Journal Entry #10

1.Rhetoric and Composition:Which methods are the best for composing planning guides for final compositions?

2.English Education: Using modern day music lyrics to decipher common morals

3.Cultral Studies: Comparing cultural studies of different countries

4. Discourse Analysis: making databases less technical more relatable to common people.

Topics for Research
1. Using dark humor to invoke guilt on moral issues
2. the role microsoft word plays on the effectiveness of the editing process
3. the role occupational status plays on political issues
4. if the use of survyes is the most accurate way of relaying information for the public
5. the differences the sexes show in the creative writing process

Journal Entry #9

1. What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides her work)?
The writer is tryig to identify how the students negotiate various genres with which they come in contact. the study examines how students' constructs of "self" are reflected in school genres and how their backgrounds, specific academic disciplines, and institutional goals affect those
constructs.

2. How does this author collect the data she needs to answer her question?
To properly answer these questions the examiner does a close analysis of a small, religious-affiliated, liberal arts college. She focused on the resistance, contradictions, and conflicts in writing to reveal the ways that motivation and individual identity can shape the writing that participants do.In this case there were three case studies that were highlighted, Amy, Patrick, and Layla.

3. What sort of genres do you see your peers using as forms of “self-representation”?
Foe self-representation a lot of the time my peers use clothing and music to construct their sense of self to those around them.

Journal Entry #8

1.In this article the writers are trying to identify the authenticity of the bands and how they define themselves as authentic.
2. The author uses books and an online source to quote from in order to help build his argument,in these sources he describes a certain rocker who chooses to display his authenticity by self mutilation, and also he lists some of the attributes that contribute to being authentic.
3. There is one particular way I have seen someone around me being authentic that sticks to mind, one of my class mates in school was known for her stylish out fits and such, one day I saw her wearing a vest that I always admired so I asked her where did she get it. To my surprise she said Goodwill. It did not matter to her where her clothes were from and it striked me as something authentic because she took pride in finding others junk as her treasure.