Weeds and Roses

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Weeds and Roses

• Buy Nothing Day

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Weed 1 Develop Your Ideas

• The reader will not go beyond the page
• The Golden Third Page
• (not hogwash, though!)
• Organize around sub-claims to help with this
• Ideas/CD should always tie back to your _______?

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Weed 1 Develop Your Ideas

• What good idea is mentioned in this excerpt?
• The best day to implement a Buy Nothing Day
  would be on Black Friday. This brings out the
  overconsumption of all shoppers who rush into
  stores and grab anything insight that is on sale.
  We live in a society where people believe cheaper
  is better. The employee who was trampled and dies
  at Walmart a few years ago would still be alive
  if we werent overly dependent on buying things.
• Where could the writer extend his/her analysis?
• Write two sentences of your own that further
  explain this argument.

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Weed 1 Develop Your Ideas

• The best day to implement a Buy Nothing Day
  would be on Black Friday. This day brings out the
  overconsumption of all shoppers who rush into
  stores and grab anything insight that is on sale.
  We live in a society where people believe cheaper
  is better. The employee who was trampled and dies
  at Walmart a few years ago would still be alive
  if we werent overly dependent on buying things.
  When people value obtaining material goods over
  acting human and kill others in the process, we
  as a nation must be on red alert. Apparently, we
  have really become Lord of the Flies-ish, though
  we are not after power, we are after a new X-box.
  One day eliminating frivolity and superfluous
  goods seems like the least we can do to thwart
  the right to spend over the right to life.

• The best day to implement a Buy Nothing Day
  would be on Black Friday. This brings out the
  overconsumption of all shoppers who rush into
  stores and grab anything insight that is on sale.
  We live in a society where people believe cheaper
  is better. The employee who was trampled and dies
  at Walmart a few years ago would still be alive
  if we werent overly dependent on buying things.

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Weed 2 Move Smoothly

• What is the purpose of transitions?
• What kind of transitions are there?
• Implicit
• Explicit
• When should we use a transition?

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Transitions

• Explicit

• Implicit

• Another
• Moreover
• Also
• In addition
• The second
• Finally

• Pulling language down from the previous sentence
• The honeybadger didnt feel well, so it vomited
  on Moms rattan rug.
• The rug had been purchased as an anniversary
  gift
• Referencing an earlier idea, assuming newly
  gained knowledge
• Despite this, Americans
• Dependent clauses work well for this

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Effective Transitions

• The overconsumerism may not be such a bad
  trait, in this aspectWhile not purchasing is bad
  for the economy in the present, it may be good in
  the long run.
• Not only is overconsumption harming the economy,
  but it can also harm families.

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Weed 3 Pass the DUH Test

• If your six-year-old niece could have said it, it
  doesnt pass
• Show off your knowledge, not your general 3rd
  grade book report information!
• Passing the Duh Test is especially important for
  your hook
• Buy Nothing Day is exactly what it sounds
  like.
• For hundreds of years the economy of every
  county on the plant has been in fluctuation.

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Weed 4 Titles of Books!!!

• This will not be mentioned again
• Practice with these titles
• Pride and Prejudice (book)
• The Call of the Wild (book)
• Into the Wild (movie)
• Waka Waka this Time for Africa (song)
• Les Mirables (play)
• Sargent Pepper and the Lonely Hearts Club (album)
• Anna Karenina (book)
• How to Impress Your Date in Nine Easy Steps
  (article)

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Weed 5 Dont be a Drama Queen

• Remember, you have to build your own ethos as a
  writer
• It is easy to see through many logical fallacies
• Slippery slope
• Strawman
• Ad hoc
• Use the bit of CD you do have and exploit, rather
  than extrapolate on it

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Weed 5 Dont be a Drama Queen

• The moment BND comes around, theyre out of a
  job and starving that day. When businesses shut
  down corporations close and when corporations
  close, everything else starts to close. Soon,
  that pebble you dropped on the ground, those
  ripples will reach something important, like the
  government, and shut it down. People everywhere
  will be jobless for that day, soldiers families
  wont be getting the check that the soldiers had
  earned. Our fighters will be out there with he
  possibility of running out of supplies. Who wants
  that?

