17 using kairos in doc 2

To me the idea of using kairos in a paper is a foreign one. It's not something that I've ever had to do before but after thinking about it I think that on some level, I do try to say certain things in my paper at the right time. Obviously it's important to make sure that your paper follows in chronological order but you can also use the endings of paragraphs to set up the next one. A good example of this is in my paper, I have a big long paragraph that talks about how long it can usually take to treat an injury if you use the traditional approach of going to see a doctor first. After citing a bunch of examples of how long this would take, I capitalize on the reader's feeling of how long that approach would take, by saying that if they were able to just go see a physical therapist in the first place it would be cheaper. It may not be an "aha" moment but I still think it's important to use proper timing in your writing to try to sway your reader into thinking a certain way.

16 using pathos in doc 2

To use pathos in my doc 2 I have to try to evoke emotion in my reader to persuade them of my point. Since I'm mostly using statistics to make my case it will be somewhat difficult to use pathos in my paper. However, I do have a section in there that is the closest to pathos that I have in my paper. In this portion i talk about why direct access is good for the patient because it ends up taking them less time to receive their treatment and it costs less money. This doesn't necessarily make my audience feel pity but it is easy to relate to because everyone likes saving time and money. I also included in my paper facts that show that using direct access physical therapy versus physician referral physical therapy results in people getting back to work quicker. This is good too because anyone who has had to go through physical therapy will know how bad it is to have to be paying for this expensive service, while being away from work for a long period of time due to your injury.

15 Using ethos in doc 2

In a persuasive argument ethos, or credibility, is extremely important. After all you're not apt to believe something from someone you don't trust. Building this trust is crucial for persuasion so you have to show your reader that you know what you're talking about. For my paper im talking about physical therapy. It would be really helpful if I was already a physical therapist because that would really boost my credibility, however since I'm not I have to find other ways to build it. To do this I used sources from very credible websites, such as the American Physical Therapy Association. Using strong sources like this boosts my credibility and thus the credibility of my entire paper. Likewise, I have to make sure that all of my sources are legitimate because if not, one bad source with improper information can destroy my credibility completely. I made sure to use a lot of these and other sources that have clear backing, such as Physical Therapists who have posted articles on APTA and other scholarly websites.

13 Doc2 voice and purpose

For my doc 2 I'm going to be writing about how direct access should be allowed at the federal level instead of just the state level. Most states already allow you to do this, but only for a certain amount of days before you will need a referral from an MD. The purpose of my speech is to show that the federal government should allow patients to just see a physical therapist without needing a referral from a doctor for as long as they need to. My voice in this will be helped from testimonies from various physical therapists in the field who have been asking for this for years. They say that it is in both parties' best interest to allow patients to choose for themselves whether or not to go to a doctor first to receive a referral. Using these testimonies will increase my credibility and further the overall goal of my paper. To make sure that my own voice stands out however, I will mention how I have had to go through physical therapy, and how much extra it cost having to see a doctor, only to be then told to see a physical therapist, which I knew was inevitable anyways. This personal experience will help show my reasons for wanting this to be changed.

12 Doc 2 basic argument

My argument has to do with a large issue that is currently undergoing a decison in the physical therapy world called direct access. Direct access is the ability for a patient to be able to go directly to a physical therapist for a consulatation instead of having to get a script from a doctor first. Proponents of direct access, such as the majority of the physical therapy community, say that is a win-win situation for them and their patients. Direct access is allowed at the state government level but is still having problems receiving national backing. In states that it is allowed, physical therapists say it is a benefit because it allows them to see a wider rnage of patients, who are now not restricted to getting a refferal from a doctor, which is an added expense that is unnecessary. A liscensed physical therapist should be mkore than capable to assess a person's level of care they need. In some instances nothing more than physical therapy is needed and this is where it is helpful to the patient to not have to spend extra money. In the event that the physical therapist sees that apatient will need more than the care they provide, they can then refer them to a doctor, so it still ensures that patients are getting the best treatment that they can.

10 post about how we illogically think about different groups of people, with a concrete example about how you have illogically thought about different groups of people.

