Author's Note-Final draft

This is the final draft of my public space analysis essay for unit one. I am confident in this piece because I feel I was able to connect the space with an argumentative analysis that will help guide the reader to an understanding of Alice Carlson Elementary School. My only concern is that the reader will not be able to immediately make the connection between these two schools. Hopefully though, my descriptions and analysis together, will prove that these schools need each other because of their shared physical space.
Overall, my essay explores Alice Carlson as a whole in relation the TCU and Fort Worth community. I think that I was able to incorporate my personal views and experiences with the space as well as giving an accurate description of the actual physical space. I feel my arguments are clear and well developed.

Author's note #2

This is my second draft of my public space analysis and I am moderately confident in my paper this time around. I feel like I was able to elaborate more on the actual physical space and how it relates to TCU. I still wonder how to conclude this paper to tie in both schools and the community. I would also want to correct grammar that I often overlook when I elaborate.

Finn-author's note 1

This is my first draft of my public space analysis. I am still trying to figure out the organization of my piece because right now I feel like it is comparison and contrast essay when I want it to be an analysis.
I would like some help trying to organize my ideas better in relation to public space. Also, I don't know if I should be saying "I" and things of that nature when I describe the space. Do I make it seem like I am comparing these two schools? Because my goal is to analyze/argye how their shared space effects both schools in different ways.

Public space/community aspect

Alice Carlson effects the community because it creates learners for the future. Having TCU right next door creates an opportunity for those children to see what college is like. It shapes a generation of children into young adults. And even though the traffic usually annoys most people in the TCU community, I think most of us would agree that it is a beneficial space. It is a place for students to learn and ask questions, just like we do here at TCU. obviously the level of academia is different but it is the same concept, it is a school, made to teach it students. On a formal level, TCU's tax money goes to fund this school, making it responsible to the TCU community.

Arguments of fact/definition

While observing Alice Carlson I noticed a few arguments of facts. One would be that children should attend school and maybe even children should attend public school. The school's location could argue that being next to a TCU's campus benefits the children and could motivate them to want to attend college. This school is called an elementary school, but is it really what people think of when they think of elementary schools? It is a school, but what kind of school and how does that effect how people view it? That leads to the question, what is a school? There are many different types of school and with that, many groups of people who support each one.

Chapter 1

While I was reading I was surprised to hear that everything can be an argument. I thought it was interesting how there are different types of arguing that can produce different effects and how pictures can lead one to conclusions as well. I began to understand the different types of arguments that vary from each other including: arguments to make decisions, arguments to pray(which seemed the most unusual to me), arguments to explore and arguments to persuade or convince. There are also appropriate times for all of these various arguments and situations that make one argument a better choice than another. Aristotle's three forms of rhetoric pathos, egos, logos were also discussed in chapter one.

Disagree:
Prayer as an argument seemed odd to me because I do not see how an individual thought can be an argument. Prayer is usually a reflective process that tries to calm and relax the one participating. Making an argument during prayer seemed contradictory because the vary nature of this process. Not everything has to be an argument simply for argument's sake, especially prayer and meditation. I can maybe understand how someone could advocate for prayer but I cannot see the action itself as an argument. It is something that happens in the mind of someone, not an action for others to argue.