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Logical Fallacies

• Slippery slope
• a course of action is objected to on the grounds
  that once taken it will lead to additional
  actions until some undesirable consequence
  results
• "To judge from the news stories, the entire
  nation is coming to resemble San Francisco after
  a heavy rainfall. In the press, the phrase
  'slippery slope' is more than seven times as
  common as it was twenty years ago. It's a
  convenient way of warning of the dire effects of
  some course of action without actually having to
  criticize the action itself, which is what makes
  it a favorite ploy of hypocrites 'Not that
  there's anything wrong with A, mind you, but A
  will lead to B and then C, and before you know it
  we'll be up to our armpits in Z.'"(Geoff
  Nunberg, commentary on "Fresh Air," National
  Public Radio, July 1, 2003)

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Logical Fallacies

• Strawman
• an opponent's argument is overstated or
  misrepresented in order to be attacked or
  refuted
• "When he was really rolling in February, Barack
  Obama would close every speech with a peroration
  about the importance of hope. The setup always
  seemed a bit defensive to me--an attack on the
  pundits and party elders who thought he was too
  idealistic, a 'hopemonger' who needed to have the
  'hope boiled out of me.' Having knocked down that
  straw man, he would soar through an American
  history of hope, from the colonists to civil
  rights marchers."(Joe Klein, "The Patriotism
  Problem." Time, April 3, 2008)

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Logical Fallacies

• Ad Hoc
• one event is said to be the cause of a later
  event simply because it occurred earlier
• Listen to this Lets not take Bill on our
  picnic. Every time we take him out with us, it
  rains.'"'I know somebody just like that,' she
  exclaimed. 'A girl back home--Eula Becker, her
  name is. It never fails. Every single time we
  take her on a picnic--.'"'Polly,' I said
  sharply, 'its a fallacy. Eula Becker doesnt
  cause the rain. She has no connection with the
  rain. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame
  Eula Becker.'"'Ill never do it again,' she
  promised contritely."(Max Shulman, The Many
  Loves of Dobie Gillis)

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Roses!!

• In 1992 Canada proposed the annual Buy Nothing
  Day, a 24-hour consumer detox as Adbusters put
  it in their press release. Now globally
  recognized and urged, the BND halts a vast number
  of countries and a seemingly endless number of
  consumers from practicing consumerism. Although
  practicing self-control and refraining from
  purchasing goods will help one be thrifty, it is
  impractical to have a day set apart for nothing
  to be purchased.

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What is working in these?

• In the book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by
  Barbara Kingsolver, she chooses not to buy
  processed foods for a year and to grow her own.
  By not excessively consuming goods fro her family
  to live off of, she learned more about life and
  how to help the economy.
• At Boeing, for example, work does not ceases
  because no call from Japan ordered an 787s.

• According to NPR, the unemployment rate of our
  country is 9. In some states its more like 16
• Many countries, including Greece, American and
  the Republic of Ireland are suffering from
  economic strife.

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What is working here?

• People everywhere have made lives for themselves
  in which they can afford many of their desires.
  Congratulations. However, goods are not
  necessities. There is a differenceas most
  fathers will agreebetween a want and a need.
  Stopping the ability to retrieve those goods,
  even for a day, would make people realize and
  decide on the more important purchases.

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What is working here?

• At any given time, on any given day, any given
  person may be shopping it could be teenagers at
  Hot Topic, parents at Fred Meyers, or even
  grandparents ordering things they see on The
  Shopping Network. As a society, as a race, humans
  are inclined to shop both with purpose and
  without. Some people buy things or think about
  buying items constantly others dont give it any
  thought until the last absolute moment. In
  Canada, the Buy Nothing Day was introduced in
  1992, as a way to promote consumer awareness.
  Fourteen years later, the issue was stressed
  again, with the BND press release, urging people
  to participate. However, BND, if enforced as a
  law, rule or humanly obligation, would serve
  unaffected to the average person if promoted
  subtly and without backlash for not
  participating, though, ad day like BND could
  settle into culture.

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Scores! Were Improving!

• A,V,M or The Crucible

• Buy Nothing Day

• 9-0
• 8-0
• 7-1
• 6-5
• 5-9
• 4-9
• 3-12
• 2-0
• 1-0

• 9- 0
• 8-1
• 7-3
• 6-7
• 5-11
• 4-7
• 3-8
• 2-0
• 1-0

Nice job! Were getting it!!!