A couple of semesters ago I had to write a paper for my history class, where I looked at old newspapers from the Morgantown area and compared the advertisements in them throughout several years. I was looking to find changes in prices, locations in the paper, ad styles, and anything else.
I looked at hundreds of papers from right before the Great Depression till when the market was stable again. I analyzed every possible angle, even counting the number of ads from particular companies as time went by. I couldn't leave any stone unturned because I had to have as much information as I could to come up with hypotheses. No one had ever written a paper on this so I couldn't use any other reference. It was very much what I will be doing for this semester's project!
As I wrote my paper I used lots of pictures from the papers, and I commented on them and doodled on the ads to show my thoughts. All of the paper was my own, and I couldn't borrow from anyone else, but I used evidence from the papers to make my point.

Seen:

Seen is the alpha dog
They are each holding mock-ups
seen talks much more, and at a louder volume than the others
The other man doesn't make much eye contact and shakes head lightly when disagreeing
Other artists don't speak
Seen changes his mind on things, but always speaking with the air of confidence
"believe me" "understand me?" never "what do you think?"
seen goes right into the painting without consulting
when the other artist disagrees he says so and then seen tries to persuade him otherwise
seen gives his "sermon" on how the process has to go 1. outline 2. filling 3. background, 3d 4. "clouds or whatever"
don't hear anything from the other artist
adds characteristics from what he knows the other artist's style is (maybe?)
other artist crowds Seen's work and seen say's "come on, come on" and pushes him away
other artist starts to adapt to his style of debate, becoming more mobile and vocal
definitely "master and apprentice" relationship
we never see the other artist paint
refers to older works to justify that methods work

ARCS activity 3

For this activity I looked at an article in the 9-18-08 edition of the DA. It was an opinion piece commenting on the city council meeting, where residents voiced their views on students moving into residential areas. Some residents felt that students were causing great disruption, and actually scaring the people of the neighborhoods. The author goes on to talk about the fact that WVU is growing in size and the developments that are being built to house students are getting further away from town and so students are forced to live closer to campus. He says that students just need to respect the rights of their neighbors and not party every night or harass the residents.

I don't believe the argument rests at any conjecture. The issue is the students are misbehaving and upsetting the communities, but what both sides need to do is not really covered in the article. The author is simply stating a possible solution to the problem. In order for this to be in stasis, the other side needs to be clearly stated, but it cannot. The counter argument could be that WVU needs to create more housing and keep the students out of the residential areas. Another argument could be that residents should live with it. They know where they live and if they don't like it they should leave. Along with the author's argument there possibly three stances and that is too many to achieve stasis.

After reviewing the documents in class and formulating questions, I have a better idea of how important it is to look at all the papers and to draw similarities and differences between them. I am thinking about how I will structure my research as I collect the different writings from the workplace. I have several ideas of types of questions i can ask during the interview to elicit different types of responses. The next thing I need to do is to write out a plan of attack, with a timeline and a checklist of the kinds of documents and other bits of information I plan to collect, to ensure that I have all aspects covered.

The writing packet that we have been looking at for the last few classes is very informative. It is giving us a chance to see the ways that we can glean information from gathered documents. By looking at the prompt we can see what was asked of the writer, and how they interpreted it. By looking at the free writes and brainstorming papers we can see the writer's thought process and the evolution of creative force. By looking at the drafts we can see what the original attempt at answering the prompt was, and as the paper is reviewed we can see how other's opinions help shape the final draft. The instructions were a little confusing in the beginning however, I think this is a very worthwhile assignment, and I have gotten a better understanding of how to go about analyzing the texts.

Professor's teaching notes: This document allows us to see the catalog of the instructors thoughts so that if we ever needed to teach this process we could see some of the things that our instructor considered important. It would give us a good starting point, because instead of thinking of brand new things, we could consider which ideas are more valuable than others. The teacher's notes should involve things that he learned while teaching, and they would be very valuable to someone who doesn't want to make the same mistakes. This fact that it is a rough document is good because there is little discretion about the things recorded. In a final teaching method paper, the teacher will omit the things they didn't think were valuable, but we may actually find that they were important to us.

I started my exploratory essay by thinking about the person that I wanted to interview. I had some ideas of what he did from a conversation I had with someone who used to work with him. From those ideas I got about what he did, I started to think about what he might do from day to day. I separately wrote down all of the questions I could think of that I would possibly ask him, and then I wrote down what I thought might be some of his answers. I simply recorded all of my thoughts, so that I could organize them later.
I ran into trouble while writing my paper, because I was afraid the structure and content of my paper was not in keeping with the assignment. I sent my professor an email stating my concerns and asking for feedback. Once I got an answer from my teacher, I was able to continue.
I needed to consolidate my queries and focus on a couple of big questions instead of several smaller ones. I reformatted my paper and changed some of my paragraphs to fit my new understanding of the assignment. Once I was finished, I re-read what I had written and went to bed.
The next morning I read my paper and thought about whether what I had written had hit the point or not. I did a little more editing and then my paper was finished.

Kairos is a term loosely meaning opportunity. Kairos stands for when the time is right for something. In ancient Greece, Kairos was a god, and the Greeks created art depicting him. Some had a vision of him with wings, doing tasks that required great skill or luck. His wings signified a fleeting time, saying that some things will happen only at a certain period.

I am a member of the National Guard. After i joined, they shipped me off to Basic Training, where Drill Sergeants showed me how to be a soldier. With a lot of yelling and quite a few push-ups, they taught me how to stand, how to talk, and how to work in the machine that is the United States Army. There was no debate for what was acceptable. The army has a tried and true method, and I will follow it.