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Audio essays incorporate more human senses than a regular piece of writing, giving your point more feeling and excitement than just simple words can illustrate. It’s like the difference between radio and television because you’re not just reading it your hearing it, and which makes a paper seem less like a paper and more of a conversation.

Audio essays don’t include summaries or quotes said by a person its actual words spoken by the person telling their point that helps prove the point you’re trying to make, this is what makes audio essays more like conversations because point are being made by the words of actual people. This makes it more interesting to people because it isn’t just a bunch of words. But there is a difference when you’re introducing people who you are using quotes from because unlike written essays audio essay you talk about the person who said the quote after the quote instead of before. When using sound bits of information it just has to relate to the subject of the paper or even if it’s not just as long as it improves the overall feeling people get when they hear it then you have used the correct sound bit because all it is suppose to do is hook the reader back into the essay and make your paper that more interesting and enjoyable. Sound bites are also great times to transition between points of your essay which is a great substitute to just using words like also.

So when using audio essays instead of just a regular essay you have more freedom with what you can do because audio essays give you more options that you have at your disposal . Things like sounds bits to help transition between points and using audio quotes to make your points seem more real because it’s the actual person talking so it is a lot harder to take their words out of content. Using these correctly make your audio essay a lot more interesting than just a regular essay because when you are speaking you have more room to convey things that you normally would not normally be able to correctly put down onto paper.

The NPR examples I used were

“Why Dividens, Capital Gains are a Big Part of Fiscal Cliff Talks”

“Would Raising Taxes on Investment Income Hurt the Economy”

Blog 13

ASU is a university that has more than 70,000 students, and only 22 fraternity chapters with an average of around 60 people per chapter that makes it around 1 percent of the student population. But even though it’s such a small percent of the student body it by far it the most talked about part of ASU. But not all of the fraternities are the same; most support the idea of mindless drinking and partying with no rules other than listen to the older guys. Delta Tau Delta is a fraternity that is different from the rest. Delta Tau Delta is a fraternity that I am proud to be a part of.

Adam Graf the president of the ASU chapter : “We pride ourselves in our class, etiquette, and GPA.  Being a Delt isn’t like being a member of any other fraternity”.

Delta Tau Delta’s importance to ASU relies on its effect on its members. The members are the ones that make the difference at ASU, Delta Tau Delta is just a platform that its members build off of giving them the best base which is the fraternities ideology, and with the help of your fellow brothers Delta Tau Delta helps make ASU and the world better by producing more men that are gentlemen. Delta Tau Delta is partnered with an organization called JDRF or Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation that helps give money to that charity to help find a cure for juvenile diabetes. So that is another way Delta Tau Delta is helping change not just ASU but the world. Being a Delt every member promises to be a part of a program outside the fraternity, we have member in originations all across ASU from sports teams to clubs. We pride ourselves in being above and beyond students who are involved in programs at school and who also love to have fun but only as a reward for our achievements.  These are the many ways that Delta Tau Delta shows its importance to ASU because its members also are involved in the ASU community making us not just frat guys but a group of people who invest their “Time and Talents” to go above and beyond other fraternities and display what it means to be a Delt.

David Rees an active Delt at ASU: “Our importance to ASU comes from how we change young men from average to extraordinary. Our ideology and are beliefs are what makes us different. Being a Delt means being living as an example of something that is greater than you. You’re a part of something that has been around for more than 100 years and your goal in college is that whenever you graduate and leave, that your fraternity and your school is better than when you got there”

So Delta Tau Delta promotes change for the better, and that is our importance to ASU outside of its members but for the betterment of ASU as a school because ASU means as much to us as being a Delt, so we try to leave it better than we found it and that’s what separates us from the rest.      

 

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I am going to write about my fraternity Delta Tau Delta, a distinguished fraternity that promotes and produces gentlemen. That is its main impact on ASU because the way that it changes its members, Delta Tau Delta is a national fraternity with thousands of members worldwide. But its importance to ASU is that it is a club that creates not just members but brothers and those people carry that out on campus where it affects everyone. Delta Tau Delta’s importance to ASU is that it is a club on campus that changes people’s lives, and gives people something to be a part of. This gives people a purpose in college, not to just be a student but be a Delt which is an honor that very few know the feeling of. So the fact that is changes students at ASU directly is why Delta Tau Delta is important to ASU because without it so many students wouldn’t get the same experience at ASU that everyone should experience because it makes ASU so much better.

