Next English 110 Students

Dear future english students,

I like to start off by saying that as an incoming freshman at The Ohio State University you probably will be enrolled into some English 110 class. However, do not freak out because this class is not all that bad. Yes papers have to be written and other writing assignments are done throughout the year, but none of these papers are really that bad. The papers that a student has to write are very time consuming but they let you know when the are due and they give you plenty of time to write these papers. For example, the big analytical paper that you have to write is very time consuming and last about half the class. However, the class does a nice job breaking down the paper into parts making the paper not as intimating as it sounds at the beginning.

I Also liked the class size of this class is really small about 20 people. This is nice because as a student you are force to get involved in class discussions. So as a student you open up and when a student opens up that helps them to become a better writer. All in all english 110 is not all that bad of a class and as a former student of the class i learned a lot from the class.

Sincerely,

Joey Hirka

Evaluating Evidence

New York Times is a newspaper that has just about everything from political news to entrainment news. In a movie review in the New York Times they talked about the movie, The Shawshank Redemption. The review starts off using an emotional take to gain the readers attention. It has different pathos throughout the beginning review. Using phrases like "triumph of the human spirit" and "a particularly remorseless and icy man". Both these phrases draw readers by playing off their emotions. Making them want to know more about this triumph and human spirit. The review continues to use different quotes and parts from the movie that play of the reader’s emotion. The review has the creditability to question the movie on the minimal action it uses to show how rough and jail life can be to people. It states that the film is one of the first prison movies to use words to describe how rough jail life is rather then using the actions of its characters. The narrator, Morgan Freedom, who also plays Red, does a fantastic job in narrating the hardships of jail life along with Andy’s life, the main character. The review goes on describing how wonderful Mr. Robbins plays Andy and how well directed the movie is done by Mr. Darabont.

My second source is an article from khou.com, which is a news site in Texas. The article is about an attempted escape from jail. The article uses lots of different pathos, ethos, and logos to grab reader’s attention about the prison escape attempted. They keep the reader’s emotion involved by not mention until the end that that it was a failed attempt. They also use pathos by starting the article off with people being shot on the attempted escape. The use of logos is used through the fact that the prisons have to spend 23 hours a day alone in a single cell. Jason Clark of the Teas Department of Criminal Justice also says that these prisoners have to wear restraints no matter where they go

Rhetorical Analysis of Nosker House

Nosker House is a scholar dorm at The Ohio State University. Nosker is a very small dorm located on north campus. The house is not a freshman dorm. Meaning any grade level can live in the dorm. Mostly MMC (Media, Marketing, and Communication) scholars live in Nosker, but they do allow others too live there. One thing that stands out is the size of the dorm. When people think of dorms they think of giant buildings holding lots of students. Nosker is not one of these. Nosker is only 4 floors high and is in the shape of an L. It has a mix of girls and boys rooms throughout the dorm. On every floor there is a theme for each door that the RA’s have created. For instants on my floor they have a super hero theme. An overall idea of Nosker is that it is hidden. The dorm is only 4 floors high and tucked behind many buildings. If someone took a stroll down woodruff they probably would not even notice the tiny dorm room hidden behind Blackburn. However, people know about Nosker because it is located right next to North Commons. North Commons is were campus food is located.

Nosker House has a simple intent. The intent is to house students form The Ohio State University, and to create a community with these students. Students selected to live in Nosker are selected based on the interest with the scholar program or same living style. I really do not think there is a hidden function of Nosker. Only that Ohio State University called it Nosker House rather then Nosker Hall or Nosker Tower. Most dorms are called a certain name and then either the word tower or hall follows. To me they choose the name because they wanted to make it sound like they were building a family with the students’ living in the dorm, rather then just campus housing.

Writing Background

My name is Joseph Hirka and I would like to welcome everyone to my blog. I am a freshman at The Ohio State University and I plan on majoring in Accounting, and hopefully achieving a minor in mathematics. Throughout my years of English classes I have never written a blog. I have followed many blogs and have commented on a few, but never have I written one myself. My favorite blogs to read have to be sports blogs and one’s my friends from high school wrote and still write. Not many people realize that school or academic written really does go hand in hand with the way we write for the public. I say this because writing in school is supposed to prepare someone for the next level. In middle school the writings we did were done to prepare us for high school writing. Then in high school, from my personal experience, I was taught how to write for college. I say this because I learned how to write analytically.

The major assignment for my English class this quarter is to pick a source on the topic of survival and analysis it. For this assignment I am going to need to know how to write analytically. Along with this analytical paper I have to write blogs. These blogs and this paper are ultimately supposed to prepare me for the next level of writing. In my mind the next level is public writing. Yes I know anyone can public write, but can they do it good? The answer varies only because some may be naturally gifted. However, most of the interesting blogs comes from journalist majors or writers with some college writing course. Therefore, a college level of writing has prepared them to create interesting blogs or writings.