Sami Whelan-Linares Rhetoric Blog

Title: Tablets Should Replace Textbooks in Schools Purpose Statement: Persuade the audience that tablets are more beneficial in the classroom than textbooks Introduction: The use of tablets in the classroom provide useful benefits in the classroom that textboo ks cannot provide. Tablets have the ability to do many different things that a textbook cannot. Along with that, the cost of ta blets is also cheaper than textbooks and will also help reduce the amount of paper used in schools. Main Point 1: Tablets have access to all sorts of materials online -students can not only do readings from textbooks but also many other things like homework, check their grades, upcoming assignments, along with many other things. -tablets also allow the students to access the most up to date information, also allows them to access a variety of different websites and databases -also allows students to work collaboratively online together without being together (Microsoft) - Tablets have been prov...

1. Course Requirements + solution is detailed well and has an exact solution, did well at outlining the problem in beginning paragraphs - Could use more direct examples in the text 2. Nuclear Power + gave lots of examples throughout the proposal, - a lot of focus was centered around the arguments against their idea 3. Meal Plan + justification is very thorough, follows outline well - somewhat biased, own opinion was used a lot

Tablets and laptops have become increasingly popular in schools and are now beginning to take the place of a textbook. There is a lot of debate about whether this is beneficial or not. Some of these reasons include how it is affecting the environment and how it affects the students learning. My proposal states that there are benefits to switching over to tablets. By doing this, schools are being environmentally friendly as well as allowing students to broaden their learning with the access to the internet. This is not to say that textbooks are completely useless but, that tablets are able to take the place of a textbook and do more.  I chose this topic because it had an effect on the way I learned growing up. The school district which I grew up in gave each student in jr. high and high school laptops which they would get to take home and keep after graduating. As I continued my education from middle school to high school we relied on our laptops more and more for schoolwork...

In this assignment, it is asking us to propose a problem and create a solution for it. We must persuade our peers on why it matters using all of the rhetorical tools we have learned this far. We will be required to use a visual aid as well. For this speech we must also create a one page reflection on our rhetorical devices we will use in our presentation.