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  For this blog post, I am going to be talking about an argument that happened in the comments section of a Facebook page a while ago. Argument: https://www.india.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/315.jpg . I am not including the screenshot here because, as a warning, it is rather… uh… not kid-friendly to put it lightly. I chose to talk about this argument because I felt it displayed two rather clear types of arguments. It is a rather short argument, but one person has a much clearer ability to use logic and has an actual basis for his position. The initial post stated that the movie The Martian looked rather unrealistic and not to his taste. A second person responded by explaining where the logic behind the movie came from and it is actually very realistic. The original person then responded by saying it was not because humans need sound to live, and there is no sound in space.  There are many things wrong with this argument, but I will stick to the main concerns I have. The in...

  According to the chapter titled “Analyzing Arguments: The Toulmin Method” in the textbook titled Communicating Online by Julia Green, the Toulmin method is a method of analyzing arguments by identifying the claim, their ground for such a claim, and the warrants that connect the two. The second level to this model is identifying any qualifiers to the claim that would limit its application, the quality of any evidence presented, and the rebuttals they address as well as how well these rebuttals are addressed (Green, 2017, p. 324). Every argument has a strong claim that is based on some aspect of their lived or researched experience. The warrant is the bridge between these two that explains how they are related. The qualifiers are limiting statements such as “in most cases” that limit the applicability and are used as a way to reduce the ability for rebuttals. The evidence used has to be from a reputable source and relevant in order to make a good argument.  Below is an exampl...

     If you are anything like me, you know what it's like to never pay attention when in an online meeting. They are boring and can never grab your attention. The professor of your class uses the same slide format every week and talks in the same monotone voice, so you'd rather be playing with your cat than focusing on class.      This week I listened to a podcast produced by Stanfords Graduate business school titled Quick Thinks: How to Shine Online and Excel at Virtual Communication (listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/19uW3rmMNnjcswqi5cOrNV?si=OmkqYKGLQz2RJbtf6QNZtg ). This episode was a shorter podcast, only about 8 minutes, but talked a lot about how to successfully communicate online using platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams.  At the time this episode was released, the current pandemic had been in full swing for a little over a year in the United States and everything such as school, business meetings, and every hanging...

  Social media is drastically increasing the records of history but in an unexpected way. There are both good and bad sides to this depending on how one looks at it. In the evergrowing popularity of media, events ranging from small, insignificant moments in time such as that college party last weekend to major global events such as the 2022 Winter Olympics are documented and shared on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and every other major social media platform. This provides a record of events and things people have said or done that will have a permanent footprint. This is a great thing because history being made today will forever be recorded as it happens. This means events and periods of history are likely never to be lost to time.  Cultures, where oral traditions or singular copies of a manuscript are all the history there is, can easily lose history to a disease or old age as with a lot of native tribes or a corrupt government such as in Orwell’s 1984. Having a plethora of ...

BioChroma Analytics Lab LLC is a company based out of Dallas, TX that provides aid in product development and distribution to companies in fields such as cosmetics and medicines. They do this by providing services to customers in the fields of biology and chemistry to consult, help develop, upscale, and even run tests of products the customers are trying to distribute.  This company has a great online presence that provides a professional outreach to clients and other interested third parties. I originally found this company through a job listing on the website Indeed that had a brief job description, an email address, and a link to apply through their website. Upon clicking the link to their website, I was brought to a webpage with a very eyecatching banner and logo. The logo itself is simplistic, yet conveys the company name, and some visual representations of what the company has to offer. The banner below that is then a brightly colored picture of berries and medicine in the ...