Sources/Questions

The main website for Delta Tau Delta

The president of the ASU Delta Tau Delta chapter

The academic chair of the ASU Delta Tau Delta chapter

Historical things about Delta Tau Delta

How Delta Tau Delta helps its members?

How Delta Tau Delta has changed you?

How Delta Tau Delta has changed ASU?

I would probably start off with some back ground about Delta Tau Delta and discuss some details about what being in Delta Tau Delta means and what they stand for, after that lead into a quote from the president about how ASU affects ASU or how Delta Tau Delta has affected him personally. Then discuss how that relates to ASU and why Delta Tau Delta is important to ASU. Then a quote from the academic chair to talk about how Delta Tau Delta promotes and enforces its members not to be just good Delts but good students in the classroom too which shows one side on how Delta Tau Delta is important to ASU because it promotes high caliber students which then become high caliber workers that influence not only ASU but the world we live in. Then wrap up with a quote from the official Delta Tau Delta website to summarize how important and influential Delta Tau Delta really is and then bringing it back to what Delta Tau Delta stands for and symbolizes.

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For our second writing project some things I liked about it was how open the topic was for us to choose from anything topic we wanted from places to skateboard, watch the big game, or just have a nice cup of coffee, also I enjoyed going to all of my different cafés because not only had I not previously been to a couple of them but the fact that it was my homework made it a little more enjoyable. What I didn’t like about the assignment was that I was never really clear as too what we were suppose to talk about, like if we were suppose to describe our places with extreme detail or use the quotes we put into each place and talk about why their opinion or view is correct. So the challenge was to find a scope we were going to use to talk about our locations. I focused on how each individual places coffee tasted because when you’re talking about coffee taste is everything and everything is second in comparison. Things I learned about each place are that Arizona has some incredible coffee places the coffee lab was fantastic, it reminded me of coffee I had with my sister in San Francisco shortly before moving to Arizona. Starbucks is the same everywhere rarely does it fluctuate; the café biblioteca has good food but average coffee. But as convenient as it is makes it awesome. Terrance café was good as well but they all paled in comparison to the coffee lab that received a perfect score in my book and I will be returning their shortly. These are just some of the things that I liked and disliked about this second writing project.

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Chapter 17 is a chapter about how to incorporate relevant information in papers to help you back up whatever you are arguing. You can use quotes in many different ways in my writing project I am talking about coffee shops at or around the ASU campus. So using quotes to contrast ideas or provide information that can be used as evidence to prove or back up your information, so your paper isn’t just a personal opinion paper but a valid essay with proof for each criteria of a coffee shop that I am discussing.  Also in the chapter that would be helpful tool to incorporate in my essay would be to “use amplification to expand the scope of a point” (Palmquist, 577). This will only work though if I use quotes only in places where it would make the biggest impact in my writing because “quotations dropped into a paragraph without an introduction-are confusing. Worse, paraphrases and summaries inserted without context can easily be mistaken for plagiarism” (Palmquist, 580). Chapter 18 discusses about how to make your paper more visually appealing to the readers using things like line spacing with good titles in large font, how to lay a page out, like where writing should be placed and where illustrations should be put to make the page be more interesting instead of sloppy. This relates to my essay because we are going use Illustrations to provide a visual of each coffee shop I will be talking about because if I am suppose to be rating coffee shops based on my criteria, isn’t as good as if I have a picture of the coffee shop to give a visual to the place and to what I am trying to talk about. Just as long as the illustrations used address what you are trying to talk about because if you’re talking about a place being dirty then a photo of the dirty floors or something for example would be a great illustration because it is like a quote but for the eyes to see. Also other things I can quote from are from articles like the ones in newspapers because they are usually full of solid information, and certain web sites contain a lot of information just knowing what is a good reference versus what would be consider as a poor reference or website to site your quote from. All of this inforamtion might seem obvious to some people but when writing an essay knowing and providing solid points of reference and making you're paper creative and interesting to read can make a big difference in how people might respond to what you are trying to say.