Academic Integrity Blog Post #4

Integrity is often defined as doing the right thing when no one is watching. As teenagers, we are faced everyday with the opportunity to display integrity in the world around us. Being in college, it is quite easy to choose not to show academic integrity. Personally, I believe academic integrity is using your personal work for yourself and yourself only.
I, Lukas Daniel, pledge to show academic integrity in every part of the college academic life. I can display integrity by using my work for myself only and not providing important information to other students. Also, I will not use someone else's work for my own because this obviously is cheating. I feel like academic integrity is important because I want to earn everything I possibly can in this life. Cheating and breaking academic integrity makes it seem like the value of your education is depreciated. I feel like academic integrity is important because Clemson was built from the ground up with integrity as a leading key of its core values. Its foundation is strongly grounded with doing the right thing at all times. Breaking academic integrity makes it seem like you're not only hurting yourself, but also the university overall. You do not want to be the one that gives Clemson a bad reputation because you chose to not display academic integrity. I realize there will be opportunities to not do the right and break the academic integrity; however, I pledge to do my absolute best in achieving true academic integrity.  To have academic integrity in my schoolwork, I must continue to take my work seriously and almost treat it like a job. If you're caught doing something illegal at your job, you will usually get fired 99% of the time. If you choose to do something that breaks academic integrity here at Clemson, you are at the risk of being caught and throwing the rest of your life down the drain. As a student, I pledge to make the right decision and display academic integrity in every piece of work I complete in the future.

Weekly Blog Post #3

Visual Rhetoric Blog Post

            The entire visual rhetoric writing assignment has been interesting for a number of reasons. Because it was the first time I have written a paper since senior year of high school, it was sort of tough to get started. Writing is something you get better at the more you do it. It took a while to focus on what I was going to say in my paper and actually begin writing it. A little writer’s block was present also; however, the words started to flow pretty well after I knew what I wanted to talk about and began typing out the paper.        

            Over the past couple of weeks, I have learned many new things about visual rhetoric and what it consists of. Logos, pathos, and ethos have been a huge new subject to me because my paper contained all three of these topics. I’ve also learned all of the thinking that goes into a commercial, cartoon, or any type of advertisement. Ads are designed to make one elicit a certain emotion, while attempting to persuade them in one way or another. Even though I have learned a lot about visual rhetoric, it has been particularly challenging for me personally. Not only was it my first time writing a paper in long time, but also it was tough for me to settle on an overall theme I would talk about. Because of my love for sports, I decided to settle on the new Nike commercial featuring Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. I feel like this paper has been fun, and it was nice to get the writing side of my brain working again. On the next paper, I definitely feel like I could make a couple of improvements. Some grammatical errors are expected after having such a long time off, so I expect much better grammar the next time around. Also, I think my overall writing will improve that much more after getting this first paper out of the way. And always, I will not procrastinate as much next time! Haha, yeah right.