Instructions In a fully developed short essay (minimum of eight paragraphs in length), please answer all of the questions below and post your essay to the discussion forum. Your work should include an introduction, a body of supporting evidence, and a conclusion. Remember that you are having a conversation with your peers in this particular genre of writing, so adopt an appropriate tone and vocabulary for an audience of contemporary college students. Edit your work for clarity, punctuation, and usage, and don’t forget to comment on the works of two peers in order to earn full credit for these discussions.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Questions for Analysis What is Carroll saying about the nature of rhetorical analysis? How do the fundamentals of rhetorical analysis figure into your life, both as a student and as a citizen? Describe a pair of specific examples in which these concepts might play (or have played) a role in your participation in those areas. Using at least one citation from Carroll’s essay, comment on the role of context in framing contemporary arguments. Is there enough contextual background on news stories, speeches, advertisements, and other areas of rhetoric in today’s digital information culture? How does the Washington Post’s proposed feature of the “Knowledge Map” (noted in the Shan Wang article) enrich the contemporary news environment? Finally, in the second half of your essay, explain to your classmates the general features of your research argument. Using the taxonomies of reflection in the previous section as a guide, answer the following questions in your final four paragraphs: What did you learn about your topic that you didn’t already know or that was surprising to you? What is an area that you would like to improve upon as a writer moving forward, and which aspect of your research argument are you most proud of? Finally, how do you see the subject of your research argument changing over the course of the next ten years? Where will it be in a decade’s time? Where applicable, feel free to use hyperlinks to connect your essay to a resource or two in support of your answers. Learning Unit: Understanding Context and Reflecting on Your ResearchLinks to an external site. Post 1 Carroll goes on by explaining our nature for rhetorical analysis is to judge one another. We do this all the time by seeing the appearance of one another and making a quick conclusion. She explains how there are so many factors and persuasive outlets that influence our decisions. So often we take the media, our friends, and societies credibility without understanding how rhetoric really works. If we could learn to understand rhetorical analysis better, we could make more educated judgements about different topics. Being a student, I am often put in situations to use rhetorical analysis. I must conceptualize how I will use information and depending on the context I must make a lot of quick decisions. For example, when writing an essay, I have to consider the audience I am speaking to, decide what tone I want to adopt, and try my best to persuade the reader to receive the information I am giving to the best of my ability. A more specific example of this is when I created my research argument which required rhetoric analysis for almost every part. Being a citizen, I notice I am not as aware of the rhetorical analysis that I use compared to being a student. Reflecting on my interactions, I am aware that I tend to trust people’s credibility for certain things that a person says to me without testing that knowledge. Sometimes, just because I know someone or have a close relationship with a person, I trust that what they are telling me is true. Other times, I do not even take the time to analyze things or take little time to do so. This may be because of force of habit or because of the flow of today’s society not allowing me to do so. In Carroll’s essay she says that we often use context, such as choosing the clothes we wear depends on where we are going. During an argument, context is very important to stating your claim. An argument can be driven by the context in which is spoken about while on the other hand it could be a hinderance to making a strong defense. In today’s digital age there is a good amount of contextual background out there on rhetorical information. The only difficult part is finding it. In my research argument on climate change, I learned a lot. I learned that my topic is a big deal under a microscopic lens. In other words, there are not a lot of people paying attention to my research topic which is a main reason why the problem exists. A big surprise that really caught my attention in my research was that there are organizations benefiting on climate change, so these people pay lots of money to cover it up. This is also disturbing because it makes me question how long will they be able to do something like this? I am proud of myself for finding the topic that I did and sticking with it because of the potential awareness that could come about. Just knowing more about the background of climate change alone is amazing to me because it could be an opportunity to use this information in conversations with others if it is ever brought up. If I so happen to post my essay somewhere on the internet, lots of different people could see it and that alone excites me. Being able to bring awareness to an unknown topic like climate change is the definition of being a pioneer and that is the overall tone of my argument. Not only did I choose a topic that is easy to speak on and I am passionate about, but it also needs as much attention it can