A really long syllabus.

In Ball Point chapter one there is a brief breakdown in how the e-book will play out and something that caught my eye, the Foundational Beliefs. Professionally, Democratically, Critically, and Personally, these are the ways the Ball Point e-book said that they were trying to enhance me, this got me thinking. Though I am not going to be a journalist or an author I began to ponder as to how this course would help me in my future career as an Administrator. Professionally this course will enhance my ability to write corporate letters and emails, job proposals, and speeches. Democratically it will help me become more politically correct and allow me to participate in the public more because of the new found confidence in my skills. Critically I will become a better researcher and thinker, allowing me to better hold my ground in debates and company meetings. Personally it will allow me to become more knowledgeable, so that maybe past research will help me with a future problem, work and non work related. Chapter two brought about some more interesting reading that chapter one did, it started off with rhetorical writing, which is a claim that supports a claim. now usually when I think of rhetoric's my mind wanders to Pulp Fiction's "What does Marcellus Wallace look like", so when that and the definition given by the Ball Point book did not match I had to read on. The e-book goes on to explain inquiry and its relationship to rhetorical situations, in that it is hard to have rhetoric writing without first inquiring the topic you are writing about. The end of chapter two talked about the role of reflection, and how it is very important for writing. By using reflection it helps us to understand the situation better if we are the reader, and helps us make sure the reader can understand us if we are the writer. So far the Ball Point book seems thorough , even if it is a bit long winded.