Chapter 8 will help us, great!

     The chapter mentioned many helpful ideas to be considered while making this project. It first started by simply laying the foundations of what the project is, and that is a visual representation of the thesis we are creating. After that though it actually went into some tool for our group to use whilst creating our video.
     The first tool discussed was decorum, or the way we go about presenting our ideas while keeping the time and the place in mind. The key word is "appropriateness", and in a way goes back to the lesson on keiros. We need to consider our target audience, and how they will react when putting together our project. As this is a classroom setting for instance our video cannot become to outlandish as it may then become inappropriate, but e also must keep it entertaining so no one gets bored either. A challenge we must face is to find that balance to add to our video.
     Another useful tip mentioned in the chapter was in the use of images to aid the argument. We must be careful as a group not to use frivolous photos. The images e use must in someway add to the thesis. Each photo must serve a purpose, perhaps explaining an otherwise complicated idea through visual aid, instead of just adding a picture of something because it was talked about. Each one some serve a purpose and also be placed in a good area to help as much as possible and make it easy for the audience to tell where they should be looking. It should help tell the story of your argument in order for the thesis to become as persuasive as possible.
     This idea about photographs makes it abundantly clear that organization is the most important element when we are constructing our argument. And although this has always been true, for a project almost entirely visual, there is more flexibility in the organization styles possible. The example on page 177 with the head line "you are killing us with kindness!" is perhaps the best example. It blends the uses of verbal text with perfectly chosen images to really thrust its argument at you. The main picture right beneath the giant text is a picture of a duck being hand fed bread. But the text itself has been crafted individually as the words do not even form a straight line, with certain words of it being bolded specifically.
     After this is the enormous "HOW?" followed by smaller explanations to supplement the above question, perfectly guiding the audience on the journey they are meaning to take. This is how our argument needs to be made, in a way that leads the audience exactly where we want them to go.

POV

     In this world there are many differing viewpoints on many topics. Every person has a viewpoint to share, and by sharing they could potentially alter the outlook of another thereby changing the way they look at the world. If someone for instance believes that eating meat is as bad as murder, it will certainly shape their views on many other issues as well. Ones social or economic position can greatly affect the way in which they perceive other issues, societies, and cultures.
     The ways in which people live their lives will determine their positions on certain subjects. If a person is born and raised in an upper class environment, he will certainly have differing opinions on certain subjects as one who was born and raised in a lower income bracket, and even from one who was born in one bracket and raised in another. That person may for example feel more strongly for not increasing the tax on the rich.
     But more influential on views is ones social position, something that is chosen a little after ones economic standing, although most likely influenced by. If one feels a certain way on the topic of one subject it will certainly influence them on other topics in relation to the first. A racist for instance will be against anything at all involving those he hates and members of PETA will hate everyone if they nibble on a chicken nugget.
     Opinions on broad topics greatly inform about how people feel on a lot of things. No matter how much one may aspire to keep an open mind they cannot completely. They will always bring a little of what they already think by way of their position on another adjacent topic they could already have strong feelings for. And in that way they may not be influenced at all by an opposing argument. The positions people take on a subject will directly determine how they approach a new topic of politics, culture, or social situations.

My New Paper Project

           The topic I have chosen for my research paper is on the move towards electronic reading devices such as kindle, Amazon E-reader, or the Barnes and Noble Nook. Discussion topics could be if or not society will make the transition to using them or continue to read on paper books. With all the new advances in electronic readers will this completely revolutionize the way people read, or will society continue to use printed books.

            The main sources I have gathered so far have been articles from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and various Internet articles by legitimate writers. One thing to focus on would be the environmental effect of both. Are e-readers better because they use fewer trees or does the pollution that goes into making an e-reader out way the benefits. Another topic would be the social implications. In one article the case was made that the new technology will completely change the way people read. People no longer will be without access to a new title and thus will be able to only read what they what, as well as have the ability to shares books more easily as friends can simply download the story as well immediately. Another thing to talk about would be an idea presented in an article about the new method of reading affecting the old way.  The argument was that it would push books to achieve a higher level, and perhaps become more of an art form than just a casual pickup.

            Some problems in the paper could be organizing all the different facets of the argument.  A way to solve this is by ordering them by importance and using overlapping ideas to connect them together better. Perhaps bring everything bak to an umbrella idea. Besides this I see no problem finding sources to back up my ideas, but I do need to figure out a more concise argument along with a stronger point of view for my paper.

Found 5

Making the Case for the iPad E-book-NY Times article
An article about discussing the relative costs of each book. The article goes into apple's promise of e-books being cheaper which goes against many publishers opinions of these promises being exaggerated. The article takes an in depth look at all the costs that go into making each.

How the E-book will change the way we read and write-The Wall Street Journal
This one is about all the social changes the E-book could cause. The article claims it could change the way people share books as well as how they decide what books to read. It claims the e-book could give the reader more choice in what to read.

Making Making books do things e-books can't — and vice versa-Los Angeles Times

An article which discusses the benefits of competing products styles. This includes its argument of printing books as becoming an art, with different style covers and paper types.

2050: Will Paper Based Books Still Exist?-Technorati

An online article about the future of books. About where the e-books are going, are people buying them and will they ever replace printed material.

Ebooks Vs. Paper Books: The Pros and Cons-Hubpages

Another online article simply weighing the differences and benefits of each medium. The article explains what we think of as a book and perhaps why we haven't already switched over.

Discussion Concoction

Topic 1- the move society may or may not be making towards printed books. This topic includes the idea of which is greener, which the people and what people prefer. Also important is where this movement will be in the future. Will we all be reading electronically or not. This interests me because its a question that has always been at the back of my mind but I've never actually researched.

Topic 2- the dying of scripted television. More and more shows instead of writing simply film a bunch of people carefully selected in order to create a few volatile situations. I very much prefer scripted TV and would hate for it to move to the background of television lineups.

Thesis

This ad by BUND in affiliation with Friends of the Earth works to prevent further pollution by juxtaposing the image of a Banana, a food people enjoy, onto the image of a transport ship, which is literally darkening the skies, to make it impossible to ignore the real problem causing this pollution, the massive shipping of food to other places of the world.

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