This post was not one of my favorites. All of the sample essays Steph gave us were terribly boring and honestly did not catch my attention one bit. I found all the topics awful and skimmed through two of the essays just to see their structure, style, etc.
One of the less boring papers, but still very lifeless in its own respect, was the paper of Cicero's Orater. This paper discusses the necessary traits of a good orator. For all these papers, I wanted to focus on looking at each paper's thesis. This essay's thesis is: "This paper aims to reconcile these two definitions, offering a new way to understand decorum and the work it does in the world, first by offering a reading of the definition of decorum, then following that reading from classical conceptualizations of decorum through to modern and post modern iterations." The introduction appealed to a very specific audience and that audience was not me. The reader was obviously a teacher of some sort and talked about his/her colleagues, limiting my interest because I am a student, not a teacher. This example paper didn't really help me at all.
The second example paper was titled, "Marveling at The Man Called Nova: Comics as Sponsors of Multimodal Literacy." This paper was slightly interesting because it was about comic books and not about random parts of speech or Green terminology. This paper was another example of a research paper that I did not connect with any way. The author, Dale Jacobs, tells an story about spending his weekly allowance on comic books. He then backs up his story by saying that many men would understand his story if they too saved up for comics and enjoyed that pastime. I am not a male i the 1970's so I did not connect with his essay. The author could have done a better job to connect with all types of audiences and should not have limited his readers so much.
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