RAP to Commonplace

As I have been reading common place articles I have noticed that the articles are written based on students opinions instead of research papers. The articles are short and very opinionated and many times these articles are written without much factual evidence. I can tell they are written by college students and not by high schoolers because of their word choices and organization. I think our RAP papers are very different because they are research papers instead of the free writing articles in Commonplace. I think I will make my topic timely, compelling, and relevant by talking about the current alcohol use in college. I envision college students and students who are consuming alcohol as my ideal audience. I want to start my article by stating shocking facts about alcohol to really hook readers. At the end of my article I would talk about what could happen in the future if these students continue to consume alcohol into their adult life. I believe that my work could bring awareness to the problems that could come with alcohol. I don't think there are any articles written about drinking. I am open to any constructive criticism on my writing or any ideas about how I can change my paper.

L.O.S.T

Earlier this week I started to watch the series named LOST. After watching only the first two episodes of it I was shocked of how interesting this show is. This is an American drama series about a plane accident. It all starts with an airplane that was flying from Sydney to Los Angeles and fell somewhere that no one knows. Their where a couple of survivors after this disaster that landed on this mysterious island where they have nothing and know nothing about it. Each episode shows a different part of how the survivors are struggling to stay safe. As the series go on each character's past is shown, but no one knows what their future is going to be. How much hope can the survivors have knowing that they are lost on an island 1000 or more miles away from their course with nothing but half of a destroyed airplane?

I think that the LOST series are really interesting because it shows how each individual has to fight for themselves to stay alive. They have to hunt to eat and stay healthy and built a shelter to stay warm and dry. I think that the director does a great job with the music in the series. I believe that the music is the main characteristic of these series because it makes this regular series more interesting and scary. The music brings suspense and it also makes it scary. I find that another important fact about LOST is that it is fictional, but believable at the same time. LOST is like a mixture, but a believable mixture which makes it enthrawling. I can't wait to see what is going to happen next!

Thesis

In my life so far I have learned that a thesis statement is necessary for every paper. Thesis is basically what is going to tell the audience or the people that read your paper what it is about. Thesis is the main point of your paper and it is a sentence at the end of the introduction telling or introducing the subject.

Writing analytically has more to say about a thesis than what I have learned. They base their thesis as developing an idea, having evidence and proof, the thesis has to make a claim. Carefully analyzing your paper gives you strong thesis, a strong thesis will not be repeated many times were on the other hand a weak thesis is constantly repeated. I also learned from the book that to have a strong thesis we should be able to get complications which would then make the paper have more evidence. Their are a couple of steps on how to make a good thesis, where in my learning I thought a thesis was just what you paper was about. Thesis and evidence work together.