Author: Charles (Page 2 of 11)

This Genre (Unit #3) We will be learning about and discussing racing street legal cars, the origin/History, When did cars become fast? as well as legal and safety concerns, this topic appeals to an audience of adrenaline and thrill seekers as well as automotive enthusiasts ( and maybe a small group of people who simply appreciate the design) but rest assured even if you do not fit into this criteria I think you will still come to enjoy reading about it. And everyone enjoys the feeling of being in a fast car with the slight exception of my mother who is the only person ever to complain to me about driving “fast”. During unit two I wrote about the history of cars, when they become popular/common and where i thought the industry was headed in the future this unit we will discuss a different perspective of the car industry as we already know when cars became common, how they are powered and the effect on car performance from the enactment of the EPA from my previous writing in unit two. With that background you have received I will now talk about the thrills of driving fast and when did cars become “fast” to begin with as original mass produced vehicles such as the Ford Model T had a top speed of 45mph which is by no means “fast” by todays standards and so on and so forth. The reason that we are discussing this is because I consider this a “fun” topic as one might consider a roller coaster in an amusement park to be fun I consider sports cars fun. Among many other like minded people, I might add as there are millions of sports cars purchased each year in the united states alone so clearly there is great interest in them although sports cars only make up about 2% of the vehicles purchased you have to keep in mind however that people have weekend cars (multiple cars) as well so this is a little bit of a bigger number then one might think. Regardless the interest is there and I certainly find the topic compelling to write about. Throughout the unit I might include pictures of certain vehicular scenarios to give you, the reader a better understanding of what you are reading. As I have yet to receive much critique about my work in unit two I can only assume I did a fair job of granting a basic understanding of what I am talking about but will strive to do a better job this time around with vivid imagery and improved, focused writing

A couple of things that I learned from reading this is first off that writers become incredibly lazy when introducing their sources and sometimes even lack the proper set up for the source of a hint of an explanation (similar to what we learnt in quoting) and the result of this is multiple sources but still no idea what they have to do with each other. The author of this source (annoying ways people use sources) states “writers won’t always see eye to eye on the same text” and that some things he writes about in his essay will undoubtedly bother some picky readers but others will go write through without a second thought on if what they just read fit in perfectly or not with the rest of the essay, so in otherwards readers can be very picky and critique every little thing.  However I do have a slight question for the author which would be, what is a standard for proper formatting? who can decide if my paragraph is “good” or not because reading is not like math where their can only be one answer writing is more complex in that aspect so an explanation to this might prove very fruitful to my future writing. Now let’s see if you can follow along with my paragraph and if reading this source helped my writing.

“Many consider the 1960’s the pinnacle of the golden automobile age” (before all the regulations came in) what I the author meant by this was after the 1960″s automobiles started to have lots of regulations which initially affected performance as the EPA started to rob vehicles of their performance due to pollution and the IIHS brought tremendous change to the design pf the vehicle because of safety concerns, not to mention the 1970’s oil crisis did not help in the slightest either. so the 1960’s was when automobiles were simple and beautiful albeit unsafe and heavily polluting. so did i succeed? do you the reader think the entire paragraph, despite discussing multiple topics were “wrapped” nicely into each other?

What I propose for unit three is, (and I am not sure if this is 100% the tune I’m going to sing) to teach my audience all about the art of speed. In particular racing street legal vehicles for pure enjoyment, as some look at it as a colossal waste of money and maybe even a bit dangerous I look at it as a fun hobby. Now the audience I am trying to reach is slightly larger then one might think as their have been several very successful movie franchises that focused on racing street cars such as the multi billion dollar Fast and Furious franchise which glorified drag racing and drifting (Straight line and sideways forms of racing) and brought immense popularity to a when orchastrated safely, activity which is quite entertaining and exciting to partake in and to watch. I intend to start with a brief history on when cars became “fast” by today’s standards and then moving to how we see it in popular culture and which demographics of people like it and which frown on it and so on. The most important thing I learned from unit two would be consistency which will bring me to try and stay close to to the topic at hand and if I do go off on a tangent which is most likely to happen at least let it be an entertaining and relevant tangent. A couple of things I’m worried about is how this article may be recieved as I looked at what my classmates are writing about such as key issues like police brutality which I have seen happen, and remains a big issue but here I am writing about racing and sports cars. So yes pretty anxious on how this topic will be recieved but hopefully you enjoy reading about it and that’s all that matters right? Not everyone can be an activist for important issues because I feel if i write about something like that their would be alot of tension on the topic so I try to keep on writing about non political aspects of life.