Lesson

What I feel like should have been going over more is the topic of reasoning and evidence. I feel like this is one of the most important part in everyone’s paper nowadays which is how to present your points to the audience and how to present it in a way that makes them understand you. I feel like a lot of my papers have problems providing the points I need and if I had more information on how to use it I believe my papers will indeed be stronger. This goes well with the type of language you use in your paper. I learned a lot about persuasive papers and how they take out any detail that makes your paper weak in any way. Therefore you only use evidence that support your topic in order to get the outcome of the audience that you want. I feel like this topic is a very important part and each student should understand the uses of it.

What I Liked about the Class

I like this class because there were many interesting topics I had to read in order to do my homework. I feel like there were a lot of things I learned from these topics giving me a stronger understanding of word uses and how we can utilize it in real life. I like how the class is presented in which everyone do their daily blogs and also comments on other people’s blogs. I feel like it fits the students nowadays because technology is definitely a big part in our life not. It’s similar to facebook and twitter, which people use almost daily. It wasn’t hard to access this page at least 4-5 times a day and was definitely easy to work with. The only problem with this class was it was a bit hard to catch on to everything in the beginning. I feel like if we met with the teacher one time going over the instructions it would definitely be easier. Other than that the work was fairly straightforward and many topics were interesting to read.

Class Lessons

This class have introduced me to many topics that I haven’t took notice before. I learned how to interact with groups and point out the different roles each member plays. In order to have a strong group each member has to play their roles in order to have a successful outcome. I learned about the many uses of language and how to engage with others to make a certain view or perspective stronger on your side. This helped me with my speeches and papers because it showed me what I was missing in some of my papers for my other class to make it stronger. I noticed there were many main ideas or points I could add to my paper and speeches to reach out to audiences in a stronger view. Furthermore I learned the different types of reasoning and evidence and how to utilize it to make the audience feel a certain way. Last I would like to talk about the different arguments people use and how people use it to express their point of view. Overall I learned a lot from this class, which I can use now for my future classes. 

Prediction

They were useful because they explained multiple ways of how to define a prediction. In mission critical was very useful because they provided more about what can be proven with facts leading to a stronger prediction. The website provided a lot of questions and as more facts were recorded into the answer the higher the prediction was coming true. In casual argument most of it was based on what could have happened more assumption to make a stand. There are many sides to the reason why things happen and they just provided many ways in why it could happen. There are not many facts more like something that people observe in one point of view. Not much hard facts and everything is based on a judgment. Therefore I believe mission critical was most useful because it provided hard facts in the argument.

Perception

When I was in high school there were many times when I had misleading perception of people in my school. I’m not necessarily judging but their attitude towards me when they approach me. I remember I thought one of my classmates didn’t like me because he always gave me a stare that just didn’t look pleasant. He was always mad in class, always putting a grudge on his face. Therefore I believed he just hated everyone and must be having bad days everyday. I really thought he was that kind of person and whenever we had group projects I would try to not be in the same group because he didn’t look social either. My friends actually knew him so it gave me a chance to see what’s his problem and turned out he had horrible vision and just wasn’t a morning person. I was surprised because he was a friendly person and very humorous apparently. After that I never assumed anything until I actually knew more about the person. I feel like observations don’t always give you the exact prediction but more of a thought of what might be true.

Virgo

My horoscope is a Virgo and this is what it shows for the day “Someone who is going through some demanding work issues needs your compassion today.” I actually check my horoscope whenever I stream the web just because it gives me an idea on how my day can turn out. They aren’t always true but most of the time it’s like right on point. Either the day eventually turns out like they predicted or its already what they predicted. I feel like science strengthens people’s predictions. They provide a good amount of facts leading to a logical prediction. I feel like observing a person for a while we can also make predictions of others and sometimes be on point too. Science shows that many of our actions define who we are and if we do things constantly scientists can figure out our personality and who we are as a person. Therefore I do believe in these daily horoscopes just because everyday you don’t know what are going to come up and this daily horoscope gives me an idea of what might come. 

News Bias

I would like to talk about the point about bias in the news. I definitely notice the bias in the news today and I feel like they hide things from their viewers. This is their strategy in manipulating the viewers and making them believe in something that they want them to hear. I feel like the government definitely censors some of the things they show in the news so it won’t show a bad side to what the government does. Especially thing they want to hide from the audience so it doesn’t cause any violence toward them. That’s why I feel like I shouldn’t believe in everything they show in the news because I know there is always another story to things. I usually analyze the news much more the get a better understanding of what happened. That way I know I'm not agreeing to something when only knowing one part of the story. The Internet definitely exposes this bias from the news letting the audience know what is actually happening inn the world. I take the Internet really serious because there is so much networking online; it keeps us notified of what’s really happening. What I see on TV could have some fallacy that I wouldn’t understand until it is fully proven to me. Therefore I believe news is bias, and every one should not put their full belief into it until all research is done.