Some of the most common rhetorical modes out of the hundreds are; argumentation, cause and effect, classification, compare and contrast, description, exemplification, and narration. Out of these rhetorical modes, compare and contrast is one that is great when looking at a view point that has two or more sides to it.
Compare and contrast means to show how different viewpoints are alike and/or different, and is used in academic writing to show how two related viewpoints can be similar but different. When writing a compare and contrast essay, you need to know what subject you are going to evaluate. Once you have your subject, you must select the different viewpoints.. In your essay you must state multiple reasons why these two view points are similar and why they are different. This allows you to form your audience and readers on the subject you are writing about. Usually in a compare and contrast essay, you are trying to convince your audience of a certain view point, but you are doing so honestly by making them aware of both sides and what they offer. Compare and contrast is used in more than just our writing, but it is also deeply impeded in our everyday thinking and logic..
Chapter 9 Expansion
HOW DO WE EARN OUR KEEP?
A lazy man is a hungry man. That is why work is a very vital part in human existence; ranging from the time of old to our present day of life. According to the author in this essay, work has played a large part in the economic and social outcome of how we understand culture and civilization. Work helps us to understand the law of scarcity and abundance individually and in society. When you work harder, you have a larger chance of abundance, likewise the reverse. This principal can apply to both individuals and communities.
According to the author, work determines scarcity and abundance. However, these principles classify society into poverty and riches, as well as the haves and the have-nots in society. The author places a high value on work, and he describes work as the worlds’ handprint.
The author defines work to be the center of our experience as a human. He then went on to say that it is work that brings to life culture and civilization. That it also brings paid employment, which he refers to as how we earn our keep in society. Our keep is our reward for our working. In this theory, we can see how work is the key to putting an order into human nature.
The author claims that work is not just an important aspect of human activities, but essential issue for social and psychological health! That is to say that work depends on individual effort and it gives us the sense of belonging. The work we engage ourselves with gives us the reputation of our identity.
According to the author in this essay, work causes a change in our social, political, and economic system. This is because the work we perform and the career we pursue defines who we are. Personally, a medical doctor can easily be differentiated from a pilot and engineer. A society that has a high class of work performance and a high career pursuit is intended to do well in the global economic scheme of things. In the opposite way, this also applies at the individual level. Our work shows a part of who we are in a society, and that is why Sigmund Freud spoke of work as the “basis of one’s social reality”.
Work is very important to us and our society because it helps many people to survive in this world. Work is how we can earn our living. This is why our society should have obligations to improve the nature of work, to organize our businesses and to improve in value. This is essential to the reward we derive from our work.
A lazy man is a hungry man. That is why work is a very vital part in human existence; ranging from the time of old to our present day of life. According to the author in this essay, work has played a large part in the economic and social outcome of how we understand culture and civilization. Work helps us to understand the law of scarcity and abundance individually and in society. When you work harder, you have a larger chance of abundance, likewise the reverse. This principal can apply to both individuals and communities.
According to the author, work determines scarcity and abundance. However, these principles classify society into poverty and riches, as well as the haves and the have-nots in society. The author places a high value on work, and he describes work as the worlds’ handprint.
The author defines work to be the center of our experience as a human. He then went on to say that it is work that brings to life culture and civilization. That it also brings paid employment, which he refers to as how we earn our keep in society. Our keep is our reward for our working. In this theory, we can see how work is the key to putting an order into human nature.
The author claims that work is not just an important aspect of human activities, but essential issue for social and psychological health! That is to say that work depends on individual effort and it gives us the sense of belonging. The work we engage ourselves with gives us the reputation of our identity.
According to the author in this essay, work causes a change in our social, political, and economic system. This is because the work we perform and the career we pursue defines who we are. Personally, a medical doctor can easily be differentiated from a pilot and engineer. A society that has a high class of work performance and a high career pursuit is intended to do well in the global economic scheme of things. In the opposite way, this also applies at the individual level. Our work shows a part of who we are in a society, and that is why Sigmund Freud spoke of work as the “basis of one’s social reality”.
Work is very important to us and our society because it helps many people to survive in this world. Work is how we can earn our living. This is why our society should have obligations to improve the nature of work, to organize our businesses and to improve in value. This is essential to the reward we derive from our work.
Conclusion
The preceding work could not have been published without the solidarity of four individual students with the same common goal. While this assignment served a particular purpose for English 102, it served the students in future assignments that will require a joint effort in forthcoming classes. Continuity and cohesion were components that were nurtured and exercised in the process of this project. Most importantly, it helps provide necessary tools for a successful contribution to society in general.
Using critical reading and analytical thinking, locate 5 different articles that discuss how we earn our keep in society regarding economics; read and respond in a 500 word compare and contrast essay about it. You must include a thesis statement, introduction, and conclusion. For full credit, be sure to create a citation of all your sources using MLA format.