Importance of Arguments and communication

Communication and Arguments are very important.

Communication - People communicating throughout the world has been a great impact in our lives. Everyday we communicate through the internet, phones, conversation, etc. Technology has evolved our ways of communicating and by doing so, making our lives even easier and more durable. Communication has been a great way for us to get our points towards others. One aspect that communication has brought are arguments.

Arguments - They have been around for centuries. From adam and eve on whether or not to eat the apple to girls and boys today whether or not they should stay together or break up. Arguments helps us communicate with one another and helps us understand one another. Without arguments, our human language would not be as important as it is today. Arguments give that spark a conversation to life. It also gives a purpose to us communicating with one another. Without arguments, we would not have to communicate as much.

Class experience

I have learned many things from this class. I learned that taking online classes are not as hard as I thought they would be. I also learned that communication is very important towards others. I also learned that communication has a great impact in our lives and that without it, we wouldn't be able to understand one another.

My favorite aspect about this class was that I can contact my teacher very easily. With technology today, email and Instant messaging can do wonders. I always liked how my professor would always answer my emails whenever I needed help. I also liked it how everyone that I met was friendly and kind. If it weren't for this class, my summer would have been very boring hahaha

I do not think this class needs any improvements. It is straight forward and it has a good amount of work. It's not too much or not too little. Overall, this was a great class to be a part of. Thank you.

What I have learned in this class over the summer

What I have learned many things in this class. I learned how important it was to stay focused when it came to doing your work. As you know it is our summer vacation and I really did not feel the need to take this class. But as the weeks pass by, I learned that it was not so bad because it kept me busy and still focused for the coming semester.

I also learned that it is very important to turn in your work on time. Before I took this class, I was very lazy and I would either work on homework last minute or the night before. And now, with the 12 hour apart rule, I have to make sure I stay on top of things and get them done as soon as possible. And with me in Japan for the summer, my time schedule is somewhat different from everyone else. So I really had to make sure that I was focused and get everything turned in on time.

Group Discussion

For this group discussion, I had my whole family read my paper on the second assignment. I also told them my opinions on how advertisements affect our outlook on life and others.

Both my parents and my brother believed in what I said and what I wrote. They also agreed on my opinions. They believed that since we watched television and used the computer almost everyday of the week, commercials can be found everywhere. And by that, they said it can have a major impact in our lives through what we say and what we believe in as well.

As for my friend, he agreed me when it came to advertisements, but he believed that the company or association that we chose was not correct when it came to their argument towards poor and sick people. He believed that even though they may gain food from this organization, they would be able to manage. By believing that, he argued that the foundation isn't really helping the people but actually spoiling them to not get a job.

Mission Critical website

What I found useful in this website was the concepts of supporting you conclusions with premises and arguments. This helped me a lot because it showed me how important it was to have good support and evidence of a claim or argument. Without this strong support, your argument can be countered easily or even ignored.

This also helped me in a writing stand point. My whole life I was never a good writer. I would always make claims and assume the readers of my essays would understand what I was writing about. Since I learned from this website, I am able to make better decisions when writing an essay and making better arguments that can support my main topic or claim.

Another thing that I learned from these concepts and support were the types of support. I learned that by using a well known authority or even a well known fact, can help my claim or arguments even more.

Cause and Effect website reading and exercises Website

What I found useful in the website was the idea of being: ambiguous and vague.

In the website, they are both specified with these descriptions:

-A word or phrase is said to be ambiguous if it has at least two specific meanings that make sense in context.

-A word or phrase is said to be vague if its meaning is not clear in context.

This helped me realize when I am talking to a person, I can tell now whether or not they are being ambiguous or vague. People today always speak as if they know everything. And people that listen to them with little knowledge believe them.

But since I learned these concepts from the website, I am able to tell whether or not the person knows what he or she is talking about. And by doing so, I can tell what kind of person they are; if they are liars or they like to pretend they know everything etc.

Graphs in Chapter 13

Graphs are described to be very useful in Chapter 13. Graphs to me personally are easy. They give me a visual on what I am trying to solve or relate to. It also helps me be able to understand what I'm trying to learn.

Throughout my life, when it came to math, graphs were easy to me. Every time I took a test, I would hope that there would be an example of a graph to help me solve the question.

Graphs can also harm us when it comes to math and concluding facts. Graphs may have information that is easy to access, but depending on the reader, sometimes people can get confused or perceive different type of graphs in different ways.

No matter the reason, graphs are always there to help us in many ways. It is up to us to learn and use them the right and correct way. When it comes to graphs, we need to make sure that we understand them and that we can use them to help us rather than not helping us and making us have the wrong idea of what is to be learned.