Rhetorical Situation Worksheet Your name: Jordan Rodriguez Completing this worksheet may take more time than you think. It’s worth the time. The information you gather will help you later when writing up assignments. But more importantly, the process of addressing each of the questions below will slowly work to change how you read texts. Keep in mind that some answers will not be obvious or even observable in the text, and so you may have to do some critical thinking and, at times, even some online research. Use full sentences. Take as much space as you need. 1. Context and Exigence: What topic/conversation is this text responding to? What year…

Name Jordan Rodriguez Professor Orwig English 110 Date: 4/1/2024 Source 1: https://tech.co/news/companies-replace-workers-with-ai This source discusses companies that have already replaced employees with AI. I see this source as important not because of who is replacing employees with AI as the article focuses on, but rather on how it shows the feasibility of it. If companies like these are successful in replacing jobs with AI and are able to increase profits and impress shareholders, I think more companies will follow. This source proves the idea of replacing jobs with AI is possible, where as some may believe it is not yet possible. Source 2: https://builtin.com/robotics/tesla-robot This source described the Tesla robot…

Name: Jordan Rodriguez Professor Orwig English 110 Date: 2/14/2023 This text is called “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You And the Future Life of Willie Jordan” and it was written by June Jordan. This text is a personal narrative and a reflection made for the purpose of educating the reader. It was published by Harvard Educational Review on September 1st 1988. This text is about June Jordan’s students in her English 110 class, where she is teaching them about “Black English”. She teaches them about its significance and importance, so they can be confident speaking it and understand it as a whole. She empowers them with her teachings, so…

Name: Jordan Rodriguez Professor Orwig English 110 Date: 2/26/2024 The text “Heavy” by Kiese Laymon is designed in order to appeal to its intended audience using personal narrative and how it relates with them emotionally. It delves into Kiese’s experiences growing up and how he dealt with racism and racial identity, as well as self image. This expert talks about the expectations that people have for him since his mother is a writer, and so he is expected to be a really good writer too. His coach also has high expectations for him. He criticizes his weight, and does not think he has the self discipline to be a basketball…

Jordan Rodriguez 5/10/2024 I believe that while I was a strong writer at the beginning of the year, I have improved as a writer with the learning outcomes over the semester with all of our assignments. I believe I achieved most of the course learning outcomes this semester to a high extent. I examined how attitudes towards linguistic standards empower and oppress language users when I wrote for our language project about my own struggles, and learned how every single person had language struggles of their own. I was able to explore and analyze in writing and reading a variety of genres and rhetorical situations as well with all of…

Name: Jordan Rodriguez Professor Orwig English 110 Date: April 8th 2024 Imagine yourself as an executive at a large shipping company, like Amazon. Your hypothetical company employs 50,000 workers to drive trucks, move boxes, package items, clean the warehouse, organize it, and manage the workers. Each and every employee of yours works 12 hours per day, 6 days a week, at federal minimum wage. This means each of your employees gets $27,144 per year. Then, you hear about a robot that is intelligent and skilled enough to replace your workers. It can package items, clean the floors, drive your trucks, and do every single task in your warehouse. It costs…

Name: Jordan Rodriguez Professor Orwig English 110 Date: 2/20/2023 My Mom’s Mother who we call Grandma Martha speaks Spanish almost exclusively. My Dad’s mother worked full time when we were kids but my Mom’s mother did not. My Grandma would take care of both me and my brother when we would get sick, and we used to get sick very often as children. She only spoke to us in Spanish, so we had a language barrier. Being exposed to 2 languages led to both me and my brother having a speech issue. My parents started paying for a speech therapist for both me and my brother.  Interview question to my…