Blog in response to WP2 student 1

I completely agree with what the argument is saying, and its intended purpose. I believe that ASU should move towards e-Books and other electronic texts. The argument address several key issues that I feel would be hard to provide effective counterexamples too, or at least ones where the person would not be looking like a money grubbing warmonger. One would be hard pressed to find more pieces of information that would strength the argument given without adding in certain aspects that might bog down the reader. The succinctness of the piece is one of its best qualities. It simply goes out there, and just brings hard evidence that even some of the simplest people can see is happening in the world today.  For example if you walk down main street in suburban USA you will most likely see a young child on an iPad or tablet and that young child knows exactly how to work it, even sometimes better than the parent themselves.

 The author makes the point to say that the few people, who would be against this, would be those who are not comfortable with this kind of technology and who are more familiar with hard copies of the text and assignments. Now the author proposes a way to deal with them and that is to simply continue to offer the hard copies of said text. I would propose to offer the hard copies but to decrease the amount that is currently being produced. Also he states that ASU can control what the publishers do, so if they do not want to make any electronic versions of the text that is their business. But ASU does control whom they do business so if said publishing house did not want to do it, ASU could simply move on and look towards another publisher who is willing to make e-Books.  

Ethos is very subtly put into this paper but the amount that is in it does a great deal of justice for the author. Jo Donald, the author, makes the slightest nods towards how great Arizona State is and how we are one of the best colleges. He also makes the statement that ASU is one of the greenest colleges around and how if we went electronic with some of our materials we would continue that trend and might give other universities the push they need to become green as well.

It seems that the writer uses a lot of testimonials and other type of quotes along those lines. This seems to work for this type of article but it would have been nice to see him use maybe a bit more logos in the writing, because I think some people can only be persuaded by logic and numbers and not their emotions. I also think that this type of assignment is very good for our next writing assignment. To  go along the lines of the author to have a say in some sort of policy that ASU implements really allows some people to make stronger arguments than say some has to make an argument on steroid use in baseball and that person does not like sports.