Journal Entry 10

Journal Entry #10

Rhetoric and Composition – What criteria do students use to select between possible topics for their papers?

Students use multiple criteria to choose a topic. Students may choose
something that they do (e.g. a sport or an activity), something that appeals
to them (i.e. they like it) or something that is unknown but the student
would like to know more about.

English Education – Why does an author often include himself or herself in a work as a character?

Cultural Studies – The holding up of athletes onto a pedestal, where they are paid extravagant amounts of money for entertainment while more important professions pay little

Discourse Analysis – When writing professionally, how can a simple grammatical mistake (e.g. misspelling or incorrect punctuation) alter one’s view of the author so dramatically?

5 Topics I Could Research and Write On
1.How steroids (doping) has altered our view of athletes
2.Violence in popular culture today (e.g. music, video games, television)
3.(Lack of) political knowledge and its effect on how people (mis)understand politics in general today
4.Role of the Internet as a whole in changing life as we know it
5.The evolution of slang English for text-messaging and email