Journal Entry #10

Rhetoric and Composition – What influences students on whether they do or don't enjoy reading and writing?

English Education – Using movies to teach us lessons from now, the past, and for the future.

Cultural Studies – What effect has rock music had on the lives of those who lived in that hard core ere?

Discourse Analysis – How accurate is Google?

5 Topics I Could Research and Write On
1. What has a better impact on athletes, Extrinsic or Intrinsic Rewards?
2. Does early childhood education have an influence on which subjects one may excel in?
3. Does childhood experiences have an impact on how one acts?
4. How does music influence how people act and respond to certain situations?
5. The impact of sports on people's lives and behaviors?

COMP Online Library Assignment

STUDENT AND COURSE INFO :

Student name : Joseph Hernandez

Email Address : josephhe@nova.edu

Instructor : Professor Mason

Topic : Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Rewards

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Database used : ProQuest
Title of periodical or book : Journal of Leisure Research
Title of article: The Effects of Ethnicity and Gender on Facilitating Intrinsic Motivation during Leisure with a Close Friend
Author : Gordon J Walker
Full text available : yes
Bibliography : no
Citation from bibliography :

: RESOURCE TWO :
Database used : ProQuest
Title of periodical or book : Journal of Leisure Research
Title of article: Investigating the Relationships among Motivation, Negotiation, and Alpine Skiing Participation
Author : Konstantinos Alexandris, Charilaos Kouthouris, George Girgolas
Full text available : yes
Bibliography : yes
Citation from bibliography: Ajzen, I. (1985). From intentions to actions: A theory of planned behavior. In J. Kuhl & J. Beckmann (Eds.). Action control: From cognition to behavior (pp. 11-39). Heidelberg: Springer.

: RESOURCE THREE :
Database used : ProQuest
Title of periodical or book : Communication Research
Title of article: How Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations Interact in Selectivity: Investigating the Moderating Effects of Situational Information Processing Goals in Issue Publics' Web Behavior
Author : Young Mie Kim
Full text available : no
Bibliography : no
Citation from bibliography :

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Journal Entry 9

1. The writer is trying to find out more about what ways do writers represent their selves as they situate themselves within an activity system.

2. The author collects the data that she needs to answer this question by studying the writing of students in colleges. She would observe classes, interview students and teachers, and analyze the multiple genres of the system. She came to a realization that students encounter many “dialectical contradictions” as various factors pulled them in “different directions”. She calls the way she collected her information as a case study.

3. Peers use many sorts of genres as forms of “self-representation”. Some of them include: writing poems and music, painting art, using cultural backgrounds. This influences what they eat, how they live, how they act, and what their morals and values may be like.

Journal Entry 5- Specialization

In the discussions of English Studies , one controversial issue has been the problem of specialization. On the one hand, Evan Dewey argues “the effort to arrange a compromise in various courses of study by throwing the entire burden of election upon the student so that he shall make out his own course of study – this problem is only a reflex of the lack of unity in the social activities themselves, and of the necessity of reaching more harmony, more system in our scheme of life”. On the other hand, David Easton contends “to understand the world it has seemed necessary to analyze it by breaking it into many pieces—the disciplines and their own divisions”, he also adds, “but to act in the world, to try to address the issues for which the understanding of highly specialized knowledge was presumably sought, we need somehow to reassemble all the pieces”. Others even maintain “there was no place for a Renaissance man or woman in the newly de(com)partmentalized university. Soon after the turn of the century, however, specialization became more and more accepted as a way to advance knowledge beyond a kind of general application” (John Higham). My own view is that one should be specialized in one field of study. However, well balanced people are better prepared to advance in their field or career because they are more educated or experienced in various subjects than what they are specialized in. Thus, they are better prepared to encounter situations that may require knowledge or skill that you obtain from other fields of study in order to go about the situation. This is an issue scholars care about because it is what we are dealing with on a daily basis in our everyday lives. What’s at stake when debating this is our education and opportunity to become a person who is well knowledgeable in many areas of life that may in fact be critical in getting through our struggles.

Journal Entry 8

1. How Rock Bands fight to show their audience that they are for real. They fight to do this while, as the author said, they also “have to fight the industry, the cynicism of the press, and the indifference of the public in order to reach their ideal audience; a group loosely configured as those who will understand them--those who have nothing, not even a band to give them a voice”.

2. The Author uses texts and sources from: "A Star is Born and the Construction of Authenticity." Stardom: Industry of Desire by Richard Dyer, U2 at the End of the World by Bill Flanagan, Performing Rites: On Value In Popular Music and "Music and Identity." Questions of Cultural Identity by Simon Frith, "Blood on the Tracks" by Steve Lamacq, "Bittersweet Epiphany" by Steve Sutherland, and Time Travel by Jon Savage.

3. One particular way that I have grown up seeing how people attempt to establish their “authenticity” is by trying to give a ghetto image to those around them. One way they try to show this to people is by trying to prove to others that they are “tough”. Also, another way they try to establish themselves as “for real” is by explaining themselves to people that they are the way they are based on where they are from. They use this image to excuse themselves from acting proper, at times, and by not trying as hard to succeed in life because they view life as “rough” based on what goes on around them.