Prospective About the Topic

My prospective about this topic while I have research has actually changed. I started doing this topic about elementary teting in the State of Texas under the No Child Left Behind Act. However, now I feel like I am aiming toward how the No CHild Left Behind Act wants testing to fold out in states like Texas. I have found a lot of articles on the NCLB website discussing how the tgest is soppoused to help the students and the guide lines that the states are meant to follow to make the testing successful. So I am going to start my paper off with the source describing why the testing is going to work and how it will benefit the students. So my main point about the importance of looking at the No Child LEft Behind Act is made at the beginning of the paper. The I am going to trickle my sources in. First I am going to add the state guide lines that I found on the No Child LEft Behind Website so the readers can have an idea of what states must do to meet the standards. Then I plan on adding my article about the superintendent who talks about how the state testing has good intensions, however, it really needs to watch how it labels schools. I also want to find a article that is totally for state testing and some quotes that back it up then I want to find some quotes and articles that say how there is negative points to the state testing. My prospective has totally changed and I am now all about state testing and why it is a "good" thing and how it will benefit the students according to the NCLB Act. I just feel this is a bettter way to show the importance of education and make people pay more attention to how this act affects the United States right now.

Sources Handling My Issue

My sources handle my issue well. I feel like they cover all the points that I want to cover. In my source #1 applies the quotes from the superintendent of Brownsville in Texas. I like this because I have a quote that I can analyze from a upper person in education. However, I do want to get a quote from a teacher and from some students or parents to also analyze in my paper. For my source #2 I have a document from the No Child Left Behind website that tells why the testing will work for the students. It goes into depth about the way that it will help the teachers, parents, and students and how it will follow the progress of the child. This ties in because this is a legitimate document from the No Child Left Behind Law. I can tie it in to analyze what the makers of the Law thought about the No Child Left Behind law and how they believe that it will work. This will make my paper stronger. Source #3 is also off the No Child Left Behind Document. This document is from the Education Secretary and it is explaining what the states should do for the students through the state testing. It basically gives the states an outline on what they expect. I think this will tie into my paper well because I do have my paper narrowed down to state testing in Texas in the elementary level. This is a good tie in so people who read my paper can have an idea of what Texas is supposed to do and what they are expected to do with the students. I like it because it gives the expectations.

Research via Lexis Nexis and Gale

For the research assignment for class I had a hard time finding information to use for this assignment. After talking to Mrs. Patrick I discovered that it would be better for me to look at Education websites compared to political and other database websites. For the Lexis Nexis and Gale sites that we researched here is what I got out of them:
Lexis Nexis Academic- While researching on here I only found VERY limited resources and many of the resources about the No Child Left Behind issue was things that could really be analyzed. They were more things that were already analyzed or they were things that talked about how No Child Left Behind prevents schools from going on field trips now.
Lexis Nexis Congressional Publications- I did not find any information or any type of paper or document that I could use for this assignment and for this paper. Unless I was just looking for the wrong thing but this website provided nothing for me and did not help me in any way. I could came back later when I find more information about this and find more papers to research and look to see if there is any source that I can use from here.
Lexis Nexis Government Periodicals Index- This website also did not help me at all in looking for sources to use in my paper. Every time that I would look up information to look at on the website it continued to tell me there was nothing available for me to view. I might have been searching incorrectly or there just really was not any information for me to use.
Lexis Nexis Statistical- This also did not work for me. I went and typed in the information for the search and every time that I would type in state testing nothing would pull up. However, when I typed in regular testing there was all these sources that came up, however, none were any use to me. They all were testing for odd things like the roads.
Lexis Nexis U.S. Congressional Serial Set- I also did not have any luck in this website. I tried many different search types, determined to get a result, and I only received one source that came up. However, it was not a source that I could use because it was about Funds Allocation. So sadly Lexis Nexis had absolutely nothing that I could use for my research.
Gale Databases- This database though it did contain a lot of information in magazines, scholastic journals, and everything else it failed to again have anything that I can use. Many of the articles that pulled up on state testing pulled up information on things that I could not use. When I types in No Child Left Behind a lot of information also came up, however, the only one I could use was an analysis of a book. So once again my search was not useful.
Gale Virtual Reference Library- I also failed at finding any information on here too. I tried typing in No Child Left Behind and I tried state testing, however, nothing worked. I did not have ANY luck at all on this site to look for information and nothing pulled up.
I am sad that I did not find any information on any of the sites, however, as I said I am going to look on education based sites. I am also going to look at the No Child Left Behind Law. I am not trying to say that these websites are bad and I am sure that many of my classmates managed to find tons of information, and I have used these resources before in papers and have found a ton of information. I am also just a really bad researcher. I am awful at google and the failure at finding anything on these sites may reflect my searching abilities.