get so I am happy because of that. One place I feel I lack in as a writer is supporting details/keeping the reader engaged and fluidity. I hope to become a more insightful writer as I continue to gain experience and understand how to feed the reader with information and keep the reader involved. Understanding rhetoric is part of doing so and as I get better in one area naturally; I will get better with the other. Transitioning from paragraphs and different topics is another area I feel I am lacking in and hopefully with time I will improve in this area as well. Something tells me that this is something that you can only improve on with experience and I just must be patient and learn as much as I can from everything that I write. My research topic will certainly be in a different place in a decade’s time. Due to the facts, it will most likely be worse than what it is now. I say this because not a lot of action is being done to stop the effects of the problems it is causing and society as we know it is set up to keep the climate constantly changing. Not only are we as humans causing the problem, but the earth naturally goes through constant change as time goes by. With that being said, it should be safe to say that my topic will be in an interesting place in ten years’ time.  Post 2 In the beginning of the paper, Carroll gives you a day and environment as an example while also using self experiences we have all experienced to draw the conclusion that the nature of rhetorical analysis is us judging one another even after we try and say not to. Other examples she used to prove her point was social media interaction, texting and in person interaction. Being a student, I use rhetorical analysis much more then I do as a citizen. An example would be me scheduling myself for classes, I have to think quick and make a decision on if I want to be TBA or in a lecture while I also look at the teachers name and I then go to rate my professor and look at their ratings. From the color of their page ( red or green) and their description from passed students, I draw my conclusion on if I want them to be my teacher or not. I also look at the difficulty. Being a citizen, I seen a post on The Shade Room (TSR) about a $300 stimulus being on the way for citizens with children, just citizens with children. Although I am not sure how it will happen or even if it is signed off when I read that my immediate thought was " they aren't the only ones who need help nor are they the only people living here". I never got to receive any of the stimulus checks because of the fact I was claimed on taxes or my age group did not receive any. Me being a college student I think we should get just as much aid so when I read that I assumed the government only cares about business owners and parents, support wise. Carroll stated that rhetorical messages always occur in a specific situation or context and she then gave examples including the outfit we choose on a daily basis, a television commercial and where a billboard is placed. There is enough contextual background on news stories, speeches and advertisements. An example would be how news stories complete stories based off events that has happened and the information their sources gave to draw a conclusion. Advertisement would be if you had dead skin and dry heels, a commercial/flyer/billboard with some type of moisturizer or serum will get your attention. The chosen topic for my research argument was children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how they are affected in their environment and society all together examples being, at home, schools and social events. I chose this topic because of an article I read about this mother who had twins, one who was autistic. I knew autism was a disorder but I did not have much knowledge on the background of it and questions started to form as I chose that to be my topic. Some knowledge I gained was how young children could be diagnosed with ASD and how their interaction plays a major part of their childhood. Some signs of ASD could be the child not recognizing their name, no eye contact, verbal and non verbal communication and playing with other kids and toys. Although some kids can be considered autistic, it can be a tricky call because of how young the child is and there are possibilities of them just completing milestones on their own. ASD deficits also ranges from mild to severe so their are stages. One area I feel that I need and would like to improve in as a writer is being more confident and straight forward with my work. These are minor barriers that I can overcome in the long run. Even with persuasive writing I still sometimes end my writing letting my audience choose or guess what's right or what they should do. I also sometimes add a lot of fluff to my writing instead of getting to the point and that can lead you to go off topic and miss your whole point. I am greatly proud of the aspect of me sharing ASD awareness with my audience while also learning more about it myself. Because the world is always revolving and we have so many instruments that help us learn and think critically, this subject will have more improvements on helping and awareness. I am confident behind that answer because the healthcare scientist and researchers are evolving more as the years go on. By evolving I mean getting more answers to questions and concerns while also creating more questions and concerns with the help of technology. In decades of time there may be shows and support groups for more awareness and there may be barriers to help children with ASD stay between mild and none instead of mild to severe. 