Many times we tend to think illogically about an entire group of people. Usually this train of thought comes from either ignorance or fear of the unknown. This also tends to happen when people see one person act a certain way and then genralize that because THIS person do something then ALL people like him/her must act like that. I know that I have been guilty of generalizing before because of fear of the unknown. When my band first started playing at local shows we had never really seen what these shows were like. I remember when we first pulled up to this venue called The Pit, we saw a lot of people with tattoos and piercings all over and it was a little intimidating. Usually I would associate people with a lot of tattoos to people like gang memebrs or anyone who commits violent crimes. What I learned though was that you can't generalize people just based on how they look. As I found out throughout the night, most of these people were all really nice and cool. A lot of them were just like me and here for the same reason, because they really liked music. It's not fair to anyone to judge them by how they look because it doesn't mean anything about who they may be underneath.

09 A logical fallacy in popular media

One logical fallacy that comes up very often in the media is that of "post hoc ergo propter hoc". This loosely translates to because of "this", "this other thing" happened. The most recent example of this I can think of, and one that I care about, is parents choosing whether or not to vaccinate their kids. A few years back Jenny McCarthy spearheaded this movement for parents not to vaccinate their kids and unfortunately, it seems to have caught on more than i would like. She had a very unfortunate event happen to her when she took he child to recieve a vaccination, and not long after it was determind that her child was autistic. She immediately assumed that the vaccine gave her child autism because there were a few other cases of this correlation being seen. However, after years of research there is still no link between vaccinations and autism. She fell victim to this idea that correlation is causation. Because one thing happened after another, it was the first one that caused the second. It happens very frequently unfortunately and is proof that you can't always look for the easiest answer to your problem. There are so many variables that go into each situation, especially something so delicate as a child showing symptoms of a disease. The media chose to blow this up at the time and are now having to report on the recent measles outbreak, due to parents not vaccinating their kids. Whenever you run into a situation where you hear the media talking about something causing something else, make sure you do the research yourself and look deeper. Chances are these days, that they haven't.

08 Use of deductive reasoning in Doc 1

For this document, since it is meant to be in many ways a persuasive speech, it is important to try to use deductive reasoning to your advantage. You're attempting to make your reader feel a specific way, by guiding their deduction towards your predetermined thesis statement. The way you do this is by showing a lot of facts to try to steer their way of thinking in your direction. You can also accomplish this by playing on their emotions to make them feel a certain way that is beneficial to the point you are trying to get across to them. In this same manner, it is important to think about this as you are writing your paper. Make sure that the way in which you present your information, is one in which the reader would be able to deduce the logical conclusion that you are striving for them to make. So when thinking about what to add into your paper, make sure that it is compelling but also easy to follow.

07 Peer Evaluation Process

The most important point of the peer evaluation process is to make sure that the person who's paper you are going to be looking over, get's their paper back with important changes that will be beneficial to their final draft. The first things that I look for whenever I peer review documents are spelling, grammar, and punctuation. These are the easiest things to accidentally mess up and usually the easiest to spot as well. While looking for these mistakes it's also important to try to look at each paragraph as its own mini document. See if everything that they are presenting in the paragraph makes sense, and belongs where it is. Sometimes, a peice of information might be better served in a different section of the paper, or perhaps a particular sentence could be stated in a better way. For papers like this with a lot of sources being used, it's also important to make sure that they have properly used APA format when putting in citations. As I've found from writing this paper, this can sometimes be very difficult depending on what kind of source you are drawing from. For instance, there were many different methods to citing internet sources that I never knew about, depending on where on the site the information you're citing is.

06 How you find the thesis in documents you read

Whenever I read a document or article it can be hard to find the thesis. A good place to look is always the introduction because the writer usually gives a brief summary of what he's going to write about and why in the intro. A lot of the time writers will tend to put their thesis statement at the end of the introduction. But, its not always that easy. It usually helps to read over the entire document first, and while you're doing so think about why the author wrote this piece in the first place. What were his goals, what kind of message is he trying to get across to his readers? I find that when I read things, sometimes the author will be constantly talking about a particular thing or idea. Be careful! Just because someone is talking a lot about something throughout a document doesn't mean that this is the thesis. They could just be using a thought or idea to convey what their purpose of the paper actually is. Once you read through the document fully think back again to why the author wrote this in the first place. By this point you should be able to figure out what their thesis is.