WAW 1-3 & 6 and Meta Moments

I believe that rhetoric/rhetorical mean rhetoric is making people believe the same thing that you do and rhetorical is stating your point with facts to back it up and being able to defend your point to others.

When reading academic articles rhetoric falls into place because the author is trying to get you to see there point of view from the article and not anyone else. 

1. Kantz contends that facts are actually claims such as what you read in a textbook, opinions are what one person believes or thinks based on disagreements and arguments, and arguments are all claims because everyone has their own opinion about a certain situation or argument. 

2. Many students misunderstand sources because they read them as stories

• I disagree with this because I think that students know how to site there sources when they read them they just don't know how to always correctly cite them.

Many students expect there sources to tell the truth

• I definitely think this is true because students always expect everything they read to be true and you can't always trust what you are reading to always be correct. 

Many students do not understand that facts are a kind of claim and that they are often used persuasively.

• I believe this statement to be true because the authors are trying to get the students to only see one side of the story and not all the sides.

3. Yes her article did teach me that you can't always trust the facts that you are given and take them for everything because they are only worth face value yes there can be good information in the material but it is not always true and the author is only going to show you one side not many sides. 

6. Yes after reading this Kantz has shown me that you can not take what information you are given and hold it to the highest of standards you need to look around and find a variety of information because different authors will try and get you to only believe one side and not the others. 

Meta Moment

Constructs are things built around peoples ideas and concepts are things people already have opinions about. It is useful to understand her findings and claims because she is showing you a different view about writing and how to write based on what we have done in the past and knowing that not everything you read is a fact and that it can not be taken for all that it is worth.