The Research Project Proposal Assignment: In a formal proposal of 3-4 typed pages: Define a specific challenge or problem or challenge caused by or significantly aggravated by the InternetUsing relevant information from your preliminary research, define your initial position on the issue. (It’s OK if your position changes as you do more research).Explain what kinds of solutions may be availableCite at least five high-quality sources that reflect a variety of viewpoints on your subject. At least three of these should be academic sources. List your sources at the end of your proposal in a Works Cited list written in MLA format. (See MLA Guide under class files in Canvas). In this Works Cited list, be sure to include all research materials used in your proposal. Structure of Assignment: Spend no more than a page defining your challenge or problem. Be as specific as you can, explaining why it is a cause for concern, and how the Internet has created or exacerbated it. Follow this on a separate line with your tentative thesis. Your thesis is the sentence that lays out the position of your argument, telling the reader what you will be arguing. Your thesis anchors the rest of your writing, and everything else you write should connect back to your thesis. This thesis often changes as you continue your research. Next, spend about a paragraph on each of your sources. Introduce them, explaining (very briefly) what they are about. If it is a research paper, briefly explain the authors’ research and their conclusion. If it is an opinion piece from an expert, explain the expert’s background briefly, and then their argument. Tell your reader why you selected these sources. Explain how they might serve your argument as you continue your writing. Finally, spend about a paragraph assessing the strengths and weaknesses of your proposal. Try to head off future problems here. Will you have enough sources for each stage of your paper? Will you have enough to say about your topic, or will you need to expand your thesis? Maybe your thesis feels too broad, and you anticipate narrowing it. What’s working well so far? Purpose The Research Project Proposal is meant to assure that you have chosen a topic that can be successfully applied to each of your papers this semester. Choose your topic carefully. Conduct preliminary research to make sure that you will be able to complete your project, because you absolutely will not be allowed to change your topic once your proposal has been approved. (However you will be able to change the position you take, as well as narrow or enlarge your focus). **You must complete this proposal as described before any future essay will be graded.** Suggestions: Your argument in this proposal should define and explain 1) what the specific problem or challenge you are addressing is, 2) why it is important enough for you to address it in this project, and 3) why your readers should care about this problem. Focus Your proposal’s most valuable contribution to the success of your final paper is this: it should help you develop a sufficiently limited and narrow focus so that you can adequately deal with your problem and proposed solution in your final essay. You will want to find a topic broad enough that you can build an argument at least 16-18 pages long, and there is sufficient research material to support it, but narrow enough that you can give it a detailed and thorough examination in that space. Avoid cliches, avoid obvious problems and solutions, and do the research necessary to provide yourself a unique point of view. The final paper seems long now. But once you fit in your argument, analysis of other arguments, the history and causes of the problem, a refutation of another position, and all the support you will draw from background sources, that page length will start to feel small. When you take all of this into account, a topic like, for instance, the role of social media in American society is far too large a problem to be adequately dealt with in 18, or even 100 pages. But the tendency people have to isolate themselves from other opinions through social media (echo chambers) might be possible in a paper of that length. The Plague of Too Many Problems What you do not want to end up with, most of all, is a series of loosely connected gripes about the Internet. To avoid this, you will need to choose one specific, central problem you wish to address. Take time to think about the main problem, and to make it specific. Cyberbullying is too vague, and too general. What separates it from other, similar problems? How can you make a topic like this more specific? This can be trickier than it seems. A lot of our social/technological challenges are related. A paper about social media influences and their impact on teenage mental health could slip into a conversation about smartphones. Although you may need to briefly discuss smartphones in such a paper, you will need to watch out that other problems don’t overwhelm the conversation. Sometimes the best way to know what aspect of a problem you want to address is to begin by asking questions. For instance, if I wanted to write about the way YouTube celebrities promote products, this could lead to several interesting questions and potential problems. How are product promotions regulated on YouTube? Are the regulations effective? Is the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) involved? To what extent? Who gets product endorsements, and why? Are these the most deserving celebrities? How do we decide who is deserving, anyway? Are people being tricked by these endorsements into thinking they’re watching entertainment instead of advertising? What potential consequences can you foresee if that’s true? Avoid Generic Problems and Responses We all have a general suspicion about something or another involving the Internet. Maybe we think online advertisers are using too much of our personal information. Maybe we believe hate speech is too widely distributed online. Maybe we suspect social media is depressing its users. These are fine positions to start from. But to write a truly engaging and thoughtful paper you will need to go beyond a general starting point. These are often quite generic, and without careful research our opinions stay in this uncritical place, and all we can offer are predictable and bland responses. The solution is twofold: 1) Do your research. Putting in some extra work in understanding your problem now will help you see what the experts see, and it will help drive your paper further from the uncritical assumptions that we start with. 2) Focus on the details. If online advertisers use too much personal information, how exactly are they acquiring that information? Why is it upsetting that they use it? Are some kinds of personal information more dangerous in the hands of advertisers than other kinds? By getting to know the details of the issue you discuss, you can push your paper beyond the generic. Pick Something Interesting It’s important that you choose something that interests you, and not just a generic research topic. Start on this right away and bring your initial thoughts and research to class next week. We will be discussing this project in small groups as you develop your research plan.

CASE STUDY PHASE 3 - FINAL PHASE A) DISCUSS POSSIBLE RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES BASED ON YOUR FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS IN CASE STUDY 1 & 2 this is case study 1 Bank Solution Group Risk Assessment  Bank Solution Group Risk Assessment Methodology is case study 2