Thursday, October 30, 2003
Clinton brokers AIDS drugs deal
AIDS epidemic
New AIDS drug
Cost of new AIDS drug
US AIDS increase
We can use all five of these recent articles because they all give new light to our main areas of focus. The two articles concerning HIV/AIDS infection rates will be useful in our first segment and the other three articles will be used to discuss the drugs and their costs and how the pharmaceutical companies are working to reduce the costs. The Clinton article will be used, but we are taking his name out of the information because our focus is on the four companies and how they are working together instead of focus on the former president and his work.
Marcie, Ashley, Kristian
AIDS epidemic
New AIDS drug
Cost of new AIDS drug
US AIDS increase
We can use all five of these recent articles because they all give new light to our main areas of focus. The two articles concerning HIV/AIDS infection rates will be useful in our first segment and the other three articles will be used to discuss the drugs and their costs and how the pharmaceutical companies are working to reduce the costs. The Clinton article will be used, but we are taking his name out of the information because our focus is on the four companies and how they are working together instead of focus on the former president and his work.
Marcie, Ashley, Kristian
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
1.) Higher Costs for Higher Education
2.) US Rep proposes a Bill Limiting Federal Law
3.) More Parents Take Advantage of Federal Law
4.) Edwards rips Bush on Education
5.) No Child Left Behind Act Falls short
We plan to utilize these events by relating them to the readers and then to the nclb act. For example, two of these articles talk about how tuition has increased at public school because of budget cuts. This is a big issue for many of the students at Clemson, espcially recently. Another thing that we could tie to these events is the possible opportunity losses because of the budget cuts. There may be less extracurricular activities, etc. that would normally be part of the college experience that may be cut because of budget cuts. Another thing that we could bring to the readers' attentions is how this will affect them in the future. Many of the students are getting to the points in their lives where they have to start making decisions regarding children, etc. Many education majors may also be interested in the requirements that they will be held to if they become educators.
Katie Abole, Kelly Grogan, Tripp Floyd
2.) US Rep proposes a Bill Limiting Federal Law
3.) More Parents Take Advantage of Federal Law
4.) Edwards rips Bush on Education
5.) No Child Left Behind Act Falls short
We plan to utilize these events by relating them to the readers and then to the nclb act. For example, two of these articles talk about how tuition has increased at public school because of budget cuts. This is a big issue for many of the students at Clemson, espcially recently. Another thing that we could tie to these events is the possible opportunity losses because of the budget cuts. There may be less extracurricular activities, etc. that would normally be part of the college experience that may be cut because of budget cuts. Another thing that we could bring to the readers' attentions is how this will affect them in the future. Many of the students are getting to the points in their lives where they have to start making decisions regarding children, etc. Many education majors may also be interested in the requirements that they will be held to if they become educators.
Katie Abole, Kelly Grogan, Tripp Floyd
I would like to share a couple of thoughts about yesterdays class:
1) You (Dr. Fishman) had asked me (BoB) if I thought that our topic was subjective or objective, and furthermore if the use of the term online privacy vs online security was subjective. For brevity's sake, I answered (and believe) that it is objective, but I would like to expound upon why I feel this way. Matt and I are both in computer science and Curtis is an engineer so it kind of makes sense that the areas of the Patriot Act that we are doing is related to stuff that we are directly interested in. Pretty much the point of the assignment in the first place. Where I would agree this would imply a certain bias towards our own feelings, I hesitate to say that we know enough about the Patriot Act to actually have a skewed, subjective view on the material. From my own personal point of view, I see it as objective because I didn't carry any personal objectives or feelings into the decision to cover this topic. I do have to concede this point though: Since I have adapted the use of the phrase 'online privacy' over 'online security' I am carrying someone else's bias with it and I am therefore subjecting everyone to a certain amount of that bias just by using those words. This really leads me into my next thought.
2) I don't think I am naive enough to deny that every word that retains any amount of substance (neglecting words like a, an, the, etc) in our language carries with it a certain connotation. In this respect, we, as people, are bounded in conveying information to other people by the very vocabulary that we have available to us. Therefore, by transitivity, as we try to inform people about these topics we are going to very naturally select words from our vocabulary, which will, in turn, also carry with it a distinct connotation. Now this connotation will vary widely with audience based on the choice of words that we use, but it is impossible to not have it. I think that this is the bias, or subjectiveness, that you were referring to in class. And yes, I agree that it is impossible to write without it. But, Paul said something in class that seems to ring true with me. If we allow other people, and especially people of a different sort of bias than we ourselves have, to read these papers and point these places out; I think that we will be able to produce a very neutral piece.