Paper #2 Topic

For my broad topic i am doing Education because that is my major and what i want to do with the rest of my life. I am then narrowing it down to No Child Left Behind and i know that is probably almost as broad as education since SO much is involved in it so then I am narrowing it down to state testing. I am now going to narrow it down to Texas State testing to make it as narrow as can get. Now you can see what my thought process was to get down to my idea. I picked state testing because both candidates have different views about it and this is something that is effecting schools, students, teachers, and many more all year.
Everyone who is in school or is connected to school like having a child attending school is impacted by school testing. The school board who has to look at the schools who are struggling and the ones who are doing well to try and make all the school do well. The principals who have to worry if their school will do well or not and who have to make sure the teachers are doing their job correctly. The teachers who have to worry how well their students do on the test and who have to worry if they taught everything well enough. The parents who have to worry if their child passes because in certain grades some children will not pass to the next grade. Then their are the children who are the most important, and they have to actually take the test. Every one of the people I listed are talking about how this impacts them, and now the presidential candidates are talking about it. Also, you can look at the No Child Left Behind Act in general if you would like to read and see exactly what is happening.
Primary sources would be talking to students who have taken this test. The parents who have to deal with the test results, teachers who give the test, principals, members of the school board. Anyone who takes the test or anyone who I listed that are effected by the test would be a perfect primary source. Also, the actual Act and section itself that talks about No Child Left Behind would be good to look at.

Arguements in my Papers

For the ethos in my papers I would say tends to vary. In my letter to the editor has the most ethos because I am basing my argument off the fact that the author of the piece I read targets woman too much in his paper. Basically, making him a hypocrite of what he was saying to Obama in his article. For my op-ed I do believe that I have some ethos because I am discussing women and the election. I am discussing how women should be looked at for who they are and I even go into detail about a woman’s characteristic that gives her the ability to be a capable president. Also, in my humor piece has a little bit of ethos just by showing how men can look at a woman based off how she looks and how women can base off a woman’s character and ability to be president by just being a woman and nothing else.
For logos I do not believe that I have much of this in my papers. This is definitely my weakest point in my papers, which I really did not notice until I was re reading all my papers. For my letter to the editor my facts would be everything that I brought into my paper from the actual article itself. For example the quotes that I used against the author and the little outside facts like how Obama was getting a lot of pressure due to the fact he lacks as much experience as McCain.. For my op-ed piece, honestly, I did not use really any logos at all. I do not see that as a bad thing because this is supposed to be an emotional driven paper. The only thing that is factual is when I discuss Hillary Clinton and her role in the election. For my humor piece I do not believe that there was really any place to incorporate facts into it.
Pathos is my strongest point in all my papers. My op-ed and my comic have the most pathos within them, especially the comic. The comic was based off this concept because pictures just appeal more to the heart and it was more based on the fact that women may not be viewed seriously for what they stand for based on what my little characters were saying. In my op-ed piece I focus on targeting women and making them “angry” with the way women are looked at in politics. For my letter to the editor frustration was really the only thing that I tried to do with pathos and make readers who read my letter be just as frustrated and see everything that I felt was wrong with the article.

humor piece

for my humor piece i am going to do a cartoon and it will have palin on the stage with two guys and a woman standing under her. Palin will just be talking and her speech will go off into a blah blah blah type of thing. With the two men are talkinga bout how hot they think that Palin is and that is the only reason why they are going to vote for her. While the woman will be yelling out woman power. The title of the piece will be A woman's power, and this is because I believe that even though being a woman in the election can be a bad thing it does have its benefits. If guys do think you are hot this may be a way to win a couple of votes from male voters, however, this can also show that males may not take a woman serious and just concentrate on their looks other then their brains or what they have to say. For the woman power I added that because having a woman campaign with you is one of the best things that you can do because it will get a lot of woman votes.