David Cucinotta ENG 15

Paragraph # A 1-Sentence Summary of What the Paragraph’s About 1 - Fantasy sports are one of the largest, and still growing, sports craze of my generation.  2 - Millions of people play fantasy sports world-wide, and that number is continuing to grow. 3 - Rhetoric is important, especially in evaluating the different elements of a fantasy sports draft board.  4 - The purpose of a fantasy draft board is to inform the audience, fantasy sports teams, of important details that otherwise wouldn't be known without it.  5 - NFL player statistics are one of the most key factors in understanding fantasy sports.  6 - The ADP, or average draft pick, is another essential topic that is needed when entering a fantasy sports draft.  7 Your fantasy team's name gives it a uniqueness that helps others identify you.            After completing a reverse outline on my WP1, I recognized that my organization...

Textual Genre #1: Fast-food menus  Textual Genre #2: Fantasy Football Draft Board Textual Genre #3: Automobile Slogans 

             The purpose of genre generators is to give someone a new perspective on what they might have had on a certain genre. These “random” genre generators give you back different conventions based on what you insert into the generator. Each different generator will give a totally different genre because they generate different words, conventions, and images each time you use them. The first genre generator which I viewed was by a company called SCIgen, which generated random, and nonsensical, scientific research papers. This convention used by this generator would largely be based on “false” scientific studies, false research, and unactual information. This generator will create a believable research paper based on completely false information, but will make the reader believe it to be true.               An example of this website’s randomly generated scientif...

          Working for a fast-food company almost makes you memorize the menu of that company’s food menu. Whether or not you’re making food, cleaning dishes, or managing, it is imperative that you know what that company sells. Working at Saladworks, you would think I’d know exactly what is on their menu. You’d be wrong.               Most people know exactly what a menu at a fast-food place or restaurant, just based off how often society buys cheap and inexpensive foods on the go. What first comes to mind for me when thinking what would be on a food menu is; -Food name -Price (of food) -Quantity (of food) -Restaurant’s name -Description of food                       These are the basics to a menu, and what comes to mind when I think about browsing a menu. The sole purpose of a menu is infor...

In Elbow’s “Two Kinds of Thinking” my annotations consist of brackets around important paragraphs and sentences, circling anything " unknown " to me, and underlined descriptive words that help you understand the writers meaning behind his main point. Highlighting with different highlighters can help keep you on track with what paragraphs share the same topics, as well as paraphrasing what you highlighted. Using asterisks and bullet points can help remind you where important main ideas and words are located in the writing. Also, noting the sentences/paragraphs that you DO and DON'T agree with can make you better understand a writing ( paint a better picture ). In the body of the writing it can also be important to find evidence to back-up what the author is stating. Following these steps helps create a larger image of what the writer's objective was, therefore giving the reader a much better understanding of what they truly meant. 

Hi, I’m David Cucinotta, currently a freshman at PennState Abington and eighteen years old. Most people call me “ Cuch ” because they can’t pronounce my last name ( and it caught on ). Feel free to call me that. I grew up in Fox Chase, Philadelphia until I was fourteen and moved to Huntingdon Valley. I attended Roman Catholic High School located in downtown Philadelphia. I play baseball (third base/first base) as well as basketball (center). I have a Bayliner 245 boat, on the Delaware River, located at Dredge Harbor Marina. Boating, deep-sea fishing, crabbing, and going to the beach are my ideal free-time hobbies. I’m a football fan and don’t miss a single game during regular season. As of right now I work at Saladworks in Southampton as a part-time job. I whip up mad salads so stop by.