Primary sources

My first primary souce is going to be my survey that I issue out to the almuni of elmhurst college who have a music degree. My second primary source will be trying to talk to alumni about having a music degree after college.

Purpose and Audience

My pupose would be to analyze where people are, in the presesnt day with a degree in general music, music performance, or maybe another type of music degree that isn't music education(jazz studies, music therapy etc.). My audience will consist of Music major, career advisiors, parents, student advisors and high school students thinking about attaining a music major.

Research topics

1. Are schools forgetting about music in thier program?

2. How important are the general requirements for a college degree?

3. The future of someone who gets a music/art/theater degree in college...

"in other words"

First off, I didn't know that this existed. Metacommentary seems just like another word to confuse people about their writing. They say right in the first paragraph that people use it without even knowing there was an official term for it. Essentially, I am arguing that why do we have a specific term for something when we already use it?

Synthesis

Statement
Both of the articles that I read talked about how computers do not help kids in the classroom.

Outline
Pros of computers
-Able to get fast research
-Everyone will have to have some computers skill later in life, might as well start them young
-Communication through the internet

Cons of Computers
- easy distractions
- Able to take other peoples work
- People forget about the library

Both of the authors Still and Ohmann oppose the idea of computers in the classroom. They don't think that they should be used for educational purposes. Although, the two authors agree that computer technology will be present in the classroom, and must be monitored by the teacher.

No Shakespeare or Plato, I want Spots Illustrated.

Gerald Graff the writer of "Hidden Intellectualism," writes about the comparison between people who do well in school and people who have good "street smarts." Throughout the article the author gives pros and cons of both kinds of intellectualism and eventually states that street smarts out weigh the book smarts because "they satisfy an intellectual thirst more thoroughly than school culture..." Graff continues to talk about how a person who has street smarts with the interest in cars will write the same type of paper about Plato and Shakespeare because he doesn't have the book smarts to make it more intellectual. Ned Laff put it this way, "is not simply to exploit students' nonacademic interests, but to get them to see those interests through academic eyes." It's like saying you need two wheels to ride a bike.

hip-hop gone bad

Smack That... ***hole for writing such a stupid song.

what is wrong with hiphop right now? why was Stankonia such a bitchin record, and of course, anything Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo do. i don't know, maybe i am just salty (new word alert!) because it seems like popular commercial hiphop is the cheeseball equivalent of the butt-rock of the late 80's. think about it.. they have nothing in the videos but wads of cash, wads of naked hooker-sluts, and just... wads. lot's of wads of retarded, same ol' lyrics about rims rims rims... i guess it will take a cultural revolution, like when grunge spraying lysol on the hair-metal kids to get them to go away did.... diddy.... p diddy.... puff diddy do wop-a-lom-bam-boom Yeah!!!
until then, i recommend anyone looking to clean up their act and graduate from their latest Chingy cd to something more fullfilling, to pick up a couple of cool pieces..

Old Skool:
anything by Mos Def
De La Soul (especially 3 Ft High and Rising.. these guys slayed your wits.)
MC Paul Barman (sick white jewish rapper from NY. a little annoying but killer)
Beasties (Paul's Boutique... what a change from the 1st album.)
Nas (bad ass)
Josh Groban (just seeing if you are staying with me)
Old Jay-Z (still guilty of said "wad" alerts lately)
too much more to mention...

sort of Nu Skool:
obviously Outkast (Southernplayalisticadilla

cmuzik and Aquemini are amazing foretelling albums to lead you into the obvious newer choices)
Danger Mouse (and duh.. Gnarls.. the Grey Album is a sick and amazingly brilliant idea that worked.)
and most stuff Eminem did before being poisoned by Kim's lip-liner.