Extra #5

I cant believe the semester is almost over.  I decided for my persuasive report that I am going to do a newspaper article for students on campus instead of a powerpoint/video.  Since my audience is going to be college students, I decided a newspaper article would be the best choice to reach my audience.

Extra #4

I'm really excited about the final paper/project and deciding what type I'm going to do for it. There are a lot of different options that I have to choose from as well as what parts to focus on.  I think I will do either a powerpoint video or a paper and I hope to make it very persuasive and would really want to influence someone to want to try out or but the shake weight.

Extra #3

What we have been doing in class to prepare us for our immersion story has really helped me to get some concrete ideas out that I want to include in my story.  It has really helped me to not wait until the last minute like i like to do to get a paper done.  Even though it is not due yet, I have began drafting for it and have almost finished half of my immersion story.

RR#9

     Michael Pollan’s “The Modern-Day Hunterer-Gatherer" talks all about hunting and the experiences you receive when you go hunting for the first time.  He had six different sections from when they first get to where they are hunting to when he kills his first pig and how it makes such a great meal.  Michael Pollan's story is very interesting to read about and has a lot of good details to make you feel as if your hunting in the woods with him.  He goes through the experience of really being taught how to hunt and gather food like the people used to do before they had restaurants and grocery stores everywhere.
     I think that this story really got to me.  My dad goes hunting all the time and I have gone a few times as well.  When you go hunting out in the woods, you get this really relaxing feeling because you don't have to worry about anything.  You also go back to your roots when all everyone did was hunt and gather their foods.  I think that this story will help me to really put a lot of detail in my writing and to make people feel as if they were with me in my scenes.

Day 30

my last day of doing my immersion and my shake weight kicked my butt again. it wasnt quite as hard as when i first started but it was still a good workout. when i lifted today my max outs stayed the same and i benched 260, curled 60 lb and extended 85lb.  my arms both measured out as 16.55 in and my chest measured out to 42.15 in.

RR#8

     Chapter 11 mostly focuses on the proper ways to share your results after you have completed all your research.  It talks about the proper ways to arrange your arguments and common argument and presentational patterns you can use to help you improve your sharing of results.  Chapter 11 shows you how to create a proper introduction and conclusion by using techniques like attention grabbers and motivating your audience for action.  Last of all it shows you how to put all your info together and some effective ways of delivery.
     Chapter 11 will really help me make better introductions and conclusions.  I've never been great at it and it will help me to grab the audience's attention and keep it throughout the whole paper.  I also didn't know there were so many different ways to make argument or presentational patterns.  I learned about how to properly make cause and effect, comparison and contrast, and proposals for argument patterns.

day 29

tomorrow is the last day for using the shake weight. i think i did a good job getting down the results and performing the exercises each and every day. tomorrow i will do the shake weight one last time and will also do measurements and my final set of max outs.