Last thought: Having a naturally, subjective attitude towards a topic is not something to be feared but it is something to be aware of. The best strength of character people can have is knowing their own weakness.
Thank you,
BoB
1) You (Dr. Fishman) had asked me (BoB) if I thought that our topic was subjective or objective, and furthermore if the use of the term online privacy vs online security was subjective. For brevity's sake, I answered (and believe) that it is objective, but I would like to expound upon why I feel this way. Matt and I are both in computer science and Curtis is an engineer so it kind of makes sense that the areas of the Patriot Act that we are doing is related to stuff that we are directly interested in. Pretty much the point of the assignment in the first place. Where I would agree this would imply a certain bias towards our own feelings, I hesitate to say that we know enough about the Patriot Act to actually have a skewed, subjective view on the material. From my own personal point of view, I see it as objective because I didn't carry any personal objectives or feelings into the decision to cover this topic. I do have to concede this point though: Since I have adapted the use of the phrase 'online privacy' over 'online security' I am carrying someone else's bias with it and I am therefore subjecting everyone to a certain amount of that bias just by using those words. This really leads me into my next thought.
2) I don't think I am naive enough to deny that every word that retains any amount of substance (neglecting words like a, an, the, etc) in our language carries with it a certain connotation. In this respect, we, as people, are bounded in conveying information to other people by the very vocabulary that we have available to us. Therefore, by transitivity, as we try to inform people about these topics we are going to very naturally select words from our vocabulary, which will, in turn, also carry with it a distinct connotation. Now this connotation will vary widely with audience based on the choice of words that we use, but it is impossible to not have it. I think that this is the bias, or subjectiveness, that you were referring to in class. And yes, I agree that it is impossible to write without it. But, Paul said something in class that seems to ring true with me. If we allow other people, and especially people of a different sort of bias than we ourselves have, to read these papers and point these places out; I think that we will be able to produce a very neutral piece.
Last thought: Having a naturally, subjective attitude towards a topic is not something to be feared but it is something to be aware of. The best strength of character people can have is knowing their own weakness.
Thank you,
BoB
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Campaign Finance Reform
Beth, Brandon, Jessica, Paul
1) A proposal to cut corporate taxes is under attack due to the amount of money contributed to Congress by the companies in question.
2) President Bush met with Wall Street executives, who have recently become some of his biggest donors.
3) Senator Kerry released the names of his contributors, the first to do so.
4) The Supreme Court is debating over the current campaign finance law.
5) Dean is causing an uproar as the first to successfully use the internet to raise funds.
If we use current events, it may spark their interest or remind them of something they had heard earlier and they might be drawn in. Also, using particular candidates may catch the attention of those in support or against that candidate.
Beth, Brandon, Jessica, Paul
1) A proposal to cut corporate taxes is under attack due to the amount of money contributed to Congress by the companies in question.
2) President Bush met with Wall Street executives, who have recently become some of his biggest donors.
3) Senator Kerry released the names of his contributors, the first to do so.
4) The Supreme Court is debating over the current campaign finance law.
5) Dean is causing an uproar as the first to successfully use the internet to raise funds.
If we use current events, it may spark their interest or remind them of something they had heard earlier and they might be drawn in. Also, using particular candidates may catch the attention of those in support or against that candidate.
This is not a required assignment (hence the lack of bolding for the post) but I was hoping that some of you might be willing to continue the conversations that we had today in class (re: objectivity/subjectivity, audience perceptions of ethos and the particular demands of writing to a localized audience. Questions that might get you started would be these: How can one (or is it possible to) write from anything but one's own perception and experiences? How can one read "outside" one's own "screen"? Given the multiplicity of subjectivities for an audience as diverse as the one you are writing for, how do you negotiate so as to achieve maximum effect? Is the invocation of pathos really "cheating"?
Greetings,
For this week's first post (a collaborative post) I would like each group to come up with list of 5 current (*very* current--as in the past month or so) events that can be used to draw attention both to the importance of your issue and to its significance to your intended audience. Say a little bit, also, about how you might be able to utilize these events either to bring people to your site or to keep readers' attention once they arrive.
For this week's first post (a collaborative post) I would like each group to come up with list of 5 current (*very* current--as in the past month or so) events that can be used to draw attention both to the importance of your issue and to its significance to your intended audience. Say a little bit, also, about how you might be able to utilize these events either to bring people to your site or to keep readers' attention once they arrive.
