Topic For Research: (Legalizing Prostitution)  I am going to side against the legalization of prostitution.  This topic intrests me because i have tons of friends who are prostitutes. (no not really) I am nuetral on the topic, which should make it easier for me to research. This topic also interests me alot so it should be easy to keep on top of.

Questions:

1) What is ‘prostitution’? The actual defenition from a dictionary?

2) Why do people go through with prostitution? The actions behind it all..

3) How can people avoid prostitution? (maybe my common ground in the argument)

After reading about the Rogerian Rhetoric way of argument, it gave me another view on arguing that I haven’t had before. I think that this way, finding common ground, is by far more productive than just battling it out with another person. I think the hardest part about this paper, for me, is going to be finding a topic. When I do find a topic, the next trouble will be finding common ground between the two sides. Writing the paper should be easy enough once those two things coincide. One of the questions I have about this is how much of the paper will be research? It seemed that the example essay was mostly own experiences and didn’t have much for research. In the booklet it says we are working together to arrive at an agreed-on truth. Does this mean that we don’t have to come up with a clear way to solve the problem, just pretty much state the agreed upon truth?

Steve Prefontaine was an exceptional long distance runner who lived the years of 1951 - 1975.  His death came as a car crash coming home from a party. He slammed into a rock ledge, flipping his car and crushing his body, as experts say. He left behind many memories and also many running records. I would want to interview him because he inspired me as a runner for several years.  He was able to be cocky and know that he wasn’t going to let anyone beat him.  He also had this intimidation factor that who ever looked at him just got scared (competition wise). I would get information about running since im going to transfer to another school to begin running again.  Also get information about his life other than running, which wasn’t much.  The 3 biggest questions i would ask him would be:

1) What was it like growing up in a small town and being able to know you had the talent to run at such a fast pace?

2) If you could run one race over which race would it be?

3) No one knows for sure the way you died, experts just came up with the car hitting the rock ledge theory because it made sense. Was alcohol a factor in your death? Was there a deer? another car? What happened that night?

…… then i’d ask for his autograph

Being still unsure about what im going to be writing on, just throwing two topics out that crossed my mind.

1)  One possible topic is the repeal of the reciprocity agreement with Wisconsin.

Being a student who lives in Wisconsin and goes to school in Minnesota I find it unfair that they are cutting this reciprocity agreement.  I would argue on how its unfair to the people living in Wisconsin. Also fighting that the reason they are cutting this, because more people are going to Minnesota for schooling, but isn’t that a good thing for Minnesota?

2) Job classifications for workers with DWI.

I would argue against this, with reasons why they shouldn’t stay on the city’s payroll.  Maybe add in a comment that these people are braking the law and being rewarded with being able to still be on the city’s payroll.  I’d also do some research on the percentage of people who get a DWI and then screw up and get another one.  Mostly just fight that people who break the law, espicially this law, shouldn’t get rewarded but punished. After just discovering this second topic, I like this one alot more than the first one, so i’ll probably use it for the editorial paper.

     I though chapter six gave a good insight on what news stores was all about. I believe that all of the aspects the author covered in the reading would be usable in writing our very own news story.  The most important part of the reading that would help me was the section under ‘newsworthiness’.  In this section it gave many good questions (five) that you should ask yourself when finding a topic to write on. Also reminding us that we should keep balance when we get our topic and we are writing about it.  This meaning we shouldn’t include our own opinions. Another section I am sure I’ll be looking back on is the ‘using quotations’ part. I am usually good with using quotations, but this page (197) gives examples of full/partial/paraphrases/attribution for quotes which I am sure to find handy when writing my own news story. I have only used full quotations which makes the rest new material to me. I also found the section of ‘The Lead and the Inverted Pyramid’ to be new and helpful information.  I like how it uses the technique of giving the most important facts and later on in the paper gives less important facts. This would make the reader more interested when he first starts reading. In my news story, which will be on a UWS hockey game, I feel that writing in the Inverted Pyramid format would work nicely.  A new concept to me that I read in this chapter was the section on ‘Angle’.  After understanding what angle was I realized that I use it often. In conclusion, reading this chapter gave me a good understanding of what all consists of writing a decent news story.

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